How many bands does this book cover and what years are covered? Does
anybody know?

Eric

Sandstone wrote:

It's quite good as a reference book. Covers 1967-1979. About 130 artists
IIRC, give or take a few. So it's not remotely comprehensive but there's
lots of good info. A lot of what's in the book can be gleaned online:

<http://www.progressiverock.com/timeline.asp?sYear=1967>
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Cheers, SDM

Artists covered: Daevid Allen, Amon Düül II, Jon Anderson, Ange,
Aphrodite’s Child, Area, A.R. & Machines, Ashra, Atomic Rooster, Kevin
Ayers, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Banco Del Mutuo Soccorrso, Barclay James
Harvest, Franco Battiato, The Beatles, David Bedford, Beggars Opera,
Birth Control , Tim Blake, Brand X, Arthur Brown Arthur & Vincent Crane,
Bill Bruford, Camel, Can, Caravan, Clearlight, Colosseum, Curved Air,
Deep Purple, Earth & Fire, Egg, Eloy, Embryo, Emerson Lake & Palmer, The
Enid, Fairport Convention, Family, Far East Family Band, Faust, Finch,
Flash, Focus, Fripp & Eno, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Giles Giles & Fripp,
Gong, Greenslade, Grobschnitt, Gryphon, Guru Guru, Steve Hackett, Peter
Hammill, Bo Hansson, Happy The Man, Hatfield And The North, Hawkwind,
Heldon, Henry Cow, Steve Hillage, Hoelderlin, Michael Hoenig, Jade
Warrior, Jean Michel Jarre, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Khan, King Crimson,
Kingdom Come, Kraan, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, The Long Hello, Magma,
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Matching Mole, McDonald
and Giles, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, The Moody Blues, National Health,
Nektar, The New Trolls, The Nice, Nova, Novalis, Mike Oldfield, Le Orme,
Osanna, Passport, Anthony Phillips, Pink Floyd, Popol Vuh, Premiata
Forneria Marconi (PFM), The Pretty Things, Procol Harum, Quatermass,
Quiet Sun, Rare Bird, Renaissance, Rush, Schicke Führs & Fröhling, Sea ...

Sandstone wrote:

Lots of good stuff in your replies.

Thanks Steven and Webmaster

Eric

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it's very good for the timeline aspect, you can flip through and it suddenly
occurs to you that albums X, Y and Z were all released withing a month or
two of each other. Helps to show the interconnectedness of Golden Age prog,
adds perspective on how the genre evolved, and emits massive nostalgia waves
for those of us who experienced all or part of the Golden Age.

For instance, during the winter of 1977 Animals, Songs from teh wood, Wind &
Wuthering, Expresso, Sea Level's first, Geese and the ghost, and Works Vol1
all came out. Seeing tghe albums laid out chronologically like this really
adds a lot of perspective on what was happening in Prog at any given time.
Lots of little clusters of albums that most of us know well, but treat as
isolated entities or as that year's release by a given artist. THis is a
different way of putting them together, very refreshing and really brings
back a lot of the excitement of experiencing all that material for the first
time as it came out.

The cover is fun to play "spot the reference". Adds a feel-good vibe.

Terrell Miller wrote:

Wasn't prog Anglo-centric to begin with?

c

You can judge his writing yourself at the website:

http://www.progressiverock.com/timeline.php