Just When You Thought You Had It All Eh? Pink Floyd: The Early Years Box Set 1965-1972

So here’s to all you Pink Floyd fans that never got in to the whole bootleg collecting thing over the years! A pretty definitive box set to say the least. Yes even I was drooling a bit when I first heard about it and was gathering the intel on it. Being one of those obsessed…

Voor al Mijn Vrienden in Nederland bied ik u de Pink Floyd

Since we have been blessed with all of these great bands from the Netherlands I thought I would say thank you to them with this show review by one of my all time favourite bands, The Pink Floyd. So this is for my Dutch Family; Iris (Ier!), Frank, Eric, Peter and the other members of…

Ladies and Gentlemen… Emerson, Lake & Palmer (live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970)

Over the top? Pompous? Blatantly Full of themselves? Perhaps eventually but in 1970 they were hardcore Prog and damn good at it! I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with ELP because on one end you have the calm ballads of Greg Lake then the other hand is the firey madness of Keith Emerson’s keyboards and…

Tangerine Dream has Thermal Inversion to Your Kiew Mission at Newcastle’s City Hall in ’81

“Tangerine Dream“, the name is synonymous with space itself and generally the first name one thinks of when electronic music is mentioned aside from Kraftwerk. Formed in Berlin in 1967 at the height of the psychedelic movement by Edgar Froese(whom we lost in 2015)  along with Chris Franke and Peter Baumann became “The Ones” two…

Mauerspechte mit Das Pink Floyd (’71 Live Show Review)

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…

Have a Cigar Whilst Raving and Drooling Cuz You Gotta Be Crazy (Pink Floyd, Vancouver Firsts in ’75)

Probably one of the first ’75 bootlegs I ever bought of the Floyd was Vancouver April 8th 1975, it was the first CD bootleg I bought I should say because I got in a trade the Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario show from June 1975 first. Who’d have thought that they would have played there…

Losing My King Crimson V-Card to Larks Tongues in Aspic at 16

Unlike most people who’s first King Crimson record was their first, An Observation by King Crimson, In The Court of the Crimson King (1969), My auditory senses were slaughtered by their 1973 Lp, Larks Tongues in Aspic. At 16 years old I was hungry for anything Progressive Rock so having just gone through my overdose…

Gentle Giant; King Arthur’s House Band

Well, if King Arthur could have had a house band it definitely would have been these guys! Certainly one of the more quirky, crafty and complex Prog bands of their time and for today even. More than a thinking man’s band but a sophisticated collaboration of sound and lyrics and style that put them a…

The Doors; Borderline Prog?

  So we’ve all known to either love or hate The Doors over the years. I’ve loved them since I was 8 listening to them in my sister’s room sitting on the floor doing my homework, probably colouring at best! But STILL, became a big Doors fan to a HUGE Doors fan by the time…

Pink Floyd, Ulster Hall 1969

So I thought we would start off with a lesser known show in the Pink Floyd bootleg canon. Live at Ulster Hall, Belfast, Ireland, UK June 10th 1969. The sound quality is fairly decent but not super if you’re a real audiophile of which I am not, but definitely listenable. only to be cut off…