Do you read Prog magazine?

I have read it on and off over the years.....for me it depends on what the issue is about. If it has an interesting piece or two I might buy it. It does have nice pics and graphics but the stories are usually very basic and they tend to recycle the same artists. As SG said they do have the odd cd sampler with some cool tracks.

Edited by dr wu23 - August 02 2014 at 08:53

SteveG wrote: My take is that the magazine is useless for reading but I did get a great CD out of it one once which turned me on to a couple of groups like Mostly Autumn and some great prog metal groups that the Brits seem to be very high on. Seems like they dig prog metal more than we do in the States. Anyone from the UK care to comment on that or is it just an  illusion the magazine gives off.

Magazines? I dropped nearly all my subscriptions years ago. The only subscription I maintain is National Geographic - Online access is free with a subscription and even more expensive if you forego the paper copy.

Dean wrote: ... No I don't, it's written by muso-journalists, most of whom were quick to drop Prog like it was bag of dog crap as soon as Punk looked like becoming the lucrative 'flavour of the month' that would make them the doyens of the hack-world. They are to a man, a bunch of two-faced fkwitted, toading, snivelling shts. This mag is a tacky cash-in on a genre that survived in spite of a complete lack of support and out-right hostility of these hack-bozzos for the past 30 years.

Edited by moshkito - August 02 2014 at 10:23

The only time I read a magazine of any sort is when I'm waiting to get a haircut. I guess the 60 year-old Russian barber is not into prog. He does like boobs though.

sleeper wrote: I lost interest. I found it was focusing too heavily on Neo/Retro Prog bands, the old guard without really giving us any new information and the monoliths of the current scene, the type of prog bands I listen to were barely even mentioned.

Horizons wrote: sleeper wrote: I lost interest. I found it was focusing too heavily on Neo/Retro Prog bands, the old guard without really giving us any new information and the monoliths of the current scene, the type of prog bands I listen to were barely even mentioned. I never was subscribed but this seemed to be the trend every time I saw the new issue's cover.

 
We, actually, had to drive down to the LA area to get things like Melody Maker and ANYTHING that had information about the IMPORT bands in 1972/1973/1974 all the way to 1978 that my roomate and I did this at least once a month, as well as helping him get new material for his shows. Mostly we went to Moby Disk, Tower on the Strip and the Warehouse in Westwood at the time. For the magazines, there were a couple of really good magazine/paper stores that had everything from Europe ... !!!

But our main grace for getting into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese and everything else was almost, exclusively, Moby Disk, as there were no distributors that did a whole lot of mailing in those days. This, btw, made for the showing of NEW MUSIC a heck of a lot more attractive, because no one had heard anything like it before, as opposed to today's ways, when everyone has heard everything and everyone is an expert on everything!

There were many nice things in it. I still have the foldout middle section of MM talking to PG about leaving Genesis and how disappointed he was with the general response to the work, including band members. 30 years later he is vindicated, but you felt like you saw an artist being stripped naked and beat down because of it. I did not feel his next work, the solo stuff was going to be that good, and the first album was not that positive for my tastes, but it was terrific all the same.

I still have several articles from the magazine.

Today, for example, I rely on mostly having to ignore the commentaries here, because it will interfere with my objective listen to YES, for example, or even King Crimson. You kinda have to learn to get your own FEEL for the music so you know how to review it, or it will always sound like something else, or a cheap version of something else on the top ten of the prog numbers. And that hurts the ability to identify positively and help an artist. It's like saying that Tchaikovsky sounds like Mozart because the violins sound the same, just playing different notes, and there is a few more of them in Tchaikovsky than Mozart ... and that is not really a good discussion about music and its development. Of course today a keyboard or organ still sounds the same, but that has nothing to do with the music of 50 years ago except for its "sound" ... and the sound is not the music, in general, though we get stuck to it so easily!

Edited by moshkito - August 02 2014 at 15:47

No...never got a chance to put my hands on any prog magazine..

moshkito wrote: Horizons wrote: sleeper wrote: I lost interest. I found it was focusing too heavily on Neo/Retro Prog bands, the old guard without really giving us any new information and the monoliths of the current scene, the type of prog bands I listen to were barely even mentioned. I never was subscribed but this seemed to be the trend every time I saw the new issue's cover.   We, actually, had to drive down to the LA area to get things like Melody Maker and ANYTHING that had information about the IMPORT bands in 1972/1973/1974 all the way to 1978 that my roomate and I did this at least once a month, as well as helping him get new material for his shows. Mostly we went to Moby Disk, Tower on the Strip and the Warehouse in Westwood at the time. For the magazines, there were a couple of really good magazine/paper stores that had everything from Europe ... !!! But our main grace for getting into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese and everything else was almost, exclusively, Moby Disk, as there were no distributors that did a whole lot of mailing in those days. This, btw, made for the showing of NEW MUSIC a heck of a lot more attractive, because no one had heard anything like it before, as opposed to today's ways, when everyone has heard everything and everyone is an expert on everything! There were many nice things in it. I still have the foldout middle section of MM talking to PG about leaving Genesis and how disappointed he was with the general response to the work, including band members. 30 years later he is vindicated, but you felt like you saw an artist being stripped naked and beat down because of it. I did not feel his next work, the solo stuff was going to be that good, and the first album was not that positive for my tastes, but it was terrific all the same. I still have several articles from the magazine. Today, for example, I rely on mostly having to ignore the commentaries here, because it will interfere with my objective listen to YES, for example, or even King Crimson. You kinda have to learn to get your own FEEL for the music so you know how to review it, or it will always sound like something else, or a cheap version of something else on the top ten of the prog numbers. And that hurts the ability to identify positively and help an artist. It's like saying that Tchaikovsky sounds like Mozart because the violins sound the same, just playing different notes, and there is a few more of them in Tchaikovsky than Mozart ... and that is not really a good discussion about music and its development. Of course today a keyboard or organ still sounds the same, but that has nothing to do with the music of 50 years ago except for its "sound" ... and the sound is not the music, in general, though we get stuck to it so easily!

And this has what to do with the posts you've quoted?

Absolute sod all I think is the answer.

^ agreed.