Emulating Classic Prog Is Not Prog

Gerinski wrote: I don't care much about theatrics either, they can be nice when watching a concert but most of the times you enjoy music it will be on record. But a nice story or concept accompanying a song or album helps enhancing the purely musical listening experience, such as in The Lamb or Get'em Out by Friday.   As for the bands accused of being clones, my experience tells me that the more you listen to them the less you see them as clones. Give them a chance and many of them will reveal their own qualities. Take Citizen Cain for example, their album Somewhere But Yesterday sounds on first listen like a blatant Gabriel Genesis clone, but now it's one of my all-time favourite albums, the style and sound may be similar but the compositions and interpretations are great in their own right.

That's very true - unless a band is a blatant tribute they will always be a representation of themselves if they write and record their own music, regardless of how derivative that may appear to be, often it is no more derivative than the last album by the band they are alleged to be clones of... it's like that old joke - the best Rolling Stones tribute act is The Rolling Stones (insert you favourite reformed/still touring 70s rock act here). If Genesis aren't making Genesis albums at the moment but someone is making albums that remind you of that era of rock music then what is the issue?