Right Now! No messing - what are you listening to?
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Smith and Burrows - As The Snowflakes Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSybFXusB1s
Nice depressing Christmas song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSybFXusB1s
Nice depressing Christmas song!
Earworm alert!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa.
The big question. Is the hair on his head or glued to the hats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa.
The big question. Is the hair on his head or glued to the hats?
Good music from Greece, relaxed but powerful spacey rock by Naxatras :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjyvtjAmUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjyvtjAmUo
This week I have been mostly listening to... Symphonic Death Metal:
E.g.
Shade Empire - "Omega Arcane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXU0spH55VY
E.g.
Shade Empire - "Omega Arcane"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXU0spH55VY
I'm Nostalging (do it a lot, is it a word? Who cares?)
A quick glance through this thread promptly lets me realise how old I am now, when seemingly many others here are 'nostalging' at stuff only back as far as the 90s ffs!
Groups and singers, a lot who mean sweet fa to me.
Nonetheless, I'm also realising how lucky I am to have witnessed live, so many, including Hendrix, Green's Fleetwood Mac, and many, many more.
Remember going to Newbury Corn Exchange to see Hendrix - how bloody unreal that sounds now, even to me!
Some of the biggies from the US, like The Doors and other greats throughout the weekend at the Isle of Wight in 1970, among the largest gathering ever in the UK, all for peanuts when compared to costs today, and many of the other great live bands in the 60s and 70s.
Another that sticks in my mind is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Oxford Polytechnic in 1980 on their Damn the Torpedoes tour. I didn't even pay (perks of working there at the time). It's still on YouTube I think. Christ, the groups I/we saw when I think back.
Jeff Beck Group just before Xmas 1967 at Oxford Town Hall. We'd been in the Grapes pub in George Street just before the gig, when Beck and Stewart (Rod) and group marched in - the latter (or it might have been Beck?) - wearing a bloody massive fur coat and proceeding to do things other than drink!
Half hour later they were on stage playing full pelt.
Anyway, to topic, what have I been listening to tonight.
Remember it like it was yesterday, a group of us going to see Tyrannosaurus Rex (before they became glittery T. Rex) at a local Oxford dive, near Oxford University Press, in 1968 and it was cancelled and being told another group had stood in, from Wales.
We nearly went to the flics instead but as we'd paid (probably 2 bob - 10p today!) we stayed on.
Who was on instead? Told it would be Love Sculpture. We were told it would be bluesy. Ok, that's fine. It was until [the]Dave Edmunds said they were going to do some classical number called 'Sabre Dance' by Russian composer Khachaturian. Ugh? It was just wow! And not long after was soaring up the charts.
No vid exists of that, if only we'd had mobiles then. Here's one vid of them ... oh dear, best skip the few secs of the hairy cornflake at beginning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRHy8YxDrWw
and for something completely different, Ash (Wishbone that is!) from 74. Soaring twin guitars - another group whom I also saw many times. Love this one, listen to this lots in the car, including (well, it was 'right now' just before I got home tonight) it needs to be loud (and not because I'm knocking on
)...
Persephone from There's the Rub album.
Very underrated was drummer, Steve Upton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFFzuHhmsg
A quick glance through this thread promptly lets me realise how old I am now, when seemingly many others here are 'nostalging' at stuff only back as far as the 90s ffs!
Groups and singers, a lot who mean sweet fa to me.
Nonetheless, I'm also realising how lucky I am to have witnessed live, so many, including Hendrix, Green's Fleetwood Mac, and many, many more.
Remember going to Newbury Corn Exchange to see Hendrix - how bloody unreal that sounds now, even to me!
Some of the biggies from the US, like The Doors and other greats throughout the weekend at the Isle of Wight in 1970, among the largest gathering ever in the UK, all for peanuts when compared to costs today, and many of the other great live bands in the 60s and 70s.
Another that sticks in my mind is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Oxford Polytechnic in 1980 on their Damn the Torpedoes tour. I didn't even pay (perks of working there at the time). It's still on YouTube I think. Christ, the groups I/we saw when I think back.
Jeff Beck Group just before Xmas 1967 at Oxford Town Hall. We'd been in the Grapes pub in George Street just before the gig, when Beck and Stewart (Rod) and group marched in - the latter (or it might have been Beck?) - wearing a bloody massive fur coat and proceeding to do things other than drink!
Half hour later they were on stage playing full pelt.
Anyway, to topic, what have I been listening to tonight.
Remember it like it was yesterday, a group of us going to see Tyrannosaurus Rex (before they became glittery T. Rex) at a local Oxford dive, near Oxford University Press, in 1968 and it was cancelled and being told another group had stood in, from Wales.
We nearly went to the flics instead but as we'd paid (probably 2 bob - 10p today!) we stayed on.
Who was on instead? Told it would be Love Sculpture. We were told it would be bluesy. Ok, that's fine. It was until [the]Dave Edmunds said they were going to do some classical number called 'Sabre Dance' by Russian composer Khachaturian. Ugh? It was just wow! And not long after was soaring up the charts.
No vid exists of that, if only we'd had mobiles then. Here's one vid of them ... oh dear, best skip the few secs of the hairy cornflake at beginning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRHy8YxDrWw
and for something completely different, Ash (Wishbone that is!) from 74. Soaring twin guitars - another group whom I also saw many times. Love this one, listen to this lots in the car, including (well, it was 'right now' just before I got home tonight) it needs to be loud (and not because I'm knocking on
)... Persephone from There's the Rub album.
Very underrated was drummer, Steve Upton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFFzuHhmsg
London Grammar - Sights (Until The Ribbon Breaks Re-Imagination)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQpdR5kkrUQ
Perfect slightly abstract late night listening. Very peaceful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQpdR5kkrUQ
Perfect slightly abstract late night listening. Very peaceful.
This week I have been mostly listening to... Synthwave
E.g. GUNSHIP - "Pink Mist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QqIFQpUp4
Perturbator - "Humans Are Such Easy Prey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DekFFCE5c
Flash Arnold - "The Pump"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft63SPa5D0Q
and
Carpenter Brut - "Division Ruine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ZkhlJUQAM
Obviously massively 80s-inspired stuff. Some of it is pretty epic.
E.g. GUNSHIP - "Pink Mist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QqIFQpUp4
Perturbator - "Humans Are Such Easy Prey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DekFFCE5c
Flash Arnold - "The Pump"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft63SPa5D0Q
and
Carpenter Brut - "Division Ruine"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ZkhlJUQAM
Obviously massively 80s-inspired stuff. Some of it is pretty epic.
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