Off Topic Saints Not606 Music Thread

OK. Any excuse for a bit of Jack Bruce [and he was easily the best vocalist with Cream]. Folk Song:

 

40 years this week since this double A side went straight to number 1 in the UK charts...i'm not going to post the more well known Going Underground, but rather the equally good but underappreciated The Dreams of Children ..

 

Don’t worry, The Dude hasn’t died. As we all know, The Dude don’t die - The Dude abides, man. So relax.

But Kenny Rogers passed away peacefuly last night, aged 81. Thanks for the music Kenny. We’re all gonna need music more now than ever.

 

There was an excellent documentary film about Eric Clapton on BBC before Christmas. I did not know a lot about him and the film fascinated me because I had no idea of his origins in music nor anything about him personally. I was quite shocked by his serious demeanour and there were elements about him that quite surprised me. The music that impressed me more than anything else was "Cream." I have a CD at home by Ginger Baker which he made around 1996 when he was very much focussed on working with jazz musicians and the group he had assembled included a number of players from around Denver including the cornetist Ron Miles who is quite well known and admired in contemporary jazz circles. I did not realise just how much improvisation the three musicians in Cream did and it was quickly apparent to me why this band is revered by many jazz fans from that era. Incidentally, Baker studied drums with Phil Seaman who was the most famous British jazz drummer in the 1960s.

The idea about great British blues guitarists is interesting because the issue of authenticity always gets raised. I am not sure who would go in to the list of great British blues musicians but I have seen Nasser Ben Dadoo perform live and I think he has got to be one of the best Bleus musicians in France. Hope some of you out there you love the blues too enjoy this cover of a classic piece by Charley Patton.....

 

R.I.P Kenny...

 

And more locally, the excellent Red Jackson......

 

Ginger Baker was a force of nature mate. Try to watch the movie Beware of Mr Baker, if you can download it or whatever

 

If you want your spirits raised today, pop over to BBC Sounds and catch Paul Gambaccini presenting Pick of the Pops. The year is 1968. There is barely a bum track:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gc9j

Most of the songs are stone cold classics.

 

By sheer coincidence there has been a tune wandering through my head that I haven't been able to place. Today, I listened to Pick of the Pops [see above] and there it was. The Lemon Pipers - My Green Tambourine:

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Like over two million others, I bought Paul McCartney's first solo single after The Beatles ended. This was Another Day. And like a small proportion of those single buyers, I flipped over the record to the B-Side and found an even more enjoyable song. Oh Woman, Oh Why:

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Here's Another Day, if you fancy listening to that afterwards:

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Neither record appeared on any album at the time although they appear in reissues of RAM. Incidentally, Another Day features in lyrics in the song spat between John Lennon and McCartney. Paul didn't like the way John [and Yoko] had become a bit preachy, and wrote Too Many People, and John countered with How Do You Sleep? which was a real stinging reply.

 

If you're interested to listen to the Lennon and McCartney spat, here's the song that started it off. Too Many People:

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It's all pretty coded, to be honest. Paul later admitted to some lyrics aimed at John & Yoko. So, now here is John's answer with How Do You Sleep? This one is pretty clear:

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There was money behind some of this too. Paul McCartney had wanted to separate himself financially from The Beatles, and there was some in-court wrangling before it was all settled relatively amicably.

 

Soulful cover.

 

Marcus Miller is so cool!

Seen him perform live on a fair few occasions - always a great gig

 

Dutch muso mate pasted this, listening for the first time doing the housework so quality/content not verified.
https://neworleansbrassmix.com/albu...Nb8Z4_vUuOgDX2IEluWV1C2Fp7BDB0TZjwIWEN0MIZDvQ

 

It's a clampdown

(this is not a criticism of Boris and his very necessary measures btw)

 

And from the same album!...

 

Straight to the point, here are some tunes that are on topic.

 

This woke me and Mrs Jab up