I don't have many friends that listen to prog rock, and I'm pretty limited on money, so I can't just spontaneously buy cds. What I would like to know is what are some good less known prog bands?

I have a short list here. Most of these bands only released one or a few albums or I don't know much about them
L'uovo Di Colombo
Yezda Urfa
Yatha Sidhra
Samla Mammas Manna
Gnidrolog
Happy The Man
Bo Hansson

I know that some of these may be familiar to some of you, but I thought I'd list them anyway because they were not known to me. If anyone else knows some good prog bands that are less known, please list them.

Thanks.

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He's the only one I know on your list... I liked what I've heard of his ("The Lord of The Rings" stuff) from several decades ago... Very cool mellow prog/psych...


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How about a whole site full:

http://www.gepr.net/

Here's another one: http://www.metal-archives.com/browseG.php?g=prog

I have a couple Transatlantic cds coming in the mail sometime within the next week or two. I will post once I listen to them.

I have Bridge Across Forever and it's really quite good -- not revolutionary, but it's a well put-together album...I think you'll enjoy them.

Neal Morse's influence is much too heavy on those albums. I like the albums but I feel like im listening to a Spocks Beard cd rather than a total group effort.

I really appreciate the links, but which bands from those lists have you people actually listened to and really liked? I can't afford to buy thousands of cds

I'm fairly familiar with Gnidrolog. They were a 5 piece English band led by the Goldring brothers, Colin and Stewart. They featured brass and flute quite heavily in their sound and were close in style to King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator and Jethro Tull.

Their 2 albums 'Lady Lake' and 'In spite of Harry's Toenail' were vastly different in style, LL being a lot more melodic than ISOHT which appears to very influenced by VDGG.

I've only just bought ISOHT and only listened to it a couple of times but so far 'Lady Lake' appears to be the better album.

I saw them live in the early 70's and they were an excellent band - it's a shame they never had any commercial success.

Never heard of the others in your list.

Hope this helps

Half the fun is discovering which ones you like

Just open up Soulseek and go down through the list, sampling all the bands you think you might like. I've spent days doing that.