I liked Walt’s bellow through “Haitian Divorce”. It added a coarseness the song needed. he did something similar with “Daddy Dont Live in NYC…”. As a show MC, he was very amusing, too.

This is the track recorded with Donald Fagen. I think you’ll be able to tell. Pretty “Boz Scaggs”, too.

Could be straight outa Canterbury in a jazzier phase…

I don’t disagree. The Joni jazzers in 1979 was quite a band, and having to play within the parameters of the songs brought out all of their bests. That I would have loved to see.

Haven’t the enemy suffered enough?

Jaco was great. However, on the two times I saw him with Weather Report it was hard to love the bass solo, which went on “a bit”. Quite “a bit”, actually – I reckon 10 to 15 mins. Part way through, he switched […]

The next Dr should be a Jamaican or Pakistani granny, broad of beam and strong of view, unphotogenic but obliquely wise. Or Nik Turner. Old, experienced, seen it all, black hole eyes from one too msny potions on […]

At least he played the recognisable hits. In hindsight, it was a great set list, but just a little too Neil Diamond in the cabaret style.

“You’ll get them once you’ve had this “interesting” bit of blotting paper … it’ll all fall into place and you’ll see why they are the greatest psychedelic band”

Nope.

“Try this bootleg of when they were […]

John Wetton doing ‘Starless’ with that line up would have been better. Steve Howe might have given it a new feel. All in all, Bargepole, I think you ‘took one for the team’ , there. Good job!

Prog out because all the tracks are too long? PSHAW!

“Can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs/ it wasn’t real communism” apologism. Right, kids?

It works from the other side, too, as in Fred Kite’s classic description of Soviet Russia: “All them cornfields, and ballet in the evening”.

Hancock personifies middle management and the kind of plausible over-promoted administrator I’ve been opposed to since youthful cynicism about the kids in the school council; the types mentioned at assembly as g […]

“Trying to be too clever” stalks me like the relentless hubris it is. The more literal and straightforward I am, the more effective everything is. I made an academic career out of statements of the bleeding obvious.

If I had my time again, and knew what I know now, I would have behaved differently at points, and had a lot more fun at others. I grew up at that shabby time in the 70s where porn was still dirty, when softcore […]

I reckon the regular enhanced version would suit the causal listener, but there is something wonderfully zen about basically the same set played 5 times through if you go for the full monty. The new release also […]

Nocturne : siouxie and the banshees, rah, 1983.

Various zappa at Hammersmith and Brighton recordings (on the YCDTOSA series)

Sure there are others.