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Focus - Moving Waves, Focus 3
Camel - Moonmadness
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
UK - UK
King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic and Red
Gentle Giant - Octopus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(Go_album)
Some great guitar playing on here too
To be fair, it is nonsense about wizards but with great guitar solos
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Soft Machine
Matching Mole
Quintessence
Third Ear Band
Wally
Edgar Broughton Band
Uriah Heep
Barclay James Harvest
Renaissance
Colosseum
Moody Blues
to name several
and surely The Nice were prog long before anyone ever dreamed of it..........
Camel's "Rain Dances" was good.
Knives out at 2:10-2:50, but watch the whole thing.
To be fair, The Nice formed in '67, and both Yes and King Crimson formed the following year, so they weren't *that* far ahead of everyone else.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
You must listen to The Rotters Club by Hatfield & the North. Side 2 (Mumps) is probably the single greatest recording ever put down on record. A truly astonishing album. Their first self titled album is also up there.
Hatfield went on to become National Health, with the departure of Richard Sinclair (Caravan / Camel) and arrival of John Greaves from Henry Cow and Alan Gowan who's own band Gilgamesh are also worth a listen. Gowan is pure magic - listen to 'Playtime' by Gilgamesh, with Hugh Hopper from Soft Machine on Bass.
Henry Cow are in a different league, you will struggle at first but the reward is worth it (start with Legend [Leg - End?] ). They were so anti establishment, a whole new movement sprung up around them - Rock in Opposition (RIO). There are plenty of RIO bands around, even a festival. Zappa fits into RIO quite well. No one can compete with The Cow for technical ability and craziness, although John Greaves dropped a tray of cutlery on the floor on Old Grey Whistle Test during a National Health performance (on YT if you search for it!). He went on to release Kew Rhone with the lyricist Peter Blegvad. I've always struggled with it to be honest but, when it came out, Robert Wyatt bought two copies. Wyatt of course is a genius and worth a listen to anything of his. Rock Bottom stands tallest, so beautiful, written in his hospital bed after breaking his spine falling our of a window at a party bringing an end to the Matching Mole project he was developing (Matching Mole = Machine Molle, French for Soft Machine) They had a couple of records out which are worth a listen. Or even better, dig out the mad YT video of Wyatt / Matching Mole on French TV with Wyatt drumming in a full face ski mask / balaclava thing.
VDGG already mentioned, they were the main act when Genesis were last on the bill. The originators and broke the mould in so many ways. H to He is my favourite (There's a house with no Doooor...) but fill your boots with them. That video of Peter Hamill writhing round the studio barefoot with a Shelley style blouse, and a glass of red wine in his hand singing Plague of Lighthouse Keepers......class. He also released several notable solo albums.
Finally, I would suggest looking at the RPI (Rock Progressivo Italiano) scene. The greatest exponents were PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi or Marconi's No1 Bakery! - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - the Bank of Mutual Assurance!, and the wonderful 'Le Orme', who basically came over to England in the early 70's, nicked Genesis' ideas and created their own version. There are modern day equivalents. Seek out L'Enigma del Vita by LogoS. Stunning.
...and if you have never listened to the Flying Teapot Trilogy yet, you simply must. I'll let you go search that one but it don't get more crazy than PHP's and Octave Doctors! With The Submarine Captain (Steve Hillage). Which brings us to Ozric Tentacles, for a modern take on it.
Prog Archives has definitions of the different Genres, it's not all symphonic Prog i.e. Genesis and Yes, but if that's your thing they have good reviews of a pretty much all the avenues you can take.
Personally, I liked Selling England by the Pound but that's about it. Close to the Edge was ok. Rick Wakeman and his wives of Henry The Eigth lost me from the start.
Quintessence get a shout above. I've never met anyone who didn't love Quintessence when they first heard them. 'Epitaph for Tomorrow' compilation is the place to start Alan Mostert' understated guitar is sublime (listen to St Pancreas).
But I forgot to mention Aphrodite's Child, who definitely were. Vangelis, Demis Roussos (yes really!) and a couple of other Greeks you won't have heard of.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Two albums I really must recommend to you are solo efforts from Yes members.
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow.
Chris Squire - Fish out of Water.
You really must listen to these records.
Ed Conway & The Unlawful Men - Alt Prog Folk: The FaceBook and The SoundCloud
'Rope Or A Ladder', 'Don't Sing Love Songs', and 'Poke The Frog' albums available now - see FaceBook page for details
Has anyone mentioned the Krautrock angle yet? KRAAN (esp Live '74), Can, Eloy etc...
I'll also throw in Supersister for the best Dutch Prog (you know those two words go together well) and Picchio dal Pozzo, which is RPI but generally considered Canterbury. One of my favourite albums of all time that one, a real hidden gem.
Your band could, and probably should leave their bassist at home.......
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Another rule I have is: anything with a Roger Dean cover.
OTOH I like Kate Bush and David Sylvian, and I think you could make a case for those as prog. The virtuoso instrumental elements are largely missing of course, but song structures, melodies, sonic palette, instrumentation and production values seem to me to come from prog.