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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:


Ah, nice to see the technical types behind the iron blanket get some love. And a rival for Phil Spector's mantle too. Probably in more ways than one. I wish I had some back forth with our colleagues from across the pond and back across the steppes back in the day. I never could get my sound mixing console/mine detector working correctly, that I bought from the back of a van from a honest looking chap named Ivan. He said it was "easy to figure out. Just don't push the red button". So here's to old Ivan too. ;)

Never buy second hand goods from a chap called Ivan. Or Xi, for that matter. And don’t forget the vans they delivered said goods in as well!
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I embellished the story but I did have a shady charactor try to sell me this ungodly peice of Soviet made recording equipment that took up all the space in the back of his van. And that was the portable version. Life is indeed stranger than fiction at times and your excellent posts really drive the point home. Keep up the fine work, my friend. They're a breath of fresh air in the modern shut-in Covid world.

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We had a fair old variety of choice on today’s entry in the archival legend that is The PABT. We could have inaugurated a Salty Sea Dog or a Welsh Motocross chappy, but in the end I decided to open up the temple doors to a musician who has attracted a huge amount of love by two Collabs on the site, but ignored by virtually everyone else. We shall, therefore, ask the all important question. Is this fair? Is he any good? In the very first appearance of the PABT ratings system, in a historic first for the pantheon of prog, we will allow half point ratings and a score out of ten. Be still, my beating heart!

Mitsubachi joined our symphonic throng in July 2006, and hung around on and off until 2015, and in that nine plus years only ever posted the once. Yep, a single solitary, extraordinarily lonely wee post. Given that our hero resides in the Land of the Hairy Arse, you would naturally be a little surprised that he was kept so busy up there so as to not fulfil his PA posting duties.


Marc Carlton, for it is he, is 42 years old today. In October 2008, he made his only post to inform the assembled masses the rather exciting news that his opus, “Reflex Arc”, had been re-released, and this drew a very appreciative comment from a Prog Reviewer, Mr The Rain Man http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52628


On that post, you will find a link to his Prog Temple page, but here it is for completeness MARC CARLTON discography and reviews As you can see, he has been rather prolific over the years, although the assembled throng have not really got stuck in aside from two collabs, Mr Rain Man and the legendary Easy Living, with one other chap who also liked the music, and that is it.


Marc’s website is called The Madrigal Project, and you can eyeball it here The Madrigal Project - Marc Carlton Music Works On this, our departed brother informs us that he is influenced by some classic stars of prog and those titans of video game soundtracks, Messrs Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Hitoshi Sakimoto.


As with many other musicians, Marc has his own BandCramp page, and here you can listen to, and purchase, his wares Music | Marc Carlton


So! To the music! Degrees of Freedom got a five star review from our glorious collab, Mr Dustin Hoffman, so let us take a listen. One of the tracks on this, Interlocutor, is dedicated to a certain Mr Chris Squire, and is a nice little attempt to channel the great man’s oeuvre onto this piece of work. There is an epic ten minutes plus track, the intriguingly titled Pesmerga Finds Uber, and this is where the gaming influence comes in. Pesmerga is a terrifying looking chappy from Suikoden, and Marc’s forum name is a member of a honey bee sect from another game. I haven’t posted links to these, because they are fully of buggy wuggies, and made my iPad go bonkers. This is an excellent track by the way, and would certainly appeal to any fans of that prodigy of Mr Beardy Branson living in The West Indies these days.


So! A rating! Well, I am afraid that it is not a masterpiece to the PABT critical lugholes. It is, though, pretty good, and would attract a 3.5 star rating if we had such a creature on PA, so 7 stars in the PABT hallowed halls. Good stuff, not quite enough to rattle the monetary timbers of excellence, but most certainly worthy of more attention than it has had prior to this induction post. Go on! Give it a listen!


Happy birthday sir! Make sure you wear your mask when you get in your Uber!


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Today on PABT, we are taking a Tripp to The Land of the Free, something as regular readers of this delightfully silly little thread will know is a relatively common occurrence.

Today’s departed hero to be installed into our hallowed halls was a wee bairn when he registered in January 2012, staying for 11 months, but owing to his tender years was obviously far too in awe of the assembled prog masses to utter even a syllable in our den.


genesissinceseven celebrates his 23rd birthday today, which means that he was a mere 13 years old when he joined us, bless him. So, just who is Griffin Tripp, and how has he matured into a young man, from boy to yoof?


Griffin did not register an occupation when he joined, child labour having been outlawed in Americaland some decades ago, although rumour did have it that Mr Trumpalot was in favour of cracking the whip to get the ne’er do wells of modern yoofdom out to do a spot of manual work. He gave his interests as gaming, music, and history.


Our departed hero hails from Mechanicsburg in Pennsylvania, which sounds as if it should be a motor capital of the esteemed place where sucking diesel is a full time passion, not just a soundbite on a popular tv cop show (last episode tonight. Mr Laz is SO excited). Let us consider this prior to discussing our lost brother. Well, it is a borough in Cumberland County, so probably founded by lost brethren of the hairy arse variety. It was a settlement of mechanics who made and repaired Conestoga wagons back in the day. In what must be a relief to residents of this fine upstanding town, its website declares that Mechanicsburg is a “fine place to live”. Having said that, it lists more rules on criteria to have your rubbish collected by those fine chaps at Penn Waste than we have for acceptance into a sub-genre on PA https://www.mechanicsburgborough.org/ If you should be thinking of relocating, the town offers exciting opportunities to become a school crossing guard or a park security officer, although fans of Messrs Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville need not apply.


So, just what is our lovely hero up to these days? Well, extremely satisfyingly for a post on a forum dedicated to music, he is a musician! Yep. He practices 2-3 times per week, so a wee bit of a slacker there, but is available to gig 2-3 nights per week, although anyone considering hiring Griffin will have to lend him your drums, as he seems to have misplaced his, bless Griffin Tripp - Musician in Mechanicsburg PA - BandMix.com This site not only features a rather lovely photo of our boy wonder, but also in the music section some serious Genesis tracks, so kudos here. His TweetyPie page also provides us with a clue as to his maturing development. He declares himself proudly Jewish, as opposed to the embarrassed variety, an Anti-Tankie left libertarian, which given the office of Uncle Joe Stalin over there would appear to be a contradiction in terms, and CompSci.


Now, I have no idea whatsoever what “anti-tankie” and CompSci are, not being of such tender years. Well for the first, I should have done, because a tankie is a pejorative term to describe those members of The Communist Party of Great Britain (still going, although split into about 30 factions as we speak) who defended the Soviet use of tanks to crush the popular revolt in Hungary in the 50’s - well, he did say he was into history! CompSci is, I am afraid, nothing more exciting than Computer Science, but a really good nerdy subject for an upstanding commie to be into. https://twitter.com/griffintripp1 


And, here is the biggy. Your introduction to Griffin’s music https://soundcloud.com/griffin-tripp-5009851/following I have taken a listen to his cover of Me and Sarah Jane, one of my favourite latter day Genesis tracks, and I think it is really good in a charming way, and that is not meant to be sarcastic or patronising. His voice is not the strongest (there is a nice female vocal at the end, though), but his basic musicianship is really not all that bad. Good on him, because I rather wish I wish I had the guts to do this. It usually takes me about five or six pints to get up to a microphone at the local boozer karaoke! There are piles more covers on here, so please do add to his titanic eight followers.


It is, by the way, awarded 5.5 stars on The PABT ratings system.


So! We wish a very happy birthday to our departed brother, Griffin! Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those wagons rolling. Keep those wagons rolling, Griffin!


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Elsewhere in Proggerland, no current collabs to report. Mind you, you have all had more than enough excitement for one day. 



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Originally posted by lazland lazland wrote:

If you should be thinking of relocating, the town offers exciting opportunities to become a school crossing guard or a park security officer, although fans of Messrs Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville need not apply.

LOLLOLLOL  You break me up man ! Excellent nomination.


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Today on PABT, we are going to take a look, as we have more than once now on the thread, at a departed brother who many of you reading this thread may well have heard of, or certainly listened to.

Frans Keylard joined our proggy throng in June 2006 and hung around for 8 years, and posted just the 5 times. He celebrates his 54th birthday in Kent, Washington in the glorious Home of the Brave today. Kent is part of the Seattle metropolitan area in that Pacific washed area of Yankeeland. Those of you who follow Lurgy News will no doubt be utterly relieved that this fine place wears its masks because it cares, which is undoubtedly better for the residents than not being bothered, I suppose. It is also an extraordinarily Greta-friendly town, given that its website details not just two mini-recycling events in May, but also a TeamUp2CleanUp for the town’s annual spring clean. Brooms to the ready, chaps! City of Kent | Home 


Frans used to present a prog rock podcast, namely The Rogue’s Gallery. He describes himself these days as a “recovering prog DJ”, and the podcast is no longer live, although he does maintain a SadBook page still, which you can view here https://www.facebook.com/groups/41904173340/ he also has a small collection of stuff on BandyCramp, including an album I really must buy, namely Rick Armstrong’s work fransk's collection | Bandcamp His prog radio site The Dividing Line is no longer extant, sadly, but Frans does still do some producing on the West Coast.


These days, Frans is “a data-driven marketer who relentlessly finds ways to get more customers for a product, and how to keep them. He owns real-estate at the intersection of where marketing creativity and quantitative data meet, and always seeks more effective ways to achieve revenue goals”. All this, and more, can be viewed at his LinkdEstate page Frans Keylard - Senior Director of Insights and Optimization - Reflektion | LinkedIn For those of who who are desperate to contact a digital experience agency obsessed with getting results, and why indeed would you not be, then get yourselves over to this lot quick before prog pent up demand overloads the site Digital Customer Experience Agency | R2integrated


So! We wish a very happy birthday to our dear brother! Get back to the prog experience, and ditch that customer journey baloney, sir!


Elsewhere in Proggerland, we celebrate the 36th birthday of Ozzy_Tom, a Prog Reviewer in these parts. Have a great day, Tomasz!


Also, it is SC Trotsky’s 48th birthday in Malaysia today, although he is hopefully not celebrating near any ice picks! Happy birthday, Martin! 

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Today we had a fair old choice on PABT. We could have had a genuine Stick Man (yes, really!). We also could have had a fascinating looking musician who should be entered into the Hallowed Halls of Prog, but isn’t. They, though, will have to await their turn for at least another year, unless they are like HM The Queen and have two birthdays. For the theme de jour is Canada. Yep, that most favourite country of PABT even though the author has never been there.

Today’s inauguration simply must belong to a departed brother who is a multi-linguist, including Latin, philosopher, and general genius. In keeping with all the best philosophers, he is a beardy chappy as well! Even better, he is living proof that not all pointy heads reside in Rhineland!


Take a look see at the verse which greets you on his special site; NIL ACTUM REPUTANS SI QUID SUPERESSET AGENDUM. 


Not being a clever chap, I had to resort to Googly Woogly Translate Thingy, but I will award a special Pointyhead Of The Month for the first brother or bald sister who can provide us with an understandable Anglespeak verse of this.


ptaff joined our cerebral throng in September 2006 and actually hung around for nearly four years, but in that time, surprisingly for someone who enjoys a jolly good think and sharing his thoughts with the masses (a critical part of the CV for any beardy philo), he didn’t post once. Not a sausage, or emulsified meat dildo as he would no doubt put it in his rather clever way.


Patrice Levesque celebrates his 45th birthday in that hotbed of cerebral thought, Montreal, today. When he registered, he gave his occupation as a programmer, and listed his interests as prog rock (handily for a prog rock site), computing, and bridge, which I take to be the card type rather than the troubled waters variety.


When you click on his homepage, it takes you to a site all in that wonderful language spoken by Frogs all over the planet, erm French. However, very usefully for those proles who only converse in Anglespeak, there is a translation service available. Here it is ptaff.ca The project is named Ptaf as in pterodactyl, which is a reference to that bird like thingy you all saw in that Richard Attenborough film years ago. It’s manifesto is absolutely clear and so simple that even the prog proletariat can follow it, and it is reproduced here for your genuine excitement;


“By inventing writing, the human race begins its quest to propagate its ideas through time.

By inventing internet, this transmission transcends both time and space.

Our part of this revolution is through ptaff.ca”. 


Deep, man, and something all brethren reading this should remember next time you click on YouPorn. Talking of which, for those of you who hate double entendres, and who doesn’t, you can sign the manifesto! Really, Socrates had nothing on this lot!


For his day job, Our Patrice is a Systems Architect at Nexalogy, and all of you will be undoubtedly relieved to know that he is committed to “pursue sys­tem ad­min­is­tra­tion work, in a di­ver­si­fied re­spon­si­bil­i­ties con­text, on projects both stim­u­lat­ing and se­ri­ous.” Here he is in all his bearded glory on LinkedArms Patrice Levesque - Systems Architect - Nexalogy | LinkedIn And on his firm’s website, you can see the key signals behind the noise, discover conversations on social networks (not recommended for those of you engaged in nookie on the side) and extract actionable insights! Nexalogy – Discover conversations on social networks and for those of you in The Land of the Mounties, take a look at an extremely thrilling resumé. Honestly, how could you not hire our brother after this? Patrice Levesque - Résumé


So! We wish a very happy birthday to our dear brother, Patrice! Make sure the only tricks you pull are of the Ace variety!


Elsewhere in Proggerland, well today not only continues the Canada theme, but celebrates the 65th birthday of one of the nicest men on this planet. Tszirmay, or Thomas Szirmay as his parents named him in a blaze of glory back in the day, is an SC on the site, and is really one of the nicest men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing and communicating with. His knowledge of decent music is unparalleled and for those of you looking to explore new music, his reviews are the go to place. Happy birthday, Thomas!


Looking ahead, it is likely that today’s post will take the views above 10,000, which is remarkable given the fact that I only click on it 23 times a day! The PABT - helping to transform birthing day celebrations across the globe! 

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Plus another daily click added... For a moment I thought you were going to talk about Hume, but no.

Now, aiming at the PHotM-title, I'd say that the Latin thingy is inspired by a song: "It ain't over till it's over." Is it?

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”Nothing has been done, if anything remains to be done.” 😉

[EDIT] Whoops. Didn’t see Kees had already replied. Sorry..... 😳



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Loosely translated to :
Nothing has been done if something remains to be done

Kinda Buddhist, isn't it.
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Well, I am going to award a tie in this instance, so in an extraordinarily exciting development we now have two Pointy Heads of the Month. PHTM times two on PABT!

It is, apparently, from Kent’s preface to his Critique of Pure Reason, and is something to do with metaphysics.

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And given that JD posted just before me, it is now a three-way PHOTM.

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Best things are shared things! Cheers to all, and to Laz for this wonderful PABT! Beer

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Originally posted by suitkees suitkees wrote:

Best things are shared things! Cheers to all, and to Laz for this wonderful PABT! Beer 

Why, thank you Kees. Today’s was extremely good fun, and most of them are. Glad you enjoy.
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^Huggies from a cold damp JD just waiting for the sun to shine again.
In the words of John Heywood "Many hands make light work."
Then again, he may have been talking about more people holding more candles so he could see better.
I honestly got it second hand myself.

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Today on The PABT, now confirmed as the number one happy day visited thread in Progdom, we provide an exclusive service to our hungry masses. I might also add the hungry masses who hail from Blighty and find themselves in The Land of the Free, although native Yankee personages are also very welcome to come aboard. There is absolutely no discrimination on this thread, oh no! We love everybody and share that love far and wide. 

On 16 October 2011, Orianoskin joined our happy gathering, and stayed with us for all of two months without troubling the admin censors hereabouts or even attempting to send us a Latin verse. The chappy who registered celebrates his 34th birthday today, and hails from Catasauqua in Pennsylvania. Let us first consider this wonderfully named metropolis, in true PABT fashion. It is known locally as Catty, so plenty of pussy no doubt to be found in town. It’s mayor is the altogether wonderful Barbara A. Schlegel who is responsible for keeping the good citizens safe and well. On its website, I really would heartily recommend that you take a wee gander at The Iron Works, which thankfully is not a smelting plant thingy, but a wonderful shopping and dining destination, or at least will be when it is complete. Catasauqua – Welcome to the Borough of Catasauqua


Our dear departed brother did not, in fact, come here to wax lyrical about whether Rush are prog, and not even to annoy Ivan, regrettably. Nope, he is simply the latest in a long and proud line of capitalists attempting to flog the prog masses his wares, but what a service he purports to provide. For his homepage is a link to The British Food Depot where you can order all your favorite English and British foods online right here in the USA! Yes, be still your beating hearts! Ditch the Bog Mac! Don’t transition to The Burger Queen! On this site, you can buy Oxo cubes! Oh yes, that crucial component of all stock right over there in Brave Land. Here it is British Food Depot - Shop For British Foods In The USA And don’t just take it from them, oh no, because  250,000+ Orders, 35,000+ Reviewers and 170,000+ Customers Can't Be Wrong!


Well, just how true is this bold statement? Well, before you rush out to order your Walkers Crisps (go for the beef and onion - delicious) or Aero bar (an orgasmic experience, believe me), you might want to pay a visit to one of those public rating site thingies. I have, and I really would be in two minds if I were a freeborn American housewife/husband. Take a look at this site, where 60% of reviews are “bad”, although with only 10 reviews we really should take it with a pinch of Saxo Salt The British Food Depot Reviews | Read Customer Service Reviews of britishfooddepot.com


The Key Principal of the business, or owner to you and I, is a certain John O’Reilly, and I believe that this is our dear departed brother. And in a service unparalleled anywhere else in Prog Forums, you can actually ogle our extraordinarily handsome Blighty brother here British Food Depot - Prepress Services - Catasauqua, PA I would certainly buy a used pork chop from this chap! He used to run a Proper Little Pub in Allentown, but regrettably this closed after no more than a year’s trading. Quite predictable, really, given that 98% of our American cousins prefer the piss water of Bud to good old fashioned English ale. Staggering! I have also found a hit for our friend on a deaf personages site, namely this Orianoskin | Deaf Community but it would appear that he hasn’t posted there, believing instead that the prog masses are more amenable to buying Blighty gravy than those who are hard of hearing. But he has spread his seed on other sites, including one for hairy bikers in The Philippines, of all things Orianoskin | Motorcycle Philippines 


His adventures in Proggerland did not even finish there. He also registered as Walkcotte about the same time, trying to tempt the masses with those aforementioned Walkers Crisps. The ready salted are also quite good by the way. I had some with lunch today.


So! We wish a very happy birthday to our spammy brother! Actually, he flogs spam as well! But I don’t like spam!


Elsewhere, we have no current collabs to report, but if we did, they would almost certainly have expressed their opinion that the position of those three gods from Canada, Rushland, are safe and secure on the site, as they are, indeed, prog, but probably properly situated in Canterbury Scene rather than Heavy Prog on account of the fact they played there live in 1977.


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We are very late posting in tonight’s PABT thread, owing to the fact that Thursday is the pub night for Mr Laz. Beer heaven, talking of which we are visiting the cradle of civilisation this evening.


Parsafayal, which is not a reference to a rather stern Germanic operatic figure, joined our throbbing throng in October 2011, and did hang about for a couple of years before disappearing without bothering us with his opinions on a single occasion. His signature was suitably revolutionary, reading “Together We Stand, Divided ed We Fall”. A passage all of us lonely prog titans can relate to when standing up to the modern world of pop pap, I am sure.


Parsa has a fair old list of interests as well, namely “a Guitar, Music, Cinema, Books, and Philosophy”.


Parsa Fayal celebrates his 30th birthday in that beardy Ayatollah province formerly known as Persia, but these days known as the favourite whipping boy of all decent minded westerners, Iran.


A search for our departed brother finds that he is, in fact, pretty active in the music world, although this was well after his registration. Here is an article about him and his musical brother in Power of ProgIranian Electronica/Space Rock duo SIX DAYS END Announce October 16th as the Release Date for their debut Album “In Between Two Nothings” | Power of Prog. Some really professional and detailed stuff on there.


Our hero also has a Sadderthanever page at Six Days End - Home | Facebook 


And, very excitingly, we also have an elastic band site where we can listen to our prog brothers, and wonder why they are not on our hallowed site.Music | Six Days End On arriving home from the glorious boozer, I have had a wee listen to In Between Two Nothings, and it really is rather good stuff. Iranian prog, brought to you by the finest prog birthday thread in Islamodom. Give it a listen. For those of you who are the digital electronic prog Collabs, get them on the site!


On this thread, sometimes it is nice to take the piss. Sometimes, we like to visit the world of long lost personages who reside in the hilarious corporate world. But occasionally we bring to you some very talented and brave former members, and, on a serious note, I can only really imagine the challenges that Parsa and his friend must have in what is the epitome of theocracy on God’s earth. Good on him, and give his music a listen, whilst lamenting the fact that even Svetonio missed out on recommending him to The Persian Hallowed Halls of Progdom.


Happy birthday sir! Stay clear of beardy yobbos, please!


Elsewhere, no collab news to impart. Tonight’s post was brought to you in partnership with Doombar and Greene King Ales. Happy days, my friends! 

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Ah, saved these for Sunday before the Sunday roast. A weekend ritual now;
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Is everything OK, Laz? The PABT is worryingly silent, although you deserve of course a holiday and/or a week at the pub without celebrating the aging of other people...

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