Overnight Sensation (21/12/2013) The Update...

Good morning all!
  As some of you know already, on Saturday (21/12) GFreedom Team were the hosts in the big party in order to celebrate Prog & Roll's 50th broadcast. The Party was held at the bar 'Aitna' in the center of Athens, and as it turned out it had a great sucess!
 To be honest I was expecting a lot of people to show up, but I could have never guessed the crowd which finally gathered. At the peak of the night, (about 23.30 - 1.00) the place was really packed with people. I even saw people coming in and leaving because they were not able to find an empty spot.
  The DJ Set which we were preparing for this night started at almost 10.30 and finished at 03.30 in the morning, and as far as one can tell, from the people's reactions it was a very succesful one.
 There were many different styles included such as Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Symphonic Prog, Krautrock, Neo-Prog, Folk Rock, Progressive Metal, etc...
  Many of the producers of Just In Case Radio were there as well, stayed 'till the end of the night, enjoying the music, socialising, etc...

  After the sucess of Saturday's event, we are thinking of doing more events of that sort in the future, so have in mind that starting from 2014 more special nights will follow. With special DJ Sets, and even unplugged live sets from local or international bands.
  GFreedom Team wants to thank all of you who joined us on Saturday night, and we hope you had some great time.
Thank you all! :)
P.S: In the picture you can see some of the producers of Just In Case Prog Radio at the party...

  

GFreedom's Juke Box Nο.72

Hello folks!
  This week I really dealt a lot with music, because of tonight's party and tomorrow's radio show.
I can't calculate the hours I have spend listening to songs, albums, making lists etc, in order to chose songs mostly for today's DJ Set. So as you can understand this time it was very difficult to choose only 5 songs for my list. And even now I'm not sure if these 5 songs are the best... :P
   So, for this week here's my Top-5 songlist:

 Queen: My Fairy King (Queen - 1973)
 Iron Maiden: Phantom of the Opera (Iron Maiden - 1980)
 Rush: Tom Sawyer (Moving Pictures - 1981)
 Genesis: Dancing of the Moonlight Knight (Selling England by the Pound - 1973) 
 Rainbow: Stargazer (Rising - 1976)

   And as usual I'll conclude this post by adding a couple of videos from my Top-5 list.
On the first video you can listen to Queen's 'My Fairy King' , and on the second one Rainbow's epic song 'Stargazer'. Enjoy the music, and have a great weekend!
   Thank you for reading :)

                                        

GFreedom Team celebrates the 50 Prog & Roll Radio shows...

Hello folks!
 As the title of the post indicates, this Sunday we will celebrate the 50 Prog & Roll radio shows on Just In Case Prog Radio.
  We are happy of being able to reach this number, and we are preparing a special weekend in order to celebrate it.
  At Saturday night (21/12/13), we are preparing a party at a bar in the center of Athens, and all of you who are able to come are welcome! (You can find more details about this event a couple of posts below). GFreedom Team is preparing a really special DJ Set, which we hope it will blow your mind!
  Further than that, on Sunday's Prog & Roll we will have a special playlist ready which will be a combination of really great songs, mixed with some parts of Saturday's DJ Set.
  So all of you who weren't able to participate to this event, if you log in on Sunday night, you will be able to listen to whole parts of the party's program.
  We did put a lot of effort on both the party and the radio show, and we hope many people will respond and show up or log in. But the most important is to have a great time.
  That's all for now, I'll see you tomorrow night at the party, or at Sunday night in the radio show.
Thank you all in advance!

P.S: Prog & Roll's broadcasting is in English and Greek language, and you can listen to it every Sunday night at 20.00CET at Just In Case Prog Radio. You can log in by clicking to the following link: Just In Case Prog Radio

20.000 pageviews

Hello folks!
Since yesterday, my blog reached the number of 20.000 pageviews!
It is a great milestone in my opinion, and I want to thank you all for your visits, and your support as well.
 I am trying to make this blog a friendly and informative place, and I hope I am doing a good job.
Be sure I will continue trying to do the best I can.
Thank you! :)

PROG & ROLL Radio show on 15/12/2013. The Full Playlist...

Good morning all!
Last night we had the 49th Prog & Roll Radio show, which means that on next Sunday we will prepare a really magnificent show in order to celebrate the 50 radio shows.
  On last night's playlist we had 19 songs in total, from many different music categories.
You can check which songs we played here:

PETER GREEN: Slabo Day / SANTANA: Black Magic Woman / STEELY DAN: The Boston Rag / CHICAGO: Questions 67&68 / GENTLE GIANT: Funny Ways / KING CRIMSON: In the wake of Poseidon / VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR: Every Bloody Emperor / GENESIS: Counting out time / YES: America / QUEEN: Let me entertain you / THIN LIZZY: Massacre / LED ZEPPELIN: Misty Mountain hop / IRON MAIDEN: The rime of the Ancient Mariner / MERCURY REV: Holes / PORCUPINE TREE: Collapse the Light into Earth / MOSTLY AUTUMN: Things that we notice / EDISON’S CHILDREN: A million miles away / DREAM THEATER: Anne Lee / BLACKFIELD: 1000 people .

Thank you all for listening to our show, and we promise you a really great show on next Sunday. 

Take care! :)

GFreedom's Juke Box Nο.71

Hello everybody!
One more Saturday morning is here, therefore it is time to write down my Top-5 songs for this week.
I listened to lots of music through this week, because I was preparing tomorrow's Prog & Roll radio show, but further than that,  because I'm already preparing the playlist for next week's DJ Set for the party I announced yesterday from this blog.

  Anyway, without further ado, here's my top- 5 songlist:

Roxy Music: Do the Strand (For your Pleasure - 1973)
Galahad: Empires Never Last (Empires Never Last - 2007)
Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Powerslave - 1984)
Dulcimer: Sonnet to the Fall (And I Turned as I had Turned as a Boy - 1970)
Ayreon: The Theory of Everything Part.1 (The Theory of Everything - 2013) 

And as usual, I'm posting  couple of videos as well for you ti listen. On the first video you can listen to 'Empires Never Last' by Galahad, and on the second one I chose 'The Theory of Everything Part.1' by Ayreon's new release. Enjoy them!
Have a nice weekend all, and thanks for reading! :)

GFreedom Team Presents: OVERNIGHT SENSATION

Hello all!
I'm writting this post in order to inform you about a special event we are preparing for next week.
The event will take place in Athens, therefore I'm writting it in Greek.
  Θελω να σας ενημερωσω οτι την επομενη Κυριακη 22/12, η εκπομπη Prog & Roll κλεινει τα 50! Δηλαδη συμπληρωνουμε 50 εκπομπες στο Just In Case Prog Radio. Γι αυτο λοιπον, σκεφτηκαμε να κανουμε κατι διαφορετικο ωστε να το γιορτασουμε ολοι μαζι. 
   Με μεγαλη μου χαρα λοιπον σας ανακοινωνω οτι το Σαββατο 21/12 θα κανουμε ενα παρτυ στο μπαρ Αιτνα που βρισκεται στην οδο Εμμ.Μπενακη 83 στα Εξαρχεια, για το οποιο ετοιμαζουμε ενα σπεσιαλ DJ Set με μουσικες απο τα '60'ς μεχρι και τις μερες μας. Θα παιχτουν πολλα ειδη μουσικης, με ιδιαιτερη εμφαση σε πιο εντεχνα και προοδευτικα στυλ, χωρις ομως να λειπουν κλασσικα και γνωστα ακουσματα. Εχουμε βαλει την ωρα προσελευσης στις 9, ωστε να εχουμε λιγο χρονο να γνωριστουμε και να πουμε δυο κουβεντες πριν αρχισει το DJ Set.
   Θελω να πιστευω οτι καποιοι απο εσας θα βρουν την ιδεα ενδιαφερουσα, και θα μας τιμησουν με την παρουσια τους. 
   Εμεις θα ειμαστε εκει, μαζι με ολους τους παραγωγους του σταθμου, φιλους αλλα και ακροατες, και θα βαλουμε τα δυνατα μας ωστε να περασουμε ολοι μαζι ενα πολυ ομορφο βραδυ.
Ελπιζω να τα πουμε απο κοντα.
Σας ευχαριστουμε! :)

Tales from the Progressive Oceans Part.13

THE ALAN PARSON'S PROJECT: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1976)

   Alan Parson was a sound engineer since the end of '60's involved with many famous

albums such as: 'Abbey Road' and 'Let it Be' by the Beatles, and the 'The Dark Side of the Moon' by Pink Floyd, to name a few. But he always wanted to make a band of his own, and when he met with Eric Woolfson in the canteen of Abbey Roads studios this idea became reality.Woolfson was a songwriter, composer and a session musician, working at the time to a personal project which was a concept album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the famous American writer.

   The new band was named The Alan Parson's Project, and their first album was 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe)' which was released in 1976.

The title of the album is taken from a popular title for a collection of Poe's macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and reprinted many times since. The lyrics are taken from horror stories writen by Edgar Allan Poe, such as 'The Raven' 'The Cask of Amontillado' 'The Fall of the House of Usher' etc. 

   Many known mucisians were involved in this album, such as Arthur Brown, (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown), Terry Silvester (The Hollies), Francis Monkman (Curved Air) etc...

   The lyrics as it is expected were inspired and in many occasions copied from the original stories of Edgar Allan Poe. And as for the technical side, Alan Parson did a really great work. In this album were used many new techniques, with the use of 'vocoder' for the first time in history of music being one of them. (You can listen to Alan Parson singing through vocoder in 'The Raven').

   The reception of the album was mixed, and the music critics were confused by the new sound and the music style of the album. But because of its theme, it gathered a cult audience who bought and worshiped it.

   The original version of the album consists of a double cover, and in the middle it contains a few pages with pictures, lyrics and info on the album. I consider myself lucky for being able to have this version, which is really very beautiful.

 Concluding this post, I will add a couple of songs so you can listen and have an idea…

                                            

PROG & ROLL Radio show on 8/12/2013. The Full Palylist...

Hello all!
Last night we had one more Prog & Roll radio show, and it was the first one after almost a year on which we didn't play the 'grading of the songs' game. This happened because our Annual Top-10 is complete, and also because we fealt that playing this game for almost a year was enough. We had lots of fun from time to time, but everything must come to an end at some point. Now we will have to think of something else for next year.
   That's why you will not be seing any Top-5 songs from now on. I will be writing a small review, and I'll be adding the full playlist. 
   On last night's show we started with 3 bands with oriental roots. On the frist half-hour we played Myrath from Tunis, Mavara from Iran, and Nemrud from Turney. On the second half-hour we played only bands and artists from the '60's and the '70's, and we added a strong Folk-Rock flavour. 
At the start of the 3rd part, we had our music contest, and once more we had a winner very fast. We continued with a couple of very famous Hard-Rock bands, and after that we slowed the rhythm a lot.
   I believe it was a nice show in general, and the people seemed to enjoy it.
As for the full playlist, you can see it here:

MYRATH: Madness / MAVARA: Endless Illusion / NEMRUD: Journey of the Shaman (Part.2) / VELVET FOGG: Yellow Cave Woman / BEGGAR’S OPERA: Open Letter / RAMASES: Children of the Green Earth / DONOVAN: Catch the Wind /SANDY DENNY & THE STRAWBS: Sail Away to the Sea / PENTANGLE: Hunting Song / RUSH: The Seeker (Music Contest) / BLACK SABBATH: A National Acrobat / BLUE OYSTER CULT: Veteran of the Psychic Wars / MARILLION: He Knows you know / ARENA: Medusa / SUPERTRAMP: Lord is it mine / CRESSIDA: Summer Weekend of a Lifetime/ CICCADA: Epirus-A mountain Song / ASTRA: Drift / STYX: Lords of the Ring /THE MOODY BLUES: Isn’t Life strange?

  

I will conclude this post by adding a couple of videos from last night's playlist.

On the first video you can listen the song 'Isn't life Strange?' from The Moody Blues, and on the second video the song 'Madness' from the Tunisian Prog-Metal band Myrath.

Enjoy the music, and have a great week everybody! :) 

  

        

                       

GFreedom's Juke Box Nο.70

Hello all!
Since another Saturday morning is here, it's time to write my top-5 songs for this week.
Although I had a very difficult week, I found the time to listen to music as always.
But this time my options were limited, therefore it was not so hard to pick my best songs.
So, without further ado, here's my Top-5 songlist for this week:

Elf: Nevermore (Elf- 1972)
Strawbs: Tears & Pavan (Bursting at the Seams - 1973)
Black Sabbath: A National Acrobat (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - 1973)
The Tea Party: The River (Splendor Solis - 1993)
Ramases: Children of the Green Earth (Glass Top Coffin - 1975)

And as usual, I'm concluding this post with two videos from my top-5 list.
On the first video you can listen to the excellent and not so famous song 'Nevermore' by Elf, (R.J Dio's first band), and on the second video you can see the video clip of 'The River' by the Canadian band The Tea Party.
Enjoy the music folks, and have a great weekend!
Thank you for reading... :)