Named for a tool that creates high-voltage electrical energy, Van der Graaf Generator was a shock to the system of prog’s first era. If Sure’s sunny-voiced, utopian-minded Jon Anderson was…
By the point Rush had been in London to file their sixth album, Hemispheres, the Canadian three-piece had been totally ready, having spent greater than a month rehearsing and honing…
The Genesis catalog is filled with gems, singles, and deep cuts alike. In a recording profession that lasted greater than twenty years, they coated the bases from tailored singles to…
Hugh Mendl was that rarest of beasts within the music enterprise: an govt who favored artwork over commerce. Steering Decca Information’ Deram imprint within the Sixties and 70s, he helped…
Ask any UK gig-goer from the provinces what mattered in 1977, and so they’ll readily observe that the yr was as a lot about AC/DC, Skinny Lizzy, and Rush because…
When progressive rock and jazz fusion first emerged, they had been worlds aside. Simply evaluate Miles Davis’s jazz-rock milestone Bitches Brew and Light Large’s classically influenced, uber-proggy debut. Each blew…