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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
One Shot  Ewaz Vader   Favoriting Ewaz Vader  0:02:30 (Pop-up)
 
M'Z  Des recits   Favoriting La Civilisation de la Graine  0:15:25 (Pop-up)
 
Latte E Miele  Il Calvario   Favoriting Passio Secundum Mattheum  0:24:22 (Pop-up)
 
Ske  Fraguglie   Favoriting 1001 Autunni  0:33:25 (Pop-up)
 
French TV  The Secret Life of Walter Riddle   Favoriting The Violence of Amateurs  0:42:31 (Pop-up)
 
Agitation Free  Malesch   Favoriting Malesch  0:52:05 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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G:

Ready to go!
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Handy Haversack:

Dave and the Complications!
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Troy:

Prog time!
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ultradamno:

Dave! Mandlodrones!
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dale:

hey proglodytes.
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Coach32sm:

PRRRRROOOG!
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Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Life is complicated. Your music should be, too.
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dale:

"....gotta find a tempo. gotta find a tempo.'
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Heya, let's get complicated!
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G:

France!
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bleubombersune:

Dave Good Evening Progolytes
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G:

↳ bleubombersune @7:02
Proglodytes??
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drumbone:

I'm confused...it's complicated!
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San Pedro Girl:

Hi Dave and all
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newton:

Prog cocktail time!
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HollyRT:

Evening, all!
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Troy:

↳ G @7:02
youtu.be...
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Dave Mandl:

Good evening and welcome, friends! Hope you're all thriving.
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ultradamno:

Picked up that Monoski Bowling album on the last BC Friday 'till September because of this show and pretty happy with it. They appear to have no Discogs presence...feels particularly subterranean
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ drumbone @7:02
Hey how ya doin'?
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chresti:

Hi Dave Mandl and complicated show!
  7:04pm
morphe':

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
Prog Main Street = not adjacent ....
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drumbone:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @7:04
Ah, HowYaDoin!
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G:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
From bandcamp: "The manic, aggressive waves of bass and keyboards keep crushing in, assaulting your aural defence, breaking in to force you to gasp for air." hahaha
  7:05pm
Tom from Stirling:

Yes, it is time to prog!
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newton:

↳ G @7:05
better than the comments at progarchives...
  7:06pm
Saltonstall:

Dave- What do you think about a Prog Rock sub genre chart/diagram/ graphic organizer poster as a DJ premium for use neophyte listeners.
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Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
right outta the gate
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Dave Mandl:

↳ G @7:05
Love that description.
  7:07pm
Saltonstall:

I must understand the similarities and differences between Rock in Opposition and Zool.
  7:07pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
Oh, man. This!
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erictheise:

didn't Shaw say, "… all prog depends on the unreasonable man"? well, close.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Saltonstall @7:06
Great idea! But who's gonna do it, and who's gonna do the fact-checking?
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Coach32sm:

Turn the vinyl over
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DjLorraine:

I'm glad to be here
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:07
Greg from ZONE 5 and ... you?
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Dave Mandl:

Welcome G (early arrival), Handy, Troy, ultradamno, dale, Coach, Peter, Chris, drumbone!, SPG, newton, Holly, chresti, morphé, Saltonstall, Deano, Tom, erictheise, Lorraine!
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common:

hey there dave! all
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ultradamno:

↳ Saltonstall @7:07
It has something to do with magma levels
  7:10pm
Old Dave:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
Wow, man!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ common @7:10
Hey!
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Dave Mandl and all!!!
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Coach32sm:

Driving me crazy if it's skipping, or worse, if it's supposed to be that way!!!!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Good evening, Dave and Mandl brot sets.
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Troy:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
This smokes!
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
What a jammer, eh?
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Coach32sm:

Ha, went on 128K and it's fine. Must have been the internet
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ultradamno:

Muhzz?
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:14
(partly inspired by how, in a recent episode, Chucky referred to one of his rivals as Muhthreegan)
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Dave Mandl:

Hi Will, Old Dave, and Ken!
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dale:

↳ Song: "Des recits" by "M'Z"
this is pretty groovy. first piece gave me agita.
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Ewaz Vader" by "One Shot"
Was good to make coffee to!
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:15
Which reminds me, the only thing I like about the met gala is Fangoria's twitter photoshops all the buzziest horror cognoscenti onto the steps...it looks like buff Chucky has just now arrived twitter.com...
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ultradamno:

...but I digress.
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G:

La Civilisation de la Graine = The Seed Civilization
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Dave Mandl:

↳ G @7:19
Merci.
  7:20pm
Doug in DC:

Sort of a Mr. Bungle-like degree of genre changing
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G:

Des recits = Some records/stories
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newton:

↳ ultradamno @7:18
ridiculous, living Erté figurines, except Chucky, he lookd fabulous!
  7:22pm
Doug in DC:

But really well timed, just when you think they've got into a groove, nope.
  7:22pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Des recits" by "M'Z"
Crazy. Crazy good. Like prog should.
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Handy Haversack:

Pretty good French accent from where I'm sitting (under a Goblin, true), Dave!
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ultradamno:

They're not on discogs either? And, like Monoski Bowling, they're also French....two points is a line, I know...
  7:26pm
P-90:

church organ always welcome at my prog table
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G:

↳ Song: "Il Calvario" by "Latte E Miele"
"Calvary" (where Christ died), from the "Passion (Suffering/Death of Christ) According to Matthew"
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Des recits" by "M'Z"
emm zzed
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dale:

there's an organ break in ambrosia's 'cowboy star' like this. fun fact!
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chresti:

↳ dale @7:27
Ha! Fun!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ G @7:26
Thanks again!
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "Il Calvario" by "Latte E Miele"
An impressive layer in the prog keyboard arms race.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ dale @7:27
Oh, I need to hear that.
  7:29pm
Steve:

↳ Song: "Il Calvario" by "Latte E Miele"
I feel Baphomet making his way through a monastery of demonic priests!
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dale:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:28
also a big copeland 'ro-DAY-o' bit.
  7:30pm
Old Dave:

↳ Song: "Il Calvario" by "Latte E Miele"
Trump trial needs a soundtrack...
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dale:

from the album with the-shaped pyramid gatefold...
  7:31pm
Jim in MA:

Good evening Dave and Complications! Let's get complexly groovy!
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dale:

pyramid-shaped.....
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Il Calvario" by "Latte E Miele"
milk and honey
  7:32pm
Doug in DC:

Lovely, wish I had a copy of it.
  7:33pm
Menlo Park:

Latte proglotti
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Dave Mandl:

Hi there Jim, Doug, Menlo Park, Steve, P-90.
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Folsom:

Damn came in late, will need to listen to the archive later.
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ Song: "Fraguglie" by "Ske"
Holy crap, this is badass.
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ultradamno:

↳ dale @7:31
Would that be called die cut, or is that just for when the sleeve has holes that line up with the inner sleeve?
  7:36pm
Doug in DC:

Hey Dave!
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Troy:

↳ Song: "Fraguglie" by "Ske"
Really nice mix on this!
  7:38pm
Steve:

↳ Song: "Fraguglie" by "Ske"
This combo of flute and organ is sick.
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Paolo Botta looks to be the mastermind, there are other players, according to BC.
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drumbone:

↳ Song: "Fraguglie" by "Ske"
very cool!!
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dale:

↳ ultradamno @7:36
i dunno - it's kind of a pop up. label must have thought it was worth the investment at the printers.
  7:41pm
Logicbeach:

Hello
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newton:

↳ ultradamno @7:36
die cut, a special metal plate is made for stamping the paper with it's internal cut outs, repeatable and precise...expensive to have die made
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ultradamno:

Not enough pop up album covers...Waxworks' Babadook screamed out to be one, but wasn't
  7:42pm
Logicbeach:

Enjoying the set, sitting on my roof watching a thunderstorm bumble by in the distance
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chresti:

↳ Logicbeach @7:41
Hello
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:42
I guess it was, actually waxworkrecords.com...
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Dave Mandl:

@Logicbeach: Hey there.
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erictheise:

Sousa meets Mancini.
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Folsom:

↳ erictheise @7:44
Yeah that first part sounded like something from a Blake Edwards film.
  7:44pm
Dean:

Kind of odd that sax doesn't generally appear in progressive rock, but then Van der Graaf Generator? Early King Crimson? Soft Machine?
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ultradamno:

↳ newton @7:42
Like Some Girls...and then they had to remove stuff from the inner sleeve.
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Coach32sm:

Nice, make you move
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Troy:

↳ Song: "The Secret Life of Walter Riddle" by "French TV"
Eugene Chadbourne plays on a track from this album.
  7:46pm
P-90:

and Pink Floyd
and Gentle Giant as Dave mentioned
  7:47pm
Dean:

Art Zoyd, maybe?
  7:47pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "The Secret Life of Walter Riddle" by "French TV"
What's the secret, Walter?
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dday:

↳ newton @7:42
I believe Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard A True Star" LP, original cover was an example of die cutting a cover. Scalloped corners.

duckduckgo.com...
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Dave Mandl:

Also die-cut: Raspberries, Traffic's "Low Spark"...
  7:48pm
Dean:

Bob Brainen had a weekly thread about die-cut album covers a few years back. Kinda fun. Gentle Giant's US issue of Octopus, for instance, and their In a Glass House.
  7:49pm
Dean:

And Shootout...
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newton:

↳ dday @7:48
Maybe, I never saw that original. I think even the original UK release of Armed Forces with its 4 way fold out was die stamped
  7:50pm
tonyb:

Stone’s “Through the Past, Darkly” compilation.
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:48
Yes the Side 3 LP from Raspberries was
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erictheise:

OMD's eponymous album was die cut.
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dday:

↳ Dean @7:48
I had that one. Very cool Octo in A Jar.
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erictheise:

& seems to me the Blue Monday EP that looked like a floppy was also.
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ultradamno:

New Order's Blue Monday single, made to look like a floppy disc
  7:51pm
Dean:

E Pluribus Funk
Lindisfarne's Nicely Out of Tune
...so many, fun to recall.
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dale:

jeesh, i opened a can of die cut worms.
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "The Secret Life of Walter Riddle" by "French TV"
new to me and digdug!

thanks dave, keep it progtastic
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ultradamno:

JINX!
  7:52pm
rw:

Good evening! Always happy when I can catch a bit of It's Complicated. Was just thinking more or less what Dean said about the saxophone. Only my list was less complete. VdGG. But I should have thought of Soft Machine too!
  7:52pm
Jim in MA:

Hey folks, which album covers make your eyes groove?
  7:52pm
Dean:

Yes, dday, and I might even prefer that US cover to the Roger Dean British one.
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dday:

↳ newton @7:49
I owned the Rundgren disc. Didn't manage to get the EC fold out LP just a regular slide in cover was mine
  7:52pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:48
...and Shootout at the Fantasy Factory -Traffic ?
  7:52pm
JB:

Vertigo label fans should check out Andy Votel's vertigo mixed
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newton:

↳ dday @7:52
EC came with postcards too!
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Dave Mandl:

Belated hello: rw, Jim, ngh, tonyb.
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Dave Mandl:

...and JB.
  7:53pm
Dean:

Favorite album covers, you mean, Jim in MA?
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dday:

Funny thing, we as consumers loved the die cut covers (expensive) but most bands of the day had no idea the cost was coming out of their pockets via recoupment
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newton:

↳ dday @7:54
And the costs of everything they ate drank smoked and sniffed
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Dave Mandl:

Cover of "In a Glass House" (Gentle Giant) is pretty cool, with a clear window and an insert.
  7:55pm
Dean:

I like the cover of Malesch, but alas, not enough to retain the album when I had it.

Among the favorites, DAMNED DAMNED DAMNED. Lots of great classical covers, too.
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dale:

↳ dday @7:54
imagine liquid lamination, lenticulars, picture discs....etc!
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dday:

↳ newton @7:54
yup. Those dogs at the labels did a number on many bands
  7:55pm
Dean:

Now, see, I can't think of a die-cut classical album cover...
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:55
I'm guessing you can find it on CD for not too much?
  7:55pm
Tom from Stirling:

Lots of good, clean, prog fun tonight. Thanks, man
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Coach32sm:

It is agitation free
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ultradamno:

Then there were covers with 3D things stuck to them, Satanic Majesties, Just Keep Eating...not sure what the relative expense of that is.
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dale:

.....embossments...
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dale:

DEbossments!
  7:56pm
Dean:

I bet you're right, Dave. But I used to have custody of the first two AF albums.
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks, folks. Have a stupendous week. And happy Mothers Day to all who celebrate.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:56
:-(
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dale:

↳ Song: "Malesch" by "Agitation Free"
this is a great jam.
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erictheise:

a fave is the Guess Who's Artificial Paradise which was packaged like a mailing from Publishers Clearinghouse.
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ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:56
Did anyone put out an original magic eye album cover, for the eye grooving?
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:56
I'll play some Mothers with Zappa :)
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HollyRT:

Speaking of album covers, if you haven't, the Hipgnosis docu is a MUST-SEE.
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Dave Mandl:

"Focus 3" had a nice lenticular on the cover. Good album too.
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newton:

↳ dale @7:56
SCritti pollitti Songs to Remember had a honey bee embossed on an otherwise plain white jacket with one thin blue line across, that was sweet
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Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

Damn fine prog-ramme today, Mr. Mandl. Thank you.
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dday:

↳ HollyRT @7:57
On my list if I ever have the time to sit through a movie
  7:58pm
Dean:

Faces, Long Player
Did Ooh-La-La also feature die-cut?
Monty Python, Matching Tie & Handkerchief
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newton:

↳ dday @7:58
my list too
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San Pedro Girl:

↳ HollyRT @7:57
I saw that. I found it interesting.
  7:58pm
a Hi-K:

Love Agitation Free but would argue they are more kosmische and less prog
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bleubombersune:

Dave as usual great music All stay safe and be well.. May not have oportunity to listen to broadcast 4 next 3 weeks Off to Europe
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ultradamno:

↳ HollyRT @7:57
wimwords.com...
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Troy:

Thanks again Dave for another excellent show!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ a Hi-K @7:58
Probably true. I'd say they're on the border.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave!
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newton:

what a lovely hour, thanks Dave!
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erictheise:

↳ bleubombersune @7:59
have a great trip!
  7:59pm
Dean:

Answering my own question, yes, Faces Ooh-La-La was die-cut.
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San Pedro Girl:

Thank you, Dave.
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:57
I have very old lenticular in a frame from my Grandma, a crying baby with a kitten licking the milk on the kids cereal. And some cool 3 Stooges rings
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I wonder if the Zappa household still celebrates the Mothers of Invention Day?
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dale:

↳ newton @7:57
i'll bet an embossed cover meant one less album could fit in a store bin. unless the store owner wasn't having any of that crap.
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erictheise:

thanks Dave, yet another fine program.
  8:00pm
P-90:

thanks!
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Coach32sm:

Great show!!!
  8:00pm
Dean:

Other cover oddities include one of Rick Wakeman's solo albums. It came with a reflective cylinder that would sort out the distorted cover illustration.
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dale:

enjoyed. thanks dave!
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Dave Mandl!!!!
  8:03pm
Jim in MA:

↳ Dean @7:53
Exactly, Dean! Covers that rock and roll visually!
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Dave!
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