Modern music's success

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Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

To me, progressive music is more than a hobby. It's intense. And the average person cannot invest the time in that. So they look for the simple, the easy. People are busy. I don't think it's any great mystery.

whoa, Rick with an insight! seriously, this is a good point not to be taken lightly.

Originally Posted by Elric68

Why did France choose to ignore this music while other countries like UK, USA or even Poland have lots of progressive rock bands and organize much progressive rock festivals ?

Elric, France has a HUGE prog scene, more than most countries. It's possible that the UK, USA, and Italy have more, but I'm not convinced. Think of Magma, Clearlight, Ange, Shylock, Priam, Xang, Heldon, Pulsar, Jean-Luc Ponty, Taal, Saens, Fugu, Hecenia, Alan Loo, Jean-Michel Jarre, Christian Decamps, Dun, Patrick Forgas, Eclat, Jean Claude Boffo, Edhels, Halloween, Minimum Vital, Tiemko, XII Alfonso, etc. WHEW, that's some of the best prog in the world....