Sometimes I wonder where I’ve been all my life. I’m 57 years old, I’ve been listening to music for most of those years – dammit my job is involved In the music business. And yet until this evening I’d never heard this. It’s extraordinary and has stopped me dead in my tracks – I can’t stop playing it. I’m sure everyone else here will know it intimately but I guess there is so much music out there and so little time. Isn’t it great to still be hearing classic music for the first time?
Anyone else recently discovered a standard classic that everyone else has known for years?
Do not feel bad. There is no right or wrong time to discover stuff. There is only discovery.
Last year I discovered Al Stewart…. i can’t believe he’s not famous. So many great songs.
He isn’t famous. Nobody’s heard of him except you.
He played the Albert Hall last night. My mate was the percussionist.
Shhh! You’re spoiling everything!
A couple of years ago, I ‘discovered’ the first 4 Santana albums:
Santana
Abraxas
Santana III
Caravanserai
I don’t think I’d heard any Santana before. They’re great. What incredible guitar and percussion!
So … better late than never.
Bloody ‘ell, duco! Have you heard the more obscure “solo” stuff, like Illuminations and Oneness? Maybe you’re working backwards from those?
I “discovered” Nic Jones about 35 years after everyone else who is likely to be interested. As Gangle says, there’s a right time for these things. What fabulous picking.
I ‘discover’ someone new pretty much every week by looking for records at car boot sales. Often I’ll have heard OF them but just never actually heard them, but sometimes I’ll take a punt on a new (to me) name. A few examples from both categories: Peter Case, Lee Hazlewood, the Fuzztones, Teddy Pendergrass, Harry Nilsson, Quicksilver Messenger Service. And I’m quite getting into that Bob bloke as well, he’s rather good.
Bless!
One more of those and it’ll be the Extra-Large Feather Duster for you, matey boy.
*waits*
BLESS!!!! BLESSETTYBLESSETTYBLESSBLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*THWACKETY-THWACKETY-THWACKETY-THWACK!!!!!!!!!*
Oh shit, I’ve broken it.
Aaaaaaaaaaaoooooohhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhhh ….
Oooh!Iseemtohavebrokenthroughintoanewdimensionoftheblog;aheretoforeundiscoveredfrontierwherenomanhasgoneboldlyorotherwisebecausetheyhavebeenunwittinglyrestrainedbythespacebarIt’sgreatouthereontheperimeterwheretherearenostars………………..
Only yesterday I discovered a Cream LP I actually quite like, the studio bit of ‘Wheels of Fire’…..10p CD from a Charity Shop!
I (slightly) take back all I’ve said about you, Eric.
As. For Bert, my fave is the one where he goes poppy, ‘Nicola’ from 1967.
To my shame, I’m only just catching up with T Rex. The later albums. I like them all. Put off for too long by shit reps, crap covers, sneer-worthy titles, and portly elfin persona. The music is great, and … surprisingly strange. Mash-ups of various styles that should be a mess but result in something unique. And surprisingly strange.
I was only recently offered the opportunity to catch up with Supertramp,
Unfortunatly they were to quick for me, as I could barely walk with this flame thrower.
Miles Davis, I`m a bit iffy over jazz, perversely I go for the more left field stuff; Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane. A gifted artist who once frequented this sight has turned me on to Keith Jarrett so in an insidious way jazz is seeping into my veins slowly, yeah. So the Baroness got me the Perfect Miles Davis Box for my birthday and he`s on heavy rotation.
In the last couple of years, Sinatra.
Sort of recent (last couple of years) have slowly got more and more Richard Thompson stuff.
Already owned Rumour & Sigh, but never got any more. Bought I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight because I thought “I should own that”, and have been adding to it ever since.
This road has also led to an expansion of Fairport Convention and Sandy Denny (ie I now own more than a single disc compilation)