what about joe satriani?

so you saying that if tony macalpine(its an example, im not asking to add him) plays with planet x, and planet x became planet x after he joined it, and his solo project is closely related to  planet x, then he should be here?

p.s
im not asking to judge/add planet x, or macalpine, im just want to understand this policy.

^ Like it or not, but it does matter which musician you're talking about. In the case of Tony MacAlpine his albums are prog (fusion), so he can be added on the strenght of his discography alone. In other cases what you said above might apply ... musicians may be added as solo albums if they played in an important prog band. But IMO this should only be done if their solo albums are at least compatible with prog, and if they're not really prog then the artist should be added as prog-related.

^ I must remember to get around to listening to the three Steve Hackett vinyls I bought about a year ago ... 

^ Well, maybe you're done with the argument ... but if you like you can come over to my website and help us build a list of great guitar albums. There you can also vote whether the Satriani albums are prog or not. 

He's got you there Mike - this is probably the first time you promoted your site without providing a link 

Must be an imposter... where's the real Mike!!!????

As a matter of fact I left the link out intentionally because I had posted it in another thread today and I really don't want to spam the place. But since he asked: Of course it's the fascinating Ratingfreak.com!

^ well does he avoid the plastic, vapid commercial crap that shows up on almost every Satch album?  I love Satriani but he's recorded some God awful stuff that's purely intended for mass appeal.. nothing wrong with that but it's a reason one could site for non-inclusion at a prog site

Avantgardehead wrote: Petrucci's here because he plays down-tuned guitar-driven music with heavy distortion, chugging riffs, modern rock progressions, and insane solos and that's all that's needed to pass as progressive metal these days.

1)in his solo album, were did you heard modern rock progressions?
2) heavy distortion ? no its not enough to be prog.

2)his solo album is pure SHRED, there are allot others that are not here (including satch).

Avantgardehead wrote: Satch does seem to recycle an awful lot of stuff, mostly those blasted blues riffs, ewww. But he seems like a more genuine guitar player to me for some reason that I can't explain...

he plays for 30 years, what do you expect. and i rather listing to him recycle his music, then to hear him  ripoff other band like DT did on they last album.

ps
i LOVE the blues riffs(Pentatonic)