Recommendations

As a new boy here, forgive me if any of this has been heard before - but here goes. Checking through the album reviews (to add my halfpennys worth) surprised at the omissions of a number of bands:

Wishbone Ash: "Argus" is most definitely prog, although much of their collection is AOR or rock blues.

Touch:  the original American prog band - see my editorial at Ghostland and a somewhat plagiarised version of this utilised in Mojo magazine.

Collegium Musicum: the Czech answer to Nice.

T2

And I also recommend most strongly, inclusion of  the triple CD compilation: "Legend of a Mind" issued by Deram/Decca in the last 18 months in the UK and covering "British underground music" from 1967 to about 1973.

Have I missed something that means these bands are omitted? Or more simply it is very difficult to please all people at all times?

Dick Heath

MAX@ wrote: What do you mean DUDE ?

He's just joking with the new guy, Max.

(I'm sure that's the case.)

Little Dudie actually loves it here

Mercator Projected  by East Of Eden is also missing

prog4me wrote: Touch:  the original American prog band FINALLY someone who has heard of them  inovative and unusual,an aquired taste PRO4ME

I'm ever amazed when people mention early prog bands, Touch is not commonly on most people's lists. Ever since hearing a friend's US import in 1969, I've been hooked and ended up buying my UK pressing when released some months later - the poster of a seemingly androgeneous band was a bonus. And Touch does snooker some of those arguments about prog being a British invention (ironically by some American authors) - I think not, and add The United States Of America, to dispell the myth further.

My enthuiasm knows no bounds in an early Ghostland Editorial, (recently updated to answer an increasingly large number of enquiries),  at:

http://ghostland.com/ghostland/editorials.asp?ID=1

Certif1ed wrote: I'm not sure that I would consider The United States of America a prog band - experimental, yes, but then the Byrds always were. I'll have to dig their LP out again - last time I listened to it I retained my original opinion that it was mainly improvised "wooooey noises" intermingled with some lightly jazzed-up folk music.

I was reminded of The United States Of America's existence, when reading a whole chapter devoted to them in a very academic book on progressive rock:

Progressive Rock Reconsidered (Composer Resource Manuals)  
Kevin Holm-Hudson (Editor)

more details at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815337159/qid=1084 970042/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/026-2238398-1652438

(And me too), having only got a short piece by USA on the Rock Machine Turns You On CBS sampler, I felt I needed to buy the CD and have a fuller listen. Quirky, most adventurous rock for the time of its release, which by definition of that time readily slots it into the progressive music pigeonhole - I might even venture to suggest proto-RIO. Have to say it you description (with which I again concur):

that it was mainly improvised "wooooey noises" intermingled with some lightly jazzed-up folk music

would have provided enough reason  circa 1968, to make it  prog album/band - anyway, do you want to fight a University professor of music's opinion.......................but as a non-arts academic, I have not problem with that!? To me, USA remains an album for the few.

BTW I've mentioned Jefferson Airplane After Bathing At Baxter's elsewhere; that also is quirky and adventurous, especially compared with their output either side of its release. However, I sure then we would have put that album down  to ideas induced by psychedelic assistance on West Coast hippies.........