| "Although we weren’t originally self identified as progressive…that’s what reviewers liken us to. We don't try to cater to that, but we don't mind, and we certainly don’t try to cater to being commercial either. Call us what you want, but not everything (we release) classifies as a ‘progressive’ song. It's probably more about the diversity of styles on each of our releases that give us a progressive feel overall... comments Whitman when interviewed, then somewhat smirking Whitman adds, “The eternal heated debates by elitists over what is or isn’t ‘prog’ is one of the major factors fighting the exposure that genre needs to stay alive and grow – it’s also a boring argument usually founded solely on subjective preferences…and often offensively evangelistic in it’s opinionated fervor,” Whitman grins again, “we don’t want to be stifled by a restrictive style label, but folks always ask ‘what KIND of music is it that you play?’ – what else can one do to answer those repetitive inquiries succinctly but generalize? It’s called ‘prog’…” |