Brilliant review, CC. I have the key albums on vinyl and CD so won’t be investing but they never fail to bring joy. You’re right on Rain Dances, often overlooked but the new lineup was a superb evolution.

It was always threatened. Can’t say I have much affection for the old place though.

Yes, went to school with my mate’s dad (Kings School, where I went too).

He is a good musician, songwriter and band leader as well as having a few good side men.

He was like the sensible empathetic add-on to Gordon Brown, who immediately started undermining him of course.

Me neither, not seen or heard it. No particular reason, just never been exposed to it. I too know JCS well though. Sang bits of it in a show actually.

Don’t diss The Wall!

I agree Fitz, I like the whole album but the opening track is superb.

I read Honourable Schoolboy after seeing the TV adaptation of TTSS and he fitted the book perfectly.

A bit of theory is good though, I think. Knowing major and minor scales and how you build chords from them is very simple to grasp and lets you work the chords out for songs quickly. Same for bass playing, knowing […]

This is good.

Rick is a huge fan. I think that clip just after 1 minute is amazing – I actually have that set of backing tracks and they are all amazing.

How depressing. Where there’s a hit there’s a writ.

I think Chas n Dave suffered from a bit of music hall actually.

I listened to about a third of it.

I already have all the tracks so I won’t be buying it (and very good they are too) but I do like Warchild a lot, at the time seen as a change of direction after the proggy phase of Thick as a Brick and A Passion […]

Great actor. He stole a whole episode of the TV “Tinker tailor soldier spy” from Alec Guinness, which I rewatched recently. Tremendous in “White Mischief” too.

Do a bar or two at a time, slooowly. It’ll come. I worked with a Gary and sap his mates called him Gal. I assumed it’s normal. 😁 Edit: Wikipedia agrees so I’m officially right.

The question is what do you want to be able to do? Folky picking behind a vocal? Lead guitar widdleage?

How’s it going Gal?