Mellotron properly utilized produces enchanting effects strings can't replicate. "Watcher of the Skies" is definitive proof. Essential prog rock sound: "it's all in there, whatever it is." Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/watcher-of... #theamazingpudding #substack

Launching Amazing Pudding weekly deep dives with Yes's Tales from Topographic Oceans. Epitomizes prog's glories AND demonstrates its excesses. Contentedly ambivalent after decades. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/tales-from... #theamazingpudding #progrock

I'm writing a prog rock book, and this excerpt on "I Talk to the Wind" explores how years of diligence produced a track that transitions perfectly on In the Court of the Crimson King. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/i-talk-to-... #theamazingpudding #progrock #newbook

Why does prog still inspire intense adoration AND aversion? Why embarrassed that rock can elicit thought as well as feeling? Opportunism and cold calculation can never kill that. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/the-amazin... #theamazingpudding #progrock #substack