Name any band that rivals Yes in terms of technical ability

If both were less inventive and even less talented

These madmen

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Metallica, Atheist, Deathspell Omega

ELP

I love king gizzard but none of their albums are close to the same level as ctte, fragile, or time and a word imo

First of all relayer is best
King Crimson. Don't try and tell me anyone from Yes is a better guitarist than fripp. Also we had Bruford too.
Mahavishnu Orchestra, as another user has said, are great.
Rick Wakeman is a damn good keyboardist, but c'mon, no one will ever reach the state of keyboard wizardry as Keith Emerson.
Gentle Giant when it comes to multi-instrumentalism and stuff like that. Kerry Minnear is just above Ray Manzarek and below jon lord for rock keyboardists (which would be 4th place).

I don't like either of these but all members of both Dream Theater and Between the Buried and Me are virtuosic at their respective instruments.

Dream Theater.

>we
who are you? Tony Levin?

Gentle Giant

This

The Mars Volta make Yes look simple.

I'd say Wakeman and Emerson are pretty neck-and-neck. I'd give the edge to Emerson if you forced me to choose, but Wakeman could do some absolutely wild stuff. I'm a keyboardist and I've spent some time learning pieces from both of them and they're a similar level of difficulty.

Jazz bands that play rock music will always outmatch rock bands playing rock music. Yes is the closest a rock band will ever get

>name any band that rivals Yes in terms of technical ability
Basically any well-established classical ensemble

>No mention of Rush yet
Damn, Yas Forums. Come on.

>never listened to avant-prog
you are like a little baby, listen to this

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t. doesn't listen to classical

name a classical band

Extremely likely that I've been listening to classical longer than you have. OP didn't ask for classical musicians, he asked for bands.

And?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Classical_music_groups
The New York Philharmonic is a band.

>only plays covers

Yes, so? It still suits OP's criteria.

Isn't that Zeuhl not avant-prog? I know the genres are related but...

composition is a technical skill

no

It's mostly a knowledge. It isn't even a skill. Not saying that composition is meaningless, but correcting bad semantics

Cardiacs

zeuhl is just a specific style of avant-prog. same shit different toilet

-Deep Purple, esp. in it's late stages with Steve Morse
-King Crimson
-Dixie Dregs
-not really a fan but, Dream Theater
-Chicken Foot
-almost any Japanese Metal-Pop or Metal Anime band, esp. the ones with Chris Impellitteri
-almost any shredder nostalgia band: Mr. Big, Winery Dogs, G3 tour bands.
-any band that Jeff Beck decides to tour with
and believe it or not,
-probably even the Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band shit b/c all the support musicians trying to make Ringo look good and b/c Steve Lukather still has his chops.

>classical band
What, you mean string quarter groups? Do you consider orchestras "bands"?

>Do you consider orchestras "bands"?
Strictly speaking, they are.