U - When you do play your new copy of Love Over Gold - Private Investigations, see if you hear a tossed bottle bouncing and breaking on pavement (left channel, just after the bent guitar note that sounds like a cat's meow).
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@reubent Since you like Brian Auger (and assuming you aren't already aware of the series) check out CAB2 by Tony MacAlpine, Bunny Brunel and Dennis Chambers + Brian Auger. You might enjoy it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAB_2 |
Yeah...Zebra. Another shared "interest" with @slaw Always enjoyed hearing this on FM. Didn't hear it enough back then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofz0iJQd-xU |
Blood Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man (Thank you, John Simon) 1st Track, Side 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2VAefm330Q |
@slaw You are very welcome. If you've not spent any time with that BS&T, it is worth checking out if you can look past some of the psychedelic silliness. Music from a bygone time when everything seemed possible. Al Kooper's vocals are really really good and a few of his songs are very strong. It's a much more interesting album than the more calculated and commercial BS&T II. Reading the notes on the back cover of the album, John Simon is credited for a variety of roles. That's the same John Simon as worked on The Bands 1st & 2nd albums as well as S&G's Bookends and that's hardly a complete list. I don't hear him talked about with the same reverence as George Martin. I don't hear him talked about much at all actually, but I think the man was a creative genius that brought out the best in a wide range of talent. BTW - Agree with you about the post-Green, Kirwan/Welch era of FWM. Penguin & Mystery to Me (though sadly without Danny) + Future Games make a nice "trilogy" from that time. I haven't listened to any vinyl in weeks and weeks but now that the gramophone is cranked up, might have to log some more listening time with vinyl. |
Yeah, DCT is as you have it. Frogman is a frequent poster over on Jazz Aficionados. He referenced Three Quartets...maybe included a link to music from it. Don't recall. It was a must buy after spending some time with it. Got new vinyl and a CD version. re ORG, I might have heard of that label. Not sure. Like I said, I don't buy much new vinyl. Most vinyl purchases are for old stuff...original pressings or as close as I can afford to get :-) I get off holding a 40+ year old piece of plastic that sounds fantastic. Case in point: Peter Framton's self-titled studio release playing now. Black with rainbow colors in his white block letter name. A lot the music on Frampton Comes Alive is on this recording. |
Okay, @slaw ...that would be the self-titled BS&T which is their 2nd. Track 1 (below) Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GreaN1ljqGY You will forgive me my preference for Child is Father. I like Al Kooper’s voice (and songs) better than David Clayton Thomas’ HUGE pipes. Am in a minority though. A LOT of people seem to have preferred that 2nd album w/DCT. It charted way higher than the first and produced a number of hit singles. To each his own. That was yesterday though... Right now, Chick Corea’s Three Quartets I don’t buy much new vinyl but did with this composition once I heard it (not all that long ago) thanks to Frogman. It is a 2016 release on "Stretch Records". Nice piece of vinyl - flat, good weight and quiet. What is "ORG"? (original pressing??) |
@bdp24 Looks like you are not alone in that "6th member" opinion... http://theband.hiof.no/band_members/john_simon.html Al's Wiki info about Al Kooper leaving BS&T not withstanding, the Wiki entry for Child Is Father to the Man puts it more bluntly: "After a brief promotional tour, Colomby and Katz ousted Kooper from the band, which led to Child is Father to the Man being the only BS&T album on which Kooper ever appeared." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Is_Father_to_the_Man All explanations covered handily, no doubt, by the hackneyed "artistic differences". |
bdp24 - Of all your many music experiences, that one has to be top of the heap. No rehearsal? Don & Dewey probably share telepathy and the bass player had been working with them for a while. Which leaves you! Talk about a high wire act. I know you don't much care for FZ (an understatement, I expect) but he did display a softer side towards Don. Bailed him out and or got his fiddle out of hock on more than one occasion, as I recall. Mighta been self-serving if he just needed him for a show or a session, I guess. I suspect you're already familiar with it, but just in case not, check out Don's soaring solo on, "Little House I Used to Live In" on Burnt Weeny Sandwich. It starts at 5:13 on the track at the link here if you don't have patience for the lead in (and again at 10:35). Interesting set of musicians too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=SN&hl=fr&v=1AhmgaF46F8 |
Haha... @slaw You might be right. We should each do a count of our discussion responses where we have "the last word" vs total discussions responded to. That would settle the question :-) We both have better things to do (I hope). Happy to share the title with you instead. Be well. PS - Hey last evening, Van Morrison’s, "Hard Nose The Highway". I swear the first track seems, lyrically, to be a listing of all these local businesses and shops that are open late in some town somewhere. Haven’t researched it at all. Just seems like odd subject matter for a song. |
@slaw Did you come across Evening Machines in an email from TMR? Saw that myself this afternoon. I've not listened yet but found it on Tidal and saved it to favorites. Will check it out later. Hope it is good. Don't know Isakov from Nabokov. Right now though, Dan Fogelberg's "Nether Lands". The album his "masterpiece" in my O-pinion despite some (major) over-production (e.g., the opening title track!). "Loose Ends" (Track 5), however, is by itself worth the price of admission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQBGX0KKQ1M |
@slaw Good one. So in the thread killer contest, each "last word" will be like 1 point but a complete thread kill as in "removed by the moderators" will be a 100 points! Tough to catch up on something like that. I said I didn't know Isakov, but as it turns out I had saved in Tidal his, The Weatherman. Once I saw it, I recalled listening to a bit of it some time ago but did not make it through the whole thing. Will try again. Track 1 on Evening Machines (like that title) dragged on for me so I cut things short this afternoon. Might have just been the mood I was in. See how it works later tonight. |
Don Grolnick - Hearts and Numbers Lots of Michael Brecker blowing over great chord progressions by Don. Not on this one though. The title track and closer. Just DG. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbR_nXfZvrM There's some that've got the gift of melody. DG was one. |
Thanks for the friendly invite, @slaw I actually do stop by fairly often, just don't post too frequently as I'm listening to digital most of the time. But when the spirit moves.... Good to hear from the Fairport fans too. BTW - justbgunn recently posted on The Minority report about Stephen R. Smith. As a result, I spent some time with his "A Sketchbook of Endings". Might be something you and others will like. You can find him on BandCamp and there are a few remaining copies of Sketchbook in vinyl. Of course, I'm usually a year if not a decade late to the party so maybe SRS is old news. https://worstward.bandcamp.com/album/a-sketchbook-of-endings Keep up the good work! |
@spiritofradio - You are welcome, but credit where it's due...Notec had first posted about Stephen R. Smith on The Minority Report back in 2014. Justbgunn commented about SRS very recently and that renewed my interest. I'd forgotten all about the original posting. @slaw - hope you get a nice clean piece of vinyl and that you enjoy the music. For me, Sketchbook has great guitar tone and textures + actual melody. It's in a "post rock" vein, maybe, but more focused and "intentional" than what I usually associate with post-rock. I'll be curious to know what you think. |
@slaw I will have to check out Connors' Assembler. Thanks for posting about it. Don't know it but I've spent a lot of time with his Return. Interesting to see Steve Khan with him on Assembler (Khan being one of the several guitar serfs that served Fagen and Becker). Interesting story here about why Connors left Return to Forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Connors |