garethsprogblog
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.
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garethsprogblog
Feb 2011 min
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
Apr 22, 202310 min
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
Mar 18, 202311 min
Coffee and prog
Any fool knows that progressive rock was invented by the English and by extension, the best beverage to consume while you’re listening to...
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garethsprogblog
Dec 14, 20228 min
A ProgBlog guide to Rome
I’d been to Rome a couple of times before 2017’s Progressivamente Free Festival, in August 1980 by InterRail as a student and in 2006 as...
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garethsprogblog
Jul 13, 20229 min
A ProgBlog guide to Genoa
Assuming there’s no last-minute hitch with flight cancellations or travel restrictions being imposed because the Omicron BA.4, BA.5 and...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 29, 20227 min
How prog is skiing?
The Page family annual ski trips have resumed after quite understandable Covid restrictions kept the European pistes closed to UK...
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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
Jun 14, 20207 min
Lockdown singles and EPs
Even though much of the world has been in lockdown to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many musicians have been working away...
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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
Jun 11, 20167 min
Should I stay or should I go?
Anti-Brexit demonstration (Photo: Wix) I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took part in...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 4, 20167 min
What does it say on the label?
Getting into music in 1972 meant that I may have missed out on records released on some of the early, innovative imprints like Decca’s...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 20, 20156 min
War and peace
It’s indisputable that progressive rock was a genre of grand concepts from the straightforward interpretation of classic novels (Camel’s...
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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
Aug 16, 20136 min
Little Red Record
There is an increasing amount of printed information about Rock Progressivo Italiano (RPI.) From the odd line or two in the original...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 8, 20134 min
Tripping
In mid-May I was in Dublin to see Steve Hackett and while I was there I indulged in some retail therapy. Tower Records in Wicklow Street...
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