Greetings from Snicolette

Snicolette (Nickie Harte Kelly) here.  Lucky to have been an active listener and concert-goer from the early days of progressive music.  Introduced to all sorts of music in a musical family with deep roots in San Pedro, CA.  I can remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, although I was but 6.  Older sisters distributed flyers and posters for The Bank in Torrance, CA, where Pink Floyd played during a US tour in 1968.  Their involvement piqued my interest in psychedelia, at one point I was the psychedelic buyer for a used record store in the early 80's.  My first concert was The Moody Blues, with Spirit and Trapeze opening at The Forum in 1970.  Most favourite prog bands from early days are King Crimson, Jethro Tull, The Strawbs, ELP, Procol Harum, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Family, Camel, Frank Zappa, The Moody Blues and I saw these in concert many times.  I like bands/artists that mix in other cultures as well, such as Loreena McKennitt, Dead Can Dance, Alan Stivell, The Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Athy the Electric Harper Azam Ali and Mary Fahl.  Favourite psych and/or rock bands/artists are the US Kaleidoscope, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fever Tree, Phil Ochs, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & The Fish, Pink Floyd, The Pretty Things (SF Sorrow period), Buffalo Springfield, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine.  More contemporary prog acts that I enjoy are Marillion, iamthemorning, Big Big Train, Riverside, Offa Rex, plus solo efforts by the greats like Richard Thompson, Steve Hackett, Peter Gabriel.  Favourite classical composers are Debussy, Holst, Stravinsky, Vaughn Williams.  I know there are more, just top of my head stuff.  I was vice president of the second largest rock tour bus company in the US throughout the 80's.  Being situated in offices at The Village Recorder in Santa Monica, we also managed among others, Bill Ward of Black Sabbath fame and represented the rhythm section of the original Buffalo Springfield, who toured the US whilst waiting for the original band to form a reunion with those big name guys.  Most recently, I have formed a publishing company (Ghosts of Palos Verdes Music) and label (19:35 Productions) to promote my recently deceased husband's (Tom Kelly) symphonic/crossover progressive music in 3 CD/Digital releases in September 2018.  I look forward to this site's broadening of my knowledge and have already logged in some hours listening to new to me artists that have been reviewed here.  Thank you!   

The love of the music is the important thing...and remember, I worked for years with rock bus drivers, so I have a bit of a crust to deflect scratchiness.

Stephen is undeniably one of the greatest underrated guitarists and that particular combination of musicians was just magic.  I did get to sit in on the rehearsals at his home in the San Fernando Valley back in the 80's with the original 5, they never did get back together as a unit, as Dewey and Bruce died before that happened.  One of my most cherished musical memories.  

Thank you for the warm welcome!

I wish I'd been able to stay awake until the David Cross and Zappa music, but I did go and check it out (and others) from the playlist of some stuff I'd missed.

I was very gratified that they'd played Tom's music, so wanted to make sure to listen in some more and bring others that I know from other places that might not be familiar with the show to it.  

Yes, it was great fun, I think I'll come back and tip a few with you all again.  Thanks to you and everyone else there for making me feel welcome.  Made for a nice Saturday night, good music playing and talking about music with knowledgeable folks.