Yes – In the Present Live Nov ‘08
Steve Howe Trio – Live 2008
Jeff Beck – Truth
Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe
Steve Howe - Beginnings
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - Foxtrot
Yes - Fragile
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Wizzard - Eddy and the Falcons
Golden Earring - Moontan
Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
The Tubes - Now
Wings - Red Rose Speedway
Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans
Mott The Hoople - The Hoople
Santana – Abraxas
Genesis - And Then There Were Three
Sparks - Big Beat
Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Ash
Gong – Camembert Electrique
Yes – XM Radio Acoustic
Girls Aloud – Out of Control
Enigma – MCMXC
Enigma – The Cross of Changes
Enigma - Le Roi est mort...
Up at 6am and finished off the list of albums bought between 1974 and 1983, almost 800, of which 350 remain in my collection – this excludes 1979 for which my diary evades me...
Using RPI Indexing, £1 spent in 1974 is the equivalent of spending £8.52 now - meaning a £1 purchase today is the equivalent of just 12p back then...
So FOPP, if it had existed in 1974, would be selling a shed load of back catalogue CDs at 60p each and some for as little as 24p...
Och aye...
Breakfast in house, then some music copying for Dr Prog and some guitar playing, then we drove over to The Great Grog and purchased a case of wine for future consumption...
Then into the town centre and a visit to Oxfam resulted in the purchase of Enigma’s “Trilogy”, comprising “MCMXC”, “The Cross of Changes” and “Le Roi est mort...”, all three of which work off the same template of a cross between T Dream and the Orb – plus Paganini’s Violin Concertos – all for £2.99 – but I didn’t buy them because they were cheap...
The weather was sunny but cold...
We browsed a couple of book shops and then met up with Dr and Mrs Prog at Mother India Café for lunch...
It’s tapas themed, so everyone ordered two dishes and I opted for the minced lamb dosa and a dish of spiced haddock(!!) – both of which received the accolade “tasty”...
The Exec Producer declared her lamb dish to be “the best she’d ever tasted” – high praise indeed...
We were entertained towards the end of our meal by the inhabitants of three police cars turning up outside to arrest a lone (suspected/alleged) shoplifter who appeared to have snaffled a pair of jeans from a nearby store...
Post meal and extended chinwag, we exited into the deteriorating weather...
...and Mrs Prog went off to do some shopping while the Doctor, the Exec Producer and your correspondent returned in the Cloudland Blue mobile to Crispycat Towers...
Some educating in the art of downloading albums for free via MP3 blogs was undertaken, while QoS slumped to yet another defeat (1-0 away at Ross County), Hearts won away at Kilmarnock 2-0 and the Doc’s team, Dunfermline Athletic, managed a 1-1 draw...
I gave Dr Prog a lift home while playing him the new Girls Aloud album - he cannot understand my liking for the group – but did concede he’d rather listen to them than Gong’s 1973 effort “Camembert Electrique” which was one of the example downloads we went through during our “session”...
No dinner required following the lunch and the evening was spent watching TV – “CSI : New York” was given another chance and again found to be wanting – while a taped first in a “new” series (from 2004) of “Law & Order” was up to its usual standard...
“Match of the Day” took us to bed time...
Highlight of the Day : Hanging out with the doc...
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