Love Letters

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Love Letters #1

For the first show, I captured some of my favorite live recordings. Themes (not the ABWH song) will begin with the next show.

King Crimson – Doctor Diamond
Sylvian/Fripp – Wave
Bruford/Levin – Drums/Bass Duet
Moraz/Bruford – Cachaca
Mangrove – City of Darkness
Finch – Necronomicom
Steve Hackett – Spectral Mornings
Steve Hackett – Darktown
801 – TNK
Warren Zevon – Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Fish – Fugazi
Peter Gabriel – Wallflower
Yes – And You and I

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This week I play homage to a past program on DLBN with an all instrumental show I call "Speechless. " One disadvantage to going the prerectorded show route is I'd already completed it when I learned that it is airing on the former host's birthday. So while it's too late to say it on air, it's not to late to say it here - Happy birthday Tasha!

California Guitar Trio w/Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto - Blockhead
Halloween - Iron Mickey
Minimum Vital - Ronde
Anglagard - Hostsejd
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Piano Improvisations
King Crimson - Improv including By the Sleeping Lagoon>Mars
Steve Hackett - The Air Conditioned Nightmare
Steve Hackett - Hands of the Priestess
Steve Hackett - Imagining > Second Chance
Anthony Phillips - Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times
21st Century Schizoid Band - Birdman
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Return To Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
Tony Levin - Black Dog
Dixie Dregs - Kashmir
Happy The Man - Mr. Mirror's Reflections on Dreams

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Love Letters 3 - Show Openers

A special 3-hour show for show number 3.
 
PFM – Four Holes in the Ground
King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson – Conundrum > Thela Hun Ginjeet
Genesis – Duke’s Intro > Turn It On Again
IQ – The Wake
Pendragon – Excalibur
Yes – Siberian Khatru
Starcastle – Shine On Brightly
Liquid Tension Experiment – Acid Rain
Peter Gabriel – Here Comes the Flood
Fish – Fearless
Steve Hackett – Watcher of the Skies
Steve Hackett – The Floating Seventh>Mechanical Bride
Steve Hackett – Japonica
Mostly Autumn – Caught in a Fold
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – That Old Thing>Earth Jam
Al DiMeola – Elegant Gypsy Suite
Great Big Sea – Donkey Riding
Great Big Sea – When I’m Up
Emerson Lake & Powell – The Score
Umphrey’s McGee – In the Kitchen

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Love Letters #4 - Acoustic

A mellower show this week as we explore acoustic performances.
 
Marillion – Cannibal Surf Babe
Peter Hammill – My Room
Peter Hammill – Curtains
Peter Hammill – Just Good Friends
Kayak – Want You to be Mine
Kayak – Ivory Dance
Kayak – The Fate of Man
Kayak – See See the Sun
Fish – Jumpsuit City
Fish – Favorite Stranger
Fish – Shot the Craw
California Guitar Trio – Andromeda
Steve Hackett – Calmaria
Steve Hackett – Hands of the Priestess
Steve Hackett – Jacuzzi
Steve Hackett – The Barren Land
Anthony Phillips – Silver Song
Anthony Phillips – Master of Time
Anthony Phillips – Which Way the Wind Blows
Umphrey's McGee – Fearless
The Bad Plus – We Are the Champions
The Bad Plus – Tom Sawyer
Al DiMeola – Mediterranean Sundance
Pendragon – World’s End
Pendragon – The Voyager
Pendragon – Alaska
Marillion – The Space

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Love Letters #5 - Happy Birthday Robert Fripp

We start a three-week series looking at three of prog's most-influential figures who were born May 16th, 17th, and 18th.  First up is Robert Fripp, as we look at his 40+ years of performing.

King Crimson – Peace – a Theme>Cat Food
King Crimson – Epitaph
King Crimson – Cadence and Cascade
King Crimson – Fracture
Peter Gabriel – Salisbury Hill
The League of Gentlemen – Inductive Resonance
Steve Hackett – Overnight Sleeper
King Crimson – Discipline
Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists – All or Nothing 1
Robert Fripp String Quintet – Blue
Sylvian/Fripp – Darshan
Robert Fripp – The Cathedral of Tears
King Crimson – One Time
ProjeKct Three – ProjeKction
King Crimson – The ConstuKction of Light
King Crimson – FraKctured
King Crimson – Heroes
Travis & Fripp – The Apparent Chaos of Stone
King Crimson – Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken’s Lip

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Love Letters #6 - Happy Birthday Bill Bruford!

Bill Bruford was at his finest in live performance. This week we look at his many projects throughout the years.
 
Bruford - Beelzebub
Yes - Astral Traveler
King Crimson - All that Glitters is not Nail Polish
Genesis - It>Watcher of the Skies
UK - Thirty Years>In the Dead of Night
Bruford - Adios a la Pasada
King Crimson - Indiscipline
Bruford & Moraz - The Drum Also Waltzes
Earthworks - Bridge of Inhibition
ABWH - Order of the Universe
King Crimson - B'Boom
King Crimson - Prism
ProjeKct1 - Suite 3
BLUE - Cerulean Sea
Earthworks - One of a Kind
Bruford & Borstlap - Sheer Reckless Abandon

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Love Letters #7 - Happy Birthday Rick Wakeman

Not quite the usual chronologic presentation this time around.

Yes - Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Strawbs - Where is this Dream of your Youth
Strawbs - We'll meet again Sometime
Rick Wakeman - The Battle and The Forest
Yes - Awaken
Steve Hackett - In That Quiet Earth
Rick Wakeman - Eleanor Rigby
Hiromi and Chick Corea - Fool on the Hill
Yes - Wonderous Stories
Rick Wakeman - Arthur
ABWH - Themes
ABWH - Brother of Mine
Rick Wakeman - The Realisation and The Prisoner
Yes - Starship Trooper

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Love Letters #8 - Racing in A

It's story time on this week's Love Letters.
 
King Crimson - VROOM
Genesis - Duke's Travels
Genesis - The Brazilian
Great Big Sea - Helmet Head
Rush - Between the Wheels
Steve Hackett - Racing in A
Rush - Red Barchetta
Marillion - This Strange Engine
Roger Waters - Run Like Hell
Tinyfish - Motorville
Robert Fripp - Circulation 1
Bill Bruford - Turn and Return
IQ - Frequency
Brand X - Access to Data
Marillion - Marbles I
IQ - Corners
King Crimson - Dangerous Curves
Rush - The Pass
Marillion - Marbles II
Mostly Autumn - Passengers
Kansas - The Wall
Harry Chapin - 30K Pounds of Bananas
King Crimson - VROOM VROOM

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Love Letters #9 - Happy Birthday Tony Levin

This will be the last of the birthday shows for a while.  Enjoy Tony's live performances throughout the years.
 
Peter Gabriel - I Go Swimming
King Crimson - Sartori in Tangier
King Crimson - Sleepless
ABWH - Heart of the Sunrise
Peter Gabriel - Secret World
Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies
King Crimson - Two Sticks>Elephant Talk
CGT with Levin and Mastelotto - Sketches on Sunset
CGT with Levin and Mastelotto - Discipline
BLUE - Original Sin
BLUE - Cobalt Canyons
Tony Levin - Pieces of the Sun
Tony Levin - Geronimo
Tony Levin - Sihouette
Tony Levin - Dog One
Tony Levin - Back in N.Y.C.
Liquid Trio Experiment - Close Encounters of the Liquid Kind
Stickmen - Sasquatch

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Love Letters #10 - The Continental Perspective

Artists from mainland Europe this week.

RWPL - This is Not a Prog Song
PFM - La carrozza di Hans
PFM - Maestro della voce
Halloween - House with no Door
Halloween - Beginning
Bert Lams and Tom Griesgraber - Harmonic Improv>The Marsh
Steve Hackett - Bouree/Bacchus>Firth of Fifth
Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings
Bert Lams and Tom Griesgraber - Train to Lamy Suite
Egdon Heath - The Killing Silence
Mangrove - Zone III
Mangrove - Cold World
Eloy - Poseidon's Creation
Eloy - Incarnation of Logos
Tim Christiansen - Get the F Out of my Mind
Par Lindh Project - The Cathedral Parts 1 and 2

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Love Letters #11 - Marillion Weekend 2009

This week it's the recently-released recordings from Marillion Weekend 2009.
 
Marillion - This Train is My Life
Marillion - When I Meet God
Marillion - Map of the World
Marillion - This is the 21st Century
Marillion - Ocean Cloud
Steve Hackett - Blood on the Rooftops
Steve Hackett - A Tower Struck Down
Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
H - Famous Blue Raincoat
Marillion - An Accidental Man
Marillion - Out of this World
Marillion - The Lap of Luxury
Marillion - Interior Lulu
Marillion - Kayleigh/Lavender/Heart of Lothian
Marillion - Cover My Eyes
Marillion - Slainte Mhath
Marillion - Garden Party

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Love Letters #12 - A Time and a Place

A look at the new box set of Emerson Lake & Palmer live material this week.

Emerson Lake & Palmer - A Time and a Place
Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Barbarian
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Ballad of Blue
Emerson Lake & Palmer - High Level Fugue
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tank>Drum Solo>The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pirates
Steve Hackett - Fly on a Windshield
Steve Hackett - Broadway Melody of 1974
Steve Hackett - Every Star in the Night Sky
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Affaris of the Heart
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Touch and Go
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Intrumental Jam
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Introduction
Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Endless Enigma
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Close to Home
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

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Love Letters #13 - The North American Perspective

For Canada Day and Independence Day, it's music from North American artists this week:
 
Kansas - Song for America
Nathan Mahl - Without Words
Nathan Mahl - Clever Use of Shadows
IZZ - Assurance
Liquid Tension Experiment - Freedom of Speech
Happy The Man - Service with a Smile
Happy The Man - Starborne
Spock's Beard - Harm's way
Episode - Echoes
The Mahavishnu Project - Eternity's Breath
Agent 22 - Agent 22
Agent 22 - Dreamwalk
Steve Hackett - Little America
Steve Hackett - Big Dallas Sky
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Great Big Sea - The River Driver
Great Big Sea - Scolding wife
Rush - 2112

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Love Letters #14 - Live Epics

An epic 3-1/2 hour love letter featuring nothing but long live tracks in this episode.
 
Yes - The Gates of Delirium
Transatlantic - All of the Above
Nektar - Remember the Future Pt. 1
Mangrove - Hidden Dreams
Eloy - Atlantis' Agony at June 5th - 8498, 13pm Gregorian Earthtime
The Flower Kings - Garden of Dreams
Genesis - Supper's Ready

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Love Letters #15 - Such a Swede Letter

Par Lindh Project - Rondo
Anekdoten - Muscle Beach Benediction>Wheel
Anekdoten - Mars
Par Lindh Project - Mudus Incompertus Pts. 1 & 2
Par Lindh Project - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Steve Hackett - Slogans
Steve Hackett - Every Day
Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch>Firth of Fifth
Vasen - Kapten Kapsyl
The Flower Kings - The Truth Will Set You Free
Anglagard - Prolog
Anglagard - Iordrok
Anglagard - Kung Bore