What are you listening to right now #5?
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Setting Son
Karma, ne?
kasperhauser said:
Excellent track. Some good stuff on those Mountain Stage albums.
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kasperhauser
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Alas, no. Another one of those artists I've always meant to investigate further, yadda, yadda, yadda... eh, no excuses. He's clearly a talent not to be missed.matthewr said:
I've had it in my head to start with Mermaid Ave., as I'm a Wilco fan. How does that one rate?
kjb
Proof reading not always a strength
Mermaid Ave is good stuff. I'd also have a look at some of the "double cd" complations - Victm of Geography is good as is the one with te essential Talking with the Taxman about Poetry.
Was: Cecil Taylor : One To Many Salty Swift etc - the two opening duets
Currently: Surjan Stevens, Illinoise - still playing this a lot.
Next: Nixon: Lambchop - a while since I've played this, one of my long term faves.
Kevin
Was: Cecil Taylor : One To Many Salty Swift etc - the two opening duets
Currently: Surjan Stevens, Illinoise - still playing this a lot.
Next: Nixon: Lambchop - a while since I've played this, one of my long term faves.
Kevin
Setting Son
Karma, ne?
prowla said:
Is that one available on vinyl? ;-)
I just wandered into town at lunchtime and picked up a Rainbow DVD from MVC for £1.99.
It covered Rainbow from when Dio left, ie. with Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner, and then back after a break with Purple, with Doogie White on vocals.
It has comments from Neil Murray (bass player in Whitesnake, National Health, and Sabbath) and members of Forever Autumn (who supported Blackmore's Night when I saw them in Reading a couple of years ago).
I watched it from beginning to end.
God, though, Joe-Lynn Turner was absolute crap! I realised that I never even listened to two of the albums he was on with Rainbow, nor Purple neither!
(I guess there must be some sychronicity going on, as the Biography channel has just done features on Deep Purple, and on the Machine Head album.)
Back to the Rainbow thing, they seemed ot be hinting that Ritchie might be due for a rock venture again (maybe Blackmore's Night has about reached a logical conclusion). Maybe I'll dust out that classic Ritchie riff that I wrote and send it to him (I sent it to Ian Gillan, but he said that Purple only do their own material).
It covered Rainbow from when Dio left, ie. with Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner, and then back after a break with Purple, with Doogie White on vocals.
It has comments from Neil Murray (bass player in Whitesnake, National Health, and Sabbath) and members of Forever Autumn (who supported Blackmore's Night when I saw them in Reading a couple of years ago).
I watched it from beginning to end.
God, though, Joe-Lynn Turner was absolute crap! I realised that I never even listened to two of the albums he was on with Rainbow, nor Purple neither!
(I guess there must be some sychronicity going on, as the Biography channel has just done features on Deep Purple, and on the Machine Head album.)
Back to the Rainbow thing, they seemed ot be hinting that Ritchie might be due for a rock venture again (maybe Blackmore's Night has about reached a logical conclusion). Maybe I'll dust out that classic Ritchie riff that I wrote and send it to him (I sent it to Ian Gillan, but he said that Purple only do their own material).
matthewr
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KH,
Last years double CD compilation is a very good selection including most of his best songs. Contrary to what, erm, Rainbow fans might tell you most of Billy's songs and all his finest work are actually about awkward unrequited teenage love and not about Socialism -- most obviously "The Saturday Boy" and "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" which are two of the greatest songs of the last 20 years.
Of course there are some songs about the glorious struggle of the workers -- but really its just that miners fighting the oppressive capitalist pigs makes for a better narrative than IT contractors moaning about IR35 and tax dodging.
See http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/must_i_paint_essential/index.html for details. Should be available in the US or direct from the web site i think.
Matthew
Last years double CD compilation is a very good selection including most of his best songs. Contrary to what, erm, Rainbow fans might tell you most of Billy's songs and all his finest work are actually about awkward unrequited teenage love and not about Socialism -- most obviously "The Saturday Boy" and "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" which are two of the greatest songs of the last 20 years.
Of course there are some songs about the glorious struggle of the workers -- but really its just that miners fighting the oppressive capitalist pigs makes for a better narrative than IT contractors moaning about IR35 and tax dodging.
See http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/must_i_paint_essential/index.html for details. Should be available in the US or direct from the web site i think.
Matthew
kasperhauser
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Thanks Matthew. I generally steer clear of "best of"-style compilations, but this one sounds like a good place to start. Anyways, I don't sweat socialists... I already listen to Paul Weller and Nick Lowe, not to mention that evil Woody Guthrie.
BTW, Bragg has a thick accent... where's it from, regionally speaking?
BTW, Bragg has a thick accent... where's it from, regionally speaking?
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BTW, Bragg has a thick accent... where's it from, regionally speaking?[/QUOTE]
Essex...specifically I can't remember whether its Dagenham or Romford although I know they have named a street after him!
Paul
Essex...specifically I can't remember whether its Dagenham or Romford although I know they have named a street after him!
Paul
matthewr
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KH -- The best proper albums are the first three but they long deleted and only avaiable on re-isuse compilations with various extra tracks and so on. The first two are compiled on Back to Basics and third on Victim of Geography.
"Barking - me old bean"
Indeed, Billy is known as the Bard of Barking .
"Barking - me old bean"
Indeed, Billy is known as the Bard of Barking .
sideshowbob
Champagne fascia aficionado
ROVA::Orkestrova, Electric Ascension.
The great ROVA sax quartet have recorded a version of Trane's intense big-band free jazz hard-blowing classic before, but this new version, recorded live in 2003 and released a couple of months ago by Atavistic, adds electronics (Chris Brown, Ikue Mori, Otome Yoshihide), guitar (Nels Cline), electric bass (Fred Frith), and a couple of violinists. And it's magnificent, the record of the century so far.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17490
http://www.rova.org/
-- Ian
The great ROVA sax quartet have recorded a version of Trane's intense big-band free jazz hard-blowing classic before, but this new version, recorded live in 2003 and released a couple of months ago by Atavistic, adds electronics (Chris Brown, Ikue Mori, Otome Yoshihide), guitar (Nels Cline), electric bass (Fred Frith), and a couple of violinists. And it's magnificent, the record of the century so far.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17490
http://www.rova.org/
-- Ian
sideshowbob
Champagne fascia aficionado
Proper record? Highly unlikely, unfortunately. There's so little money made out of free improv record sales that most recent stuff is short pressing runs, and CD only.
-- Ian
-- Ian
kjb
Proof reading not always a strength
For some reason I've never got round to buying Ascension. Must put that right pronto! It's one of the only Coltrane's I don't have and, from what I've read, its one of the best. The RAVA thing sounded pretty essential from the Wire review. when funds allow.....
Currently: Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards
Kevin
Currently: Anthony Braxton: 23 Standards
Kevin
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