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Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1223 - Halloween Special 2025This year's Halloween Special features spooky music from artists including Asia, the Edgar Winter Group, Kansas, Blue Öyster Cult, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and many more!
2025-10-271h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1205 - Variety + Nicola Lori on Progressive DiscoveriesMore astounding, new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from PROG Magazine artists Henge, Third Quadrant, Crisalida, and Kanaan & Aevestaden! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album Urban Vision by Italian artist Nicola Lori!
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Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1204 - Cover 2 Cover (Remastered)This was a fun older show that I thought was worthy of a bit of a facelift. So here it is: the second covers special I did with improved audio quality! It features a lot of interesting stuff from Kevin Gilbert, Robert Berry and friends, Daryl Stuermer, Erik Norlander, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Fish, Rush, 3, Unitopia, Dream Theater, Yes, Echolyn, Steve Howe, and Arjen Lucassen! I hope you enjoy!
2025-02-041h 29
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1203 - Variety + Fleesh on Progressive DiscoveriesLots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Overhead The Albatross, Tom Penaguin, Oddleaf, Motorpsycho, and We Are Bodies! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Brazilan duo Fleesh!
2025-01-281h 30
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Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1202 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024, Pt. 2This week on Prog-Watch: Part Two of the big collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best of 2024! With great music from Meer, Marco Gluhmann, Returned to the Earth, Frost*, Nolan Potter, Kavus Torabi, Amarok, Beardfish, the Barock Project, the ESP Project, and the Pineapple Thief! And thanks again to all the contributors: Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
2025-01-141h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1201 - Prog-Watch and TPA Present Some of the Best of 2024, Pt. 1Happy New Year! Join us and start the year off right with some of the best progressive rock produced last year, as we begin our Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect collaboration on the Best of 2024! This year's contributors include Anthony Colvill, Alex Driessen, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, Jane Lee, Magnus Moar, Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Graham Thomas, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming! In this episode we will hear fabulous music from Oddleaf, David Gilmour, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Fleesh, Circuline, Big Big Train, Tim Bowness, Stuckfish, and Neal Morse and the Resonance! Part 2...
2025-01-071h 23
Prog-WatchThe 1st Prog-Watch Christmas Special (Remastered)For this year's Christmas Special, I dug back deep into the Archives and dusted off the first one, from the very first Season of Prog-Watch back in 2014! On this program I was joined by my youngest (by about a minute) son, Paul, and we chatted and reminisced a little, and played some Christmas favorites from mostly Progressive artists. I updated the tracks to higher quality, and added a few since the show was a little short by today's standards. I hope you enjoy! Happy Holidays...however you celebrate!
2024-12-241h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1138 - Variety with a Guest DJ FeatureThis week's program is a variety show with lots of interesting tracks suggested by Guest DJ (and one of my Patrons of the Progressive Arts) Mr. Paul Watson! Plus, another crop from artists featured in this month's PROG Magazine! We'll hear tons of tasty tunes from Pencarrow, 7BZH, Vulgar Unicorn, i Häxa, Demians, Fish On Friday, No Brain Cell, Kalandra, Airbag, Gazpacho, Arabs In Aspic, and Ruby Dawn!
2024-12-091h 23
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1137 - Our Progressive Planet - JapanThis week our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, flies solo for the first time and presents an entire episode of Prog-Watch on his own! The program is an Our Progressive Planet feature centered on Japan, and includes music from Asturias, Ars Nova, Bi Kyo Ran, Hiromi Uehara, Kitaro, KBB, Cichla Temensis, Yuka & Chronoship, Kumorigahara, Ryo Okumoto, Gerard, and Outer Limits!
2024-11-261h 36
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1136 - Variety + Long Earth on Progressive DiscoveriesLots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Frost*, Raven Sad, and PROG Magazine artists Civil Service, Mark Barron, Giant Walker, and Ebony Buckle! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Long Earth!
2024-11-181h 28
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - November 2024This month's excursion into the realm of 101 Dimensions features an eclectic set of music from Church of Hed, Pijn, Vibravoid, Adult Cinema, and Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher.
2024-11-111h 46
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1135 - A Tribute to Keith Emerson (Remastered)On 2 November, the great Keith Emerson would have turned 80. To honor this anniversary I have remastered the Keith Emerson Tribute program I did in the aftermath of his tragic death. The program has lots of great Emerson music (with The Nice, ELP, and ELPowell) and also features commentary from some great contemporary keyboard players, including Erik Norlander, Aaron Clift, Dave Kerzner, and Luca Zabbini. I hope you will join me in remembering a legend of the Prog Rock genre, who we lost too soon.
2024-11-041h 50
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1134 - Variety + the ESP Project on Progressive DiscoveriesAwesome new progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Jadis, PRP, Nick Fletcher, Stuckfish, and Adult Cinema! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Tony Lowe's ESP Project!
2024-10-211h 28
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - October 2024My 101 Dimensions offering for this month includes great music from Röyksopp, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Sequentia Legenda, and Paul Ellis!
2024-10-151h 46
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1133 - Count On It (or Wonder What Time It Is)On this week's program we will look at the use of odd time signatures in Progressive Rock (and occasionally in Mainstream Rock). We'll hear from some of the big names like Yes, Genesis, The Flower Kings, Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and more! Plus, a few surprises from the "mainstream"!
2024-10-081h 30
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1132 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsLots of fantastic stuff this week from Kite Parade, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Thrailkill, Airbag, Emerald City Council, Pallas, the ESP Project, and Circuline! As if that was not enough, I will also have a nice crop of music by four artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Ex-Easter Island Head, We Are Space Horses, Jakub Zytecki, and the Emily Francis Trio!
2024-09-241h 27
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - September 2024This month's 101 Dimensions program (curated by your friendly neighborhood Prog-Squatch) features great progressive, electronic, and ambient music from Enigmatic Sound Machines, Bart Hawkins, Frore, Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Klaus Schulze, Ashra, and Sverre Knut Johansen!
2024-09-161h 44
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1131 - An Ian Anderson SpecialThis week's Prog-Watch is guest-hosted by Dr. Rob Fisher, and is focused on the great Jethro Tull composer, vocalist, and front-man, Ian Anderson! The program was curated by Rob (with assitance from Jamie Robertson, author of Music Measures Memories and a guest on Prog-Watch 1120) and centers on Anderson as a vocalist! Tune in for a lot of great vocal performances from Anderson, and insights from Rob and Jamie!
2024-09-101h 48
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1130 - Variety + Sloane Square Band on Progressive DiscoveriesLots of astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear brand new music from Amarok, Nick Magnus, Reliqa, Magic Fig, A Burial At Sea, and Sonus Umbra! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest release by France's Sloane Square Band!
2024-08-271h 24
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - August 2024This month's 101 Dimensions program curated by Yours Truly features music from Alber Jupiter, Erik Norlander, Klaus Schulze, and Time Being!
2024-08-191h 42
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1129 - Whatnot from the 1980sFor this week's Prog-Watch I have put together a different kind of program. A death in my family and the need to travel to the funeral left me with no time to put together a proper show, and I didn't want to go with another From the Archives episode. As a compromise, I decided to put together a kind of stream-of-consciousness program full of random stuff from the 1980s. After a brief preamble you will not hear me and my usual patter, just lots of cool tunes. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope you enjoy Whatnot from the 1980...
2024-08-131h 23
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1128 - Variety + Andy Nixon on Progressive DiscoveriesMore great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Ritual, Alphaline, Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks, Circuline, and Long Earth! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with The Waterline, the debut solo album by Andy Nixon!
2024-07-301h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1127 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsThis week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the June edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic new stuff from the Barock Project, John Holden, the Legacy Pilots, Hats Off Gentlemen, Nektar, Marjana Semkina, Airbag, and The Slow Light! And from PROG: Teiger, Last Plane Out, Oudeziel, and Candacraig! I hope you will join me!
2024-07-161h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1126 - VarietyThere are tons of tasty tunes to astound and astonish you on this week's Prog-Watch! Prick up your ears to hear great stuff from Hasse Fröberg and Musical Companion, John Holden, the Barock Project, The Raging Project, Karfagen, Marjana Semkina, Age of Distraction, and Flame Dream! Plus, a little tribute to the late Richard Tandy of ELO.
2024-07-021h 27
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - June 2024My 101 Dimensions program for June includes great electronic, ambient, progressive music by Klaus Schulze, Dark Sky Alliance, Yukihiro Takahashi, and Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren!
2024-06-251h 42
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1125 - Our Progressive Planet - NorwayJoin Rob Fisher and Yours Truly this week for a little guided tour of the vibrant progressive rock scene in Norway! With fabulous Nordic prog from Arabs in Aspic, Wobbler, Dim Gray, White Willow, Panzerpappa, Gazpacho, Pymlico, Oak, Airbag, Magic Pie, Motorpsycho, Leprous, and the Hedvig Mollestad Trio!
2024-06-181h 33
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1124 - Feeling HornyGet that horny feeling with Prog-Watch this week!! (No, not like that!) But tune in to hear lots of brassy sounds from the likes of Tony Banks, Happy the Man, Thank You Scientist, The Alan Parsons Project, Gentle Giant, Snarky Puppy, Genesis, Caravan, Midnight Oil, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Chicago, Yes, Edgar Winter, and Van Morrison!
2024-06-111h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1123 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsThis week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great new stuff from PROG Magazine artists Final Coil, Myrath, Pallbearer, Plantoid, and Lauri Porra, plus lots of other fabulous music from Glass Island, Meat Cafe Vol. 3, Fjieri, Cymbalic Encounters, Hasse Froberg and Musical Companion, Karl Eisenhart, The Forever Moment and Nagual!
2024-06-041h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1122 - Variety + Mayfire on Progressive DiscoveriesMore astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Age of Distraction, Sykofant, Matthew Cunningham, FM, and Airbag! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with Cloudscapes & Silhouettes by the Norwegian band Mayfire!
2024-05-281h 27
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - May 2024This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features music by Nik Turner, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, and Rudy Adrian!
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2024-05-271h 44
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1121 - A Tribute to Mike PinderThis week I am paying tribute to the late, great Mike Pinder -- a man who not only shaped the sound of his own band (the Moody Blues) but also changed the course of rock music and helped define the sound of your favorite sub-genre, prog rock.
2024-05-211h 25
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1120 - Music Measures MemoriesThis week my special guests are Jamie Robertson, author of a book called Music Measures Memories, and the book's publisher, our friend and resident reviewer, Rob Fisher! (Bet you didn't know Rob was also a publisher!) The book deals with the importance of music in Jamie's life, it's ability to help us heal, and it's ability to intertwine with our memories. Jamie, Rob, and I chat about that, and some of the most meaningful songs in Jamie's life. We hope you will join us to hear some of "The Diaries of a Melomaniac" and lots of great prog rock...
2024-05-141h 50
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1119 - I Know What I Like...This week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about knowing, with tons of tasty tunes by Genesis, Robert Plant, Dave Mason, Fairport Convention, Asia, David Gilmour, Trevor Rabin, Yes, Steve Winwood, Marillion, Matthew Sweet, Kansas, Supertramp, Jon Anderson, Michael Penn, and The Allman Brothers!
2024-05-071h 29
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - April 2024My 101 Dimensions program for April includes music from Bergeton, Vinyl Dial, Antony Kalugin, Ashra, and Le Grande Sbam!
2024-05-021h 51
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1118 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsThis week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program full of great contemporary progressive rock, some from artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine! I've got fantastic stuff from Oliver Wakeman, Ozul, Transport Aerian, Karmamoi, Amarok, The Man From Ravcon, and Big Big Train! Also, there will be several artists who are featured in the April 2024 edition of PROG Magazine...Squeaky Feet, The Bardic Depths, Large Plants, Northodoxian, and The Beggs Sisters! I hope you will join me!
2024-04-301h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1117 - VarietyBe on the lookout for a plethora of fabulous progressive rock music on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear from Heath, Kavus Torabi, Isildur's Bane with Jinian Wilde, The Tangent, Michael Trew, Amarok, The Slow Light, The Dave Foster Band, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, Ozul, and Oliver Wakeman! As Yoda would say, “Miss it not!”
2024-04-231h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1116 - Shaking the Genesis Family TreeThis week I am Shaking The Family Tree of one of the most influential Prog bands of all-time...Genesis! We will be hearing tracks by former members (and a few extended family members) who had solo careers or worked in other bands besides Genesis proper! Plus a couple by the band! Come see what shakes out!
2024-04-161h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1115 - Variety + Tempus Cucumis on Progressive DiscoveriesFind more great contemporary progressive sounds on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Karmamoi, Nospun, The Man From Ravcon, and The Tangent! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Belgian duo Tempus Cucumis!
2024-04-091h 32
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - March 2024Tune in for nearly 2 hours of great progressive, ambient, and electronic music from Gary Numan, Klaus Schulze, Paul Ellis, Synergy, and Rudy Adrian!
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Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1114 - Epix, Vol. 13This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together, and I'll try to spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Anekdoten, Kansas, Dec Burke, Ritual, and Focus!
2024-04-021h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1113 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsThis week I've got a plethora of present-day Prog from Luz de Riada, A Secret River, Isildur's Bane, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Big Big Train, and Karfagen! Plus four bands featured in this month's PROG Magazine: Nospun, Aviations, Psychework, and Harp!
2024-03-261h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1112 - Explorations, Vol. 7 - Crossover ProgThis week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Crossover Prog! In this program we'll explore the crossover sub-genre through great music from The Tea Party, Kevin Gilbert, Supertramp, Peter Gabriel, Phideaux Xavier, Radiohead, Ritual, Lunatic Soul, The Dear Hunter, Dave Bainbridge, Gazpacho, Steven Wilson, and Big Big Train!
Please note that I accidentally announced this show as Explorations, Vol. 6 during the program, but later realized it was actually Vol. 7. To avoid confusion on the website I have corrected the show art and titled it properly as Vol. 7. (Oh the p...
2024-03-191h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1111 - Variety + Imperial Measures on Progressive DiscoveriesMore great, contemporary progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Luz de Riada, Karfagen, Steve Hackett, Drifting Sun, Shadows on Mercury, and Big Big Train! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, returns to take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the debut album by Imperial Measures!
2024-03-121h 29
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1110 - The Musical World of Steve WinwoodThis week on Prog-Watch I'm digging into some of the vast Musical World of Steve Winwood! From his early days in the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith, through to his chart topping solo years in the 1980s, Steve has had a long and diverse career! I hope you will join me in exploring some of it!
2024-03-051h 31
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - February 2024This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Yours Truly features ambient/electronic/progressive music from Klaus Schulze, Coil, Brian Eno, and Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo!
2024-02-281h 41
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1109 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsLots of fantastic stuff this week from Venus Loon, The Samurai of Prog, Trevor Rabin, Richard Wileman, A Secret River, Juame Vilaseca, Yobrepus, and Jef Bek! As if that was not enough, we'll also hear music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Temic, Hands of the Heron, and Petra Hermanova!
2024-02-271h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1108 - Classix, Vol. 5This week on Prog-Watch I'm digging through the vaults and doing an entire show of classics from the halcyon days of the 1970s! With music from Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Alan Parson Project, Pink Floyd, Spring, Jethro Tull, Ambrosia, Genesis, England, 10CC, Nektar, Renaissance, and Kaipa!
Want more classics? Search "Classix" at the homepage of Progwatch.com!
2024-02-201h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1107 - Black and WhiteThis week get it all in Black and White with Prog-Watch! With great themed tunes from Flash, Thin Lizzy, Marillion, No-Man, Steve Gresswell, Steve Thorne, Sylvan, Uriah Heep, Pete Townshend, Dennis DeYoung, and The Syn!
2024-02-131h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1106 - Variety + Zeelley Moon on Progressive DiscoveriesLots of great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Magnum, A Secret River, Venus Loon, Animatone, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, and Juame Vilaseca ! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the UK project Zeelley Moon!
(P.S. I mistakenly announced the Venus Loon song and album title as “Pandora's Box”. It is actually “Pandora's Paradox”. I stand corrected and apologize for the mistake.)
2024-02-061h 31
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1105 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsTons of tasty tunes this week from The David Cross Band, District 97, We Came From Space, Mesmerizing, Kyros, The Flower Kings, Anubis, and Trevor Rabin! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Tryo, Storm Deva, and Closure in Moscow!
2024-01-301h 30
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - January 2024Nearly two hours of great ambient, electronic, progressive music from Hyperion V, Coil, Zanov, Asturias, and Hollan Holmes!
2024-01-231h 46
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1104 - More of the Best of 2023There were so many great albums from 2023 suggested by our friends at The Progressive Aspect that two shows were not enough! So this week's Prog-Watch has More of the Best of 2023, with music from Bruce Soord, Galahad, Nova Cascade, Moon Safari, Solstice, Nick Fletcher, Glass Hammer, and The Flower Kings!
2024-01-231h 28
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1103 - Ain't It StrangeThis week's Prog-Watch is all about the STRANGE! With fabulous music from Roger Taylor, the Moody Blues, the Samurai of Prog, Michael Penn, Abel Ganz, Deep Purple, Saga, John Entwistle, ELO, the ESP Project, Guy Manning, Karnataka, Kate Bush, Edison's Children, Ultravox, and the Who! All in 90 minutes!
2024-01-161h 29
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1102 - Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect Present Some of the Best of 2023, Pt. 2This week on Prog-Watch it's Part Two of my two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Damanek, I Am the Manic Whale, Ruby Dawn, District 97, Riverside, The Fierce and the Dead, Southern Empire, Kite Parade, and Steven Wilson; and brief reviews by Rick Peuser, Pete Rogers, Jez Rowden, Graham Thomas, Kevin Thompson, Roger Trenwith, and Leo Trimming!
2024-01-091h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1101 - Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect Present Some of the Best of 2023, Pt. 1Happy New Year! Start it with a bang with Part One of a two-part collaboration between Prog-Watch and The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2023! We'll hear music from Comedy of Errors, This Winter Machine, the ESP Project, Mike Keneally, Unitopia, Aisles, RPWL, and Haken; and brief reviews by Tony Colvill, David Edwards, Rob Fisher, Kevan Furbank, John Giordano, Peter Hilton, and Magnus Moar! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)
2024-01-021h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1050 - Explorations, Vol. 6 - Progressive MetalThis week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Progressive Metal! In this program we'll explore the Prog Metal sub-genre through great music from Dream Theater, Katatonia, Sieges Even, Riverside, Ayreon, Fates Warning, Liquid Tension Experiment, Pain of Salvation, Symphony X, Threshold, and Queensryche! Plus, another Listener Prog Story from longtime friend and supporter of the show, Thaddeus Wert, of Nashville, Tennessee, USA!
2023-12-181h 33
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1049 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsLots of fantastic stuff on Prog-Watch this week, from Cyan, Dandelion Charm, Glass Hammer, Ruby Dawn, Jack o' the Clock, Residuous Mentales, Peter Gabriel, and Moon Safari! As if that was not enough, there will also be new music by three artists featured in the current edition of PROG Magazine: Spurv, Zahn, and Skald! Plus, our first Listener Prog Story from Charles Anderson of York, England!
2023-12-111h 29
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1048 - In Conversation with Dave KerznerOn this week's program my very special guest is Dave Kerzner! Dave and I chat about his recent history and the making of his latest solo albums, The Traveler and Heart Land Mines, Vol. 1, and of course I spin lots of great music along the way!
2023-12-051h 27
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 1047 - Windows and DoorsThis week's Prog-Watch is a themed special all about Windows and Doors, with tons of tasty tunes by Kansas, Magnum, Great Pacific Orchestra, Gardening Club Project, Jakko Jakszyk, Rewiring Genesis, K2, the Moody Blues, Mostly Autumn, World Trade, GPS, Pilot, Tony Lowe and Alison Fleming, Zebra, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Steeleye Span, and Panic Room!
2023-11-281h 30
Prog-WatchEpisode 1046 - In Conversation with Nick Katona of Melodic Revolution RecordsThis week on Prog-Watch I have a bit of a different interview and feature show on Nick Katona, head of Melodic Revolution Records! I will be chatting with Nick and spinning lots of great new music from his artists, Gayle Ellet & the Electromags, the Gardening Club, Forever Twelve, Days Before Tomorrow, Steve Bonino, Colouratura, the Terry Newman Project, Colin Carter, and T.A.P!
2023-11-201h 32
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - November 2023This month's 101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick features the usual eclectic mixture of stuff, this time from Gargoyles, Zanov, The Forever Moment, Coil, and AeTopus!
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2023-11-131h 41
Prog-WatchEpisode 1045 - Variety + Downes-Braide Association on Progressive DiscoveriesLots of fabulous, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Subsignal, This Winter Machine, Francis Dunnery's It Bites, Steve Thorne, Christina, Nick Fletcher, and Psycho Yogi! Plus, our friend and guest reviewer, Magnus Moar, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by the Downes-Braide Association!
2023-11-131h 27
Prog-WatchEpisode 1044 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsLots of fantastic stuff this week from Dave Kerzner, Subsignal, the Kindred Spirit Band, This Winter Machine, Christina Booth, Steven Wilson, Gayle Ellett and the Electromags, Crack the Sky, and Tiger Moth Tales! Also, I have three more bands featured in the latest edition of Prog Magazine...Pomegranate Tiger, Votchi, and The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors!
2023-11-061h 28
Prog-WatchEpisode 1043 - Halloween 2023This week: the Prog-Watch Halloween 2023 Special! With songs concerning things spooky and creepy from White Willow, The Strawbs, Blue Oyster Cult, Asia, Uriah Heep, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Agents Of Mercy, Ken Hensley, The Syn, Atomic Rooster, Jethro Tull, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, and Spock's Beard! Join me...if you dare!
2023-10-301h 34
Prog-WatchEpisode 1042 - Variety + Everything But The Girl on Progressive DiscoveriesMore great, new, astounding progressive sounds await on this week's Prog-Watch! We'll hear music from Steven Wilson, Galahad, This Winter Machine, and Fearful Symmetry! Plus, our friend and resident reviewer, Dr. Rob Fisher, will take us on a voyage of Progressive Discovery with the latest album by Everything But The Girl!
2023-10-241h 27
Prog-WatchEpisode 1041 - Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project (Remastered)This week I have a remaster of an older episode in which I was Shaking the Family Tree of the Alan Parsons Project! Join me to explore the roots and branches of the band through the music of Pilot, Lenny Zakatek, Colin Blunstone, Dave Paton, Chris Rainbow, Keats, and Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson (together and on their own)!
2023-10-171h 30
Prog-WatchEpisode 1040 - The Classical ConnectionThis week's Prog-Watch explores the connection between classical music and rock and prog rock music! With fabulous music from the Beatles, the Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull, the Nice, ELO, Rick Wakeman, Fireballet, the Alan Parsons Project, the Enid, and Renaissance!
2023-10-101h 33
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - October 2023This month's 101 Dimensions features great music from Djam Karet, Head Joint, The Forever Moment, Andy Edwards, and The Chronotope Project!
2023-10-101h 44
Prog-WatchEpisode 1039 - Night of the Living PROG 2This week's Prog-Watch is a fantasy concert I am calling Night of the Living PROG 2! All live tracks from a dream line up of artists, including ELP, Pink Floyd, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Traffic, Utopia, Yes, Tears For Fears, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Camel!
2023-10-031h 29
Prog-WatchEpisode 1038 - Variety with PROG Magazine ArtistsThis week's Prog-Watch is a straight-up variety program with lots of diverse, brand new progressive rock for your listening enjoyment! Tune in to hear great stuff from PROG Magazine artists Zopp, Flor de Loto, and Infinite Rising! I also have lots of other terrific tunes from Built For The Future, Tiger Moth Tales, Isbjorg, 35 Tapes, Envy of None, Nine Skies, The Geof Whitely Project, Southern Empire, and The Emerald Dawn!
2023-09-261h 29
Prog-WatchEpisode 1037 - In Conversation with Mark, Suzi, and Mike of T.A.PThis week on Prog-Watch my very special guests are Mark Cook, Suzi James and Michael Jobborn of T.A.P! Tune in to hear some of my chat with Mark, Suzi and Michael, and lots of great music from T.A.P (plus some of their other projects...The Forever Moment, Fearful Symmetry, and Head Joint)!
2023-09-191h 28
Prog-WatchEpisode 1036 - Epix, Vol. 12This week's Prog-Watch is another edition of EPIX! Just a handful of lengthy tunes will carry us through our time together and I'll spread the love across the decades of our favorite genre! Tune in to hear great music from Porcupine Tree, The Pineapple Thief, Citizen Cain, Jethro Tull, Tinyfish, and The Enid!
2023-09-121h 34
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - September 2023Nearly two hours of great ambient, electonic, progressive music from Null Terminator, JeGong, Mong Tong, Klaus Schulze, and Deborah Martin & Jill Haley!
2023-09-061h 47
Prog-WatchEpisode 1035 - Explorations, Vol. 5 - Heavy ProgThis week's Prog-Watch is another edition of our Explorations series, this one looking at Heavy Prog! In this program we'll explore the Heavy sub-genre through great music from Porcupine Tree, Rush, Headspace, Karnivool, DeeExpus, Black Bonzo, Uriah Heep, Haken, The Mars Volta, Anekdoten, Atomic Rooster, and Sky Architect!
2023-09-051h 31
Prog-WatchEpisode 1034 - VarietyMore great contemporary prog rock awaits on this week's Prog-Watch! With music from Southern Empire, Eloy, 35 Tapes, Herd of Instinct, Emmett Elvin, I Am The Manic Whale, Steve Thorne, The Anchoret, Hats Off Gentlemen, It's Adequate, and Psychoyogi! I hope you will join me!
2023-08-291h 27
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - May 2023This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features music from Polinski, Richard Barbieri, Radio Massacre International, Johannes Schmoelling, and Maud the moth & Trajedesaliva!
2023-05-251h 50
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - March 2023This month's 101 Dimensions (curated by Anthony Rowsick) features a lot of chilled electronic and ambient stuff from the likes of Mike Oldfield, Chronotope Project, Ben Cox, Craig Padilla, and Dean De Benedictis!
2023-03-291h 50
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - November 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2022:
1. Alberto Rigoni featuring Marco Minnemann – Evorevolution (from the album EvoRevolution, 2018)
2. Tangerine Dream – Sensing Elements; and Non-Locality Destination (from the album Quantum Gate + Quantum Key, 2018)
3. The Fragile Fate (featuring Rupert Greenall, Jerry Marotta, and Eric Taylor) – Water Field; Float; Sign Waves; Lilliam Ocean; and On Land-Like (from the album Lilliam Ocean, 2015)
4. Robert Reed – The Moonsinger Suite, Pts. 1-3 (from the album Sanctuary III, 2018)
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2022-11-091h 48
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - August 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2022:
1. Peter Baumann – Strangers In The Night; Metro Man; King Of The Jungle; Be Mine; and Time Machine (from the album Strangers In The Night, 1983)
2. Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science (extended mix); Radio Silence; Airwaves; Flying North; and Weightless (from the album The Golden Age Of Wireless, 1982)
3. Hawkwind – It's The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous; I Am The Eye That Looks Within; and Quark, Strangeness, and Charm (from the album 25 Years On, 1994)
4. Erik Norlander – Fanfare For Absent Friends; City Of Living Machines; and New Goth...
2022-08-171h 52
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - June 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, June 2022:
1. Gary Numan – Resurrection; Big Noise Transmission; Dead Sun Rising; When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come; and For The Rest of My Life (22:31) (from the album Dead Son Rising, 2011)
2. Klaus Schulze – Mindphaser (25:37) (from the album Moondawn, 1976)
3. Nik Turner – We Came In Peace; and Interstellar Clouds (20:21) (from the album Space Fusion Odyssey, 2015)
4. Vangelis – Chariots of Fire (20:41) (from the album Chariots of Fire, 1982)
5. Mike Oldfield – Crises (20:39) (from the album Crises, 1983)
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2022-06-221h 50
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - May 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, May 2022:
1. Nerissa Schwarz – Raised Like a Daughter; My Little Polymath; New Eyes For Laika; Europa Waiting; and Making Plans For Departure (21:56) (from the album New Eyes For Laika, 2022)
2. Klaus Schulze - L'affaire Tournesol (19:38) (from the Jubilee Edition box set, 1997)
3. Vangelis – Heaven and Hell (21:42) (from the album Heaven and Hell, 1975)
4. Redshift – Toll (20:44) (from the album Toll, 2006)
5. Klaus Schulze - Fourneau Cosmique (25:35) (from the Historic Edition box set, 1995)
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2022-05-251h 49
Prog-WatchEpisode 917 - Take Your Best ShotTake your best shot this week with Prog-Watch! On this little themed special we'll hear from Utopia, Mansun, Anekdoten, Dennis DeYoung, UFO, Pineapple Thief, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Anthony Phillips, Kevin Ayers, Traffic, Saul Blease, Richard & Linda Thompson, Peter Hammill, and Fish! All in 90 minutes!
2022-04-261h 29
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - March 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, March 2022:
1. The Orb – Earth Orbit One: Little Fluffy Clouds; Earth Orbit Two: Earth (Gaia); and Earth Orbit Three: Supernova at the End of the Universe (26:12) (from the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, 1991)
2. John Carpenter – Distant Dream; White Pulse; Persia Rising; Angel's Asylum; and Hofner Dawn (19:24) (from the album Lost Themes II, 2016)
3. Anne Dudley – What Dreams May Come; Variations on a Groove; and Crazy Lullaby (24:44) (from the album Seriously Chilled, 2003)
4. The Alan Parsons Project – P-K4; P-QB4; Kt-KB3; Kt-QB3; and P-Q4 (19:39) (from the album The Sicilian Defence, 2014)
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2022-03-301h 51
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - February 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, February 2022:
1. Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts; Time and Space; Waiting...; Waltz for Interbeings; and Time For Great Achievements ( 21:26) (from the album Attic Thoughts, 1976)
2. Michael Hoenig – Hanging Garden Transfer; Voices of Where; and Sun and Moon (21:31) (from the album Departure from the Northern Wasteland, 1978)
3. Kraftwerk - The Voice Of Energy; Antenna; Radio Stars; Uranium; Transistor; and Ohm Sweet Ohm (17:30) (from the album Radio-Activity, 1975)
4. Ash Ra Tempel – Jenseits (24:13) (from the album Join Inn, 1973)
5. Michael Stearns – Sleeping Conches (30:26) (from the album Sustaining Cylinders, 2001)
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2022-03-031h 55
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - January 2022-2101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, late January 2022:
1. Spacelords – Cosmic Trip (24:20) (from the album SpaceFlowers, 2020)
2. Ott – Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack; and Somersettler (20:23) (from the album Blumenkraft, 2003)
3. Trinity Ward – Between the Edges of the Universe; Artifact; Make It Be; and Transmission (Ethereal Mix) (18:41) (from the album Enter the Infinite, 2010)
4. Baber / Wileman – Passing Wave; 2009; Day Follows Night; and The Birth of Spring (19:14) (from the album Baber / Wileman, 2022)
5. Detieti – Disorienteria; and Reflective Architect (17:57) (from the album Serious IV, 2021)
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2022-02-021h 40
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - January 2022101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, January 2022:
1. Keith Emerson – And Then January; Pictures at an Exhibition; and Abaddon's Bolero Orchestral (18:58) (from the album Off the Shelf, 2006)
2. Richard Barbieri – Nevada; Fear and Trembling; and Light on Glass (17:22) (from the album Things Buried, 2004)
3. Jon Lord – Window: 1st Movement – Renga; 2nd Movement – Gemini; and 3rd Movement – Alla Marcia; Allegro (32:15) (from the album Windows, 1974)
4. Darkroom – Amor Mundi; The Last Sense to Fade; and A Year On Saturn (37:43) (from the album The Last Sense to Fade, 2021)
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2022-01-051h 46
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - December 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, December 2021:
1. Ott – 16mm Summer Day; Coursing Batch; and Harwell Dekatron (23:24) (from the album Fairchildren (2015)
2. Vangelis Mouettes; Chromatique; Irlande; and Flamants Roses (22:29) (from the album Opera Sauvage, 1979)
3. Röyksopp – Silver Cruiser; True To Life; It's What I Want; and Across The Graveyard (17:56) (from the album Junior, 2009)
4. John Carpenter – Abyss; Wraith; Purgatory; and Night (18:54) (from the album Lost Themes, 2015)
5. Matt Baber – Parts 6 – 10 (22:38) (from the album Suite For Piano and Electronics, 2018)
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2021-12-081h 45
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - November 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, November 2021:
1. Vangelis – Atlas's Push; Inside Our Perspectives; Out In Space; Juno's Quiet Determination; and Jupiter's Intuition (20:43) (from the album Juno To Jupiter, 2021)
2. Public Service Broadcasting – Lichtspiel I – Opus; Lichtspiel II – Schwarz Weiss Grau; Lichtspiel III – Symphonie Diagonale; and Ich Und Die Stadt (17:39) (from the album Bright Magic, 2021)
3. Kosmogon – Somnus (22:57) (from the album Mässan, 2021)
4. Edgar Froese – Tropic of Capricorn (20:44) (from the album Ages, 1978)
5. David Bedford - Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places In Devon (25:03) (from the album Star Clusters, Nebulae & Places In Devon / The Song Of The White Horse, 19...
2021-11-101h 47
Prog-WatchEpisode 843 - Welcome To My NightmareAs a warm-up (or bone-chill) for Samhain or Halloween, this week's Prog-Watch is all about nightmares and the macabre! With songs concerning things spooky or supernatural from Alice Cooper, Atomic Rooster, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, Kansas, Rush, Anthony Phillips, Spock's Beard, Pink Floyd, Steven Wilson, and Jethro Tull! Join me...if you dare!
2021-10-261h 27
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions October 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick - October 2021:
1. Ulrich Schnauss – Melts Into Air; Love Grows Out Of Thin Air; The Magic In You; and Thoughtless Motion (23:03) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present: A Retrospective, 2019)
2. Spacelords – Spaceflowers; and Frau Kuhnkes Kosmos (25:18) (from the album Spaceflowers, 2020)
3. Jansen Barbieri Karn – The Shallow Pool; To The Core; Sacrifice; and Cold Light (20:27) (from the album Ism, 1999)
4. Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter – Main Title; Main Theme – Desolation; Humanity 2; Despair; and Humanity (20:45) (from the album The Thing (OST), 1982)
5. Kosmogon – Mässan (25:00) (from the album Mässan, 2021)
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2021-10-131h 54
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - September 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, September 2021:
1. Geoff Downes' New Dance Orchestra – Shine On; Forgiven; Movin' On; Rainbow's End; and Breaking the Spell (21:14) (from the album Electronica, 2010)
2. Edgar Froese – Stuntman; It Would Be Like Samoa; and Detroit Snackbar Dreamer (21:37) (from the album Stuntman, 1979)
3. Vangelis – Suffocation; and See You Later (19:48) (from the album See You Later, 1980)
4. Redshift – Leviathan; Rhode Kill; Panzer; and Different Light (19:27) (from the album Halo, 2002)
5. Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger – The Little Smoke; The Landing of Inorganic Life; Portal; Between Parallel Lines; and Journey to the Underworld (26:20) (from the album Sorc...
2021-09-151h 48
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - August 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, August 2021:
1. John Carpenter – Alive After Death; Weeping Ghost; Dripping Blood; Dead Eyes; and Vampire's Touch (19:29) (from the album Lost Themes III – Alive After Death, 2021)
2. Tangerine Dream – Approaching Snowy Village; Odd Welcome; The Untouchable Castle; and The Apparently Lunatic Hierarchy (25:11) (from the album Franz Kafka – The Castle, 2013)
3. David Sylvian and Holger Czukay – Flux (A Big, Bright, Colorful World) (16:57) (from the album Flux + Mutability, 1988)
4. Ulrich Schnauss – Brooks Was Here; Sunday Evening in Your Street; and Suddenly the Trees Are Giving Way (20:24) (from the album Now Is A Timeless Present – A Retrospectiv...
2021-08-181h 48
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - July 2021101 Dimensions curated by Anthony Rowsick, July 2021:
1. Thomas Dolby – I Love You Goodbye; Cruel; Silk Pyjamas; and Eastern Block (Sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins) (18:05) (from the album Astronauts and Heretics, 1992)
2. Jansen Barbieri Karn – Beginning to Melt; The Wilderness; and March of the Innocents (20:53) (from the album Beginning to Melt, 1993)
3. Tom Newman – The Woods Of; Fórdin Searchráin; Bean Si; Little Voices of the Tarans; The Fluter; The Seelie Court (Goodish Faeries); and The Spell Breaks (17:37) (from the album Faerie Symphony, 1977)
4. Ulrich Schnauss – Knuddelmaus; Between Us and Them; Passing By; and Blumenwies...
2021-07-211h 52
Prog-WatchEpisode 801 - Prog-Watch & TPA Best of 2020, Pt. 1This week on Prog-Watch I have Part One of a two-part collaboration with The Progressive Aspect on some of the best albums of 2020! We'll hear music from Blue Oyster Cult, Wobbler, Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate, Elder, Three Colours Dark, Kansas, Pull Down The Sun, and Haken; and brief reviews by Mel Allen, Anthony Colvill, Shawn Dudley, Rob Fisher, Andrew Halley and Nick Hudson! (Part Two to follow one week hence.)
2021-01-051h 26
Prog-Watch101 Dimensions - November 2019-2I've got some different stuff lined up again for this week's 101 Dimensions! Here's what's in store:
1. Hawkwind – Brainstorm (11:33); Space Is Deep (6:22); One Change (0:50); and Lord Of Light (6:58) (from the album Doremi Fasol Latido, 1972)
2. Grobschnitt – Symphony (13:49); and Travelling (6:49) (from the album Grobschnitt, 1972)
3. Johannes Schmoelling – Big Cityscapes (6:28); It's Your Birthday (6:38); and The Time Seller (6:49) (from the album Instant City, 2006)
4. Anthony Phillips – Slow Dance, Pt. 2 (26:27) from the album Slow Dance, 1990)
5. Cluster – Oh Odessa (3:04); Proantipro (7:01); Seltsame Gegend (7:34); and Helle Malange (3:37) (from the album Curiosum, 1981)
Until next time...Prog On!
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2019-11-271h 54
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 519 - VarietyThis week's Prog-Watch contains a colossal collection of contemporary and classic Progressive Rock for your careful consideration! Hear music from IO Earth, Coburg, Lazuli, Whiteside's Daughter, Elephant9, Axios, David Gilmour, Yuka & Chronoship, Motherjane, Gentle Giant, The Bridge, Anthony Phillips, and Projekt Gemineye! Come cherish the cheer!
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2018-05-081h 29
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 435 - Prog Rock Icon Arjen Lucassen, Pt. 2This week on Prog-Watch: Part 2 of my coverage of Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal Icon Arjen Anthony Lucassen! Hear the remainder of my conversation with Arjen, as well as lots of great music from Star One, Ayreon, Ambeon, The Gentle Storm, and Stream of Passion!
(See Prog-Watch 423 for Part 1)
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2017-08-291h 26
Prog-WatchProg-Watch 423 - Arjen Lucassen, Pt. 1My special guest on this week's program is none other than Arjen Anthony Lucassen, the mastermind behind Ayreon and Star One! Hear some of a conversation I recently had with Arjen, along with lots of great music from Ayreon, Star One, Ambeon, and his solo catalog! As a special bonus, you will find out which famous Star Wars character his favorite chair sounds like! (I'm not making this up!)
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2017-06-061h 29