PFM for Saturday morning – recorded at The Piper Club in Rome on March 25, 1972. It’s hard to put yourself in a place where you’ve never heard anything like this before – listening for the first time, some 53 years ago. In 1972 ProgRock was a relatively new genre
– Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – live at L’Altro Mondo, Rimini – May 8,1975 – Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, or Banco, or BMS – one of the cornerstone bands of the Italian Progrock movement, beginning in 1969. Having been inspired by the likes of Jethro Tull, Genesis, Van der Graaf
– Procol Harum in Session – raw session tracks – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – I was watching an excellent BBC Documentary on the birth and life of the Progressive Rock Movement in Britain from 1966-2004. And even though it could be disputed, Procol Harum lead singer Gary Brooker
– Matching Mole – Live At Paris Theatre, London – July 27, 1972 – BBC Radio 1 – Matching Mole this morning, recorded at the BBC’s Paris Theatre in London on July 27, `1972. Right after his departure from the landmark band Soft Machine, drummer and Soft-Machine founder Robert Wyatt
– Genesis – Live At Auditorium Theater, Rochester New York – December 17, 1974 – Band Soundboard – Genesis, during their last few months with Peter Gabriel. The release of their 2-disc magnum opus The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway brought a mixed reaction from press and audiences alike. Hailed
Gong – Live At Chateau Neuf, Oslo – December 15, 1974 Gong this morning – a band who helped put Prog on the map in the early 1970s. Founded by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth. Allen was a founding member of Soft Machine in the mid-1960s and was with the
Roxy Music this morning. Live in Paris, recorded on November 27, 1974 and broadcast over French Radio sometime after. One of those bands which helped define the 70s, and created an indelible impression on the future of Rock music, Roxy Music, fronted by the inimitable Bryan Ferry, whose suave demeanor
An hour’s worth of John Peel tonight – from his nightly program Nightride on BBC Radio 1 on July 24, 1968. Every so often you get embroiled in a conversation over the state of Popular Music and that rapidly becoming obsolete medium of Radio. That there is no more Top-40
Queen – Live At Golders Green – October 20, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Queen in concert at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, recorded on October 20, 1973 by BBC Radio 1 for their weekly In-Concert series. Queen came along at a time when seemingly everything in Rock
– 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.
