There are just too many great bands that slipped right through the cracks. Case in point, this Greek band called Tidal Flood. This band got their exposure during the old days of MP3.com (which beared little relation to its current incarnation, which now seems more like a clone of All Music Guide). Ozric Tentacles is […] Continue reading →

Buy This CD! Anthem of the Sun was of course, the Dead’s second album, and the first to bring in Mickey Hart and Tom Constanten (although Constanten’s appearance on this album was unofficial, although that would quickly change). Tom Constanten was brought in for the most complex keyboard duties, since Ron “Pigpen” McKernan tended to […] Continue reading →

I reviewed one of Alan Stivell’s other albums, Renaissance of the Celtic Harp on this website, because that album was truly far better than the usual Celtic harp albums you come across (I have also a CD from a well-known Irish folk group, The Chieftains called The Celtic Harp from 1993 that included the Belfast […] Continue reading →

This out of the way, I was born in the 1970s, so I was obviously way too young to have participated in the 1970s, so I’ll tell you how I came about becoming aware of Pavlov’s Dog. Back in 1994, when I was 21, I ran into someone into music and he mentioned me this […] Continue reading →

Starcastle is a band you’re either going to like, or you’re going to hate. Those who hate the band call them nothing more than Yes clones. Those who enjoy the band still call them Yes clones, but they’re flattered enough to still enjoy their music. This self-entitled album is the first of four albums this […] Continue reading →

Things sure been looking up for Zappa by the time We’re Only In It For the Money came out at the beginning of 1968. He had already two albums under the belt (maybe three, as some sources say that Lumpy Gravy was released in December 1967, before We’re Only In It For the Money came […] Continue reading →

Things sure have changed big time with Zappa between the 1966 release of Freak Out! and the 1981 released of You Are What You Is. In that time span, he decided to bring an end of the Mothers of Invention name after the release of Bongo Fury in 1975 (because, after all, the Mothers existed […] Continue reading →

Osanna was one of the great Italian prog rock bands. Maybe not as well known as PFM, Le Orme, or even Banco for that matter, but definately worth looking in to. Palepoli is Osanna’s third album, and was the very first Italian prog album I ever heard and I was just totally amazed! It also […] Continue reading →

Far East Family Band spawned the careers of three guys. Their names being Fumio Miyashita (who often released his albums under simply the “Fumio” name), Akira Ito, and most of all, Masanori Takahashi. Maybe you might not know Masanori Takahashi by that name, but you know him as Kitaro, the prolific New Age artist of […] Continue reading →

One area of prog rock I failed to cover here is the French scene. I covered the British, German, and Italian scenes pretty well here, even threw in some Scandinavian acts. When people think of French prog, they think Magma, Ange, Atoll, or Pulsar. Another band worth looking in to is Carpe Diem, who only […] Continue reading →