Playlist - 26 October 2019

8pm
Windchase Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
Sebastian Hardie   Art of life (2012) (Blueprint)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs   Most people I know (1972) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Gil Matthews Gil’s thing (1971) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Cybotron   Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track)
Jacques Loussier   Chorale No.1 (live) (1965) (Play Bach aux Champs-Elysees)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer   Knife Edge (1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
9pm
Anderson & Stolt   Knowing (2016) (Invention Of Knowledge)
Kitaro   Agreement (1992) (Dream)
Yes   South side of the sky (1972) (Fragile)
Liquid Tension Experiment   914 (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
Thank You Scientist   Everyday ghosts (2019) (Terraformer)
Ash   Midnight witch (1971) (single only / The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum   Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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In his own words, 12 minutes with the ridiculously talented drummer, guitarist, engineer and producer Gil Matthews in a sometimes eye-popping conversation about his times playing jazz with Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, playing live and in the studio with Billy Thorpe, Mondo Rock, mishaps while on tour in the USA and that gig with The Aztecs at the Sydney Opera House:

Melbourne-based heavy band Ash in 1971 with their second single "Midnight Witch", written by Doug Ford of The Masters Apprentices, and featuring drummer David Pellici, later a member of the Little River Band:

Playlist - 19 October 2019

8pm
Genesis    Watcher of the skies (1972) (Foxtrot)
King Crimson    In the court of the crimson king (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
The Mute Gods    Feed the troll (2017) (Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)
Porcupine Tree    Cheating the polygraph (live, 2007) (2010) (Atlanta)
Teramaze    Her halo (2015) (Her Halo)
Ozric Tentacles    Rubbing shoulders with the absolute (2015) (Technicians Of The Sacred)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
9pm
Procol Harum    A rum tale (1973) (Grand Hotel)
Procol Harum    An old English Dream (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only)
Procol Harum    Fellow Travellers (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Aragon    Brave new world + The stage door – the switch + The cross (1995) (Mouse)
Madden & Harris   The wind at eve (1975) (Fools Paradise)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (live on GTK, Mar 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1971, Zoot live in the studio on ABC TV (GTK) with their cover of a Beatles song (no, not Eleanor Rigby), featuring both some heavy riffing and some fine three-part harmony vocals:

Playlist - 12 October 2019

After an initial selection from the musical legacy of the late and talented, but mercurial, Ginger Baker, the rest of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change stays pretty much around the late 1960's and some of the trippy music which both pre-dated and co-existed with the progressive rock scene normally heard on Seasons Of Change...

8pm
Cream Sweet wine (Live, 1966) (BBC Sessions)
Cream Tales of brave Ulysses (1967) (Disraeli Gears)
Cream White room (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Hawkwind Levitation (1980) (Levitation)
Procol Harum In the wee small hours of sixpence (1968) (single only, bonus track on Shine On Brightly)
Fleetwood Mac World in harmony (live, Boston, 1970) (The Blues Collection)
Jefferson Airplane White rabbit (1967) (Surrealistic Pillow)
Gandalf Can you travel in the dark alone (1968) (Gandalf)
Ginger Baker Mektoub (1990) (Middle Passage)
Egg Fugue in D minor (1970) (Egg)
9pm
Tully Sea of joy (Part 1) (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Tamam Shud Bali waters (1972) (Morning Of The Earth film s/track)
Kahvas Jute Ascend (1970) (Wide Open)
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity Season of the witch (1967) (Open)
Jeff St John & Copperwine Can’t find my way home (1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet Crimson ships (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
The Zombies Hung on a dream (1968) (Odyssey & Oracle)
The Byrds Chimes of freedom (1965) (Mr. Tambourine Man)
Fraternity Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

There's not a lot of footage of Ginger Baker's brief tenure during 1980/1981 with veteran UK space-rock band Hawkwind, but here is nearly six minutes of a rather grainy promo for Hawkwind with Ginger and the title track from the "Levitation" album:

Plus just a brief glimpse of Barrie Mcaskill with Levi Smiths Clefs (by then Sydney-based, ex-Adelaide) hamming it up in an ABC TV studio, probably in 1969:

Playlist - 5 October 2019

For the 400th edition of Seasons Of Change, it's almost business as usual except that some of the featured music is from some more recent bands that haven't had a guernsey until now. The start of Bach-tober is also marked with the souped-up version of J.S. Bach's Toccata from the band Sky, which featured two Australian guitarists (John Willams and Kevin Peek) and unexpectedly hit the top of the charts in several countries in 1980.

8pm
Shadow Gallery    Destination unknown (2001) (Legacy)
Southern Empire    The bridge that binds (2016) (Southern Empire)
Magellan    Estadium Nacional (1994) (Impending Ascension)
Sky    Toccata (1980) (Sky 2)
9pm
Yes    Endless dream: Silent spring/Talk/Endless dream (1994) (Talk)
Wolverine    Nemesis (2016) (Machina Viva)
RWPL    Tell me why (2002) (Trying To Kiss the Sun)
Projected Twin    Earth to world (2010) (Earth To World)

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 Here's a little more Southern Empire with a promo video for another song from their first album in 2016: