Musings on the byways of popular culture
Rigid Digit was pining for the Rejects around here earlier. I thought I’d see what they were up to – in case it was time for a reappraisal… Well, it seems that it might be! There’s a distinct progressive rock feel to the cadenza on this recent number. I was (really) listening to live 1978 Jethro Tull earlier and this sounds uncannily close to those Martin Barre instrumentals that used to happen on those tours…
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For those who haven’t come across it, this Noel Gallagher interview might interest. I thought the meeting Springsteen bit was the most interesting. “How about that Stone Roses album?”
I’m guessing he means the first one.
I was lunching with two of Horslips – originators of Celtic rock – yesterday and much badinage was exchanged, with the conversation turning to things ‘that Donovan invented’ (i.e. things he didn’t). ‘Obviously, he invented Celtic rock,’ I said, to chortles all round. And then I vaguely remembered something. ‘Hang on… y’know, I think he *did’ record a track called ‘Celtic Rock’… Jim locked it up on his gadget – sure enough, in 1970, a year before Horslips began, Donovan recorded ‘Celtic Rock’. Gobsmackery all round. Situations in which one realises that, yes, the Don *really did* invent something must be rare indeed! 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sylRHOg40
