Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, or simply, Banco, is highly regarded as one of the greatest prog rock bands to come out of Italy, and after hearing this album, as well as their 1973 followup, Io Sono Nato Libero, I am willing to believe it. The band was known for the near-operatic vocals of Francesco di […] Continue reading →

May Blitz was a short lived British-based trio that consisted of two Canadians and an Englishman. The two Canadians were guitarist and vocalist James Black and bassist Reid Hudson, with the Englishman being drummer Tony Newman, formerly of the Jeff Beck Group. This band basically combined psychedelia with blues and hard rock that’s not unlike […] Continue reading →

I could hardly believe it! I didn’t think Eloy could pull off another album almost as great as their 1977 masterpiece, Ocean. Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes was their followup release (excluding a 1978 live album, that is), released in 1979. My expectations were low. Prog rock was over by 1979. The increasingly corporate music […] Continue reading →

Colosseum, like Fleetwood Mac, was a band that evolved out of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. While Fleetwood Mac started off as a blues band, then eventually evolved in to your typical, multi-platinum corporate rock band by the mid 1970s, Colosseum went for a more adventurous path by combining the burgeoning prog rock scene with blues and […] Continue reading →

When talking about the hippie scene from the 1960s, especially the music scene, one groups that gets brought up of course is Crosby, Stills & Nash (later with Neil Young). They were definately one of the big icons of that scene, and their self-entitled debut proves that. It’s too bad that out of control egos, […] Continue reading →

As far as I’m concerned, Van der Graaf Generator’s third album will remain always as one of my very favorite prog rock albums. This really proves how much the band had improved in just three albums. The music is dominated by Peter Hammill’s distinct vocals, the sometimes spacy organ of Hugh Banton, the saxes of […] Continue reading →

Rare Bird was an early British prog rock band. The band formed in October 1969, and got their debut album out the following month, which is really quite an accomplishment, since it usually takes a band a year or more after their formation to get an album out, not to mention it usually takes two […] Continue reading →

Here’s how not to make a movie: make a movie that gives hippies a bad image, and this 1990 movie Far Out, Man is that prime example. Starring Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong fame, this film is a total insult to hippies everywhere in which he plays a totally ungroomed and unbathed hippie who […] Continue reading →

Genesis was once a great prog rock band, but unfortunately, most of the songs radio stations would play from these guys are from albums like Invisible Touch (1986) and We Can’t Dance (1991). You can pretty much pass up on those albums, unless your favorite album is Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required (1985), of course. […] Continue reading →

Unless you’re a record collecting fanatic, or at least a prog rock fanatic, chances are you’ve probably never heard of Eela Craig. Eela Craig was apparently one of the best known prog rock bands to come out of Austria (other prog bands from that country included Paternoster and Kyrie Eleison). The band, for the most […] Continue reading →