bands with similar aspects to VDGG?

A band that had outstanding lyrics and was never really appreciated as much, would have been THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND ... and some of that material was very strong and I would even venture to say that it was quite educated, instead of just a street song. One might have argued that they looked like something other than that, but it was a very thoughtful and important band.

To see a "best of" (kinda) their Rockpalast DVD is very good and it kinda goes through a lot of their stuff, but the original albums, are even better in my book. For that matter, Edgar Broughton is working on a new album and one song has already been played on Space Pirate Radio, courtesy of Edgar himself.

Probably too "intelligent" of a band, to be considered "progressive" here, since folks only want a bunch of solos and some kinda of bombastic nothing. EBB was bombastic in its lyrics and attacks. They, probably gave "punk" a really bad name!

I remember his appearing at a festival in Kent about 4-5 years ago. It was quite early in the afternoon , a beautiful day in a lovely country house setting. He was singing songs about death and suicide (it was just him on stage) . Didn't quite catch the general mood! Certainly a considerable talent and perhaps more on the Captain Beefheart side of prog?!