Comfortably numb...

Playlist
Various – Prog Rock 1967-1973
Impossible Songs – Intermittent Stimuli
William Fitzsimmons – Goodnight

A day much the same as yesterday as I continued to monitor work e-mails and compile a very large collection of prog rock...

Alerted by Dr Prog, I also bought a single ticket (front row circle) to see Yes in November at the Usher Hall - in the same week as Alice Cooper in Glasgow - and shortly before seeing both Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys (again) a couple of days apart - Winter's not looking too bad...

But, right now, it's definitely summer and, outside, the sun was beating down...

Meg the Black Cat luxuriated in a particularly sunny spot...



The Exec Producer was ferrying brother-in-law Keith and wife Maureen to a wedding in the wilds of East Lothian – on a beach – good day for it...

Meanwhile, the postie brought a get well card from the Impossible Songs along with a further tonic, in the shape of their new LP, which made for some palate refreshing listening late in the day after the prog marathon...



A call too from Count Brodski and a good chat. His 82 year old dad had to have one of his feet amputated today. Puts things into sharp perspective...

Finished ripping the prog tracks (160 of them) to the hard drive and laid all the source discs in question out on the floor to record for posterity...



Of course Meg the Black Cat had to get in on the act...



Superb pork, mozzarella and pesto dish from Annie tonight – mmm, mmm...

For the fifth time this week, TV highlight of the day was “Torchwood” – and they managed to maintain the quality right to the end - which seemed also to spell the end of this "Dr Who" spin-off - an excellent mini-series nonetheless...

It was followed by "Law & Order : Criminal Intent" and, on tape, the first in a new series of the superb "Mock the Week", including some well desreved jokes aimed at the followers of Michael Jackson...

A call from Dr Prog late on revealed his mix up in his concert ticket purchases...

With Yes playing in Edinburgh on the same night that he already has a ticket to see Steve Hackett in Glasgow and, unable to face a trip on the next day to Newcastle, he felt forced to secure a ticket for the Topographic Progsters in Manchester...

Of course, only after the deal was done, did he discover that the date for that clashes with already purchased seats for Gong and Steve Hillage in Edinburgh - long story short, the ticket for Gong is kindly bequeathed to me...

Winter gets even better...

Will also be a guest at upcoming gigs by both Simple Minds and U2...

And I do so hate live music concerts - my idea of hell on earth would be to attend this weekend's "T in the Park"...

Highlight of the Day : Discovering more excellent music hidden away in my own collection...