June 5th 1971, where were you? I wasn’t born yet for a couple of years and if you were around you may have not been at West Germany’s Berliner Sportpalast when The Pink Floyd to the stage that night. It was the first rock concert to be held there using Quadraphonic sound and The Floyd…
Tag: 1971
Who’s That Sitting on The Park Bench? Oh Hehehe it’s Just Aqualung with His Friend Jethro Tull
Probably one of the most stout statements from the lyrics in a song about a dirty old man in town and the band’s biggest selling album and most well known album and song in their almost fifty year career since starting out in the shambles of 1968. I’ve always had a fight with “Jethro Tull”…
Ok I Can’t Go This Long Without Talking About Them…. Ladies and Gentlemen, Kraftwerk
“Kraftwerk”, the name rings synonymous with electronic music, grandfathers of modern revolution electronica, pioneers of the electric age, synth wizards, you name it. BUT! Before they went all synth and technologically advanced for the rest of the world, they were an experimental Progressive Krautrock band that played some pretty amazing stuff! Yes we are still…
A Visit to Newport Hospital? Perhaps if You Slip on Egg’s 1971 Album “The Polite Force”
If you’ve ever been a fan of English music, in particularly English Prog music then at some point your friend who turned you on to it more than likely also introduced you to what was known as the Canterbury Scene of English Prog. You would have been exposed to bands like; “The Soft Machine“, “Caravan“,…
