I'm really looking forward to Wildflower reissued: I'm plumbing for the 5 disc set. It will set me back £140 but I love this album, and its production. It's so much better than Full Moon Fever, and the Rick Rubin influence also worked on the Johnny Cash American Recordings, made at the same time. Rick was significantly on a roll in that time, producing Wandering Spirit in 1993 f
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Santana / Alice Coltrane: Illuminations. Previously it was the underrated Hours by Bowie
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I'm in Reading.......still working from home, doing enhanced due diligence and anti money laundering.
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Rock & A Hard Place - Flashpoint
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2108 - Twickenham. Gold circle ticket. Loved it. Initially thought it was going to be not so great, but it really exceeded my expectations a thousand fold.
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Quoteslewan I always felt it is a bit strange that multi-millionaires play SFM to to more or less wealthy audiences (including me) I think Elton John passed a similar comment to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, pertaining to "Imagine no possessions". At the time, Elton saw Yoko's wardrobe and a myriad of fur coats. He also heard that John and Yoko both invested in cattle in upstate New
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Santana / Alice Coltrane - Illuminations
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I've got a great book by Dylan Jones, the editor of GQ, on Live Aid. I think most of the acts on both sides of the Atlantic were on coke during Live Aid, but at least Bob Dylan instigated Farm Aid by his remarks. Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp were paying attention, thankfully. For what it's worth, Bob at Farm Aid in 1985 was an awful lot better as he had a simpatico backing band
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Not half as much as Rod Stewart for Do Ya Think I'm Sexy: an awful aberration.
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Nobody seems to mention his avant-garde improvisational album, End of The Game; it's a gem. Likewise, there's a preoccupation that he disappeared off the radar after Fleetwood Mac's Then Play On (1969-1970). That's totally untrue; he did some rather wonderful albums from 1979-1983, and then resumed with the Splinter Group in the late 90s. He still made some excellent music.
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QuoteChrisMahavishnu I'm Chris, and i'm also a big fan of jazz fusion, in particular the work of John McLaughlin and his band the Mahavishnu Orchestra. What one ? The Billy Cobham, Rick Laird, Jerry Goodman era, or the post Trident Sessions, Apocalypse era ?
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Quotegrzegorz67 Quotetomcasagranda It's my real name truncated. My real name is Thomas Casagranda. I live in Reading, Berkshire, UK. I hold a Masters in the reception of the Ancient World, a summa cum laude BA First class degree in Classics. I work for a large US-based company called Verizon, which I love, and I'm pushing 50. There ya go. Ha! I'm 40 miles along the M4 in a vil
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It also explains why I love Voodoo Lounge and Bridges to Babylon: I was at uni when them two came out, and still listen to them.
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QuoteSonofHarlemShuffler Quotetomcasagranda It's my real name truncated. My real name is Thomas Casagranda. I live in Reading, Berkshire, UK. I hold a Masters in the reception of the Ancient World, a summa cum laude BA First class degree in Classics. I work for a large US-based company called Verizon, which I love, and I'm pushing 50. There ya go. Are you the only person on the pla
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Here's the Green Manalishi
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Quotejbwelda Oh, ok, I had that mixed up then. And yeah you can buy Brussels on cd without buying the expensive Japanese one, but you still have to buy the semi-expensive super deluxe cd set to get it. If you just want Brussels, probably be better off buying the Japanese Marquee show that includes it. jb The sad thing is I have the Japanese Marquee / Brussels deluxe, but still want a sing
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It's my real name truncated. My real name is Thomas Casagranda. I live in Reading, Berkshire, UK. I hold a Masters in the reception of the Ancient World, a summa cum laude BA First class degree in Classics. I work for a large US-based company called Verizon, which I love, and I'm pushing 50. There ya go.
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Bit sordid; maybe this thread should be closed down. Not a fan of prurience.
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S&M2 is out at the end of August. Seriously looking forward to this.
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Some good choices there; glad he went for Mysterious Traveler by Weather Report rather than Heavy Weather. The Jaco solo album is brilliant too.
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Mojo has replaced Q, and has done so since 1994.
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QuoteRip This the dude commenting about Bowie being a degenerate says more about his ignorance than anything else.....times they are a changing. Agreed. I'd like to think that Cash, Dylan, The Beatles, Stones, etc broke down some of the appalling barriers people had musically, socially, politically, and intellectually.
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There was an artist once, Eric Gill, who lived at the end of 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century. Gill Typesetting font is named after him. Anyway, 60 odd years after he passed away, it was found that he led a particularly, peculiarly disturbing lifestyle. It was alleged that he had numerous affairs with both men and women, and that he had incestuous relationships with his daugh
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QuoteGasLightStreet Quotetomcasagranda I can think of some albums I like that have been maligned unjustly: 1) Bridges to Babylon - my 3rd favourite Stones album 2) Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson 3) Ragged Old Flag (album) - Johnny Cash 4) Metallica - Reload 5) Mighty like A Rose - Elvis Costello 6) Pink Cadillac - John Prine 7) Borderlord - Kris Kristofferson 8) Old Ways - Neil
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On With The Show - Satanic
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I can think of some albums I like that have been maligned unjustly: 1) Bridges to Babylon - my 3rd favourite Stones album 2) Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson 3) Ragged Old Flag (album) - Johnny Cash 4) Metallica - Reload 5) Mighty like A Rose - Elvis Costello 6) Pink Cadillac - John Prine 7) Borderlord - Kris Kristofferson 8) Old Ways - Neil Young 9) Hard Nose The Highway - Van
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QuoteChrisL QuoteRokyfan Countryman -- another reggae flick, great music The scenes of that guy running are superb. What a beautiful runner he was. For a moment I thought you were referring to Willie Nelson's reggae album. My bad!
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QuoteHappy24 Quotetomcasagranda I can now empathise with Rosanne, as I thought music was, metaphorically speaking, a broad church. To refuse to accept David Bowie, or any other artist, due to difference is a little bit negative to say the very least. I like Johnny because he didn't have the redneck mentality, and accepted music, musicians, people broadly. I also like Bowie too for the same r
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I don't know how true this is, but didn't John Lee Hooker enjoy the backstage booze a little too much ?
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QuoteAquamarine Quotetomcasagranda I post on a Johnny Cash FB Page, as I love Johnny's music. As you're a Cash fan, I wondered if you'd seen this upcoming release and might be interested. " . . Touching on just about every song one would wish for him to play at a concert in 1973, the stacked set list includes choice guest appearances from both his wife June Carter Cash
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