A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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Progressive Rock was a revolutionary music genre that emphasized flashy musicianship and wild experimentation. In the wake of the psychedelic 60s, Prog Rock would scale the heights of commercial and critical success. Its star burned brightly, but only five years later it was in terminal decline, destined to be lost to the sands of time. Join your host Ian Prise and his guests each week as we..
A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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A heartfelt thank you and an intriguing proposal ..read more
A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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Today, on 1972's Trilogy, we explore the many complex emotions of ELP: epic, bombastic, virtuostic
What can't these guys do?
Refrain from rocking apparently
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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We welcome Yes back with 1971's Fragile, the album that would cement them as prog legends.
Also, making his first appearance in our story: the caped crusader, keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman brings his magic touch
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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Santa Ian spreads some Progmas cheer and drops some tunes down everyone's chimney
Prog bless us every one
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Songs in this Episode:
1. I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
2. Signed Curtain - Matching Mole
3. Four Horseman - Aphrodite's Child
4. Blown' Free - Wishbone Ash
6. Asforteri - Caravan
7. The Story in Your Eyes - Moody Blues
8. Toe the Line - GTR
9. Udu Wudu - Magma
10. The Last Seven Minutes - Magma
11. Spem in Alum - Thomas Tallis
12. Nothing More - Fotheringay
13. I Lost My Head- Gentle Giant
14. Out ..read more
A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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In the first half, we say adios to Season 1, looking backwards and forwards to all the Prog that ever was and ever will be.
In the second half, our tech wizard Ed takes us through the development of multitrack recording
We look forward to seeing you soon for the classic era of 1970s Prog Rock in Season 2
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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We end our first series with a heaping helping of organ as we introduce the Bad Bois of prog. It's our first prog rock supergroup: Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Join us as we marvel at ELP cramming as many notes as they can into their self titled debut.
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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This week, we travel down to Kent, the garden of England, for a gentle diversion.
Caravan were leaders in the Canterbury scene, a jazz-obsessed, offbeat, more relaxed Prog genre. It all came together, for them and for the scene, in this 1971 classic, In the Land of Grey and Pink.
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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We welcome the theatre kids of Prog Rock, Genesis.
Join us as we're whisked away to the Fountain of Salmacis.
Along the way we'll meet ghosts, stones and murderous plants.
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A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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Do you enjoy sitting on a park bench?
Do you enjoy... learning about Jethro Tull's classic album Aqualung?
How fortuitous! Join us this week and we get into the heady concepts, the beautiful guitar work and, of course, the flute solos of 1971's Aqualung ..read more
A Sorta Young Person’s Guide to Prog Rock
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Soon after recording their successful debut, King Crimson completely imploded, for the first of many times.
Left with a recording contract and no band, Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield went into the studio and patched together In the Wake of Poseidon.
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