Playlist - 12 August 2023

Your eyes are not deceiving you...

This weekend, at 8pm on Saturday night, there will be a one-off edition of Seasons Of Change, that's leading up to the last ever edition of Seattle & Beyond on PBA-FM with Wardy at 10pm that night. 

There will be a heap of new, Australian music - after all, some time has elapsed since Seasons Of Change last went to air in April this year. New music from here in Adelaide from United Progressive Fraternity and from Matt Goodluck; and of course new releases are due soon from two prominent Adelaide bands which have released songs via social media for promotional purposes. Plus tributes to two talented musicians who passed away in the last few days - Robbie Robertson (gutarist and songwriter with The Band) and David LaFlamme (violinist, lead singer and songwriter with pyschedelic late '60's / early '70's US band It's A Beautiful Day).

8pm
Robbie Robertson    Golden feather (1994) (Music For The Native Americans)
Robbie Robertson    Skinwalker (1994) (Music For The Native Americans)
The Band    The night they drove old Dixie down (1969) (The Band)
It’s A Beautiful Day    White bird (1969)  (It’s A Beautiful Day)
It’s A Beautiful Day    Hot summer day (1971) (Live In San Francisco)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Real meanie (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
9pm
United Progressive Fraternity    Love never leaves us (2023) (Planetary Overload, Part 2 - Hope)
United Progressive Fraternity    The answer (2023) (Planetary Overload, Part 2 - Hope)
Preview: new albums which are pending release by Adelaide bands Unitopia and Southern Empire
- Unitopia    Mania (a snippet only) (2023) (Seven Chambers)
- Southern Empire    Hold on to me (another snippet only) (2023) (Another World)
Hemina    Strike four (single version) (2023) (Romancing The Ether)
Andy Salvanos    Remembrance (2012) (Reunion)
Matt Goodluck    Emergent (2023) (Inner Cosmos)
Queensryche    Resistance (1990) (Empire)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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This week marks 10 years since the death of Bill Putt, the long-time collaborator with the Aussie music legend Mike Rudd (Spectrum, Ariel and many other projects and collaborations) - in Mike's own words earlier this week:

• "Bill Putt (or Bilge Pump as Harvey James dubbed him) has been gone for a decade already. 'Jeebers’ as he'd say. For anybody lucky enough to be in his orbit, his acts of kindness, his story-telling, his love of kids and his nutty sense of humour are as legendary as the man himself. He'll be remembered fondly by many for years to come."

Music with pictures...

In advance of their imminent new album, "Seven Chambers", Adelaide band Unitopia has released a couple of videos for songs taken from that album (in an earlier time, these may have taken the form of a "single") - here is one:

Meanwhile, in advance of their imminent new album, "Another World", Adelaide band Southern Empire has also released a video for a song from that album, featuring their new singer Shaun Holton (aka Projected Twin):

And Matt Goodluck has also somehow found time in a doubtless busy schedule to compile a couple of videos to accompany music from his new album - here is one of them:

Playlist - 4 March 2023

Tonight, another program of two parts: from Zappa to the (perhaps) Zappa-esque from the 1970's, a time by which his influence had already blossomed on other musicians around the world.

8pm
The Mothers Of Invention    Wowie zowie (1966) (Freak Out!)
The Mothers Of Invention    Call any vegetable (1967) (Absolutely Free)
The Mothers Of Invention    Who needs the peace corps (1968) (We’re Only In It For The Money)
The Mothers Of Invention    Dog breath, In the year of the plague (1969) (Uncle Meat)
Frank Zappa    Willie The Pimp (1969) (Hot Rats)
The Mothers Of Invention    Holiday in Berlin, Full-blown (1970) (Burnt Weeny Sandwich)
Frank Zappa    Eat that question (1972) (The Grand Wazoo)
Frank Zappa    Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe)
9pm
Spectrum    Superbody (1971) (Part One)
Ariel    Neo-Existentialist Greens / Medicine Man / Letter song (1974) (Rock & Roll Scars / The Jellabad Mutant)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Wangarratta Wahine (1974) (Wangaratta Wahine)
Company Caine    Go see the gypsy (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Rainbow Theatre    Caption for the city night life (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
The Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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Music with pictures...

A later line-up of Spectrum with an (at the time) again-bearded Mike Rudd recorded in an ABC TV studio:

and Spectrum from the early 70's with a version of the Ross Wilson song which they included on their first album:

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, in 1971, filmed in colour and "at" speed (not "on" speed):

Company Caine and an intriguing "promo clip" from 1971:

Playlist - 18 February 2023

8pm
Rush    Grand designs (1985) (Power Windows)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    The rest will flow (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (live in studio, 2010) (2020) (Pure Narcotic – Acoustic Session 2012)
Steven Wilson    The raven that refused to sing (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Steven Wilson    Sound of muzak (live, 2018) (2018) (Home Invasion in concert at the Royal Albert Hall)
Steven Wilson    Personal shopper (2020) (The Future Bites)
9pm
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Spectrum    Jenwah (2011) (Breathing Space As Well)
Spectrum    Xavier Rudd is not my son (2011) (Breathing Space Too)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live, 2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars (live, 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks (1971) (Milesago)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo)
Doug Parkinson    Do not go gentle (words by Dylan Thomas) (1974) (Stone OST)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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Music with pictures...

For the new (non-prog rock) playout track planned for 9:55pm, for the foreseeable future, for Seasons Of Change, our weekly expedition into the musical world of progressive rock from Australia and elsewhere...

The happy chappies from Canada, Rush, with Grand Designs, live:

Is 9 hours and 44 minutes of compiled Frank Zappa interviews a bit over the top? You be the judge!

Too late for Burns Night, but still...

Playlist - 26 November 2022

Tonight, diving into music from "6 of the best" - classic Aussie progressive rock albums from the 1970's, starting with classics from the "head music" scene of the early 1970's (Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Madder Lake). Plus, originally from Adelaide, The Masters Apprentices, and Mike Rudd's later project Ariel; and concluding with the marvellous Jeff St John and the trippy "Joint Effort" from his band Copperwine which combined funk, soul, psychedelia and progressive rock into one heady brew.

8pm
Spectrum    That’s alright (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Love’s my bag (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Your friend and mine (1971) (Milesago)
Tamam Shud    The Goolutionites and the real people (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    They’ll take you down on the lot (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    I love you all (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    Heaven is closed (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Madder Lake    Salmon Song (1973) (Still Point)
Madder Lake    On my way to heaven (1973) (Still Point)
9pm
The Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Beneath the sun (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Games we play 1 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Games we play 2 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)

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Music with pictures, sometimes grainy, mostly from the early 1970's ABC TV program GTK...

Spectrum:

Tamam Shud:

Madder Lake:

The Masters:

Ariel, wtih guitarist Tim Gaze:

Jeff St John & Copperwine:

Playlist - 18 June 2022

Tonight celebrating a couple of birthdays - Mike Rudd, the NZ-born veteran of the Australian music scene (with Spectrum, Ariel and numerous other projects since then) who celebrated his 77th birthday last Wednesday; and Paul McCartney, who turns 80 today.

8pm
Genesis    The Cinema Show/Aisle of plenty (1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Locanda delle Fate    A vette un istante di quiete (1977) (Forse le lucciole non si amano piu)
Steve Hackett    Dancing with the moonlit knight (live) (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
The Beatles    Penny Lane (1967) (single only)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Silly love songs (1976) (Wings At The Speed Of Sound)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Band on the run (1973) (Band On The Run)
Paul McCartney & Wings    Mull of Kintyre (1977) (single)
9pm
Spectrum    Trust me (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Men in Grey Raincoats (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    And if it wasn’t for you (1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Ariel    I can’t say what I mean (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live, 2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    You have a god (1971) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Seasons of change (1971, single version) (Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)

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Playlist - 2 April 2022

Starting tonight with some heavy sounds from Sydney band Red Sea - who, sadly, recently called it a day. And finishing with some live Genesis - who performed their final concert last Tuesday at the O2 Arena in London ("It's the last stop of our tour. And it's the last show for Genesis..."). In between that, a small feast of music featuring Mike Rudd and long-term collaborator Bill Putt (who would have celebrated his 75th birthday last Monday).

8pm
Red Sea    Hopelessly… (2020) (Sanguine)
Red Sea    The art of transcending (2020) (digital single)
Domino    Karislama (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Rush    2112 (1976) (2112)
Acolyte    Space and time (2016) (Shades Of Black)
All India Radio    Space thing (2021) (digital single)
9pm
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Real meanie (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Genesis    Behind the lines (live) (1982) (Three Sides Live)
Genesis    Duchess (live) (1982) (Three Sides Live)
Genesis    Fading lights (live) (1993) (Live - The Way We Walk Volume Two: The Longs)
Genesis    Land of confusion (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe)

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Playlist - 26 March 2022

Starting with a musical tribute to the late Bert Ruiter (long-time member of the Dutch bands Focus and Earth & Fire) plus some suitable tunes for Earth Hour 2022 between 8:30 and 9:30.

8pm
Focus    Sylvia (1972) (Focus III)
Focus    Hamburger concerto (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Keyan    Black (2022) (Gradient, 3 track EP)
King Crimson    Starless (1974) (Red)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
9pm
Ariel    Jellibad Mutant Pt.1: Introduction and Overview (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars, bonus track on reissue)
Ariel    Jellibad Mutant Pt.2: The Capsule / The Farm (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars, bonus track on reissue)
Ariel    Jellibad Mutant Pt.6: Neo Existentialist Greens / Medicine Man / The Letter (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars, bonus track on reissue)
The Wild Cherries    I’m the sea (stop killing me) (Nov 1971) (Single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Tamam Shud    Shakin’ out the stones (live, 2007) (Noosa Rains)
Tamam Shud    I wanna be your life (live, 2007) (Noosa Rains)
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight (live, 2007) (Noosa Rains)
Blackfeather    Seasons of change (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Foo Fighters    Best of you (2005) (In Your Honour)

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And like magic, it is 1971 again...

 

Playlist - 21 August 2021

8pm
The Omnific   Antecedent (2021) (Escapades, pre-release)
Dream Theater    The alien (2021) (A View From The Top)
Ariel    Jellabad Mutant Suite: Neo-Existentialist Greens/Medicine Man/The Letter Song/Use Your Imagination (live) (1975 / 2016) (Live At The Station Hotel)
Beautiful Bedlam    Open world (+Apparitions) (2021) (Beautiful Bedlam)
Beautiful Bedlam    I adore (2021) (Beautiful Bedlam)
A Lonely Crowd    Fire away (2016) (Devil In The Detail)
The Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
9pm
Hawkwind    Silver machine (1972) (single only / bonus track on reissue of In Search Of Space)
Hawkwind    Mirror of illusion (1970) (Hawkwind)
Hawkwind    Synchronised blue (2016) (The Machine Stops)
Hawkwind    Magnu (Steven Wilson remix) (1975) (Warrior On The Edge Of Time)
Hawkwind    The psychedelic warlords (disappear in smoke) (live, 1974) (2006) (Live ‘74)
Curved Air    Phantasmagoria (1972) (Phantasmagoria)
Max Webster (& Rush)    Battle scar (1980 / 2017) (Universal Juveniles / The Party)
Rush    Spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1971, The Masters and a great song that started side 1 of the Choice Cuts album:

Something completely different from 2021 - The Omnific (Melbourne) and their most recent promo video for their upcoming new album:

Also new from the US band Dream Theater and their upcoming album:

Dave Brock (captain of space-rock group Hawkwind) celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday - from 2002, when DB was a more youthful 59, here is a fine interview which covers all the usual bases (busking, Lemmy, the underground scene and more):

Playlist - 12 June 2021

8pm
Rush    Leave that thing alone (1993) (Counterparts)
Liquid Tension Experiment    Passage of time (2021) (3)
Canidae    We make the rain (2015) (single only)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1974) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Second coming (live, 2001) (Queenscliff Music Festival - Alive)
Drawn From Bees    All these people (2016) (digital single)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
9pm
UK    In the dead of night (1978) (UK)
King Crimson    Red (1974) (Red)
John Wetton    Battle lines (1994) (Battle Lines)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band    Spain (1989) (Chick Corea Akoustic Band)
Return To Forever    Majestic dance (1976) (Romantic Warrior)
Genesis    Turn it on again (1980) (Duke)
Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble    Olympus Mons (2020) (The Red Planet)
David Bowie    Space oddity (single edit) (1969) (David Bowie / Nothing Has Changed)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 5 June 2021

Tonight, diving into music from "6 of the best" - classic Aussie progressive rock albums from the 1970's, starting with classics from the "head music" scene of the early 1970's (Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Company Caine) plus Adelaide's own Fraternity and Mike Rudd's later project Ariel; and concluding with the European-style symphonic rock of Sebastian Hardie from 1975.

8pm
Spectrum    That’s alright (Dec 1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Love’s my bag (Dec 1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (Dec 1971) (Milesago)
Tamam Shud    The Goolutionites and the Real People (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    They’ll take you down on the lot (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    I love you all (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    Heaven is closed (Oct 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Company Caine    Symptoms (Nov 1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Company Caine    Trixie Stonewall’s Wayward Home For Young Women (Nov 1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
9pm
Madder Lake    Salmon Song (Apr 1973) (Still Point)
Fraternity    Livestock (June 1971) (Livestock)
Fraternity    Raglan’s folly (June 1971) (Livestock)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell (Dec 1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    No encores (Dec 1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (Aug 1975) (Four Moments)
Ariel    Confessions of a psychopathic cowpoke (Dec 1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)

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Playlist - 27 March 2021

8pm
IQ    Frequency (2009) (Frequency)
Marillion    Asylum satellite #1 (2008) (Happiness Is The Road)
Sound    Five (Adelaide, late 90’s / 2020) (Listen)
United Progressive Fraternity    What happens now? (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Silicon Valley (2009) (Breathing Space Too)
9pm
Tony Banks    From the undertow (1979) (A Curious Feeling)
Genesis    In the cage (incl. Cinema Show & Duke’s Travels) (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Genesis    Afterglow (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Aragon    Surface tension (1997 / 2020) (Mr Angel)
Aragon    Here in my heart (1997 / 2020) (Mr Angel)
Rush    Jacob's ladder (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Andy Salvanos    Song for Ulrike and Hubert (2021) (digital single)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Mike Rudd, Bill Putt and Spectrum with "Silicon valley", here in Adelaide in 2010:

Mike, cunningly disguised behind a full beard, with Bill and The Heaters, in a TV studio, from early in the 1980's...

Playlist - 15 August 2020

8pm
Flash (feat. Peter Banks)    LIfetime (1972) (In The Can)
Yes    Astral traveller (1970) (Time And A Word)
Steve Hackett (feat. John Wetton)    Firth of fifth (live, 1996) (1998) (The Tokyo Tapes)
Dave Greenslade    Cactus choir (1976) (Cactus Choir)
Ariel    Jellibad Mutant Pt.1 + Jellibad Mutant Pt.2 + Jellibad Mutant Pt.6 (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars, bonus track on reissue)
9pm
Dream Theater    A change of seasons (1995) (A Change Of Seasons)
Teramaze    An ordinary dream (2015) (Her Halo)
Syzygy    Dreams (2009) (Realms Of Eternity)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From the latest release by Teramaze (Melbourne):

Playlist - 8 August 2020

Dipping into the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book this week, with music featuring Tim Gaze (Tamam Shud, Kahvas Jute, Ariel and more) and Deborah Conway (Do Re Mi and solo), along with Richard Henshall (Haken, To-Mera) and John Gustafson (Quatermass, Ian Gillan and Roxy Music, to name just a few).

8pm
Steven Wilson (feat. Ninet Tayeb)    Routine (2015) (Hand Cannot Erase)
Porcupine Tree    Signify (live on Polish radio, Warsaw, 2001) (Warszawa, 2020 digital release)
To-mera    The descent (2012) (Exile)
Haken    In memoriam (2013) (The Mountain)
Ariel    Worm turning blues (1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Kahvas Jute    Free (1971) (Wide Open)
Tamam Shud    Heaven is closed (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tamam Shud    Shakin’ out the stones (live, 2007) (Noosa Rain)
9pm
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (1970) (Quatermass)
Ian Gillan    Clear air turbulence (1977) (Clear Air Turbulence)
Bullet    The Orchestrator (1970) (The Entrance To Hell)
Peak    Nightmist + Ocean of dreams (1980) (EBONDÀZZAR)
Do Re Mi    Man overboard (1985) (Domestic Harmony)
Deborah Conway    Consider This (1993) (Bitch Epic)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Deborah Conway with the terrific Do Re Mi:

 

From Steven Wilson:

 

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:

Playlist - 14 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine ventures into the extremities of the late 1970's.

8pm
Dixie Dregs    Take it off the top (live) (1979/1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Hawkwind    Motorway city (live) (1979) (Live 79)
Supertramp    Take the long way home (live) (1979/2010) (Breakfast In America reissue)
Jethro Tull    Minstrel in the gallery + Cross-eyed Mary (live) (1978) (Live: Bursting Out)
Eloy    Inside (live) (1978) (Live)
Steeleye Span    Montrose (live) (1978) (Live At Last)
9pm
Ariel    Illicit love + Hollywood (live) (1977/2013) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Spectrum    Second coming (live) (2001) (Queenscliff Music Festival - Alive)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live) (2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Kansas    Mysteries and mayhem + Excerpt from Lamplight Symphony + The wall (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show, 30th Anniversary Reissue)
Genesis    Dance on a volcano + Los Endos (live) (1977) (Seconds Out)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

 

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Amongst some unlikely "live" artefacts from 40+ years ago:

Eloy (West Germany), 1977...

Kansas (USA), which combines a classic performance from 1978 of their Genesis/King Crimson/Yes-meets-arena-rock style with film which is so distorted that it is one Taurus pedal away from being a random light show...

The Dixie Dregs (also USA), at Montreux, 1978, as always featuring talented guitarist Steve Morse, nowadays with Deep Purple...

Always worth another look, the rare sight from 1977 of Australian band Cybotron in their natural habitat, the tech-heavy surroundings of an ABC TV show called Rocturnal...

And fellow Aussie band Sebastian Hardie, probably from 1975...

Playlist - 18 January 2020

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1978

 ...encountering the usual diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, or at least as much as can fit into 2 hours. By 1978 most of the Aussie bands and performers from the "head music" scene of the early 70's had either split or were dormant (Tamam Shud, Tully, Madder Lake, CoCaine, Lobby Loyde, Fraternity, Bakery, etc) and newer bands like the Enz and Sebastian Hardie were between albums but Mike Rudd and Ariel released a 2nd LP of music from their farewell concert in Melbourne in 1977. There's also classic music from Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Rush, UK and Yes, plus a surprise hit single for Genesis and that concept album which was all over Adelaide radio in 1978, Jeff Wayne's "War Of The Worlds", complete with narration by Richard Burton (and dodgy 70's style film clip - recreation here)....

8pm
Kate Bush Moving (Feb 1978) (The Kick Inside)
Renaissance A song for all seasons (Mar 1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Genesis Follow you follow me (Mar 1978) (And Then There Were Three)
UK In the dead of night (Mar 1978) (UK)
The Alan Parsons Project What goes up (May 1978) (Pyramid)
Steve Hillage The Glorious Om Riff (Apr 1978) (Green)
Jeff Wayne Forever Autumn (Jun 1978) (War Of The Worlds)
9pm
Ariel Island Fantasia (live) + We are indelible (live) (Aug 1978) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert, re-issue)
Yes On the silent wings of freedom (Sept 1978) (Tormato)
Camel Rainbow's end (Sept 1978) (Breathless)
Rush Circumstances (Oct 1978) (Hemispheres)
Emerson Lake & Palmer   Canario (Nov 1978) (Love Beach)
Mike Oldfield Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (Nov 1978) (Incantations / Elements: The Best Of)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum
Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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There's no publicly available footage from the farewell concert at the Dallas Brooks Hall in 1977 but here is Ariel live on GTK, ABC TV, in 1973:

This film clip with an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations was also familiar to ABC TV viewers during the 1980s, filling the recurring inconvenient 3 minute gaps before the hour or half hour:

Maple leaf rag:

Noone would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century...

Playlist - 23 November 2019

This week on Seasons Of Change, classic songs from Spectrum and Ariel and more recent music from UPF and Mushroom Giant; plus, amongst a heap of other new and classic sounds, just a bit more from Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre who is now playing solo.

8pm
Spectrum    The Sideways Saga (1971) (Milesago)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell (live) (1977) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert)
United Progressive Fraternity    Travelling man (The story of ESHU) (2014) (Fall In Love With The World)
Ozric Tentacles    Trees of eternity (1985) (Tantric Obstacles)
9pm
Nektar    A tab in the ocean (1972) (A Tab In The Ocean)
Moon Safari    Doorway (2005/2012) (A Doorway To Summer)
Mushroom Giant    Primaudial soup (2015) (Painted Mantra)
Renaissance    Northern lights (live, Japan, 2001) (In The Land Of The Rising Sun)
Martin Barre    Cry you a song (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Rush    The Spirit of Radio (live) (1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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If you are in the mood for a 24 minute video clip, then this is for you and a fine piece of work too, c/- UPF:

Plus, six days before Martin Barre brings his 50 Years Of Jethro Tull show to Adelaide, here's a bit more of Martin Barre playing live, Martin obviously following the adage that whatever your business is, the secret to success is to first get good people on your team:

Playlist - 31 August 2019

Tonight, turning the clock back to the early 1970's and another expedition into the Australian "head music" scene, with live recordings from Ariel, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Company Caine, Madder Lake and Spectrum/Murtceps (Melbourne), plus Buffalo and Tamam Shud (Sydney) and the eclectic Hungarian/Australian jazz-rock group Syrius featuring the legendary Jackie Orszáczky.

8pm
Tamam Shud    Midday ‘til four + Bali waters + Being absolutely free (live, Dec 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus tracks)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine   Tomorrow never knows (live, Jan 1971) (Wendy Saddington & Copperwine Live) 
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (live, Sunbury, Jan 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose, bonus track)
Spectrum    I'll be gone (live, Sunbury, Jan 1972) (Milesago, bonus track)
Company Caine    Hey George + Now I’m together (live at Mulwala Festival, Apr 1972) (Dr Chop, bonus tracks)
Madder Lake    Down the river (live, Sunbury, Jan 1973) (Sunbury 1973)
9pm
Madder Lake    Bumper bar song + When is a mouse (live at Garrison, Jun 1973) (Still Point, bonus tracks)
Buffalo    Shylock (live, 1973) (Volcanic Rock, bonus track)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars + I can’t say what I mean (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus tracks)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Out in the suburbs + Malcolm the prefect + Roll that reefer (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Wangaratta Wahini, bonus tracks)
Syrius   GTK Theme / Strawberry fields forever (live, GTK, 1971) (The GTK Tapes Vol.2)

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The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band in action on ABC TV (Countdown) in 1975:

...and a few years earlier with a perhaps bemused but enthusiastic interviewer on ABC TV's GTK:

Playlist - 29 June 2019

The third in an occasional series of programs focused on and around the "head music" scene in the capital cities around Australia, tonight moving from mid 1972 to early 1974 and scheduled to feature Ariel, Indelible Murtceps, Mackenzie Theory, Madder Lake, Star Spangled Banger (Melbourne) and Buffalo, McPhee and Tully (Sydney). See also previous programs on 13 April 2019 and 2 February 2019.

8pm
Indelible Murtceps Esmerelda (May 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Indelible Murtceps We are indelible + Be my honey + But that’s alright (live, Sunbury, Jan 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose – bonus tracks on reissue)
Tully Loving is hard + Ice (May, 1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Pink Floyd   Shine on you crazy diamond (Wish You Were Here)
9pm
Pink Floyd   Wish you were here (Wish You Were Here)
Pink Floyd   Another brick in the wall (The Wall)
Pink Floyd   Learning to fly (A Momentary Lapse Of Reason)
Dream Theater   Octavarium (live) (Score)
Freedom To Glide  Broken road (2018) (Seed)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


The following songs were not broadcast due to technical issues, I promise they will be included in a future edition of Seasons Of Change:
McPhee The wrong time (1972) (McPhee)
Madder Lake Salmon Song + On my way to heaven (April 1973) (Still Point)
Mackenzie Theory World’s the way (July 1973) (Out Of The Blue)
Buffalo Freedom (August 1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Ariel Garden of the frenzied Cortinas + A hard way to go (Dec 1973) (Strange Fantastic Dream)
Madder Lake Mother ship (Mar 1974) (Butterfly Farm)
Star Spangled Banger Don’t you (1973) Star Spangled Banger)


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From the ABC TV show GTK, that seemingly vast treasure chest of early 70's Aussie culture and sounds, twenty-plus minutes of Sydney heavy band Buffalo thundering through a set of their early tunes:

Playlist - 15 June 2019

Tonight, re-living some of the sounds heard at The Gov last Sunday night with UK band Haken and Adelaide band Southern Empire; plus, this weekend, the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book features Mike Rudd (Spectrum, Ariel, and many more), Steve Walsh (Kansas) and Ian Mosley (Trace, Marillion).

8pm
Haken    Falling back to Earth (2013) (The Mountain)
Haken    1985 (live) (2018) (L-1VE)
Southern Empire    Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Arcane    Promise (Part 2) (2015) (Known/Learned)
9pm
Spectrum    Trust me (1971) (Milesago)
Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Men in Grey Raincoats (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    And if it wasn't for you (1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (2003) (Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Kansas    Magnum opus (1976) (Leftoverture)
Steve Walsh    Glossolalia (2000) (Glossolia)
Kansas   Dust in the wind (1977) (Point Of Know Return)
Marillion    Easter (1997) (Seasons End)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From Brisbane band Arcane, a promo video for another song from their Known/Learned album: