For We Must Have Music
Tuneful posts not otherwise collected.
Alternative Music
Sometimes
To attempt is more important than to achieve.
Tra La La
Like The Velvet Underground The Banana Splits had little chart success of their own but paved the way for later hitmakers such as The Wombles.
Suitable For Sunday Listening
Or indeed Monday, diēs Mārtis, 水曜日, Macclesfield, dydd Gwener, et sabato.
All the hits and more from Anoice in concert.
A Sentiment With Which Many Will Agree
Ringo Starr – Back Off Boogaloo
The B-side is interesting being an unused track for a spaghetti western Ringo was in an unlike anything else he did.
Ch-ch-ch-changes
In 1969 Simon & Garfunkel did a tour & included a few numbers from an upcoming LP. Today everyone would have heard this song via a grotty video after the first gig rather than the audiences of the tour experiencing it like this. Progress has casualties.
The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Fretted, fretless, microtonal, guitar.
I converted a guitar to fretless one evening (plus Bourne Seal drying time). Used Ronseal wood filler to plug the gaps where I took the frets out – which wasn’t mentioned at all on the tin.
Possible excuse for a video there.
I Enjoyed This
The culmination of TwoSet Violin going from bit part actors to the romantic leads because of a silly YouTube channel.
Gets going about 37min in.
Points deducted for not actually being at four million YouTube subscribers at this point – but near enough for bossa nova.
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