Great find, didn't know of this band: Stan, we got you on video - evidence of playing with a pop band glad you joined Happy The Man later on

I don't think Stan was an original member of Bootcamp; he only participated during this reunion-concert from 1992.

I didn't mean to be harsh on Stan, just a bit of "serious musician" humour huh, my bad ..and the times around -92 was struggling in the music biz. If I remember right, it wasn't much prog around that time. It came with the internet couple of years later, right?

Well, Allan Holdsworth played with the pop-band Level 42 and even with a synthi-popband from Canada, Strange Advance, so there's nothing wrong with that I guess. 1992 had a lot of so-called neo-prog, but real progressive rock (whatever that means) was there too by bands like Anglagard and Isildurs Bane, while Roger Waters made his Amused To Death.

Yeah, and I guess the so called neo bands was holding the strings for a period of time, with Marillion (I really liked the band for a couple of years from Script For A Jesters Tear - to Misplaced Childhood), and Pallas and so on. I bought Änglagård, but didn't like it, I never been a fan of King Crimson. Roger Waters Amused To Death was very good going back to the The Wall style of music.

But we know you are the prog expert here, hats off, and this is off course just my view of it all. I started to listen to progressive rock as late as 1983, so I dont have the greatest of insigth of the whole prog scene as you do. I still search for, and find prog bands that I didn't knew existed at all. When digging deeper into the prog music world you will find that there is soo many bands. Very fascinating, I get the feeling that prog was a very popular music style back in the days. Or was it mostly music appreciated by other musicians? I really don't know..

Of course it's an advance when you've been listening to music longer, like I am, but I also discover new music or old bands. For instance: I knew the band Fireballet, that made two albums in the seventies, but never heard their music. Now the two albums have been rereleased and I've bought them both and am really enjoying this. Kind of Yes, King Crimson, ELP and Genesis mixed together. I thought it was funny to hear those close harmony vocals that sounded very much like Moon Safari nowadays.
You're right: in the seventies progressive rock was very popular. Albums from Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis etc. easily reached the top 10. Some of them took themselfs too seriously after that, which was one of the reasons the Punks hated prog and because of that journalists hated it too and since then it's a dirty word for a lot of people. Even Radiohead refused to confess they were influenced by prog, while Computer A has it all over it.
Back to Stan and Bootcamp: I think it's always interesting to see what prog-musicians add to the regular pop-bands. I don't know Bootcamp, but the way Stanley added those guitar-parts made this pop-band a lot more fun to listen too.

I have great respect for Stan as a guitar player. The guitar parts that has impressed me the most is on the Death's Crown album - where he play the most amazing melody parts, (if I remember correctly - haven't heard it for a while to be honest) in duet with Kit Watkins, fast and fluid melody parts. And on the first HTM album, wonderful stuff by Stan. Top prog guitar player in my book.

Obviously they wanted progressive rock to be like the first years around 1969-71 or something. A little bit different than the traditional rock and pop stuff. Many bands wanted to explore and progress their music too much. It's the same situation with the classical composers like Mozart and such, they where also targets for heavy criticism of some of their compositions, -It's too many notes!!