Bad music industry analogy
The prog rock vs. punk rock is so wrong. Historically, the establishment Big Music Industry controlled AM and tried to initially keep FM illegal, and then irrelevant. It became popular ~1970 as independent media where it was outside of industry control. Therefore, prog rock developed because it was outside of industry control where they would no longer be bound by the 3-minute pop song of formulaic drivel. Musicianship finally mattered as well as creativity. At the end of the prog rock golden age, mega-industry music got control of FM radio. They created punk rock as a new formulaic 3-minute pop song that pretended to be anti-establishment to hide how extremely establishment it really was. Musicianship was no longer important, only image and thus each band and band member was highly replaceable and fully controlled in punk rock.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
