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The difficult second
A band's second album (American: sophomore) is frequently cited as 'difficult' but should it tread the same ground as its predecessor?

garethsprogblog
Mar 118 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...

garethsprogblog
Nov 16, 20249 min read


Prog and TV theme tunes
I grew up at a time when progressive rock was a successful musical form and when there were programmes to stimulate my teenage imagination.

garethsprogblog
Sep 5, 20249 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...

garethsprogblog
Mar 5, 201818 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...

garethsprogblog
Jul 11, 20176 min read


Solo
Sometime in July my wife forwarded me an Amazon recommendation, Peter Hammill and the K Group Live At Rockpalast – Hamburg 1981, a DVD...

garethsprogblog
Aug 27, 20166 min read


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...

garethsprogblog
Dec 22, 20134 min read

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