response 94 of 98:

May 31 22:56 UTC 1999

update:
Fish comes to Pontiac, MI, on July 28, and his newest album is well worth
listening to, if only for "Plague of Ghosts", a six-part suite which takes
up the whole second half of the album.

I also just got done reading a book on prog. rock, called "Rocking the
Classics, English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture",  by Edward Macan.
It's the most comprehensive history, definition, etc, of the subject I've come
accross. The section in which he systematically dismantles most of the major
critics complaints about the genre is particularly interesting.

Question, besides Ozrics Tenticals, which was mentioned some time back, does
anybody know of any contemporary prog. bands.  I know of a few: Spock's Beard,
Djam Karat, Hermetic Science, and Edhals, from France.  Of these, bands, I've
only heard anything by Hermetic Science, which is interesting because it
features a mallet artist.

response 96 of 98:

Jun 4 01:04 UTC 1999

Sorry, Dan.  Further update:  Fish's North America has been canceled, or at
least postponed.  

response 98 of 98:

Jun 18 22:34 UTC 1999

I went looking for reviews of the Edward Macan book (resp:94) on the 
web and it looks interesting.  I'll have to go see if I can browse
a copy at Borders to see if I want to pursue it further.