Prog "One-Hit Wonders" (read before responding)

 Great story!!  I've got the CD, even saw them in concert, and am not sure I'd recognize anything from the CD!  I guess I should listen to it a few times! 

So  you were into prog in the sixties?   To me the only true prog bands before the "red faced album" were the Nice and the Canterbury bands. I agree most of it was proto but then at some point they splintered into other subgenres. If you want to call it proto prog that's cool but there has come to be a consensus from what I understand that proto is typically pre "red faced guy." :) I won't split hairs about it though. I mentioned PE because they even had a list of 100 so proto prog albums but these days not everyone on there considers albums like Spring or Cressida or Gnidrolog or Beggar's Opera or whoever to be proto prog. In my opinion(and something they mentioned on there as well)a better term for some of them anyway is "early prog." So for me personally pre "red face" is proto and post is "early prog." That's what works for me. I guess some see it as a chronological thing and to others it's more of a sound thing. Ultimately I go by what it says on here(although I can see both points). http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=37 

You must be a member of progressive ears. That's just about the only site I know of where the members on there consider albums released after 1969/70 to be "proto prog."  If you look those bands up on this site you will get a different category.

As far as musicians go the one that comes to mind for me is John Mayhew who played on "trespass." I suppose we could call Trevor Horn a "one hit wonder" too since he only appeared on Drama but isn't there supposed to be a version of Fly From Here coming out with his vocals on it instead of Benoit's?