The completist true fan who must have EVERYTHING and an official release is SO over. Lets see: Sell whatever archival crap to unswitched-on folk unaware of bootlegs or sugarmegs/ whatever, who buys the gimmicky […]

To be fair, the Stones do “roll” (swing) in a way that straightforward “rock” bands don’t. It’s an important distinction. I felt that KM was so busy beating the crap out of the skins that the “roll” was lost.

Shane the songwriter and lyricist I like, and the music and band I adore. But as I’ve aged, Shane the rock ‘n roll mess into his heroin and booze jakey-chic becomes increasingly sad. I also feel the same about […]

Sounds like a good example of “modern stadium entertainment”; slick, and using every entertainment tech trope to make it work. Not my sort of act, but I suspect I may have seen it in other bands who affect to be […]

Brilliantly put. Have a thumbs up, Bingo.

Exactly. Glib point scoring and projection of original sin onto white males who are not allowed to fight back. No wonder they want to join the gang that appears to stand up for them. The other way this goes in […]

A bit like all leftists and progressives being spiteful Mutants in the pay of Russia or billionaire Jews like George Soros, you mean? Polarised thinking is part of the problem here, I suspect. Unhappy people find […]

I feel that about Meshuggah (quite like the music, its the vocals), “Metal Music Machine”, and Pat metheny’s “Zero Tolerance for Silence”. I really don’t get on with skronk or up-itself self-consciously […]

I’ve tried for almost 50 years. Yes, on various “refreshments”, too. Still didn’t get it. Still sounds like a tedious Americana bar band to me. Whereas the day i heard Little Feat, they were for me, likewise […]

People live in virtual worlds and want them to be real. They always have. Don’t. You attract exploitative folk and the ungrounded. Though I’m a delightful catch, no 20 year old girl is going to fall for my […]

All the better for ” looning” and being silly in a business which takes itself far too seriously.

Magisterial as ever. I adore her middle period (and am much more appreciative of the earlier phase I once stupidly avoided, having been scared off earnest mostly acoustic singer songwriters at an immature stage in […]

I saw that in Birmingham in ?2019? – last time i saw the Dan, so no Walt, but all the same … definitive double bill. Unless Boz scaggs could do a solo set then join Steely Dan as the new Walt, and the Dan do […]

I saw them in 1974, and it was amazingly loud and “heavy”, along with the fol-de-rol bits.

1. First Concert If taken to, John Williams doing “The Height Below”, otherwise Steeleye Span, Brighton Dome, in December 1974. 2. Last Concert PIL in Northampton, a month ago. Fab! 3. Worst […]

I’d rather be “California sober”.

Interesting to hear your experience – and the synergy it has with exercise, if you can take that further step. well done! I still feel averse to running, though. My glasses may fall off, and my eyeballs jiggle as […]