Oh.i.heard.spocks.beard.were.quite.gd...wel.il.hv.2.hear.em.b4.i.judge.em

@playfan - all right and proper mate, I agree you should decide for yourself, I was just trying to spare a fellow music lover a dreadful experience.. . @gabriel9 - I think misplaced childhood was the last good album they made IMHO. Camels 'Camel' 'Rain Dances' 'Moonmadness' 'Mirage' and 'Snow Goose' are excellent, although the production obviously sounds dated compared to todays artists.

The land of pink and Grey-that was a decent album, moonloop by p.tree i liked the Cd single.

Think you mean land of grey and pink pandy lol i agree caravan were top prog although with a poppier sound, that last 20 odd min organ suite song is just brilliant. Cressida, nektar and england were obscure but great bands.

Thanks garion for the camel info..always enjoy hearing a new prog band. Ah janejay the land of grey and pink i didnt stop playing when first heard, any other caravan albums worth hearing thats my only one. Yeh i too enjoyed Englands garden shed frm 76 and nektar i remember did a few good albums too

Have you heard cressida alsylum @ gabriel9?

Yeh i actually got given a copy not that long ago, a friend is huge into the prog sites and gets hold of rare stuff like that, nice taste janeyjay !

Any.dream.theater.fans.here?

Who's going to watch tool in november

Where they playin scorcese..just london or nationwide?

Ayreon is a great prog/metal band so is pain of salvation.

Have heard good things bout opeth in prog metal genre..any fans? I go with ya to a tool gig gabriel lol

Opeth are superb, but, like Tool, I wouldn't classify 'em as prog or prog metal . Well heavy, with some serious satanic roaring and stuff, but lots of melody too allied to sweetly harmonic choruses oddly at variance to all the mad Scandinavian Death Metal surrounding them.. I love 'em.. listening to 'Deliverance' right now..

Any?

Ayreon are fantastic, how he gets so many established singers and musicians to play on his albums is staggering, devin townsend, fish, bruce d*ckenson, mike baker, james le brie, mikael akerfeldt, russell allen. He even has the reclusive Dan Swano sing with allen, damien wilson and floor jansen on his Star one side project. And ed warby from gorefest on drums.

Spocks beard, which albums out of curiousity? The current line up without neal morse are terrible, but some of their earlier stuff like day for night is enjoyable, just simple rock in complex arrangement with morse harmonising his own vocals. The intro for gibberish is a perfect example.

@lusephur - I bought two Spocks Beard albums on the same day: 'Feel Euphoria' and 'Snow'. Whilst it was obvious that they were very competent musicians, the lack of any ambition, excitement or indeed, direction made listening to both an enervating and depressing experience. Exchanged them for Aphexs 'Druqs' and Funki Porcinis 'Hed phone sx'.. Result!

i luv pink floyd.pulse is undoubtably the gr8est show eva! btw,i wud suggest u guys chek out a band cald kansas if u dnt em.their album leftoverture is an absolute masterpiece!

I enjoyed snow even though it was a veiled attempt to recreate a story of christ. But yes feel euphoria was cr*p, best thing about that album was the label sample cd i got with it. Leftoverture is indeed a classic especially the opening track carry on wayward son. Check out Proto Kaw it's a new band formed by the original members of kansas. Anyone hear Sieges Even's art of navigating by the stars?

Or has anyone heard possibly one of the best prog rock albums in recent years The Music That Died Alone by The Tangent. Or the two albums by polish band Riverside, shades of opeth, anathema, pink floyd and porcupine tree. Or new english hopefuls Pure Reason Revolution?