Love Letters

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Love Letters 16 - Half Under the Covers

This week none of the music is technically by the original artist, but it's tough to consider the selections covers either.  Hence - half under the covers:
 
Stickmen - Indiscipline
H - Estonia
H - Fantastic Place
RPWL w/Wilson - Not About Us
Greg Lake - Fanfare for the Common Man
Chick Corea & Hiromi - Concierto de Aranjuez>Spain
Steve Hackett - Heat of the Moment
Asia (Geoff Downes) - Video Killed the Radio Star
Rick Wakeman - And You And I/Wondrous Stories/The Meeting
Steve Howe Trio - Siberian Khatru
Roger Waters - The Trial
21st Century Schizoid Band - Birdman
Greg Lake - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Steve Hackett - I Talk to the Wind
21st Century Schizoid Band - Epitaph
Travis & Fripp - Moonchild
Steve Hackett - The Court of the Crimson King
Umphrey's McGee w/Belew - Red
Adrian Belew - Three of a Perfect Pair
Adrian Belew - Thela Hun Ginjeet
Tony Levin - Elephant Talk
ProjeKct Three - Facts of Life
Bruford's Earthworks - Seems Like a Lifetime Ago
BLUE - 3 Minutes of Pure Entertainment

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Love Letters 17 - You Can Call Me Al

This week we celebrate the birthdays of Allan Holdsworth and Al DiMeola.

UK - Alaska>Time to Kill
Allan Holdsworth - House of Mirrors
Allan Holdsworth - Non-brewed Condiment
Al DiMeola - Advantage
Al DiMeola - Egyptian Danza
Allan Holdsworth - Zone
Allan Holdsworth - Water on the Brain Pt. 2
Djabe w/Hackett - Above the Skies
Djabe w/Hackett - Iceworld
California Guitar Trio w/Levin and Mastelotto - Dance of the Maya
DiMeola McLaughlin & DeLucia - Fantasia Suite
Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman - Fred
Holdsworth Pasqua Haslip Wackerman - Guitar Intro>Pud Wud
Al DiMeola - Maraba
Return to Forever - Vulcan Worlds
Bruford - The Sahara of Snow

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Love Letters Smackdown - The Medley

A special show this week as Alistair Henry and Woody Harris join me to debate the pros and cons of the medley in the first ever Love Letters Smackdown. 
 
Rush - R30 Overture
ABWH - Time and a Word/Teakbois/Owner of a Lonely Heart
Genesis - Old Medley
Dixie Dregs - Medley (Take It Off the Top)
Rudess/Morgenstein - Piano Prog Medley
Gentle Giant - Excerpts from Octopus
Steve Hackett - Medley
Steve Hackett - Acoustic Medley
Genesis - In the Cage Medley 1987
Yes - The Big Medley
IQ - Medley

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Love Letters #19 - Stick It to Me!

The Chapman Stick is featured on this week's show.

Tony Levin - Apollo
Discipline - Elephant Talk
Discipline - Matte Kudasai
Discipline - The Sheltering Sky
Trey Gunn - Kuma
Trey Gunn - Sirrah
Greg Howard - Water on the Moon parts 1-3
Gordian Knot - Grace
Gordian Knot - Muttersprache
Gordian Knot - Some Brighter Thing
Gordian Knot - Singing Deep Mountain
Tony Levin - Ever the Sun Shall Rise
Tony Levin - Phobos
Tony Levin - The Fifth Man
Agent 22 - 77 Times
Agent 22 - Brother Wind Shear
Agent 22 - It's Time
Lams & Griesgraber - Rebecca
Lams & Griesgraber - Don't Look Back
Lams & Griesgraber - Victor's Chase
Stick Men - Scarlet Wheel
Stick Men - South Gate Jam
Stick Men - Hands
Stick Men - Firebird Suite

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Love Letters #20 - All Under the Covers

Spiraling - Tempus Fugit
IQ - Jet
Peter Gabriel - Ain't That Peculiar
Giraffe - The Musical Box
Three Friends - Proclamation
King Crimson - Get Thy Bearings
Frogg Cafe - Red
PFM - Pictures of a City
Fish - Jeepster
Rush - The Seeker
Tony Levin - Tequila
Marillion - Accidents Will Happen
Steve Hackett - Man in the Long Black Coat
H - Wichita Lineman
Marillion - Everybody Hurts
Marillion - Money Money Money
Marillion - Hocus Pocus
Umphrey's McGee - Girlfriend is Better
Umphrey's McGee - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Californa Guitar Trio - Echoes
RPWL - Welcome to the Machine
Fish - 5 Years

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Love Letters 21 - The Bottom of the Barrell of Fusion

Concert recordings from some great fusion bassists this week.

Tunnels - Tunnels
Brand X - Malaga Virgin
Brand X - Euthanasia Waltz
Brand X - Introduction>A Duck Exploding
Bruford - 5G
Djabe with Hackett - Distant Dance
Victor Wooten w/Marcus Miller - Miller Time
Return to Forever - Vulcan Worlds
Trio of Doom - Continuum
Trio of Doom - Para Oriente
Tunnels - Bad American Dream the 43rd
Tunnels - Inseminator
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - The Sinister Minister

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Love Letters 22 - The Wall

Some of my favorite recordings are combined to create a kind of ultimate The Wall live listening experience.

Kansas - The Wall
Pink Floyd - In the Flesh
Anderson, Levin, & More - The Thin Ice
Roger Waters - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1
Roger Waters - The Happiest Days of our Lives
Roger Waters - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
Roger Waters - Mother
Roger Waters - Goodbye Blue Sky
Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces
Pink Floyd - What Shall We Do Now?
Pink Floyd - Young Lust
Pink Floyd - One of My Turns
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 3
Pink Floyd - The Last Few Bricks
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
Steve Hackett - Circus of Becoming
Steve Hackett - Frozen Statues
RPWL - Opel
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Roger Waters - Is There Anybody Out There
Roger Waters - Nobody Home
Roger Waters - Vera
Roger Waters - Bring the Boys Back Home
David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - The Show Must Go On
Pink Floyd - In the Flesh
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
Roger Waters - Waiting for the Worms
Roger Waters - The Trial
Pink Floyd - Outside the Wall
Roger Waters - The Tide is Turning

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Love Letters 23 - Going Dutch

Artists from the Netherlands in concert settings are featured this week.
 
Adrian Belew - Postcard from Holland
Focus - Focus III>Answers Questions Questions Answers
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Kayak - Close to the Fire
Kayak - Crusader
Kayak - When Hearts Grow Cold
Kayak - Mammoth
Finch - Scars on the Edge
Finch - Paradocical Moods
Steve Hackett - Tales of the Riverbank
Steve Hackett - The Water Wheel
Steve Hackett - A Cradle of Swans
Egdon Heath - Peace of the Brave
Egdon Heath - Gringo
Egdon Heath - No Second Faust
Kayak - Merlin
Mangrove - Facing the Sunset
Mangrove - I Fear the Day
Finch - Pisces
Focus - Sylvia>Hocus Pocus (Reprise)

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Love Letters 24 - Alphabet Soup

Letters from bands known by letters.

ELP - Intro>Peter Gunn
ABWH - Long Distance Runaround
ABWH - Birthright
ABWH - And You and I
UK - The Only Thing She Needs
UK - Carrying No Cross
BLUE - Palace of Pearls
BLUE - Original Sin
ELP - Toccata
ELP - Closer to Believing
ELP - Piano Concerto No. 1
GTR - Imagining
GTR - Hackett To Bits
GTR - Spectral Mornings
GTR - I Know What I Like
RPWL - Day on My Pillow
RPWL - Roses
RPWL - Cymbaline
PFM - Mr Nine Till Five
PFM - Alta Loma Five Till Nine
IQ - Erosion
IQ - The Seventh House
IQ - Subterranea

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Love Letters 25 - Postcard from Calprog

A look at past and present Calprog performers.
 
Helmet of Gnats - Crumbs
Puppet Show - The Past Has Just Begun
Presto Ballet - One Tragedy at a Time
Sylvan - That's Why It Hurts
IZZ - Deafening Silence
Karmakanic - Two Blocks from the Edge
It Bites - Once Around the World
Steve Hackett - The Steppes
Steve Hackett - Gnossienne #1
Steve Hackett - Walking Away from Rainbows
Steve Hackett - In Memoriam
District 97 - Tom Sawyer
Touchstone - Intro>Wintercoast
Touchstone - Original Sin
Touchstone - Black Tide
Touchstone - Dignity
RPWL - Hole in the Sky
RPWL - Breath In Breath Out
RPWL - This Is Not a Prog Song

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Love Letters 26 - Speechless 2

Another all-instrumental episode.

801 - Sombre Reptiles
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control or Controlled by Time
The Mahavishnu Project - Lila's Dance
The Mahavishnu Project - Can't Stand Your Funk
ProjeKct One - Suite Two
Liquid Tension Experiment - When The Water Breaks
Liquid Tension Experiment - Improv Jam #2
Liquid Tension Experiment - Rhapsody in Blue
Steve Hackett - Jacuzzi
Steve Hackett - Bacchus>Firth of Fifth
Steve Hackett - Improv>The Red Flower of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere>Hands of the Priestess
Finch - A Passion Condensed
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Downwind
Pierre Moerlen's Gong - Mandrake
Gongzilla - Gongzilla
Gongzilla - Soli
801 - Diamond Head

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Love Letters 27 - Featured Artist PFM 1971-74

A look at live performance from PFM's early years this week, as well as my concert reviews of Roger Waters' The Wall and Calprog.
 
PFM - Four Holes in the Ground
It Bites - Oh My God
PFM - My God
Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody
Jethro Tull - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
PFM - Bouree>Bouree Jam
PFM - La Carrozza Di Hans
Steve Hackett - Horizons
Steve Hackett - Black Light
Steve Hackett - Skye Boat Song
Steve Hackett - Time Lapse at Milton Keynes
Steve Hackett - Beja Flor
PFM - Dove... Quandro
Roger Waters - In the Flesh>The Happiest Days of our Lives>Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2
District 97 - Presto Vivace>Back in NYC
RPWL - 3 Lights
RPWL - Start the Fire
PFM - Is My Face on Straight>Cleveland Keyboard Jam
PFM - Central Park Drum Solo
PFM - Impressioni Di Settembre>Poseidon

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Love Letters 28 - Featured Artist - Mostly Autumn

Mostly Autumn - Porcupine Rain>Nowhere to Hide
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways
Mostly Autumn - Overture-Forge of Sauron>Greenwood The Great
Mostly Autumn - Dark Before the Dawn
Mostly Autumn - Spirit of Autumn Past
Mostly Autumn - Evergreen
Sylvan - Eternity Ends>Bequest of Tears>In Chains
Mostly Autumn - The Last Climb
Mostly Autumn - Winter Mountain
Squonk Opera - Mahem
Squonk Opera - Strings vs. Skins
Squonk Opera - Momentum
Squonk Opera - Ten Digits
Squonk Opera - Standing Wave
Mostly Autumn - Pass the Clock
Steve Hackett - Camino Royale
Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
Steve Hackett - Everyday
Mostly Autumn - Afterglow
Sylvan - Bitter Symphony>Pane of Truth
Mostly Autumn - Storms Over Still Water
Mostly Autumn - Heroes Never Die

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Love Letters 29 - A Scary Letter

A Halloween extravaganza of live prog and fusion.

Genesis - Home by the Sea>Second Home by the Sea
It Bites - Ghosts
ProjeKct Four - Ghost 3
PFM - Photos of Ghosts
Magenta - The White Witch
Phish - Frankenstein
Rudess & Morgenstein - Screaming Head
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Phish - Wolfman's Brother
Pink Floyd - Careful with that Axe Eugene
Phish - My Friend My Friend (he's got a knife)
Genesis - The Knife
Phish - Harpua
Phish - I am the Sea>The Real Me>Quadrophenia
Steve Hackett - Vampyre with a Healthy Apetite
Steve Hackett - Dark as the Grave
Steve Hackett - Darktown
Peter Gabriel - Darkness
Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness
IQ - The Darkest Hour
Karnataka - Must Be the Devil
Transatlantic - Duel with the Devil
Al DiMeola - Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway
Bruford - Beelzebub
Happy the Man - Barking Spiders

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Love Letters 30 - District 97 Interview Special

Love Letters' first ever interview this week as we (and I do mean we) sit down with members of ultra-talented young progressive band, District 97.  Get their thoughts on live performance, commonly-held industry beliefs, and more.
 
Electric Light Orchestra - 10538 Overture>Do Ya
District 97 Interview
District 97 - Mindscan [not live]
The Bad Plus - Guilty
The Bad Plus - Do Your Sums-Die Like a Dog-Play for Home
Yes - The Revealing Science of God
Steve Hackett - In That Quiet Earth
Steve Hackett - Depth Charge
Steve Hackett - Clocks - The Angel of Mons
Squonk Opera - Swaying
Squonk Opera - Open Waves
Squonk Opera - Majesty
Curlew - Ray
Marillion - The Web
American Hollow - 21st Century Schizoid Man
District 97 - Presto Vivace>Back in NYC
Electric Light Orchestra - Can't Get It Out of My Head