JOE DENINZON (KANSAS/STRATOSPHEERIUS)

The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon.

Where’s home? Old Tappan in New Jersey, which is about 45 minutes away from midtown Manhattan. What’s your earliest memory of prog? Watching MTV in the early 80s and seeing a video of Kansas’s Dust In The Wind and Yes’s Owner Of A Lonely Heart. MTV played some good music back in those days! We had just emigrated from the Soviet Union and I’m the son of a classical musician – MTV was a culture shock, and my gateway to the ‘dark side’. What was your first prog album? One of the first prog bands I got deeply into was Rush. I bought Presto when I was 14 – I dug it and quickly bought their entire back catalogue, and started going to their shows regularly. And the latest? Jon…

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