garethsprogblog
A ProgBlog guide to Venice
Contrary to my previous pronouncements about the availability of prog in Venice, I can now reveal that there is a record store in the...
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garethsprogblog
- May 27, 2018
- 8 min
The end of an era
One of my Record Store Day 2018 purchases, that is one of the limited editions specially produced for the occasion rather than one of the...
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garethsprogblog
- Mar 5, 2018
- 18 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
- Dec 5, 2015
- 6 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
- Jan 31, 2015
- 6 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
- Oct 4, 2014
- 5 min
Genesis revelations
I don’t watch very much television. Broadcasting corporations don’t really cater for my tastes and commercial stations are nauseating...
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garethsprogblog
- Nov 16, 2013
- 5 min
Lean years for prog (part 4)
Lean years for prog? When I moved on from the Transfusion Centre in 1986 to work at Charing Cross Hospital, part of my leaving present...
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garethsprogblog
- Jun 29, 2013
- 4 min
Vital
Barrow Civic Hall (subsequently Forum 28, now the Forum) was a concert hall with decent acoustics and the venue for my earliest gig...
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garethsprogblog
- Apr 6, 2013
- 5 min
From the Beginning
Close to the Edge by Yes One Saturday morning in September 1972 shortly after my thirteenth birthday, I accompanied my brother Tony on...
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