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I've always considered "4WD (Low Ratio)" a clunker, but the rest of the album is fine, with a snazzy opener in "Crossfire" and some major highlights in "Pine Marten's Jig" and "Black Sunday."

I just got the Château d’Herouville vinyl the other day, and that’s a real delight for this Passion Play fanatic.

John Glascock did not die during the recording of the album, but while the band was away on the ensuing tour. Tull came to my hometown of San Diego twice in 1979. The first time, in the Spring, was a...

Are you kidding? Of COURSE I’m going to buy it! You think I want a gap in my Tull bookshelf?

"Heavy Horses" is the only song from that tour that wasn't on Bursting Out (unless you count the instrumental snippet of "Living in the Past"). Very surprised that they are bothering with this, as we...

Turns out he's been excepting himself from these events for years:



So it actually sounds kind of admirable.

Phooey on Ian Gillan then.

There is also a Yes VIP package offered:

Stanley Gibbons' Stamp Album

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There are 100 bassists?

The book also involves pirates, although I don't think there's a Chloe.

(A "sot-weed factor" is a tobacco merchant.)

From Adrian via Facebook:

I saw another Fripp-related April fool this morning: an announcement that Fripp and Belew had “put aside their differences” to join a David Bowie hologram tour.

I just don’t get why a certain contingent of people insists on eating strawberry ice cream when chocolate is objectively and verifiably better.

Karn Evor 9?

I noticed recently that Tony was born just three weeks after Fripp. (Adrian is three years younger than them.)

I'm out.

And "The Gift" was also recorded by Free Salamander Exhibit.

I've never owned any of Steve Harley's albums, but I saw him live once at the Cropredy festival. The song everyone wanted to hear was "Come Up and See Me"; I had never even heard it before.

Cool your jets, will you? You're the one who brought it up.

That's why I hated the Clash when I first heard them--I thought "Clash City Rockers" was just a ripoff of "Can't Explain."

Surely the very concept of a rock opera, complete with an overture and recurring motifs, is in itself a borrowing from classical music. Jazz? Townshend was obviously listening to Mose Allison;...

“Hamlet, dear, your problem is clear…”

Cleopatra’s in-house producer Jürgen Engler plays all the “additional guitars, bass and keyboards.”

Yawn.

Absolutely wonderful. And an amazing number of band photos that are unfamiliar to me.

Kerry’s clavinet picked up a hum from the lights, so the album has the clav parts replaced in the studio.

Wow.

He sure is jacked up in the mix!

Two fat persons, click click click.

No, those were all done by Phil Travers.

I listened to that song not very long ago, due to a chain of associations after rewatching The Singing Detective. Lately, through some quirk in the algorithm, YouTube has been recommending to me...

Stage left and right specifically refers to the performers' point of view. The audience point of view is called house left and right.

Well, it’s a little like asking if every melting watch is a Dali rip-off.

GG was a funny case, because those last three albums were all completely different from one another. The Missing Piece was still a pretty great album with enough residual Gentle Giant DNA to overcome...

Very, very good decision.

They are forms of a medieval instrument called tromba marina or marine trumpet. (They have nothing to do with the sea; "marina" is probably a corruption of Maria, as they were played in church...

Not sure if that's one too many n's or one too few.

Well, I was wrong. I thought, from the blurb, that this was a reissue with extra content added to sell it again to people who had already bought it. If it's just a simple reissue, that's fine--I'm...

Not much else worth hearing on the album...except "Taste of My Love" which is worth hearing just because it's so appallingly bad.

Yes, it’s quite good. It has some fine florid piano from Emerson, slightly reminiscent of “Trilogy.” None of the sheer ferocity you get from classic ELP, and a lot of people have issues with the...

I think I always believed it was comment until I saw the printed lyrics in a Yes songbook. "Instant Karma" makes sense in conjunction with the "Give Peace a Chance" quote.

The blurb says it's something new. Did the old blu-ray have the instrumental mixes? (I only bought the vanilla CD.)

Oh gosh, it's on the tip of my tongue. Rod chords? Stick chords? Board chords?

What restraint! Waiting almost a whole year before asking us to buy it again!

Exactly. The current band is so faceless it's hard to remember who they are anymore.

It’s Opahle on The Zealot Gene, except for one track with Parrish. Parrish is on Rökflöte.

Who the fuck is Joe Parrish again?

Yes, it was like that on the original UK Please Please Me album, too. The "Love Me Do" single had come out with a Lennon-McCartney credit, then it was reversed for the "Please Please Me" single and...

Looks legit!

Not really. The standard Capitol releases sold in the millions, so they are by no means rare. Except for a few curiosities like the Butcher Cover, they can generally be found at reasonable prices if...

Moe’s current band Surplus 1980 will be opening for SGM at some shows.

It’s a crap shoot. The bigger stores tend to get pretty much everything, but there are always some hot items that get snapped up immediately. The smaller shops will have spottier selections, and even...

Is it still a thing for everybody in the room to sing along with the ba-ba-ba’s?

^ That's really lovely. Oddly, the version that YouTube recommended to me had only a still image throughout, being a collage of some of the black & white photos from this video.

I've certainly always heard "naive."

Not a bad list. A lot of stuff I’d be casually interested in, depending on price. I’m in for the Yes, despite the ugly faux-bootleg cover. Anything Zappa is autobuy for me. Definitely the Sun Ra....

The Albinoni Adagio (which was not really written by Albinoni) was also covered by Brian Auger's Trinity and Procol Harum. Procol's version was a non-LP single, with the B-side being a brilliant live...

Carla says it started as a Rabbit Rabbit Radio song. The lyrics to the first verse are from Robert Louis Stevenson.

I'm not the only one who thought the couple in that song "Split up on the docks that night" (rather than "on a dark, sad night"). Well, he does go on to get a job on a fishing boat in the next verse,...

Not me.