[atlantaprog] Re: Not Quite UK

Allen, see my reply to this thread, Gunn is out, Levin is in... Aww shucks, I still won't be there... 

If I can't share this story here, well, where???
In the summer of 1978 UK (the original 4 piece) toured North America. One of the last shows was a free concert at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia. Well several of my soon to be friends went, but I listened to/recorded the show on a local radio simulcast. Until this point I had dabbled in listening to prog, some Floyd, some YES, a little ELP, but nothing had prepared me for what i heard that night... The "Album at Midnight" on that same radio station that night was In The Court..." It was shortly after my new friends found out that i had recorded the show that they started to turn me on to King Crimson, Renaissance, Genesis, etc. etc...
It wasn't until a couple years later, after moving to the much bigger ATL, that I became aware of the Canterbury Scene, and multitudes of various other forms of progressive rock (thank you Fantasyland Records)...). But of course by this time the tide was changing, punk had already happened in England. New Wave, No Wave, SynthaPop, Noise, and Ambient were all ready to pop... My life was changing, however the record collection was only added to, not replaced. I still listen to a fair amount of Prog, but mostly from the 70s. I lost that tape I made on a hot night in 1978. I tracked down one of those friends that had made copies... A truly wonderful story of reconnection for another time. I recently ran across a torrent of that UK show. I confess, I couldn't resist. The show still holds up. And every time I hear Forever Until Sunday, I just shiver, and remember that transformative night, for music invited me into it's confidence that night. It would be another 5 years before I started playing music, but that's another story altogether :-)... 


On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Allen Welty-Green wrote:
Mastelotto and Trey Gunn too? Sweet! Maybe it will at least be recorded. 

On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Kevin Haller wrote:


Now this I wouldn't mind seeing, too bad it's in Japan...

http://www.guitar-channel.com/rich_murray/2008/07/allan-holdsworth-to-join-terry-bozzio-for-jam-sessions-in-japan.html

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