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I saw *will not include Ian Gillan on a vegan restaurant menu recently, so it's probably a meme.

Fair play to him though for turning down such easy money, for whatever reason. I doubt the fans...

Obvious mention for the weird directorial decisions and obtrusive visual effects in the video of Yes's 1996 San Luis Obispo show. Some undeniably great playing, but you can't ever fully immerse...

Looks like Tarkus, but it isn't Moss or Cowell – it's an April Fool joke, as rael suspected.

Absolutely hilarious, pray cease lest I crack a rib.

Steve Hughes, drummer with Slaughter Lord and other meh thrash metal bands. Now a stand-up comedian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60VUtxmN1IE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60VUtxmN1IE

"Thank you, Rick. That was really helpful." Bit sarcastic.

BIA got a later publicity boost thanks to dumb conspiracy theorists, of course. Not sure if that translated into a sales boost though.

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I'm really looking forward to the new album 'Big Yellow Ball in the Sky'.

The BBC's first female DJ in 1970.

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Here's her with Affinity back in the day:

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^ Thanks. Excellent montage, very sensitively matched.

In case anyone hasn't realized, the August 31 performances surfaced shortly after and they're superb.
From Peter Jones's biography of Fagen: "The only footage to survive dates from their first show...

New Rundgren solo album in the works for this year.
Hoping it might be more solo old-school songcraft mixed with weirdness than the recent EDM and collaboration albums.

Excellent.

I think I saw a Flick of the Tail.

They famously did George Costanza, but just after he'd been in the pool.
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Including Spirits of Ancient Egypt, an underrated track from Venus and Mars. His vocal on the original here. (Nice backing from Linda too.)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsG3zpykl2g

I'm a little tipsy, but four thumbs up from me.

Probably had to comply with a fire safety inspection.

He still looks young on the cover, fair play.

https://twitter.com/RealPaulPutner/status/1730263989530009795

"My fave Shane fact was that he adopted the Record & Tape Exchange, Camden Town, as his personal ATM. Yer man would stagger in, buy a...

Oldfield's Incantations for me. Got the LP Christmas 1978 a few days after it was released and listened to it with a teenager's obsession throughout the cold and snow of January and February.
Still...

Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains

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Interesting Ed 'Edward' Wynne-related story in the UK Sunday Times

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https://youtu.be/5wtnVAV-F8w

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'Ballad of Big' definitely needed Phil to wear Steve's trick arrow through his head.

Thanks. Two album-oriented prog bands with Top 10 UK singles, both around 3:50 long and with catchy choruses and synth solos was unusual, but on balance it's more likely to have been a coincidence.

Any chance that Follow You Follow Me was written/released as a single with Yes's recent Top 10 UK single in mind? Does the timing work out?

Nice one Rael. Your docs just keep getting better and better, and this one was superb.

I remember buying the LP the day it came out, getting excited by the first few seconds of Down and Out - bit...

Totally agree - and stupidly maligned by so many idiots for a long, long time.

There's no doubt in my mind that he's given more pleasure and happiness to the greatest number of people than anyone...

A must-read if you like overlong, boring, self-indulgent reviews of overlong, boring, self-indulgent albums.

Positive 4 out of 5 review in the Times (London) - paywalled though. Same guy gave Waters' London gig last Sunday a negative review, so not a sycophant.

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Rufus Wainwright - 'Want One' and 'Want Two'? Maybe not, but anyway, I like them both but the follow-up is better.

This was quite an audacious opening track:

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Yeah, Wakeman's an amusing fellow sometimes, but his books are a mixed bag, and in his Prog Magazine column (possibly ghosted) he's an anal-obsessed bore (the day me and Ashley Holt held a noxious...

But there's a 12-page booklet!

Just clicked on that Amazon link and I think the Captcha is trying to tell me something

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Not for me, sorry. As I waited for that line to finish, I just knew he'd land heavily on the word 'death'. These remakes are stripped down supposedly to reveal new meaning and profundity, but the...

Yeah I noticed that and my first thought was it was Waters' mofo and c-word rant being flagged by the subtitle software. I'm not sure any kids clicking on it expecting to see the story of Percy Pig,...

Yes to (b)! Reminds me of the censorship in the Python Blackmail sketch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY64_KG8Y (a young Geoff Downes at 00:40s).

♫ Two boiled ova, we will see ... :roll

I will not be forced to celebrate bottoms.

A silly idea but a silly song too. Mind you, Bicycle Race is worse.

If only they'd had the decency to split up after A Night at The Opera.

Quite possibly your best yet (and the others are great), with some important social context adding depth to the musical timeline.
I was a bit thrown by Joe Gormley's image in the fatcat Pigs...

https://i.imgur.com/a10jirs.mp4

:D

Has she heard that new supergroup, Howe Rudess Thompson?

Well of course, but I meant more than that, that he seemed the opposite of an egotistical rock star for that shoot, unusually self-effacing. Perhaps he just over-indulged in professional settings...

Chris was only a little slurry on the FOOW DVD video commentary, and disarmingly modest and likeable – maybe because he was immersing himself in a happier time.
Was he one of those Jekyll/Hyde...

I'd say the 'sic' is there to note the distinction between "play your part" - ie perform as an integral component in the whole - and "play your parts" - ie musical parts. Without the 'sic' maybe some...

Maybe Rod Evans lives in your attic, don't give up hope.

Thanks. I didn't know about Fripp's comment, but printing only someone's initials wouldn't offer much protection from a libel claim, as it only needs to be demonstrated that the claimant could be...

The few quotes I recall of his make it look like it wasn't about the music for him (fair enough, that's not his main job), but he wants to make it look like it was, and so is prone to bullshitting. ...

Bonus tracks:as above but in mono. What next, the same tracks you already have but as heard on short wave radio?

Caveat: I no longer post on the Steve Hoffman forums.

EDIT: And I've run out of...

Was Brian Lane not an effective enough manager or could he just not deal with their egos? I mean he must be rated highly if he's still recently associated with Rick and ARW, but he doesn't seem to...

Saw Rabin supporting Steve Hillage in the late 70s (1979?). He obviously had some traction with UK musicians around then.

Yes, it was a very lucrative tour. Presumably TL got paid for the gigs he missed through insurance and no one in the band or management was motivated enough to do the right thing for Jeff.

You might actually be the first fan I've seen saying that, but I feel the same. Some nice playing, but a sense of trying too hard to recreate classic moments from the past, and some deadly dull vocal...

Has anyone done an "Ann Wilson? This is Female Lead Singers, not Female Led Singers" joke yet? I'm not surprised.

Steve Hillage covered Getting Better and It's All Too Much in the 1970s of course.

Andrew Gold had Beatles (and other artists) pastiches on his excellent Greetings from Planet Love album.
This...

:D I'm exactly the same! When I first bought it a few months after it came out, I had a cheap record player with mono speaker and didn't notice it (or I didn't have misophonia in 1971!). Now I...

WAKEMAN: Graham, mate, can you try to sound like Ashley Holt for this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pva2h9EbSfw&t=375s

Palmer had a pleasant voice but was occasionally the worse for drink on stage. He seems to be okay in that Midnight Special performance, but there's a certain lack of swing and a...

I'd have expected the phenomenon to have started abating by now, but it just seems to keep growing.

It's unrealistically skewed to the same songs as well. It seems Yes fans can never get enough...