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The Progressive Rock Files [Paperback]

Jerry Lucky (Author)
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Everything from the inception and critical thrashing to the complex development of the genre is included in this definitive guide to Progressive Rock music.

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Jerry Lucky is a broadcaster and music historian and the author of The Psychedelic Rock Files.

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The Value Of The Book May 11 2002
Here is the value I see on this book:

1) Excellent introduction to progressive rock: A novice will be trapped by the reading, will get a quick undestanding of what defines progressive rock, and will be strongly motivated to start listening and researching.

2) Excellent reference: the book contains a very complete reference that serves as a start point to search for new music and information.

3) A fantastic and pleasant reading for the veterans.

Some people say that the critic is simplistic, but J.L. merely compiled information here from different sources and put them together in a nice reading. The book does not focus on music critic.

If you are looking for extensive critic, you should look for the specific artist you are interested on in more detailed sources like their official web site, biography books, magazines, review websites, etc.

Some people say the reference is too basic. However I think it is very complete for the purpose of simply citing many bands which are often ignored even in the best sources, and placing them in certain sub-genre. Longer reviews would make the reading hard, the book too extense and they wouldn't add much value.

The book does have a few historical errors and it's a pity that they haven't being corrected for the second edition.

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Not very useful, not very informative July 29 2001
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I have to agree with the negative reviewer who said words to the effect of, 'I hate to give a negative review to a book about prog but I have to.' Having read considerable progressive rock internet information and reviews for the last 6 months, and almost exhausted that source (except for the hard-to-read Gibraltar Encyclopedia) I picked up the book looking for a little more in-depth info on history and bands, but there was little of either. Before buying this book you should really be aware that the history is very brief, simplistic, and repetitive, and is really informative only to a complete novice in prog or even rock history. Some of the statements, such as that "Days of Future Passed" is the first progressive album, are quite silly. Because of the layout of the pages in this section, for some unfathomable reason only about two-thirds of each page contain text, the rest highlight names, thus reducing drastically the information content. The band reviews at the end are equally laughable since they consist of at most two or three sentences, most of which believe it or not are a sentence of the nature, "sounds like Genesis." In fact those three words are repeated probably four times per page in the last 50 pp of the book!! Without a downloadable mp3 site like audiogalaxy it would be absolutely hopeless to weed through the hundreds of entries about prog bands in the reviews section since the music is described so unimaginatively and without any kind of indication of the overall quality or status of a given band. God help the unfortunate individual who buys a CD based on Jerry Lucky's [...]reviews! Anyhow, there being so few books about prog, it's really disappointing to say this one is so awful, but it is. Don't buy!
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
More fun than useful - dubious assumptions abound July 16 2001
Jerry Lucky's approach to this complex subject is to give his opinion without backing it with facts, examples, or offering counterpoints. Some of his assertions are downright wrong and embarrasing, i.e. that contrived, pretentious, and self-indulgent are good things to be. Doesn't Lucky own a dictionary? Or does he choose it ignore it? A reader won't get any good information from this book. Compared to other writers on the subject, this fan's outporing is sophomoric, inessential, and unenlightening.

I'm sorry to give a bad review to one of the few books on Prog, but this one is at the bottom of the heap. Read Stump, Macan, or even Martin for an intelligent assesment of the genre and its meanings.

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