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Pies4shaw
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Pies4shaw
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So, I have the box set. Today, I listened to the Live at The Hollywood Bowl extra disc. The concert was recorded in September 1968, just as Electric Ladyland was about to be released. The recording quality of the concert is beyond dreadful. Even so, Jimi’s playing was remarkable and so I am reminded of two things: first, why I sold all my early 1970s bootleg LPs to buy official releases by the same bands; and secondly, what a brilliant musician Jimi was. The versions of the Slight Return and Red House are exquisitely inventive and no amount of desk distortion can stop that being heard. There’s also a correctly-paced version of Sunshine of Your Love that owes much more to Clapton than the Hendrix version I grew up with (from the soundtrack to the “Experience” film).
Here’s hoping, though, that the rest of the box isn’t quite so low-fi (especially the surround sound blu-ray). |
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Pies4shaw
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PyreneesPie
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What a great list of musical tracks P4S. So many brilliant artists and musicians!
I've just done a quick run through and feel like I've gone back in time, to a place where music had melody and throbbing beat!! Okay, sometimes the lyrics weren't always profound.
"The Israelites". Didn't think anyone else would ever recall that one, but I loved it!!!
Going to go back through all the videos and play each of them in full. |
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Pies4shaw
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Did you get to the end of the videos yet, PyreneesPie? |
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Pies4shaw
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thesoretoothsayer
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Pies4shaw wrote: | https://www.goldminemag.com/news/the-beatles-revisit-abbey-road-with-special-anniversary-releases
All coming out 27 September, apparently. |
This is going to be like the White Album Esher Demos release. You buy it, listen to the demos once, go "meh" and then you're stuck with a CD that you already own a copy of. The sad thing is I'll definitely be buying it. |
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Pies4shaw
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Pies4shaw
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And, so, we come to this - my favourite album of all time, released in 1969. It's listed in "1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", so you can do that, here, now and tick it off.
Many of you know, I expect, that I am (a) obsessed by the sound of a grand piano and (b) frequently annoyed by music that Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Debussy or Ligeti didn't write. I always liked rock music, though, and came to this album because Donovan Leitch (he of "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman", "Season of the Witch" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man" fame) used to play a beautiful, but obscure song called "House of Jansch" and another called "Bert's Blues", each named for the amazing guitarist who was one of the musicians in this remarkable group. When I heard this album, I stopped going to classes at school, stopped playing piano for about a decade, taught myself to play finger-style acoustic guitar, started folk bands and began playing obscure British and American folk songs, all sung in 4-part harmony. So, all in all, it was a very bad influence on me.
What can I say about the record? This album features the five best musicians ever assembled in one place playing some of the most inventive, hypnotic and subtle music ever committed to vinyl (although, sadly, not a piano in sight). I suppose my favourite songs on it are the remarkable re-imaginings of the ancient folk songs "Once I Had a Sweetheart" (really, bowed double-bass and sitar anchoring a traditional English ballad?) and "House Carpenter" (Bert's plaintive, foreboding banjo, his vocal personification of Satan, Jacqui's magnificent unaccompanied stanza at the most dramatic moment of the tale, John's evil presence on sitar and the whole underpinned by the most insane rhythm section ever committed to disc) but I am aware that the album contains many songs that other people consider to be their "all-time" favourite song (especially the opener "Light Flight", the cover of "Sally Go Round the Roses" and Bert's two vocal masterpieces, "Springtime Promises" and "Train Song (Basket of Light)". For 50 years, this record has made people weep at the beauty of the sounds it contains.
As Jacqui sings, "I'll set sail of silver and steer toward the sun...."
Light Flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlmxT9iNgs
Once I Had a Sweetheart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQsEKZ_qYw
Springtime Promises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWypH92vMEw
Lyke-Wake Dirge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT7CMAcBTew&list=RDVT7CMAcBTew&index=1
Train Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441AWNahxqg
Hunting Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqlh6WmAxQ
Sally Go Round the Roses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrXmEbgFzo
The Cuckoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=614L6q88pAM
House Carpenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mSk64BETU8
"But here I am in the raging sea and my soul is bound for hell." |
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Pies4shaw
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Bridge Over Troubled Water was released on 26 January 1970.
If you don't know Bridge Over Troubled Water, Keep the Customer Satsified, Cecilia, El Condor Pasa, Baby Driver and the Boxer by heart, you should. |
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stui magpie
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Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Pies4shaw
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stui magpie
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OK, John legend, that was a joker in the pack I didn't know was there.
The rest were all a bit Meh, but while I've corrupted your thread to Simon and Garfunkel covers, has there ever been a better version of Sound of Silence than this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Pies4shaw
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He sings well but I don’t really like Sounds of Silence as a big production number. I actually prefer the first release (from the S & G album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM), with just the two voices and the acoustic guitar before the full band was added, to the famous one.
I’ve seen John Legend sing Bridge in concert. He’s not my thing but he is a brilliant singer. |
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stui magpie
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I'd never heard of the guy, but damn he can sing _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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