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Just electronic percussion. Although come to think of it (but I'm not sure they count) Vocorders too.

Boston - Don't look back
Bill Bruford's Earthworks (twice)
Boss Brothers - Stalling for Time
Jaques Brel - Brel
John Abercrombie - Animato
John Abercrombie - Current events

(Early) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin II

It's truly astonishing to think that the 4 years and 4 months from May 1973 included the release of Chameleon, Silent Corner, In Camera, Nadir, Godbluff, Still Life, World Record, Over, and the Quiet...

I saw 30 mins or so of Fish on Friday last night, and he played a very early version of 'The Web', also with only his vocal and Diz on bass.

I picked these LPs up in Tokyo whilst out there for the recent Peter Hammill shows:

Billy Cobham - Shabaz
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCcoy
McCoy Tyner - Fly with the wind
Peter Hammill - Enter K...

'And then there were three' is the LP I've owned the longest, and I love it all, and I really enjoyed the video.

I think the title 'Seconds Out' links most closely to the boxing connection -...

Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Climax Blues Band - Sense of Direction
Poco - Rose of Cimarron
Ian Anderson - Walk into light

Mostly the Gentle Giant albums on shuffle, then Live at the Fillmore - Humble Pie

In the last 12 months or so (I'm surprised it's not more), and mostly second hand:

Vinyl:

Anthony Philips - Private Parts and Pieces II - Back to the Pavillion
Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus...

I headed off to read the review but got sidetracked and instead read, and really enjoyed, your review of Mike Oldfield's 'Crises'. I know it's not prog, but Moonlight Shadow is one of my all-time...

So far this week:
John Lees' Barclay James Harvest - Live at Metropolis Studios
Bill Bruford - One of a kind
Frank Zappa - You are what you is
Wishbone Ash - Live dates
Van der Graaf Generator -...

PH has lined up his first live performance since the VdGG concert in Reutlingen in Germany. He's giving a free concert at Piacenza, near(ish) Milan, Italy on 22 June.

It's also his first concert...

Not sure if it's their final show or just their final festival, but expecting them to be one of the Cropredy Festival highlights in August.

Santana - Moonflower
Roy Harper - The Unknown Soldier
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Yes - Going for the One

At home, as the records are mostly stored in a different room, I play whole albums almost all the time.

In the car though, it's always songs on random shuffle. It's a great way to connect to...

Focus - 3
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour

Over the last 6 months or so:

Vinyl:
Anthony Phillips - Private Parts and Pieces 2
Ian Anderson - Homo erraticus
Eberhard Weber - Silent Feet
Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields
Eberhard Weber -...

John Abercrombie - 39 Steps

ZZ Top - Best of

Deep Purple - Machine Head
Frank Zappa - Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch
Frank Zappa - Overnight sensation
Frank Zappa - Sleep dirt

Yesterday:
Roy Harper - One of those days in England (Bullinamingvase)

Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Bruford - Earthworks
Bill Bruford - Feels Good to Me
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Peter Hammill - Vision
Colorblind James Experience - Why should I...

Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat
Wishbone Ash - From California to Kawasaki
Howard Riley - For four on two two

Picked up during a few days spent in Amsterdam after cancellation of the Van Der Graaf Generator tour prematurely ended my time in Germany:

Traffic - On the road
Soft Machine - Softs
Jethro Tull...

Definitely priviliged to see their first ever gig as a duo - initially thought Guy had been furloughed but turns out it was a passport problem.

I'm following up seeing Steve Hackett / Seconds Out late last month with five Van Der Graaf Generator shows which (other than a festival gig in August) are their first since 2013 - starting tonight...

Of theirs - I love 'A Farewell to Kings', but not all that much else, but nonetheless this is an autobuy.

It looks like you can still buy the four individually for just £1 in total more than the bundle.

I rarely post but do visit every day. Done, and thank you for everything you do.

My parcel arrived yesterday – thank you so much Duncan and Chris! Inside were:

Genesis – Selling England by the Pound (and when I looked was surprised to see this was one of only a couple of...

Hi Duncan, that's a great idea and I'd love to be involved too, and also happy to cover shipping.

I picked up three for half price in a January sale in WH Smiths whilst on a course in Nottingham in maybe 1987 or 1988. I can't for the life of me remember one, but the other two were Van Morrison's...

I think that rather than absolute favourites I'd choose music that would re-connect me to happier times from the past:

Rose Royce - Wishing on a star
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
ELP - Karn Evil 9...

Definitely - I had tickets for all 28 of their shows this Spring. I do hope these can be pushed back into happier times.

Peter Hammill has tweeted:

https://twitter.com/Sofa_sound?fbclid=IwAR1j_-81mEoZBVduu3_G4wzaDqc6F4p4iobV_9LkYUfqbXE8zd32wAhdAVg

I've separately seen a notice that Bologna has been cancelled (or...

Their Athens concert planned for 28 March was cancelled today.

I think those early albums have a lot of room (and time) to make themselves at home. It's the same with me for ATTWT. World Record, although for me maybe 3rd or 4th VdGG favourite, would be the one...

The Champions League might have been City's priority a few weeks ago, but morale now has to be so low in their camp that you wonder how many more knocks they can take. If Liverpool can avoid...

I'm a huge fan - currently planning to see the whole tour in the Spring - and can only envy you for the music to come. You're mining a very rich seam at the moment but I think there's only three or...

9 more dates now added above - six in Germany, two in Sweden and one in Denmark.

Google has helped too - they've mostly appeared in piecemeal fashion.

Helsinki and Prague now added to the list above.

I think this is the latest list, but I suspect there may be more to come:

28 March, Athens

5 April, Genova

7 April, Roma

8 April, Bologna

Oct 16 - Cambridge: Wishbone Ash
Nov 23 -Halmstadt: Peter Hammill and Isildurs Bane
Jan 17 - London: Band of Holy Joy

Much of a muchness after that:
April 16 - Krakow: Van der Graaf...

Frank Zappa - In New York

Done

I was lucky enough to see most of these shows and if the set includes 'La Rossa' from Rome then anything else will be a bonus:

http://sofasound.com/latest.htm

I listened to Skin quite a lot earlier this year, just to see if I'd end up liking it more than I did before. Not sure that it made much of a difference, but I did find out I'd spent 30 years...

I find it easier to just copy new files to both drives.

On Friday in Livorno, on the last night of his tour of Italy, Peter hinted that the band would be active again in 2018.

I couldn't think of a smallest show worth mentioning until yesterday's.

Largest was The Red Hot Chilli Peppers with James Brown at Hyde Park in 2004 - 86,000

The Peter Hammill shows I've seen...

Tull album: Benefit and Aqualung, bought second-hand at the same time
Tull tour: Roots to Branches
Yes album: Tormato
Yes tour: Magnification
Genesis album: And then there were three... ...

And, it looks like he's appearing at IB Expo 17 on November 25 at Kulturhuset in Halmstad, Sweden, as a guest of Isuldur's Bane:

https://www.facebook.com/ibexpo/

That was me. Nice to meet you Ian, even if only briefly. Saturday was a great great night, sadly had to miss Sunday but hope to see Spratley Japs in Brighton next month.

The Fall - 50,000 Fall fans can't be wrong

Looks like it was the last track Mark Riley played on his show an hour or so ago.

Great post.

I had taped Cold Wind to Valhalla from the radio, and based on that and the sleeve expected more songs of another time. The rest of the album seems to me to have a contemporary feel -...

'Cold Wind to Valhalla' was my way in to Minstrel, but I agree now that it is the weakest of the tracks and I think it doesn't really fit too well within the context of the rest. It would probably...

And then there were three
Minstrel
Tormato
- and these are still my most-played by these bands

Relics
Beat (sold not long after, will try again soon)
Love Beach (present from my Dad, a...

I'm surprised to find no mention of this so far, but if you're in the UK you might like to know that Knifeworld are curating a 1 day prog festival in Aldershot this Saturday. Five bands on the bill...

September 24 - Knifeworld and William D Drake and others, Aldershot
March 19 - ARW