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22. The Solid Time Of Change

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Part Twenty-Two of the Solid Time of Change aired Saturday November-19-2016 c/o CiTR.FM.101.9.

Podcast (Solid Time begins a few minutes in). Youtube playlist (incomplete and not entirely inaccurate)

This continues to be Randophonic’s main focus, our overlong yet incomplete history of the so-called Prog Rock era (presented in countdown form) – 661 selections from 1965 through 1979 with which we hope to do justice to a strange and ambitious time indeed, musically speaking.

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Part Twenty-Two of the journey went as follows:

  1. Eddie Kendricks – keep on truckin’
  2. Emerson Lake + Palmer – lucky man
  3. Manfred Mann – waiter there’s a yawn in my ear
  4. Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
  5. Genesis – the knife
  6. Genesis – return of the giant hogweed [the march]
  7. Renaissance – ocean gypsy
  8. Renaissance – Mother Russia [half-live]
  9. The Mothers – Montana
  10. Jethro Tull – Baker Street Muse
  11. King Crimson – prelude [song of the gulls]
  12. King Crimson – islands

Fresh episodes air pretty much every Saturday night, starting 11 pm (Pacific time) c/o CiTR.FM.101.9, with streaming and download options available within twenty-four hours via our Facebook.

953. I don’t remember

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“Peter Gabriel’s third album was a world changer for me, a 1980 call-to-arms from a guy who’d done more than his share to help define the 1970s. Which in retrospect was an all too rare phenomenon – a 1970s player who didn’t mostly just embarrass themselves in the next decade. What did Gabriel have that so many didn’t (including his own fellow band members, regardless of record sales)? If I had to narrow it down to one thing, I’d say curiosity. He had no interest in sticking with what he already had going. He wanted more. Not in terms of money, fame, whatever – but understanding. Or in the case of I Don’t Remember, enlisting the likes of Robert Fripp to unleash the right kind of heavy and relevant confusion.” (Philip Random)

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1006. easy money

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9QUqUGmb4

King Crimson were a force indeed come 1973’s Larks Tongues In Aspic. Bill Bruford (recently with Yes) had just joined and they were well and truly armed and dangerous and unafraid to go anywhere, try anything, with the almost funky Easy Money the closest thing to what one might call a normal song (at the beginning anyway). Welcome to true progressive rock, or as Crimson main man Robert Fripp later described it, Bela Bartok by way of Jimi Hendrix.

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1050. white shadow

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Upon leaving the then cool sort of cutting edge underground band known as Genesis in early 1975, Peter Gabriel embarked on period of serious reinvention. His second solo album found none other than Robert Fripp in the producer’s chair and Mr. Gabriel very much ready for whatever weirdness the coming decade (the 1980s) might have to throw his way. Indeed, a song such as White Shadow suggests that he’d be doing a bunch of the throwing.

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