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Close To The Edge – Unlocking its virtues

  Prologue - September 1972 Skipton Yorkshire A copy has arrived from Cob Records in Portmadoc. I have a free lesson this Friday morning so I take the package to my room. I open up the cardboard box to reveal a deceptively simple sleeve with a subtle ridged three dimensional finish in subdued green tones. Unlike Fragile the cover exudes understated confidence and composure. What do I remember of that first run through of 40 years ago? The thundering Bass accents of Total Mass Retain, the adult beauty of I Get Up I Get Down, the gentle acoustic introduction of And You and I and the unleashed energy of the repeating figure that ushers in Siberian Khatru with Ricks playfull interjections on the Hammond. Then it is off for a lesson on the British Constitution. Act 1 The title track is a summation of everything the band had been working toward over 4 ½ years. Clean, pristine, immaculate playing welding musical fragments together to create a perfect piece of musical archit