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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Ty Segall  The Bell   Favoriting Three Bells  0:01:26 (Pop-up)
 
Maxophone  Six Against One   Favoriting Maxophone  0:08:20 (Pop-up)
 
Chitinous Ensemble  Rønkproat'tn: Loopild   Favoriting Chitinous  0:17:37 (Pop-up)
 
Amazing Blondel  Good Time Gertie   Favoriting Inspiration  0:24:53 (Pop-up)
Hobson's Choice  Size of It   Favoriting New Horizons  0:27:45 (Pop-up)
 
Beggars Opera  From Shark to Haggis   Favoriting Pathfinder  0:36:36 (Pop-up)
 
Justine  Nous en Avons   Favoriting (Suite)  0:44:15 (Pop-up)
Soft Heap  Terra Nova   Favoriting Soft Heap  0:49:23 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
ultradamno:

Dave! Mandlotrons!

By the way, the A&E cable network have a four part docuseries on James Brown that starts tonight.
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Troy:

Hello everybody!
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Coach32sm:

Prognicious Time
  7:00pm
Noel:

Right before this show, I heard Yours Is No Disgrace & Carouselambra on a Virginia station, so I’m primed and ready.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
  7:01pm
iko:

Peace and greetings everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
ultradamno:

By the way that bug poster really sets up Blumin later mastodon.social...
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G:

Here! Been listening on archive for two weeks owing to travels. Leaving again for a week in TX and NC on Thursday. Listening live tonight, though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
bleubombersune:

Dave good evening
  7:02pm
Dean:

Semiramis has issued a new album. Huh?!
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erictheise:

hello Dave & prog gang!
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Dave Mandl:

Greetings, friends and neighbors. Thanks for joining me.
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chresti:

Hi Dave and complicators!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Good Evening Complicated Company...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Chris Hiatt:

Greetings in the evenings, Dave Mandl and everyone else who enjoys complicated music.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
tim:

Hi Dave! Hi everyone.

It is true. Ty can get a little complicated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
ultradamno:

Do you know a Siberian band called Drrones? Seems like some of their stuff could fit on here. youthofnorth.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Dave!
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tim:

↳ ultradamno @6:56
That’s gonna get complicated!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
DjLorraine:

evening
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
NotARealDoctor:

Oh this is good stuff Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Hello one & all! Warm greetings! & Nothing to get hung about
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HollyRT:

Very nice! Hi Dave and all
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tim:

↳ Song: "The Bell" by "Ty Segall"
Keeping up with Ty’s release schedule is complicated too!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "The Bell" by "Ty Segall"
36 years old, 15 studio albums plus bunch of EPs and singles.
  7:07pm
gabriel:

that include side projects like fuzz? 15 seems like too few
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ gabriel @7:07
There are bunch of collabs, in addition to the 15 studio albums.
  7:08pm
gabriel:

wow dave i thought for a second here you were about to spin bytor and the snowdog
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Coach32sm:

Italian Peter Gabriel
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HollyRT:

For my money Peter Hammill is the prog vocalist par excellence
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Six Against One" by "Maxophone"
So far so good.
  7:10pm
P-90:

Is this Pietro Gabrielo?
  7:10pm
Dean:

Is this Maxophone's new album? (Was away from the music for a moment.) Sounds like the old one...
  7:10pm
Carmichael:

Heya Dave and proggers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Six Against One" by "Maxophone"
Somewhere twixt Gabriel & Collins ...which is cognitive dissonance of one sort for sure...
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Dave Mandl:

Hey there ultradamno, Troy, Coach, Noel, Will, Iko, G, bleubombersune, Dean, eric, chresti, RRN63, Chris, tim, coelacanth∅, Lorraine, Holly, gabriel, P-90, Carmichael.
  7:10pm
Dean:

RRN63: That could only mean Bernardo Lanzetti.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:10
This is from 1975.
  7:11pm
Noel:

Gabriel + Collins + Osbourne
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G:

Obligatory weird time sig instrumental passage.
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dday:

↳ Song: "Six Against One" by "Maxophone"
Vocals..sounds like Gabriel or Fish (Marillion)
  7:11pm
Dean:

Ah, the first, the one with the Roger Dean-like logo. They have a new one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
coelacanth∅:

i think he's trying to sound like Peter Gabriel.
in any case it's not rush, or van der graaf generator -where the vocals pretty much make it unlistenable in some cases.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Destroit:

Good evening Dave and errbody!
  7:12pm
Dean:

I had this album, past tense, of course.
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Dave Mandl:

Destroit, dday: Hey!
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:12
Howdy Dave
  7:14pm
Steve:

↳ coelacanth∅ @7:12
He reminds me of a cross between Gabriel and Hammill, but he stretches out the notes too long.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Six Against One" by "Maxophone"
A French horn with a mute is maybe a first in this space? Also a gaggle of bassoons and such. Nice...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
dale:

hey now, was washing dishes and late to the chat.
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Webhamster Henry:

*KY-tin-us
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Steve @7:14
i could kind of hear that. i don't *like* it, but it's okay for me.
...and Peter Hammil seems much more tolerable on some albums than others, for some reason.
(to me)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
dale:

only third ear i know is music from polanski's macbeth.
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G:

Chitinous doesn’t bug me.
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Troy:

I've been bingeing Gentle Giant of late. It would be cool if you could play Wreck by Gentle Giant from Acquiring the Taste one of these days.
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

Thanks for hosting. Apologies, but 'chitinous' us generally pronounced 'KAI-tihn-uhs', though 'KEE-tihn-uhs' is closer to the original Greek in 'chitin'.
  7:19pm
P-90:

I can live with tabla and sax
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tim:

↳ dale @7:18
I didn’t realize that.
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AnAnonymousParty:

↳ Song: "Rønkproat'tn: Loopild" by "Chitinous Ensemble"
Kinda Weather Report-ey
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tim:

Some Miles going on here.
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chresti:

I'm not a big fan of a lot of prog vocals, either.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Rønkproat'tn: Loopild" by "Chitinous Ensemble"
Very ElectricMiles obvsly.
Oh - forgot to use my PrawgTar :
wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
dale:

↳ tim @7:20
i was all excited because my copy has been played once from new, and i saw a copy on ebay for $199. then saw a boatload on discogs from five bucks on up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
coelacanth∅:

kittenous
  7:21pm
P-90:

Yes, “chitin” is almost always pronounced “KAI-tin”
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AnAnonymousParty:

↳ tim @7:20
Def hearing Miles too.
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HollyRT:

↳ (Murakami Whywolf))) @7:19
I thought I remembered "KITE-in" being a thing to do with bugs
  7:22pm
greg g:

Enjoying it Dave. As mentioned , Miles influence. I would say the In A Silent Way lp
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
tim:

↳ dale @7:21
Hahaha! Doh!
  7:24pm
Carmichael:

On the prog border
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
dale:

'england' is my favorite blondel album
  7:25pm
Deano de los Muertos:

can you handl the Mandl
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Folsom:

I figured Dave would be more a fan of Chitlin-ous.
  7:25pm
Dean:

Prog vocals: Jon Anderson at his peak, Gabriel in Genesis, then there's Dane with Druid...definitely an acquired taste. I have always held that Fripp has no taste for vocals. I like none of his singers.

Amazing Blondel! Amazing!
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dday:

↳ Dean @7:25
Pye Hastings in Caravan ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Folsom @7:25
ew!
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Rick from SC:

Dear Prudence?
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G:

↳ Song: "Good Time Gertie" by "Amazing Blondel"
Dear Prudence.
  7:26pm
Carmichael:

Almost Pye, but not nearly as high
  7:26pm
Noel:

Dear Prudence
  7:26pm
Dean:

Mani can deliver with Guru Guru.

Yes! Pye Hastings! Marvelous.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
dale:

inspiration was such a commercial sounding album for them. i think that's why it didn't really sell unles it was in the cut out bin.
  7:27pm
Dean:

Gryphon does a great cover of "Dear Prudence."
  7:27pm
Carmichael:

Wait, thought you were comparing. Yes to Pye Hastings! Wish I Was Stoned is a great example.
Avatar 7:28pm
northguineahills:

juat gor some mexi hot dogs...no one tell perro caliente...
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dday:

↳ Carmichael @7:26
Just referencing Pye as one of the better prog vocalists (in the male category of course) Let's not forget the ladies like Miss Haslam
  7:28pm
Noel:

Closer than Dark Side and Wizard Of Ox
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Dear prudence, may I use yer can? Please
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
San Pedro Girl:

Hi Dave and Complicated folks.
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chresti:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @7:25
you can't hold a candl to Mandl
  7:28pm
Dean:

Richard Sinclair in his various ensembles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Rick from SC @7:26
"Clawhammer' fingerpicking Lennon got off Donovan @ the Maharishi's. Don presumably off Jansch ~ Graham like everyone...
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dday:

↳ northguineahills @7:28
You home in NYC? All OK? (relatively speaking)
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northguineahills:

↳ dday @7:28
didn't go to the funeral. although given permission to take time off of work, it would be a lot when i just started.
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Troy:

↳ Song: "Size of It" by "Hobson's Choice"
Loving this!
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dday:

↳ northguineahills @7:29
I hear ya. Again, sorry about Mom & hang in there.
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Dave Mandl:

PaulRobeson, SPG, ngh, Rick, Folsom, gregAnAnonymous: Hey!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Size of It" by "Hobson's Choice"
One can almost hear a cape swooshing around in the background.
  7:33pm
Saltonstall:

Who is this Hobson and what other options did they have?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Folsom:

↳ Saltonstall @7:33
It's an upscale Taster's Choice
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Coach32sm:

Great track, slow prog
Avatar 7:35pm
northguineahills:

↳ dday @7:30
danks, dday.
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Coach32sm:

Til now!!lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Saltonstall @7:33
it was basically make this record or go to prison
  7:36pm
Saltonstall:

Nawlins Prawg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ coelacanth∅ @7:36
(glad they made this record though)
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
chresti:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:32
How about a show featuring only artist's that have/had someone wearing a cape in their band pic
Avatar 7:38pm
Dave Mandl:

↳ chresti @7:37
How many are there? Would it be an all–Rick Wakeman show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
coelacanth∅:

capes: Mick Jagger, Peter Gabriel
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
ultradamno:

Did Beefheart ever wear a cape? A lot of big hats, might have been an either/or situation.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Folsom:

Any Elvis prog tracks?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
coelacanth∅:

"in the ghetto" probably about as close as Elvis got
...?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
ultradamno:

King didn't have time for any of the complimacated mess...
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HollyRT:

Do ponchos count?
  7:42pm
Carmichael:

Kind of a rompy Fairport
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:38
David Bowie? Elton John? Eno in the Roxy days? I seem to recall a photo of him with an ostrich feather cape. Maybe I dreamt it.
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Troy:

↳ HollyRT @7:42
depends if it's a real poncho or a Sears poncho.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "From Shark to Haggis" by "Beggars Opera"
...are we having this week's SpinalTap 'Stonehenge' moment ?...
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HollyRT:

Caped crusaders: Sun Ra, KISS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
ultradamno:

Roky, but not very proggy www.loudandquiet.com...
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HollyRT:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:42
Eno in a feather boa for sure
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:43
...too actually spirited I suppose...
  7:44pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Song: "From Shark to Haggis" by "Beggars Opera"
I'm a sucker for gradual accelerando.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
PaulRobeson1924:

Please! It’s an emergency! PRUDENCE
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ultradamno:

Björk's friend!
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San Pedro Girl:

↳ HollyRT @7:43
But not a cape.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ HollyRT @7:43
Sun Ra! How could I forget?
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northguineahills:

↳ HollyRT @7:43
go on....
  7:45pm
Dean:

Symphonic Slam, also Canadian, great prog.

Sebastian Hardie from Australia.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:42
i vaguely remember seeing Elton with a cape...
and Bowie? Eno? certainly possible
  7:46pm
?:

Kebnekajse please. maybe next week. Thanks!
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Folsom:

↳ Song: "Nous en Avons" by "Justine"
This is really good.
Avatar 7:46pm
dday:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:42
Bowie several capes: Ziggy Days & when he was singing to skull (shoulder cape not full length) are two I saw. Eno in Roxy I think it was just feathers coming out from his shoulders (inside cover of For Your Pleasure) I seem to recall Beefheart in a photo with a top hat & shoulder cape , but not sure
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HollyRT:

Nous en avons = "We have it". they sure do!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Nous en Avons" by "Justine"
Loving this cut. So bright and tangy. Yum!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Elena:

↳ Song: "Nous en Avons" by "Justine"
Apparently the group toured Europe and the US as Wondeur Brass before recording this.
  7:47pm
Fragonard:

This is so good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
ultradamno:

45 Grave i.ytimg.com...
  7:49pm
Dean:

Yes, Kebnekajse.
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coelacanth∅:

ponchos: Melanie; David Crosby: the big guy in war; the big guy in the 5th dimension; Chong...
  7:49pm
Carmichael:

Prog noir
  7:49pm
Dean:

Eno. Overrated.
  7:50pm
Carmichael:

Sounds like it’s in black and white
  7:50pm
?:

↳ Dean @7:49
tack så mycket!
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Coach32sm:

Next, Soft Machine???? I can hope
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Chris Hiatt:

Everybody lining up their Sleepytime Gorilla Museum tickets? They're about to hit the road.
  7:51pm
Dean:

?: Same to you, but more of it.
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Troy:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:50
That's great news!
  7:52pm
Dean:

(I don't have the slightest idea what ? interjected.)
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:50
I'm interested.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Dean @7:52
It might mean thanks so much in Swedish.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Coach32sm @7:50
This is some ex members of Soft Machine, so...close?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
coelacanth∅:

Eno's appropriately highly regarded, except underrated in that he invented frippertronics but for some reason let it be called frippertronics.
  7:54pm
Dean:

If it means "thanks so much," then I'll repeat, "Same to you, but more of it!"
  7:55pm
?:

Eno rulez! (airportz, apollo) sorry some people.
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AnAnonymousParty:

Fusion adjacent?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Dean @7:54
i think it actually means "next round on me"
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Troy:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:53
Alan Gowen from Gilgamesh.
  7:56pm
?:

that's - nästa omgång på mig
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Dave Mandl:

This will be the last track tonight, so...thanks so much for listening and chatting. Hope to see you next time.
  7:57pm
Dean:

My sense is that Eno is one of those guys that other guys wish they could be, but I don't discern why. He did a lot of fun shit, made a big to-do about it all. But at the end of the day, Eno's work is so-so to my ear.

Yeah, Alan Gowen. Now we're talking?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
San Pedro Girl:

Thank you, Dave.
  7:57pm
Dean:

That is, Now we're talking!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:57
Those first four Eno albums, though...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
bleubombersune:

Dave Thanks for the great hour of music. All stay safe and be well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
ultradamno:

Wire arguably those guys who wanted to be Eno, so I give a pass.
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Terra Nova" by "Soft Heap"
Does soft heap know uriah?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...imagining JazzPolice saying 'Fusion' the way a Ferengi says 'Females'...
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Troy:

Thanks for another outstanding show Dave!
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dday:

↳ coelacanth∅ @7:53
My love saw Fripp many years ago, solo in some loft in NYC. Just him on a stool with his guitar & Frippertronics rig. He played, took questions from those in attendance & she said he was very funny & really polite.

Here's a good article I had saved on Frip/Eno in the early days:
happymag.tv...
  7:58pm
Dean:

First four Eno albums? M'kay, fine. Nothing special to me.
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Chris Hiatt:

Thanks, Dave Mandl and all. Way to keep it proggy.
  7:58pm
?:

↳ Dean @7:57
very true Dean and Tack Dave!
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Coach32sm:

Great Show, too quick!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
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chresti:

Thanks Dave!
  7:59pm
Dean:

Please, don't get me started on Fripp!
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coelacanth∅:

↳ chresti @7:58
uriah heep and soft machine both split up and formed 2 other bands
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G:

↳ dday @7:58
Saw Fripp doing frippertronics in Ann Arbor in maybe 1978
  7:59pm
P-90:

Thanks once again, Dave!
  7:59pm
Carmichael:

Thanks Dave!
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HollyRT:

Outstanding show tonight, Dave
  8:00pm
Carmichael:

Seeing Fripp Saturday night
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