garethsprogblog
ProgBlog and the C18 agriculturalist
For someone who was into progressive rock in 1972, my appreciation of the music of Jethro Tull, indisputably one of the genre’s ‘big...
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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
Feb 5, 20187 min
Hype & existential questions
BBC Four has just shown a new, three-part series Hits, Hype & Hustle: An Insider’s Guide to the Music Business where the timing of the...
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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
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
Dec 22, 20134 min
Let me bring you prog at Christmas (prog and the Christmas single)
The annual dash for number one at Christmas refers to singles and thus excludes the vast majority of prog. In recent years it’s been the...
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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
Aug 24, 20137 min
Lean years for prog (part 2)
Citizen Smith At the start of the third year Jim and I went to see Barbara Thompson at the Tramshed and, to Jim’s surprise, he knew the...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 14, 20134 min
Definitions
Though most readers will have a good understanding of the term ‘progressive rock’ it is inherent in the nature of many prog fans to query...
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