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Selling it on vinyl as Saturday job in a home counties branch of W H Smith from 1966 until 1971; responsible for introducing the Progressive Music section in the shop in 1967. Getting to see a lot of the British blues boom bands - many forgotten, e.g. anybody remember Spirit Of John Morgan, Timebox - during this period at Toby Jug Tolworth (also saw PG's Fleetwood Mac with John Mayall as guest for half a crown, both  LZ  & KC on their separate first UK tours, Jeff Beck with a now an allstar line-up, Edgar Broughton, Chicken Shack, etc. etc.), Kingston Poly (Yes, Quintessence but curse myself for not seeing Cream for half a crown), RAH (saw Soft Machine's pop proms, Deep Purple, Chicago, etc.) but at the time also got to see a performance at the Royal Festival Hall of Carmina Burana*  before Carl Orff's choral work took off in the UK.  

In passing, anybody come across the former Doors' Ray Mazerak's (sp) rock interpretation of Carmina Burana, a real stinker.

Just about - I bought Genesis Live when it first came out. I also got into ELP and Yes around then, but didn't discover a lot of the other bands (Tull, Gentle Giant, VdGG etc) until much later.

I wasn't old enough to go to gigs then but I did see Genesis in 1976 (with Collins). I have 2 older sisters who used to go and see Caravan at Ewell Tech (supporting Black Sabbath, no less).