I'd chime in with the odd 'I like Jethro Tull,' and everyone would be like, 'God, no!' But Tull were different, because everyone was all doing blues stuff and lame boogie-woogie, right? And then they have a tune like 'Song for Jeffrey,' and it's all Beefheart! They were big Beefheart fans, and you can see that, they took that sort of bluesy thing and made it freaky, which I loved." JETHRO TULL | THIS WAS | "Back then, you had to toe the line. Here are six '70s prog masterpieces recommended by Sergeant himself: So punkers and post-punkers who love prog are not as rare as they might seem. Sergeant isn't alone: John "Rotten" Lydon has confessed to a childhood worship of Hawkwind and Van Der Graaf Generator, Captain Sensible of the Damned admits to having practically stalked Soft Machine in a fanboy haze, and Siouxsie Sioux has revealed an early obsession with Curved Air. I'm more likely to throw on some prog, honestly. The eradication of prog may have made sense to some in the '70s and '80s, but in 2011, punk and prog are both 30-to-40-year-old music made by societal misfits, right? "When I sit around the house, I don't play the Clash, really," Will Sergeant confesses, "or anybody like that. At least, that's the official story - and certain '70s styles, like prog-rock, are deemed to have been especially uncool. When Echo & the Bunnymen emerged, in 1978, punk rock was turning the world upside down, making indulgent '70s rock instantly irrelevant with its exciting new sounds and ideas.
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