Difficult, this. Let’s try:

Jethro Tull, Stadium, Dublin, 1969. My first big gig, they were pushing their new album, Stand Up (a new copy of which I carried all day hitchhiking and got 3 of the group to […]

Something like:

Traffic – Mr Fantasy
Beatles – Sgt Pepper
Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma

Although later did acquire a facility for calmer stuff, so […]

Dave, on point 5:

Stopping regarding the Good Friday Agreement as optional would be a fine start!

As owner of several albums of each of the bands you mention, Wheaty, I’d like to opine that Jethro Tull don’t fulfil any of the usual criteria for prog, whatever way you want to define it. Suggest substituting Van […]

Meanwhile, here in Germany, where talking up (or down) the Holocaust is a criminal offence, let me tell you about a news snippet off the radio from a few days ago. Apparently, 3 football morons were identified and […]

Storm in a teacup. Iceland were a bit rad and very deadpan. Suddenly there was a Palestine flag on screen. Big deal!

Interesting that you mention Poland @Salwarpe, as it exited in the semis. Still the best thing on view this year, with its exotic scale setting it apart from the usual fare. Radio Times called it shouty. Reminded […]

Probably Electric Ladyland or The White Album or John Barleycorn or Time Out Of Mind, which took up residence on the car stereo for ages, loved the more humble, less cocky version of Dylan.

Actually, when I think […]

Shortly after the great Green Manalishi, he did an instrumental album for Reprise, The End Of The Game. Controversial at the time (not the Green we know) and containing no hits (or even songs), it’s good for […]

And of course FZ had his hit (not in the UK)

Probably not quite suitable for your girl, Dai!

Correct. Great stuff.

Always a pleasure to hear the voice behind the name. What a gent that Pencilsqueezer is.

Thanks Nick, plenty to discover on your blog too.

@nickduvet

Strata Institute, cutting-edge funk-informed black jazz at the time (the 80s). Also in the 80s, the Vienna Jazz Orchestra made some excellent double-LPs for Hat Hut records out of Switzerland: Sokal was in their […]

Oh all right, better have this too
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Shanghai!

Duh..

Last Exit was Island Records’ attempt to squeeze an albums worth out of a group in turmoil at the time: Mason had left and rejoined a couple of times, Winwood was having his head turned with the short-lived Blind […]

You’re almost definitely right. Then again, if you’re privy to old BBC tapes, who knows what’ll turn up yet. 😉

Ever heard of Lancaster + Lumley’s album of 1976, Marscape, which was basically Brand X with sax, […]

Bought all the albums as soon as they were released, Mr Fantasy being my very first LP ever. Auspicious start in psychedelic ’67, stabilised as a trio (-ish) in ’70, expanded to a loose(-ish) collective to meet […]

Surprised it was Blodwyn, what with that bassoon (or even krumhorn) on the first track. Maybe your man from Gryphon was sitting in.

So this will have been a version of the group without Abrahams then, given that […]