Fave Prog Band On The Radio?

               Have you actually heard your favourite prog artist on the radio? If so, did radio exposure play a role in your liking of that artist? Or did the radio not really have anything to do with developing an interest in the artist?

                  As you know, with the advent of the internet, youtube, etc. the dynamic between artist to the radio has altered, but what about before all that? But it is also true that there are currently some really cool radio stations playing progressive rock of all types out there.

                       My favourite band is seventies, German, Symphonic Prog artist Triumvirat, and to be honest, in my 52 years on this earth, I have never heard them on the radio. I guess it's not surprising, as I did not discover the band until several years after they had split in 1980, and it had been years before that, that there was some radio exposure for the band in North America, where I'm from (mainly in the mid seventies period, during the focus on their best selling albums Illusions On A Double Dimple and Spartacus)           

           

                     

 

However, I still had to go 'underground' to hear groups like Can, Neu!, and Tangerine Dream.

 

Forget about Canterbury. I had no idea that genre existed until I lived for a brief time in the U.K.

I did, once in the evening in my car, coming home from a meeting (a long piece of Spartacus). We're lucky in Belgium to have the radio station Classic 21 (from the French speaking part of the country, but you can receive it in most of Belgium), which features some good prog from time to time.

I don't have a fave prog radio band, but I love it when I drive in my car and suddenly I hear a band like Triumvirat coming by. 

  It was so cool that even AM played real progressive rock.

Hi Doug!  "Illusions on a Double Dimple" had frequent airplay on US college FM stations and some of the AOR stations, and "Spartacus" was also heard.  Our university station in Champaign, Illinois played a ton of prog rock, and helped to launch the local band Starcastle!  Those were great days, my friend!

To my knowledge, Triumvirat did not generate an AM radio single.  Pity, it would have been very popular!