Data: 19 January 2004 TV Broadcast
Miejsce: BBC 4 
Psychedelic Closed Record

As a music genre, Prog Rock still finds it difficult to be taken seriously. For many, its worst excesses - "concertos" based around sub-Tolkien English pastoral themes, attempting to tour the US with a 30 piece orchestra - have overshadowed many of its achievements.

Originally broadcasted on the 19th of January 2004, Alex Mackintosh's Time Shift traces the history of Prog Rock as a genre back to the heydays of 1960s psychedelia, seeing how, for many British musicians and fans who had educated themselves on the R&B circuit, musical extemporisation and concept albums were an exciting departure. Many of the ara's best bands - Pink Floyd, The Nice (who later formed part od ELP), King Crimson and Yes - built their success around this experimentation, providing a genuine alternative for a generation who had grown up with Sergeant Pepper and where tired of Top of the Pops.

As the programme reflects, this experimentation often ended in a musical cul de sac of grew in scale to become overbearingly pompous is hardly just the fault of the musicians. In fact, what seem like the movement's worst excesses - Pink Floyd's flying pigs, Rick Wakeman's King Henry VIII on Ice, Peter Gabriel's Genesis stage costumes - were actually conceived with more than a little tongue i cheek. As Steve Hackett maintains, Prog was always closer to panto than pub rock. And, for all of punk's blast of much needed fresh air, it's difficult not to have a little sentimentality for a time when musical imagination rather than product sales was measure of achevement.

In addition to this wonderful BBC4 program, this DVD also contains an excerpt from the To 10 Progressive Rock Bands program aired in the UK during March 2001 on Channel 4, where Pink Floyd score number one. Rounding out this release we present two segments which feature Nick Mason promoting his book Inside Out. The forst comes from Later With Jools Holland which aired on BBC2 the 19th of November 2004 and the second, from Richard & Judy which aired on Channel 4 the 13th of October 2004.