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garethsprogblog
Apr 22, 202310 min read
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, 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 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
Jan 31, 20156 min read
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, 20145 min read
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, 20135 min read
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, 20134 min read
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, 20135 min read
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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