Discovery, interpretation and casts...

Playlist
Various Artists - Anthologie De La Chanson Française
Greg Haines - Where We Were
Various Artists - California Dreaming
Electric Light Orchestra - Early ELO (1971-1973)
Various Artists - 1973 Singles
Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe
Various Artists - A Hard Nights Day - A History Of Stiff Records
Uriah Heep - Easy Livin' - The Singles A's & B's
Haydn - The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ
Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Various Composers - Elegy - Music For Strings
Krauze - Piano Works
Various Composers - Deutsche Grammophon : Original Masters : The Singles
Various Composers - Janacek, Haas, Szymanowski String Quartets
Brian Eno - The Ship
TV Eyes - TV Eyes
Pet Shop Boys - Super
Elvin Jones - Elvin!
Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2016 Vols 1-52
Roxy Music - Avalon
Miles Davis - Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4
Van Der Graaf Generator - Merlin Atmos Live Performances 2013
Various Composers - The Fabulous Victoria de los Angeles
Tame Impala - Currents
Deep Purple - Made in Europe
Various Artists - That Cat Was Clean! The Mod Side Of Jazz
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Various Composers - Music For Bassoon And String Quartet
Beethoven - Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas
Sparks - Big Beat
Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free
Telex - Looking For Saint Tropez'
King Crimson - Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Joy Division - Closer
The Church - Seance
Pet Shop Boys - Format: 1996-2009
Various Composers - Piano Dreams
Yes - Yesyears
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Santana - Santana IV
David Bowie - Outside
Supertramp - The Very Best Of Supertramp
King Crimson - USA
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Focus - Moving Waves
Various Artists - Evenin' Blue
Alice Cooper - Pretties For You
Rorem - Winter Pages/Bright Music
Dar Williams - The Honesty Room
Nina Hagen - Revolution Ballroom
Chicago - Chicago 4 : At Carnegie Hall
Various Composers - Classic CD (1990)
Eddie Harris - The Eddie Harris Anthology
Richard Wright - Wet Dream
Various Artists - The Best Of Hallyday, Rivers, Mitchell, Anthony & Vartan
Steve Howe - Turbulence
Various Artists - Funk Fever
Various Artists - 100 Hits Summer Reggae
Yes - Drama
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Time And A Word
Yes - Tormato
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile

Out into the cold on a busy day...

Firstly, over to Easter Rd to have a crown fitted...

These of the window of a nearby gallery...

Unfortunately it proved impossible not to capture the reflection of the tenements in the bright morning sun...

I was booked on the 10:35 bus to Glasgow and had an hour or so to kill, so I took a leisurely walk from Easter Rd (with new tooth fitted) to the bus station...

Don't think I've ever walked through this little park, which runs alongside London Rd...

Into the St James Centre where I bought a CD of Michael Nyman's "The Piano" via the "Replay" stock in "Poundland".  These are the CDs which "MusicMagpie" buys from unsuspecting people looking to de-clutter - presumably for a few pence each as, as the title of the shop implies, the CDs on sale are just £1...

I bought a Donna Lewis album from another branch a couple of weeks ago - in "as new" nick...

To the bus station, where, upon unwrapping the CD, I found the disc to have holes in the label, making it unplayable...

Oh well...

Awaiting the bus...

An uneventful journey, soundtracked by the fully-filled 160GB i-Pod on shuffleplay (hence the rather large playlist today), arriving in Glasgow around noon...

I had five hours to kill before meeting with Dr Prog and his brother John...

Visits to Love Music, Fopp on Union St and Missing resulted in zero further purchases...

Took the Subway (rats I'd forgotten my subway travelcard and so, had to pay extra for a day ticket) to Kelvinbridge in search of Otago Lane and Mixed Up Records, from whom I'd received the excellent 2CD set of Deutsche Grammophon singles the other day...

Found Otago St...

...and Otago Lane...

...and Mixed Up Records...

A great wee shop - to which I will return...

All of the CDs in this room were just £1 each...

...twenty of which joined my collection...

Back out into now changeable weather...

Onto the Subway again - to Byre's Road...

Another Fopp visit produced no purchases, however, a book on The Berlin Gallery was picked up at the Oxfam bookshop and a 65Daysofstatic CD was partaken of from the Oxfam music shop...

Various other shops were also visited and a wee salad from M&S comprised a late lunch...

Back onto the Subway to St Enoch's and, once again the weather had changed...

To Mono - once again, no purchases...

Time for coffee and cake at Once Upon a Tart...

...and an inspection of the new purchases...

A walk through the rain to George Square, past the Gallery of Modern Art...

I worked in this building 30 years ago...

At last Phil and John arrived and we enjoyed a couple of drinks and some sustenance...

...before making our way to the Royal Concert Hall....

...for the first show in Yes's latest UK tour...

Phil had secured third row seats, providing excellent views...

Tormato's "Onward" opened the show, on tape, with a single light on Chris Squire's bass while a montage played out on the screen above...

The 1980 album "Drama" was recreated flawlessly in the first half, followed by encores of "Time and a Word", dedicated to Peter Banks, and a rocking "Siberian Khatru"...

Interval...

Above Geoff Downes' keyboard set up was the music to Brahms' 4th Symphony...

...as the second set comprised the whole of 1971's "Fragile", including all five "solo" tracks - of course Steve Howe is now the only current member of the band who appeared on that LP...

But Alan White, Downes, Billy Sherwood and Jon Davison nailed their predecessors' parts effortlessly...

And all too soon it was over...

Three encores this time - "Don't Kill the Whale", "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "Starship Trooper", during which I took a few surreptitious pics...

...and that was it...

A great show...

...which ended at 10:20...

I was booked on the midnight bus home but managed to weedle my way on to the 10:35...

...arriving home 90 minutes earlier than anticipated...

And produced these from my bag...

Oh yeah...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : New record shop, Yes in concert...