Klaatu A bit of a famous (not infamous) Canadian band named after the robot in the fantastic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. I say infamous as they were wrapped up in the second biggest Beatles conspiracy theory after the Paul Is Dead rumours. The Klaatu rumour was started by a US journalist who …
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The Alan Parsons Project There was a time when I had quite a few Alan Parsons albums. Turn of a Friendly Card, Pyramid, Eye In The Sky, Greatest Hits. I Robot seems to be the only one that remains. Must be Gremlins. APP is a bit hit and miss for me. Some of it is …
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Genesis – Invisible Touch “I’ll do anything if you’ll just help get me out of here” The Mama Tour consisted of 65 arena and stadium dates from November 6 1983 in Bloomington-Normal Illinois through February 29 1984 in Birmingham (England not Alabama). Most if not all of the shows started with Dodo/Lurker from the previous …
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Billie Eilish – The World’s A Little Blurry I have two teenage daughters and I’m fundamentally aware of the fact that as much as I know about music, I really don’t know much about theirs. I know some songs and I hear a lot of what they listen to while driving around. Back in early …
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Genesis – Genesis aka Shapes aka The Mama Album “Cause you know, I know, it’s time for a change” Following the double dosed Abacab tour which was capped off by the reunion show with Gabriel and Hackett in Milton Keynes known as Six Of The Best, the band took an eight month break. During this …
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Genesis – Three Sides Live “Turn it on, Turn it on, Turn it on, Turn it on, Turn it, Turn, it, Turn it, Turn it on again, on again, on again, on again, on again, again, again, again, again, again, again…” Abacab was a huge album for the band. The decision to shift direction probably …
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Genesis – Abacab “Ooh, like it or not there’s a lot I could say, cause I’ve got a lot on my mind.” Surfing the success of the Duke album, the band set out on 78 date tour across North America and UK from March 17 through June 30 1980 again supported by Chester Thompson on …
Jellyfish Where do I even start with Jellyfish? Maybe the best place is by saying they are by far one of my all time favourite bands…and they only released two albums. My first exposure was back in 1990 with the song That Is Why which got some modest radio play on CFNY. It was this …
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Jawbox I doubt I ever would have even heard of this band had they not been the musical guest on Conan O’Brien the day I saw it filmed way back in 1994 in his first or second season. Maybe it was the excitement of being in the audience at a live taping of a late …
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“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.” Steve Biko Back in the late 70s I went to an overnight summer camp and there was a guy named Ricky Haar who was known for playing the song American Pie by Don McLean. I …
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