Cheers, everyone. Since I’m the new guy, I thought I’d give you a short history of my love of prog. My first exposure to prog, even though I did not know it was called that, was seeing/hearing Peter Gabriel’s video for the song “Shock The Monkey”. It was 1982, I was 11 years old, MTV … Continue reading
I didn’t go to bed last night thinking about writing a tribute piece. But I woke up this morning to the news of the passing of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell at the relatively young age of 52. And just like that, the die was cast. I was a fan of Cornell’s, albeit not an avid … Continue reading
To know me is to know Adrian Belew is my musical hero. I make no bones about it. He is one of the more innovative and creative guitarists on the music scene, and has been for a good 40 years. I came to know Adrian as the vocalist/guitarist in the 1980s version of King Crimson, … Continue reading
Unless you’ve been under a rock (see what I did there?), you’ve probably seen the footage from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 Induction. Yes, like a big divorced polyamorous family, joined together onstage and pretended to like each other for a few hours while they played through two of their biggest hits, “Roundabout” … Continue reading
I’ve been trying for nearly three years. But it’s time to face a simple, horrible fact: I’m just not that in to the new King Crimson. The legendary progressive rock stalwarts are now in their ninth incarnation, and I don’t think this band was meant for me. I’m not saying what they’re doing these days … Continue reading
Devin Townsend recently said in an interview that he was thinking about changing the direction of his art. He said, in an interview with Ultimate Guitar, “To be perfectly honest, I think I’m really close to the end of that [Devin Townsend Project] style.” While we at Proglodytes are big fans of Devin’s music, and … Continue reading
Album Reclamation Project Welcome to the fifth installment of the Album Reclamation Project at Proglodytes! Again, we will revisit a maligned Album of the Past and discuss whether it’s really as bad as all that. As a reminder, we will be utilizing the soon to be copyrighted Official Proglodyte Dumpster Fire Scale. In this episode … Continue reading
