Ken Slaters Progressive Musings #009 – 02/10/2024

Progressive Musings with Ken Slater (edition 009) on Progzilla Radio

The podcast for the show broadcast on Wednesday 2^nd October 2024 at 3pm BST/UK, 10am East Coast US & 7am Pacific US.

After a two-week break, the features are back! The subject of the Now and Then feature is David Gilmour and you will hear tracks from his latest and first albums. I will play Wishbone Ash and ask Is It Prog Or Is It Not and my personal choice of music for this episode is a quirky epic track by Todd Rundgren’s Utopia. It’s all part of three hours of superb melodic and symphonic progressive rock.

You can hear Progressive Musings with Ken Slater on Progzilla Radio live from The Black Country at these times every alternate Wednesday.

A podcast of the show which you can stream anytime or download as a mp3 file is online by 18.01pm on the day of the broadcast at progzilla.com/podcasts

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Playlist

Big Big Train – Judas Unrepentant

Ruby Dawn – Chronicals Of A Celestial Soul

Frost* – Moral & Consequence

Tiger Moth Tales – Return To Chigwick

Ebony Buckle – I Think I Just Saved My Own Life (Single)

The Mourning – Chaos Machine

Dilemma – Sanctuary

Lesoir – Under The Stars

Nine Skies – The Architect

Wishbone Ash – Warrior

Skunk Anansie – Weak

David Gilmour – Scattered – Cry From The Street

Stuckfish – Shadows & Moonbeams

John Wilkinson – Pulling Threads

Neal Morse and the Resonance – All the Rage

Cell15 – Chapter One

Utopia – Singring And The Glass Guitar

Rosalie Cunningham – In The Shade Of The Shadows

Unifaun – Mr. Marmaduke And The Minister

Gil Galad – Restless River

Beardfish – In The Autumn

Advent Horizon – Water

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.