– King Crimson in session at The BBC May 6, 1969 – One of the bands who proved pivotal in the Progressive Rock movement were King Crimson. With the release of their debut album, In The Court Of The Crimson King, they achieved huge worldwide success almost from the start.
Peter Hammill – in session for John Peel – Top Gear – August 19, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Peter Hammill tonight. Not an artist you take or leave, or listen to passively. He just isn’t – he never was. Even when he was part of the groundbreaking Progressive
Gentle Giant – In Session – August 28, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – Gentle Giant tonight. A band, like King Crimson just before them, who captured the imaginations and made it okay to explore a lot of different music under the rapidly expanding tent of Rock. Gentle Giant took
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Robert Fripp – Live In Tokyo, TFM Hall – November 11, 1992 NHK-Tokyo Something else special tonight. When I ran the CSN&Y concert from 1970 earlier, I mentioned 1970 was a very busy year for music. One of those aspects which made
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Emerson, Lake And Palmer – Live At Beat Club, 1970 – RBB Berlin When you consider that Emerson, Lake and Palmer were the first Progressive Supergroup to emerge on the scene in 1970 (Keith Emerson from the then-recently broken up Nice,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Tonight it’s a session that has gone down in musical history as being more infamous than famous. Although the collaboration of two highly influential figures in the fledgling Progressive Movement was no small event, the fiasco that ensued probably spoke
Click on the Link: Giles, Giles and Fripp – 1968 On last night’s Roundtable I played a track from a 1969 session King Crimson did for the BBC. Almost exactly a year before that session, an album was released by a band known as Giles, Giles and Fripp. According to
