Tangerine Dream in London

Pam, her brother Alan and I have just returned from the TD gig.

It was pretty astonishing!!!

The lights dimmed and Edgar Froese walked on stage alone and sat behind an Electric Piano and played for a few minutes. The music sounded familiar but I couldn't put my finger on the title. That was to be a recurring theme for the rest of the night.

When he finished the audience applauded but that turned into huge whoops of joy as a Black curtain parted to reveal a stage bathed in Blue light with two other musicians sitting with their backs to us. I'm sorry but I can't tell you what the Instruments were. All I can say is that I have never seen so many Keyboards on one stage in my life. There was also a huge percussion array up the back and I wondered what was to become of that.

The guys played Non stop for 3 hours and most of the music was familiar. I heard bits of Ricochet, Logos, Phaedra (naturally) to name but 3.

The percussionist appeared after about half an hour and was there for the rest of the gig. A very lovely looking Blond girl.

We also had a very attractive saxophonist play during some numbers and a very good guitarist. The guitar sound really filled in some of the numbers and I turned to Pam and said that "This is everything I love about prog". It was complicated, beautiful, all embracing music that lifted you up to another plane.

The time flew by and the band encored with another piece with Edgar F playing guitar. Beautiful.

I thought it was all over but suddenly the Guitar player started Riffing and we were into Tangerine Dream's version of Hendrix's Purple Haze. Remarkable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A great night out and one I will remember for a long time to come.