Thinking Plague

"Thinking Plague stands out as a shining example of avant-garde music blended with just enough rock for it to be called progressive rock" - Music.com

Thinking Plague is an avant-garde rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. Their music explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic meet. Through these explorations, the band has created "a genre of music unto itself, eclectically derivative in a bold way and spectacularly innovative in the old-fashioned sense of genuine originality" (Journal Wired).
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"Thinking Plague stands out as a shining example of avant-garde music blended with just enough rock for it to be called progressive rock" - Music.com

Thinking Plague is an avant-garde rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. Their music explores the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic meet. Through these explorations, the band has created "a genre of music unto itself, eclectically derivative in a bold way and spectacularly innovative in the old-fashioned sense of genuine originality" (Journal Wired).

Thinking Plague’s music combines lyricism with intense and sophisticated rhythmic and harmonic ideas. Their influences cover a spectrum ranging from Beatles and Byrds to Henry Cow and William Schuman. At moments the sound of Thinking Plague may begin to resemble pop or jazz music only to be stretched or "morphed" in the next instant into new regions that often defy categorization.

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