My newest Prog band find is “Cosmic Cathedral”
This powerhouse band features drumming icon Chester Thompson (Genesis, Frank Zappa), guitar virtuoso Phil Keaggy (Glass Harp), renowned bassist Byron House (Robert Plant, Alison Krauss), and Neal Morse
( Transatlantic (Since 1999), Spock’s Beard (1992 – 2002), Flying Colors, Yellow Matter Custard
In Italy we could say “mica pizza e fichi!”
Whose meaning is that it is not surely a bad band, like a pizza with figs onto it is certainly a bad pizza 
I liked the demo track (huge Neil Morse fan) and with Chester Thompson as well it is a “must check out” band.
Don’t forget that IQ have a new album out (featuring “our” Neil) called Dominion and very good it is too.
The new Karmakanic album “Transmutation” is also really good. Some great Hammond playing on “Brace for Impact”
And now spring is here, I have dug out Steve Hillage’s Fish Rising album. This is classic - all those Tim Blake squishy, trippy synth sounds…..
Yes! It’s definitely growing on me at every listening.
That’s a very good album indeed!
Gabriel
Glass Hammer and Jethro Tull have new albums out.
Bought it as soon as it was released in mid March.
Huh 
didn’t know 
Really enjoying the new album, “Dominion”
I like Neal Morse and Spock’s Beard, and old Genesis. We played Invisible Touch, l intro-ed it by saying “we’re old prog rockers, we find it hard to believe that this is one of the most popular Genesis songs, but here you go”.
We also do Turn it on Again, I Know What l Like (in Your Wardrobe), Shock the Monkey and Solsbury Hill. I love old, complicated songs, and love to play them, but l must accept that we are a minority. I have a longtime love of Rush, Genesis (and some side acts), Marillion, and Yes (and some side acts). I contemplate the idea that Yes might not have been a really good band (l forget who posited that), but l am familiar with a lot of it, and like it.
One other thing l find funny is, l grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, and there was much mythology around some of those bands, and there was no Wiki to go try and learn more. I love that there are now good and interesting sources of info about bands back in the day, and that my 30+ year old bass player son loves to read all about it. He constantly has things to tell me about that era that are humorous, and sometimes enlightening.
I love old, complicated songs, and would love to play them, but l must accept that I am unable to do that 
Well, I try some solo in the pink-floydish style and I succeed, sometimes, but e.g. one of my preferred axe player Stewe Howe is unparalleled
Not mentioning Angus Young, but too bad I don’t like wearing shorts, otherwise… 
I could post Prog bands all day long, but I won’t. A lot of Prog came from the psychedelic sixties,
such as…
Jethro Tull (1967), Argent (1969), Pink Floyd (1965), SugarLoaf (1968), Deep Purple (1968), The Who (1964), The Doors (1965), Black Sabbath (1968), Yes (1968), King Crimson (1968), The Mothers Of Invention (1964), The Moody Blues (1964), Vanilla Fudge (1966), The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966), Procol Harum (1967), Genesis (1967), Rush (1968), Led Zeppelin (1968), ELP (1970), Focus (1969), Iron Butterfly (1966), and of course, …The Beatles.
It’s always good to explore the beginning of a genre, just to understand how, and why it progressed as it did.
It’s funny, l took piano lessons from second grade (age 8), so l was “classically trained”, to the point l was accepted as a Music major, but l didn’t learn how to playin a rock band until after that. I took some jazz piano, so l learned to comp, and l use tabs and sheet music to learn most songs. Understanding chords will take you a long way toward that, so hang in there!
Oh yeah, l wear shorts all the time, but l have legs like a rugby player. XD
Well, now I have a lot of work to complete, but as far as I fnd some time, I’ll shoot some picture of me epitomizing Angus: fun guarantee
I like all of the bands you mention, but prefer them once they were hitting their stride - usually album number three as a rule of thumb. Sometimes the second album - E.g. Fly by Night by Rush. Or Trespass by Genesis
So to me, Prog Rules! But then what exactly is it to be progressive? That is another debate! E.g. I think Gary Numan was progressive as had you ever heard anything like it before when he hit the scene? I certainly do not think progressive rock is defined by a snapshot of the scene in (for example) 1973 preserved in aspic like some people do.
Progressive would be beyond the normal, if there is such a thing. In those years, there was a progressive movement in all the genres. Jazz, hot jazz, cool jazz, and many more. Rock n Roll became Rock, Rock became metal, Pop became Bubble Gum, Folk became electric, Classical moved into synth, Country became Pop and later to Southern Rock. Movement away from the normal was the “big thing”.
Yeah, very few prog (or prog adjacent) bands hit one out of the park on album one, or in a lot of cases even album number two. King Crimson is usually considered to be one. UK for sure, but then that was a band of established people. ELP’s first album is a little uneven, but generally quite good, especially compared to later albums.
Always get a laugh out of this;
No lies detected 
