Music today was oddly Mike Oldfield‘s Tubular Bells (1973), Tubular Bells II (1992), and Tubular Bells III (1998). It’s that old thing of if you’ve got a name, something recognisable, people tend to gravitate towards it. Tried and tested, familiarity, nostalgia, all these things keep people coming back, safe and sound, reliable, but what happens […]
Music today was on random on the kitchen iPod and I heard Mott The Hoople, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Moody Blues, Porcupine Tree, Uriah Heep, Badfinger, Amon Düül, U2, Guns N’ Roses, Genesis, Family, The Zombies, Love And Rockets and UFO which seems to be the rock iPod that was last added to about 15 years […]
Music today, apart from The White Album (1968), has been The Chambers Brothers‘ The Time Has Come (1967), psychedelic soul, and some more Robin Trower, Go My Way (2000), surprisingly good for its late appearance. Then I noticed there’s a new album by Trower, Maxi Priest and Livingstone Brown, called United State Of Mind (2020) […]
Music today was Cream’s Wheels Of Fire (1968) and the first double album to go platinum reaching No. 3 in the UK and No. 1 in the USA. A supergroup with Jack Bruce on bass, vocals, and harmonica, Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums and the spoken word on Pressed […]
Music today was two acoustic albums by Richard Thompson, Acoustic Classics (2014) and Acoustic Rarities (2017). It seems he is an acquired taste but I love his songs, his words, his voice, and especially his amazing guitar playing. I’ve met him a couple of times, always nice, I opened for him in San Francisco. And […]
Music today was The Beatles, The Beatles, and The Beatles. We had so many people running around the flat that I thought The Beatles would be appropriate and one of the fixer men was humming along to Love Me Do. I played the Red and the Blue compilation albums both released on the 2nd of […]