music in the shed

The Sock said:
I know it's a different Robbie Robertson, but every time I saw the name, at the top of the page, this is the one I thought of.
'The Right Mistake', perhaps?
Here, with my good friend Angela. Sadly, both gone now.
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Actually Hamish , it was my smartass / trying to be clever reference to The Band and The Banned .......... only one Robbie Robertson involved ........

Tonyofftherails ......... ;) .............
 
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'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother'.... Well, sort of. It's the familiar melody, with different lyrics and sung in Italian.

Don't speak the language, but I looked up the English song title translation: 'Il Vento Non Sa Leggere' = ' The Wind Cannot Read'.

This '69 rendition is sung by the amazing vocalist and music researcher, Demetrio Stratos.
Won't blether on too much about him here, but his story, and music is well worth looking up.

A truly great singer, lost to this world way too soon.

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Wotta strap length !!

New Order were one of the few bands who insisted on playing live on TOTP ........ and sod the sound quality ............

BBC sound engineers who were more used to working on things like The Antiques Roadshow didn`t exactly help .................
 
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Steve Jones mentioning Denmark Street reminded me that the Pistols moved into the flat/studio that Badfinger had used before they self destructed .

Track Records also had a property there where The Jimi Hendrix Experience used to rehearse ......... When Scott Gorman joined Thin Lizzy , Phil Lynott took him down there to buy a decent guitar ... ( not sure what he had been using up to then ) ............

Many lives were lost also in Denmark Street in the early `eighties when a disgruntled punter who had been turned away from a basement Latin American club returned and set fire to the place by shoving flammable material through the entrance and setting fire to it ............ the fire spread so quickly and the club so crowded that some of the victims were still positioned at the bar , apparently .............

Although Badfinger worked closely with The Beatles , McCartney and Lennon reckoned this song was a bit of a turkey , and wanted nothing to do with it ....... so in the end their road manager Mal Evans ended up producing it for the band ...........
 
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From flammable material to Inflammable Material .........

I had the original pressing of this on Rigid Digit Records , with a paper sleeve printed and stuck together in a Belfast living room .........
 
rocketonarail said:

Wotta strap length !!
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Borrowed a bass from a 6'5" gezzer for a few songs, no time to adjust anything, the strap was so long, i could not reach the strings with my right hand ( though used to gunsling my basses in the 70's ) fortunate there was a chair next to the stage, rested the bass body on the chair, i must have looked about 4 foot tall/short, even remember the song, Wicked Games, Tah Chris, B-A-E blessed be the 3 chord wonder(s)... j
 
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Strange you posted this Dave, open mic a few weeks back, trusted muso's got it going, the harp was ok, though had my C flute with me, traded breaks with the harp man, harp man backed off, i took over... these types of songs are endless for the muso's though not so much for the punters, 10 minute renditions when most i play with my bands are 2,5minute RnR Rockabilly Psychobilly wonders.... ditto RnR dancing, my puff gives up at 3 minutes, dancing to dance vib rock is possible, though i need to be about 30 years off the current very high mileage, j.
 
King Crimson performing on the O.G.W.T. in 1982.
Line up was: Robert Fripp on guitar, Bill Bruford on drums, Tony Levin on Chapman Stick (not 'ChapStick', that would be silly....).
And, the multi talented Adrian Belew on guitar and vocals.

Prior to this, Belew was part of Zappa's set up for a year or so in the late 70's. More of that later. For now, enjoy 'Frame By Frame.....'


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I was going to post the studio version, accompanied by the fantastic animation video, as seen on O.G.W.T. back in the day.

It's a great watch but this live film is so good, it had to win out.
If you've not seen it though, check it out 'cos once seen, not forgotten.
Anyway, here's Frank Zappa with 'City Of Tiny Lites'.

It features the aforementioned Adrian Belew on guitar and vocals, and serves as a showcase for the stellar guitar talents of FZ.

Dunno who the drummers main influences were. But I'll bet one of them was Animal, from The Muppets... Just Great. 🤩


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Seems we have similar music taste!

Bill Bruford leading the band at a concert in Frejus.
Always amazed me how Fripp kept reinventing himself over time, being in a different league just like FZ:cool:

 
Fripp, the master! Not often you hear 7/8 under a vocal four. Now that ain't pop music!! Big fan of King Crimson, with or without him. Their first album completely blew me away as a maybe 14yo. Never heard anything like it before.

I'm putting my dough that the drummer in his budgie smugglers with Zappa is Terry Bozzio. FZ just puts the most incredible bands together. Saw him at Festival Hall in Brizzie in about 1975.
 
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