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Pink Floyd- Meddle @55- David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters 10-26

The sidelong eighteen minute epic "Echoes" from Pink Floyd's Fall 1971 album "Meddle" was the Apollo 8 mission for the band, stretching the boundaries of where Pink Floyd's music would soon land in the future with "Dark Side of the Moon". David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Roger Waters join me here In the Studio for the fifty-fifth anniversary of Pink Floyd's "Meddle" the week of October 25.
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Kansas- Leftoverture @50- Kerry Livgren, Phil Ehart, Steve Walsh, Richard Williams, the late Robbie Steinhardt

By October 1976, it was go big or go home for Kansas, the intrepid six-man Progressive Rock band from Topeka, Kansas. Because of the hit "Carry On Wayward Son" ( submitted by the prolific Kerry Livgren even as the band was packing up to leave rehearsals ) and radio hits "Miracles Out of Nowhere","The Wall", "Cheyenne Anthem", and "What's On My Mind ", "Leftoverture"  gave Kansas rock statehood to the tune of over four million sold. Livgren is joined by Richard Williams, Phil Ehart, Steve Walsh, & the late original Kansas violinist/singer Robbie Steinhardt here In the Studio.

Kansas- Leftoverture 50th- Rich Williams, Phil Ehart, Kerry Livgren 10-12

my guests in Kansas guitarist/songwriter Kerry Livgren, guitarist Richard Williams, and drummer Phil Ehart reveal, "Leftoverture" was a banquet of virtuosity and seemingly pure luck, seasoned with hope and a dash of desperation. Songs include "Carry On Wayward Son", "What's On My Mind", "The Wall", and "Miracles Out of Nowhere" on the golden anniversary of the multi-platinum breakthrough album "Leftoverture" here In the Studio the week of October 12...

YES- Magnification @25- Jon Anderson, Steve Howe,the late Chris Squire & Alan White

It's the 25th anniversary of YES releasing their 21st century chestnut "Magnification" in September 2001, with Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, the late Alan White, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, and the late Chris Squire ALL In the Studio.

YES- Deeper (In the Presence Of)- Amsterdam 2001

YES treated concert goers twenty-five summers ago to this lithe but nevertheless powerful quartet with full orchestral arrangements, including this gem "Deeper (In the Presence Of)" live in Amsterdam.

Kansas- The Prelude Implicit 10th- Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Ronnie Platt, David Ragsdale

In 2016 the first new original studio album in sixteen years, "The Prelude Implicit",  from all-American progressive rockers Kansas, was one of the most pleasant musical surprises in 2016...like discovering the "lost"  album which would have fit naturally between early mid-Seventies efforts "Song for America"  and "Masque". Lifers drummer Phil Ehart and guitarist Richard Williams are joined here In the Studio  by violinist David Ragsdale and impressive veteran lead singer Ronnie Platt.
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Genesis- Abacab @45- Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins

The September 1981 release of Genesis "Abacab" forty-five years passed. The veteran English band's eleventh  studio album, nevertheless it was the first Genesis album to breach the American Top Ten album sales on Billboard , and surprisingly the first Genesis million seller. Yet it is no minor miracle that my guests Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Tony Banks could make it to the Progressive Rock promised land.
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Moody Blues- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour 55th- Justin Hayward, John Lodge, the late Graeme Edge

"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" was the Moody Blues' seventh album in a string of commercially and critically popular efforts. Singer/lead guitarist Justin Hayward, singer/bass player the late John Lodge, and departed Moody Blues co-founder drummer Graeme Edge take "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" to share here In the Studio insights into some of the Moody Blues' best of those early years.
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Genesis- Invisible Touch @40- Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Phil Collins

Genesis' biggest album in their long fifty year+ career, "Invisible Touch"  (worldwide sales estimated at 15,000,000) turns forty, so we convened Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Phil Collins here In the Studio  to discuss the blockbuster sales behind "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", "Land of Confusion", "In Too Deep", "Throwing It All Away", and "Invisible Touch".

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Tarkus @55

Listening now to the epic title song to "Tarkus", the second studio album in June1971 which followed quickly after their stunning 1970 debut, with Greg Lake's voice delicately yet nimbly bounding along to Keith Emerson's piano runs, it's clear that Emerson Lake and Palmer were much  less "Be Bop a Lula" in their melodic grandeur and much more "Andrew Lloyd Weber". Here In the Studio is the story in their own words of progressive rock's first supergroup.