Music today comes from Scottish pre-Alex Harvey band Tear Gas after Nicklas from Anekdoten sent me a message today talking about Alex Harvey. They made two albums, Piggy Go Getter (1971) and self-titled (1971). Guitarist Zal Cleminson and bassist Chris Glen were on the first album and were later joined by Ted McKenna on drums […]

Music today started with a crooner playlist from last night that I changed to one of my year by year playlists (1969) because Somethin’ Stupid by Nancy and Frank is ok once every few years but twice in 24 hours is too much. So it’s 13 songs that I picked months ago and one day […]

Music today has been, you guessed it, Frank Sinatra’s September Of My Years, a whole album of songs about getting older. He made this album when he was 50, just a spring soya chicken. Music Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO WHERE I AM […]

Music today is the classic Groundhogs album Split (1971) which was a Record Store Day double album release with outtakes that record nerds love. The band is Tony McPhee, guitar and vocals, Pete Cruikshank, bass and Ken Pustlenick on drums. They are a blues-inspired power trio but with lots of mad energy and great guitar […]

Music today comes from Free and their classic album Fire And Water (1970). I’m a fan of any record that has Paul Kossoff playing guitar, the most minimalist guitarist I ever heard, every note meant something, feel, tone, finesse, vibrato like no one else, control, brilliant. Then there’s Andy Fraser’s unique bass playing, original, characterful, […]

Music today comes from The Kinks, inspired by Plastic Man but oddly of all the Kinks records I have, albums, compilations, best-ofs, career retrospectives, CD, vinyl, this track isn’t on any of them. It seems it was a one-off single attempting to have a hit as their career faltered – it didn’t work. The Wikipedia […]