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garethsprogblog
Nov 169 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...
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garethsprogblog
Oct 126 min read
Instant gratification - the phenomenon of ‘taking the gig home with you straight after the show’
I'm very much in favour of buying recordings of gigs I've attended, should they become available at some date after the concert in...
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garethsprogblog
Apr 19, 20226 min read
Brighton rock
Brighton is a progressive city, including the constituency of the only Green Party MP in the UK. Under normal circumstances, much less...
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garethsprogblog
Feb 9, 20226 min read
Tickets, please!
When I first started going to Italy with the intention of seeing a live band, I felt I had to buy a ticket beforehand. Navigating...
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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
Jul 12, 20196 min read
100 not out
Producing a magazine dedicated to prog every 6 weeks traces a difficult path, catering for those stuck in the past and the more open-minded
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garethsprogblog
Jun 29, 20187 min read
Match of the Day
One of my recent purchases, on a short trip out to Crystal Palace, was a £1 copy of Short Stories (1980) by Jon and Vangelis, from...
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garethsprogblog
May 27, 20188 min read
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, 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
Feb 5, 20187 min read
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 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 29, 20177 min read
A ProgBlog guide to Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the first World Exposition in 1851, a structure designed to be temporary with...
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garethsprogblog
Aug 27, 20166 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...
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garethsprogblog
Jun 4, 20167 min read
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
Feb 13, 20169 min read
Automobiles
If musical genres were modes of transportation, prog would be some form of public transport and Italian prog would be a tram!
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garethsprogblog
Dec 5, 20156 min read
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
Nov 28, 20155 min read
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
Jul 4, 20155 min read
Chris Squire
Chris Squire died on 27th June 2015. He was being treated for Acute Erythroid Leukaemia in Phoenix, Arizona. A true giant of the bass,...
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garethsprogblog
May 18, 20156 min read
Cover up
The presentation of an album used to be one of the factors I took into account when I was attempting to discover new music at a time when...
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garethsprogblog
Mar 28, 20157 min read
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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