Had you considered The Green Day and their song ‘Good Riddance’? Lovely melody which I’m sure would sound marvellous extemporised on the violin.

Arf!

Possibly. If I knew enough about the obscure rockabilly artist to contribute I’d probably chip in. What is there that I can tell you about Bob Hawke that you don’t already know?

I have no new or radically different views and opinions to those already expressed in the discussion, but I would just like to acknowledge the calm and rational way @chiz is handling the incoming here. More of […]

I’ve never heard Norm and Phil’s albums together. I should have kept up with their post-Skynrd output, but The Rossington-Collins band sort of passed me by.

And of the new breed, Griffin out of Dawes. Somewhere between Mick Fleetwood in terms of Californian laid back groove, Ringo’s lyricism and, from 3:30 in this clip, Dave Mattacks’ fills. https://youtu.be/OP6JcIFy-yQ

The classic polka dot last night.

Paulusma, Harvey and ‘On the Shore’, since you ask.

Ooh – that’s a good steer.

“We’d give anyone a record contract for thirty minutes of coked-up jamming back in the seventies”
Tommy Bolin – Private Eyes.

I only got Fly Like An Eagle last year after years of flipping past it in second hand racks. What was I thinking for the previous decades? It’s awesome.

That’s not even the best Fairport Convention album.

Surprisingly successful soundtrack album, many of which may even have been played at some point.

I’ve recently wondered about Phil’s journey from “I can only bear to have Bill Bruford or that bloke from Weather Report reproduce my drum parts to their full magnificence” to “…our kid can do it”.

There’s the “What I listened to while writing the book” appendix, which is a collection of brilliant, acerbic one-liners, mostly bang on the money about everything.

Nicole was, by the way, brilliant. An audience out-foxing acoustic entrance, some great songs, neat band and fantastic unaccompanied encore.

It’s not *for* answering, it’s for discussing. Where would be the fun in having a definitive conclusion? Like that time Mark Kermode posited a long and involved theory regarding (IIRC) The Shawshank Redemption bas […]