Category Archives: prog rock

70s Instrumentals…..Mike Oldfield

Posted on October 4, 2020 by moulty58

Instrumentals in the 50’s and 60’s were nothing if not tuneful. The hopeful artiste had about two and a half minutes to make an impression and they couldn’t waste that time with anything that was less than a great lump … Continue reading →

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70s Instrumentals…..Mike Oldfield

Posted on October 4, 2020 by moulty58

Instrumentals in the 50’s and 60’s were nothing if not tuneful. The hopeful artiste had about two and a half minutes to make an impression and they couldn’t waste that time with anything that was less than a great lump … Continue reading →

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3 Still Life.. Van Der Graff Generator

Posted on February 23, 2020 by moulty58

New music is just music you haven’t heard before. By 1979, my life was full of new music, despite rock (and roll) being just over 20 years old there was plenty I hadn’t heard yet and every week there was … Continue reading →

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Class of 74…Wally vs Druid

Posted on April 29, 2018 by moulty58

If there is one thing that history has taught us its the fact that history itself is unreliable. In true Darwinian style the strong survive and get to pass on their own story, the weak simply disappear and their tale … Continue reading →

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The Summer of 77….in Norwich

Posted on October 22, 2017 by moulty58

It might seem that in 1977 Britain was just on fire with punk, new bands were appearing from unlikely places and bands that were less than a year old had become spokesmen for their generation. This was, of course patently … Continue reading →

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My drug experience with Man 

Posted on July 9, 2017 by moulty58

   There’s a conventional wisdom with general anaesthetics which the medical profession never tells you about and that is that you should never make any important decisions such as taking out a loan or making a will in the week … Continue reading →

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Wales, Man, and another brother slips away

Posted on July 2, 2017 by moulty58

Having just spent a few days in Wales my thoughts turned inevitably to the Welsh Rock scene.It took until the 90’s for Wales to really register on the rockometer and for a few years being welsh was really cool. Not … Continue reading →

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The Power of Three

Posted on May 21, 2017 by moulty58

A couple of weekends ago my peaceful weekend was interrupted by a phone call from a nice man called Ray. I was expecting a call as the following I was due to play a gig and the support band had … Continue reading →

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Classic Albums I’ve Missed

Posted on May 14, 2017 by moulty58

I realised the other day when having an exchange with Kcorsini from Bourbon and Vinyl blog (if you haven’t already check it out) that there’s an awful lot of classic musical albums that I haven’t actually listened to. I know … Continue reading →

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Eight fingers,Two hands,Four strings

Posted on March 19, 2017 by moulty58

As the 1970s became the 1980s Phil, my old friend from school and myself set about forming a new band. Phil had moved up to Nottingham after finishing a degree and was living on a council estate on the outskirts … Continue reading →

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