Editor
Date of birth
December 10, 1973
Home
Jacksonville, Florida
Occupation
Prepress Macintosh operator/graphic designer for printing company
Favorite Bands/Recording Artists
King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Magma, Ozric Tentacles, Anekdoten, Änglagård, PFM, Heldon, Tangerine Dream, Hedningarna, Captain Beefheart, Roy Montgomery, Miles Davis
Hobbies
Surfing, record collecting, graphic design, playing/recording original music, lusting after overpriced analog synths on Ebay, writing and editing a little-known progressive rock website
Chuck Hamilton
Assistant Editor
Home
Summerville, South Carolina
Occupation
English Teacher – Limestone College, Charleston Southern University
Favorite Prog Bands
King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Magma, Gentle Giant, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Favorite Non-prog Bands
The 77s, King's X, The Judybats, The Beatles, The Orb, Mortal
Hobbies
Writing bad techno, reading (Philip Dick, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Douglas Adams), Monty Python, playing bass guitar
Kevin Penneau
Staff Writer
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Employment
Purchasing Manager for Retail Electronics Store
Hobbies
Travel, playing and listening to music, drinking Belgian beer, and buying stereo equipment.
Favorite Prog Bands
Eloy, Marillion with Fish, Pendragon, Camel, and anything Italian
Favorite Foods
Korean, Thai, and Barbecue (still searching for the perfect ribs)
Goals
Travel to all 7 continents (3 to go)
Favorite Movie
The Godfather trilogy
Favorite TV Show
The Sopranos
John Joseph Shannon
Staff Writer
Date of birth
March 3, 1965
Home
Brunswick, Maine, United States
Occupation
Editor for Houghton Mifflin Company
Favorite Authors
Charles Dickens, Mervyn Peake, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Plato, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Alan Moore, Herman Melville, Rumi, Walt Whitman, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., John Steinbeck, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, millions more.
Favorite Movies
The Last Temptation of Christ; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Wizard of Oz; Heavy Metal; Monty Python & the Holy Grail; The Wall; The Deer Hunter; Let It Be; millions more.
Favorite Prog Bands
Jethro Tull especially, and then King Crimson, Yes, Roy Harper, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush, Pink Floyd, Kansas.
Other Favorite Music
Good pop/rock (The Beatles - really my all-time favorite, sorry to be so unoriginal, The Who, XTC, Steely Dan, Cheap Trick); be-bop jazz (Mingus, Coltrane, Monk, Roland Kirk, Dave Brubeck); some modern pop (Bjork, Ben Folds Five, Radiohead, PJ Harvey); classical music (usually by instrumentation rather than composer); lots more.