Anyone read Prog magazine?

Both of you are extremely kind, thank you. Incredibly, I have now reviewed over 50 albums in 2022, so by far the most prolific I have been in many years, and setting up the website has been a genuine joy.

I have four sets of interviews out, by the way, so hopefully news on these to follow shortly.

You need to retire and pay yourself a stipend... 

Did you approach Rob for an interview about 'Acoustic Magenta'?

Mrs General and I have talked extensively about retirement this past couple of weeks. I only have two years, three months, and three days to go (who’s counting?), so I will probably see it through to the big 60.

Rob is the next piece of work. I have been pretty busy after being contacted by four others for interviews. There is no great rush, as we have a good couple of months.

They have stated in the past that the reason they put big names on the cover is that they are more likely to attract the casual buyer if they see someone like Ian Anderson on the cover whilst rummaging through the shelves of WH Smith.

Also the free CD has been replaced with a free download.

I'm good....

Having been with the music right from the start, let's say Sgt Peppers and TSMR, and then Moody Blues, I have never found a single magazine that was worth its weight in the dollars we paid for it. 

Perhaps, the only one, that I bought occasionally when we could make it to downtown LA (a really nice magazine store there on 5th and Hill), was THE MELODY MAKER, and even then, I did not like some of their articles and discussions ... like trashing TD in the early days, and then kissing DSOTM as the best toilet paper around! And in some ways, the full out blow of PG leaving Genesis was in the center of one issue and it mentioned a lot of things that we do not wish to discuss or appreciate, that in most cases, WERE, what "progressive" was really all about ... but we ended up not bothering to read much of it, and I think that PG got sad and retreated to just singles and songs, which his album all had in the end ... there never again was a "concept" that was meaningful at all ... and for me, it was hard to "stay" with PG ... even though there was a lot of nice stuff. I kinda thought of it as half empty/half full kind of thing, and Genesis was the same, though after the next album from TLLDOB was the last of theirs that I ever bought! I did get some of the solo albums, and specially got to love Anthony Phillips and his massive amount of outstanding work. Not to mention that he was a gentleman that appreciated poetry in his music!

But, in all honesty, I have never really thought that any of those magazines were worth the price, although I did buy one or two here and there, and seeing so much bad stuff written about so many bands that deserve the credit as "progressive" was just too depressing for me.

Even PA is far better than any of those rags, since it has, at least, enough folks that KNOW what the music is about and value it!

I'd suggest that if you can afford a plane ticket, you can also afford the mag! 

It's been 20 years since I went on a plane... 

Seriously though, the cover price here is £8, now without the cover CD they used to produce. Most of the information about Prog I need, I can find online at great sites such as this and Nick's TPA. If I head over to the MusicMagpie bargain section, I can pick up 4 CDs post free for £8, which can include loads of Classic & Prog Rock... for me, that's just a more productive way of spending the money...