Ken Slater’s Progressive Musings #030 – 23/07/2025

Ken Slaters Progressive Musings 30th Edition:

The podcast of the show first broadcast on Wednesday 23th July 2025

Three hours of melodic and symphonic progressive rock which includes the album of the week with Uncle Weevil*, The Prog Epic with Rush and: Steve Hackett, Engels, Whispers of Granite, Half Past Four, EBB, BEAT, Discipline, Mihrax, Anyone, Dave Bainbridge, Cen-ProjekT, Strawbs, Jethro Tull, Random Earth Project, Lee Abraham, exo-X-xeno, Nad Sylvan.

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Thanks for listening.

Playlist

Steve Hackett – The Chamber of 32 Doors (Live)

Uncle Weevil – A Noble Engineer

Engels – What Remains

Whispers Of Granite – Ocean Maker

Half Past Four – Good Things

EBB – No Ones Child (LIve at the 1865)

BEAT – Neal and Jack and Me

Discipline – When the Night Calls to Day

Mihrax – Die Another Day

Anyone – If Your World Should Fall

Dave Bainbridge – Hill Of The Angels

Cen-ProjekT – Cosmic Echoes

Strawbs – Autumn

Jethro Tull – Sealion (Steven Wilson Remix)

Rush – Cygnus X-1 Book II – Hemispheres

Uncle Weevil – Watching the Deers Run

Random Earth Project – Game-Gates

Lee Abraham – The Same Life (Live)

exo-X-xeno – Onward, Love

Nad Sylvan – Monumentata

Ken Slater Born at the end of February 1957, I suppose you can say I am a child of the sixties. My musical journey started one night in 1970. I was visiting an Aunt when her son Keith came home from Walsall’s rock pub the Dirty Duck. He was slightly drunk (on barley wine) and for some reason, ravenously hungry. He asked me if I wanted to listen to some music and I said yes. He played me tracks from Led Zeppelin II, Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats and Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. I was so impressed that I woke up the next morning wearing a cheesecloth shirt, loon pants and my hair had grown past my shoulders!!!!! During the NWOBHM (1980-83) I was one of the DJ’s who compiled the weekly Heavy Metal charts for ‘Sounds’ music paper. I did this from a number of venues in the West Midlands. Member of the Production Team for Late Night Live on Cruise to the Edge. Member of the Production Team for Prog on the Ranch in Tampa, Florida. Until late 2023 and for eight years before, I was associate promotor of Prog concerts at the Robin Club, Bilston.
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