Progressive rock, prog rock, underground whateever you wish to lanbel it it’s the 70s defining sound for me. Memories of siting there with a “herbal cigarette” and chilling to the sounds emanating from the bunch of hairy hippies on stage….

Lots n lots n lots of memories every one a corker imean it was soooo gggrrrrrrrrooovy.

However I did widen my horizons as to more genres and as i remember Caravan then led me onto Coloseum and the jazz rock fusion which eventually lead me to Black Widow and their album Sacrifice; now that was a memory.

Not sure how many of you will remember or even know about Black Widow but in brief I will leave you to google them yourself but as a starter for ten

http://www.blackwidow.org.uk/

well the memeory is quite simple and more than a little bit mischeveous

on Sundays in my leafy little bit of suburbia, ( well it was the inner circle in Birmingham actually with no leaves) in the afternoon (after already having done my stint as a Acolyte at the church) the congregation of the Elim Pentecostal form a nice little group and begin happy clappy ohhh lordy lordy singing , well parents away and possessed by the demon of Sunday drinks at the country girl, I just couldn’t resist mowing the speakers of my Van Der Molen Hi fi system to the open windows approximately fifteen feet from the joyous bunch and placing the vinyl on the turntable, selecting the required track and blasting out at the fullest of volume the track Come to the Sabbat from the above mentioned album a contest had begun and in true Spinal Tap Fashion…my volume control went all the way to Eleven….

http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Widow/_/Come+to+the+Sabbat

I will now go and seek repentance ………

Nahhhhhhhhhhhh bols to that