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Originally Posted by TheNiceGuy
It's good to see new young prog fans.
Anyway ELP perhaps? Their album Tarkus has a jazzy feel at times to it so they may be a good one to start him off with.
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The excesses of ELP are enough to put anybody off prog for good
I kind of classify 70`s prog into two categories and they are the more robust exuberant stuff like Yes, King Crimson and ELP etc. or the more whimisical Canterbury inspired style of bands like Soft Machine, Jethro Tull and Genesis. Sure their is also a mixing of both styles by a lot of these bands as well but prog more or less fell into these two camps.
Some of the best prog stuff ever was put out by Kansas on their first 6 studio albums along with the mid 70s to late 70s releases by Styx. All of these albums are gems.
Also some of the best prog albums were put out by non-prog bands such as Wishbone Ash and the album
Argus.