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Polarised
Ten years ago I was sitting in an MBA tutor group, discussing the pharmaceutical industry when I casually announced my belief that the...
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Nov 5, 20165 min read
Strange but true
I visited the You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970 exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in November...
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Oct 15, 20166 min read
Peru
Machu Picchu Ever since Tales from Topographic Oceans was released in 1973, I’ve been entranced by not just the music, but also by the...
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Aug 27, 20166 min read
Solo
Sometime in July my wife forwarded me an Amazon recommendation, Peter Hammill and the K Group Live At Rockpalast – Hamburg 1981, a DVD...
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Jun 11, 20167 min read
Should I stay or should I go?
Anti-Brexit demonstration (Photo: Wix) I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took part in...
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Jun 4, 20167 min read
What does it say on the label?
Getting into music in 1972 meant that I may have missed out on records released on some of the early, innovative imprints like Decca’s...
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Apr 30, 20166 min read
Get 'em out by Friday
Paul Whitehead's cover illustration for Foxtrot (1972) Though Get ‘em out by Friday (from Foxtrot by Genesis, 1972) was a piece of social...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 25, 20165 min read
The Fender Rhodes
The desire for the authentic sounds of the 70s harboured by some modern prog bands has led to a quiet revolution in digital samples. The...
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Mar 12, 20166 min read
Keith Emerson
Already 2016 seems to have been blighted by more high-profile musician deaths than previous years. I was still reading articles about Sir...
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Feb 13, 20169 min read
Automobiles
If musical genres were modes of transportation, prog would be some form of public transport and Italian prog would be a tram!
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Dec 5, 20156 min read
Single
I’ve now set up my new Rega RP3 and have started to put on vinyl in preference to my somewhat larger collection of CDs. My first record...
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garethsprogblog
Nov 28, 20155 min read
Come on the Amazing Journey, and Learn All You Should Know
(A guest blog by Mike Chavez) The scene: a dimly lit village hall around 7pm in a small town in rural Wiltshire. A group of middle-aged...
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garethsprogblog
Nov 15, 20154 min read
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
My thoughts go out to the families of the victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks in France (13/11/15). Such a cowardly and brutal attack...
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Sep 12, 20155 min read
Building utopia with prog
I was offered, and accepted, a new job this week. My rolling post-retirement contract with the private organisation that was drafted in...
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Jul 4, 20155 min read
Chris Squire
Chris Squire died on 27th June 2015. He was being treated for Acute Erythroid Leukaemia in Phoenix, Arizona. A true giant of the bass,...
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May 18, 20156 min read
Cover up
The presentation of an album used to be one of the factors I took into account when I was attempting to discover new music at a time when...
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Apr 20, 20156 min read
War and peace
It’s indisputable that progressive rock was a genre of grand concepts from the straightforward interpretation of classic novels (Camel’s...
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Mar 28, 20157 min read
Broad church
Early in the new millennium, when progressive rock was emerging from underneath rocks and dragging itself out of slimy ponds, I...
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Jan 31, 20156 min read
The magic flute
Back in 2015, the lack of availability of albums by progressivo Italiano band Jumbo forced me to buy a download of DNA, the first of...
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Jan 25, 20156 min read
Time to dream
Edgar Froese, the founder member of Tangerine Dream died unexpectedly last week from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 70. Edgar Froese...
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