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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
Mar 18, 20228 min
Prog and the violin
Sometime in 1978 or 1979 in a Zoology class at Goldsmiths’, fellow students Jo Wallace and Karen Fraser were discussing the use of the...
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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
May 18, 20185 min
Shhh, peaceful
If you choose to go to a pub, which is more likely than not to be showing some desperately important sporting event and could...
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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
Sep 12, 20155 min
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
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
May 10, 20137 min
Motivation radio
In the early 70s, radio was a vital medium which began to play an increasingly important role in my interest in prog. Though BBC Radio 3...
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