Why we limiting this to Melbourne. It's pretty much the same in all countries now and has been for 25 years. I honestly believe 70s prog is the most interesting and long lasting form of rock music so that would mean it's fresher than todays music. It's just smart music full of great melodies from people who were brought up in a great era and country. All the jazz and classical influences really show out and the complexities is just icing on the cake. But today, 95% of rock musicians actually rated bands like Van Halen, Metallica and Guns n Roses etc at some point. So you'll never find a natural greatness to their melodies and their songs will never stand the test of time

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I was one of the lucky ones to hate most American 80s music but being brought up listening to my dad play his jazzy funky fusion on the hammond organ every day. So of course my thoughts on rock music would be very strict and i'd only like a small amount of rock music which reach a high level of interest. I draw a line very high when it comes to rock music. I only tend to listen to bands above that line or close to it. Almost everyone else would have the line alot lower and that's why they would like more bands and more styles and it would seem they have more variety in their tastes. But there are musical styles which i think lack almost every in great rock music. Smasha and I were looking at a group of 100 pidgeons at the footy yesterday and one of the pidgeons was light brown and the others were grey. We called that the prog bird because it was in the 1% range. eg 1% of people who mainly like old prog and stick to those standards mainly. All the grey birds must have like metal