Progressive talk

Nothing for sale, I only acquire. I've lived coast to coast including ny and colorado among others. Actually, it was a music professer from the university that kind of steered me towards that full tilt, as opposed to moderate interest.
All those albums are definately available though, it's just a matter of the prices for them and their erratic nature; take can for example. Some of their stuff is real good but some of those albums w/ damo singing were mediocre at best. Geez, the story w/ that guy and why he was in the group was amazing. Same w/ cluster and they were a group that seemingly had more offshoot solo albums from those guys than actual cluster albums.
Some of those neu and michael rother albums are worth having as well as grobschnitt. Actually, they all are decent enough and what other region has done a better job w/ progressive since?
There were tons more english bands doing similar things during that timeframe and not just groups like king crimson and yes--try the gentle giant/matching mole/early soft machine/henry cow/etc.
I actually have some videos of these kinds of german groups and they were definately solid players with interesting ideas that was definately out of synch with what I consider the garbagio the record companies pushed in the U.S. from say 75 forwards. I tend to think you have similar feelings since amon duul is not a name you hear thrown around every day.

Nothing for sale, I only acquire. I've lived coast to coast including ny and colorado among others. Actually, it was a music professer from the university that kind of steered me towards that full tilt, as opposed to moderate interest.
All those albums are definately available though, it's just a matter of the prices for them and their erratic nature; take can for example. Some of their stuff is real good but some of those albums w/ damo singing were mediocre at best. Geez, the story w/ that guy and why he was in the group was amazing. Same w/ cluster and they were a group that seemingly had more offshoot solo albums from those guys than actual cluster albums.
Some of those neu and michael rother albums are worth having as well as grobschnitt. Actually, they all are decent enough and what other region has done a better job w/ progressive since?
There were tons more english bands doing similar things during that timeframe and not just groups like king crimson and yes--try the gentle giant/matching mole/early soft machine/henry cow/etc.
I actually have some videos of these kinds of german groups and they were definately solid players with interesting ideas that was definately out of synch with what I consider the garbagio the record companies pushed in the U.S. from say 75 forwards. I tend to think you have similar feelings since amon duul is not a name you hear thrown around every day.

I like those german synthesizer bands from the 70's when they were really interesting and unique. I'm guessing that by progressive rock though, you mean groups like amon duul/can/nektar/lucifers friend/and so forth.
I have the vinyl imports for most of that stuff of the above groups and find them a notch below the english bands but certainly better than the american groups that fit the same bill. Most of those albums glory days were say 69-75 and then the progressive groups all seem to have bandmembers leaving frequently and everything suffering as a consequence. If you don't have those early can or amon duul albums, prepare to spend some $$ to acquire them.
Not many people in the united states are familiar with any of these groups since they didn't tour here or have major labels with a publicity machine behind them. But that doesn't mean they aren't any good, you just have to go to it, as opposed to letting music come to you.

I like those german synthesizer bands from the 70's when they were really interesting and unique. I'm guessing that by progressive rock though, you mean groups like amon duul/can/nektar/lucifers friend/and so forth.
I have the vinyl imports for most of that stuff of the above groups and find them a notch below the english bands but certainly better than the american groups that fit the same bill. Most of those albums glory days were say 69-75 and then the progressive groups all seem to have bandmembers leaving frequently and everything suffering as a consequence. If you don't have those early can or amon duul albums, prepare to spend some $$ to acquire them.
Not many people in the united states are familiar with any of these groups since they didn't tour here or have major labels with a publicity machine behind them. But that doesn't mean they aren't any good, you just have to go to it, as opposed to letting music come to you.