Bands that are not on this site.

As I write this I'm listening to Hamburger Concerto on vinyl by "Focus". I bought it because it was in the top 100 and I'm a huge prog head always looking for great stuff. It's a great album. In fact I've found tons of great bands from suggestions here like "Kahn's Space Shanty" and "Cathedrals's Stained Glass Stories" for example. However; I still wonder about some of my favorite bands that are over looked. I've asked about "Hendrix" before and he's still not on here. "Chicago Transit Athority" is another band that I would include here. At least the earlier stuff. I have "Deep Purple" you know, the rock band. They are listed on this site. Still no timeless "Hendrix" albums. I also bought the band "If" by suggestion from a progger here. I think the earlier "Chicago" albums are as prog as "If" is. I would even be the first to review them if they would be accepted here? I know it boils down to is it Pop/Rock or Prog but I'd like to know what other people think?

Edited by JT_Productions - January 03 2008 at 20:15

Prog pop is a category that is unjustly neglected here.  Some prog pop has landed in symphonic (Starcastle would be a good example) but most of it has been thrown into prog-related on not added to the site at all.  Journey  and Toto would fit as prog pop bands I would think.  I'm not familiar enough with Chicago to comment there, and as far as Hendrix goes, I don't think that the fact that he influenced just about every guitarist to come after him as sufficient reason to classify him even as prog related.

Ricochet wrote: For "Prog Pop" see Prog Related and Crossover Prog.

quite

as far as Hendrix, his inclusion has been discussed much .. remember that he died before his interest in prog (which he had) was able to blossom in his material, and that most prog musicians were moving past his type of psych/blues

Ricochet wrote: ghost_of_morphy wrote: Prog pop is a category that is unjustly neglected here.  Some prog pop has landed in symphonic (Starcastle would be a good example) but most of it has been thrown into prog-related on not added to the site at all.  Journey  and Toto would fit as prog pop bands I would think.  I'm not familiar enough with Chicago to comment there, and as far as Hendrix goes, I don't think that the fact that he influenced just about every guitarist to come after him as sufficient reason to classify him even as prog related. For "Prog Pop" see Prog Related and Crossover Prog.