I’ve always been impressed by the drumming on Robbie Williams “Road to Mandalay”
Very playful, with lots of little fills & playing around the beat.

Wikipedia tells me that it was Chris Sharrock, who has playe […]

What a great review. It does whet my appetite… but then I remember that I’ve never been that impressed with the songs on LIB & making them shine won’t improve the raw material.
(“tedious, repetitive and fract […]

The School for the Blind that Ray Charles attended was segregated.

Steve Peregrin Took played a Chad Valley kit with Tyrannosaurus Rex

It was the hook to buy the Snowy White “Goldtop” compilation
(Which was where I got the quotes from)

“Scientists have found that Statins can protect against….”
“Research shows that eggs are good/bad for you” (Alternate every 6 months)

Fair enough (I did say nit picking)

To nit pick your Animals fact (well you did say nerd!) On the 8 track cartridge version, there was a linking section of Pigs on the Wing which had a guitar solo from Snowy White.
“While you’re here, you might as […]

From that trailer, it looks as though there’s a proper narrative to the film. Whereas the original movie was lots of footage of them bashing away & bickering, this seems to have taken the story that’s evolved ove […]

It was very short sighted of Sony to cripple mini discs with SCMS and no one ever came up with a hack to directly convert the file format to mp3 or flac.
Using the toc output would allow it to remain as digital, […]

I did a couple of consumer surveys for Sony about mini discs. General view was “that’s nice, but I wouldn’t buy one”.
Very useful for semi pro musician backing tracks/karaoke, but released at the wrong time as ev […]

Bravo!

I think the links are still live at “press play & record” which has rips of all those old nme tapes.
Like everyone else, I ditched loads of cassettes when doing a big clear out, keeping only those that I’d digit […]

I’ve taken a quick look at the numbers to see if it tells us anything about how/when the world was shaken.
The 3 most popular lead instruments were Sax: 30, Piano: 24 and Mixed (group/orchestral): 19
17 of the s […]

This might be the most moving performance. Jesse Winchester on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle.
Audience & other musicians spellbound & a tear rolling down from Neko Case.

It’s that “Thank You, Kermit”

More touching…Big Bird singing “Being Green” at Jim Henson’s memorial service.

They do cheat a bit with some of the older artists who were pre LP days, using a compilation instead.
It’s the “usual suspects” in there, but if it gets more people discovering, or reacquainting with jazz, that’s great.

It was Macca that suggested that Michael Jackson should look at buying publishing rights, citing his success with the Buddy Holly catalogue.
In 2001 McCartney said “The trouble is I wrote those songs for n […]

Lockdown made everything worse, as people were stuck in their own “echo chambers” without hearing opposing views. Now, after 18 months, everybody is still on a hair trigger, preferring to stay with those that sha […]