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Stephen Pieper

Music lover, reader, tea drinker, film watcher, web dabbler. IndieWeb novice.
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Stephen Pieper
| November 17, 2019

Letterboxd seems to be getting hit with a load of spam accounts and they all want follow me.

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Stephen Pieper
| November 16, 2019
Love from the Planet Gong – the Virgin Years 1973-75 – 13 disc box set (Universal) by philfacelift
I’ve resisted the lure of the box set for years.  But it’s fair to say that as a regular peruser of the various social media platforms covering Canterbury scene music I’ve rarely seen a level of excitement to parallel the arrival of ‘Love from the Planet Gong’. This 13 disc b...
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Stephen Pieper
| November 15, 2019

Book. In The Court Of King Crimson by Sid Smith.

I’ve been waiting on this for ages. It’s the updated edition of Sid Smith’s book about everything King Crimson. Can’t wait to get started.

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Stephen Pieper
| November 14, 2019
BBC Radio 6 Music on Twitter (Twitter)
“✏️ Which song has the greatest opening line?”

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”
Patti Smith – Gloria

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Stephen Pieper
| November 13, 2019
Marillion review – unfashionable prog veterans still questing into unknown (the Guardian)
Sometimes they’re more slog than prog, but the unfashionable yet enduring popular band are given drama by frazzled frontman Steve Hogarth

A decent, but lukewarm, review of last night’s Marillion show in Glasgow.

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Stephen Pieper
| November 12, 2019
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Waiting for Marillion to take to the stage at Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

Here for Marillion. Early as usual.

2 Sauchiehall St., Glasgow, G2 3NY, United Kingdom

4 °C scattered clouds

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Stephen Pieper
| November 10, 2019
Cloudland Blue Quartet on Twitter (Twitter)
“What’s wrong with modern prog? Obviously it’s just my opinion but it’s the incessant looking backwards and aping, not quite as well, what’s come before... When I see a new act described as “sounding like” Marillion (and emphasising that’s Fish era Marillion) I just think “Oh FFS””

That annoys me too. All of the old bands sounded nothing like each other because they were all doing it for the first time. There’s a lot of newer bands I couldn’t listen to more than once.

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Stephen Pieper
| November 8, 2019

Alice Cooper said on the radio that people in rock bands don’t make the effort to be stars anymore. I think he’s right. Most modern bands look like they just walked off the street and don’t project any bigger than life image. The idea of the "star" is exclusive to pop music now.

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