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Post by threehundred on Jul 19, 2024 10:42:06 GMT
Let me second what spot51 said, Mandochris - what a fabulous selection. You mentioned Rhiannon Giddens in an earlier post - a big favourite of my Dad’s. I’m listening to her right now, as I hadn’t done for ages.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 19, 2024 10:44:58 GMT
Noted... let me check the dairy
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Post by Mandochris on Jul 19, 2024 10:48:06 GMT
My dad would listen to stuff like that when I was a young kid. Not my thing, but it did take me back to that big old stereo in our front room and my dad playing his records. I only really remember Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Roger Millar albums specifically, but he would listen to still like that too. Who needs more than three chords? I'm glad I could jog those memories in a Proustian sort of way. I love any flashback like that I can get. Willie Nelson, believe it or not, is still playing and just celebrated 90. There are some nice videos of him playing with the new young sensation Billie Strings. The other two, obviously, are long dead. My favourite Willie Nelson clip (warning: not music)
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Post by threehundred on Jul 19, 2024 10:54:49 GMT
My dad would listen to stuff like that when I was a young kid. Not my thing, but it did take me back to that big old stereo in our front room and my dad playing his records. I only really remember Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Roger Millar albums specifically, but he would listen to still like that too. Who needs more than three chords? I'm glad I could jog those memories in a Proustian sort of way. I love any flashback like that I can get. Willie Nelson, believe it or not, is still playing and just celebrated 90. There are some nice videos of him playing with the new young sensation Billie Strings. The other two, obviously, are long dead. My favourite Willie Nelson clip (warning: not music) 😂😂😂
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 20, 2024 7:33:49 GMT
Think I'm back up to speed again on this thread. A good way to spend the early part of a Saturday.
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Post by melrose on Jul 20, 2024 21:07:59 GMT
Ill give it a go week after next - We are supposed to be in Bath for my daughters graduation and a few days in the Cotswolds but my FIL was taken into hospital tonight and it don't look good.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 21, 2024 7:47:11 GMT
Ill give it a go week after next - We are supposed to be in Bath for my daughters graduation and a few days in the Cotswolds but my FIL was taken into hospital tonight and it don't look good. Sorry to hear that, all the best for him. I guess I can just about do this coming week, although I'm away again the end of the week.
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Post by Mandochris on Jul 21, 2024 10:57:04 GMT
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Post by threehundred on Jul 21, 2024 16:27:52 GMT
Ill give it a go week after next - We are supposed to be in Bath for my daughters graduation and a few days in the Cotswolds but my FIL was taken into hospital tonight and it don't look good. Sorry, melrose. Thoughts and prayers with you and yours.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 22, 2024 9:59:04 GMT
I'm not sure I can put a lot into this week as we're off to that UK again Thu, but I'll give the week a go..
..for my second week, to give y'all a change of flavour I'm going with a reggae theme in the hope it'll coax the sun out from behind the grey murk. Controversially, I'm going to attempt to do it without Bob on the basis that wouldn't be expanding the sphere of IBO knowledge. I did think of going back to the start with a bit of Skatalites as without them there (might be) no Reggae, but instead I'll start slightly leftfield.
The Cimarons are feted as Britain's first reggae band and cut their teeth as session musicians for the influential Trojan records and as such appear in the background of lots of records in the 70s, including the likes of Jimmy Cliff, Toots and Ken Boothe and supported Bob Marley when he came to the UK in the early 70s. I'm going to showcase them with a song you'll all know, but this arrangement is IMO an absolute delight and will hopefully cheer you all up on a Monday morning.
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Post by threehundred on Jul 22, 2024 10:08:15 GMT
I'm not sure I can put a lot into this week as we're off to that UK again Thu, but I'll give the week a go.. ..for my second week, to give y'all a change of flavour I'm going with a reggae theme in the hope it'll coax the sun out from behind the grey murk. Controversially, I'm going to attempt to do it without Bob on the basis that wouldn't be expanding the sphere of IBO knowledge. I did think of going back to the start with a bit of Skatalites as without them there (might be) no Reggae, but instead I'll start slightly leftfield. The Cimarons are feted as Britain's first reggae band and cut their teeth as session musicians for the influential Trojan records and as such appear in the background of lots of records in the 70s, including the likes of Jimmy Cliff, Toots and Ken Boothe and supported Bob Marley when he came to the UK in the early 70s. I'm going to showcase them with a song you'll all know, but this arrangement is IMO an absolute delight and will hopefully cheer you all up on a Monday morning. Love it. Haven’t heard this track for years - what a great start to the week.
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Post by Mandochris on Jul 22, 2024 17:06:42 GMT
That's great. I probably saw them as I saw Bob Marley a couple of times in London in the 70s. Once, I remember, at the Hammersmith Odeon. Probably both times. So maybe they were openers. it would have been 73-5. I left for Paris just after the cup victory in May 76 (where I saw Bob Marley 3 more times).
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 22, 2024 19:30:28 GMT
That's great. I probably saw them as I saw Bob Marley a couple of times in London in the 70s. Once, I remember, at the Hammersmith Odeon. Probably both times. So maybe they were openers. it would have been 73-5. I left for Paris just after the cup victory in May 76 (where I saw Bob Marley 3 more times). Sadly I haven't seen them, they were supposed to be at the reggae festival I went to last year that got cancelled at the last minute.
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Jul 23, 2024 6:14:08 GMT
Looking forward to this week. I like Reggae, great first track their sir.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Jul 23, 2024 9:11:04 GMT
For no2, having said I'd try and avoid the obvious, I wanted to go with one of the big hitters I'd actually seen, but couldn't decide between Toots and Jimmy... so I used the "slightly different version" trick some of you have pulled to make sure I couldn't find them on Spotify So here's one of those "I woz there"* moments, with Jimmy Cliff, the second time I saw him @ Glasto (which was absolutely incredible... he was ca 70 at the time and had more energy than I had even back then... the bugger even did the splits, FFS) where he takes possibly my favourite song of his (the cyclical rhythm is one of the best examples of that I can think of) and gives it a topical twist. And there's no doubt he's an absolute superstar. *I have checked the vid, but to no avail Ed: I've just noticed there's a vid of a fair chunk of that set here
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