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vic wrote:One of my very favrite prog bands is UK. They released only three albums, one of them live. Great musicians, fantastic music in my ears. here is link to first album;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJrOg79kQU

^ I love UK. That's Eddie Jobson again on violin and keyboards, from Curved Air and other places, plus John Wetton from Crimson and the fantastic Bill Bruford on drums (also in Crimson on Red with Wetton and Fripp, my favorite Crimson lineup). For an interesting time in progressive land, follow any one of those musicians through their career. Bruford has an especially interesting history, and a very distinctive sound and style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoYsqVqDcU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpwmFeW5MPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA8A2kmCfFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZVXqw770A

And I can't let a progressive thread go without mentioning Caravan, if only for their album titles. This also leads us into the Canterbury Scene which includes other interesting bands like Hatfield and the North, Camel, and Gong, among others, and an incredible list of musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTu8mjaeV5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsYFJ5LHkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGgNvbXVIP8

And here is some Hatfield and the North:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KsAVZF8H2o

The band grew out of a line-up of friends in mid-1972 consisting of Phil Miller (guitar, from Matching Mole), Phil's brother Steve Miller (keyboards, from Caravan), Pip Pyle (drums, from Gong) and Richard Sinclair (bass and vocals, from Caravan).

I spent a lot of time in the 80s searching through cutouts and used records in record-store basements for these strange British bands. If you follow the musicians it gets really interesting.

No one has mentioned Genesis (real Genesis, with Peter Gabriel -- after Gabriel left they are just a pop shadow.)

Let's start easy, with the classic "Watcher of the Skies" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZVXqw770A
The full Foxtrot album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9MKJCc3dw
Not to forget Selling England by the Pound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rn9tzirks4
Or Nursery Cryme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ-I0htgXYI

And then the best for last, Gabriel's last album with Genesis, the "concept" album, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" -- listen to all of it from start to finish as it was meant to be heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63bd96LAYmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsPmdJbW71g

Note that Brian Eno is credited with "enossification (treatments)" on this album.

And then some solo work from Steve Hackett (the Genesis guitarist) from 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtN5xvJ-kcY

Let's hear a little Brand X from 1976: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnMJfHjAq8
and 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlHtvbC ... OddeWfvH8i

Progressive or fusion? You decide. Who really cares.

Phil Collins played with this band for a while, but the real star is Percy Jones on fretless bass.

And here is more Percy Jones, with Brian Eno on Before and After Science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvaZph8ciGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuspDRxrx0

More creepy videos from Before and After Science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp0k_o8gfQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77G0xF45weg

And from the same album, a peaceful quiet song, but classic Eno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrZYP8SzlN8

More Eno, Another Green World, from 1975. Percy Jones again, and a little Robert Fripp, John Cale, and Phil Collins. The third track ("St. Elmo's Fire") features Fripp's classic sound, and is probably my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCkmIwRrc0

OK; I'm done for now.

Eno, Fripp, Cale, Genesis: talking about real great music here.
Shame on me I only know Caravan by name, have to check them out.

Also check out Brand X if you have not heard them before. I think you will like them as a fusion band. Percy Jones has been compared to Jaco Pastorius, but I think Jones is just a great bass player in his own right and does not need to be compared to anyone.

^ I'll sure do, starting from the record you linked above ;)

Speaking of bass players, let's not forget Tony Levin. Here he is in another great Crimson lineup (Levin, Bruford, Fripp, and Adrien Belew):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuTaM5eTVeo

And playing the Chapman Stick (with both Bruford and Belew on percussion):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WO_dS7ti64

A little more Stick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6CbVC79Ao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46FV8rSbNE

Brand X first record is just my kind of music. Thank you, Pidsley.

One more, then I'm back to the giant pile of books I got from the library yesterday.

This is Renaissance from 1973, 1974, and 1975.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sRO7Kqn-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3DF1Y4RmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1XeEx-Aruc

I saw this band live in 1977, but that's a story for another time.

A live show from 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B578LuXbPI

Oh hell, let's throw in a Camel concert from 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdkPou4f8QE

I have more for later. Now back to the books!

Oh my god Pidsley, a ton of info and music, fantastic.

/Me goes and listens to some old Genesis.

The old Genesis, yeah! Before Peter left, that is.

You might know Mike Oldfield from "Tubular Bells" but if you have never heard Ommadawn (1975), please listen to at least part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Xq7P-DDpE

In addition to Mike Oldfield on guitars (acoustic, classical, electric, steel, twelve-string, acoustic bass and electric bass), banjo, bouzouki, bodhrán, electronic organs, glockenspiel, harp, mandolin, percussion, tubular bells, piano, spinet, synthesisers and vocals, this album features Pierre Moerlen (I have mentioned him before), and Mike Oldfield's brother Terry Oldfield on panpipes, and sister Sally Oldfield on vocals.

Sally has several solo albums, including Water Bearer, from 1978; she is credited with vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer, harpsichord, pipe organ, mandolin, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, banjo, and percussion, and I promise you have never heard anything quite like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSE4Xgde_ho

Another member of the Canterbury Scene, Steve Hillage played with Gong, and did several solo albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLOydjragZE

Two more musicians I first heard in a planetarium laser-light show in 1977.

Vangelis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vPKdHN03CI

Larry Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bywvgMrEx4

Maybe these belong in "early electronica" but whatever.

Is this progressive, electronica, or something else? You decide.

Kraftwerk, Autobahn, from 1974: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-3GDkwf8g

And Radio-Activity from 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ipthNpgvE