progressive rock recordings / bands

[bassdude51]

Grateful Dead


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[RCMJ Bass]

I saw Gong mentioned a little while back....how about Magma anyone..this is a good place to start going down the rabbit hole:

 

[Teijo K.]

I progressed to bands like Spock's Beard, and the offshoots

I don't know if this is mentioned already, but Beard members say that Gentle Giant was an influence to them. So if you want to go back the family tree or something like that, def give them a try. First 6 or 7 records are really great in my opinion.

 

[Teijo K.]

Gentle Giant

Yeah, it was. Definitely Gentle Giant.

 

[BwanaDust]

Blue Weaver!?!? Wow... he went on to be the Bee Gees touring keyboard player!

He also went back to work with the Strawbs sometime in the nineties. I liked his work on Bursting at the Seams. It was much more focused and appropriate for the Strawbs semi-acoustic sound. On Witchwood, Wakeman was using a heavily distorted Hammond sound that just grates. Don't get me wrong... I'm a big Wakeman fan, but his work just didn't fit with the Strawbs. His other session work (Bowie, Cat Stevens) fitted well with the songs, even though it's trademark Wakeman.

 

[BwanaDust]

Grateful Dead


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Never really considered them to be progressive.

 

[Teijo K.]

From Finland I want to mention Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti. Both cool bands with pop/prog style and jazz/prog styles respectively.

 

[Teijo K.]

Early Wigwam had some jazz influence too, and our local bass hero Pekka Pohjola.

 

[Creeper2]

Soften the glare is great and have an amazing bass player

 

[Ric5]

Never really considered them to be progressive.

Ya I would classify the Dead as a jam band … I guess you could say they progressed from the 3 minute song into 30 minute jams … but definitely a jam band ...

I am not a big Dead fan … but I appreciate anybody who knows how to improvise

 

[onamission]

Ozric Tentacles - YumYum Tree

 

[br1qbat]

Saint Karloff - more stonery and doomy, but some hot poopie playing. Their Interstellar Voodoo is my AOTY pick

Elder - especially the latest Reflections of a Floating World. Kinda Jammy, kinda doomy here and there [more so on earlier records], def progressive.

Ecstatic Vision - spacerock ala Hawkwind

Electric Moon - also old school spacerock, love em but might be too jammy and purposely repetitive [aka trance-inducing!] for some

Sacri Monti - another great newish record - Waiting Room for the Magic Hour. Fantastic! Another AOTY candidate

Boss Keloid - seconded from upthread for their album Melted on the Inch

 

[Richland123]

Big Big Train

 

[Vinny_G]

Ozric Tentacles - YumYum Tree

I would say all their discography, actually. But they may be more Space rock than Prog rock.
Instrumental music that you think is brilliant

 

[Meaculpa]

For newer stuff I suggest you to checkout a band called Lite from Japan. I don't know if it's strictly progressive but they have some proggy stuff

 

[higain617]

Not really prog, but UFO 2: Flying.

 

[Carl Hillman]

I like to put a lot of music on a thumb drive to listen to in my car. I have a good variety of music. I am looking to find more progressive rock recordings that I can rip to mp3 / wma format.

Try some Yezda Urfa...a late 70s band from Chicago that obviously listened to a lot of Yes and Gentle Giant...

 

[Ric5]

HEY … YOU GUYS ROCK ...

YOU HAVE EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS AND GIVEN ME A TON OF BANDS / RECORDINGS TO FOLLOW UP ON

 

[pedroims]

Between my favorites: Banco del mutuo soccorso, Le orme, Il Balletto di Bronzo

 

[Passinwind]

Never really considered them to be progressive.

I never really considered any music more than a few years old to be progressive, personally.