Founding member and bassist for Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh has passed away aged 84... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/25/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dies R.I.P. Phil...
Oh that’s so sad, but what an amazing life! This is a rare chance to hear Phil on lead vocals, with his own composition. A slow winter day A night like forever Sink like a stone Float like a feather R.I.P. Phil, what a long, strange trip it’s been
Here are some tracks from Blur guitarist Graham Coxon's latest project, The Waeve, with his now life partner Rose Elinor Dougall. It's a real eclectic bunch of songs and the title track is Scary Monsters era Bowie influenced... This next one is touching folky ode to their daughter... And this epic album closer is about them falling in love, ah sweet....
It's taken a few listens but the simple and sparse beauty of Laura Marling's latest album has really grown on me in a big way and I think it's up there with her best work...
I much prefer Quincy Jones' work from the mid fifties to 1960s when he was one of the finest arangers in jazz. Not quite so sure of his funk stuff although it is fair to say that the collaboration with Michael Jackson was a high point in pop music. Seems wierd to think that a pupil of Nadia Boulanger would end up being an essential ingredient of Jackson's success but Jones' work was one of total surprise even from when he first mae his namewith Lionel Hampton when he was abou15. I see that Lou Donaldson and Roy Haynes have also passed on this week, like Jones, all i their nineties. There is a debate in another site as to whether Haynes was the greatest drummer in the history of jazz. For my money, he is a musician who enhanced everything he played on although I am particularly fond of his work with Chick Corea's trio.
I'll put my reply on here so as to not upset the mods... Yeah, i've got the original single with the brilliant The Prisoner on the b-side, in pretty good nick too but like you i've nothing to play it on atm. No way i'm selling it though!
There’s a shop in Glastonbury (Cozmic) which is fatal to enter if you are pressed for time. Their main turnover comes from comic sales, but they have a small nation’s GDP locked up in vinyl. As an example, they have the first 6 Led Zeppelin albums, with prices between £250 and £450. And that’s just one small section of one rack! Should I win the lottery…
Pixies and The Breeders legend, Kim Deal's debut solo album is an aural delight. This is the gorgeous title track...
I have to admit that the Neo Prog movement that started in the early 80s kind of passed me by apart from a couple of Marillion albums ( I was listening to cool Indie music mainly) but then I read that this band IQ were from Southampton recently and decided to give them a listen and i'm glad that I did. I'm currently on their second album, The Wake and it's a belter and brought back memories of listening to all the Prog music from my older brother's bedroom in the early 70s!. I read on Wiki that there's a photo of a young Radiohead photo when they were at college with a poster of the album's artwork on the wall behind them. I also read that they have continued to record quality albums right up until the last in 2019, lots of listening to look forward to.
