Those early "prog rock" albums opened my ears to a new kind of music , my best mates brother would let us play those albums on his brand new stereo system and use his headphones , Days of future past,in search of the lost chord, threshold of a dream and question of balance , john wrote my favourite MBlues track Ride My See Saw brilliant driving bass lines RIP John
The Moodies were seriously underrated in the grand lexicon of popular music and as you identify, those albums were inspirational in the creation of progressive rock. I was introduced to their music by an older cousin and they definitely helped form my own musical direction.
Read the news about Ian Watkins. Laughed. Went to see a death metal band at the Kentish Town Forum. Thoroughly enjoyed it. One obituary after another. Would recommend. Not my recording.
I'm so out of touch with popular music, I had to Google who Ian Watkins was. Don't know the band either. Listened to these today Think they are trying to be these The Lillingtons' last album Stella Sapiente was quite metal
Lostprophets had a big album in 2004 but then dropped off a fair bit with the next few. Watkins was then found to have committed a host of horrific crimes against children. He went on to commit further crimes in jail and was stabbed on a previous occasion. I'd genuinely urge anyone unaware of him not to look up the details of his offences. Seriously. The rest of the band had no idea what he was up to, by all accounts. That makes the video for their 2006 song A Town Called Hypocrisy a rather disturbing coincidence. It's an oversexualised parody of TV shows like Rainbow, Fingermouse and others of that era.
