Midnight Pals: Prog (Patreon)

Todd Keisling: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call the tale of the yellow kings
Keisling: so there's this progressive rock band making an album based on the yellow king
Keisling: with a cover by our greatest living artist roger dean
Dean Koontz: hey! that's my name too!
Keisling: that's no coincidence boy

Keisling: so there's this groupie
Keisling: camilla
Keisling: and she's got ideas for the band's music
Keisling: horrifying apocalyptic ideas
Keisling: she's going to have everyone take off their masks
Robert W Chambers: i get it!

Keisling: they're going to cause an apocalypse with the power of progressive rock
Dean Koontz: wow progressive rock sounds pretty dangerous
Keisling: only in the wrong hands, dean
Keisling: the power of progressive rock turned to evil, like Univers Zero or Van Der Graaf Generator, can be devastating
Keisling: but turned to the light...

Keisling: take a look at this album, dean, pretty cool huh?
Keisling: oh dean
Keisling: prepare to have the doors of perception
Keisling: blown right off their hinges

Keisling: check this out dean, i think you'll really like this music
Poe: whoa todd this might be a little advanced for dean
Keisling: no don't worry i'll start him off slow
Keisling: let's start you off with some Yes

Dean Koontz: Yes?
Keisling: yeah i think you can handle it
Koontz: why is there a scary zombie on the cover?
Keisling: that's steve howe
Keisling: actually dean on second thought
Keisling: Yes might be a little much for your first time
Keisling: let's start you with Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman

Keisling: behold, my record collection!
King: wow this is quite the collection todd!
King: you know, you could save a lot of space if you went digital
Keisling: yeah but
Keisling: vinyl just has a warmer sound ya know?

Keisling: dean i think you're really going to like this band
Keisling: it's called jethro tull
Poe: whoa whoa dean is not ready for that
Keisling: oh don't worry i'm not playing thick as a brick or anything
Keisling: just bungle in the jungle
Keisling: you'll like it dean it's about animals

Koontz: can i listen to this album?
Keisling: Crack the Sky? no dean that's the ayahuasca of prog
Keisling: you want the flintstones chewable vitamins of prog
Keisling: here, try some tarkus

Dean Koontz: [vibrating while listening to headphones, blood gushing from nose] of course i understand it all
Keisling: Dean! No!
Keisling: Not Gentle Giant!
Keisling: it's too much, too soon!
Koontz: each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously