Off Topic Ahhh... the good news thread

Brilliant, glad to hear that

 

Last night's set list, featuring the work of Michael Chapman RIP. I have almost all of his albums up to 2002 and the set list represents a fairly good chart of his evolution as an artist. Other songs are singer/songwriters with a connection to him, plus Steeleye Span whose members were contributors to various albums through the years.

1-1 Michael Chapman – No-one left to care (Rainmaker, 1969) 4:22
1-2 Michael Chapman – Postcards of Scarborough (Fully Qualified Survivor 1970) 5:19
1-3 Loudon Wainwright III – Motel Blues (Album II 1971) 2:50
1-4 Michael Chapman – In The Valley (Window 1970) 6:25
2-1 Michael Chapman – Back On Your Own Again (Wrecked Again 1970) 3:29
2-2 Roy Harper – Bank Of The Dead (Lifemask 1972) 3:13
2-3 Michael Chapman – Theme from the movie of the same name (Deal Gone Down 1974) 2:15
2-4 Steeleye Span – Hard Times Of Old England (All Around My Hat 1975) 5:15
2-5 Michael Chapman – The Banjo Song (Deal Gone Down 1974) 3:34
3-1 Michael Chapman – Wellington The Skellington (Millstone Grit 1973) 3:33
3-2 Michael Chapman – Secret Of The Locks (Savage Amusement 1976) 3:58
3-2 Michael Nesmith – Roll With The Flow (And The Hits Just Keep On Coming 1972) 5:09
3-3 Michael Chapman – I’m Sober Now (The Man Who Hated Mornings 1977) 3:45
3-4 Al Stewart – What’s Going On (Modern Times 1975) 4:05
3-5 Michael Chapman – Early Cortina (Life On The Ceiling 1977) 3:21
3-6 Al Stewart – Post World War II Blues (Past present and Future 1973) 4:18
3-7 Michael Chapman – Black Dark (Looking For Eleven 1980) 5:11
4-1 Michael Chapman – It Ain’t So (Navigation 1995) 6:04
4-2 Richard Thompson – Dry My Tears And Move On (Mock Tudor 1999) 3:49
4-3 Michael Chapman – Fool In The Night (Dreaming Out Loud 1997) 7:54
5-1 Michael Chapman – Memphis In Winter (The Twisted Road 1999) 7:13
5-2 Steve Earle – Copperhead Road (Copperhead Road (1988) 4:30
5-3 Michael Chapman – A Stranger’s Map Of Texas (Americana 2000) 5:16
5-4 Michael Chapman – White House (Americana 2 2002) 6:33

Shut out
Tim Finn – Not Even Close (Tim Finn 1989) 4:19

 

This made me feel better

 

Bit early

 

Set list from Saturday evening - as Alan Lancaster of Status Quo passed away the week before the show revolved around early Quo and good hit songs of the era:

1-1 Deep Purple – Hush (Shades Of Deep Purple 1968)
1-2 Status Quo – Ice in the Sun (Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo 1968)
1-3 Kinks, The – Waterloo Sunset (Something Else by The Kinks 1967)
1-4 Status Quo – Pictures of Matchstick Men (Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo 1968)
1-5 Traffic – Hole In My Shoe (Heaven Is In Your Mind 1967)
2-1 Beatles, The – The Ballad of John and Yoko (Single 1969)
2-2 Cream – White Room (Wheels Of Fire 1968)
2-3 Deep Purple – Why Didn't Rosemary? (Deep Purple 1969)
2-4 Blind Faith – Can't Find My Way Home (Blind Faith 2001)
3-1 John Kongos – He's Gonna Step On You Again (Kongos 1971)
3-2 Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne (Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd 2001)
3-3 Status Quo – In My Chair (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon 1970)
3-4 John Entwistle – Heaven And Hell (Smash Your Head Against The Wall 1971)
3-5 Dave Edmunds – The Promised Land (Rockpile 1970)
3-6 Status Quo – Down the Dustpipe (Unknown accoustic version)
3-7 Status Quo – Down the Dustpipe (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon 1970)
3-8 David Bowie – John, I'm Only Dancing (Single 1972)
3-9 Rod Stewart – Maggie May (Every Picture Tells a Story 1971)
3-10 Status Quo – Gerdundula (Dog of Two Head 1971)
4-1 Jethro Tull – Sweet Dream (Single 1969)
4-2 Thin Lizzy – Whiskey in the Jar (Vagabonds of the Western World 1973)
4-3 Status Quo – Rockin' All Over The World (Rockin' All Over The World 1977)
4-4 Who, The – Squeeze Box (The Who By Numbers 1975)
5-1 Rolling Stones, The – All Down The Line (Exile On Main Street 1972)
5-2 Status Quo – Long Legged Linda (If You Can't Stand the Heat 1978)
5-3 Dr. Feelgood – Milk and Alcohol (Private Practice 1978)
5-4 Status Quo – Whatever You Want (Whatever You Want 1979)

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Mick Abrahams Band - Goodbye

 

Got the place rocking, surely?

 

I was rocking in the studio, hope listeners were doing the same

 

I am a huge fan of Michael Chapman, I have seen him on a number of occasions. When I first heard Postcards of Scarborough, it made me check Out Scarborough. I loved the place so much I bought a flat overlooking the sea. It is where I have been for the last month.

 

Waterloo Sunset is in my top ten songs of all time. Top is sitting on the dock of the bay by Otis Redding and When a Man loves a Woman by Percy Sledge. All of these tunes are to be played at my Funeral. I will be coming into The Red Red Robin. It is a pity I can't be there.

 

Last night's set list. No topic, just some old favourites before a week off due to the Hailsham Bonfire parade:

1-1 Crowded House – There Goes God (live) (Recurring Dream: The Very Best of Crowded House 1991)
1-2 Gary Brooker – Mineral Man (Lead Me To The Water 1982)
1-3 Eric Clapton – May You Never (Slowhand 1977)
1-4 Dire Straits – On Every Street (On Every Street 1991)
2-1 Flamin' Groovies – Shake Some Action (I'll Have A... Bucket of Brains 1995)
2-2 Graham Parker – I'll Never Play Jacksonville Again (Deepcut To Nowhere 2001)
2-3 Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Goon Squad (Armed Forces 1978)
2-4 Hamsters, The – Your Cash Ain't Nothin' but Trash (Hamster Jam 1991)
3-1 Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mine (Blue Sky Mining 1989)
3-2 John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth ( Imagine 1971)
3-3 Michael Chapman – Stranger in the Room (Fully Qualified Survivor 1971)
3-4 Moody Blues, The – Gypsy (To Our Children's Children's Children 1969)
3-5 David Knopfler – Sometimes There Are No Words (Ship Of Dreams 2004)
3-6 Nick Lowe – Cracking Up (Labour of Lust 1979)
3-7 10cc – Feel The Benefit (Deceptive Bends 1977)
4-1 Jethro Tull – Bungle in the Jungle (2014 stereo mix) (WarChild 1974)
4-2 Richard Thompson – No Peace, No End (Still 2015)
4-3 Squeeze – Cool for Cats (Cool for Cats 1979)
4-4 Genesis – Land of Confusion (Invisible Touch 1986)
5-1 David Bowie – Hang On to Yourself (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars 1972)
5-2 Dr. Feelgood – Going Back Home (Malpractice 1975)
5-3 Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger ((What's the Story) Morning Glory? 1995)
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Mick Abrahams Band - Goodbye

 

Have you got somewhere better to be that day then?
I plan to be at my one, though I may not be the life and soul of the thing!

 

Wow. I see he/she didn't fancy the Med, or the Sahara desert. Falcons these days just want the easy life !!

 

Would you swap for Schwartz?

 

Can't do that now Rocket Ronnie is gone, contract cancelled.

 

I wonder if this means we are getting someone in?

 

Last night's set list. I was in a fairly mellow mood last week, so the music is all nice easy listening.

1-1 Dave Edmunds – Queen Of Hearts (Repeat When Necessary 2006)
1-2 Lovin' Spoonful, The – Nashville Cats (Hums Of The Lovin' Spoonful 1966)
1-3 Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band – Leroy's Dustbowl Blues (The Mountain 1999)
1-4 New Riders of the Purple Sage – Panama Red (The Adventures of Panama Red 1973)
1-5 Travis Tritt – Put Some Drive in Your Country (Country Club 1990)
2-1 Band, The – Rag Mama Rag (The Band 1969)
2-2 Jim Croce – Five Short Minutes (I Got A Name 1973)
2-3 Janis Joplin – A Woman Left Lonely (Pearl 1971)
2-4 Doors, The – Summer's Almost Gone (Waiting for the Sun 1968)
2-5 Rolling Stones, The – You Got the Silver (Let It Bleed 1969)
3-1 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Almost Cut My Hair (Déjà Vu 1970)
3-2 Warren Zevon – Hasten Down the Wind (Warren Zevon 1976)
3-3 Jackson Browne – Call It a Loan (Hold Out 1980)
3-4 Eagles – My Man (On the Border 1974)
3-5 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Start Livin' Life Again (Last of a Dyin' Breed 2012)
3-6 Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler – Yakety Axe (Neck and Neck 1990)
3-7 Jorma Kaukonen – Bar Room Crystal Ball (Ain't in No Hurry 2015)
3-8 Eric Clapton (with Tom Petty) – I Got the Same Old Blues (The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale 2014)
4-1 Taylor Swift – Tied Together With a Smile (Taylor Swift 2006)
4-2 Dr. Hook – I Need The High (A Little Bit More 1976)
4-3 Drive-By Truckers, The – My Sweet Annette (Decoration Day 2003)
4-4 Neil Young – Bite The Bullet (American Stars 'N Bars 1977)
4-5 Graham Nash – Grave Concern (Wild Tales 1973)
5-1 Sheryl Crow – Anything but Down (The Globe Sessions 1998)
5-2 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Go It Alone (Here We Rest 2011)
5-3 John Mellencamp – Freedom’s Road (Freedom’s Road 2007)
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Mick Abrahams Band - Goodbye

 

Very fine set. Special mention to the Mark Knopfler/ Chet Atkins duet, 2 of my all-time favourite guitarists, both of whom played beautiful music without being flashy, and both of them finger-pickers . In fact Knopfler reckoned that was why Atkins invited him on to his show. He was amazed to get the invitation.

 

I was listening to that album when driving on Monday, and that set the mood for the show. So much good musicianship displayed by them both, and I selected Yakkety Axe simply because I thought it might amuse people who only know the tune from Benny Hill.

That accounts for its position right in the middle of the show.

 

How’s business Mr Landlord? Are you allowing people to stand at the bar - my two locals in Tankerton are still encouraging people to sit at tables and the bar stools are still missing