Prog-Watch

Prog-Watch 304 - The Simon Godfrey Special

This week's show is devoted to UK/US Progger Simon Godfrey! Tony and Simon talk music (of course) as well as beer, Bad Elephant Music, Jem Godfrey (Simon's brother, a record producer and Frost* mastermind), moving to America, and other topics. Oh, and there's a whole lotta great music, too...from Simon's projects Tinyfish and Shineback, plus some of his solo stuff!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog!Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 303 - Variety

This week's show features music from Saga, Spiral Key, Dream Theater, We Are Kin, and Hasse Fröberg and the Musical Companion! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new Subsignal album and a classic from Todd Rundgren's Utopia! Wanna whole lotta Prog?As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)Also, check out the new website, Progwatch.com. It's a great archive of our past shows. Like a fine wine, the show has improved with age, but when you start looking at all the past episodes that are available, we have probably featured more than 250 great Prog songs since our inception! That is a whole lotta Prog! Finally, if you have a Prog band and are looking to maybe break into “the big league”, contact us to get on our Watch List! (We just might play you on the show, and who knows, it might lead to your big break!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 302 - (More) Best Of 2015 + Yak feature

This week's show finishes up our coverage of the best of 2015, with music from Comedy Of Errors, Glass Hammer, Riverside, Echolyn, Grand Tour, and Dave Kerzner! Plus a few more Yak trax, and a few more questions answered by Yak main man Martin Morgan!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)And if you get a chance, check out the website Progwatch.com! It's coming along!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 301 - (More) Best Of 2015 + Aaron Clift

Happy New Year! And to start things off right, we have more of the best of 2015, with music from the Barock Project, Spock's Beard, Nad Sylvan, and Tiger Moth Tales! Plus music from Alek Darson, a classic from Hawkwind (RIP, Lemmy) and a feature on The Aaron Clift Experiment, with a real sit-down interview with Aaron Clift himself!If you get a chance, check out the website progwatch.com! It's shaping up pretty nicely and will hopefully be complete soon!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 248 - (Some) Best Of 2015 + Yuka & Chronoship

This week's show features some of the best of 2015, including music from Steven Wilson, Built for the Future, Lonely Robot, Jon & Vangelis, and Steve Hackett! Plus the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from Arcade Messiah and a feature on a fantastic Prog band from Japan, Yuka & Chronoship! Yuka Funakoshi even answers some questions for us!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch Christmas Special 2015

We did tell you that Squatches love Christmas, right? So it's one more week of Christmas music, but the selections are completely different from those that we played last year (last week)! This time we've got music from the likes of the Prog World Orchestra, Keith Emerson, Blackmores Night, various members of Yes, Steve Morse, Robin Trower, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Moody Blues, Marillion, Jethro Tull and more! Whew! Next week it's back to regular Prog-For-All-Seasons, and we'll start taking a look back at the best of 2015!"I heard him exclaim, 'ere he drove out of sight, Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"Merry Christmas everyone, and pray for peace!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch Christmas Special 2014

Join the Squatch as he and Son-Of-Squatch, Paul, reminisce a little and provide interesting facts on some of their favorite Prog Christmas tunes! Music from Yes, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Chris Squire and more! (This show was actually recorded in 2014, but was only released on a very limited basis, so you probably have not heard it!)As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 247 - Variety + Unified Past feature

This week's show features music from Dave "Squids" Kerzner, Steven Rothery, and Brand X! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite-Size Review from the new Mystery album, and a feature on the band Unified Past, complete with an interview with Stephen Speelman!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 246 - John Mitchell -- Proghopper

This week's show is another Proghopper episode, this time focusing on none other than John Mitchell! Guitarist, singer, composer, engineer, and producer, John is a man of many talents, and he's been in a few pretty good bands, too! Join Big Tony (the Prog-Squatch) as he follows Mitchell's career hopping from Arena to The Urbane to Kino to It Bites to Frost* to his latest fantastic project called Lonely Robot!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit our Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement

Prog-Watch 245

This week's show features music from Tom Slatter, Steve Morse and Jordan Rudess, Druckfarben, Post Mortem, and Gentle Giant! Plus, the Progradar Weekly Recommendation and Bite Size Review from the brilliant, new Comedy Of Errors album and a feature on the band Yak, with an interview with main man Martin Morgan!As always, send questions, suggestions or comments to progsquatch@gmail.com. You can also follow the Squatch on Twitter (@ProgSquatch) or visit the Prog-Watch Facebook page. If you follow on Twitter or like the Facebook page, you can see the Daily Classic album---a fun little feature which the Squatch sends out six days each week! (Squatches rest on Sundays!)This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3136310/advertisement