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 […]

Picking up on your Loughborough Uni reference Tig, I only ever saw one gig there, but what a gig. The Specials, The Selecter and Dexy’s Midnight Runners in full soul boy mode, pre-Geno. Each of them put on a f […]

Already done this on Twitter. The answer I gave was:
Hunky Dory
Machine Head
A Wizard A True Star
Boston
Blood On The Tracks

Here’s a few more suggestions:

Perfect Day – Lou Reed (b-side of Walk On The Wild Side)
Hey Hey What Can I Do (b-side of US-only single Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin)
Thinking of You – Sister Sledge (b-side […]

Slade’s singles from 71-73 all had decent songs on the flip-side – Candidate, My Life Is Natural among the best. And while we’re talking about glam rock hod-carriers, The Sweet also did some of their best work on […]

Panic In Detroit – not included on 1974’s ‘David Live’ but put on the B-side of Knock On Wood. The band are on fire, wicked bass and a classic Earl Slick guitar solo

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Not forgetting the truly heartachingly beautiful Laura Nyro