After almost 30 years of existence seems to have finally passed away - unless I'm wrong and only the address has moved ... if you have more info please post here.

My email to Fred was returned as inactive.  I imagine he retired as GEPR Webmaster and closed the site.  Too bad.

that's a shame..  that was a real gold mine of info.  Didn't you also write at ProgGnosis as well David.

made me curious.. got my start over at DDD and Lew is still cranking alone with that site but is largely dead. A far cry from the peak 2002-03 years when we had thousands of members and several hundred active daily. A real fun site and job that was.. learned alot there and moderated both the prog and bass sections...in fact that was where Ivan and I ran into each other and he stole me to come over to this site.

^ There's this kinda stuff -

A few pages are saved scattered about the net but it's only about 1% of the total content

 

 

However, when I started to web-around daily in late 2003, I soon found out about ProgArchives 2.0 that M@X had just started to develop. We started communicating and was lured in and as this site grew, it was at the expense of my visits to GEPR (and ProgGonosis)...

 

In some ways , we (at PA) rendered GEPR obsolete

 

 

I had checked out whether GEPR was still around a couple of months ago, and still found the site intact then.

 

 

 

ahhh. for some reason I thought I remembered you had.  Old age I guess or too much booze, blow and broads taking its toll.  

As for 90's prog sites the very first one I ever found was something like www.progressiverock.net which was a sort of mother ship of prog sites. On it there were tons of links. The guy who ran it, Adam(I think was his name), was in the 90's prog band the Dark Aether Project and when that site closed he turned the domain name into his band website. I actually only knew about that site because of the book "the progressive rock files" which listed it. I think I bought that book in late 1998. I didn't even really think of looking online for prog until I saw that site mentioned in that book. I discovered GEPR and other sites(and RMP) a little bit later. 

GEPR hasn't had updates since 2011, but Fred is retiring early next year and sought help to revive it. The content is being 'salvaged' and converted to a database on top of which we are building a brand new site. It will have bands bios, band and album reviews, musician tracing (who played with which bands and when, and vice versa), and more features that serve the typical prog nerd. 

I haven't seen the two threads you refer to, but for years I've wondered why on earth Max didn't seek assistance to modernise and maintain the site software - we're basically looking at a 15 year old web site that is stuck because it's not open to modernisation. That will be a challenge for GEPR2 as well, staying up to date, but at least we are aware of it and looking for ways to do it. A community of reviewers and 'forummers' is nice, but a functioning community for a site like this also requires a group of technical people to participate. Challenging, but not impossible.