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I just can’t see the point of these brands. I’ve tried, in each case, but can’t get along with them.
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What brands just make no sense to you?
New episode of albumtoalbum (finally) out now! With yer man on the uranium ukulele Reeves Gabrels
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030
Saw this on Twitter courtesy of beatlepodstar @stevenc
Garth Hudson is in an assisted living and not doing too well. A friend of his is asking fans to send him a postcard to cheer him up. Details in the tweet
https://twitter.com/levonthehawk/status/1497728746886885378?s=21
When I was preparing for my chat with Reeves, I had the idea that over one or two episodes, we’d cover everything from Tin Machine to Hours. After the first two hours, we’d got as far as Tin Machine I and I was listening to one surreal monologue after another about topics ranging from Buck Owens, wedding party nightmares, Bowie’s flatulence, Bowie’s hair, male pattern baldness and various strategies for the hard-working alt-rock guitarist to deal with it, musical properties of vibrators and thoughts on the mercurial Sales brothers. I had to plead to pause after a couple hours to which he cheerfully replied “No problem, I’ll just probably sit here talking away to myself the next few hours!” The man can talk. I’ve edited down the first part of our chat here and more – much more – to come. Enjoy!
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030?i=1000547920678
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Boring post alert, but any advice appreciated.
I use Mac’s Mail program, the one bundled in with OSX. It has never wowed me with its ease of use and filing, but in recent weeks, with several projects simultaneously on the go, I was wondering what on earth I have done to screw up assigning rules to messages.
I need a message from Joe Bloggs to go into the ‘Bloggs’ folder, ‘On My Mac’. Or I might need a message from Josephine Bloggs to go into the “Jo Bloggs’ folder.
I’ve set up the rules that should allow this to happen. Either one of two things will actually happen.
I will get a notification that mail from Joe Bloggs can’t be transferred to the ‘Bloggs’ folder, because that folder doesn’t exist (although it does, I have to then waste precious milliseconds of my life manually dragging Joe Blogg’s latest missive into it)
Or it will file some of Josephine Blogg’s messages into the allocated mailbox, and not others. This seems to defeat the purpose of organising things neatly so Zoom meetings are not unduly delayed whilst I scrabble around my inbox looking for the message Josephine or » Continue Reading.
Hello and good evening,
The latest episode of the albumtoalbum podcast is up and live now. It’s a three way chat between self, Adam Buxton and Bowie author Chris O’Leary. That is, three middle aged blokes with facial hair and specs*. We’re discussing Scary Monsters and Super Creeps. I hope you can check it out and let me know what you think!
*I’ve been getting a some messages via Twitter that the podcast is too “blokey”. Yep, this episode is indeed, blokey, comically so.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030?i=1000504732479
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030?i=1000504732479
01/01/2021
Hello all – just a heads up that I’ll be hosting a Twitter listening party on January 1st at 7pm GMT with esteemed author and Pushing Ahead Of The Dame blogger Chris O’Leary. We’ll be rattling through The Man Who Sold The World. I’ve never done this before, so hope it won’t be too much of a disaster but would love to have the AW Massive on board!
Latest albumtoalbum is out now and it’s with family favourite Adam Buxton, with whom I waffled on for a few hours about Scary Monsters. We had aimed to get this done in time for the 40th anniversary but best laid plans and all that. Anyway, we did it, I think it came out nice and here it is! Should anyone be inclined to share or leave a review on Apple podcasts, or similar, I would be incredibly grateful. Thanks!
https://audioboom.com/posts/7751911-adam-buxton-on-scary-monsters
It’s nice that lots of people are enjoying remembering auld Winston O’Boogie today. This, from George’s people over on Twitter
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0LSt1np8b3WfJqw4SwBCmD?si=9APKebwCTOm3768I3z9HaA
On the new Albumtoalbum podcast. He was great to chat with, and lots of brilliant details about being in the studio with the Dame, Visconti and the band. We talked for ages, and I invited musician, writer and manager of the Visconti Studio at Kingston Uni, Leah Kardos to join in too. It made me re-listen to Blackstar and get over the loaded associations I had with it and really appreciate the joy and verve captured in the studio as Bowie and McCaslin’s band set each other off beautifully.
This is first of three episodes and hope you might enjoy!
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/davidbowie-albumtoalbum/id1355073030#episodeGuid=tag%3Aaudioboom.com%2C2020-06-21%3A%2Fposts%2F7612878
Abba were the first band I can remember. When I was three or four, ‘Arrival’ had come out and my parents bought it for me and would sit with me patiently, listening to the whole LP over and over again. I can still remember identifying the songs by their tones and feels, not having a clue what they were on about. Which was definitely a blessing in the case of ‘Dum Dum Diddle’.
The cover was (and is) gorgeous and became synonymous with the music for me. Four goodlooking people in white boiler suits standing around a still helicopter, in a mysterious dusk. Sure! Why not? The beautiful title track, all yearning chorale and folkish melody entranced and soothed me, after the terrifying screaming finale to the preceding ‘I Am The Tiger’.
The following year I was gifted ‘Abba The Album’, by a friendly nurse who worked at my dad’s surgery. It had to be explained that this was Abba – I still remember that, weirdly clearly, I initially didn’t understand that this was the same group of people as those standing around the helicopter. But again, here was a mysterious cover with lots to look at, colourful » Continue Reading.
I have decided to buy a bass. Budget £400- 450ish, am drawn to Squier models, currently looking excitedly at a Squier CV Jag. Intrigued by Mustang but wondering if short scale might feel a bit fiddly (I am a substantial slab of bloke at around 6’3 and broad in the beam).
Wildcard is a 50s CV Precision, this bloke’s review of it is pretty tempting and it looks stunning
I am veering towards the Jag as it blends P and J pickups, and review videos balance out the joys of these configurations in one package vs fiddly ‘stack’ controls.
A bass playing friend has recommended I go for a “proper” bass [his words] and just get a Jazz bass.
Any Fender bassists here who could give me any tips? I know it is not possible to physically try one out at the moment, I just want something with a lovely fat, rich soft tone which is approachable for a guitarist (Fender Jazzmaster) to learn on.
New episode of Albumtoalbum is out now and its the first instalment of a chat with bass-wallah Guy Pratt whose stock of HORAs is on a par with Ellen, Hepworth at the very least. We don’t get very far in our discussion of Lodger, but I did have a lot of fun with him. Have a listen! 🙂
While away an hour with the latest albumtoalbum episode – Stuart Maconie and I ramble at length about Diamond Dogs, taking in 1970s Wigan, glam rock, the welfare state, The Beatles, the Stones, playing the ‘exactly!’ game with Alan McGee, McCartney and the avant-garde, Bowie’s guitar playing and how the nominal successor to Aladdin Sane, Hallowe’en Jack arrives and leaves in just one line. By one hour in, we’ve barely got past ‘Sweet Thing’, so this is the first in God knows how many episodes. But, this can be an ideal accompaniment for your daily allocated time in the exercise yard.
If Keir Starmer wins the Labour leadership, popular “disk jockey” and severely-wronged public figure and beat obituarist Paul Gambaccini says he will stand (or run) against him at the next election.
From The Times:
Paul Gambaccini, the BBC radio star, is threatening to stand against Sir Keir Starmer at the next general election in protest at the Labour leadership hopeful’s handling of Operation Yewtree.
The disc jockey, who was arrested in 2013 on false allegations of sexual abuse, blames Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions, for the “torment” he suffered at the hands of the Metropolitan police.
“I can assure you if the Labour Party makes Keir Starmer their leader, I will run against him at the next election,” he said.
Mr Gambaccini claims that Sir Keir, who headed the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, launched a “witch-hunt” against him and the likes of Sir Cliff Richard and Jimmy Tarbuck, “ruining countless lives”.
In 2013, Sir Keir responded to the Jimmy Savile scandal and sex-grooming cases by issuing new guidance to prosecutors to focus on the credibility of allegations, not the alleged victims, when deciding whether to prosecute.
In a valedictory interview on the Andrew Marr » Continue Reading.
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Hello all Bowie peoploids! Just a quick note to say the latest episode of my sporadic Albumtoalbum series is out now, the second in a three parter featuring the mighty Nicholas Pegg – loquacious author of ‘The Complete David Bowie’ and wonderfully erudite and knowledgeable source of all things Jones, getting well and truly stuck into the fabulous 1995 epic ‘Outside’. If you enjoy the pod, please do share! Thanks and enjoy 🙂
This is really good. Swedish guys sample Trump in a vaguely mid 70s Zappa/Dan idiom and it works out pretty funny
Just a heads-up but I’ve a new batch of my Bowie pods all set to go and today I uploaded my encounter with former The Area guitarist, Mod memoirist (and one time Home Secretary) Alan Johnson, in which he reminisces about the old days and Hunky Dory. As well as hearing about why Hunky Dory is his go-to Bowie album, we repeatedly revisit his love of the HJH (and his rather original assumption that DB didn’t much care for the Fabs), as well finding out what his all time favourite LP is (not Bowie or The Beatles) and there’s an acappella rendition of the song he wrote when his first son was born.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2-alan-johnson-on-hunky-dory/id1355073030?i=1000453490316
I’ve been reading excerpts from Reg’s forthcoming autobiography in the papers. The extracts thus far have been v entertaining and hair-raising (toupee-raising?) in equal measure with the blizzards of gak fuelling the monstrous ego, all related with self deprecating wit. Who else is looking forward to this?
The annual ‘best gag of the Fringe’ poll by the intriguingly named TV station, Dave, has just been announced. What do you think? I think Richard Stott should have won, that’s a one-liner Monkhouse would have been proud of.
10 funniest jokes of the 2019 fringe:
1. I keep randomly shouting out “Broccoli” and “Cauliflower”. I think I might have Florets. – Olaf Falafel
2. Someone stole my antidepressants. Whoever they are, I hope they’re happy. – Richard Stott
3. What’s driving Brexit? From here it looks like it’s probably the Duke of Edinburgh. – Milton Jones
4. A cowboy asked me if I could help him round up 18 cows. I said, “Yes, of course. That’s 20 cows.” – Jake Lambert
5. A thesaurus is great. There’s no other word for it. – Ross Smith
6. Sleep is my favourite thing in the world. It’s the reason I get up in the morning. – Ross Smith
7. I accidentally booked myself on to an escapology course; I’m really struggling to get out of it. – Adele Cliff
8. After learning six hours of basic semaphore, I was flagging. – Richard Pulsford
9. To be or not to be » Continue Reading.
I was ambling down Portobello Road this morning when I saw a familiar, black clad figure striding along the pavement, accompanied by a dark-haired woman. As he drew closer, realised it was none other than the ABITW hitmaker, Dave Gilmour. I was getting closer. Should I say something? Should I ignore him? He was now almost level with me. I decided to say hello. He came towards me and I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I walked past.
What would you have done?
Bill Wyman has been uninvited/no-platformed/dropped from an upcoming talk at the Sheffield Film Festival where a new doc about him, ‘The Quiet One’ was due to be screened. (It’s not any longer). The reason? Most of us will know about his creepy association with the young Mandy Smith and all the palaver that entailed. Yet at the time, in 1989, the tabloid bonanza about it was more amused than thunderously condemnatory. Reading his ‘Stone Alone’ autobiog, written in the brief interregnum between marriage and 1991 divorce, there is plenty of defiance and belaboured justification of his actions with regard to the underage dalliance (“She pursued ME, we are in love” is the burden of his song) There’s also plenty of smirking, boorish reporting of his innumerable hookups over the decades which, whichever way you look at it, make him out to be a rather pathetic little chap, very Pooter-ish in his lack of self-awareness and how his prim boasting and gloating comes across. But I wonder, when all this has been in the public eye for many years and by his own account, Plod has told him he doesn’t have a case to answer – should the aged lothario now » Continue Reading.
While the other lot go hell for leather, with their 50th anniversary bonanzas this November, a much more minimal remastered new package is on the way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Beggars Banquet. Includes a mono mix of ‘Sympathy’ and a recording of a phoner with Lord Beezlebub. Also coming up, rerelease of One Plus One and next year a reissue of RocknRoll Circus with a few more bits and bobs
Rolling Stones to Release Deluxe Reissues of ‘Beggars Banquet,’ ‘Rock and Roll Circus’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Just in case anyone is wondering why its so damn quiet on the McCartney front at the moment, here’s a rather good interview from the new GQ. Given he has been uncommonly open on recent encounters with Marc Maron, Howard Stern, he’s on equally good form here. Nothing shockingly revelatory but a good read nonetheless.
https://www.gq.com/story/the-untold-stories-of-paul-mccartney