Time to give it some hammer!
https://youtu.be/n_GFN3a0yj0
One of the best live tracks
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Time to give it some hammer!
https://youtu.be/n_GFN3a0yj0
One of the best live tracks
Just watching Dire Straits Alchemy album live from Hammersmith odeon. 1983 proper music.
I saw a little of this. My dad loves Dire Straits...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y
RIP Peter Green
Just finished watching an excellent documentary about The Proclaimers who are on my very short list of acts to see live.
One interesting fact I learnt is that Edwyn Collins, of A Girl Like You fame, is a Jock!
I had always thought him to be a Yank or a Canuck.
Mmmh. That prompted me to ponder who is on my short list of acts I still cross the road to see and since I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse about 20 years ago (Edit: Sheffield Arena 9th June 2001. Isn't Google wonderful?) - it is now only Randy Newman and, of course, Bob Dylan: both growing older gracefully along with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
That was excellent but less impressed with Annie Lennox later who seems to have lost something as she has aged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
I turned down an invitation to see the Proclaimers in Chesterfield a few years ago which I now regret.
This last week I have been listening to the Grateful Dead, every night in bed, really enjoying it and not a band I ever gave attention to back in the day.
Is this acceptable cool or am I too old now?
Well as the approaching-10,000 pages Encyclopedia of Popular Music says at the end of its extensive and laudatory entry: "Quite simply, you either get it or you don't".Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
For my part I have always thought the Dead were a Californian cult - and we all know about California.
And yet... Dylan toured with them (shambolic?), made an album with them (terrible?) and co-wrote some songs with Robert Hunter (er....yes?).
And yet...the wonderful Bruce Hornsby toured with the Dead and on his brilliant Across The River Jerry Garcia plays a scintillating guitar solo which must have helped the song reach #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, and apart from Touch of Grey (#7 in 1987) this was the only time Garcia got anywhere near the Top 40.
And so.. I guess, I get it.:)
Back through the decades when they were at their best I most certainly did not get it. I liked my rock to rock and remember hearing them on occasion, a few minutes was enough of what seemed plinky, plonky, wishy, washy, folky, country, mixed up background music with little direction and few vocals.
Now as I listen with the headphones on I do get it and can imagine sitting in the California desert sun, imbibing some substances, drinking a beer and lying back as they grooved on for a few hours.
On just one tune! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by molehill
There was an op-ed piece in the New York Times yesterday (I know I know) by Bret Stephens
Donald Trump and the Damage Done
A little part of it in everyone.
The title is a reference to Neil Young's song The Needle And The Damage Done which is about the death of his guitarist Danny Whitten (of Crazy Horse) from heroin. In the fourth verse:
I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of us in everyone
This was very far from a hit record (just a poor selling album track) but it made me think about singer/composers whose lyrics are quoted more generally - with the outstanding example being Bob Dylan.
But Neil Young? Not too bad at all.:)
Great Xmas track with two Penny Lane striders playing Guitars
Simon Birtles and Ste Maguire
https://youtu.be/_7h5gj2BpZ8
Try this. Very fine - even moving,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DFaIovZxc&
One of life's moments music wise for this young drummer:
https://youtu.be/Ll7lfZZjR4A
Remember out plodding/running around Goyt Valley when this track came on a few years back now.
Come, troubled beast, and soothe your aching soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghIB6sy0hk
Ahh, Jon Hopkins is great! Hadn't come across this before, lovely stuff. Him and the likes of Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnolds are making some really beautiful, interesting music right now. This put me in mind of some of Penguin Cafe's stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKL_9qd_gNwQuote:
Originally Posted by Wheeze
Thanks for the introduction to Pengiun Cafe, Hank. Its one of those groups that I've been aware existed without knowing what they did. Will check them out now!
The Jon Hopkins track was from an album he curated called Late Night Tales. Essential listening if you like this kind of music.
Liz Fraser and Steve Hackett playing on the same track? Nah. Would never happen. Too perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN1fTs15jD4
Running up that Hill is No 1 again after 37 years.
I used to fancy Kate Bush :p :rolleyes:
I think you will find that RUNNING UP THAT HILL by KATE BUSH is now No.1 for the first time around, as it reached No.3 in 1985 and then at No.12 in 2012 and now as you rightly say No.1 and as such becomes the longest running sleeper before hitting the no.! spot in the charts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Should boost her pension fund nicely.;)
Sorry if I seem to be pedantic
You, me and several othersQuote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
😊.
She's pretty cute dancing in the video!
Saw a band performing at Glastonbury on the telly earlier called Beabadoobee. I liked them quite a lot, they had a neo grunge sound that really resonated with me.
I was always into rave music late 90's early 2000's.
About 6 weeks ago I bought a "dj controller" which is effectively a mixer and turntables which plug into laptop/pc, allowing you to dj using mp3 song files, rather than needing full turntables and vinyl records.
Been having a lot of fun learning the basics... Knocked out a mix last week which I put up on soundcloud.
I find the matching of the beats and tempos really easy (especially as its all digital and you get a visual representation of the waveforms...) Its the mixing of the high/mid/low frequencies to make a mix sound professional and clean which is the real toughie...
I've seen bits and bobs from Glastonbury, it was on in the pub last night, and at home and I don't think there is a place, other than Eastern Ukraine, that I would rather not be.
What a racket and apparently Paul McCartney is top of the bill, FFS
He was on earlier, waxing lyrical about his Beatles days and wanking on about when he was hanging out with Jimi Hendrix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Olivia Rodrigo was effing and blinding, didn't suit her really.
Cut the lad some slack. Hes only just turned 80 and hasn't yet done 65 years of live work. He'll get the hang of it one day!��
From a few years back but if you see them now its even better:
Classic Rock - Meatloaf Bat out of Hell
https://youtu.be/QHVQ0qmhXFQ
Happy Birthday Joe
Bruce Hornsby at his best.
https://youtu.be/wg3KM6RfEzo?si=hjsDK72kNtWjAY_U
Gosh. And I thought it was only me liked him and had his albums.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinno
That was a great suggestion! Glad to be reminded of him and his music. Even my wife liked to be reminded of his music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinno
Eveybody dies and Duane Eddy now has at 86.
He was the first rock artist I ever saw live in the early 1960s and the last I saw in Manchester in October 2018. The first 45 I owned was by Duane Eddy, I didn't have a record player but I had a Duane Eddy single. This was Some Kinda Earthquake which at 1 min 17 sec is the shortest record ever to reach the US Billboard Top 40. London-American who issued the record in the UK (HLW9007) in December 1959 was so embarrassed they repeated the ending to make it last a little longer and it made #12 in the UK. I have both versions and the London-American version is better. Oh and I also have an alternative dub which was not released until 2006 (in America).
Eddy was never a great technician and owed an awful lot to Lee Hazlewood but he did make the electric guitar the instrument of heroes and inspired every would-be-guitar-hero of the 1960s and beyond.
Needless to say I have every track he ever recorded for his first label, Jamie (of Philadelphia). He didn't record much of worth after he left Jamie, initially for RCA, but that didn't matter because by then he had changed music forever and how many people do that?
Anyway tonight I feel a little older.
Belter by Toto: Africa
https://youtu.be/J9KiuSyHez4?si=HKlNluvkdzjRLv5G