music in the shed


Saw MDV supporting the Feelgoods back in October 1977 .....

About three minutes too long , so not entirely my sort of thing ..... but worth watching to see the bloke with the washing / scrubbing board around his neck ...... Surely he must be thinking " I must look a right berk doing this .... " ........
 
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She`s best known for this world wide hit ......... A sort of cover version ...... didn`t write it but recorded it first ............

There are several excellent live versions , but I stuck with this because I like the intro ..........

Try not to sing along too loudly ..... people might think you`ve become radicalized ........
 
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Perish the thought, all of the above are on rotation here... there is a well worth live Joan and drop ins doing "Brickhouse.... see if i can scare it up...j yes found it. Plus i talked one of me gal singers to do the cover rendition of Spooky, in honour of Dusty, the Joan rendition i do on flute, maybe bass alternate swap during the song, if good enough on the night.


 

Seeing mention of Bob Weir got me thinking of Bob Welch and Bob Weston who both featured on the Fleetwood Mac Penguin album ...... This was the opening track .......

Except this isn`t Fleetwood Mac at all .... Christine McVie is there , but this is probably from Bob Welch`s Roxy concert from 1981 , with the Penguin audio track stuck over the top ......

I bought this album ....... the first Fleetwood Mac released after dumping Danny Kirwan ........ Peter Green had also left by then , although he does re appear to join in on the track Night Watch ........
 
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rocketonarail said:

Seeing mention of Bob Weir got me thinking of Bob Welch and Bob Weston who both featured on the Fleetwood Mac Penguin album ...... This was the opening track .......

Except this isn`t Fleetwood Mac at all .... Christine McVie is there , but this is probably from Bob Welch`s Roxy concert from 1981 , with the Penguin audio track stuck over the top ......

I bought this album ....... the first Fleetwood Mac released after dumping Danny Kirwan ........ Peter Green had also left by then , although he does re appear to join in on the track Night Watch ........
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I thought Danny became a Child of God in Los Angeles while on a tour break. Or am I confusing him with Jeremy Spencer?

California was infested with cults in those days. Charlie Manson’s was just one among many. I had a brush with Jim Jones’ People’s Temple while living in the Bay Area back then. An acquaintance woke up one morning after a psychedelic weekend having been “recruited” by the aforementioned Children of God who put him to work picking vegetables on a farm in Sonoma. It took him a week to escape and find his way back to Berkeley! He showed up at our door wearing only the bathrobe in which he walked out a week previously…..

I also spent some time with the freelove followers of the Rajneesh while in India. But there the attraction was more physical than spiritual 😏
 
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A musician friend had dumped his promising music career and joined the Hari Krishna mob, saying "music is nothing in the next life". Years later after getting out he formed a really good Perth band. One of their songs was "No god no master!" Love that song.
 
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I thought Danny became a Child of God in Los Angeles while on a tour break. Or am I confusing him with Jeremy Spencer?

California was infested with cults in those days. Charlie Manson’s was just one among many. I had a brush with Jim Jones’ People’s Temple while living in the Bay Area back then. An acquaintance woke up one morning after a psychedelic weekend having been “recruited” by the aforementioned Children of God who put him to work picking vegetables on a farm in Sonoma. It took him a week to escape and find his way back to Berkeley! He showed up at our door wearing only the bathrobe in which he walked out a week previously…..

I also spent some time with the freelove followers of the Rajneesh while in India. But there the attraction was more physical than spiritual 😏
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It was Jeremy Spencer who found God in California ........ Kirwan drifted into drink and drug problems , a result of emotional and insecurity problems ...... then a period of homelessness , ending up in a drink / drug rehab hostel ..... He passed away in his sleep back in 2018 .........

Spencer is still around , and is still performing , as far as I know .
 
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It was Jeremy Spencer who found God in California ........ Kirwan drifted into drink and drug problems , a result of emotional and insecurity problems ...... then a period of homelessness , ending up in a drink / drug rehab hostel ..... He passed away in his sleep back in 2018 .........

Spencer is still around , and is still performing , as far as I know .
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Jesus saves?
 
Wondering how the many/few out there listen to these postings, usual "audio" on computers can be highly variable. BT adds in delay and all sorts of artefacts. Use a saved from the tip ( repaired many times ) pair of Sony WH-CH500 BT headphones. If motivated have my JBL PRX612M box with PreSonus AR8 ( also a saved from waste tip repair ) mixer, which doubles as my most gigs rig. My upright basses run triple pickup, Piezo on the bridge, pair of Belcat piezo on the finger board and bottom of finger board, electret ( condensor ) pickup. Why i need a mixer, never owned a brand name backline amp, made mine as electronic tech. Bit of a ramble, though interested in what is used for music playback amongst the near deaf Laverda riders, grin, j
 

....... Speaking of Danny Kirwan ..... here he is ........ The first album without Peter Green , and the last with Jeremy Spencer .........

Written by , and featuring his vocals and lead guitar ......... Joined Fleetwood Mac when he was just eighteen years old , but could`nt handle the pressure , which was a shame ..........

One of the stories was that Kirwan and Green both went to a LSD party in Munich .......... whatever happened there no one really knows , but it seems that was what signaled the start of both their declines ...... People had to be sent out to collect Green ........

Kirwan was a perfectionist , in both his attitude and his playing , and very emotional ........ Green , ( who he never really got on with on a personal level , although Kirwan was always in awe of Green`s guitar playing ) , said that Kirwan would often be crying whilst he was playing .

In fact Kirwan never really got on with anyone , being very withdrawn generally ....... he reckoned Fleetwood and McVie were the only ones he could count on as friends ....... towards the end it was only Fleetwood who would speak to him , due to his erratic behaviour .....

The end came when he picked an argument with Bob Welch minutes before they were due to go on stage ...... accusing Welch of always being out of tune ...... then headbutting the dressing room mirror and beating it with his fists , smashing his Les Paul , and then trashing everything in the room , only stopping when there was nothing left to trash ..... whilst the rest of the band looked on in amazement ........

Then to cap it all , he refused to go out on stage ......... the band could hear the crowd chanting their name outside , so had to go out and play without him ...... Bob Welch filling in for Kirwans guitar parts the best he could .....

Kirwan spent the gig watching the band perform from the mixing desk , then criticized Welch`s attempts to cover for him after the gig had finished ..........

And that was the end of his Fleetwood Mac career .......... A shame , as all the band members he worked with had nothing but praise for his playing and songwriting abilities .............
 
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Since I wear hearing aids for high frequency loss I doubt that I can hear the difference between hi-fi and low-fi. But when not traveling I listen to music through a Sonos amp and Klipsch Heresy 1 speakers. Source is usually digital: streaming from my iTunes via the Sonos Bluetooth converter .The speakers were bought new in the 1970’s and have been in and out of storage over the years. I recapped them in 2016. When not using the legacy speakers I have a Sonos system with several speakers to stream all through the house which is very convenient and gets used the most.

I read that Sonos self-destructed during a software update since I packed mine away, so I’ll have to find a replacement eventually.
 
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Bit of a ramble, though interested in what is used for music playback amongst the near deaf Laverda riders, grin, j
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Lenovo B50-30 Jon .......

Used to have a Garrard SP 25 turntable connected up to a Bird guitar practice amplifier years ago ....... then a PYE music centre with seperate mini speakers ...... then a cheap battery / mains turntable , which would play 78`s ..... which was handy for my old Inkspots and Rosemary Clooney records .......... but they`ve all gone now , and I only have a few 7 " singles , and a few 78`s left anyway ...........
 
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Yikes...you do hang onto things Tony, 10 year old laptop! Used to repair Garrard in the day, Plessey owned them in the final days from recall, did my apprenticeship with Plessey in Australia. Have a mountain of yesteryear pro audio gear here, and lighting, much is redundant these days. Most of all, heavy, 17Kg is my preferred limit in fetch and carry. Am a tad slow these days, just electrified my Modal D Tricone reso yesterday, did not want to, yet getting clobbered at open mics required affirmative action, at great risk of what i call "sound, range wars" silly SPL as each muso turns up in turn to hear themselves...nightmare or is that night terrors in these days of change what did not require changing.
 
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