Playlist - 13 June 2020

It's not every year that you celebrate your 75th birthday; so as that milestone approaches this Monday for the talented Aussie legend (and kiwi) Mike Rudd, it's fitting to dedicate the first half of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change to a selection of music from Spectrum and Ariel.

8pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, alternate stereo version / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1974) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Yes    Roundabout (single version) (1972) (Fragile)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The Nice    America (1968) (single)
Queen    The prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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Should you have the time, you can immerse yourself in a 37 minute interview with Mike Rudd here:

...but you only have 32 minutes? Behold a fine (and well-recorded) set by Mike at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, Melbourne, December 2016:

...or witness a recent cameo with Madder Lake:

...and revisit the brief detour into electro-pop with W.H.Y. in 1983:

This isn't Queen, but this cover version by Dutch acapella group Rock4 is pretty amazing nonetheless, assisted by a little handy looping: