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The Modern Music UK Tour took place between 25th September and 2nd October 1976. The Live in the Air Age UK Tour followed between 20th January and 19th February 1977. Just 4 months between the 2 tours which had very similar setlists and even a few duplicated venues. How did that situation come about? I was at the Bradford gig on 1st February 1977.

Very good piece in the New York Times on the engimeering trend effecting the sound of contemporary popular music....been going on for years. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0ndm7RlMCQRT4NPV0vlJlV5R6snXuy3R9HjWG6oCvASmW-NZnrFrsvsDg

There's a YouTube podcast called RONJIRU JAPAN, where the guest musician is American guitarist Billy Jackson, from the band 'Half-Past Nein'. He states Bill as his musical influence, and you can certainly hear it in his guitar playing! If you would like to check it out, here's the video - the mention of Bill is at around 30:20...