Wally was already quite a thing at Reading 1975, my only visit to the 6th forms favourite festival.

Deadwood was great, until the feature length “finale”, tacked on and several years later.

Nicky Hopkins, Alun Davies and Jon Mark

For something different, and very of its time, try 60s supergroup, Sweet Thursday, from 1969

I have the 1001 Beers, with most/many of them unavailable or no longer made…..

A splinter of mavericks seems to fit. (Or, in Yorkshire, a spell.)

Fabulous evocation of exactly the same sort of thoughts the song brings out in most, somehow all sounding individual and unique to each listener. Superlative craftsmanship from Springsteen, encapsulating his […]

And some new directions being hinted at, especially on “side1”, where there are some distinctly dub tropes in the bass lines, drum patterns and, best of all, in the brass arrangements. Drummer Erl Harvin is on fir […]

Ain’t medicine marvellous! It always used to be 3 strokes and you’re out.

Phew…….

That’s all very well for @leedsboy and his suffering, but who will then care for the poor old moggy?

They did indeed open for ELP, but at Earls Court, a vile arena. They were ill received by the punters and were dull. ELP were overblown and overdone, having gone the full pomprock with Brain Salad Surgery. My love […]

As happens already in the private health sector, given the majority are paying via insurance.

Don’t forget, @thecheshirecat , to ask Nigel Eaton about Panic At The Café…

No? Ah well, shows how long since I bothered to look or play it. I must have bought it on the strength of his having covered it. I’ll take a look when I get to G on my re-digitising exercise. Currently at F.

Dimming of the Day

Broadly for the same reason women have a clitoris. We are drawn from the same brush, before chromosomes define which side we fall. Please don’t say it’s a decision. It’s early and I am still unwoke.

Have you seen the price of lightbulbs these days, the low energy ones that last forever*? (*a little, if you are lucky, longer than the old ones.)

Unless that is a jest, it is possibly the first thing yet that might attract me to this record. I have the first solo, mainly for the RT cover, and Living on an Island, about which I can neither remember any of […]

No, actually, possibly because they contain 10x the choices, and so include, alongside the ones listed in this list, another 900 that will include more I like, on experience, and more exploratory unknowns.