Welcome to this week’s Bobcast. Dead Bob’s Record of the week this week (verified via fax) is ‘Excuses for Kings’, by popular beat combo ‘The Catch’. Pavel and Maureen from HR dance sexy like it’s 1969 to ‘Circus’ and the eponymous hit ‘Excuses for Kings’. They kiss after.

We also play some tunes from these other pop groups:

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo:

Budgie: THE MCA Albums 1973 – 1975

Cats In Space: The Story of Johnny Rocket

 – i Space Overture

 – ii Johnny Rocket

 – iii Thunder In The Night

 – iv One Small Step

 – v Twilight

 – vi Yesterday’s News

 – vii Destination Unknown 

Dead Bob’s SHELLAc aTTACK: 

IQ – The Seventh House Side One

 – The Wrong Side of weird

 – Erosion

Everything Everything – Planets

George Michael and Queen – Somebody to Love

Back in the day, when Mike used to visit the studio for AmericanPrög Shows, we would shout into a Blue Snowball USB microphone positioned somewhere between us.

When we had finished we would occasionally record Not The AmericanPrög Shows.

This is one such show. Remastered to make it sound as best it could. It’s not the greatest sounding progressive rock podcast you’ll ever hear, but it sure as heck is better than it was.

This episode sees us playing some Epics, from such luminaries as It Bites, Yes, The Flower Kings and Marillion. So at least the MAMTABs is kept to a minimum.

Delving into the archives, we go back to 2017 and Show 49, which gets the full remastering treatment. Dead Bob has been kidnapped, and bits of him keep popping up in the post. Or, for our American listeners, the mail. The kidnappers make contact, and yet we still find time to play some banging tunes by:

White Willow

Comedy of Errors

Napier’s Bones

Zombie Picnic

Shamblemaths

Abel Ganz

Steve Hackett

Combination Head

Yuval Ron

Kayak

Frost*

Pink Floyd (excerpt)

Chain Reaktor – The Lying King

Skylake – The Storm

Silhouette – Don’t Stop This Movie 

I Am The Manic Whale – Stand Up (live)

Roine Stolt – Hotrod (The Atomic Wrestler)

Dead Bob’s SHELLAc aTTACK:

LP2 Side B of ‘Garden Shed’ by England:

 – Masters of War

 – Three Piece Suite (Olympic Version, 1976)

 – HeeBeeGeeBee

 – Nanagram

The Watch – Hatred of Wisdom 

An old, and we mean really old, Bobcast, from 2016. Remastered by Dead Bob Productions Sound Design. Not the best quality, but you should have heard the original.

Yes – Homeworld (The Ladder)

Beardfish – The Downward Spiral/Chimay

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo:

The Stranglers – ‘The Old Testament’  

 – The Raven

 – Four Horsemen

 – Bear Cage (12” extended mix)

Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere but Not Here (live)

Cloud Atlas – Let the Blood Flow

Dead Bob’s SHELLAc aTTACK: Side 1 of ‘The Dark Third’ by Pure Reason Revolution

 – Aeropause

 – Gosten’s Remains

 – Apprentice of the Universe

Tiny Giant – How (excerpt)

Joining me this time in the attic is raconteur, troubadour and stevedore (on his days off) Simon Godfrey. We engage in full-blown MAMTABs for quite some time, and play some of his songs. Which are quite good. If, for whatever reason, you want to buy any of this nonsense, then have at it:

http://www.tidehouse.bandcamp.com

http://www.sigodfrey.bandcamp.com

http://www.themerchdesk.com

Here’s a picture of him looking enigmatic wearing a hat:

Another in our occasional series of Remastered Bobcasts, this time for Show 39 from 2017, with special guest Mike Whitfield. Join us for classic MAMTABS (middle-aged men talking absolute bobbins), lots of music from Gordon Midgley and Napier’s Bones, as well as tracks by:

Wintergarten

Cardiacs

7Shades

England

Amplifier

The Watch

Marillion

Citizen Cain

Ritual

A.C.T

Air – Kelly Watch The Stars (Moog Cookbook Remix)

Herbert Grönemeyer, Alex Silva, Gang of Four – I Love a Man in Uniform

Genesis – Duke’s Intro (live)

Kaipa – Notes from the Past Pt.1/Pt.2

Dead Bob’s Boxset Bingo:

Jethro Tull – Uniform/Coruisk/Crossfire (Extended Version)

Saxon – Paint It Black

Dead Bob’s SHELLAc aTTACK (aka Vinyl from a Urinal):

Side 1 of ’To The Hilt’ by Golden Earring

 – Why Me?

 – Facedancer

 – To The Hilt 

 – Nomad 

Kurushimi – Ambulance Run

Galahad – This Is Where I Come From (Mellotron Showcase)

Måneskin – Zitti E Buoni 

In this edition of the podcast we speak to Steve Petch, Progzilla DJ and a legend in progressive rock circles, triangles and pentagrams. We play some music he likes. A lot.