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Hi Hedley, those 3" CDs are enticing - I've just ordered an adaptor so I can play them. The acts are all pretty obscure. I'm the same as you with regard to all things unexplained. I used to subscribe to Fortean Times and loved their approach to such topics. But as you state the whole world of conspiracy theories that is around now is a particularly disturbing and potentially dangerous environment which I try and keep clear of (though it does seem to be becoming more a part of mainstream culture sadly). I do still enjoy picking up the odd copy of FT sometimes though. Cheers... Pete

Hi John, I was very grateful to Dave for sending me these CDs - particularly looking forward to the Folklore of the Moon set. I think you'd probably enjoy the Filibuster saloon CD as you enjoy the whole Canterbury scene. Been an eventful couple of weeks, but no summer really to speak of! Take care... Pete

Thank you very much James. I don't actually know what happened to Jimmy Nichol - do I want to? Gave up trying to find those mid period Kinks albums out in the wild and went with the reissues when they came out. The easiest albums of theirs to find are the later Arista ones. I feel that Obscured is very much underrated. The Byrds two-fer is great - my favourite Byrds album combined with my very first introduction to country rock. Cheers... Pete

Hi John, how are you? Been meaning to get in touch for quite a while. This was the first time I'd heard Bad Reputation. I know it's highly thought of but for me doesn't match albums like Johnny The Fox and Jailbreak - I'm also a fan of the early Eric Bell albums. NWOBHM albums are difficult to collect - very rarely see any of them and they're usually expensive. I don't quite have all the Can albums on vinyl - I'm missing one! I don't have the reunion album Rite Time which to be honest was never a favourite. Do have it on CD but not listened to it in years. Will send you an email soon (honest)... cheers... Pete

@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 I like the Eric Bell Lizzy too, though I have still to hear the first two. I ask about Can because I have a brand new copy of Out Of Reach, still sealed. I bought it a few years ago in a sale. I have nothing else by them so I'm not sure what to expect. Maybe I'll spin it and see. Hope all is well with you. I'll put together an e-mail soon. Cheers

@@johnbellamy3406 Hi John, Out of Reach is a contentious album among both the fans and the band. At that point they'd changed line-up adding a couple of new guys and going for a funkier, jazzier, and at times poppier sound - far less experimental than they had been. It's different but I still quite enjoy it.

Hi Graham, I think I saw the Osiris album on the sales list of one of the online retailers I use a lot - a prog band from Bahrain - I just had to try it! I see they reformed in the 2000s and did a number of albums for Musea - wonder what they're like? Sorry at my age I struggle to recall what I had for dinner so can't remember in which video I showed the Caravela Escarlate album - it's an excellent one though. Will definitely have to check out the keyboardist's album. All the best... Pete

Thanks Chris.

Thank you for watching and commenting Joseph. I'm sure, as you say, that there is so much more to discover, and I look forward to doing so.

Thank you for watching and commenting.

Thank you!

Thank you Petri. I only had the one glass of wine... honest (though it was a large one 🤣).

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Thank you for the birthday greeting, and for the kind words on the video. Cheers...Pete

Thanks Richie, it would be interesting to see others do similar ones with their birth dates / significant dates.

Thank you ever so much for watching and commenting. I really appreciated the translation of the various band names. I love to hear acts sing in their native languages as opposed to English, but often would like an English translation to read along to. Though really the human voice is just a musical instrument too. I showed only those acts for which I have some music on vinyl. I bought most of them back in the 70s and 80s when French and especially Breton music thanks to people like Stivell made it popular here in the UK. They are not so easy to find nowadays. Therefore I thank you for the links to other like minded groups - I will definitely check them out. I'm always on the lookout for more folk acts from around Europe - especially Italy as I'm of Italian extraction - especially traditional songs and tunes when done utilising electric instruments alongside more traditional ones in a progressive manner. Wishing you all the best... Peter

Thank Rob. Wow you got to see Marley! I would have loved that. I got to see Queen at Maine Road stadium (Manchester City's old ground) in 1986 - decent concert (though I think I preferred Status Quo who were supporting). Cheers... Pete

Thanks Richard. It would be interesting to see others (hint) do similar videos for their birth date. Don't really celebrate birthdays anymore, but on the Saturday prior I did take myself off to Carlisle our largest town and did buy myself a few albums as a present to myself 😁.

Thank you Mike.

Thank you Alex.

Thank you Frank. It doesn't seem that long since I was in my 40s! Thanks for subscribing and watching.

Thank you Gerard - I still can't believe I've made it to 66 - it doesn't seem that long since I was in my 3os and 40s!

The same for me

Thanks Michael - don't really celebrate my birthday any more - there have been so many now, but I did take myself off to Carlisle on Saturday and bought myself some records 😁

I celebrated mine on Sunday and wish I hadn’t bothered. I went to the jam at a pub in Belmont (next door to San Mateo, where I live) but didn’t have a good time and never got called up to play. I should have gone record shopping instead!

@@michaelpdawson A belated happy birthday Michael. Sorry the day itself didn't work out though. I do find that a bit of retail therapy can be good for the soul (if you ignore the occasional bit of guilt 😁). Cheers.. Pete

Thanks Pete! As it happens, I went to someone else’s birthday celebration tonight and had a blast! They went all out, hiring a club and two bands. The first was a Beatles trio (no drummer) who did a lot of early songs that showed off their vocal harmonies. Then there was a Bowie cover band that did two sets, first disco-funky Bowie and then Ziggy-era Bowie. Big fun…let all the children BEWGIE.

Thank you! Actually celebrated my birthday on Saturday by taking myself off to Carlisle our biggest city in the county and of course ended up buying some records!

Thanks Jack. Grateful I got to 66 successfully - the Conservatives have been talking of upping the pensionable age to 75 if they get in again! Now I can apply for my free bus pass!

Thank you! I wasn't sure when I first thought of trying this if there would be many notable events on my birth date, so was pleasantly surprised. It would be nice to see others do a similar video for their own birth dates.

Thank you very much!

Thank you ever so much Marcos. And thank you for the kind words about my videos - can't believe that someone from Brazil is watching them!

Thanks Rob, bet you didn't know you were conversing with someone born in a castle 😂. TAAB 2 is pretty good, though obviously not up there with the original. Yes a shame about Jim Gordan. maybe the events of June 3 could have been prevented if he'd have been correctly diagnosed earlier. His really was a prolific musician - there were dozens of other albums that he appeared on outside of those I showed.

Thank you John. You better hope that Rishi and friends don't get back in in July. they've been talking of upping the pensionable age to 75! I never realised Ray Davies had to fly back from the States to make that single word change - madness! There were a lot more albums that Gordon played on than those I showed - he really seemed to be the drummer of choice.

Thank you Anthony - I did celebrate my birthday a couple of days earlier by taking myself off to Carlisle where I managed to purchase some SF books and a few records. I'll have a word with my friend who I go to the fairs with about the cart idea for his car 🤣.

Thank you, that's very nice of you to say.

It was my love of bands like Fairport and Pentangle that set me off on my search for similar bands from the continent. You can easily find the Rockpalast Fairport concert with Dan Ar Bras online. He played with them again once more at one of their Cropredy festival concerts. Cheers...Pete

Hi Hedley, thanks for watching and commenting. I hadn't heard (or don't remember) that story of Stivell's dad and the creation of the Breton harp - interesting. I've never come across Rosbif. Just checked Discogs and they did two albums in the early 80s. Can't seem to find any audio clips but they look like they'd definitely be up my street. Ditto Sourdent, though here I managed to find a video of them and very much liked what I heard. I need to delve further into Occitanian music. I first came across it with the Japanese psych band Acid Mothers Temple who did an album called Novia which incorporated the style into it. In fact when I saw them live they played a piece which I remember at the time thinking " this is pure French folk al la Stivell"! Les Negresses Vertes I have heard of but never investigated their music - maybe I should. Thanks for the suggestions... Pete PS don't run scared from prog... just open up your heart to it and you will never regret it 😁

Hi Gérard, thank you for watching, and for the very interesting comments and recommendations. It's fascinating to hear how distinctive the music and culture of the different regions of France are. I've been fairly well aware of Breton music because it was the one that was best known over here in the UK with Stivell and others. I first came across music from Occitania surprisingly from the Japanese psych / noise band Acid Mothers Temple who incorporated some of it in one of their albums, but I've not investigated further. Just looked up Nadau on discogs and they look interesting. I also checked out Errobi and Itoiz and they again sounded very good. But the one of your recommendations that really impressed me were Melusine. I have never heard of them before, but they sound absolutely up my street! I see that 3 of their albums are available on Discogs from UK sellers for reasonable prices - I think I may very well end up buying them. I love discovering folk music from around Europe. Being of Italian descent I would love to find more from Italy though. Wishing you all the very best... Pete

I found part of the records you mentionned on your video finder keepers but unhappily not the italian the one I liked better Gerardo Iacoucchi. Maybe next time. It's not easy to find italian prog groups I discovered on your videos nor scandinavian and particulary finish groups I'm very fond of, because I never search and buy on Internet but only markets fairs or record stores. In Italia I have a favorite singer with a long carrer I follow from à long time Gino Paoli but his voice is very particular and don't please everybody he's most a singer songs than musical research. On your video I rediscovered too Focus I had one album but had forgotten I'm now finding Focus II but not easy find . See you soon on a next video.

Hi Petri, glad you enjoyed it. I got most of these back in the 70s / 80s when you could manage to find these sort of releases - never see them now with the possible exception of the odd Stivell (but not even those that often). Glad I got them when I did. Cheers... Pete

Hi Dave, Ar Bras' version of Rain opens his 3rd album. I used to be able to find these albums quite easily in Newcastle during my university days - nowadays, apart from the very odd Stivell album, I never see them knocking around. I have a DVD somewhere of a Stivell concert in Manchester in 2000 which I filmed which I need to find and rewatch. Cheers... Pete

Thank you Michael, so glad you enjoyed it. Cheers... Pete

@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 I'm particularly a fan of Malicorne...I got to see Gabriel Yacoub in concert once.

Hi Dale, only ever see the odd Stivell at the record fairs these days myself. If you want the mixed male/female vocals then Malicorne, La Chifonnie, later La Bamboche would probably be the ones to look out for. You might like the Emmanuelle Parrenin album too. Cheers... Pete

In France he was absolutely a trail blazer for Celtic music. A l'Olymia is one of the best albums

@@thornil2231 not just in France, but across the world too. Both L'Olympia and Dublin are stellar live albums.

@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 In Ireland and Bretany they did not wait for him. But in the non celtic areas he was revolutionary.

Heureux que cela m’ait rappelé de bons souvenirs. Merci d’avoir regardé et commenté.

Hi thanks for watching. I've been after Pierre de Grenoble for years now - have never seen it here in the UK and there are none for sale on Discogs from any UK vendors. Will just have to bite the bullet and pay the postage to get it from France. Cheers... Pete

Thanks ever so much for the kind words. I remember that whole Breton music / identity movement being very popular back in the late 70s when I was at University and just discovering acts like Stivell. Cheers.. Pete

Hi Alex, there seemed to be so much wonderful folk music coming out of France in the 70s. I don't know if that's still the case - I really should try and investigate. Cheers... Pete

@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 Thanks for sharing Pete, it certainly opened my eyes to the folk scene in France during the 1970s cheers...Alex

Thanks for watching and commenting, I hope you found you found some music worth investigating further. Cheers... Pete

Hi Rob, I was thinking (hoping) that this would be to your liking. If you like Stivell and Gwendal then I think there's more there that would appeal - the Emmanuelle Parrenin album come immediately to mind. Gwendal at the time took me a little while to fully appreciate mainly because of the jazz elements (which I wasn't really into back then). Some people might be put off some of this music because of the shrill use of pipes - but I love it! All the very best... Pete

@@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 Yes, I can understand that with the pipes, it's quite jarring if you're not used to it..the energy,vibe and creativity of the music though is astonishing..really enjoyed a lot of it.

Thanks Alan, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers... Pete

Hi Richard. Most of these albums I bought back in the 70s and early 80s when they seemed quite easy to find in the UK. The rest I picked up on Discogs over the last 10 years. I never see them out in the wild anymore so pleased to have got them when I did. I remember you mentioning Wegferend. I checked them out and liked them. I was trying to find their albums here in the Uk but with no luck - will just have to get them off bandcamp and pay the extra postage! I checked out Dan Ar Bras' entry to Eurovision - not a bad folk number with pipes - not the usual Eurovision pap. Speaking of which didn't Norway win the competition with a folk number too (Secret Garden is the name that springs to mind but I can't recall whether that is the song or the band) - if I remember rightly it was pretty good and mostly instrumental (which helps). All the very best... Pete

@soundsfromthewestcoast9939 I just checked out the Secret Garden tune. I have heard it before, but did not realize it had been part of Eurovision and won. It's not a bad tune. One other Norwegian tune vas ever won, and that was some 50s inspired thing that I did not care for. I ended up ordering Wegferend on Bandcamp as well. I did not see it from my normal sources, but should have check out Canadian sources. Canadian shipping can still be surprisingly expensive though. Did you see Frøislie's announcement? He is releasing some material, I think from his last album, with the vocalist of Museo Rosenbach on Karisma. Hope you have a great weekend.

@@vinylizingprogger Hi Richard, I did see the news from Frøislie - another to buy. Also there's a new album from Tusmørke too 😁 Also got notification that Juno Records have got the new Agusa in stock so ordered that - will it never end (I hope not)!

Thank you! Alan Stivell is the only one of these artists I've managed to see live too. He did a free concert (part of the Streets Ahead concert series) in a square in Manchester back in (if I remember rightly) 2000. I managed to film the whole of the concert - I really should try and find that recording it's so long since I watched it. Cheers... Pete PS I'll check out Nino Ferrer.

The Freeman brothers revived Audion a few years back purely in pdf format (with accompanying music files). But just recently they've also managed to do a printed format again (in limited numbers) and are going back to to the pdf versions and doing printed versions of those too. It's my favourite music mag - the only one I now get. Cheers... Pete

Hi Rob, how are you doing? Dan Ar Bras (or Braz as he later became) is an excellent guitarist, though I don't know what his later 80s and later work is like. Ripaille would definitely appeal to anyone into prog. The vast majority of these were collected 2nd hand back in the 70s and 80s - luckily I kept a hold on them during the CD years. All the best... Pete

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have heard of Tangerine but not heard anything by them. I don't know of Rictus - will check them out. Thanks for the recommendations. Cheers...Pete