Well its Friday,heres what i spun last night:
Czar-s/t(sunbeam)
Waterloo-First Battle(Musea)
Barclay James Harvest-Once Again(Harvest)
Mixed up Minds volume 1(past and prent)
Rubbles Box Set-vol1-3(past and present)
The Sorrows-Take Heart(sanctuary)
Nick Garrie-The nightmares of jb stanislas(Revola)

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Now playing:

A Breath of Fresh Air

The Harvest Records Anthology 3CD box from 2007. Wonderful release and a real bargain!

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I was considering that Harvest box a while back, I must revisit it! Last few days I've been listening to:

La Beat bespoke Vol.5 CD -
Another great volume of cool 60s/70s dancers. Very much more mainland European centred this time, seems to be a lot og Belgians on it and very good they are!

The Stooges - S/T Rhino handmade hardback cover version. Great to hear how psychedelic they were from the unedited versions of the original John Cale mixes. Ron Ashton's guitar reminds me here very much of Scandanavian hard neo psych bands like On Trial. I see where they got their templat now! Most of the songs seem to end on one of Ashton's solos but get faded out pretty quick on the released versions - they really wig out on some on the unedtied versions on Disc disc. Cale asks at the end of one such rave 'how long is this goona be, can we cut it to two and a half minutes?'

The Stooges - The Weirdness (3 sided) LP 2006. Reunion album and the Ashton brother have lost none of their sonic attack ability, fab stuff.

Jefferson Airplane - 2 x 1966 live concerts at the Filomore - Signey Anderson's final gig and Grace Slick's debut. (Collectors Choice CDs). Well recorded and really interesting to hear them in this historic and embryonic way.

Just arrived today is the Jimy Hendrix Experince 22 cd box set 'Moonbeams & Fairytales', that's gotta last me the rest of the year and it only covers 1966-67!!

Paul

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erm on a SKA trip tonite bloody good stuff it is as well

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Hi Paul I listened to the entire Funhouse box and do agree with the engineer....
let's cut this because for me the finyl vinyl Funhouse is still THE most powerful. devastating shivvering (hair stands up on neck chest and balls! simultaneously) recording I have ever heard

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Graham, perhaps you are unaware: the use of the "devastating/devastation" words is forbidden here.


(Also we dont say the rude over-familiar address, "dude".)

"Devastation" is the done-to-death domain of poorly-educated and ,most of all,LAZY journalists. Its bad enough today's journalists are covering the easy/slack/nothing stories they do, but their appalling lack of vocabulary may just be worse.

There are many other words you can use. For instance, "decimatingly shivering..."

Please refrain from using the d-word in future posts.

Carry on!

Yesterday at Milano's record fair I bought two Flawed Gemd bootleg CDs, by Everyone and Mogul Thrash, only because they had unrleased bonus tracks. And they are good, just a pity on the Everyone CD they forgot to add the Neil Young cover avilable on the German Polydor pressing bu "Trio" is a really good prog track. The same for the Mogul Thrash BBC sessions tracks, good song and excellent sound

i have KILL BILL VOL 1 excellent stuff

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Wakeman - a suite of gods
Wes Montgomery - tequila
Anexus Quam - same
Hoelderlin- same


Today found a British Modbeats 45 for free!

Also Cream "Pressed Rat & Warthog" with (unreleased) "Tennis for Anyone" backside. Worth any sheckles, Jimmehs?

STATUS QUO SINGLES BOXSET 1968-69 great sounds nice boxset

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Universe Zero - Heresie ( deffo NOT pop!)

Ian Anderson - Thick As A Brick II
surprized here cos the reviews were not that good ,but turns out this is excellent!

At the Perth Concert Hall live world premier in April the band also did TAAB I


David Bowie - Live Ziggy



Heldon Live

DR JOHN, THE NIGHT TRIPPER-GRIS GRIS excellent weirdo album has some really wonderful moments any fans on here of this album?

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n/p: The Greatest Show On Earth - Horizons

n/p: Reale Accademia Di Musica on CD. Im praying a vinyl re-issue appears soon or i'll cry.. 1st issue on Riccordi cost way too much for Karney-boyo's pocket..

HATFIELD & NORTH-ROTTERS CLUB[+5 bonus tracks]
not to keen on this effort to jazzy for me anyone here like this album?

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BRUCE & THE ROBIN ROCKERS "LET'S DANCE WITH THE VILLIANS" ('66)
This is one of those notorious cash-ins on Somerset label. As was the case then, they would try to get the most out of it and release same lp under different name, in this case "Batman Theme" (Marble Arch label in UK).

Batman series is camp history and if you see ANY lp from 60s with word "Batman" on it - get it. Chances are good its delightful exotica/garage/surf/cheese dickatron-olla.

Found this rarity today. (Free, natch.)
Can't beat a title like: "Frugging The Riddler"

THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM

Wots your UK equivalent of Wall-Mart? Sanbury's?
Anyways, this is not your typical Wall-Mart-toss Crimbo lp.

This is a pure joy.

Certes your not talking complex time signature changes alla "Passion Play". This is pop-folk, not prog.
But so damn fine.



Mandolins, piccolos, flutes and , of course the requisite Crimbo glockenspiel.

Most tracks are either re-workings of "Songs From the Wood" tracks or -often wonderfully jazzified - re-workings of Crimbo traditionals..
But there are 4 or 5 new compositions.

Delightful oldtyme Victorian Crimbo feel. Dogs sleeping by the manor hearth-fire loikes. The holly & the ivy.

Its not a Reboks-hawking Santa "sitting on a park bench", but Father Christmas of gentler days.

RUDESS MORGENSTEIN PROJECT - SAME

Karns: get outta that early 70s cubby you have painted yourself into and give this instro keys cd a listen.
Keysman has nailed down the ELP sound. Same running bass and the exact (limited) keys settings that Keefers uses.

Some damn good playing here.

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THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM
i see there is a double cd with a acoustic set of this album with extra tracks looks to be agoodie
listening to MAMAS AND PAPAS E.P. collection

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Just played AQUILA -SAME

JETHRO TULL-A superb album really enjoying this one got it in a boxset of 4 TULL albums for a fiver great value

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Rockin' Horse: Yes It Is
Sleepy Hollow - Sleepy Hollow

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Velvet Underground - Live, Dallas, Texas, End of Cole Avenue 28/10/1969 purple vinyl LP. Good set. A couple of these tracks were on the Live 1969 double LP on Mercury from 1974, but here's the full set from a first genration tape. As audience tapes go, this is positively hi fidelity!

Crystal Syphon - Family Evil LP (Roaratoria). Excellent unknown west coast psych / rock 1967-8. Just a local group from Merced, but they play great and all originals, a definite must for west coast fans.

The Stooges - Have Some Fun CD (Rhino Handmade). Live at Ungano's, New York 1970. This was a press launch gig for Fun House which they play in full. Recorded on a reel to reel set up on a cocktail table in the audience. By Stooges live recording standards, this is pretty good, great riffage throughout.

Jimi Hendrix - Live at the LA Forum 1968 CD + LA Forum 1970 2 x CD. Good sound on the 68 set, 70 is an auience tape (well 2 run in synch to give stereo effect and works pretty well) Superby playing and great to hear again, the polar opposite of the Stooges approach!

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SIMON & GARFUNKEL "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS"

"Like a bridge over troubled waters I will lay me down"

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

In the Morella book ,"Old Friends" we read that Paul himself was surprized when those words came to him out of the blue.
"What I was saying was, 'I'm going to do this act of generosity for you.' " You being, Artie Garfunkel.

In a way you can see Simon as being hypocrite. This which was to be their last lp and the leave-taking of ways was mainly Paul's work. The lyrics were his.
Even though he had become jealous of Art's burgeoning acting career ,which in the end was really to come to nothing much at all - Catch 22 (where the critics did not single him out from the cast) and the following Carnal Knowledge, Paul goes to pains in the lyrics throughout this lp to wish his friend well.

In "Only Living Boy in NY" on a level he is "whining"
that Art let him down and sundered from their friendship, yet at same time he writes, go ahead then "let your honesty shine" "I know your part will go fine/fly down to Mexico". Mexico where they were filming Catch 22.
Paul wishes Art good fortune but does so gritting his teeth at the same time.
He , says, he wants his friend to "fly", his new career to soar.

In the remarkable song, "Farewell Frank Lloyd Wright" is it as much about the architect or is it really something else: "I cant believe your song is gone so soon/ I barely learned the tune/all the nights we'd harmonize till dawn."

"The Boxer" about the tough life of the persecuted - more than likely going back to the friends' schooldays when they walked home thru the rough part of town, together for security from the omnipresent bullying.

Works of genius often (by myself) get neglected for a whiles simply because they are played and played to death on the airwaves. Because when alienlifeform overly-praise something they are usually dead wrong.
But this lp is one of those rare examples in contemporary music whose fibres will stand up no matter how many times its gone thru the wash.

A wonderful, wonderful lp about the parting of ways.

Anyway
n/p: Sapphire Thinkers 'From Within'

yep wally in my top ten albums i also see it is Paul Simons GRACELANDS anniversary which is also a fav of mine

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Styff Nack- Sun Dial


Alan Trajan - good lp, he sounds like Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)