best prog era

hey dudes, do anyone here think that prog music is in the best moment???

i'm sure that there are awesome stuff from 70's and 80's, but i think the modern production shows clearly everything that is playing, so, to me the best era is after 2000, and i like so much some stuff from 90's.

for example, look at Uriah heep. the album demons and wizards is pretty cool, but the new album wake the sleeper is awesome, cuz the instruments got a good production, and i think that demons and wizards could be so good than it if they make a remaster version.

so, what do you guys think about???

Time will tell...

90s/00s. I think prog is more eclectic nowadays as we have a lot more genres to take influence from. That factor + good production + amazing standard nof musicianship = f**king excellent music. That's what i firmly believe, hence i listen to a hell of a lot more modern prog. VDGG are an exception because they are way ahead of their time with Pawn Hearts and Godbluff and Still Life.

90's and 00's

I think prog as an era is ongoing...

I prefer a much more broad variety of modern music, much of it prog, but that's likely because I'm young...

the 60s/70s era gets a lot of love from me too though, which is why I can't safely say one decade is better than the other--especially sincethe 00s aren't over yet.

Prog is an ever-developing phantasm, and a lot of it is more than worth hearing, no matter what decade it came out of.

I gotta go with the current generation.

Yeah, the 70's started it all but modern prog is just so much more dynamic and exciting. With modern technology musicians are now able to accomplish what bands 30 years ago would have never thought possible. Mellotrons have been replaced with more realistic sounding keyboard patches, and a variety of new guitar effects and various other devices give musicians the opportunity to experiment with a wider variety of sounds.

There's also the internet, which allows artists to promote and distribute their music independently, removing the pressure of major labels and encouraging artistic freedom.

For sheer experimentation and historically, the 70's are the best decade (if there is such way to decide such question) but nowadays we live an exciting new time, with new groups coming everyday influenced by the oldies, but giving something new in return as well, and, has as been pointed before, the oldies are coming back to make their final aparition in the prog-scene as well! What more can YOU ask? 

I don't know...my album won't be released until the end of this year... 

The 60's and 70's were groundbreaking and new, so really for Prog that was the best era.  Who would have thought that we had Chuck Berry and Elvis at the end of the fifties and within 10 years we had Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and tremendous advances in music beyond belief in such a short time.

The 80's were a hideous down turn.  80's music is hideous rubbish (sorry)

There were some very good improvements in the 90's

But now - in the 2000's - we are at an exciting new stage - Prog music has developed well from its roots and is much more diverse now, with much better production and recording facilities + some of the musicianship is awesome because it is always trying to be better.  Also - it is no longer embarrasing to like it, it is more respected now than it has been for 30 years or more.  A new tidal wave of Progressive music is coming in, with bands like Oceansize, Opeth, Amplifier, Mars Volta, Sigur Ros, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief (to name but a very few) leading the way.

The cheese has gone, and now we have an incredibly wide range of music that no other genre can even hope to get near!  It's exciting I tell you!

I don't think, even years down the road, prog fans will get over the 70s. Personally, though, I think this current decade is the best. There is better production, more diversity, expansion from ideas founded in the 70s, etc. Maybe this decade isn't as historically groundbreaking, but I think this era is still innovative. And naturally, the level of skill that many bands today exhibit are beyond that of the 70s bands.