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garethsprogblog
Nov 169 min read
Progressive rock in 1974
By 1974 I’d had over a full year of immersion into progressive rock, a term which wasn’t yet being applied to the genre, though what I...
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garethsprogblog
Oct 126 min read
Instant gratification - the phenomenon of ‘taking the gig home with you straight after the show’
I'm very much in favour of buying recordings of gigs I've attended, should they become available at some date after the concert in...
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garethsprogblog
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
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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garethsprogblog
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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garethsprogblog
Apr 13, 20145 min read
When did prog emerge?
When did prog emerge? That's one of the great prog questions...
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garethsprogblog
Jan 18, 20147 min read
The Lord of the Rings
Towards the end of the golden era of progressive rock, the denigration of the genre took a number of different forms. One of these was...
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garethsprogblog
Aug 16, 20136 min read
Little Red Record
There is an increasing amount of printed information about Rock Progressivo Italiano (RPI.) From the odd line or two in the original...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 29, 20134 min read
Vital
Barrow Civic Hall (subsequently Forum 28, now the Forum) was a concert hall with decent acoustics and the venue for my earliest gig...
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