I have already done the review of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s self-entitled 1969 debut. They were a group that nowadays, either comes across as being rather dated and trite by some people, and for other people, they bring back those wonderful memories of days gone by. I happen to be the latter, as I was […] Continue reading →

Il Balletto di Bronzo was yet another long line of Italian prog bands out there. In 1970, the band released their debut called Sirio 2222. It’s said to be in the psychedelic hard rock vein, like Hendrix, and is not usually highly regarded in prog circles (on the other hand, if you like that type […] Continue reading →

Eloy has went through so many different lineups and changes in sound that it’s not even funny, but despite that, they stayed pretty much progressive throughout their whole career. 1974’s Floating was Eloy’s third album and finds them pretty much in the same territory as their previous offering, Inside (1973), that is sticking to a […] Continue reading →

There were several bands named Cathedral. One was a British metal band, another was a 1990’s Washington, D.C.-based neo-prog rock band, and then there’s this Cathedral, a 1970s prog rock band out of New York. This band only released one album, Stained Glass Stories in 1978, but it’s incredible! Usually little good can be said […] 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →