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Caravan – Radio Bremen/Beat Club – 1969-1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perennial favorites Caravan tonight. One of those bands who helped define Prog-Rock in the late 60s and early 1970s and one of those bands whose influence was felt much farther and wider than many give credit to....
Gong – Live At Chateau Neuf, Oslo – December 15, 1974 Gong this week – 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...
Become a Patron! Prog-Rock legends Caravan tonight. In a concert recorded at the BBC’s Paris Theatre in London on March 21, 1975. Caravan were one of the most influential bands of the Progressive Rock era – part of the fabled “Canterbury scene” which also gave us such legends as Soft...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Gong – In Session for John Peel – Nov. 17, 1971 – BBC Radio 1 Hearing the very sad news today regarding Soft Machine founder and Gong leading light Daevid Allen’s emotional farewell, owing to a deteriorating...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Hatfield And The North – BBC Session – March 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Further evidence the 70s produced a wide array of music which is still being discovered 40 years later. Tonight it’s another band from the legendary Canterbury scene...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Kevin Ayers and The Wizards of Twiddly – Live at The Cobra, Solingen, Germany – 2nd set – October 24, 1995 – Band soundboard It’s still difficult to believe Kevin Ayers is no longer with us. Having been a little over...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Soft Machine – Paris Sessions (TV) – 1967-1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I’ve posted several items on this band over the past few years. They have never grown old. Soft Machine were the product of adventuresome, pioneering times. They were...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Caravan In session at Batalan – 1973 – French Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Perennial all-time favorites Caravan tonight, from a session recorded by French Radio in 1973 live at La Bataclan. A few seconds over 20 minutes, it’s still...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Soft Machine – live at Paradiso, Amsterdam – 1969 – VPRO-Archives. One of the most, if not the most influential band during that late 1960s period of transition Rock music was going through. Soft Machine bridged the gap between Rock, Jazz...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Caravan in Concert – September 8, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Series In what has already been a year marked with substantial loss in the world of Music, comes another sad announcement that founding member and drummer for...
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