As a young musician, no single musician had a bigger impact on my playing than Bill Bruford. On his 70th birthday, I wanted to write a quick tribute. As a young musician who played drums in both rock bands and orchestra, I was very concerned and focused on what drums were supposed to do. When … Continue reading
Lets face it: everyone, on a fundamental level, knows that music awards shows are a joke. Most of the time it’s just a popularity contest instead of some objective measure of quality or influence. The judges are often out of touch; case in point, the year that Tenacious D, who I love dearly but know … Continue reading
Fans of classic and modern Yes rejoice! Members of current Yes lineup, along with Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin, Wakeman, gathered together as a group for the first time since the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to bury Hatchet, a thrash metal band from Bay Area, California. Hatchet lead singer Eric Lundgren said of the … Continue reading
This article is the second in a two part series comparing the two versions of the band Yes in current existence. In part one, we started by providing some background about how the two versions of Yes came to be. We then used numerical analysis to see which band has more claim to the iconic … Continue reading
When Christopher Squire passed away two years ago, I thought I’d missed my chance to see Yes live. While never fanatical, I’ve been a fan of the band for a long time. But without Chris Squire or Jon Anderson in the band, I thought I should leave well enough alone and move on. My mentality … Continue reading
Since 2012, progressive rock fans have been able to participate in the Progressive Music Awards, which are sponsored by Prog Magazine. We are big fans of all the pageantry and revelry that comes with an award show, and so we decided to put together the first annual Proglodytes Music Awards. Most awards shows have standard … Continue reading
Welcome to the latest 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. Many of the previous albums we … Continue reading
This episode of Proglodytes is brought to you by The Bow Tie Guy. If you’re ready to up your style game and join a worldwide community of fashionable bow tie wearers, check out bethebowtieguy.com. They have a wide variety of bow ties, as well as a blog and a podcast all dedicated to helping you stand out … 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
This episode of Proglodytes is brought to you by The Bow Tie Guy. If you’re ready to up your style game and join a worldwide community of fashionable bow tie wearers, check out bethebowtieguy.com. They have a wide variety of bow ties, as well as a blog and a podcast all dedicated to helping you … Continue reading
