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More Later .... More tambourine rattling ................. Jools Holland introduced this lot by riding his Velocette MSS into the studio ......... As for Campagnolo .... Were`nt these fitted to late `seventies / early `eighties Ducatis , along with Speedlines as an alternative , and didn`t the latter spark off safety concerns , by developing cracks .... or something like that .........
 
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Alex Chilton says Rock and Roll is here to stay in " Thirteen " , and Neil Young says Rock and Roll can never die in " Hey Hey , My My " ........ So that`s sorted then .......

John Peel had Neil Young as a guest on his Radio One show .... Didn`t hear it myself , but according to Peel , it was a Robert Mitchum on Parkinson moment .......... just a series of grunts , yeps , or nopes in answer to all the questions , as if he resented being there .......... They do say it`s best never to meet your heroes ........
 

Best version .......... There was some discussion in the Cotham Porter Stores some time ago ... ( and it was some time ago , two of the participants are now dead , the others probably in nursing homes ) ..... , and it centered around whether Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed Stratocaster left- handedly , ( and re-strung maybe ? ) .......... Or if he played a left-handed Strat the right way round ( left-handedly ) .......

Images of him always show the tuning pegs facing down , so I always thought it was a right-handed Strat being played the wrong way round ..... ( but right for Jimi .... this is getting confusing ... ) ..... as a right-handed Strat being played the right way round would have the pegs at the top .....

But ...... Eric Clapton said he spotted a left-handed Stratocaster ...... ( presumbably still a bit of a rarity in the `sixties ) , for sale in Denmark Street , and he snapped it up with the intention of gifting it to Hendrix .........

........... However , the next time he saw Hendrix he forgot to mention it , and then a couple of weeks later Hendrix was dead anyway , so that was the end of that ..........

However , if Hendrix played a riight -hand Strat left-handedly , then maybe Clapton`s gift of a left-handed Strat would`nt be of particular use to him , unless he moved the tuning pegs to the bottom , into the position he was more used to ......... ( and reversed the strings as well , maybe ) ......... :unsure: ............

Jimi Hendrix ....... the best rhythm and lead guitarist at the same time .........
 
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rocketonarail said:

Best version .......... There was some discussion in the Cotham Porter Stores some time ago ... ( and it was some time ago , two of the participants are now dead , the others probably in nursing homes ) ..... , and it centered around whether Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed Stratocaster left- handedly , ( and re-strung maybe ? ) .......... Or if he played a left-handed Strat the right way round ( left-handedly ) .......

Images of him always show the tuning pegs facing down , so I always thought it was a right-handed Strat being played the wrong way round ..... ( but right for Jimi .... this is getting confusing ... ) ..... as a right-handed Strat being played the right way round would have the pegs at the top .....

But ...... Eric Clapton said he spotted a left-handed Stratocaster ...... ( presumbably still a bit of a rarity in the `sixties ) , for sale in Denmark Street , and he snapped it up with the intention of gifting it to Hendrix .........

........... However , the next time he saw Hendrix he forgot to mention it , and then a couple of weeks later Hendrix was dead anyway , so that was the end of that ..........

However , if Hendrix played a riight -hand Strat left-handedly , then maybe Clapton`s gift of a left-handed Strat would`nt be of particular use to him , unless he moved the tuning pegs to the bottom , into the position he was more used to ......... ( and reversed the strings as well , maybe ) ......... :unsure: ............

Jimi Hendrix ....... the best rhythm and lead guitarist at the same time .........
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I looked into this a little while back. Jimi definitely played a RH Strat upside down and left handed, but strung as a LH Strat, which meant the pickups had a different sound because the heavy strings were over the section of the pickups normally set for the thin strings. He was so incredible that he could also pick up a RH guitar strung for a RH player and still produce great music on it. He may havde told Eric to keep the LH Strat!!
 
rocketonarail said:

Best version .......... There was some discussion in the Cotham Porter Stores some time ago ... ( and it was some time ago , two of the participants are now dead , the others probably in nursing homes ) ..... , and it centered around whether Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed Stratocaster left- handedly , ( and re-strung maybe ? ) .......... Or if he played a left-handed Strat the right way round ( left-handedly ) .......

Images of him always show the tuning pegs facing down , so I always thought it was a right-handed Strat being played the wrong way round ..... ( but right for Jimi .... this is getting confusing ... ) ..... as a right-handed Strat being played the right way round would have the pegs at the top .....

But ...... Eric Clapton said he spotted a left-handed Stratocaster ...... ( presumbably still a bit of a rarity in the `sixties ) , for sale in Denmark Street , and he snapped it up with the intention of gifting it to Hendrix .........

........... However , the next time he saw Hendrix he forgot to mention it , and then a couple of weeks later Hendrix was dead anyway , so that was the end of that ..........

However , if Hendrix played a riight -hand Strat left-handedly , then maybe Clapton`s gift of a left-handed Strat would`nt be of particular use to him , unless he moved the tuning pegs to the bottom , into the position he was more used to ......... ( and reversed the strings as well , maybe ) ......... :unsure: ............

Jimi Hendrix ....... the best rhythm and lead guitarist at the same time .........
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When the great (right handed) guitarist Phil Para here in Melbourne puts on a Hendrix show, he uses a left handed strat. A Reverse Hendrix I call it 😎
 

............. I know I`ve done " Thirteen " before ........ but this version with original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens , and Luther Russell , ( now of Those Pretty Wrongs ) , plus Mike Mills of REM , is ok as well ..........

....... I like how Jody motions to Mills at the start ...... " You do the first verse and last .... I`ll take the middle ....... " ...........
 
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...... Always impresses me what an amazing drummer Stephen Morris is ..........

...... " Dance to the radio " ... ? ......... On the sofa with my feet up watching YouTube is much more my style nowadays , mate ...........
 
I suppose I could describe my taste in music as somewhat eclectic. A lot of contemporary stuff is not to my liking. I'll spare you my thoughts on Hip Hop ... 🤮

Most of the music I listened to during my formative years in the 1950's was my father's collection of classical music on 78rpm Bakelite records that would shatter if dropped on a hard floor. I remember when the magic smoke escaped from his old "gramophone" and he was shopping around for a new record player, he was dismayed to find that none of the new ones would do 78rpm!

This is a relatively modern (~1970) instrumental piece that I quite like. It's by Scottish composer Douggie McClean and I guess it's something of a crossover between traditional Celtic music and classical. It's called The Gael. Like most people who know the tune, it first came to my notice when it was used as the theme tune for the movie "The Last of the Mohicans". It's been covered by a heap of different performers on a variety of instruments including bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, flute, etc. but this violin version by Jenny O'Connor is as good as any. She's not a bad violinist and a nice set of abs.

 
Good one Cam, good music. Richard Thompson and his wife at the time, "One door" i did this song with a Richard Thompson zealot and sound/play-alike and my drummer gal on guitar and vocals, me on upright Bass. Went over well just the three of us at stage front. Richard also did the Vincent song promoted here many posts back.

 

.... then Pete latches onto something Cream always lacked ...... some soothing strings in the background ......

.... Nothing to do with Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds , or Jefferson Airplane either .........

........ If you don`t like the track , you can always waste time identifying the faces on the cover ....... so far I`ve got Sandie Shaw ; Dick Heckstall- Smith ; Arthur Lee ; Salvidor Dali ; Pete Townshend ; Arthur Brown ....... zzzzzzzzzzzzz ......
 
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.... meanwhile ELP get their tour dates mixed up ........ " It`s tomorrow lads " ............

...... Bristol Rovers FC play this over their PA just before the teams come out ........ The ground is just across the road from my garage .........

..... Home games are a pain in the ass , all the roads packed with traffic ........ poor misguided sods .............


... This goes on a bit ( nearly 9 minutes ) , but never mind ........
 
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..... Orkustra take a tune by jazz musician Vince Wallace and do ... something ..... to it ........

....... Orkustra once supported The Grateful Dead , performing live in California , and included David LaFlamme ( violin ) ....who later went on to form It`s A Beautiful Day , and Bobby Beausoleil ( guitar and bouzouki ) ....... who later went to prison for the murder of Gary Hinman .......

..... Jon Lord heard the IABD version of this , and did a deal with La Flamme so he could rework it as " Child In Time " for Deep Purple .........

... The drummer on this is credited as Terry Wilson , but could just as easily be Dave Clark from The Dave Clark Five .......
 
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