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Journey and foreigner were not prog. They just turned me away from so much of what lead to them and towards television talking heads buzzcocks...to me they represented a fresh turn from how album oriented rock evolved. I even turned against steely Dan. 

And Phil Collins should be imprisoned for what he did to genesis. 

" Journey and Foreigner?  Prog?  Ahem."

I agree with the Ahem on Foreigner.... but  The first 2 journey albums...though not prog necessarily... were 2 of the finest albums of the mid 70's....when - of course rock and roll reached perfection. 
A lot of people don't really roll Focus into the prog rock idiom - but I do.. ..I could never really distinguish progressive ....from what I used to call classical rock to which Yes and Gentle Giant, PFM and Genesis are the standard bearers. anyone else recall the band Maxophone ?

Space - How could you turn against Steely Dan ?  If there was ever a band to hold their own fort -  I think it was them.

Oh and I love flower kings ozric tentacles stocks beard Porcupine tree 

And gong you is always handy. As is any Steve hillage other than system 7-777.

Rbh


Space - How could you turn against Steely Dan ?  If there was ever a band to hold their own fort -  I think it was them.

I love steely. My issue became one with all popular music. New wave was no longer fun once it became popular.  I think I sought different for the purpose of being different. I do have a decent residents collection. Ditto on modern surf. Like man or astro man. 

Richard Thompson +1
Television +1
Buzzcocks +1  (and still going loud and strong in 2011!)
Ozric Tentacles (thought I was the only person that had heard of them....) +1
Gong +1
Gentle Giant +1

King Crimson - for a good time go to Youtube, search "red" and see how many guys show you "how to play Red"

I saw King Crimson during their Discipline tour in 1981(?) at Cullen Auditorium at University of Houston.  My college room mate and I drove in to see the show.  Amazing.  Imagine our confusion when we realized our minds were blown but we still had all of our drugs.

spacey - try and track down a mag called Classic Rock Presents Prog - your cuppa cha. there's lots of new prog going on- of course for me i prefer the prog metal side of stuff, but i can get along with prog rock too! just in the UK alone we have Magenta, Haken, the Reasoning, Touchstone, Frost*, It Bites, IQ, Solstice, Arena,Pallas,Pendragon...you will definitely like all these except maybe Haken.I also recommend you check out Transatlantic, Big Fish,Pineapple Thief,Porcupine Tree, Syzygsy, and The Flower Kings...but there are many many cool bands out there!

Loved Prog. Love it again now. My sister bought Close to the Edge, and I heard Minstrel in the Gallery at a friend's house, that was it, I was hooked.
Tull, Gentle Giant, Yes, Focus, Supertramp, Moody Blues, Floyd, I played them all endlessly.

My interest waned a bit around 1978, got into new wave, pub-rock, blues..XTC and The Police were gods when I joined my first band, and prog didn't seem to chime with going to clubs and chasing girls.

Got back to it in the mid '80's when it was a nice alternative to the slick pop of the day.

My favourite proggers these days are Marillion. Since Fish left (they were really a Trespass era Genesis clone band then) they've ploughed their own furrow, and consistently come up with the most beautiful music.

Here's a good 'un; Afraid of Sunlight

Glass Hammer might be worth a listen. Ironically, they're from Nashville. A tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImvESVP8IQ Their web page: http://www.glasshammer.com/ I like the Marillon track.

Glyn Barnes

Five hand Reel

I recorded a (bad) version of Haughs o' Cromdale years ago, I should revisit that one day.