Books about prog rock ?

Jerry Lucky: The Progressive Rock Files. Collector’s Guide Publishing 2000. is my go to source as it is gives both a history of Progressive Rock and Excellent Summary of Prog Bands how they sound and their recordings

I was in touch with Jerry Lucky for a while a few years ago but at some point he didn't get back to me. Anyway, yeah I doubt there will be an update but you never know. It's good for the first 30 years of prog rock or so but it doesn't get as far as the 21st century unfortunately. You could tell something was going on when these first two editions came out though (as far as bands still making prog music). My biggest complaint about the book is the so called index in the back. He basically copied and pasted Greg Walker's (from synphonic) catalog without giving credit. It's totally unnecessary. Just go to the website. In his defense progarchives didn't exist yet so I guess he just wanted some kind of comprehensive band list. I think a link (or a mention) to the old GEPR would have been better though

Hi,

I think we have to give in to the history of music a bit, and not continue to keep a period alive ... sort of like c'mon ... the Romantic Period has been over for 150 years and no one is looking for Post-Romantic, or Neo-Romantic, and I think this is something that eventually we have to draw a line on ... we're trying to keep a small time period of about 10 years totally alive, and the fact is that 50 years later, it is very different and the requirements nowadays, are not anywhere near the "originals".

All music, in its history is a "progression" from what it was before, and that would suggest that the invention of the term for this music was erroneous and not specifically helpful to the description and design of the music at all ... and I think this is the real issue ... the term applies "today" ... but things are nowhere near the ideas that helped define and create the originals, which were totally anti-commercial and today's listings, are much closer to being commercial than they really are "progressive" in the original sense. And that would mean that the new new new and totally different stuff belongs in a new area of description and design. I'm not sure that we, here, are even interested in this, and would rather have a multi-faceted progressive this or that.