MAX SENT THIS: The Best Prog Rock Bands of All Time

Max Blake, an exceedingly intelligent young man whom my wife and I adopted as a 'nephew' some years ago, is not just working towards a PhD in insect genetics at a Welsh university that I can't spell, but he is also a proghead par excellence and occasionally reads The Gonzo Daily. Yesterday he wrote to me with  this link. "It will make you cross" he wrote.

I am a bad tempered old git these days, and lots of things make me cross. However the Rolling Stone list of 'The Best Prog Rock Bands of All Time', is not really one of them, even though it misses out Van Der Graaf Generator and includes Jethro Tull (who - most of the time at least - weren't prog).

However, it is an interesting list, and I will welcome (and post) your comments...