Some gifs of prog musicians playing recorders. Inspired by this post and by my irrational love for the instrument family, which was somehow not quashed by the trauma of 3rd grade music class. I know I left a lot of prog-recorder-players out… If you find any decent videos/photos of other progsters on the instrument, please send them my way!
From left–>right, top–>bottom: Gentle Giant: Recorders sound better in groups, anyways. Derek Shulman, Ray Shulman, Kerry Minnear, and Gary Green all playing on “Advent of Panurge”. Gentle Giant: Too awesome for just one gif. Jethro Tull: Andrew Giddings and Martin Barre on “blockflute and small blockflute” for “Mother Goose.” Maxophone: Just your average Italian rock-n-roll band playing totally normal rock-n-roll instruments. The Move: Perhaps more proto- than prog, but Roy Wood (shown here double-fisting it) obviously moved on to other progressive pastures. Premiata Forneria Marconi: I just want to find someone someday who looks at me the way Franz Di Cioccio looks at Patrick Djivas while he’s playing the recorder on “Dolcissima Maria”. Wobbler: Hunched over their recorders on “From Silence to Somewhere”. Title track on my favorite album of 2017. Circulus: Will Summers with a bass recorder in the “My Body is Made of Sunlight” music video. I made this gif a loop, just for fun. Gryphon: Not a gif, I know, but I couldn’t find any gif-able videos of the famously virtuosic Richard Harvey playing with Gryphon, so here’s a photo of him playing a tenor recorder. Gryphon is the quintessential recorder-prog band, of course. Gryphon: Hard to find modern-day videos of the band that show recorder player Keith Thompson clearly, too. Brian Gulland (playing bassoon here) always has the best outfits.
