Classic Prog similar to VDGG

I don't know ... I think you are working yourself into a corner, and the specialty and individualistic feeling that many other bands can have, gets kinda swept aside by comparison. To be honest with you, PH and VdGG are one of a kind and have been for 50 years, a very individualized feeling and expression that is not loved by everyone, be it someone complaining about his voice, or something else ... like one post one time ... no keyboards and just one sound all the time (organ!).

Of all the bands in my 50 years of listening to this stuff ... I think that the one that is the most unusual and quite different from album to album (it ends for me in Vive La Trance) is Amon Duul 2, but that's a band that is really hard to get into since they are so harsh and different sometimes, and a couple of years later, the album HIJACK is a really good album, but no one will listen to its music, and it has some very far out things, although, as usual, it is way out there, and even the feminist moment by Renate ... is completely ignored and means absolutely NOTHING to anyone else ... at a time when that was something that was coming alive in the media ... but it gets laughed off ... so what? ... wow ... totally insane!

Other bands fit into the are of way out there, and BANCO is probably one, however Giacomo's singing is more attuned to classical music styles, than it is rock music, and thus not many fans can listen to it and enjoy it ... because ... wow ... where is the rock song and the hook? There is none! You can see this today, when they do some of the old material and the vocals are much more rock oriented than Giacomo's presentation ... but no one that heard the old stuff and had the music, will even listen to it now ... and even bands like PFM have done a very nice album ... no one is going to listen to it ... in other words the feeling of the "individuality" that was the staple of a lot of "progressive" music, is gone ... and we don't recognize it!

 

If you liked "A House with No Door" but not "Pawn Hearts", then perhaps you would like "Still Life". That's an album I've not quite gotten into even after many years, but it would seem that we are different with regards to VdGG, so you might like it because of the type of music it is.