Progressive Rock

On the evening of December 27th, 2006, a number of events transpired which lead up to this interview...

December 29, 2006 - This is what music should be about...

Norlander's and Lane's new projects Dominate at Mindawn Once again, projects involving keyboard maestro Erik Norlander have exceeded sales expectations, this time at Mindawn, the prestigious online music service...

Admittedly, many prog rock fans with otherwise excellent taste in music find Gentle Giant rather hard to get into. Their music certainly is challenging, and very varied in flavour...

In the movie "The Quick and the Dead," director Sam Raimi "pulls out all the stops" and uses "every trick and cliche in the book" vis-a-vis every Western ever made...

2. Best I can (3:24) 3. Beneath, between and behind (3:00) 4. By-Tor and the Snowdog (8:57) 5. Fly by night (3:20) 8...

I am a dedicated music fan, with over 1200 CDs. In addition to progressive rock, I also enjoy rock (many forms), blues, Celtic/traditional, folk, new age, jazz, world, reggae, classical, baroque, medieval and even a smattering of opera and country...

I was first introduced to progressive rock in 1995 with PINK FLOYD's live album PULSE . Prior to that, it had pretty much been all classical music for me! The great thing about PULSE was the inclusion of a full performance of The Dark Side of the Moon...

I was first introduced to progressive rock when my older brother (a forum member himself) exposed me to Yes, King Crimson, Procol Harum, Zappa and many others...