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…
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HodgeProg!
Thought I would give you all a little something of a collection of a few bands that I have come across that have either only done a one off track, side projects or just emerged in the genre with a demo or Ep being released to date, so welcome to HodgeProg! With all the accessibility…
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…
The REAL Slow Hand, Mr. David Gilmour & Co. Plays Toronto’s Air Canada Centre March 31st 2016
With a little stroke of luck from one of the sales reps at my mom’s work I was able to score seats at what was probably 20,000 people packing Toronto’s Air Canada Centre tonight. It’s amazing that David Gilmour could even hear himself play let alone sing over the the thousands of voices who sang…
Signal to Noise with Andy Jackson’s First Album
It only seems natural that if you engineer Pink Floyd albums that eventually you will release one of your own. Having worked with the Floyd or the Floyd related via solo projects they have done, Andy Jackson has certainly got a lot of influence under his belt to come up with his own ideas and…
Keith Emerson 1944-2016
Synth Wizard and Keyboardist extraordinaire. Founder of The Nice and one of founders of Emerson, Lake & Palmer has passed away from what TMZ reports as a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Emerson had been dealing with depression from a degenerative nerve disorder for some time in his right hand that has limited…
Lonely Robot Needs Friends… Nah, He Has Many, it’s Ok
More often than not you will be drawn to an album by its cover art and then you begin to investigate the record further along with the artist and the music associated with it. Sometimes you just know by the image on the cover, eg.Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix who it is and you pick…
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…
Steven Wilson, Toronto Spectacular @ Massey Hall March 1st 2016
Steven Wilson…Nothing short of AMAZING last night at Toronto’s Massey Hall with but one slight discouragement, the curfew on Toronto concerts at 11pm. GRRRR!!!! Yep it’s been I don’t know how many years since the city evoked such a ridiculous rule but it truncated Steven Wilson’s second set ever so slightly. That said, it was…
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…
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