tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post3477065266057960768..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: You Can All Join InMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-48879493137437722792011-11-22T17:40:28.453+00:002011-11-22T17:40:28.453+00:00We are now further from the start of punk rock tha...We are now further from the start of punk rock than the start of punk rock was from the end of the Nazis.<br /><br />(Not an original thought - I nicked it from someone else)Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-32564917539682666782011-11-20T00:00:29.553+00:002011-11-20T00:00:29.553+00:00I saw Kossoff get up and do the encore with John M...I saw Kossoff get up and do the encore with John Martyn at a theatre in Victoria (I'm far too tired to check out which). He was supposed to be playing on the tour but was, of course, incapable. It was great to be able to tell people that I actually saw PK play live.<br /><br />Not much time passed before I was back there at the same theatre and saw Joni Mitchell and the LA Express. It was the Court and Spark" tour - the only time I saw her live. "The Last Time I Saw Richard" solo at the piano is still one of those spinechilling memories.<br /><br />I'm sure this all falls in to the point you were making in your blog. Somehow. Vive la Revolution.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-29192136116456378722011-11-19T23:52:45.406+00:002011-11-19T23:52:45.406+00:00There's a wonderful story about Paul Kossoff t...There's a wonderful story about Paul Kossoff trying out some new Hammond organ effect for the guitar, and being left in the studio with it ("Lock up when you're done", sort of thing). When they came in the next morning to record a John Martyn album, he was still there, and they couldn't get him off it, so he ended up playing it on the album.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-63094871402089190912011-11-19T23:30:15.202+00:002011-11-19T23:30:15.202+00:00Love the Bunch album - the production and playing ...Love the Bunch album - the production and playing on it are bench marks. Unfortunately I didn't hear the Morley thing but will see if it's still available.<br /><br />I can still laugh out loud (albeit when I'm alone) at some of the ridiculous relationships I had as a young man . . . actually, still occasionally have . . . so hilarity continues into autumn years . . .Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-78937477780239492252011-11-19T23:22:58.715+00:002011-11-19T23:22:58.715+00:00Dave,
Some of my early relationships were definit...Dave,<br /><br />Some of my early relationships were definitely hilarious, at least in retrospect. "That's when you're learning the game"... (I really like the version of that on The Bunch album).<br /><br />And, talking of Island records, did you hear that spot on Radio 4 a few weeks ago, with Paul Morley talking about the Basing Street studios? What a time it was...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-24575792289112059472011-11-19T20:01:43.980+00:002011-11-19T20:01:43.980+00:00Hmmm . . . "before our first serious affair&q...Hmmm . . . "before our first serious affair" . . . does that mean the earlier ones were somewhat more hilarious? I once spoke to the great John Tams and was explaing that I had become a teacher in the intervening years since we had last spoke. He told me that he had, "failed miserably at teaching - no, make that hilariously at it."<br /><br />Anyway, I am a few years younger than you, as I like to point out often, so "Bumpers" was the Island composite album that I cut my teeth on. Unfortunately, it had such an impact that I managed to totally screw up school and never really looked back. <br /><br />Great post, Mike, it may be time for a revolution in music but unfortunately all punk did was to bury prog in a shallow grave. It clawed its way out and seems to have hung around longer than punk ever did. The Rick Wakemans of this world seem to have managed to stay in the public eye/ear far better than the Johnny Rottens. I don't believe any old proggers ended up on "I'm A Celebrity . . . " <br /><br />Anyway, The Sex Pistols were only a Monkees for the late '70s.Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-48511173272761538352011-11-19T14:09:41.085+00:002011-11-19T14:09:41.085+00:00Bron,
No question, but do you suit up in a frock ...Bron,<br /><br />No question, but do you suit up in a frock coat and wig at the weekends to listen to the Brandenburgs?? It's one thing to visit a museum, quite another to live in it...<br /><br />Martin,<br /><br />I think that first para is your foretaste of old age -- I hope you resisted the temptation to put him straight ("Now listen, young feller-me-lad...").<br /><br />As to the Beatles: yes, absolutely they were. Things like "Yer Blues" on the White Album, or late singles like "Get Back" show a very ambivalent attitude to the new, "everything's a twelve bar" stance. They were tunesmiths, and could never have gone "heavy".<br /><br />Or perhaps you mean "paradigm" is an awfully posh word to inflict on pop? Which it probably is.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-51993555628949165092011-11-19T08:36:04.681+00:002011-11-19T08:36:04.681+00:00I remember a conversation I had with a student, ab...I remember a conversation I had with a student, about Bob Harris. It was an enjoyable exchange, particularly when the young guy said, "Bob plays some great sounds. Have you ever heard of The Kinks?"<br /><br />I wonder if The Beatles were ever conscious of their "<i>attempt to come to grips with the new "progressive blues" paradigm</i>"?Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-28283686856661589402011-11-19T00:40:21.652+00:002011-11-19T00:40:21.652+00:00Mike,
It could be that that 20 years, give or take...Mike,<br />It could be that that 20 years, give or take, mid-50s-mid-70s, was a really verdant and fertile period, and the kids appreciate it in the same way some of us appreciate Sibelius, or Bach, or Shakespeare. ( The possible "8th" has rekindled my Sibelian mode)Bronislaus Janulis / Framewrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15839855368056037541noreply@blogger.com