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well no, my mum is very firm about this. her friends are here now. also after her aneurysm in '96 she will not fly anywhere. if she went back to italy now she'd practically be a stranger in her old community. two of her three sisters live in paris, and i suggested that option, but she's not...

moving to scotland is not recommended. the first 17 years of my life were enough for me. i've been thinking about this myself recently. i'm not getting anywhere much here at the moment. however i have dual uk/italian nationality and italian is *little known fact alert* my first language so...

VM forgery? Peter Greenaway to thread.

Of course DB was still doing session work up until about 1969. If you recall the old radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again with its house band - Dave Lee and "The Boys" - that's DB on guitar, particularly noticeable when Bill Oddie called upon them to "do some psychedelic." In one episode...

Sometimes I feel like the Pete Best of the music blogosphere, even though historically I suppose I'm the Joe Meek (Blissblog = Elvis, WOEBOT = Beatles, Kpunk = Stones, Heronbone = Dylan) - but anyway, I remember this - and remember commenting on it with L - when it was first on. I loved...

This doesn't address the political question, but given that Acid was pointedly apolitical until the CJB forced it to become political, and that the underlying subtext of practically all mainstream hip-hop and R&B in the last 20 years has been essentially right-wing/materialist, it's hardly...

Technology is a red herring. You couldn't buy an electric guitar until the '60s? Charlie Christian to thread. It was Thatcherism/Reaganism that gave you your cheap synths/samples/etc. What matters is what you do with technology. Things like Interstellar Overdrive, Here Come The Warm Jets...

once you get past 40, your attitude to modern music kind of changes from "ooh, wonder what that sounds like?" to "impress me then." obv simon being six months my senior might be the exception that proves the rule here, but i sometimes notice a tinge of "impress me then" when he's in one of his...

what was it wingco said in that piece he did on lexicon of love in the mm unknown pleasures booklet? something about 19 being an age where you care more about music than you do when you're nine or 29? the best quote on this kind of thing was the one frank owen used as a regular meme in the...

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From the free jazz/improv end of things, Mike Westbrook covered Abbey Road in its entirety in 1986, retitling it Off Abbey Road. Recommended highlight: Phil Minton attacking "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" with commendable elan. Also, Leo Sayer did a fantastic cover of "I Am The Walrus" on the...

Actually it was 1982 and the piece in question can be found here: http://cookham.blogspot.com/2003_08_10_cookham_archive.html#106051592668390875 1983 was a terrible year for music and I didn't think it worth deconstructing. But the '82 thing shows you how much better this kind of exercise...

Skunk Anansie to thread. The ghost of Jimi Hendrix to thread.

Subtext of these reviews: "thank heavens for some proper, educated WHITE people to come and do this hip hop thing. So much more sophisticated than these hideous coloured fellows..."

It's about a fiver in the bargain basement of MVE. (pause) Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, my name's Dickie Henderson, are your cars parked nicely, goodnight.

lyric correction: that should be "Doesn't? It? Feel? Good? To? Stay? Alive?"

Sorry, Matty lad, I can't agree with you about No Other - one of my favourite records from 1974 (I was going to write about it in Koons when I got to Elvis; I could have put it under the entry on Charlie Rich but I used that to talk about Watergate), esp. "Strength Of Strings" and "Some...

Perhaps Clapton has the same romanticised colonial view of "the blues" as Powell did of India?

He has stuck to his guns about what he said. He was interviewed in Uncut last year, stands by every word and says more people should have listened to Enoch.

But where does this leave Eric Clapton?