Why 'Love of Prog'

Welcome to my progressive rock music blog.

Most visitors coming to this site are most likely already familiar with what progressive music is. For those of you who are not, and need a definition, I cannot better that provided by the best online resource dedicated to progressive rock music; www.progarchives.com. This is the best overview of the genre, giving the novice an excellent starting point to unpicking this marvellously misunderstood world.

For those of you who are already afficiandos of the genre you will understand that trying to explain the appeal of gatefold sleeves, twenty minute album tracks, capes, triple necked basses and inpenetrable lyrics to a non-believer is challenging at best, bewildering at worst. You either get it or you don't.

This blog therefore is not trying to convert music fans with other preferences. Instead, I have started this blog to reach out to other fans of prog rock, young and old, wherever they may be, to share their own feelings about progressive rock music; asking them to articulate, as best they can, exactly what it means to them.

I will detail all the key landmarks I have experienced during my prog rock odyssey to date. This will primarily be in the form of blog entries based around specific albums; reviews which will focus as much on the muscians, the history of the album and the band, as on my own reasons for caring to write about each one in the first place.

So, cue the dry ice, twinkle the ivories, bring out the flute, the lute, the mellotron, the pedal steel guitar; cue the incense and the light show, pull up a beanbag, put on the headphones and enjoy the trip.

Andrew