I’m listening to Heart of Uncle by the mighty 3 Mustaphas 3, which I was listening to 30 years ago. Not having played it for some time, I’d forgotten my favourite bit on the whole album – which is about half-way through Sitna Lisa, where the strings come in. It really is as glorious as the sun breaking through – as it has done in real life today after a miserable couple of weeks.
Life is good, especially with music.
hubert rawlinson says
Anapse To Tsigaro
Light a cigarette and to hell with the world.
Moose the Mooche says
And then in the middle of Taxi Driver, amid all this hookah exoticism, the vocal sounds like Tony Hancock.
Swipe me, how glitterin’!
hubert rawlinson says
‘Sorry mate, don’t go south of the river.
Moose the Mooche says
Oh, you don’t want to imagine what strange shapes I’ve been throwing while that’s been playing.
In the privacy of my own home, you understand.
PS. HB are you always attracted to groups because of their headgear? What think you of “Woolly Bully” frexample?
hubert rawlinson says
The 3M3 is the reason for my favourite headgear choice.
Much as I like Mr Samudio’s song I’m not that keen on their headgear choice.
Moose the Mooche says
Also, I’m not mad keen on the concept of a bull that is woolly. I think they’re mixing it up with a bison, which always leads to trouble.
Mike_H says
There’s a difference between a buffalo and a bison.
You can’t wash your hands in a buffalo.
Moose the Mooche says
A southerner, by Jove!
Tiggerlion says
Highland cattle is woolly and quite beautiful.
Lemonhope says
That’s fuckin’ ace! Why have I not heard that before. And why isn’t it on Spotify!
Moose the Mooche says
Excellent! I recommend plunging headfirst into the works of the 3M3. You can’t go wrong.
hubert rawlinson says
Seconded.
A favourite band and not just for the fezes, fezzes, fezzii?
retropath2 says
Terrific band, world music before it became world music, with a hefty tongue in cheek. Sort of if Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias came from Szegerely.
Onetime home for ex-Damned, later a Billy Bragg Bloke and currently the scary bearded twitcher in PiL
fatima Xberg says
Sabah Habas Mustapha later had a career as a world music presenter at a Berlin radio station, and used to pop up for a solo gig in the most unusual places (usually playing his crowd favorite “My Wife’s Nightie”). He then had a massive, million-selling hit with “Danpassar Moon” in the Pacific/Asian regions, which resulted in hundreds of cover versions by local acts – but he hardly saw any money as the countries in question all didn’t sign the international copyright laws. He then remembered his former identity as a member of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera and returned to his real name, Colin Bass. He’s a big prog star in Poland, and is currently the scary-eyebrowed bass player in Camel.
Moose the Mooche says
Elmer Gantry’s were a fine band – immortalised by their appearance on The Rock Machine Turns You On.
fatima Xberg says
Moose the Mooche says
He looks like Bill Hall.
Milligan fans will know who I’m talking about.
Freddy Steady says
For a second I thought you meant Plunger Bailey…
hubert rawlinson says
Mr Bass also played with Steve Hillage in the seventies.
Daudi and Hijaz now play with the Yiddish Twist Orchestra.
Forward in all directions.
Peanuts Molloy says
Around 1974 / 75 Colin Bass was in Clancy, although it’s hard to believe that the photo of him on the back of their Seriously Speaking LP is the same chap looking out from his Wiki page!
His bandmates in Clancy included Dave Skinner, who had a 1966 hit as part of Twice As Much with a Jagger-Richard song, Sittin’ On a Fence and later played with Roxy Music, Gaspar Lawal who subsequently played with an endless list of artists, Ernie Graham from Eire Apparant and Help Yourself, and drummer Barry Ford who later completed the circle by playing with 3M3.
Talented bunch.
Freddy Steady says
Great name that, Colin Bass!
hubert rawlinson says
A great example of nominative determinism.
retropath2 says
A later bassist ended up in Oysterband, ahead of a solo career.
Oussack Mustapha to Chopper to Ray Cooper (not that one.)
hubert rawlinson says
Oussack was an earlier bassist, Sabah joined after Oussack left.
retropath2 says
Blimey, I stand corrected, thanks Hubes, a gap in my proverbial, clearly.
retropath2 says
Like Chad Wackerman and, um, Trombone Shorty, possibly not his real name.
Moose the Mooche says
The latter had two possible careers – one as a musician, the other as a… different sort of performer.
illuminatus says
…a different sort of performer altogether
“A DIFFERENT SORT OF PERFORMER!”
(collecting coat right now…)