One of the great unsung rock drumkit heroes, Prairie Prince of The Tubes.

One of John Zorn’s projects, Hemophiliac (John Patton, Ikue Mori & John Zorn as a trio) recorded a live album at Tonic in New York as part of a series celebrating Zorn’s 50th birthday.
The album title is “50⁶” ( […]

King Sunny Adé

Unconvinced.
1956-1966 is the decade when the rise of the teenager occurred, after WWII and post-war austerity. Grey was the predominant colour and a dull grind was what young people’s lives were, until suddenly […]

It’s good. Not the sort of stuff I buy, so I won’t.

Unlike all the other bands touring at the time, The Beatles didn’t need to for financial reasons. Their income from records was more than enough.
The Stones also stopped gigging for a while then. Most bands had […]

I remember seeing Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes at the long-gone Rayners Hotel in Rayners Lane near Harrow. It was the night after The 2002 “Concert For George” at which Albert had been a guest musician. He joked […]

Actually, I think it was Vivian Stanshall Esq. who first uttered it. Neil just knew a good punchline when he heard one.

Frank Sinatra recorded “One For My Baby (One More For The Road)” on five separate occasions.
Willie Nelson also recorded it on two occasions.
Just the one version by Iggy Pop.

“Princess Di still dead. Nation mourns our Queen Of Hearts”. – Daily Express

Plenty of Urban Foxes around here. See them scurrying across the roads at night. There are lots of bins to scavenge in. Saw (and managed to photograph) one on the green space between the blocks of flats. He was […]

It’s the interaction with each other and comments to each other and the studio people that interests me, rather than the music.

It’s the interaction and comments to each other and studio people rather than the music that interests me.

So much more to his career than The Police.
Started with Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band, which turned into Dantalian’s Chariot, then Soft Machine for a 3-month tour of the USA in ’67, after Daevid Allen was refused […]

“So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star Pt. II”.
Bounces along most pleasantly. Very enjoyable indeed except they should have worked on the chorus a bit longer, put the two short lines together as one line and […]

Visuals, music and words in that clip are fine. Growly voice is annoying.
I’ll check out the rest of it though.

Yes. Couldn’t give a shit really, about the album.
Just want to see the movie.

All my tapes from the days when I recorded from Radio One in the ’70s are long gone now. I used ultra-cheapo cassettes that deteriorated too much in sound quality over the years. It became like listening in the […]

IIS?
What’s that?

Yes. That’s why I never seem to get around to playing my collection of discs into my computer and digitising the audio output.
Not short-sighted of them. Protecting their proprietory ATRAC format to the bitter […]