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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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
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
- Jun 29, 2018
- 7 min
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, 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
- Feb 5, 2018
- 7 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, 2017
- 6 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
- Apr 29, 2017
- 7 min
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, 2016
- 6 min
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, 2016
- 7 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
- 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
- Nov 28, 2015
- 5 min
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, 2015
- 5 min
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
- Mar 28, 2015
- 7 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
- Apr 13, 2014
- 5 min
When did prog emerge?
When did prog emerge? That's one of the great prog questions...
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garethsprogblog
- Jan 18, 2014
- 7 min
The Lord of the Rings
Towards the end of the golden era of progressive rock, the denigration of the genre took a number of different forms. One of these was...
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garethsprogblog
- Oct 5, 2013
- 5 min
Asia is not a four-letter word
Prog was born in an era of possibilities, at a time of cultural and social freedom brought about by some amazing technological...
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garethsprogblog
- Sep 20, 2013
- 7 min
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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