Are you in your own Prog band?

Tryin to fire one up but with only 1 years experience on guitar and a tiny group of like wise experienced musician's its hard starting

yes...  a experimental Italian-American symphonic avant group called Spare Tire.

hopefully to have an album out this year.. maybe next.

I currently am searching for guys to play and write with, but for now unfortunately all I'm doing is writing stuff on my own, with a little help from my friend and bass player whenever he can spare the time.

Click on my member profile and then my homepage to hear my semi-proggy nujazz/live electronica band. The first tune is an updated tribute to early Pink Floyd.

Yep, a prog on a folky side.



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Edited by clarke2001 - December 10 2008 at 12:56

New forum member here though been a longtime browser of the main site.

I play sax and occasionally guitar for a goofy prog group in Texas. A lot of people say it sounds like Zappa or Mr. Bungle, and although I wouldn't make that audacious comparison myself, it is very nice to hear that.

www.myspace.com/pygmaeus1

If anyone is interested in hearing it.


Edited by Guy-McPerson - November 25 2008 at 12:09

Marwin wrote: I play in 2 prog bands: Toxic Mind and Porcelain. With Toxic Mind we just released our first album which will soon be available for online purchase through an online store as soon as we fill in some paper work, or then you could just email us and we can send you a record. http://www.myspace.com/toxicmindfin http://www.myspace.com/porcelainprog

I've started to try and listen through some of all your links.  Toxic Mind is very good, but the link to Porcelain didn't seem to work.   Listening to Altiac right now.....

Dean wrote: This earlier thread may provide some more answers for you Ed.   http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50914

Cheers Dean - had a look at that too, although couldn't vote, I do play guitar but not Prog (unless you count folk solos!), as I say I just want to relax and listen and not be distracted by trying to play it in my head.

Am I in a prog band? I wish. I was in a metal band a while back, and I hated it. I liked it at first, but our guitarist tried to turn us into Slipknot, so we kicked him out, and once the band I was in became a trio, we could not think of anything, so we all quit. I need to promote myself more, because I know no one who likes and plays prog at the same time. 

PinkPangolin wrote: Thanks for all your replies guys, though I'm a bit surprised that there are so few - are there really not many musicians out there? Am intending to check out some of your links, but I'm stuggling for time at the moment Interesting thought about playing music from a different genre and not trying to play Prog - then you can relax more when you listen to it - you're not trying to think how to play it! Keep sending in the replies - interesting stuff!

Well, you asked about who is in a prog band, and not "who are musicians", so of course, you would have got less replies.
I'm a musician, and I imagine it's fairly well known at PA I'm a guitarist.
I'm currently not in a band at all (and haven't been for over a month and it was more just rock/metal cover songs, nothing in the prog realm).
I can play 'prog' songs on guitar, like some prog metal stuff, but I'm not sure if that counts as being a prog musician as such, especially when you consider when I play those songs, I see it as playing a metal song and don't really approach it from the 'prog' angle if that makes sense.
If the fact I can play prog metal on guitar makes me a prog musician to you, then I have no problems with that, but it's up to you really