I have fallen in love with so many recording acts that I hav'nt stated what bands really made me fall in love with music.The first acts to where I could listen to an album all the way through has been Foreigner and Asia.
I know that Asia had band members with a considerable prog rock pedigree and their playing may have seemed subdued to those who were alive to hear the prog bands those members that made up Asia were from.
I just purchased Asia/Gold, that has all of Asia's claasic rock with former lead singer and songwriter John Wetton.
They really made some great sounding recordings.
And I never saw such interesting album covers.
Really added to the synapses with the music.
At the time Asia came out, prog was almost a dead art. People may have thought that Asia was too simple to be a prog act, but I always thought they were interesting.
I got into a lot of punk and eighties pop and delved into acts like ELP and Yes. Some of these working acts that played their instruments in the eighties helped bring out the rock and harmony in me.
Not since The Eagles and Bad Company have I been so hooked on a melody. Even though I don't have the talent, I like melodic music. Guitar rock has played an important role in that.
The electric guitar is not just solos and hooks.
It is a very dynamic instrument.

I thought with my new disk purchase that I should not leave out any important act that I have listened to that has swinged me to want to pull out an instrument myself.

Matt

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