History of prog

[Jackehh]

Long story short:

Since I started listening to Opeth I've become more and more interested in progressive music (rock), bands that I had never heard of; Camel, Pink floyd (yes I know), Yes etc am I now a frequent listener of. There seems to be a lot of progheads on this forum so I figured this is a good place to inquiere from where I might find the history and background of the progressive music. I have a genuine interest in learning more of this, in my opinion, ultimate type of music. Any tip of any book/website/whatever would be very much appreciated!

thanks!

 

[Words of Credence]

For me it's kind of different. Because of Opeth, I'm more interested in these modern (late 80s, early 90s) prog bands, that have more to do with metal than rock. That isn't to say I couldn't get into the older ones...I still want to try them too. However I have to many bands to listen to thoroughly before doing that.

 

[Disgustipated]

You might find ProgArcvhives to be useful .. Otherwise trying the search function on this forum would have brought up a few threads, including this 77-page 'discussion':

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/non-opeth-music-chat/150277-rare-prog-early-70s.html

 

[Holocaust on the Moon]

This may sound really lame, but the wiki-entry to progressive rock is a great resource.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock

 

[flu boy]

gentle giant

 

[{-sapob-}]

This may sound really lame, but the wiki-entry to progressive rock is a great resource.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock

Not lame at all, some wiki articles are really really good.
And the prog article is one of the some.

 

[Arasmas]

only prog album i ever listen to anymore is thick as a brick by jethro tull, and i guess aqualung sometimes too

 

[grey knight]

Impossible not to notice that the topic title clearly seems to say "history of proq".

 

[Jackehh]

thanks for all the helpful replies, progarchieves really has a lot of information. Gonna go over to my local university library and search some there as well for some literature

 

[isolation_years]

COMUS - FIRST UTTURANCE

one of the best albums of all time

 

[Slunk]

This might be a given. But you have listened to Porcupine Tree? It might not be very good if you want the history of prog, but they do encompass the most influences in their music that I have ever heard.

 

[Jackehh]

Yeah I listen to PT, although not very frequently (I prefer the a bit more harder tool) but I have a deep respect for SW