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Favoriting October 2, 2023

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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Peter Ivers Band  Dark Illumination   Favoriting Knight of the Blue Communion  0:03:19 (Pop-up)
 
Fille Qui Mousse  Cantate Disparate   Favoriting Trixie Stapleton 291  0:09:23 (Pop-up)
 
October Equus  October Equus Suite: Bigas   Favoriting October Equus  0:17:21 (Pop-up)
 
Caretaker  Ennui   Favoriting Sign of Four  0:28:08 (Pop-up)
Eloy  Daylight   Favoriting Power and the Passion  0:31:28 (Pop-up)
 
Gilli Smyth  Time of the Goddess   Favoriting Mother  0:36:41 (Pop-up)
 
Laurence Vanay  Glaciers Interdits (Milieu Synthe)   Favoriting Galaxies  0:45:14 (Pop-up)
 
Comus  The Prisoner   Favoriting First Utterance  0:49:24 (Pop-up)
 
Focus  Round Goes the Gossip   Favoriting Focus 3  0:56:37 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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G:

Almost time…
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Troy:

Ready for my Prog lessons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...taking you out in headphones as I stroll in the warm evening temps (NewHampshuh)...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
ultradamno:

Dave! Mandlotrons!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Dave Mandl and all
Avatar 7:01pm
Coach32sm:

Complications all around me
Avatar 🤯 7:01pm
HollyRT:

Prog Time!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
luka:

is this a… what day is it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
ultradamno:

He opened for Fleetwood Mac...it did not go well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
coelacanth∅:

'evening Dave and all
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
tim:

Hello Dave! The internet is complicated. Lay some pre-internet prog onus!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
tim:

↳ ultradamno @7:02
I think Elton John too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
ultradamno:

Originally public access then picked up by basic cable's USA network Night Flight programming block
Avatar 🤯 7:03pm
HollyRT:

There is a terrific biography of him. I'll try and remember the title
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
luka:

↳ ultradamno @7:03
the Night Flight streaming service is so good, highest rec
  7:04pm
chresti:

Hi Dave Mandl complicated show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
dale:

herro dere. have my koss headphones on and the lights out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
ultradamno:

↳ HollyRT @7:03
In Heaven Everything Is Fine
Avatar 7:04pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey folks. Welcome, and hope you're all doing well.
  7:04pm
Jackie G:

Time to Prog. Lucky us.
Avatar 🤯 7:04pm
HollyRT:

I watched NWT on Night Flight circa 1984-1986
  Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
opurt:

↳ HollyRT @7:03
In Heaven, Everything is Fine
Avatar 7:04pm
Coach32sm:

Ivers was a complicated person, and life, (and death)
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
tim:

Here’s a decent book on Peter Ivers. www.simonandschuster.com...
Avatar 🤯 7:05pm
HollyRT:

↳ tim @7:04
you beat me to it
  7:05pm
P-90:

In Rod Serling voice:
“Join us , if you will, at that realm beyond the brink of psych and prog…”
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
tim:

I’m pretty sure that this record was featured in one of the Incredibly Strange Music books.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:04
There is also a bio of New Wave Theater producer (and popularly suspected Ivers killer) David Jove called Freedom Spy, kind of a frustrating read, but what a character
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Hello
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
StringOFperils:

I like this a lot. A bit ARt Bears in a way
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
tim:

↳ HollyRT @7:05
Ha! I see we’re on the same ‘page’.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
dale:

directions to bass player - 'just noodle.'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:05
(when I say popularly suspected...Lee Ving is too, so...grain of salt)
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
chresti:

I vaguely remember watching new wave theatre after some other show late at night, not familiar with his music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
dale:

girl who foams up may have rabies.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
tim:

I really appreciate the Nurse With Wound list comps from recent times.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Folsom:

Sophisticates? We're Aristrocrats, maybe even Aristrocats.
Avatar 🤯 7:10pm
HollyRT:

New Wave Theater eps available for free streaming via national treasure the Internet Archive:
archive.org...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
DjLorraine:

Hi
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
chresti:

↳ chresti @7:08
Usually at the end of a party when things were winding down
Avatar 7:13pm
Dave Mandl:

Good so see you G, Troy, RRN63, ultradamno, Will, Coach, Holly, luka, coelacanth∅, tim, chresti, dale, Jackie, opurt, P-90, PaulRobeson, String, Folsom, Lorraine.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
tim:

↳ chresti @7:11
I’m guessing Franco may have some Peter Ivers stories.
  Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Zinn The Mood:

Hey folks. On the nightly after-dinner walk, with my little girl joining this evening, while listening to the show. Sun having just about completely set over the city.

Some Italian prog?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Cantate Disparate" by "Fille Qui Mousse"
This is really good!
Avatar 7:14pm
Dave Mandl:

*Good TO see you, that is.
  Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
opurt:

↳ HollyRT @7:10
oh my.... Thank you!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
tim:

↳ Zinn The Mood @7:14
That sounds quite pleasant.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
ultradamno:

I felt so seen before you corrected it.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
chresti:

↳ tim @7:13
You are guessing correctly!
Avatar 🤯 7:16pm
HollyRT:

↳ opurt @7:14
Enjoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
ultradamno:

Someone mentioned Jack Brewer and We Don't Need Freedom in the previous show's playlist...I have a distinct recollection of Saccharine Trust doing that on New Wave Theater but can't find proof of it anywhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Ciggy:

Ourense in the house
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chresti:

↳ HollyRT @7:10
Thanks Holly!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
B R M:

Monday gets progressively better with IT'S COMPLICATED... enjoying the show as always...
  Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "October Equus Suite: Bigas" by "October Equus"
Hey all!

The intro of this sounded straight out of Henry Cow.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
tim:

↳ ultradamno @7:17
That was me. That footage sounds cool!
Avatar 7:19pm
Dave Mandl:

@BRM: Thanks! And welcome listener phat, Ciggy, and Zinn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
StringOFperils:

1971 is the lonliest number that you'll ever need
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
tim:

↳ ultradamno @7:17
Speaking of which I’d say Saccharine Trust and other Joe Baiza projects are prog adjacent.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
chresti:

↳ dale @7:06
it can work if the bass player is high
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
dale:

↳ chresti @7:22
IF?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ tim @7:13
Peter was like a ghost. I would hear about him, but never saw him in the flesh. However, it was a big hubbub when he was murdered.

His show was called New Wave Theater. It came on about one in the morning on channel 52, and looked like it was filmed in an aquarium.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
StringOFperils:

Work?
  Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ tim @7:20
Yes. Hell, most of Watt's output does, as well. Mssv, his new outfit are amazing. Just saw them live.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
chresti:

↳ StringOFperils @7:20
I was listening to doo-wop in 71
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luka:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:23
they’re gonna be here next tues. i def wanna go
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tim:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:23
Yes! I can always count on you to relay some first hand knowledge!
  Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ luka @7:25
Do not miss. Just saw them Thursday.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
tim:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:23
I’d like to check that out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
luka:

↳ luka @7:25
wait two tues. from now, 10/17
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
StringOFperils:

↳ chresti @7:25
I found that a bit later
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Kelly Jones:

And now a short break from all things PROG...
Hello Dave Mandl!!!!!!!
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Dave Mandl:

@Kelly! Hey there!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
chresti:

↳ StringOFperils @7:26
XPRS- Wolfman Jack
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
tim:

↳ chresti @7:29
Like ZZ Top. You heard it on the X!
  7:31pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "Ennui" by "Caretaker"
Part 2
  Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ tim @7:25
mainsteamstopvalve.com
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Yvang:

There's another (The) Caretaker from UK which is great but different. thecaretaker.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
dale:

↳ Song: "Daylight" by "Eloy"
dig this. kinda tullish, no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
StringOFperils:

↳ dale @7:32
A lot...like earl-ish Tull. Benefit lp?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
StringOFperils:

*early-ish
  7:34pm
Carmichael:

Heya Dave and proggers. Eloy eloy, lama sabachtani …
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Chris Hiatt:

Evening, all! Finally broke free and now able to put my ears on this.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
tim:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:31
Thank you! That’s a hell of a tour. Only one day off in September!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Daylight" by "Eloy"
A little Cream in there
  Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ tim @7:34
Watt does not eff around. He also looked a little bad, sadly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Ciggy:

Hippie Prog - Yeah
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
tim:

King Crimson - The Velvet Underground of prog.
  7:36pm
Carmichael:

I hope the hippies are filthy.
  Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

Witchcraft store!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
BLCKDGRD:

Gentle bump still no VdG here (I think, correct me if I'm wrong), glad you have through May 2024 and hopefully many seasons to come to get to them eventually
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ:

↳ Song: "Daylight" by "Eloy"
A very nice piece. But sounds more influenced by Jethro Tull than King Crimson?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
chresti:

↳ chresti @7:35
The singing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
dale:

majikal childe? that was the witchy store i recall in manhattan. pretty tiny place below 14th and between fifth and sixth.
Avatar 7:37pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ BLCKDGRD @7:37
Oh yeah, I'll play VDGG soon. I keep forgetting.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ dale @7:37
I think it was called Enchantments? In the East Village.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
tim:

↳ listener phat in Lincoln @7:36
That’s too bad. I hope he’s taking care of himself.
Avatar 7:39pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ @7:37
Yeah. I was talking about the previous piece I played that was Crimson-y.
  Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ tim @7:38
Hard living, hard touring.
Avatar 7:40pm
Coach32sm:

Halloween a month early.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Time of the Goddess" by "Gilli Smyth"
This is the song of the show for me! I’m all about this. I bet this inspired many of the Acid Mothers Temple intros before the song blasts off.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
dale:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:38
don't remember that place and lived there for a bit. but stuff came and went. and i was usually loaded, so...
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Dave Mandl:

↳ tim @7:40
Yeah. Gilly doesn't get the credit she deserves.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Folsom:

Thanks to the comment board, got mssv tickets for end of oct.
  7:42pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "Time of the Goddess" by "Gilli Smyth"
Hellraiser has begun.
Avatar 7:42pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ dale @7:41
Haha. Maybe on E. 7th St.? It's been a long time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Ciggy:

Music if Mind Control 🎶
  7:42pm
wearpants:

Which goddess? So many to choose from
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Chris Hiatt:

This is wild. Did I hear the name Pip Pyle as one of the players here?
  Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Folsom @7:41
Yes!
Avatar 7:45pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:42
Yes indeed. Pyle was on that track.
Avatar 🤯 7:46pm
HollyRT:

Whoa, love this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Dave and the non-trivial.
  7:49pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "Glaciers Interdits (Milieu Synthe)" by "Laurence ...
Yeah, too short. Synth conversation
Avatar 7:49pm
Dave Mandl:

Key, Ken. And hello wearpants and Ciggy
  Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Comus! Yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Rich in Washington:

The cover of First Utterance has always freaked me out, but in a good way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
dale:

kinda amazing blondel. like it.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
tim:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Ooh! Thanks for playing Comus, Dave! I’ve read much about them but haven’t heard them. It’s living up to my expectations.
Avatar 7:51pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:50
Yes. One of the strangest covers.
  7:51pm
Jackie G:

Siberian Khatru at some point? For the drums and the bass....and the other parts as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
ultradamno:

It's spine depiction on the back...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
tim:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Has this been re-issued?
Avatar 7:53pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ tim @7:52
I'm pretty sure it has been. Certainly a bunch of their stuff is available on CD now.
  7:53pm
Carmichael:

Wow, this Comus is awesome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
ultradamno:

*the spine depiction...side spine shot
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TDK60:

Late howdy Dave. The keepers of the Freak Folke Flame allow progishness indeed. Happy Halloween month...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
tim:

The Peter Ivers and Comus vocals book end the playlist quite nicely.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
tim:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:53
Thanks!
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Dave Mandl:

@TDK60 and @Carmichael: Hey!
Avatar 7:54pm
TDK60:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:53
I have a reissue CD here in the hut.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
rf:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Great!!!!!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
chresti:

Happy Halloween, TDK60\\//
  7:55pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Gypsy
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
tim:

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
Holy moly this is great!
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Troy:

Thanks Dave.
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TDK60:

↳ chresti @7:55
chresti: Gettin' started early here. \\//
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tim:

Thanks, Dave!
  7:56pm
P-90:

Yes that was interesting in the cans
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Song: "The Prisoner" by "Comus"
DaveI I caught the end of the show. And wow was that a wild wrap-up.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Dave Mandl!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
ultradamno:

By the way, Dan Bodah just did a three hour fill-in the other day that's on the archives
  7:56pm
Jackie G:

Thanks, man
Avatar 7:57pm
Dave Mandl:

Thanks, all. Have a fantastic week.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
chresti:

Fantastic!! Dave!
  7:57pm
Fragonard:

This is oddly Beatles-esque
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HollyRT:

terrific show, Dave!
  Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

Thanks Dave
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
dale:

thanks dave. a couple three or four artists for me to explore now.
  7:58pm
P-90:

Very Gentle-Gianty on the keys
Avatar 7:58pm
Coach32sm:

Great underrated album
Avatar 7:58pm
Marshland:

Bobbie and John from Comus have a gig coming up soon, in London I think
  7:58pm
Carmichael:

Underrated band as well.
Avatar 7:59pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ Marshland @7:58
Wow!
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Marshland:

Oct. 28th, Walthamstow Trades Hall for those of you in London or nearby
Avatar 7:59pm
Coach32sm:

Too short (the prog show)
  8:00pm
Fragonard:

Well, it’s not simply too short
  8:02pm
Fragonard:

It’s not Rocket Surgery
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