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lazland
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Both of you are extremely kind, thank you. Incredibly, I have now reviewed over 50 albums in 2022, so by far the most prolific I have been in many years, and setting up the website has been a genuine joy. I have four sets of interviews out, by the way, so hopefully news on these to follow shortly.
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PhideauxFan
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No ! I read Big Bang Magazine (France) and Prog-résiste (Belgium).
And for hard-rock/heavy-metal, Rock Hard.
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Jared
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You need to retire and pay yourself a stipend... Did you approach Rob for an interview about 'Acoustic Magenta'?
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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nick_h_nz
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My big year for writing was 2020, pretty much because of the pandemic and lockdowns. By this date in 2020, I had already had around 100 reviews/interviews published on TPA, and that doesn’t include any of the mini-reviews (ADAs) I contributed. 😱 (I ended the year at around 150 reviews/interviews, not including ADAs.) I believe, again not counting ADAs, that I’m on only around 30 reviews/interviews so far this year. It’s a lot harder to find the time to write, when you actually have to go to work! 😜 |
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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13698 |
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Mrs General and I have talked extensively about retirement this past couple of weeks. I only have two years, three months, and three days to go (who’s counting?), so I will probably see it through to the big 60. Rob is the next piece of work. I have been pretty busy after being contacted by four others for interviews. There is no great rush, as we have a good couple of months.
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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13698 |
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Ah, the daily commute. I remember him well
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Jared
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^^ I on the other hand, don't think I will ever be able to afford to retire and find it difficult to think about Prog when you are putting cream on someone's bottom..
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Sean Trane
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Same here... Must be years since I bought one, but I've got buddies buying it more often than I do (so I peruse it over at their place), and for the latest one (maniacal Frippy on the cover), I bought it for some friend that has to travel 100 km (one way) to buy it - so I'm currently busy reading that one. Most of it is boring, IMHO, which is why I stopped buying it. As for the hefty price in Continental Europe (roughly twice the UK price), it's rather too expensive for what it's actually worth to me. .
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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chopper
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They have stated in the past that the reason they put big names on the cover is that they are more likely to attract the casual buyer if they see someone like Ian Anderson on the cover whilst rummaging through the shelves of WH Smith. Also the free CD has been replaced with a free download.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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My wife bought me a subscription as a birthday present back... i dont remember but near where it started.. anyway it just kept plopping through the letterbox (well, scrunching in a rather bruised, creased way most times..) and sometimes i'd think 'that was ok' and sometimes 'Meh' and very occasionally 'really good'. I listened to about half a dozen random tracks off the CDs thats all. When i changed jobs and we had to downsize and cut costs it dawned on me that it had been a rolling subscription.. i hate to think what it cost over the years. Anyway some lucky individual acquired 2 huge boxes of of Mags, covers, cds, whatever came with them for 40 quid when we last moved.. and blow me down another f***ing box (about 30 of the damn things!) turned up with a load of stuff when we unpacked!! Anyone interested???
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Catcher10
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I have ordered the ones I have interest in, have not in over a year. I did like the cover CD they included which sounds like that has stopped.....As well I wonder what the postage is now to get one to me from across the pond.
I'm good....
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Gentle and Giant
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I don't subscribe, nor would I play the full cover price. But if an issue looks appealing I may by a cheap, used copy from ebay.
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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moshkito
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Hi,
Having been with the music right from the start, let's say Sgt Peppers and TSMR, and then Moody Blues, I have never found a single magazine that was worth its weight in the dollars we paid for it. Perhaps, the only one, that I bought occasionally when we could make it to downtown LA (a really nice magazine store there on 5th and Hill), was THE MELODY MAKER, and even then, I did not like some of their articles and discussions ... like trashing TD in the early days, and then kissing DSOTM as the best toilet paper around! And in some ways, the full out blow of PG leaving Genesis was in the center of one issue and it mentioned a lot of things that we do not wish to discuss or appreciate, that in most cases, WERE, what "progressive" was really all about ... but we ended up not bothering to read much of it, and I think that PG got sad and retreated to just singles and songs, which his album all had in the end ... there never again was a "concept" that was meaningful at all ... and for me, it was hard to "stay" with PG ... even though there was a lot of nice stuff. I kinda thought of it as half empty/half full kind of thing, and Genesis was the same, though after the next album from TLLDOB was the last of theirs that I ever bought! I did get some of the solo albums, and specially got to love Anthony Phillips and his massive amount of outstanding work. Not to mention that he was a gentleman that appreciated poetry in his music! But, in all honesty, I have never really thought that any of those magazines were worth the price, although I did buy one or two here and there, and seeing so much bad stuff written about so many bands that deserve the credit as "progressive" was just too depressing for me. Even PA is far better than any of those rags, since it has, at least, enough folks that KNOW what the music is about and value it!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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cstack3
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In all honesty, with the massive content of PA, I've never been tempted to buy a copy of Prog magazine!
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I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!
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miamiscot
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noni
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Sometimes they don't say a lot, so you are probably wise. The only plus side to this magazine is sometimes they show new releases before it's release date. The price here in Canada is too much to justify the cost of buying and like you, you can normally find most things on the internet. Probably the only time I might buy this magazine if I see this in the airport to read on the plane.
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Jared
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I'd suggest that if you can afford a plane ticket, you can also afford the mag! It's been 20 years since I went on a plane... Seriously though, the cover price here is £8, now without the cover CD they used to produce. Most of the information about Prog I need, I can find online at great sites such as this and Nick's TPA. If I head over to the MusicMagpie bargain section, I can pick up 4 CDs post free for £8, which can include loads of Classic & Prog Rock... for me, that's just a more productive way of spending the money...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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