Introducing a friend to prog,

[Ted]

Yesspaz,

Don't forget ELP, YES, - especially some Rick Wakeman solo albums (6 wives, Journey, etc), Neal Morse is good to get some concept album intros.

Sounds like your friend Lori is jammin' on the Prog!!

Way to share your love!!

Regards from Texas,
Ted

[Yesspaz]

Originally Posted by Ted

Yesspaz,

Don't forget ELP, YES, - especially some Rick Wakeman solo albums (6 wives, Journey, etc)

I will not subject her to ELP, nor Wakeman's bombastic solo albums! I have given her gobs of Yes.

Originally Posted by Mailo

avoid post rock in order to keep her as a good freind :-)

I've given her some post rock and she likes it. So there!

Originally Posted by OHD

Quick - a steady diet of Porcupine Tree and Marillion should save her from becoming an Oldfieldian.

No, she needs to become an Oldfieldian, as should everyone.

Originally Posted by KW

She'll get GYBE all in good time. I want her ensconced in Rush, Floyd, Yes, King Crimson, and Oldfield before I get her into anything like GYBE.

I'll get her to AM eventually. She's a true prog newbie, but she hates the radio. She just doesn't know what's out there. For a newbie, something like AM with thousands of artists would be overwhelming. You've got to get the cornerstones down first.

But just to give you an idea, she's been into random bits of classical and jazz for years, and has "Tea for the Tillerman" by Cat Stevens, etc., but has no Beatles. I mean for crying out loud, NO BEATLES!

So, I'm not just educating her on prog, but she's learning the Beatles, Springsteen, Petty, Beach Boys, Radiohead, King's X, Cream, Clapton, Neil Young - in short, I'm bracing up her knowledge and appreciation of the core artists of rock (not that King's X is a core artist) before I try to introduce her to the fringe like Anekdoten or Magma or GYBE.

But she's coming along!