Music today has been Dean Friedman’s self-titled second album, released in 1977. Tony Levin plays bass, Rick Marotta (amongst others) on the drums. A singer-songwriter with thoughtful, sometimes amusing observational lyrics, an engaging writer who carries on with his dedicated audience despite being under the radar to most. Music Of The Daze The musical musings […]
Music today has been Australian fantasists Ariel – A Strange Fantastic Dream (1973) featuring our very own Arktik Lake drummer Nigel Macara. Mike Rudd features on guitar and vocals and Tim Gaze who like Nigel played with the legendary Tamam Shud also plays guitar and sings, John Mills is on the keys. Music Of The […]
Music today was The Beatles‘ Let It Be. I wanted to hear George Harrison’s I Me Mine and just put the album on, it never gets old. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM NOW, featured on my main website. Read […]
Music today has been Grateful Dead – Live/Dead (1969), live at The Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. I’m happy to say that the ex-band played there once, I had that experience, but it wasn’t all roses. I think we had a pretty small crowd (although Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong was there) and […]
Music today has been the single I Am The Seed from the forthcoming album Albion by Harp. Harp is the project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith. As it happened, today there was an article in The Guardian about him and it name-checked The Blurred Crusade. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this […]
Music today has been Dot Allison’s great new album Consciousology (2023). Born and bred in Edinburgh, she still lives there, she was the singer in One Dove who made just one record, Morning Dove White (1993). Since then, she has made seven solo albums and this one is the first that I’ve investigated. Highly recommended. […]