Love Letters

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Love Letters 76 - Letters from the Moon

(Mostly) live recordings that will put you over the moon, and land you on the dark side.

1. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Black Moon
2. Rush - Between Sun & Moon
3. Soundscape - Betweeen The Sun and The Moon
4. Thinking Plague - Moonsongs (excerpt)
5. Wigwam - The Moon Struck One
6. Steve Hackett - Fire on the Moon
7. Steve Hackett - Between the Cold Moon & the Earth [not live]
8. Steve Hackett - The Moon Under Water [not live]
9. Genesis - Mad Man Moon [not live]
10. Anthony Phillips - Moonshooter
11. Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon
12. Blackmore's Night - Under a Voilet Moon
13. Greg Howard - Water on the Moon Pts. 5-7
14. After The Fall - Moonus Starus
15. Porcupine Tree - The Moon Touches Your Shoulder>Always Never
16. Porcupine Tree - Moonloop
17. Annie Haslam - Moonlight Shadow
18. Marillion - The Last of You>Falling from the Moon
19. Pink Floyd - Money>Us and Them>Any Colour You Like>Brain Damage>Eclipse

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Love Letters 77 - Festive Letters 3

It's time again for nothing but recordings from various festivals, including some from this past summer's High Voltage festival.

1. John Wetton - Rendezvous 602
2. Pallas - The Alien Messiah>XXV pts 1-2
3. Pallas - Arrive Alive
4. Frogg Cafe - Red
5. Discipline - Mickey Mouse Man
6. The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are
7. Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies
8. Steve Hackett - Hairless Heart>Firth of Fifth
9. Hamadryad - Omnipresent Umbra
10. Mostly Autumn - Distant Train>Answer the Question
11. Touchstone - Dignity
12. Kenso - Sora Ni Hikaru
13. Miriodor - Singularite
14. Miriodor - L'inevitable
15. Mandrake Project - A Miraculous Container
16. Sinestesia - Aquarium
17. The Trip - Ora X>Analisi
18. Spock's Beard - On a Perfect Day>The Doorway
19. Marillion - Interior Lulu

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Love Letters 78 - Letters from Canterbury

Live recordings from bands that were part of the Canterbury scene, and their later incarnations.
 
1. National Health - Paracelsus
2. Egg - Long Piece #3 Pt 2>Long Piece #3 Pt 4
3. Egg - There's No Business Like Show Business
4. Caravan - Memory Lane Hugh>Headloss
5. Caravan - The Dog The Dog, He's at it Again
6. Soft Machine - Song of the Sunbird>Puffin>Huffin
7. Soft Machine - Surrounding Silence>Soft Space
8. Hatfield and the North - Drowning in the Bathroom>K Licks (long)
9. Hatfield and the North - Spaces Not Notes>Song for all our Mums>Extract
10. Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind
11. Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Mandrake
12. National Health - Rhubarb Jam>Rose Sob>Playtime
13. Steve Hackett - Funny Feeling
14. Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
15. Steve Hackett - Picture Postcard>The Steppes
16. Camel - Lunar Sea>Raindances
17. Bruford - Back to the Beginning
18. Brainville - Who's Afraid
19. Soft Machine Legacy - Kings & Queens
20. Gongzilla - Image>Gongzilla
21. Hatfield and the North - Al Clark Presents

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Love Letters 79 - October Birthday Celebration

Live recordings from birthday boys Mike Rutherford and Jon Anderson, with plenty of material from some obscure bands they were part of.

1. Yes - Siberian Khatru
2. Genesis - Get 'em Out by Friday
3. DeeExpus - Pointless Child
4. Umphrey's McGee - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
5. Ray Wilson - Solsbury Hill
6. Solstice - Brave New World (for Ada)
7. Yes - Future Times>Rejoice
8. Genesis - Firth of Fifth
9. Steve Hackett - Enter the Night [not live]
10. Steve Hackett - Reconditioned Nightmare [not live]
11. Jon Anderson - Buddha Song
12. ABWH - Time and a Word/Teakbois/Owner of a Lonely Heart
13. Brainville - Hours Gone
14. Big Country - Harvest Home
15. Genesis - Driving the Last Spike
16. Magenta - Night and Day
17. Genesis - Carpet Crawlers

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Love Letters 80 - Rambling Scribblings

It's another free form show, though like the last it's not completely themeless, with a slew of cover medleys.

1. PFM - Paper Charms
2. Adrian Belew - b
3. H Band - The Last Thing
4. The Orb - Fluffy Little Clouds
5. The Red Masque - Tidal
6. Richard Pinhas and Merzbow - Paris Two
7. Umphrey's McGee - Glory
8. Steve Hackett - Four Winds: North [not live]
9. Steve Hackett - Four Winds: South [not live]
10. Steve Hackett - Four Winds: East [not live]
11. Steve Hackett - Four Winds: West [not live]
12. Peter Gabriel - Signal to Noise
13. Peter Gabriel - Wallflower
14. Finisterre - Phaedra
15. Carpet Crawlers - The Lamb Stew
16. Dixie Dregs - Take It Off the Top
17. Cryptic Vision - The Progledy
18. RPWL - This is Not a Prog Medley
19. Mostly Autumn - Forever Young
20. Mostly Autumn - Ice
21. Le Orme - Felona and Serona
22. Rush - The Weapon>Witch Hunt

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Love Letters 81 - More Ochestral Letters

I didn't plan on doing another orchestral letters show so soon, but with new live releases with orchestra from Peter Gabriel, Adrian Belew, and Ray Wilson, I couldn't help myself.

1. Ray Wilson - Turn It On Again
2. Kansas - Ghosts/Rainmaker
3. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge
4. Ray Wilson - In the Air Tonight
5. Adrian Belew - e
6. Adrian Belew - Postcard from Holland
7. Procol Harum - Conquistador
8. Magenta - Lemmunkainen's Lament
9. David Gilmour - High Hopes
10. Steve Hackett - Til These Eyes [not live]
11. Steve Hackett - Set Your Heart at Rest [not live]
12. Steve Hackett - Oberon [not live]
13. Steve Hackett - Within This Wood [not live]
14. Ray Wilson - Ripples
15. Ray Wilson - No Son of Mine
16. Ray Wilson - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
17. Renaissance - Can You Understand
18. Renaissance - Carpet of the Sun
19. Peter Gabriel - Signal to Noise
20. Peter Gabriel - Downside Up
21. Trey Anastasio - Wolfman's Brother

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Love Letters 82 - Speechless 4

It's an all instrumental show loaded with new releases including Steve Hackett, Djabe and Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Bahner Slick Duo, One Shot, and Umphrey's McGee.

1. David Gilmour - Then I Close My Eyes
2. One Shot - URM
3. Mats Morgan Band - Hollmervalsen
4. Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman - San Michele
5. Djabe and Steve Hackett - Last Train to Instanbul>In That Quiet Earth
6. Umphrey's McGee - The Prequod>Jimmy Stewart
7. Bob Culbertson - Eleanor Bayou Blues
8. Nick Beggs - So Far Away
9. Travis Larson Band - Nameless
10. Bahner Slick Duo - Ready Set Exercise
11. Bahner Slick Duo - BGBDMLF
12. Bahner Slick Duo - Why is that Man Wearing Nothing but Knickerbockers and a Jetpack?
13. Bone - We'll Ask the Questions Around Here, Part 2
14. Steve Howe - Smoke Silver
15. Steve Howe - Pennants
16. Area - Caos II Part 2
17. Tryo - Niebla
18. French TV - March of the Cookie Cutters
19. Yak - The Road Goes Ever On
20. Djam Karet - Burning the Hard City
21. Rick Wakeman - The Lord's Prayer/The Day Thou Gavest Lord Hath Ended
22. Steve Hackett - Clocks

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Love Letters 83 - November Birthday Celebration

Live performance from artists with a November birthday - and there's a lot of them: Kevin Gilbert, Steven Wilson, Peter Hammill, Steve Rothery, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Jordan Rudess, Nick D'Virgilio, and Martin Barre.  Plus new concert recordings from IZZ, Unitopia, and Seti.

1. Kevin Gilbert- Last Plane Out
2. IZZ - DLBN Intro Jam
3. IZZ - Assurance
4. Unitopia - Angelique
5. Djabe and Steve Hackett - Butterfly
6. Steve Hackett with Steven Wilson - Shadow of the Hierophant
7. Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy
8. Peter Hammill - The Comet, The Course, the Tail
9. Marillion - Cover My Eyes
10. Kevin Gilbert - Turn It On Salvador
11. Kevin Gilbert - The Ballad of Jenny Ledge
12. Keith Emerson - Malambo
13. Emerson Lake & Powell - Still You Turn Me on>Watching Over You
14. Seti - Ellipse
15. Dream Theater - Machine Messiah
16. Carpet Crawlers - The Musical Box
17. Kevin Gilbert - Kashmir
18. Spock's Beard - At the End of the Day
19. Jethro Tull - Aqualung

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Love Letters 84 - Acoustic Letters 4

A mellower show to aid the American audience with their digestion.  This episode contains new releases from Hiromi, Corea Clarke & White, Steve Howe, and the California Guitar Trio with Fareed Haque.

1. Kevin Gilbert - Song for a Dead Friend
2. Corea Clarke & White - 500 Miles High
3. Bruford Borstlap - Camilla
4. Rick Wakeman - Gone but not Forgotten
5. Hiromi - BQE
6. Jon Anderson - White Buffalo
7. Jon Anderson - State of Independence
8. Steve Howe - To Be Over
9. Yes - Long Distance Runaround
10. Yes - South Side of the Sky
11. Vital Duo - Sliman
12. California Guitar Trio with Fareed Haque - Vivaldi Winter
13. California Guitar Trio with Fareed Haque - Dance of the Maya
14. The Bad Plus - And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
15. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Jazz on a Summer's Night
16. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Le Chat Noir
17. Steve Hackett - Tribute to Segovia
18. Steve Hackett - Metamorpheus excerpts>Bay of Kings
19. Anthony Phillips - Reaper
20. Anthony Phillips - Which Way the Wind Blows
21. Fish - Chelsea Monday
22. Fish - Scattering Crows
23. Marillion - This Train is My Life
24. Marillion - You're Gone
25. Pendragon - Alaska
26. Visible Wind - Duo de ciel
27. Tryo - Crepusculo
28. Tryo - Travesia
29. Great Big Sea - Razor & Rust

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Love Letters 85 - Festive Letters 4

It's an international extravaganza of live recordings from various prog festivals - some recent, some from years ago.

1. Tagliapietra Paglluca & Marton - Los Angeles from Prog Exibition 2010
2. IZZ - I Move from Progwest 2002
3. French TV - Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously from ProgDay 2009
4. Spaced Out - The Lost Train from Crescendo Fest 2006
5. Gazpacho - Desert Flight from 2days Prog 2010
6. The New Trolls - Concerto Grosso No. 1 from 2days Prog 2010
7. Supersister - Judy on Holiday from Progfest 2000
8. Cabezas de Cera - Peregrino from Nearfest 2009
9. Maschera di Cera - Fino all'aurora>Orpheus from Prog Exhibition 2010
10. Mr. Quimby's Beard - Mystery from Hawkfest 2002
11. Steve Hackett - Riding the Collossus from Nearfest 2002
12. Steve Hackett - Pollution>The Steppes from Nearfest 2002
13. Giraffe - In the Cage from Progfest 1994
14. Cryptic Vision - Grand Design from Rosfest 2005
15. Miriodor - Toutes Proportions Gardees from Nearfest 2002
16. Touchstone - Line in the Sand from Calprog or Rosfest 2009
17. A Piedi Nudi - Le Amanti Nudi from Progday 1998
18. Kino - Leave the Light On from Calprog 2006
19. Providence - An Epilogue for Cajolement from Progday 1997
20. Finisterre - Canto Antico from Progday 1997
21. Anglagard - Kung Bore from Progfest 1994

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Love Letters 86 - December Birthday Celebration

Live performance from December birthday artists including Adrian Belew, Frank Zappa, Dave Stewart, Anthony Phillips, and more.  Plus new live releases from Rush, Neal Morse, One Shot, and Unitopia.

1. Adrian Belew - Writing on the Wall
2. Frank Zappa - Black Napkins>San Ber'dino
3. The Bears - Robobo's Beef
4. Egg - Wring Out the Ground
5. Bruford - Fainting in Coils
6. Rene Young - Astronomy Domine [not live]
7. Djabe and Steve Hackett - Behind the Veil>Omachule excerpt
8. Anthony Phillips - Henry: Portraits of Tudor Times
9. Rush - Marathon
10. One Shot - Missing Impersonator
11. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
12. Unitopia - Justify
13. Rush - Caravan
14. Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic
15. Francis Dunnery - Underneath Your Pillow
16. Spock's Beard - The Bottom Line
17. Adrian Belew - Thela Hun Ginjeet

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Love Letters 87 - 2011 Letters Special

All of the recordings in this episode were released in 2011, many in the last few months, which had a slew of live releases.

1. Neal Morse - Lifeline
2. Rush - The Camera Eye
3. Rush - Witch Hunt
4. Anyone's Daughter - Helios
5. Unitopia - The Garden
6. Transatlantic - Stranger in your Soul
7. Fromuz - Crashmind
8. Hiromi - Pachebel's Canon
9. Peter Gabriel - Intruder
10. Peter Gabriel - Wallflower
11. Djabe and Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
12. Djabe and Steve Hackett - Dark Soup
13. Steve Hackett - Prairie Angel>Los Endos
14. Yes - South Side of the Sky
15. Seti - Uruqhart Castle
16. One Shot - Def MK1
17. Rush - O'Malley's Break>Closer to the Heart
18. Mostly Autumn - And When the War is Over
19. The Tangent - GPS Culture/The Music That Died Alone

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Love Letters 88 - Half Under the Covers 4

Not technically the original artist, but it's tough to consider these covers either.  We're half under the covers again.

1. Anderson Wakeman - Time and a Word
2. Carl Palmer - Romeo and Juliet
3. Greg Lake - Take a Pebble
4. Keith Emerson - Nutrocker Suite
5. Jerome Langlois - Le Ballon I
6. Corea Clarke & White - No Mystery
7. Fish - Water Hole>Lords of the Backstage>Blind Curve>Childhoods End?>White Feather
8. Steve Hackett - Watcher of the Skies
9. Anthony Phillips - Silver Song
10. Ray Wilson - Congo
11. 21st Century Schizoid Band - Court of the Crimson King
12. John Wetton - Sole Survivor
13. U-Z - Carrying No Cross
14. Roger Waters - Breathe>Time
15. Rick Wakeman - And You And I>Wonderous Stories
16. Jon Anderson - Turn of the Century
17. Anderson Wakeman - Morning Star>Long Distance Runaround
18. Steve Howe - Wurm

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Love Letters 89 - Red Letters

It's a thematic show of live recordings based on the color red and its variations.  Plus a lesson on the physiology of the chills.

1. Magenta - Red [not live]
2. Rush - Red Barchetta
3. Stick Men - Inside the Red Pyramid
4. Pendragon - Red Shoes
5. Curlew - Red Channels
6. Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark
7. Dee Expus - Red
8. It Bites - All in Red
9. Loundon Wainwright III - Red Guitar
10. Steve Hackett - The Red Flower of Tachi
11. Steve Hackett - The Court of the Crimson King
12. Stricty Banks - Red Day on Blue Street
13. Manifesto - Red
14. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
15. David Gilmour - Red Sky at Night
16. Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman - Red Alert
17. Stick Men - Scarlet Wheel
18. Rush - Red Sector A
19. U-Z - One More Red Nightmare>Ceasar's Palace Blues>Sahara of Snow Part 2

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Love Letters 90 - January Birthday Celebration

Live performance from January birthday artists Pete Trewavas, Jeff Berlin, Phil Collins, Nick Mason, and more.  Plus new live releases from Rick Wakeman, Anderson & Wakeman, and The Australian Pink Floyd Show.

1. Marillion - The Release
2. Bruford - 5G
3. McLaughlin Berlin & Gurtu - Passion Love
4. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Heart of the Sunrise
5. Jeff Berlin - Tears in Heaven
6. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
7. The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Sorrow
8. Genesis - Dance on a Volcano
9. Genesis - Drum Duet>Los Endos
10. Anderson Wakeman - House of Freedom
11. The Flower Kings - Sum of No Reason
12. Djabe and Steve Hackett - City of Habi
13. Djabe and Steve Hackett - The Steppes
14. Rick Wakeman - 1984>Wargames
15. 801 - Baby's On Fire>Diamond Head
16. Transatlantic - My New World
17. Marillion - Holloway Girl