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.