Prog Rock

I was a big fan of the first progressive wave but I had pretty much lost touch with the genre until I saw this thread a week or so ago. I sampled several of the bands mentioned and I found many of them to not suit my taste at all. To each his own, right? But the thread did send me on a quest to find some good modern progressive rock.

The search took me to iTunes Radio and I found "Progman" under the classic rock tab on iTunes Radio. I've listened to it for a few hours now and I've heard some really good stuff.

Give Progman a try. It's free if you have iTunes and it's also available as a streaming audio internet station at http://www.laut.fm/progman. but the website is in German.

Ptmcontulting, in digging around a little bit I just found out that Neal Morse is now in a band called Flying Colors with of all people Steve Morse (no relation). Morse used to be with the Dixie Dregs and Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater is also in this band. There's an article in May's Premier Guitar magazine about them.

Sounds like an interesting group of musicians, kind of a super-group. I know Neal was auditioning people for another band he was putting together, but I'm sure that's yet another project outside of this one.

Bottom line - there's lots of good prog being created these days, in all sorts of genre's.

I enjoy the early 1970s prog classics - Gentle Giant, KC, Genesis, Yes et al...I am constantly looking for new exciting prog records (and find very little that really impresses me)...in 2008 Diagonal came out with an album (Rise Above Records - yes, it is available in vinyl as well) that I think is absolutely awesome and that I now count as one of the greats...I have anxiously been awaiting a new release from them, and I just read that they are planning something this year...other GREAT prog albums in my opinion is Mr Bungle 'Disco Volante' and Opeth 'Watershed'...I just have to mention one of the best ever, in my humble opinion of course, more obscure (lost) ones Il Balletto Di Bronzo 'Ys' (Italy 1972 - much great prog from that country)...all of the mentioned I recommend highly to any prog fanatic.

Go4vinyl, Funny you should mention a lot of good prog came from Italy. Premiata Forneria Marconi was an Italian prog group that was pretty good. Genesis was huge in Italy as many of their concerts were done there. Perhaps the Italians love prog due to an almost operatic element to much of prog.