Interestingly, my friend Helena recorded her only hit single with Robbie McIntosh, who replaced James Honeyman-Scott in the Pretenders.
Just been doing some basic audio editing. Which is to get other people's recordings into an acceptable state. For example, this is a typical digital audio recording level [for simplicity this is Mono]: And after editing of level: There's now a 2db level of headroom. Some people think to this day that, because they have a digital recording medium to play with, they can record at enormous levels without distortion. All you really get with digital recording is practically zero levels of base [equipment, not low frequency bass] noise. Essentially, there is no analogue tape hiss. Recording to the extreme levels of the first image results in incredibly harsh distortion [which is way worse than analogue to the ears] and almost zero dynamic range, which is normally the other 'good thing' about digital recording. So I shall send this back to the person, who will wonder where all the sonic quality came from after I've played a few more tricks with the audio. That's the last thing about digital recording - once attached to a computer, you can do pretty much anything you like with it, and/or undo it, and it won't degrade, provided you're in a lossless format like WAV or FLAC, unless you want it to. There you go, something different for the music thread.
Of course! It came about as a result of Billy Bragg running a series of songwriting workshops in a hospice in Weymouth. One of the patients, a lady named Maxine Edgington, had been given six months to live and wrote a song called “We Laughed” about the good times she spent with her daughter Jessica. Billy helped her finish it, and rounded up some musicians he knew, including Helena and Robbie McIntosh, to record it. Robbie produced it and a couple of other songs written by other ladies from the songwriting group and released a 3-track single, all the proceeds of which went to the Rosetta Life Project which helps people with life-threatening conditions express themselves artistically. Helena also recorded a solo version which appeared on her “Feels Like Coming Home” CD. Here’s the Rosetta Life version with Helena on vocals. It spent 5 weeks in the charts in 2005-6, peaking at no. 11.
Apparently Boris said in Scotland yesterday that he would go a thousand miles for a Brexit deal and then burst into song
Here’s the band performing it live in Weymouth, introduced by Maxine Edgington herself. Maxine sadly succumbed to her breast cancer in September 2006.
One especially for Archers Rd, our own Urban Spaceman [no, not the Neil Innes song]. Have a sing-a-long:
Pop from the hippie generation of the 1960's. Zager & Evans - 2525. Love the l;yrics to this one: And an early one from Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4. Yes, the same band that did If You Leave Me Now, many years later.
Just got back from a fabulous evening at Glastonbury Extravaganza in the grounds of the Abbey, watching the Lighthouse Family and the Specials. In amongst about 10,000 I bumped into my youngest daughter which was nice, neither of us knew the other was going!
Let's post something for that then. Don't think I can manage Glastonbury Tor, but I can do ya Solsbury Hill:
Just found this gem - Joni at her fabulous best playing “Coyote” with Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn at Gordon Lightfoot’s house in 1975. Sounds like Dylan’s violinist from that era Scarlett Rivera in the background as well. Edit: on another viewing the violinist looks decidedly masculine so definitely not Scarlett!
Great lyrics, indeed. One hit wonders - anyone know what happened to them? Great one by Chicago too. Loved them then. I still have their first album “Chicago Transit Authority” (their original name) and their version “I’m a Man” is still a classic Terry Kath’s playing was, apparently, much admired by Jimi Hendrix ........
I'm going to see The Lighthouse Family next February, really looking forward to it, I love Tunde's voice
