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garethsprogblog
Dec 20, 20249 min read
Anthem?
I’ve just reposted, with only minor editing, the blog ‘ 100 not out ’, the story of Prog magazine reaching its 100th edition in ten...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 18, 20228 min read
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 3, 20207 min read
Live albums for lockdown (part 1)
By this time of the year in 2019, even with a slow start, I’d seen ten gigs and attended Steve Hackett’s The Edge of Light playback,...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 5, 201818 min read
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 read
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
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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garethsprogblog
Sep 20, 20137 min read
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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