I was never a huge Bacharacherist but did enjoy the odd number and how he could make less popular time signatures seem natural.
And saving the best until last…
Another Man Done Gone
Death
Observations about those who no longer have to suffer the stings and arrows of this mortal coil.
Another Man Done Gone
Jeff Beck has died.
Could play a bit.
Listening to a few Beck tracks online and it’s the similarities between the previous tune from the 2000s and the music he started on 40 years before that strikes.
Also remarkable consistency of hair style.
Plus of course the outlier.
The recently deceased Jeff Beck apparently not unaware of similarities to a certain fictional musician whose amps went up to 11.
Black Guitar Red Scratch Plate
Wilko Johnson has died.
He only really did one thing. But he did it really well.
How to play the Wilko way…
Wilko Johnson was a precursor of punk. His guitar playing was angry and angular, but his presence – twitchy, confrontational, out of control – was something we’d never beheld before in UK pop. Rotten, Strummer and Weller learned a lot from his edgy demeanour. He does it right RIP
Billy Bragg
Belatedly
found out that Cathal Coughlan has died. It might not show but his band Microdisney were one of my biggest influences.
Best Viewed With A Monkey
Another man done gone…
Made good use of his talents…
The latter from the hit…
Not to be confused with…
Dusty Hill Of ZZ Top Has Died
I was hugely impressed with them on The Tube early in their overnight success (after 14 years) due to introducing sequenced synths to their sound whilst still managing to sound this raw. (Their videos were also popular).
He Was Gone When The Mourning Came
Jim Steinman has bitten the dust.
Never shy of the big production he’d often throw in everything including the kitchen sink.
Rock with additional Roll
Another Man Done Gone
Chris Barber was a very important figure in British music in the 1950s and early 1960s with his own Trad Jazz band, introducing Skiffle and bringing Blues performers to the country.
Here’s a cut from one of the best live albums ever recorded, ‘Barber In Berlin’ (1959) which is considerably more rock and roll than most rock and roll.
Another Man Done Gone
Eddie Van Halen has died. I wouldn’t claim to be a fan but by popularising playing with two hands on the fret board, tapping, he did make a big difference to how guitar was played.
Bit Of A Cock-Up On the Immortality front
