Its a very good album, the problem is that it gets overlooked with everybody singing the praises of S.F Sorrow.

Yeah, I agree. In fact, my first taste of The Pretty Things was SF Sorrow. I listened to it a few times; thought it was okay, not great, but okay; then put it away. Then one day I saw a 'best of the 70s' list, and Parachute was on there. The reviewer sold me on it; I listened to it and I agreed. It is now one of my favorite albums from that era. That's a bold statement from me. I take music very seriously. Parachute is a fantastic album.

Alright all, I need some help.

My little brother has recently discovered a love of progressive rock and has been listening to almost nonstop Yes and Rush. I like the bands, but my gosh I am sick of hearing them and hear my brother rave about the bass tone and my gosh listen to the guitar distortion on this part and I love Geddy Lee's voice here and etc etc etc.

Anyway!

I need some more prog rock bands! Lots more! Maybe with styles similar to Yes and Rush, maybe not... I'll suggest anything to him.

Also, jazz influences are welcome and would be well received, since he is basically a jazz musician who plays rock... hence, enjoying prog. So yeah.

Thanks ahead of time.

Focus - hocus Pocus

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.

The excesses of ELP are enough to put anybody off prog for good:p:

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.

Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gong - Camembert Electrique

Check out Cloudkicker, Jakob, lightsystem, Russain Circles, Bobby, or Caspian...or The Coma Lillies....all are good!!

How bout Scale the Summit, or Candiria (very different), or Apex Theory!

That's funny :laughing:, I can relate to your anguish of repetitious overplay.

It reminds of, when I was addicted to the bands mentioned also.

Just about all the band members of Yes have solo albums, Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, and Rick Wakeman as well.

'Good Luck'!