What Are You Listening To?

[JeromeD]

Believe it or not - Rabbitt - Hard Ride - Trevor Rabin's father on the violin - superb - https://youtu.be/-gs6u7aDA1g

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Bumped into Fred de Vries the other day who wants to know what, in my opinion/memory, were definitive progressive rock albums from 1981 to 1983. He and someone else are writing something or other on the subject. There doesn’t seem to have been a whole lot actually – that I can think of anyway! Those years might have been a turning point.

The one that stands head and shoulders above everything else is Camel’s Nude, for me, but there are some other considerations too. Listening now to Jethro Tull’s Broadsword and the Beast which I would add in, along with The Final Cut and Rick Wakeman’s 1984, and that’s pretty much it, except for Los Jaivas’ Alturas de Macchu Picchu and Kerrs Pink’s Mellom Os which are recentish discoveries. Anyone have any other suggestions? Moving Pictures by Rush I guess, but for some reason I never got into them. BJH also – Turn of the Tide – except that’s more pop. Mind you, the Wakeman might be that too??

'The one that stands head and shoulders above everything else is Camel’s Nude' 

Whatever wrongs you have done in your life (and I don't really think there can be any - unlike myself of course...) you are hereby permanently absolved by order of his highness, Jerome Michael Disney.