music in the shed

Ghost riders we did as Gal singing/playing drums and sometimes she played guitar, very intuitive Sock, bit spooky at times.... also done the Joan Osborne "Spooky" with another gal i perform with ( i play flute )... Love Dusty, just some covers are on the money so to speak...j
 
TBH I can’t play music videos in my shed, but this piece of sheer class was my Friday regular at work. Featuring probably my favourite bass player, always try to catch him when in Blighty. ( No idea if this will work!).

 
Yup Norman Watt-Roy, tandem with Wilko the odd many time, hard to imagine better. What a blast it would have been to stand a stage with Wilko, sigh....j

 

Saw Ian Dury on the Live Stiffs Tour in Oct `77 , along with Nick Lowe , Wreckless Eric , Elvis Costello ( bumped into him on the way into the gents .... we stood staring at each other for a second or two , before moving out of each other`s way ) , Larry Wallis , and Dave Edmunds ........

The following year Stiff signed up American Rachel Sweet ......
 

... Simple Minds and JJ Burnel and Dave Greenfield and Baz Warne get together to perform " Get a Grip " 38 years after it was first released ...... DG`s keyboard playing never ceases to amaze .... Now sadly departed ......
 
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Somewhat a me too, apologies Tony. Maybe you can spot notables in the band, beyond my local skills.

Similar but different, sad story of course, Kirsty. Love to do this song with the right gal, before end day. j

 

...... and just in case you were in any doubt about what talented musicians The Stranglers were ........ see how effortlessly they perform here ..... It`s almost as if they`re not really trying ........ Only Mr Greenfield makes it seem like hard work , he can`t really be playing those keyboards though , can he , really ? .......
 
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Since Jon has taken me on a trip through old familiar faces, I'll add this one, to late friends particularly Raph Ravenscroft, whose fabulous saxophone riff is, allegedly,"the most recognizable sax riff in pop music history".
Raph was never happy about the sax being "out of tune. It's flat, by enough of a degree that it irritates me at best."
Maybe, as Laverda have proved to us many times, we respond best to things that are not quite perfect.
Heart and soul, something AI is unlikely to ever be able to produce, or maybe I'm just an analog kinda guy?

 
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Went to see the Foo Fighters last night ( at Villa Park - Aston Villa FC). Great gig, with the big-hits really erupting the place.

Anyway, the real highlight for me was that they got Geezer Butler up on stage. They played Paranoid (of course) together. As many know, Sabbath are a [UK] Birmingham band, specifically from the Aston area, with Geezer being born a stone's-throw from the stadium. A nice reference to the city and music of my youth. Sabbath meant a lot to me when I was developing teenager - so I can blame Geezer's lyrics for my adult failings :)
 
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Since Jon has taken me on a trip through old familiar faces, I'll add this one, to late friends particularly Raph Ravenscroft, whose fabulous saxophone riff is, allegedly,"the most recognizable sax riff in pop music history".
Raph was never happy about the sax being "out of tune. It's flat, by enough of a degree that it irritates me at best."
Maybe, as Laverda have proved to us many times, we respond best to things that are not quite perfect.
Heart and soul, something AI is unlikely to ever be able to produce, or maybe I'm just an analog kinda guy?

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Read somewhere that it was only intended at first to use that sax riff once ....... at the end , I think , can`t remember ......... then someone came up with he idea of incorporating it properly into the song .......... turning it into an instant classic .......
 
Goodness, many a key moment in the last few postings..... played with a pro Sax ( woodwind apprentice in the army ) loved Baker Street, could pull a note for note rendition every time ( leave that to others as to any real benefit ), somewhat surreal being next to a pro on stage.

Gezzer AKA Terence Butler, saw live in about 1974, took up bass as he was a star on stage, hand gestures were of a modern bass player breaking out of the 50's/60's stand at the back, not me... front and near centre. There is a chill music station out here that played a melody i recognised immediately, even though done with cosmic vib... "planet Caravan" a Gezzer penned song to my knowledge. Sabbath a main stay of what my trio played in the later 70's.... full blown sirens and fog filled stage red lights all about... "War Pigs" i did have a lookalike Gezzer lurex red jumpsuit...now be gentle, grin. was a working class venue and the heckling was immense, by first set end... won 'em over... love being heckled, love to play behind chicken wire... the scene from Blues Bros is my nirvana...we used to play "born to be wild" to pacify the outlaw bikers out the front of the pub, then God save the queen ( pistols ) for the surfers out the back, same gig on a Sunday coastal one pub roadstop, nimble is as nimble does...

There is an interview of Samantha ( big on the watch list here last 3 or 4 years ), why she plays War Pigs, was learning how to play. Bill wards tick tick tick on that songs for the non playing early part, tricks many performers whom do not get it timed properly on the high hat open close signal.... more ramble... just too good a combined topic to leave alone, j

Post a NZ band that had a remarkable for pub rock bass player Don Martin


 
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