Are you in your own Prog band?

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

Edited by Marwin - October 20 2008 at 17:57

I was in a progressive rock band in my teens, but it was hard to get the six of us to practice consistently, and after high school, we all dispersed throughout the county.

Now, however, I write and record my own symphonic rock music in my home studio.  My first album should be available in December (if there are no further delays).  It is entitled Still the Waters.

I played in a country band during college, but don't let that scare you from checking out my album when the samples are available. 

it is no big secret that BaldFriede and I are a duo called "Bald Angels". I play keyboards and sing some harmony vocals, Friede sings lead vocals and plays drums and percussion. we often have guest musicians, most notably my sister Bea (USAGirl) on flute

Edited by BaldJean - October 18 2008 at 11:10

My band isn't really prog, more like proto-post-rock, shoegaze, and a little 90s math rock.

Well, they call me sometimes The Fish, my major influence is John Entwistle, just a great player with such a tone.

I have played in a band called Yes, don't know if you know it. The one with the double album, Tales From Topographic Oceans where I do a very stunning piece on Nous Sommes Du Soleil...

well, does a project count as well?

Because if that goes as well, I am the main song, concept and lyric writer for the TDW project and I do the vocals, keyboards, some guitars and programming for that. I have released my last album in July of this year actually, so if any one is interested, you know where to find me now. 

Next to that I am the main vocalist and guitar player in a doom/post rock band called Panta Rhei and I do some occasional work together with an old friend of mine in a death / grind metal project called Schteenpuisth. (To those who are wondering/worrying about my mental health with a bandname like that, that last project is pure fun and is not intended to be based on seriousness at all! )

Yes I am actually  News travels fast so it seems 

I have to admit that one of the reasons for checking the forum out was that I was able to add all the discography info and such if I was a forum member and therefore taking away some of the work that others had to do instead. why?

I´m starting a band right now, but we still need a singer... and I want a violin player or a keyboard player too. Right now we are a drummer, two bassplayers (although one will eventually go he says), a percussionist, a sax player and me, the guitarist. We have just got together two weeks ago and have mostly jammed in a very frantic/funky/Mars Volta way, but I do have a lot of compositions ready to be worked with the rest. I´m pretty excited about this band...

I also used to be in a math/eclectic trio with one of the bassplayers (the one who wants to quit) called Secuencia Fibonacci.

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

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.