WFMU: It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from October 31, 2022

Listener comments!
	7:00pm Aitch: Prognostications
	7:01pm dale: ambrosia?
	7:01pm BadBob: Hi
	7:01pm StringOFperils: YES!!
	🤯 7:01pm Deano de los Muertos: strap in
	7:02pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Halloween, Dave!
	7:02pm efd: ooh, I wonder if he's going to play "Love Beach"
	7:03pm Yvang: Progressists!
	7:03pm joe mulligan: TARKUS!! my favorite growing up
	🤯 7:03pm SeaCreature: Omg Tarkus!!!
	🤯 7:04pm HollyRT: Hi Dave! Hi gang!
	7:04pm Tom from Stirling: ELP! Tank! Yes, please.
	7:04pm Dean: I know somebody whose brother's name is Tarkus. Isn't there a ... French? ... prog band called Halloween or an album with that title?
	🤯 7:04pm Carmichael: Nektar.
	7:04pm Ciggy: Lula vs ELP
	🤯 7:04pm Carmichael: Agitation Free, or PFM.
	🤯 7:05pm chresti: Hi Dave and complicated music show!
	7:05pm StringOFperils: Yeh, PFM
	7:05pm Tom from Stirling: One of ELP first concerts in the U.S. was right there at Upsala College.
	🤯 7:05pm HollyRT: Love this one
	7:05pm 876: Nice to hear you Dave! First time listening to this prog show. I saw ELP live in 1978 around the same time I was getting into punk, and it was that ELP concert that made me turn my back on prog completely until I got back into it around 10 years ago.
	7:05pm dale: some novalis would be awesome. wagnerian bloviated german prog!
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: Hey! Good evening, all. Thanks for joining me.
	7:05pm Dean: Not an acquired taste for me at all. Acqua Fragile, Le Orme, Il Baletto di Bronzo, Maxiphone... Bring it on.
	🤯 7:05pm Deano de los Muertos: Oh wow; this is already on my playlist haha
	🤯 7:06pm Carmichael: Saw ELP twice in the 70s.
	7:07pm McGroovey: I was all ready to make fun of these ELP lyrics, but then I remembered REM and Guided By Voices lyrics...
	7:07pm Dave Mandl: @efd: No Love Beach tonight. Is that a request?
	🤯 7:07pm Carmichael: Keith Emerson's famous Hammond, which he stabbed, humped, and kicked over.
	🤯 7:07pm Stephen from Glasgow: That first ELP album is one of my favourites.
	7:08pm SM32: Still can't hear from ELP concert and Ive been to hundreds of other groups live!!!! What did you say???
	🤯 7:08pm Carmichael: Tarkus and Trilogy were also fantabulous.
	🤯 7:09pm SeaCreature: Really blew it missing that first week of July 1977 at Madison square garden with 3 days of ElP followed by 4 days of Floyd
	🤯 7:10pm Carmichael: I saw them in August of 1977 in SF, 4 days before I went into the Air Force ...
	7:10pm Dean: Holy moly, IBdB! Thank you!
	7:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Keith Emerson b. 2ndNov. & Greg Lake 10thNov. - so loving them in ♏︎ScorpioTime here. My pick is BrainSaladSurgery. Adore that album frankly.
	7:11pm efd: @Dave You can always grab the LP from the front of my locker. I'll give you the combination.
	7:11pm Dean: How is this more overblown than ELP, I wonder...
	🤯 7:11pm Carmichael: Actually in Oakland at the indoor arena. Journey opened for them (the old Journey, with Aynsley Dunbar).
	7:11pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha. the sheer awesomeness of prog. Love it. Bellissima!
	7:12pm DirkPDX: Excellent Track
	7:12pm joe mulligan: in awe and jealous of you who saw ELP in the 70s. by the time I was old enough to attend a stadium rock concert, it was the emerson lake & powell vesion in '86. I loved the show but knew it wasnt the same
	7:12pm Dean: That old Journey was damn fine.
	7:12pm Seanarchx: Goblin is the only Italian prog you need and most especially for Halloween
	7:12pm dale: suspira gets enough airplay.
	7:13pm Pablexa™: Is there gonna be any Marillion????
	7:13pm Dean: This is the French Halloween, Pulsar: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/69547/Pulsar-Halloween/
	7:13pm 876: I loved Aynsley Dunbar, totally underrated drummer.
	7:13pm Aitch: German prog Birth Control is fun
	🤯 7:14pm Deano de los Muertos: here’s the spooky tunes
	7:14pm 876: Oh wait, I just checked his Wikipedia and it says he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017. Good for him.
	7:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Peter Hammill B-Day coming up too don'chaknow... Someone suggested Aynsley should joined TheWho after Moon...
	7:15pm Tom from Stirling: Epidaurus -a - um This Italian prog is some good shite. Right?
	7:15pm Dave Mandl: @efd: Oh, is that your locker? Hahaha.
	7:16pm dale: was octopus italian or german? i have a couple but they sing in english ...
	7:16pm McGroovey: Apparently, the lyrics for Knife Edge were co-written by their roadie, but they never gave him any money.
	7:17pm StringOFperils: I'm glad Aynsley Dunbar backed Nils Lofgren on his first solo outing...around that time. It made for a special album.
	7:17pm Dean: That's because the band would have been Emerson, Lake, Palmer, and Bear.
	7:18pm McGroovey: The guy is listen in the writing credits, but he didn't share in the publishing money.
	7:18pm 876: @ StringOFperils, Yeah, great record!
	7:20pm Handy Haversack: Greetings, Dave and the Complications! It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG!
	7:20pm dale: i didn't clicky star this now but did in the past. wonder who else played it....
	7:20pm pot8o: @dale they were british afaik
	7:21pm StringOFperils: @ Dale > Ha ha! Me too!
	7:21pm Tom from Stirling: Steve Hackett. His band did a rousing version of "Firth of Fifth".
	7:21pm Dean: Another of my favorites, Hackett's first.
	7:21pm Handy Haversack: dale: It was Dave Mandl! World of Echo: www.wfmu.org...
	7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This reminds me Voivod are Van der Graaf fans ...perhaps those who lean Rawkist in the Prawg diagram could get a focus sometime ? CaptainBeyond ...Armageddon (the Relf one)...
	🤯 7:22pm BLCKDGRD: Was wondering what your progressive bed music choice would be, great choice!
	7:23pm dday: Tony Banks owes a debt to this Epidaurus track in both style & tone (see the closing section of The Cinema Show)
	7:23pm Handy Haversack: OK, back to the kitchen. Sounding great, Dave!
	7:23pm dale: pot80 - there were quite a few octopusses. or octopi.
	7:25pm dday: I saw the original version of Journey open for Ian Hunter / Mick Ronson Band. Very strange pairing. Excellent show
	7:26pm 876: @RR63, true story: earlier this year I had a dream in which I was listening to the radio and heard a great song I’d never heard before, and it sounded like Keith Relf was the singer. In the dream I thought it sounded like maybe a song from his post-Yardbirds band Armageddon. haha
	7:26pm Dean: The word "define" is hard to define. I'll deal with it.
	7:27pm dday: I'd like to hear Gentle Giant "Octopus" their best record IMO
	7:27pm -жеи: Yay Cos! the pre-Ak Sak Ma Bouls!
	7:27pm Dave Mandl: @dday: Got some Gentle Giant right here. Not sure if I'll get to it tonight.
	7:27pm StringOFperils: I hear it now
	7:27pm Dave Mandl: @Ken: Of course.
	7:27pm dale: this sounds like renaissance. opening to running hard.
	7:28pm Kat in Chicago: yep dale, I knew it reminded me of something
	7:28pm StringOFperils: I'm proto Aksaq Maboul challenged, so this is welcome.
	7:29pm dale: you like renaissance kat? i'm gobsmacked!
	7:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: de fine - literally to make finite. On the Stork Club one Sunday on the Drummer stream he observed the B-Day of some Jazz keyboardist sho pioneered electronic use in that area ...& I thot Keith Emerson must have been influenced ...but who was that...
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Who pioneered...
	7:30pm Kat in Chicago: why yes I do dale, although I really only know the few tracks that a radio station I used to listen to played.
	7:30pm 775: Woaw is how you define it definitely
	7:31pm dale: carpet of the sun is really the only fm hit they really had.
	7:32pm dday: 876: "Illusion" with Jane Relf is worth hearing as well
	7:32pm timinoak: Yeah, DRUM it.
	7:32pm Kat in Chicago: This particular station was unusual. They were AM, on dawn to dusk, and were pretty much freeform.
	7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It was Denny Zeitlin : www.wfmu.org...
	7:33pm timinoak: This is what happens when a band has a democracy.
	7:34pm dale: mccarty relf version of renaissance is fantastic. mr. pine, kings and queens....jane joined a couple albums in when they lost the renaissance name and her voice is really off pitch to me.
	7:34pm dday: In another weird pairing, one of the first shows I ever saw (1973) was Gentle Giant opening for Edgar Winter (Frankenstein period). Another great show
	7:34pm StringOFperils: Probably more like a commune.
	7:35pm 876: @dday, Thanks, will definitely check that out!
	7:36pm Ken From Hyde Park: Get that Elon Musk guy going on prog and that will distract him from his other misadventures. Fatal flaw: he might go off and ruin prog.
	7:36pm dday: Renaissance saw them live..so good..with Caravan opening (For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night era) Worked for me
	7:37pm Rick from SC: Love this
	7:38pm Sam Segal: Amazing selections tonight, Dave. A real education for me.
	7:38pm dale: 876 - watch this first. www.youtube.com...
	7:38pm the joke aisle: HAPPY THE MAN! This band blew us stoned teenagers away at the Cellar Door in 1978-9.
	7:38pm dday: Anyone familiar with 7th Wave?
	7:38pm Tom from Stirling: Annie Hasem teamed up with Steve Howe to sing some Dylan songs. Back a few years.
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: greetings Dave & all
	7:39pm Destroit: Hi Dave and everyone. Nice to be here.
	🤯 7:39pm SeaCreature: DC band? Not sure what I did with this LP
	7:39pm the joke aisle: DC area, based in VA
	7:40pm dale: annie haslam in a gauzy white gown with a spotlight shining through from behind her was quite a sight for this teenager.
	7:41pm dday: Annie Haslam described the four years she was engaged to Roy Wood (ELO,Wizzard) as "the funniest four years of my life"
	7:41pm dale: canada's maneige had a lot of saxamaphone too. they got into freaky jazz.
	7:41pm dday: It's actually Seventh Wave (sorry) trying edit my typing (which sucks)
	7:42pm dale: dday, he produced her annie in wonderland album which was pretty forgetable to me.
	7:42pm dday: MAE was also a good "proggish" band in the 90's
	7:42pm timinoak: I know that '77 seems pretty tough here.. But we had Farrah Fawcett posters.
	7:43pm plaque flag: There was a sick band chickadee mountain martyrs from mpls that was drums guitar and this tiny lady playing an alto sax larger than her. They were sick prog. They did a cover of “I got the power”
	7:43pm dday: @dale: funny thing, once she left Renaissance I kind of forgot about prog for a few years. It kind of fell out of the music world
	7:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Van der Graaf had some sax...
	🤯 7:44pm chresti: often athletic and speedy sounding, show offs!
	7:44pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Saxophone 🎷 in prog: let us not forget the late Ian MacDonald and Mel Collins, with King Crimson.
	7:44pm Dean: Saw Renaissance at the Greek in LA, opening act Jean-Luc Ponty.
	7:44pm Ciggy: @Dale ~ I saw Renaissance at the Westchester Premier Theater1976 I was wanting more from the band & Haslam to belt it out
	7:44pm dday: @Peter: beat me to it :)
	7:45pm dale: heard a grobschnitt block of music on shortwaves wrmi - hadn't heard of them before.
	7:46pm mic_a: Hi Dave & fellow prog victims. A possible suggestion for when you're digging deep in a few months: Fireballet - Night On Bald Mountain, on Passport Records, 1975. I believe they hailed from New Jersey. The cover is a rather lurid painting. Produced by Ian McDonald!
	7:46pm 876: @plaque flag, sounds amazing!
	7:46pm pot8o: huh, usually when i tune into wrmi all i get is brother stair
	🤯 7:47pm Deano de los Muertos: Great show, Dave
	7:47pm dale: ciggy, i saw them in 76 too, our college concert hall which was known for it's acoustics. saw peter gabriel there too and saw him at perkins after the show where he asked me for a ride back to his motel.
	7:47pm Dave Mandl: Thanks everyone for the brilliant commentary and suggestions. Sorry I can't comment much tonight. Suggestions are always appreciated,
	7:48pm dday: Then there's Second Hand "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" pretty interesting stuff
	7:48pm dale: dave - this is the show where all of us shut ins yell 'OOH. OOH. OOH.'
	7:48pm Tom from Stirling: Are you allowed to say "grobschnitt" on the airwaves?
	7:49pm Dean: I'll second Fireballet. Grobschnitt were formative for me. Perchance Release Music Orchestra, Epitaph, Secret Oyster...? Saw Richard Harvey of Gryphon at Wigmore Hall in London many years ago.
	7:49pm StringOFperils: Seems like so much more than an hour. Hah! I mean that in a good way. Thanks....huh...I was thinking of this band....and Kayak..
	🤯 7:49pm chresti: they have virtuosis oo dday sounds good
	7:49pm Kat in Chicago: dale, I am slackjawed over your statement regarding Peter Gabriel... so did you give him a ride?
	7:50pm Lana in Bucksom County: Hold everything, gotta up my pledge for Dave and It's Complicated!!! Lovin the show tonight, Dave - Thank you!!!
	7:50pm Elton Bong: Grobchnitt saved my life working in the boondocks when all there was was Billy Joel over and over
	7:50pm SM32: I saw Renaissance first US show and a year later while in Houston, saw a small club where they were playing later that night. Went in to get a ticket, sold out, but they were doing a sound check. The ticket woman let me sit and watch/listen. I was in love with Annie Haslem. She came over to me after check and I told her I saw her first US show and consequently others. She asked me if I were coming to the show that night. I told her they were sold out. She left me a ticket. I'll never forget and I loved them and especially her!!!!
	7:50pm Kat in Chicago: that's so sweet, SM32
	7:50pm Tom from Stirling: Steeleye Span
	7:51pm Dean: I saw Barclay James Harvest at Wembley Arena, the last 20 minutes or so of their show, for one pound.
	7:52pm Ciggy: @SM32 ~ Great story
	🤯 7:52pm Stephen from Glasgow: I like a bit of crumhorn.
	7:52pm dale: kat - i gave him a ride in the parking lot - then his tour bus pulled in and he said 'oh, these are me mates so i'll get out. thanks!' memorable experience.
	7:52pm dday: @ mic_a: a quote from an article about NJ's Fireballet: "So basically, Fireballet was the group for people who thought Emerson Lake & Palmer were too low key and subdued."
	7:53pm 876: @SM32, Awesome story...Annie was probably glad you were there since you were clearly a fan.
	7:53pm Dean: I missed Gryphon in '76 at the Marquee, because I decided against going and then traveling to my tour group in Stratford. I'm an idiot. But I later heard IQ at the Marquee.
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Stonehenge by SpinalTap has crossed my mind a couple times tonight...
	7:53pm dale: sm32 - annie live in pennsylvania, the berkshires or poconos, not sure which. but only a couple hours away from ny so you still have a chance.
	7:54pm Destroit: Comment board stories are great.
	7:54pm Ciggy: @Dale ~ I was gonna mention the horrible acoustics - the only time I ever went to that corrupt theater
	7:54pm dday: For awhile the guys from Nektar lived in Morris County NJ. A drummer friend of mine became friends with them at their rehearsal space. I saw them twice (Remember the Future & Down to Earth tours) Excellent live band.
	7:55pm Dean: Fireballet has almost zero to do with ELP. Hard to process that quote, @dday.
	7:55pm dale: ciggy - this was suny at fredonia. a great concert hall. i.m.pei had some input.
	7:56pm SM32: Dale-Thanks seen her a bit. Not in NY area now, my heart recently went to Liz Berlin from Rusted Root. Funny how things change but stay the same!!!!
	7:56pm Tom from Stirling: Very medieval
	7:56pm bobob Plasticland: I have this lp ....nice cover!!!!
	7:56pm Dean: Gryphon, like Gentle Giant, are sui generis. Utterly marvelous.
	7:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Dave, our favorite progtologist.
	7:57pm Ciggy: Doesn't Fredonia have to do with the Marx brothers
	7:58pm dday: @Dean: the article giving the quote context: mostly-retro.com...
	🤯 7:58pm HollyRT: Great show as always DM
	🤯 7:58pm SeaCreature: This show killed! Thanks Dave.
	7:58pm 876: Ooh love this song, I already know what it is I Talk to the Wind!
	7:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay GG&F
	7:58pm Kat in Chicago: yesss, the Judy Dyble I Talk To The Wind
	7:58pm Chop Scott: Great to catch the end live air tonite--Cheers Dave!
	7:58pm dale: don't know if 'freedonia' was based on them being booed off the opera stage or if that's an old wives tale.
	7:58pm lazy pierogi: love the new show, dave!
	7:58pm mic_a: I was so disappointed that my local music store had no krumhorns. Still have my copy of this album. The uptempo sections push much the same buttons as surf instros, I'm suddenly thinking.
	7:58pm Dave Mandl: Thanks so much, everyone! Have a great week.
	🤯 7:58pm Elena: Thank you, Dave! Learned a lot tonight.
	7:59pm pot8o: thanks dave!
	7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ DM ~
	7:59pm StringOFperils: Thank you. :)
	7:59pm listener 126464: Thanks Dave, enjoyed the show.
	7:59pm Yvang: Thanks! We've made progress...
	7:59pm dday: Hail Fredonia!!
	7:59pm P-90: Beautifully done. Thanks, Dave
	8:00pm Lana in Bucksom County: I think Annie Haslam has become a painter and is living here in Bucks County near New Hope, now.
	8:00pm Tom from Stirling: Yes. We love Giles, Giles and Fripp. Yes, we do. Thanks for the show, Dave.
	8:00pm Franco Twinkie: Oh, how I love this song!
	🤯 8:00pm Stephen from Glasgow: Thank you, Dave.
	8:00pm Handy Haversack: Fantastic! Thanks, Dave!
	8:00pm dale: great show. hippy music from kids with a classical music education. i'm gonna be here every week.
	8:01pm Dean: There's something unsettling about a prog show that lasts only one hour. I remember listening to Long Beach, CA, radio station KLON(?), a prog show in the mid-'70s. In fact, I visited the station, and if I'm remembering things correctly, a buddy swiped a Lucifer's Friend single from their shelves.
	8:04pm Handy Haversack: I found that Gryphon album on the street last year -- haven't even listened yet! Will now proceed to do so.
	2:13pm Lizardner Dave !: Thanks Dave and WFMU for doing a prog show! As someone who saw not only Emerson, Lake and Palmer but Emerson, Lake and Powell and 3 (Emerson, Robert Berry and Palmer) this is a show that's right in my wheelhouse.

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from October 31, 2022

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October 31, 2022

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Yes	Five Percent for Nothing "Five Percent for Nothing" by "Yes"	Fragile	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Knife Edge	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	0:04:11 (Pop-up)
Il Balletto di Bronzo	Secondo Incontro	YS	0:09:01 (Pop-up)
Epidaurus	Wings of the Dove "Wings of the Dove" by "Epidaurus"	Earthly Paradise	0:12:16 (Pop-up)
Steve Hackett	A Tower Struck Down	Voyage of the Acolyte	0:17:35 (Pop-up)

Cos	Coloc "Coloc" by "Cos"	Postaeolian Train Robbery	0:25:27 (Pop-up)
Happy the Man	Stumpy Meets the Firecracker in Stencil Forest	Happy the Man	0:34:55 (Pop-up)

Grobschnitt	Wonderful Music "Wonderful Music" by "Grobschnitt"	Grobschnitt	0:43:58 (Pop-up)
Gryphon	Second Spasm "Second Spasm" by "Gryphon"	Red Queen to Gryphon Three	0:47:32 (Pop-up)

Giles, Giles and Fripp	I Talk to the Wind	The Brondesbury Tapes	0:58:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:00pm Aitch: Prognostications
	7:01pm dale: ambrosia?
	7:01pm BadBob: Hi
	7:01pm StringOFperils: YES!!
	🤯 7:01pm Deano de los Muertos: strap in
	7:02pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Happy Halloween, Dave!
	7:02pm efd: ooh, I wonder if he's going to play "Love Beach"
	7:03pm Yvang: Progressists!
	7:03pm joe mulligan: TARKUS!! my favorite growing up
	🤯 7:03pm SeaCreature: Omg Tarkus!!!
	🤯 7:04pm HollyRT: Hi Dave! Hi gang!
	7:04pm Tom from Stirling: ELP! Tank! Yes, please.
	7:04pm Dean: I know somebody whose brother's name is Tarkus. Isn't there a ... French? ... prog band called Halloween or an album with that title?
	🤯 7:04pm Carmichael: Nektar.
	7:04pm Ciggy: Lula vs ELP
	🤯 7:04pm Carmichael: Agitation Free, or PFM.
	🤯 7:05pm chresti: Hi Dave and complicated music show!
	7:05pm StringOFperils: Yeh, PFM
	7:05pm Tom from Stirling: One of ELP first concerts in the U.S. was right there at Upsala College.
	🤯 7:05pm HollyRT: Love this one
	7:05pm 876: Nice to hear you Dave! First time listening to this prog show. I saw ELP live in 1978 around the same time I was getting into punk, and it was that ELP concert that made me turn my back on prog completely until I got back into it around 10 years ago.
	7:05pm dale: some novalis would be awesome. wagnerian bloviated german prog!
	7:05pm Dave Mandl: Hey! Good evening, all. Thanks for joining me.
	7:05pm Dean: Not an acquired taste for me at all. Acqua Fragile, Le Orme, Il Baletto di Bronzo, Maxiphone... Bring it on.
	🤯 7:05pm Deano de los Muertos: Oh wow; this is already on my playlist haha
	🤯 7:06pm Carmichael: Saw ELP twice in the 70s.
	7:07pm McGroovey: I was all ready to make fun of these ELP lyrics, but then I remembered REM and Guided By Voices lyrics...
	7:07pm Dave Mandl: @efd: No Love Beach tonight. Is that a request?
	🤯 7:07pm Carmichael: Keith Emerson's famous Hammond, which he stabbed, humped, and kicked over.
	🤯 7:07pm Stephen from Glasgow: That first ELP album is one of my favourites.
	7:08pm SM32: Still can't hear from ELP concert and Ive been to hundreds of other groups live!!!! What did you say???
	🤯 7:08pm Carmichael: Tarkus and Trilogy were also fantabulous.
	🤯 7:09pm SeaCreature: Really blew it missing that first week of July 1977 at Madison square garden with 3 days of ElP followed by 4 days of Floyd
	🤯 7:10pm Carmichael: I saw them in August of 1977 in SF, 4 days before I went into the Air Force ...
	7:10pm Dean: Holy moly, IBdB! Thank you!
	7:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Keith Emerson b. 2ndNov. & Greg Lake 10thNov. - so loving them in ♏︎ScorpioTime here. My pick is BrainSaladSurgery. Adore that album frankly.
	7:11pm efd: @Dave You can always grab the LP from the front of my locker. I'll give you the combination.
	7:11pm Dean: How is this more overblown than ELP, I wonder...
	🤯 7:11pm Carmichael: Actually in Oakland at the indoor arena. Journey opened for them (the old Journey, with Aynsley Dunbar).
	7:11pm StringOFperils: Ha ha ha. the sheer awesomeness of prog. Love it. Bellissima!
	7:12pm DirkPDX: Excellent Track
	7:12pm joe mulligan: in awe and jealous of you who saw ELP in the 70s. by the time I was old enough to attend a stadium rock concert, it was the emerson lake & powell vesion in '86. I loved the show but knew it wasnt the same
	7:12pm Dean: That old Journey was damn fine.
	7:12pm Seanarchx: Goblin is the only Italian prog you need and most especially for Halloween
	7:12pm dale: suspira gets enough airplay.
	7:13pm Pablexa™: Is there gonna be any Marillion????
	7:13pm Dean: This is the French Halloween, Pulsar: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/69547/Pulsar-Halloween/
	7:13pm 876: I loved Aynsley Dunbar, totally underrated drummer.
	7:13pm Aitch: German prog Birth Control is fun
	🤯 7:14pm Deano de los Muertos: here’s the spooky tunes
	7:14pm 876: Oh wait, I just checked his Wikipedia and it says he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017. Good for him.
	7:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Peter Hammill B-Day coming up too don'chaknow... Someone suggested Aynsley should joined TheWho after Moon...
	7:15pm Tom from Stirling: Epidaurus -a - um This Italian prog is some good shite. Right?
	7:15pm Dave Mandl: @efd: Oh, is that your locker? Hahaha.
	7:16pm dale: was octopus italian or german? i have a couple but they sing in english ...
	7:16pm McGroovey: Apparently, the lyrics for Knife Edge were co-written by their roadie, but they never gave him any money.
	7:17pm StringOFperils: I'm glad Aynsley Dunbar backed Nils Lofgren on his first solo outing...around that time. It made for a special album.
	7:17pm Dean: That's because the band would have been Emerson, Lake, Palmer, and Bear.
	7:18pm McGroovey: The guy is listen in the writing credits, but he didn't share in the publishing money.
	7:18pm 876: @ StringOFperils, Yeah, great record!
	7:20pm Handy Haversack: Greetings, Dave and the Complications! It's go time! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG!
	7:20pm dale: i didn't clicky star this now but did in the past. wonder who else played it....
	7:20pm pot8o: @dale they were british afaik
	7:21pm StringOFperils: @ Dale > Ha ha! Me too!
	7:21pm Tom from Stirling: Steve Hackett. His band did a rousing version of "Firth of Fifth".
	7:21pm Dean: Another of my favorites, Hackett's first.
	7:21pm Handy Haversack: dale: It was Dave Mandl! World of Echo: www.wfmu.org...
	7:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: This reminds me Voivod are Van der Graaf fans ...perhaps those who lean Rawkist in the Prawg diagram could get a focus sometime ? CaptainBeyond ...Armageddon (the Relf one)...
	🤯 7:22pm BLCKDGRD: Was wondering what your progressive bed music choice would be, great choice!
	7:23pm dday: Tony Banks owes a debt to this Epidaurus track in both style & tone (see the closing section of The Cinema Show)
	7:23pm Handy Haversack: OK, back to the kitchen. Sounding great, Dave!
	7:23pm dale: pot80 - there were quite a few octopusses. or octopi.
	7:25pm dday: I saw the original version of Journey open for Ian Hunter / Mick Ronson Band. Very strange pairing. Excellent show
	7:26pm 876: @RR63, true story: earlier this year I had a dream in which I was listening to the radio and heard a great song I’d never heard before, and it sounded like Keith Relf was the singer. In the dream I thought it sounded like maybe a song from his post-Yardbirds band Armageddon. haha
	7:26pm Dean: The word "define" is hard to define. I'll deal with it.
	7:27pm dday: I'd like to hear Gentle Giant "Octopus" their best record IMO
	7:27pm -жеи: Yay Cos! the pre-Ak Sak Ma Bouls!
	7:27pm Dave Mandl: @dday: Got some Gentle Giant right here. Not sure if I'll get to it tonight.
	7:27pm StringOFperils: I hear it now
	7:27pm Dave Mandl: @Ken: Of course.
	7:27pm dale: this sounds like renaissance. opening to running hard.
	7:28pm Kat in Chicago: yep dale, I knew it reminded me of something
	7:28pm StringOFperils: I'm proto Aksaq Maboul challenged, so this is welcome.
	7:29pm dale: you like renaissance kat? i'm gobsmacked!
	7:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: de fine - literally to make finite. On the Stork Club one Sunday on the Drummer stream he observed the B-Day of some Jazz keyboardist sho pioneered electronic use in that area ...& I thot Keith Emerson must have been influenced ...but who was that...
	7:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *Who pioneered...
	7:30pm Kat in Chicago: why yes I do dale, although I really only know the few tracks that a radio station I used to listen to played.
	7:30pm 775: Woaw is how you define it definitely
	7:31pm dale: carpet of the sun is really the only fm hit they really had.
	7:32pm dday: 876: "Illusion" with Jane Relf is worth hearing as well
	7:32pm timinoak: Yeah, DRUM it.
	7:32pm Kat in Chicago: This particular station was unusual. They were AM, on dawn to dusk, and were pretty much freeform.
	7:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It was Denny Zeitlin : www.wfmu.org...
	7:33pm timinoak: This is what happens when a band has a democracy.
	7:34pm dale: mccarty relf version of renaissance is fantastic. mr. pine, kings and queens....jane joined a couple albums in when they lost the renaissance name and her voice is really off pitch to me.
	7:34pm dday: In another weird pairing, one of the first shows I ever saw (1973) was Gentle Giant opening for Edgar Winter (Frankenstein period). Another great show
	7:34pm StringOFperils: Probably more like a commune.
	7:35pm 876: @dday, Thanks, will definitely check that out!
	7:36pm Ken From Hyde Park: Get that Elon Musk guy going on prog and that will distract him from his other misadventures. Fatal flaw: he might go off and ruin prog.
	7:36pm dday: Renaissance saw them live..so good..with Caravan opening (For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night era) Worked for me
	7:37pm Rick from SC: Love this
	7:38pm Sam Segal: Amazing selections tonight, Dave. A real education for me.
	7:38pm dale: 876 - watch this first. www.youtube.com...
	7:38pm the joke aisle: HAPPY THE MAN! This band blew us stoned teenagers away at the Cellar Door in 1978-9.
	7:38pm dday: Anyone familiar with 7th Wave?
	7:38pm Tom from Stirling: Annie Hasem teamed up with Steve Howe to sing some Dylan songs. Back a few years.
	7:39pm coelacanth∅: greetings Dave & all
	7:39pm Destroit: Hi Dave and everyone. Nice to be here.
	🤯 7:39pm SeaCreature: DC band? Not sure what I did with this LP
	7:39pm the joke aisle: DC area, based in VA
	7:40pm dale: annie haslam in a gauzy white gown with a spotlight shining through from behind her was quite a sight for this teenager.
	7:41pm dday: Annie Haslam described the four years she was engaged to Roy Wood (ELO,Wizzard) as "the funniest four years of my life"
	7:41pm dale: canada's maneige had a lot of saxamaphone too. they got into freaky jazz.
	7:41pm dday: It's actually Seventh Wave (sorry) trying edit my typing (which sucks)
	7:42pm dale: dday, he produced her annie in wonderland album which was pretty forgetable to me.
	7:42pm dday: MAE was also a good "proggish" band in the 90's
	7:42pm timinoak: I know that '77 seems pretty tough here.. But we had Farrah Fawcett posters.
	7:43pm plaque flag: There was a sick band chickadee mountain martyrs from mpls that was drums guitar and this tiny lady playing an alto sax larger than her. They were sick prog. They did a cover of “I got the power”
	7:43pm dday: @dale: funny thing, once she left Renaissance I kind of forgot about prog for a few years. It kind of fell out of the music world
	7:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Van der Graaf had some sax...
	🤯 7:44pm chresti: often athletic and speedy sounding, show offs!
	7:44pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Saxophone 🎷 in prog: let us not forget the late Ian MacDonald and Mel Collins, with King Crimson.
	7:44pm Dean: Saw Renaissance at the Greek in LA, opening act Jean-Luc Ponty.
	7:44pm Ciggy: @Dale ~ I saw Renaissance at the Westchester Premier Theater1976 I was wanting more from the band & Haslam to belt it out
	7:44pm dday: @Peter: beat me to it :)
	7:45pm dale: heard a grobschnitt block of music on shortwaves wrmi - hadn't heard of them before.
	7:46pm mic_a: Hi Dave & fellow prog victims. A possible suggestion for when you're digging deep in a few months: Fireballet - Night On Bald Mountain, on Passport Records, 1975. I believe they hailed from New Jersey. The cover is a rather lurid painting. Produced by Ian McDonald!
	7:46pm 876: @plaque flag, sounds amazing!
	7:46pm pot8o: huh, usually when i tune into wrmi all i get is brother stair
	🤯 7:47pm Deano de los Muertos: Great show, Dave
	7:47pm dale: ciggy, i saw them in 76 too, our college concert hall which was known for it's acoustics. saw peter gabriel there too and saw him at perkins after the show where he asked me for a ride back to his motel.
	7:47pm Dave Mandl: Thanks everyone for the brilliant commentary and suggestions. Sorry I can't comment much tonight. Suggestions are always appreciated,
	7:48pm dday: Then there's Second Hand "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" pretty interesting stuff
	7:48pm dale: dave - this is the show where all of us shut ins yell 'OOH. OOH. OOH.'
	7:48pm Tom from Stirling: Are you allowed to say "grobschnitt" on the airwaves?
	7:49pm Dean: I'll second Fireballet. Grobschnitt were formative for me. Perchance Release Music Orchestra, Epitaph, Secret Oyster...? Saw Richard Harvey of Gryphon at Wigmore Hall in London many years ago.
	7:49pm StringOFperils: Seems like so much more than an hour. Hah! I mean that in a good way. Thanks....huh...I was thinking of this band....and Kayak..
	🤯 7:49pm chresti: they have virtuosis oo dday sounds good
	7:49pm Kat in Chicago: dale, I am slackjawed over your statement regarding Peter Gabriel... so did you give him a ride?
	7:50pm Lana in Bucksom County: Hold everything, gotta up my pledge for Dave and It's Complicated!!! Lovin the show tonight, Dave - Thank you!!!
	7:50pm Elton Bong: Grobchnitt saved my life working in the boondocks when all there was was Billy Joel over and over
	7:50pm SM32: I saw Renaissance first US show and a year later while in Houston, saw a small club where they were playing later that night. Went in to get a ticket, sold out, but they were doing a sound check. The ticket woman let me sit and watch/listen. I was in love with Annie Haslem. She came over to me after check and I told her I saw her first US show and consequently others. She asked me if I were coming to the show that night. I told her they were sold out. She left me a ticket. I'll never forget and I loved them and especially her!!!!
	7:50pm Kat in Chicago: that's so sweet, SM32
	7:50pm Tom from Stirling: Steeleye Span
	7:51pm Dean: I saw Barclay James Harvest at Wembley Arena, the last 20 minutes or so of their show, for one pound.
	7:52pm Ciggy: @SM32 ~ Great story
	🤯 7:52pm Stephen from Glasgow: I like a bit of crumhorn.
	7:52pm dale: kat - i gave him a ride in the parking lot - then his tour bus pulled in and he said 'oh, these are me mates so i'll get out. thanks!' memorable experience.
	7:52pm dday: @ mic_a: a quote from an article about NJ's Fireballet: "So basically, Fireballet was the group for people who thought Emerson Lake & Palmer were too low key and subdued."
	7:53pm 876: @SM32, Awesome story...Annie was probably glad you were there since you were clearly a fan.
	7:53pm Dean: I missed Gryphon in '76 at the Marquee, because I decided against going and then traveling to my tour group in Stratford. I'm an idiot. But I later heard IQ at the Marquee.
	7:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Stonehenge by SpinalTap has crossed my mind a couple times tonight...
	7:53pm dale: sm32 - annie live in pennsylvania, the berkshires or poconos, not sure which. but only a couple hours away from ny so you still have a chance.
	7:54pm Destroit: Comment board stories are great.
	7:54pm Ciggy: @Dale ~ I was gonna mention the horrible acoustics - the only time I ever went to that corrupt theater
	7:54pm dday: For awhile the guys from Nektar lived in Morris County NJ. A drummer friend of mine became friends with them at their rehearsal space. I saw them twice (Remember the Future & Down to Earth tours) Excellent live band.
	7:55pm Dean: Fireballet has almost zero to do with ELP. Hard to process that quote, @dday.
	7:55pm dale: ciggy - this was suny at fredonia. a great concert hall. i.m.pei had some input.
	7:56pm SM32: Dale-Thanks seen her a bit. Not in NY area now, my heart recently went to Liz Berlin from Rusted Root. Funny how things change but stay the same!!!!
	7:56pm Tom from Stirling: Very medieval
	7:56pm bobob Plasticland: I have this lp ....nice cover!!!!
	7:56pm Dean: Gryphon, like Gentle Giant, are sui generis. Utterly marvelous.
	7:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Dave, our favorite progtologist.
	7:57pm Ciggy: Doesn't Fredonia have to do with the Marx brothers
	7:58pm dday: @Dean: the article giving the quote context: mostly-retro.com...
	🤯 7:58pm HollyRT: Great show as always DM
	🤯 7:58pm SeaCreature: This show killed! Thanks Dave.
	7:58pm 876: Ooh love this song, I already know what it is I Talk to the Wind!
	7:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yay GG&F
	7:58pm Kat in Chicago: yesss, the Judy Dyble I Talk To The Wind
	7:58pm Chop Scott: Great to catch the end live air tonite--Cheers Dave!
	7:58pm dale: don't know if 'freedonia' was based on them being booed off the opera stage or if that's an old wives tale.
	7:58pm lazy pierogi: love the new show, dave!
	7:58pm mic_a: I was so disappointed that my local music store had no krumhorns. Still have my copy of this album. The uptempo sections push much the same buttons as surf instros, I'm suddenly thinking.
	7:58pm Dave Mandl: Thanks so much, everyone! Have a great week.
	🤯 7:58pm Elena: Thank you, Dave! Learned a lot tonight.
	7:59pm pot8o: thanks dave!
	7:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ DM ~
	7:59pm StringOFperils: Thank you. :)
	7:59pm listener 126464: Thanks Dave, enjoyed the show.
	7:59pm Yvang: Thanks! We've made progress...
	7:59pm dday: Hail Fredonia!!
	7:59pm P-90: Beautifully done. Thanks, Dave
	8:00pm Lana in Bucksom County: I think Annie Haslam has become a painter and is living here in Bucks County near New Hope, now.
	8:00pm Tom from Stirling: Yes. We love Giles, Giles and Fripp. Yes, we do. Thanks for the show, Dave.
	8:00pm Franco Twinkie: Oh, how I love this song!
	🤯 8:00pm Stephen from Glasgow: Thank you, Dave.
	8:00pm Handy Haversack: Fantastic! Thanks, Dave!
	8:00pm dale: great show. hippy music from kids with a classical music education. i'm gonna be here every week.
	8:01pm Dean: There's something unsettling about a prog show that lasts only one hour. I remember listening to Long Beach, CA, radio station KLON(?), a prog show in the mid-'70s. In fact, I visited the station, and if I'm remembering things correctly, a buddy swiped a Lucifer's Friend single from their shelves.
	8:04pm Handy Haversack: I found that Gryphon album on the street last year -- haven't even listened yet! Will now proceed to do so.
	2:13pm Lizardner Dave !: Thanks Dave and WFMU for doing a prog show! As someone who saw not only Emerson, Lake and Palmer but Emerson, Lake and Powell and 3 (Emerson, Robert Berry and Palmer) this is a show that's right in my wheelhouse.

It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from October 31, 2022

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