It came to my attention recently that drummer Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues passed away on 11 November 2021. In tribute to him, I am reposting this piece which I first featured in 2017 before a lot of you were following my blog. Graeme … Continue reading Featured Album – To Our Children’s Children’s Children – Moody Blues
“By the time the 1970s had begun, bands like ELP were a little up their own arses. Everything was too serious and too overblown. So we set out with Thick as a Brick to show up this side of the genre.” – Ian Anderson Really … Continue reading Featured Album – Thick as a Brick – Jethro Tull
Faithful readers of this blog – both of them – know that I’ve been dropping teasers about a magical mystery tour (“Roll up for the mystery tour, step right this way”) I will be embarking on in the very near future. This is teaser nรบmero … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Yes (Teaser #4)
For the uninitiated, my Six-Packs are not intended to say “these are these artists’ best songs” so much as just to pick six I dug when I wrote this. Could be a different six next week. Brief history: Peter Gabriel is part of that crop … Continue reading Come Blow Your Horn – A Six-Pack of Peter Gabriel
“King Crimson is, as always, more a way of doing things. When there is nothing to be done, nothing is done: Crimson disappears. When there is music to be played, Crimson reappears. If all of life were this simple.” Robert Fripp. When I scan blogs … Continue reading Featured Album – In The Court of the Crimson King – King Crimson
While I don’t listen to nearly as much progressive rock as I once did, I certainly do enjoy it from time to time. Herewith a few prog tunes for (one hopes) your enjoyment.ย A while back I wrote about the Manfred Mann (pictured above) album … Continue reading A Bit of Prog
Ok, progrockers. Where are you? I haven’t heard much on the blogosphere about this album so it’s time to get some words out there about it. This was a pretty big album in its day (1973) in a way that prog-rock hasn’t really been since.ย … Continue reading Featured Album – The Six Wives of Henry VIII – Rick Wakeman
I don’t listen to a lot of prog-rock these days, but I’d have to say that of all the prog bands that I dug (King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP), Yes is hands-down my favorite. (Strictly speaking, is Pink Floyd considered prog? Because if so, … Continue reading Featured Album- The Yes Album
Apologies for overdosing you on posts but I’ve got a lot of great stuff to get to this month. Some new tunes (promise) in a couple of days. But I love this album so much I can’t hold back on it any more … Prog-rock … Continue reading Featured Album – Time and a Word – Yes
Ok, this is eerie. My hand to God on this one. I was in the middle of writing this post on Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I literally just Googled them so I could find out when they broke up. And I got the news that … Continue reading Emerson Lake and Palmer
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