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With Christmas not long past, I’ve been attempting to wade through the novels I received as gifts, and have just completed Hugh Howey’s...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 9, 20226 min
Tickets, please!
When I first started going to Italy with the intention of seeing a live band, I felt I had to buy a ticket beforehand. Navigating...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 10, 20207 min
Live albums for lockdown (part 2)
While a live album can’t compare with being physically present at a gig, the best of them are able to convey a sense of outstanding music...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 5, 201818 min
Nine album challenge
The Instagram and Twitter trend ‘9 albums that changed my life/mean most to me’ (#9albums) which appeared in January 2018 didn’t pass me...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 11, 20176 min
The perfect length
I’ve just ripped a rather large pile of my wife’s CDs to mp3 for her which according to the categories ascribed by Windows Media Player...
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garethsprogblog
Dec 5, 20156 min
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
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
Mar 28, 20157 min
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
Jan 31, 20156 min
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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garethsprogblog
Apr 13, 20145 min
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
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
Sep 28, 20134 min
Lean years for prog (part 3)
Neo-prog The rise of neo-prog coincided with my time at the Transfusion Centre, which largely passed me by. The absence of column inches...
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garethsprogblog
Sep 20, 20137 min
Cold fusion
There’s an almost unspoken agreement that jazz-rock fusion comes under the prog umbrella. This relationship, forged in the late 60s and...
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garethsprogblog
Aug 24, 20136 min
Lean years for prog (part 1)
University challenges I arrived at university with the best hi-fi system in my hall of residence. I’d worked at the steel mill in Barrow...
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