What are you listening to right now?
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- Bruce Gonsalves
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^^^ Saw John Legend at the Plenary last week (chaperoning my daughter, who was desperate to see him live). Having never heard him until he came on stage, I have to say, he's a gifted singer (on vocal aptitude, he'd score up there with Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye) and a fair-enough pianist. His string quartet played beautifully, too.
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- Mountains Magpie
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Thanks for letting us know, MM. Here's a few for which Dallas laid down the groove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbuJXQ ... freload=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7FNyckr7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbuJXQ ... freload=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7FNyckr7w
- Mountains Magpie
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No worries P4S. We're going to see LOADS of them over the next decade. Just the way it is.
To this day I still play Suite:Judy Blue Eyes. Such a great fun song to do. Their version of Woodstock is so different to Joni's but no less good. Wooden Ships is just breathtaking......
Anyway, half a dozen of my guilty 70s pleasures I've been listening to of late:
Sailor - Glass Of Champagne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJxeysqiAY
Graham Gouldman - Sunburn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtW8KB7C8Y
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTkhBuNdMgY
Beckett - A Rainbow's Gold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqh0CfT-nWQ
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman - Don't You Write Her Off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaoLnh_1X8
Henry Gross - Shannon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A822OKFMQTM
Spoiled to billy-o we were
PS: Happy belated 70th to Stephen Stills (3rd Jan) , my musical godfather. Long may he run
To this day I still play Suite:Judy Blue Eyes. Such a great fun song to do. Their version of Woodstock is so different to Joni's but no less good. Wooden Ships is just breathtaking......
Anyway, half a dozen of my guilty 70s pleasures I've been listening to of late:
Sailor - Glass Of Champagne:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmJxeysqiAY
Graham Gouldman - Sunburn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtW8KB7C8Y
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTkhBuNdMgY
Beckett - A Rainbow's Gold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqh0CfT-nWQ
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman - Don't You Write Her Off:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaoLnh_1X8
Henry Gross - Shannon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A822OKFMQTM
Spoiled to billy-o we were
PS: Happy belated 70th to Stephen Stills (3rd Jan) , my musical godfather. Long may he run
Spiral progress, unstoppable,
exhausted sources replaced by perversion
exhausted sources replaced by perversion
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Had the radio on in the car instead of my MP3s and heard this little number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bznxx12Ptl0
Drilled itself into my brain and wont get out. I swear they get psychologists to write these songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bznxx12Ptl0
Drilled itself into my brain and wont get out. I swear they get psychologists to write these songs.
Vale Demis Roussos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTgloMcGh7k
Here's one Demis might have liked (Happy Birthday, Elmore - I'm still "Wild About You, Baby"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgCTSK ... J7&index=7
And, on the subject of birthdays, Happy 60th for yesterday to a man who - despite certain perceived artistic faults (including the "glam" costumes) - could (and still can) certainly play the guitar to an extraordinary level of technical perfection. Go, Eddie, go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTY8s12OXS8
In case anyone thinks playing like that is "easy", have a look at him embellishing "Eruption" live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYMdGpJQFs (he gets to the famous theme at about 7 m, 18 s in).
Here's one Demis might have liked (Happy Birthday, Elmore - I'm still "Wild About You, Baby"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgCTSK ... J7&index=7
And, on the subject of birthdays, Happy 60th for yesterday to a man who - despite certain perceived artistic faults (including the "glam" costumes) - could (and still can) certainly play the guitar to an extraordinary level of technical perfection. Go, Eddie, go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTY8s12OXS8
In case anyone thinks playing like that is "easy", have a look at him embellishing "Eruption" live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYMdGpJQFs (he gets to the famous theme at about 7 m, 18 s in).
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Oh God, I remember seeing that on Countdown and spending an hour working out the arrangement by ear to be able to play it on piano.
And then, having watched that, i get a bit of Racey action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofDCsRhT57o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15ALD6fsUU
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
Thanks for the links. Re-viewing this sort of music from the second half of the 1970s serves as an oblique reminder of why I admired Ian Dury so much.stui magpie wrote:Oh God, I remember seeing that on Countdown and spending an hour working out the arrangement by ear to be able to play it on piano.
And then, having watched that, i get a bit of Racey action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofDCsRhT57o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15ALD6fsUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuNyzEa ... Ea0gU8#t=0
- Bruce Gonsalves
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Pies4shaw wrote:Thanks for the links. Re-viewing this sort of music from the second half of the 1970s serves as an oblique reminder of why I admired Ian Dury so much.stui magpie wrote:Oh God, I remember seeing that on Countdown and spending an hour working out the arrangement by ear to be able to play it on piano.
And then, having watched that, i get a bit of Racey action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofDCsRhT57o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15ALD6fsUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuNyzEa ... Ea0gU8#t=0
Love Ian Dury, saw him at Festival Hall 30 odd years ago and have been listening to a double cd of his purchased a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why, but Spasticus Autisticus seems to get the speakers pumping at my place.