Can’t understand that view Tig. You’ll be missing half the fun of songs like Drive-In Saturday. I can understand you might be reluctant to sing Time or Lady Grinning Soul out loud, though.

And as for the Doors, […]

I’m seeing them in a couple of weeks at Bethel (Woodstock) supporting Santana. Should be a good night.

Happy Birthday to Mrs Wells!

You’ll enjoy it Dougie. I went along last night. Will Birch was a wry observer of the times and Mark Ellen contributed to the mirth with memories of Nick and his many associates, particularly Jake Riviera.

We gon chase dem crazy baldhead out of town – another vote for Rastaman. Tunes aplenty.

Lizzo the highlight for me so far. She and her big girls had me Lolling uncontrollably at one point (you can probably guess which point if you saw her act – if not, it’s on iplayer).

Also enjoyed Jungle – r […]

Funny voices you say? Ha Ha Ha! Hee hee hee!
Yes, Vernon was also the producer on the Laughing Gnome.
Bowie’s ‘I’ll try anything to have a hit’ period

Reelin’ In The Years was the one that came to mind. The lyrical equivalent of polyrhythmic playing.

Mainstays of the hippie scene in the 70s – a calming ditty from Gong

I’m with you Lodes, such vivid performance from Dylan, lest we forget what an intense artist he was at the time. He never had a band like this. Scarlett and Stoner especially (what a bass player). The footage of J […]

Third World Man was my instant thought. They were inactive for over a decade and this achingly beautiful track, with one of the greatest guitar solos ever, stood as their final word for a long time.

Taken too soon:

Martin Luther King
John Smith
Prince

and ‘praying to the porcelain god’.

talking of proctologists, this might amuse if you haven’t already seem it. Fwd to 2:30 for the joke

After a few fallow years when local supermarket and liquor store buyers would only stock indigenous kiwi craft beers, I can now get cans of Old Speckled Hen, Abbot and a bunch of other English ales in my local […]

Rothmans were told by the ASA to change the original advert wording from “When you know what you’re doing” to “When you know what you want”

The Sweeney…The Persuaders….Porridge…Fawlty Towers….Dad’s Army…The OGWT…Monty Python…Catweazle….The Good Life….Dr. Who….The Ascent Of Man….

Terry’s All Gold….Martini….Old Spice….Hamlet, the mild cigar from Benson & Hedges…

Steve Gadd used four drumsticks on Late In The Evening. Bloody show-off!

Sad news. I will give Desitively Bonnaroo a spin shortly.

Rickie Lee Jones posted this touching tribute:

Good bye Mac. I still remember the day we met. I was 23 years old. I saw you coming on La Brea Avenue, […]

no kidding, they’ve had snow is Queensland!

Really looking forward to the Rolling Thunder movie. Like a ‘Don’t Look Back’ for the 70s.

There was a really good article interviewing Rob Stoner that I read last […]