Funnily enough I know quite a lot about Van der Graaf Generator...while most of their stuff is totally unlistenable (A Plague of Lighthousekeepers has to be the worst album title in history) my mate Marcus Clackson used to work in an off licence (a liquor store) where the lead singer, Peter Hammill, was one of his regular customers. He did a very beautiful song called Vision (Peter Hammill did, not my mate Marcus. Marcus couldn't sing to save his life. I should know, I was in a band with him).
Prog rock really is quite ghastly. I like it but it is ghastly. Most of the protagonists were British. It is something we, as a nation, are thoroughly embarrassed about.
I love Jethro Tull though. They are my guilty secret.
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