I found a Heathkit kit radio at the thrift store today. It's got tubes. They want $26 though so I'm not buying it
@MLE_online prog-rock was originally an outgrowth of the late-'60s British psychedelic scene, so first-wave prog maintained a lot of the surreal imagery - and also a lot of the radical politics - of late-'60s counterculture.
sadly, most of the first-wave artists either disappeared up their own asses or ventured into pop (thank goddess for Roger Waters remaining One of the Good Ones), and second-wave and beyond prog artists never really recaptured that sort of attitude.