Classic Rock's "Prog Rock" Magazine

Ok, I didn't know Bath Spa Station had a WHSmiths (it's very small and pathetic really), but the town certainly does. I'll try it tomorrow, thanks. 

Cheers..

I just popped into Waitrose, but they only had the 'other' Classic Rock mag...


Edited by Kojak - June 02 2010 at 11:37

Can this be got from all WHSmiths stores, does anyone know? Even though there is an interview with prog bands in the 'usual' version of Classic Rock (with Them Crooked Vultures on the cover), I take it, the prog version is different...???

Raff wrote: carlmarx38 wrote: Raff wrote: How do I feel? It's the readers' votes, and they have the right to vote as they see fit. Obviously, I don't agree with practically any of the results, but if their main audience feels that way, more power to them. What I object to, as I said before, are other things - first of all, the patronizing attitude towards music coming from non-English-speaking countries, and then the less than informative content of some reviews. As to the bands they cover, they're mainly from the UK, and this is the reason why they're pushing them so hard. ProgArchives is a very different entity, with an international membership and much broader outlook, so you should not be surprised by the differences.           THANKS DUDE.....THAT EXPLAINS WHY, IN THEIR COVERAGE OF THE ITALIAN SCENE,             THERE PICK FOR BEST PFM ALBUM WAS CHOCOLATE KINGS, AND WHY THE             ARTICLE ON FRENCH PROG DIDN'T EVEN MENTION HARMONIUM (HARMONIUM IS               FRENCH RIGHT, OR AM I AN IGNORANT FOOL ?          P.S. - I LOVE FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, AND BOC......BUT CULTASAURUS                            ERECTUS IS THEIR MOST UNDER-RATED ALBUM !!!!!!!! I'm a woman, not a dude

hahhhaa...   many years here..and many times mistaken.... and that never fails to crack me up...

Q was an amazing breath of fresh air when it started in the id 1980's. There was nothing available for music fans - NME was a pale shadow of it's former self, Melody Maker  ditto, Sounds defunct. Along came a nice glossy mag with stuff on all sorts of good stuff including the ground covered by those weeklies.

MaxerJ wrote: I'm very impressed by Classic Rock Presents Prog. I expected it to be very condescending, and full of only the most popular prog rock bands, as you would expect from a mainstream magazine. Instead I got impressive articles, a surreal Wakeman column, and interviews with Ian Anderson and Comus! That's a win in anyone's books.

Agreed, and I just LOVE that signature

carlmarx38 wrote: Raff wrote: How do I feel? It's the readers' votes, and they have the right to vote as they see fit. Obviously, I don't agree with practically any of the results, but if their main audience feels that way, more power to them. What I object to, as I said before, are other things - first of all, the patronizing attitude towards music coming from non-English-speaking countries, and then the less than informative content of some reviews. As to the bands they cover, they're mainly from the UK, and this is the reason why they're pushing them so hard. ProgArchives is a very different entity, with an international membership and much broader outlook, so you should not be surprised by the differences.           THANKS DUDE.....THAT EXPLAINS WHY, IN THEIR COVERAGE OF THE ITALIAN SCENE,             THERE PICK FOR BEST PFM ALBUM WAS CHOCOLATE KINGS, AND WHY THE             ARTICLE ON FRENCH PROG DIDN'T EVEN MENTION HARMONIUM (HARMONIUM IS               FRENCH RIGHT, OR AM I AN IGNORANT FOOL ?          P.S. - I LOVE FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, AND BOC......BUT CULTASAURUS                            ERECTUS IS THEIR MOST UNDER-RATED ALBUM !!!!!!!!

I'm a woman, not a dude, and I love Cultosaurus Erectus as well (you can read my review if you like), though I chose Fire of Unknown Origin as avatar because of its artwork. However, be careful when posting all in capitals, since it's considered bad netiquette (i.e. shouting).

To answer the previous post, I know you can find the magazine in Canada, but it costs 25 dollars.

I have never even heard of this magazine until this thread.  Can you even get it in Canada?

      How do you feel about the reader and critics polls that PROG magazine has run thus far ?
         (i.e. BEST PROG ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (#2), and their readers poll from last issue on
          BEST ALBUMS OF 2009, BEST BANDS, ETC ?

      here are my questions about these polls which is mostly stuff that  "just don't jibe" with PA's
         coverage of the scene :

        1. WHO IS THIS BAND TOUCHSTONE, AND HOW DID THEIR ALBUM WINTERCOAST GET
                VOTED 4TH BEST DISC OF 2009 ?

        2.  "MAGENTA" AS 4TH BEST BAND  ?

        3. The critics poll for best of 2009 is nice but again, who are all these bands that you
              never hear mentioned on PA ?

                   BIGELF ? (what's up with that hat anyway ?)
                   CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX ? and who the hell is "DEVIL'S BLOOD"?

        4.  And their reader's poll on BEST PROG ALBUMS OF ALL TIME :

              a. Marillion's BRAVE is best Marillion album ?  (#14 out of 50, while
                     MISPLACED CHILDHOOD is #17)
             
              b. SYSTEMATIC CHAOS by DT is voted #20 Prog album of all time !

              c. I do like that IQ and Spock's Beard are in there (these bands have nothing
                    in PA's Top 100), although it trips me out that SNAKES AND ARROWS by
                       RUSH is voted higher than FAREWELL TO KINGS.

New issue out today. A Peter Gabriel special.