tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23587840190760148582024-03-13T22:52:13.724+00:00Big Plans For EverybodyPost Punk, PowerPop and loads of other stuff. hard to find music and an easy to read blog.Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-45564192058463049402025-06-01T18:32:00.000+01:002017-06-01T18:40:56.600+01:00Hello Stranger....Well, here we are again.<br />
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I'm not going to make any rash promises about hourly updates on the blog, suffice to say that entry by entry, I'm reinstating all the dead uploads, weeding out the spam and deleting the handful of posts that got me into trouble all those years ago. There won't be many "new" uploads from here on in, it'll be mainly writing on music and links to some of the stuff I've been writing for other blogs, but hopefully there'll be enough here to keep you amused.<br />
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Right...as they say in the wonderful world of musical theatre..."once more with feeling...."<br />
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June 1 2017Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-14179445127245442892018-06-11T20:22:00.002+01:002018-06-11T20:24:17.778+01:00Bark Psychosis: Codename: DustSucker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Brace yourself, here comes the tiresome Velvet Underground analogy… Bark Psychosis were never blessed (or burdened, if you're that way inclined) with record sales. Their two albums and a handful of singles and EPs probably sold about as many copies as Ed Sheeran has sold of his latest offering while I've been typing this. Instead, they seem to have become the Grand Poohbahs of "post-rock", a slightly confusing term as doesn't "rock" have to stop before things can be "post" it? Somebody, get me the head of Semantics on the phone, right now! I digress. The point is, this most low key of bands (seriously, they make The Blue Nile seem like Kiss) are now the name to drop in certain circles. Fortunately, Bark Psychosis can back up their "seminal" status with genuinely excellent work.<br />
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Codename: Dustsucker, originally released in 2004, was the band's second album, coming hot on the heels – a mere ten years – after their debut. 2018 sees it reissued on this years cutting edge format – vinyl – as a lovely, gatefold sleeve clad, double disc set. When the album was first released, Bark Psychosis consisted of founder member Graham Sutton, a set of unspecified drum loops performed by a previous drummer and whoever else Sutton could find. Not a promising start. But guess what? Codename: Dustsucker absolutely delivers.</div>
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When one hears the term "post rock" used so vigorously about a band, one fears the worst. The best one can hope for is endless, aimless noodling with 24 bars of a tune followed by an unspecified, but probably never-ending squall of distortion and reverb devices, artlessly prodded at by pale, white boys. Bark Psychosis bring the noise, but at least they have the good manners to do something interesting with it. "From What is Said to When it's Read" is a case in point, opening with a strummed guitar and a simple bassline, it unfolds into something slow moving and lovely. In keeping with the conventions of the genre, the vocals are mixed so low that they're barely a texture. Subtle shifts and changes of emphasis keep this unassuming, mid-tempo piece moving forward and, more importantly, your attention doesn't flag for a second. Just when you think it needs a lift, along comes a blizzard of guitar noise. As opening tracks go, it's quite a statement. "The Black Meat" and "400 Winters" are almost conventional, there's the occasional shard of noise used as punctuation, but you can hear the words and whistle the tune. There's even a bit of Miles Davis trumpet action occurring. In fact, "The Black Meat" sounds like a slightly more aggressive Sade backing track, that is, until it all breaks down towards the end and then it sounds like the middle bit of "I'm Not in Love" played by people with the worst hangover they've ever had.</div>
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This is way more than background music for the "OK Computer" generation. "Miss Abuse" is genuinely unsettling with lots of ominous rumbling and an almost comical synth line combining to make something brooding and eerie, which I'm sure was exactly the point. "400 Winters" however is a soothing Slowdive-esque, languorous interlude with a gorgeous whispered vocal. It's nearly six minutes long, but it really should go on forever. Wisely, Sutton has condensed all the glitchy nonsense to one, easily skippable track. "Dr Innocuous-Ketamoid" is just over a minute of what sounds like Velcro fastenings being ripped open while someone pounds out a marching beat in the next room while holding down a key on a malfunctioning Moog synthesizer. The next track, "Burning the City" sounds a bit like Nick Drake. Go figure, as the young people say.</div>
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On Codename: Dustsucker, Bark Psychosis have got the balance exactly right. There's enough weirdness to capture and hold your attention and enough structure and melodicism to keep the tunes memorable. It's also beautifully produced – a good, old fashioned headphones album. You too can join the ranks of beard-stroking tastemakers everywhere by owning this album and talking about it loudly in public. The great thing about it is that it's also a genuinely fine piece of work.</div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-51092279787180474772018-04-29T20:03:00.002+01:002018-04-29T20:03:20.621+01:00Wreckless Eric: Construction Time and Demolition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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I reviewed the rather lovely new Wreckless Eric album for an online music thing and it didn't get used. Shame, as it's a fine record and I thought it was a decent piece of writing, too. Hey ho."Construction Time and Demolition" is a great piece of work and caught me off guard - I really expected it to scratchy and lo-fi, but it's anything but. "Mind ...blown" as Owen Wilson might say. </div>
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At times <em>Construction Time and Demolition</em> sounds a bit like the soundtrack of the musical of the life of Wreckless Eric. Who would play the title role is a bit of a mystery – can Jack Black pull off nasal Estuary English? While you're pondering that, "Gateway to Europe" paints the backdrop to 1960's England and the details are beautiful: "A brother of a brother-in-law tore all the houses down", "We've got a gig tonight, we need someone with a car" and references to Woolworths "Top Twenty" guitars combine to create a really evocative depiction of Goulden's early steps onto the rock 'n' roll stage. It's "Saturday Gigs" rewritten by Ray Davies. That's a very good thing, by the way.<br />
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It's Goulden's lyrics which are the key to this record. Musically, it's strong, moving from the epic opening track through the atmospheric "The World Revolves Around Me" to the biting garage rock of "Wow and Flutter", but it's the words that lift all these tunes to another level. "All your records are shit, except for maybe one" goes the chorus of "Wow and Flutter". That's not the kind of line you'd find in the work of many songwriters, is it? Goulden has a knack of making mundane observations sound fascinating. When he sings "I just sold my bass guitar" in "Gateway to Europe", you fill in all the blanks yourself. And that's the mark of a great writer.<br />
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Most people associate Wreckless Eric with the lo-fi, two chord approach of "Whole Wide World". This album owes very little to that. Backing vocalists, multiple keyboards and horns fill out the space behind him as he unfolds his life story in a voice which has changed very little in forty years. It's a nicely timeless piece of work, owing almost nothing to 2018, or even 1978. Then again, back at the tail end of the seventies, when everyone was ripping holes in their Levi's and playing distorted barre chords on cheap guitars whilst spitting at each, Eric was pondering on the nature of love and loneliness. "Round records for square people" was one of the slogans of his old label, Stiff Records. It was true then. It's still true now.<br />
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<em>Construction Time and Demolition</em> is a great collection of songs. Mature, well produced and with just the right amount of world-weariness. You may only know him for that one song, but that is definitely not the whole story. Not at all. It's not all "lovable loser" stuff on a barely in tune guitar – this is a man's life in microcosm, lyrically simple and direct, but with enough musical detail and breadth of scope to keep even the most jaded consumer amused.<br />
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In 2018, Anvil have been together for 37 years and they find themselves playing in Bilston, an industrial town, 18 miles from Birmingham UK, to 300 people. Which band do you think, had the most fun?<br /> </div>
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Anvil take the stage with absolutely no fanfare. No portentous opening music for these boys…they wander on, spend about two minutes fiddling with their amps and tuning up, before commencing the unrelenting blitzkrieg that lasts for the next 90 minutes. The first thing you notice is how well singer/guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudrow is bearing up. I can’t imagine he leads a particularly macrobiotic lifestyle, but he seems in rude health, with just an enlarging bald spot hinting at his age. He’s a sprightly 62, by the way. I don’t know what your dad was doing when he was 62, but it probably wasn’t scuttling around a stage in a cut off T shirt, playing the pointiest Flying V guitar in the world. If he was, please send some photographs, c/o bigplansforeverybody<br /> </div>
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You don’t need a pretend, part time “music journalist” to tell you what they sounded like. Drummer Robb Reiner (no, not the “Spinal Tap” guy) plays every song like it’s the end of a song and the new boy, Chris Robertson on bass, looks like he’s just been let out of a secure facility for the day. He’s perfect for Anvil. They rip through their back catalogue and look like they’re having the time of their life – apart from Reiner whose expression resembles that of a father whose son has just come out as gay to him over dinner and is trying to process this information.<br /> </div>
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In spite of all the gurning, songs about pounding stuff and the occasional curse words, the thing that you notice about Lips is how nice he is. He seems genuinely grateful to the audience for coming to see the band and interacts with the crowd in a way that is sincere and never embarrassing. For a frontman in a metal band, this may be unique. He namechecks the Anvil movie, dedicates songs to Lemmy and their producer, the recently deceased Chris Tsangarides and the small but enthusiastic crowd lap it up. If he put a nice sweater on and sorted his hair out, your mother would love him.<br /> </div>
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There are a couple of songs which may cause the casual observer to raise an eyebrow. During “Mothra”, Lips pulls out a vibrator (yup…really) which he rubs on his guitar neck, while Robertson simulates the approach of a colossal sentient caterpillar by lurching around the stage. Both of these men can vote. The other “what the..?” moment occurs when Lips reveals that their next song, with the charmingly non-PC title “Bitch in a Box”, is actually about the trials and tribulations of using a GPS. Who knew? Just to ramp up the bizarreness, there are actual, bona fide harmonies on this tune, too.<br /><br /> Drum solo, you say? Sadly, yep. You can tell that Reiner is an outstanding drummer with almost superhuman stamina, just by listening to the songs. Why he (and every bloody hard rock drummer that ever lived…) feels the need to clatter about their instrument, unaccompanied, for five minutes, escapes me. There are times when Reiner’s flailing sounds like a badly loaded pickup truck full of scrap iron, driving at high speed over a never-ending cattle grid. Why, oh Lord, why? Unless it’s there to give Lips and Robertson the opportunity to rub on some embrocation.<br /><br /> Ninety minutes passes quickly. I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this show half as much as I did. I didn’t run to the merch table and buy two of everything, but I left happy. it wasn’t all good news – aside from the aforementioned Dr*m S*l*, “This is Thirteen” was pretty turgid, but other than that, it was a good, solid metal show. And Lips sings in an adorable Canadian accent and who doesn’t love tha?<br /> </div>
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They finish with “Metal on Metal”. Of course. “Metal on Metal ‘til our dying day” go the lyrics. That’s about right. Would I see them again? Yeah. Would I prefer to see Anvil at a club or the Stones at some stadium? No contest – I’d take Anvil any day. And I wouldn’t have to pay seven dollars for a beer.<br /><br /><br /></div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-78084263350185804492017-12-18T13:17:00.001+00:002017-12-18T13:18:39.291+00:00Ten of the best from 2017<span class="cb-itemprop" itemprop="reviewBody"></span><br />
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<b>Well there goes 2017, nearly. Personally, I've had a great year of listening to new music after a few years of truding wearily through my back catalogue. I made a conscious decision to listen to more, unfamiliar (well, unfamiliar to me at least) music, and I forced myself to do this by joining the staff of <a href="https://www.rockerzine.com/" target="_blank">Rocker</a>, <a href="https://www.popmatters.com/" target="_blank">PopMatters</a> and <a href="https://www.gigsoupmusic.com/" target="_blank">GigSoup.</a> That gave me a focus and a deadline, which for a slacker like me, are very important things. </b><br />
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<b>10 Cheap Trick – We’re All Alright</b><br />
Forty years after their brilliant debut album, <i>Cheap Trick</i> have casually delivered yet another gem. “We’re All Alright” might veer a bit closer to hard rock territory than some of their Cuban heel sporting fans might like, but the tunes remain <i>. Robin Zander</i> still sings with the power and precision of his ’77 self and <i>Rick Nielson</i> still proves that you don’t have to have long curly hair and skin-tight leather pants to be a bona fide axe hero. “Hey kids! Come and look at dad! He’s rocking out and he’s totally badass!”<br />
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<b>9 Slowdive – Slowdive</b><br />
From out of some dimly lit student union bar, <i>Slowdive</i> re-emerge, blink in the harsh, unfriendly light of 2017, strap on their guitars and make one of the best albums of the year. When bands re-form, you have to brace yourself and prepare for the worst – all the youth, inspiration and hunger which drove the band in their early years can’t possibly still be there now, can it? Well in the case of “Slowdive” not only are they all still there, they’re as focussed as a laser beam. Put your prejudices aside and wallow in a steaming hot bath of sumptuous guitar noise.<br />
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<b>8 Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley</b><br />
Who thought that a concept album about the decline of the Welsh mining industry would be a good idea? <i>Public Service Broadcasting,</i> that’s who. And they were right. “Every Valley “is a fascinating, uplifting and tragic trip through a piece of British history, using radio, TV and newsreel audio samples. It’s a <i>Ken Loach</i> film for the ears. Immaculately played and constructed, it seemed to mirror the soap opera chaos of 2017’s political situation without once referring directly to it.<br />
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<b>7 Aimee Mann – Mental Illness</b><br />
For “Mental Illness”, <i>Aimee Mann</i> stripped the production back to guitar, piano, strings and voice and just let the tunes speak for themselves. Fortunately, they do. <i>Mann </i>is a consistently great songwriter and the songs on this album are consistently great. There’s a mood of comfortable melancholy in this record which makes you feel sad and happy at the same time. Not every record would stand up to this minimal approach, with every instrument and lyric so open and exposed. That’s because, nor many records are as good as “Mental Illness”.<br />
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<b>6 Dream Syndicate – How Did I Find Myself Here?</b><br />
Age has not diminished the <i>Dream Syndicate</i>. For their first record since 1988, the band have channelled almost thirty years of angst into eight incendiary tracks. The guitars are loud and sound annoyed. It’s a glorious noise, combining abandon with control, with<i> Steve Wynn’s </i>enigmatic lyrics sitting nicely within the fuzztone. “Do not go gentle into that good night” said <i>Dylan Thomas</i> – the <i>Dream Syndicate</i> definitely agree.<br />
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<b>5 Daisy House – Crossroads</b><br />
That fact that folk-rock exists in 2017 is nothing short of a miracle and the fact that <i>Daisy House</i> have made such an incredible folk-rock record this year is doubly remarkable. For their fourth album, the father/daughter duo have excelled themselves with an album that takes all the good parts of the <i>Byrds, Buffalo Springfield </i>and early<i> Fairport Convention’s</i> back catalogues and made a record which sounds fresh and contemporary. Beautifully played and (especially) beautifully sung, “Crossroads” will hopefully inspire people to explore the dusty recesses of grandad’s record collection or maybe even pick up a twelve-string guitar.<br />
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<b>4 Rips – Rips</b><br />
The most assured and confident debut album I’ve heard in years. From NYC, the Rips channel <i>Television, the Strokes</i> and some of the more melodic aspects of <i>Sonic Youth</i> into a very tasty package. With critics and pundits desperate to find The Next Big Thing, the answer could be under their noses. “Rips” reminds us how great, two electric guitars can sound in the right hands.<br />
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<b>3 Pugwash – Silverlake</b><br />
Essentially “Silverlake” is the work of just two people – Pugwash mainstay <i>Thomas Walsh</i> and pop-rock poster boy, <i>Jason Falkner</i>. Both artists have digested the finer works of the <i>Beatles, Beach Boys, XTC</i> and a host of others and made an album that can sit alongside any of those band’s finest works. Why “The Perfect Summer” wasn’t a number one single is both baffling and infuriating. Eleven tracks of consistently great, unapologetic pop. The antidote to 2017.<br />
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<b>2 Mark Mulcahy – Possum in the Driveway</b><br />
Any album that goes from mariachi to college rock via rhythm and blues is always going to be a bit of an acquired taste, but if you’re familiar with <i>Mulcahy’s</i> back catalogue, you’ll be well prepared. Blessed with a unique voice, <i>Mulcahy</i> navigates all these disparate styles with ease and knits the album together beautifully. The opening track, “Stuck on Something Else” was the best song I heard this year and the rest of the record isn’t far behind. A remarkable record from a remarkable talent.<br />
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<b>1 Captain Wilberforce – Black Sky Thinking</b><br />
When I reviewed this album for GigSoup in May, I wasn’t sure that anything could top it. I was right. “Black Sky Thinking” is pop perfection. 12 tracks of beautifully written, immaculately played, memorable powerpop which goes far beyond that genre’s usual limitations. The songs twist and turn in unexpected places with lyrics that run from laugh out loud funny to dark and desperate. In the era of the playlist, we’re used to cherry-picking tracks from albums – with our attention span tragically truncated to approximately eight seconds, according to recent scientific research, we flit from song to song like listless bees, gathering pollen in a meadow. Not so “Black Sky Thinking”. No fast forward. No skipping tunes. Well, why would you want to? Pop-rock seldom, if ever, is better than this.<br />
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Festivals. They’re everywhere. Every village in the outskirts of nowhere, with a park slightly bigger than a tablecloth is bound to have a summer event. In amongst the “best dressed piglet” shows and the “guess the weight of the aubergine” stalls, you’ll occasionally find a rickety stage to which certain musicians are inexplicably drawn…</div>
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Ask a band to travel halfway across the country to play for no money and the answer will probably involve sex and travel. If however, you say it’s to appear at a festival, they’ll be scrabbling around in their attics for groundsheets faster than you can say “Altamont”. This is because “festival” to a musician means “Glastonbury” – even when the dismal little event is to be held in a pub car park in Stow-on-the-Wold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my lengthy “career” as a jobbing bassist in a variety of beat combos, I’ve played loads of these things. To any musicians contemplating playing a festival this year, consider these factors -</div>
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Camping: Watching a musician trying to erect a one-man tent is like watching the first unsteady steps of a baby giraffe. After about 90 minutes, he’ll give up and sleep in the van on top of the bass combo. If it’s hot, he’ll attempt the job stripped to the waist, taking frequent slugs from lukewarm cans of no-brand lager. Of course, he’ll end up sleeping in the van and the “Eezee-Up Instant ErectoTent” will be set on fire in the middle of a field.</div>
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The equipment: “Backline provided” said the promoter. This means that someone was given £50 and told to buy a drumkit, two guitar amps and something that looks like a bass amp from a car boot sale. Still, it’s better than nothing isn’t it? No. It isn’t. The PA turns out to be the locals Pub’s Karaoke system. Halfway through the set, someone will stride up to the lead vocalist and demand that he hands over the mic as “the farmer needs it to announce the winner of the Cowpat of the Year competition”.</div>
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The audience: There is a certain type of person you only see at festivals. They’re dressed entirely in hand knitted, rainbow coloured garments and jester hats. They will be barefoot. They will dance to everything, including the humming of the tragically underpowered generator. I dread to think where they go in Winter…<br />
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The other acts: Eclectic is not the word. You’ll be scheduled between the local school’s recorder ensemble and a thrash metal band from Luxembourg who should have been on three days ago, but they missed their ferry. Both acts will go down way better than you.</div>
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Festivals. Why do musicians play them? Mainly so they can tell people that they’ve played at a festival. At my age, it’s not good for me to spend a weekend lying in a sleeping bag in a field between a drummer making noises in his sleep that would terrify a Wookie and a guitarist playing endless variations on the “Sweet Child O’Mine” riff all night. Next summer, I’ll be in the Algarve. Anybody wanna buy some tentpegs?</div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-67953565447554932142017-07-27T18:57:00.000+01:002017-07-27T19:59:23.967+01:00Never heard of 'em - they any good?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">31<sup>st</sup> August 1994. I’d blagged some tickets to see
a fairly new artist play at a little club in the centre of Birmingham. I seem
to remember that I had a bit of difficulty getting rid of one of the freebies –
no-one wanted to waste an evening watching some guy they’d never heard of. Anyways,
it’s too hot to spend a summer evening in some smelly “rock club”, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a less than capacity audience that made it to Edwards
No8 that night. It was hot, too. I don’t think anyone knew what to expect,
really – I spotted quite a few freeloaders from other record stores, a bunch of
movers and shakers and some regular folks. A few older guys too – apparently
this performer’s dad was big in the sixties. Big deal. We all settled in to
check out the bands. First up were Faith Over Reason who were pretty groovy in
an almost-but-not-quite shoegazey sort of way. They did a reasonable cover of
Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” which I thought showed a lot of class. After 45
minutes they left the stage to a good reception and after the obligatory mic
tweakage and linechecks, on sauntered The Main Act. The band looked tired. The
bassist leant against his bass rig for the first number, his eyes heavy and his
face downcast. This was beyond low-key. The singer, resplendent in army surplus
trousers and a white vest picked, up his Telecaster and without any fanfare or
even the most cursory of introductions, started to sing. And after about 90
minutes he stopped. I can’t adequately describe the gig, suffice to say that it
might be the greatest live performance of anything by anybody that I will ever
see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone shuffled out, looking shellshocked. The live
performance area of the club was on the second floor and I had to clamber over
a number of girls who were sitting on the stairs, sobbing, as if this was 1973
and they’d just seen Donny Osmond. They hadn’t seen Donny Osmond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They’d seen Jeff Buckley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That gig was one of the most powerful and intense
experiences I’d ever had. The main set consisted of most of the just released
“Grace” album – the encore was Big Star’s “Kanga Roo”. I seem to remember that
song lasted about quarter of an hour: it just kept building and building and
building. It probably didn’t last that long, but by then, I had scant concept
of time. I’ve been to a lot of gigs since then, but nothing has had that effect
on me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn’t know what to expect on that night. I was lucky
enough to have been given an advance copy of “Grace” on cassette, so I’d lived
with the album for a while, but I had no clue as to what the live performance
would be like. In 1994, there was no internet forum to consult to prepare me
for my night out. I Don’t think the guys I
went with had even heard any of Buckley’s music before that night. They took a risk and they
shared this amazing experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Live bands are everywhere. At weekends, they’re in all the clubs
and bars you go to, playing too loud for you to talk over and spreading
speakers and wires all over the place. Annoying aren’t they? Jeff Buckley was
one of those annoying weekend warriors once. He’d turn up to a club, put his
amp on the spot where you’d normally sit with your friends, trail speaker leads
on the floor for you to trip over and generally ruin your drinking time. Or, he
might completely blow your mind and give you a story you’ll tell for the next
twenty or thirty years – “Hey kids, did I ever tell ya ‘bout when I saw Jeff
Buckley play in a club no bigger that this room…?”</span></div>
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but loads of these bands on their first tentative steps to fame and fortune (or
crash and burn) are worthy of your attention. They’re out there night after
night, often playing in places that have no business having bands playing in
them at all. They play, pack up and either crash on someone’s floor, sleep in
the van or maybe head off to some nasty Bed and Breakfast where they all sneak
into one room. They get up and do it again the next day. If they sell some T Shirts or CDs at a gig,
then maybe they’ll get to eat lunch. No one gets rich on record sales anymore,
so live performance is the main revenue strand for musicians today. Ever wonder
why it costs a week’s wages to see a big band now? The production costs used to
be subsidised by the increase in record sales generated by a tour. Those sales
aren’t there anymore. If you’re in a band on a tiny label – or with a
self-released album – it’s a major consideration to play a show outside of your
local area. I wonder how many amazing bands we’ll never get to see because it’s
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so if the band isn’t to your liking, have a few pints and I guarantee they’ll
sound better. Well, that’s what I say to people who I’m trying to convince to
see my band. But the main reason you should see new bands is simply this:
bragging rights. My older brother delights in telling me that he saw The Kinks
at a club in Wolverhampton. A friend of mine saw The Sex Pistols in a local bar
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What goes around comes around. No matter how unpalatable a
trend may be, stick around and it’ll rear its ugly/beautiful head sooner or
later. Everyone breathed a sigh at the end of the eighties muttering “thank God
that’s behind us”, but guess what? Now it’s the golden age of Art and Culture,
depending on whose blog posts you read. I have a storage unit full of pet rocks
– in about three years, I’m going to be a very rich man. Maybe</div>
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Some of us are waiting patiently for one particular genre to
roll back around – a good one this time. Who remembers folk-rock? Great songs,
well played with gorgeous harmonies and articulate guitar lines. I’ll tell you
remembers folk-rock: Daisy House, that’s who. </div>
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It’s album number four for the Southern Californian
father/daughter duo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tatiana Hammond
sings and Doug Hammond does everything else. Annoyingly for us mere mortal, he
does everything else incredibly well, from searing lead guitar lines to
delicate piano parts. Goddamn over-achievers… They’ve taken all the great bits
from a long neglected genre, given it a 2017 spit shine and the result is “Crossroads”. </div>
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Often when musicians take inspiration from a particular era,
the results can verge on pastiche. With “Crossroads”, Daisy House have struck a
fine balance – in terms of subject matter, general sensibilities and sonic
palette, they’re happy to live between 1966-1972. Wisely, they’ve opted for
contemporary production values which adds a sparkle and clarity to the
material. Is that a drum machine I hear…?</div>
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If you have “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” and “What We Did
On Our Holidays” on heavy rotation on your listening platform of choice, then
Daisy House are your new favourite band. If you ever wondered what Fairport
Convention would have sounded like if Ian Matthews had stuck around and they’d
gone a bit easier on the “trad-arr” material, then wonder no more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the strident opener “Languages” to the
plaintive closer “My Death Is Coming For Me”, “Crossroads” is loaded with
fantastic songwriting and musicianship. Both Hammonds possess expressive voices
with echoes of Sandy Denny, Joni Mitchell and even Susannah Hoffs of the
Bangles. It would be trite to compare them to the Mamas and the Papas… but
sometimes they sound like the Mamas and the Papas. </div>
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Daisy House have impeccable taste – we get Byrdsy jangle
with “The Girl Who Holds My Hand”, Sheryl Crow style pop-rock-folk with “Night
of the Hunter” and two songs – “Pristy Lee” and “Albion” which could have been
written 200 years ago, or yesterday. And don’t forget, this lush panorama is
constructed by two people. Just two people. Caveats are few – “Nocturne” seems strangely
out of place – a piece of cod-opera, almost apologetically placed towards the
end of the album. It’s beautifully played, but it’s kind of baffling. Maybe
that’ll turn out to be my favourite track on the album in a years time. “Grand
Canyon” might buckle a little under its own weight, but that’s about it. </div>
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It’s an incredibly earnest album. Heartfelt and passionate.
There’s not much levity on the record, but that’s OK – Radiohead seem to be
making a decent living from this Pop Music lark and they’re not noted for their
vast repertoire of “knock-knock” jokes. Maybe if they had a full band, the
results would be a little looser and lighter. They seem to be doing pretty well
at the moment though…</div>
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“Crossroads” is so delightfully removed from 2017, it’s
practically cutting edge. Its nostalgic without living exclusively in “the good
old days”. An eye on the past and one on the future. Remember folk-rock? Daisy House
do. And they’ve made it irresistible. </div>
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Click <a href="https://daisyhouse.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to listen to "Crossroads" on Bandcamp </div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-69172978423339712032017-07-06T21:42:00.000+01:002017-07-06T21:49:08.516+01:00The Shock of the New*<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Every Christmas, my old mate Richie sends me a mix CD. They’re
about an hour long and they’re comprised of stuff he’s heard that year that has
excited or intrigued him. That’s a nice thing to do, right? Richie is a stand
up guy. I’ve got about 15 of these CDs, neatly filed in the “compilations”
section of my CD collection, so it only seems fair that I reply with one of mine. When we first did these,
I struggled to make all my favourites fit on one CD. Then I struggled to find
enough “good” stuff to go on at all. Last year, I didn’t make one.</div>
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I have a ton of excuses – family life, busy job, gigging
most weekends blah blah. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? When I looked for new
stuff, it had to be new stuff that sounded like old stuff, so I was forever
searching for bands that sounded like Posies, Jellyfish, Big Star yaddyadda. A
fruitless and unhealthy pursuit. I started to feel a bit ashamed – I mean, here
I was, a music teacher, rock trivia nerd and a bass player in a couple of bands
who struggled to name two or three new albums he’d heard that year, let alone
enjoyed. That had to change. I wasn’t going to do this of my own volition so
drastic action had to be taken…I wrote to a handful of online music review
sites and blagged my way onto the review staff as a freelance writer. That way,
I would be given a long list of music and a deadline to hit. With an editor
(metaphorically) breathing down my neck for copy, I’d have to get my ass in
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The lovely people at <a href="https://www.rockerzine.com/" target="_blank">The Rocker</a> and <a href="http://www.gigsoupmusic.com/" target="_blank">Gigsoup</a> send out lengthy
lists of stuff to review and I get to pick whatever I think will be
interesting. For the first time in years, I feel as if I know what’s going on.
I get to listen critically to old faves like Matthew Sweet and The New
Pornographers and new and incredible stuff like Rips (sensational debut album),
The Tearaways, The Cheap Cassettes and loads more. I’m excited about new music
for the first time this century. </div>
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The cry of “but there’s no good new music” normally comes
from people who don’t look hard enough. That’s not a criticism – with so much
stuff being released hourly, a casual listener will be overfaced. My advice is
to persevere. Thanks to streaming services, we have an inexpensive way to
sample the vast majority of new releases at our leisure. Gone are the days of
buying an album, playing it and thinking “If I scratch this, would the bloke at
HMV take it back…?” The downside is that we don’t work at listening to stuff –
if it doesn’t hit us instantly, we pass on it. Sometimes, we’ll miss a “grower”
because we’re looking for instant gratification. The great thing about
reviewing stuff is that you HAVE to play the record a few times so you can
write meaningfully about it. A great example was the Peter Perrett album I
reviewed for Gigsoup – that started off as a pretty decent record and finished
up as a bit of a classic. Every time I played it, it got better and better. I
persevered and it paid off. </div>
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We all live in an overstimulated environment. We have
everything at our fingertips, but that sometimes means that the choice is so
intimidating, we stick to what we know. We’re denying ourselves some amazing
experiences if we do that. There’s no risk involved anymore and if you have a
decent length commute (which I do…sadly) you have a great opportunity to check
out something new. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">And if we don't support new bands and buy new albums, we're sort of signing the death warrant for popular music. Perhaps I'm an optimist, but I'd love to think there's a band in a crappy rehearsal room right now, that's capable of producing something as good as "#1 Record" or "Murmur"</span></div>
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who’s probably listened to more new music since lunch than John Peel managed in
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* Pretentious? Moi…?</div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-88876549342016751782017-07-04T15:51:00.000+01:002017-07-04T15:59:59.400+01:00REVIEW: The Tearaways: “DW Hofner, Martin Gibson, Ludwig Rickenbacker, Earle Hammond & Vox Fender, ESQ”<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Powerpop records should
only be released in the Summer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not
kidding. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an unequivocal, scientific
fact* that the kind of jangly noise made by your typical powerpop beat combo is
best appreciated between late May and early September. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or in the UK, that weekend in mid-August when
the drizzle is slightly warmer than usual. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harmonies, big choruses and songs about
unrequited love make way more sense in the sunshine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blame the Beach Boys. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">The Tearaways have got the
timing just right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re looking for
something to play in the car on that road trip to the coast, then look no
further. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Backyard BBQ soundtrack? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ditto. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Headphone
listening on the beach? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I need to
tell you again? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">DW
Hofner, Martin Gibson, Ludwig Rickenbacker, Earle Hammond & Vox Fender,
ESQ”, in spite of its lumpy title, is distilled, bottled sunshine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s OK to apply it liberally. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">So,
who are the Tearaways? </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Powerpop royalty,
that’s who. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">They’ve been shaking their
Paul McCartney 1966 hairdos since 1981, picking up admirers like Tom Hanks and Rodney
Bingenheimer on the way. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Even Piers
Morgan is a fan. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">I’m not sure how I feel
about that. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">With all that history they
should be damn good, right? </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">They are.
And so is this album.</span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Th</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;">ese
boys are music fans. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Sorry - music
nerds. “…Esquire” is littered with references to their fave raves – in fact,
the opening track “Bash” is pretty much a list of cool pop-rock bands and
albums. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It doesn’t end there – scattered
throughout the record are references, quotes and flourishes from stuff they
like. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt;">It never fails to raise a smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Unlike
a lot of their peers, the Tearaways aren’t prepared to endlessly re-write “Feel
A Whole Lot Better” until they jangle themselves to death. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">“…Esquire” has enough variety to make the
album interesting, but enough commonality to make it not sound like a jukebox. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">In a shade over 45 minutes, alongside the aforementioned
groovy pop tunes we get mid-tempo introspection (“I Quit My Job”), strummy
acoustic singalongs (“Good Luck Lovin’”) a power ballad that doesn’t suck
(“Find Yourself Another Fool”) and a cool cover of “Do You Remember Rock And
Roll Radio?”. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Intelligent arrangements
and the judicious use of a brass section means that this isn’t just another
band paraphrasing “Yellow Pills Volume 1”. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Here’s a for instance – just when you think
“I’m Just Trying To Be Nice” is sounding a little bit too Beatley for its own
good, in comes a cool horn part. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Damn,
these boys are clever. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Oh, did I mention
Clem Burke plays the drums on this album? </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Heavens to Betsy.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">“…Esquire” doesn’t take
itself too seriously. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Don’t get me
wrong, it’s beautifully played, exquisitely sung and producer Earl Mankey has
made it sound gorgeous, but there’s a lovely, playful feel to the record. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">A little tongue in cheek, a little irreverent and
very witty. It’s a music geeks’ wet dream. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">The Summer starts here.</span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">Robo Records 2017</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal;">* Nope. I made it up. Sorry</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span>I have two kids – boys aged 13 and 15. Both sweethearts and
they both love music. They spend hours with those fizzy earbuds plugged into
their ears listening to God only knows what. Sometimes I listen to a bit of it
myself and it scares me. This is a good thing. My parents were horrified by my
Queen LPs, just as their parents were equally distressed by Mel Torme. Imagine
that – Mel Torme as the corrupter of a nation’s youth… But I digress. As a music
teacher and full time music fan, I’m curious about the stuff my kids are
listening to and I ask a bunch of dad questions – “Who is this?”, “What else
have they done?”, “Is it from an album?”…you know. Dad stuff. My kids couldn’t
tell me. Like the vast majority of their generation, they’ve plucked music out
of the air and out of context and they treat it like chewing gum.</div>
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I got my first album for Christmas in 1976. It was Queen’s “A
Night At The Opera”. I’d only asked for it, because a schoolfriend had bought
it into class and I completely fell in love with the way it looked. It was like
a work of art from another planet. I begged for it and I got it and the joy I
felt when I saw that skinny, square package leaning up against our fake
Christmas tree was like nothing else. I played it constantly. Mom and dad had
recently upgraded our coffin shaped record player (purchased just after the
second world war…) to a super-duper music centre with a record player and a
built in tape recorder. Swanky eh? I’d put that record on and take it all in. I
didn’t skip any tunes. That was cheating. I was there for the duration. I’d
flip that cover over and over, staring at the pictures of the exotic creatures
that made this music, poring over the lyrics, the credits…everything. It was my
musical education. When I got more albums, I was delighted when I recognised
names from previous purchases. “Roy Thomas Baker” was the coolest name I’d ever
seen. He cropped up a lot. The cover, the credits, even the matrix number by
the label were important. They had to be, or what were they doing on this
amazing piece of art that was blowing my mind on a regular basis?<br />
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It’s to do with context. Today, we can listen to anything at
any time in any place. This is cool. But it means that we completely bypass the
context. The 13 year old Queen fan that I was in 1976 would not dream of
skipping over tracks on “A Night At The Opera”, because that was like
travelling to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa and only looking at her nose.
Some tunes popped out straight away – “Bohemian Rhapsody” obviously and “You’re
My Best Friend”. God, I loved those tunes. But after a while, other songs
percolated to the surface. And guess what – those are the songs that I enjoy
the most when I play that album in 2017. I put the time in and I get more pleasure
from that record now than I did at 13. Who knew?</div>
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An album is a journey.</div>
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That’s not New Age tomfoolery. That’s a real thing. The best
albums take you from Point A to Point Whatever, taking in a whole heap of stuff
on the way. You may not understand it all, but some of those challenging bits
are there to make the good things even better. If you listen to “Revolver” and
skip “Yellow Submarine” you’re doing yourself a bit of an injustice… that’s the
yin to the yang of “Here, There and Everywhere” and a moment of respite before
we go psychedelic with “She Said, She Said”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s there because it has to be there. The road may be bumpy, but it’ll
smooth out later. </div>
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I love MP3s. The convenience is incredible. I can walk
around with hundreds of hours of music in my pocket. If I want a bit of aural
wallpaper, MP3’s will do. But that’s not listening. That music is happening in
spite of you, not because of you. If I want to listen – really listen - then
some ritual is involved. The album goes on (I’m a CD man myself, but please
don’t hate me, vinyl aficionados…) and I get ready to immerse myself in it. I
need to know who’s playing bassoon. I need to know who the assistant engineer
was. Who took the photographs? It’s like reading a book. You need to know who
the characters are and what they do, because one of them might crop up later
and do something that’ll change the story. That’s why having a physical,
tangible thing is SO important. You read and learn. We have a generation of
music fans who are growing up and having no clue what a producer or engineer does.
Or even who the singer in the band is. All those amazing technicians are
wrangling beautiful noises from the ether and no one knows who they are or what
they do. How the hell has that been allowed to happen? No George Martin – No
“Sergeant Pepper”. No Max Martin – No Britney Spears. These people deserve our
respect. </div>
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If you need any further proof that an album is an education
then I offer myself up as an example – I read those liner notes and immersed
myself in that music. I’ve been teaching Popular Music and Media in schools for
the last twenty years. I’m still learning</div>
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In my Brave New World, it won’t be compulsory to clear your
diary every time you want to crank some tunes, but active listening should not
be a thing of the past. We need to get back into the habit of putting an album
on with no distractions other than the art that accompanies it and really
listening. The details. The sound of the room that the musicians who made that
music were in. Don’t skip tracks. They are there for a reason. Thom Yorke put
“Fitter Happier” on “OK Computer” because he says it belongs there. Do you
wanna argue with that guy? </div>
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Musicians spend a lifetime perfecting what they do, just for
us to semi-ignore it while we’re cooking pasta. Maybe we need to pay closer
attention to their art. If you’re still on the fence, try this True Life Story:
Following a tragic onstage accident which left him a quadriplegic, Curtis
Mayfield didn’t give up on music. To make his 1996 album “New World Order” he
had to record his vocals by lying on the studio floor, singing two or three
lines at a time as that was the only way his lungs would operate. He worked
tirelessly with the musicians, overseeing every note and every production
decision. All he had was his voice and an incredible mind. Knowing that, when
you listen to “New World Order”, how could you possibly flip around the album
as if you were looking for the sports channel on TV? Curtis deserves your
respect. </div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-24782637315080990692017-06-17T11:34:00.001+01:002017-06-17T11:34:27.983+01:00Fingers crossed...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...that all the links now work. Let me know if any won't connect or are linked to the wrong files.<br />
Hopefully, it's now business as usual...Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-63259142497463850162017-06-14T23:32:00.003+01:002017-06-17T11:34:39.218+01:00Be Bop Deluxe MegaPost <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've cleared up the old individual Be Bop Deluxe live recording links and plopped them all here for your convenience. You really should grab them all, 'cos Bill Nelson is ace. I've removed a couple of recordings which are now available as part of the "Be Bop Deluxe at the BBC 1974-1978" set, but I have included their mega rare first Top gear session.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/9lv0u87yc7homix/Top_Gear_09_1973.zip" target="_blank">Top Gear Session: 09 73</a><br />
(Decent quality recording of the first Be-Bop Peel session with two unreleased tunes - essential)<br />
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John Peel intro<br />
Axe Victim<br />
John Peel intro<br />
Bluesy Ruby<br />
John Peel intro<br />
Tomorrow the World<br />
John Peel intro<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/6jmduqkak8mv3vr/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Hippodrome_London_14_06_75.zip" target="_blank">14 06 75 London Hippodrome</a><br />
(Fantastic quality BBC recording that's not on the official compilation - shame)<br />
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Stage whispers<br />
Third floor heaven<br />
Adventures in a Yorkshire landscape<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Piece of mine<br />
Maid in Heaven<br />
Axe victim<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/7nbcp154n235y3z/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Ford_Auditorium_Detroit_09_03_76.zip" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/7nbcp154n235y3z/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Ford_Auditorium_Detroit_09_03_76.zip" target="_blank">09 03 76 Detroit Ford Auditorium</a><br />
(Reasonable audience recording, notable for the inclusion of the rare "No trains to Heaven").<br />
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Fair exchange<br />
Stage whispers<br />
Life in the air age<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Maid in Heaven<br />
Ships in the night<br />
Blazing apostles<br />
Band introduction<br />
No trains to Heaven<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/7fq536lm9br6a8f/Be_Bop_Deluxe__Riviera_Theatre_Chicago_21_04_76.zip" target="_blank">21 04 76 Chicago Riviera Theater</a><br />
(Rather "thin" sounding recording possibly soundboard?)<br />
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Fair exchange<br />
Stage whispers<br />
Life in the air age<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Adventures in a Yorkshire landscape<br />
Maid in Heaven<br />
Ships in the night<br />
Blues improvisation<br />
Blazing apostles<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/1d92gl1nwdnhkr6/Be_Bop_Deluxe_London_06_07_76.zip" target="_blank">06 07 76 London, </a><br />
(Recorded for "Rock around the world" - decent version)<br />
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Intro<br />
Life In The Air Age <br />
Sleep That Burns <br />
Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape <br />
Sister Seagull <br />
Blazing Apostles<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/ydphidk8a5rxc5i/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Hammersmith_Odeon_London_02_10_1976.zip" target="_blank">02 10 76 London Hammersmith Odeon</a><br />
(Broadcast by K-HOUR - a more complete version of show that appears on the "At the BBC" collection)<br />
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Life in the air age<br />
Orphans of Babylon<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Made in Heaven<br />
Bring back the spark<br />
Kiss of light<br />
Fair exchange<br />
Twilight capers<br />
Modern music<br />
dancing in the moonlight (all alone)<br />
Honeymoon on mars<br />
Lost in the neon world<br />
Dance of the Uncle Sam humanoids<br />
Modern music (reprise)<br />
Forbidden lovers<br />
Terminal street<br />
Blazing apostles<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/7s2gj8zmc9d974b/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Philadelphia_03_12_1976.zip" target="_blank">03 12 76 Philadelphia The Cathedral</a><br />
(FM recording - slightly murky, but still listenable)<br />
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Radio intro<br />
Fair exchange<br />
Stage whispers<br />
Life in the air age<br />
Cryng to the sky <br />
Ships in the night<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Maid in Heaven<br />
Blazing apostles<br />
No trains to Heaven<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/fbdadeygrjnr6wy/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Calderone_Hall_New_York_06_12_76.zip" target="_blank">06 12 76 New York Calderone Hall</a><br />
(WLIR-FM Broadcast - good quality - recommended)<br />
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Life in the air age<br />
Fair exchange<br />
Sister seagull<br />
Ships in the night<br />
Adventures in a Yorkshire landscape<br />
Forbidden lovers<br />
Terminal Street<br />
Blazing Apostles<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/vfree5szgac5mo9/Be_Bop_Deluxe_New_Theatre_Oxford_19_03_1978.zip" target="_blank">19 03 78 Oxford New Theatre</a><br />
(FM broadcast - runs a little slow)<br />
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New precision<br />
Dangerous stranger<br />
Superenigmatix<br />
Lovers are mortal<br />
New mysteries<br />
Panic in the world<br />
Forbidden lovers<br />
Love in flames<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmaxfmo253c1r3q/Be_Bop_Deluxe_Pawtucket_04_09_78.zip" target="_blank">04 09 78 Pawtucket</a><br />
(A rather "distant" audience recording of their opening slot for the Tubes - a few rare gems in the set tho')<br />
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New precision<br />
Possession<br />
Superenigmatix<br />
Shine<br />
Ships in the night<br />
Speed of the wind<br />
Dangerous stranger<br />
Panic in the world<br />
Forbidden lovers<br />
Love in flames<br />
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<br />Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-75316189347899358862017-06-11T14:49:00.000+01:002017-06-11T15:01:27.656+01:00Adam West<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Adam West could have invented a cure for everything,
brokered a deal which lead to world peace and correctly deduced the ingredients
of McDonald’s secret sauce, but for my generation he’ll always be Batman. </div>
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Every Sunday afternoon, sometime in the late sixties, I’d be
glued to our tiny, LoFi TV waiting to see how Batman and Robin had extricated
themselves from whatever bizarre contraption the Joker, Riddler or the Penguin
had lured them into. It may be camp and kitsch now, but it wasn’t then. It was
life and death. You can wax lyrical about any of the pseudo film noir versions
of the character that have appeared in the last few years, but you’ll never get
more than a grudging “s’alright…” from me. There’s only one Batman – spoiler alert
– it ain’t Christian Bale. </div>
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I met Adam West once, in rather unusual circumstances. I
worked in A Very Big Record Shop for half of the eighties and we’d often have
in store signings by artists desperate to prop up their ailing careers or newer
artists trying to drum up support for some piece of tawdry nonsense they were attempting
to sell to people who should know better. Anyhoo, some marketing genius decided
the time was right to issue the first Batman movie on VHS. There will now be a
short pause, while younger readers Google “VHS”. To promote this momentous
event, Mr West was dusted off and sent on a signing tour of Very Big Record
Shops, one of which was the one I worked in. The day duly arrived for him to
appear and much to my chagrin, I had drawn the short straw and I was timetabled
to be in a different department to Batman. I sulked off to the staffroom and
started to make myself a peanut butter sandwich, while scowling and muttering.
I thought I was alone in the room. I wasn’t. I turned around from my terrible
pre-school lunch, only to find Adam West – my pre-school hero – staring intently
at my sandwich. We looked at each other for about 10 seconds, which seemed to
last about an hour before I spoke. “Would you like a sandwich?” It was the best
I could do, under the circumstances. Batman remained silent, but a confused
look spread across his face. He considered my proposition for a quite a while,
before he replied “Do you think I’m hungry? Do you think I need food?” Not in
an aggressive way – he was genuinely asking me if he needed something to eat.
It was that point that two of his minders/assistants/nurses appeared and led
him gently, but firmly onto the shop floor. On the way however, he scribbled
over every one of those insurance and public liability documents that shops are
legally bound to display, thus rendering them null and void. What a guy. </div>
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When he appeared as the fantastic “Mayor West” character in “Family
Guy”, I was delighted. I was also thrilled that his on-screen persona matched
exactly that of the man I had a brief and bizarre interaction with sometime in
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So farewell, Batman. The final Batsignal has illuminated Gotham’s
sky and you’ve answered the call. Chief O’Hara thanks you. Commissioner Gordon
thanks you. The grateful citizens of Gotham thank you. </div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-21344932544148323282017-06-02T01:10:00.001+01:002017-06-15T21:41:48.003+01:00Moonlighting...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-46350253820074766032017-06-01T15:11:00.003+01:002017-06-01T15:11:43.102+01:00The Worst Gig Ever' #2: The Breedon Bar<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">I’ve
played in a lot of bands. I’m serious…a LOT of bands. Most of these
were pretty groovy – nice chaps, good tunes, some enjoyable roadtrips
and a hatful of good memories. Obviously, no riches or enormous fame or
I’d have one of my uniformed minions type this for me whilst I snacked
on a Swans Neck Kebab, but some good times. With the good, with
depressing inevitability, must come the bad. Hot on the heels of my last
‘Rushbo’s Guide’ post, here’s part two…just when you thought it
couldn’t get any worse, along comes…The Bikers Wake.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s very
rare that any of my Pop Combos are in the right place at the right time,
but it did happen once. It’s the early 90s and everyone is tearing
holes in their jeans, buying Fuzzboxes and generally ‘Rocking Out’. And
so was I. This time around I was the Bassist in the delightfully named
‘Diabolo Go’. Our speciality…Pearl Jam meets the Manic Street Preachers,
topped with some pseudo Jim Morrison-esque lyrics. We ticked all the
right boxes and the only thing that held us back was the fact that we
hailed from Birmingham – then about as hip as Pat Boone. But we
rehearsed our butts off and we were a decent little Rockin’ band.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ah rehearsals…we shared a local rehearsal space with a local (and very successful) Prog Rock band called Ark. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Very
big in Italy they were, apparently. The facility was run by an affable
chap called Fin, notable for being the Bassist in a Metal band called
The Handsome Beasts.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Never has a band been LESS aptly named. Now this is where the story starts…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">It
was a Tuesday night and probably drizzling outside. Not that we would
have known as our lock-up was untroubled by natural light…or
ventilation. But we liked it that way. We were halfway through one of
our thinly veiled excuses for a Wah-wah freakout, when in runs Fin in a
state of high excitement, waving his arms for us to stop. ‘Lads,
lads…I’ve got a gig for you! No money, but a massive Rock audience. Get
in the Transit van, we’ve only got an hour to get there!’ No money.
There was never any money. Excited by the opportunity to play in front
of something other than Arks intimidating and expensive Italian funded
equipment, we loaded our gear into the back of Fin’s van and set off.
Uncharacteristically, I blagged the shotgun seat and started to get a
few details about this mysterious, impromptu gig. Apparently, the
organisers had been let down by a band at the last minute and the venue
owner turned them on to Fin. ‘Sounds plausible’, thought I. He was a bit
more reticent about the remaining arrangements, but I was prepared to
let that go. After all, it was a gig in front of a ‘big Rock audience’. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">The
gig turned out to be at The Breedon bar. A great venue – I’d seen a ton
of bands there and some of my heroes (American Music Club! Green On
Red!) had graced the stage. So far so good. We pulled into the car park
which was FULL of expensive and opulently chromed motorbikes. Proper
motorbikes. ‘Easy Rider’ motorbikes. Oh jeez…it’s a bikers gig. Now for
some reason, I’ve never really got on with the biking fraternity…I am
sure they’re all lovely people who spend freely at the bar and do tons
of charity work, but I just feel incredibly uncomfortable in their
presence. And there were about 200 of ‘em in pretty small space, right
here. We unloaded the van and my apprehension was shared by the rest of
the guys in the band. No one seemed to be having a lot of fun – in fact
there was a really sombre air in the place. Wait a minute…why are all
these guys wearing black armbands? Yep. It was a wake. Fin had tricked
us into playing a wake. No wonder the other band had pulled out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">We
unloaded the gear. ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ played over the PA and no-one
smiled. Occasionally a glass smashed and voices were raised, followed by
an uneasy détente. This was not going to be a good night for anyone,
especially us. I dutifully set up my trusty Bass, taking care to put it
into dropped D tuning for our first, epic number. Satisfied, I left the
stage and hid in the toilet for about 20 minutes. It was in there that I
heard the sound of music…not ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ which had been playing
on a loop since our arrival, but a Bluesy jam. I left the safety of the
urinal, only to find three bikers had ‘borrowed’ our gear and were
jamming away in the key of A. All apart from the guy on the Bass –
sorry, MY Bass, who was looking bemused. I jumped on stage and told him
the Bass was in a weird tuning and maybe I should carry on from here. He
grunted and thrust the Bass back at me. I strapped it on and ploughed
through ten minutes of lack-lustre 12 bar strummage. After that, we had a
few minutes before showtime, so I raced to the bar to get something to
take the mania off the whole sorry affair. It was there I met the
erstwhile Bassist who told me the back story to the gig. Apparently, the
wake was for a biker in a local chapter who had come off his bike in
‘dubious circumstances’. ‘See them?’ he pointed at a group in the
corner. ‘They reckon he was killed by them’. He pointed to an equally
dour looking bunch. ‘But they…’ he pointed to a third group ‘reckon it
was them’. He pointed to a fourth. ‘So why aren’t they beating each
other up?’ I asked, nervously. ‘Truce’ he replied. ‘Until midnight
tonight’. I checked my watch. 10.50pm. Shit. I quickly shared this
information with my bandmates and we ran on stage to get this over with.
We waited patiently for ‘Stairway To Heaven’ to finish as we thought
we’d be beaten up if we interrupted that… Finally, we caught our breath
and lurched into song number one. And so it began….</span></div>
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first song had a great ‘car crash’ ending where we all played the final
chord over and over, finishing off with a highly choreographed
KA-BLAMM! accompanied by a heroic, Iggy-esque leap into the air. One
person clapped. It was Fin on the sound desk. We raced through an hours
worth of material in 50 minutes. It was at this gig we realised that
almost all of our songs had the words ‘Death’, ‘Ghost’ or ‘Murder’ in
the lyrics, which were hastily changed on the fly by our quick thinking
and terrified lead vocalist. After a few songs, even Fin stopped
clapping and the only noises we heard between songs were the gritting of
teeth, glasses breaking and the odd scuffle…and the occasional muted
sob from our drummer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">At
11.45, we finished. As the last chord rang around the room, we started
yanking out jack leads and tossing equipment into the back of the van.
‘No time to put it into cases boys, just get it outta here!’ As we were
frenziedly throwing stuff off the stage, a large biker collared
Chrissie, our drummer. He gesticulated sharply to the aged Piano to the
right of the stage. ‘Ay mate, d’yow play Pianner?’ Relieved that it
wasn’t a death threat, Chrissie smiled and shook his head. ‘Y’ow can’t
play the fuckin’ Drums either’ came the less than friendly retort. I
have to admit that even under the shadow of doom, that made me
laugh…under my breath, of course. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">By
11.58, we were all in the van, bloodied but unbowed. Fin put his foot
to the floor and we raced out of the car park. It was a while before
anyone could speak, so the usual post gig autopsy would have to wait
until another, less stressful night. About two miles down the road, we
passed a fleet of Police cars racing in the opposite direction, blue
lights flashing. I checked my watch. The time was 12.04</span></div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-83502284490449329652017-06-01T15:11:00.000+01:002017-06-01T15:11:06.364+01:00I was a post teenage coverband Bassist<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>It’s a time honoured scenario, played out in grey community centres almost every week.</strong>
Down a dingy corridor, the walls painted hospital blue, stands a room.
There is a tattered, handwritten sign Blutacked to the door which just
hints at what lies within. Inside is the usual collection of debris –
metal backed chairs stacked clumsily in a corner, an upended table
tennis table with distressed nets and boxes of filthy costumes once used
for a pantomime a lifetime ago. As well as this flotsam and jetsam are
some human detritus - a dozen men sit in a ragged circle in the middle
of the room. All are dressed in various shades of grey or black. None
are clean shaven. The main thing they have in common is the haunted look
they have in their eyes. These men are pariahs. Outcasts. The
dispossessed. Some nurse plastic cups of foul tasting coffee, whilst
others stare at their shoes. No one talks. No one has to. Occasionally,
one will look at the wall, with its sad collection of posters for
Village Fetes which were inevitably rained off or self-help groups which
closed due to lack of interest. The pendulous silence is broken only by
the ceaseless rain on the fly-blown windows and the buzzing of the
strip lighting which casts a sickly yellow glow over everything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
feel strangely comfortable here. These are my people and we have shared
much without ever having met. Few would be willing to live how we do.
After what seems like an hour, the door creaks open and another grey man
enters – younger this time and carrying a brown cardboard clipboard,
bristling with curling A4 paper. He talks for a while. No-one listens.
The words he speaks are as familiar to these people as The Lord’s
Prayer…or The Last Rites. Eventually he stops and gestures to me.
Although I have never been here before, I know exactly what I must do.
Unsteadily, I climb to my feet, feeling strangely calm in spite of the
dryness of my mouth and the clamminess of my palms. I start to talk – my
voice sounding eerily distant as the words come forth…</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nowadays, it seems that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(to
some musicians at least) if you play in a covers, functions or tribute
band you are up there with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot and should be
shipped off to some offshore correctional facility and made to play
‘Brown Eyed Girl’ until you chew your own ears off. But to those
musicians, the people that write their own material are bungling,
deluded amateurs who just get in the way of the real talent and make
them look bad.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Erm, aren’t we all on the same side?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
I see one more post along the lines of ‘it’s all tribute and cover
bands round here and no-one else can get a gig’ I may cry. Speaking as a
humble Bassist who’s done both the covers thing and fought in the
trenches playing original music, I think I have a good idea of how it
works. Guys (that’s the non-gender-specific use of the word) in covers
and tribute <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bands have an
advantage in the early stages of their career as Joe Public kinda knows
what to expect. If you see Nearvana or Byron Adams or one of the other
imaginatively named combos on the scene advertised on a poster or the
Interweb, you know how your evening’s entertainment will pan out.
Whether they are any good or not is another thing entirely. With a band
that writes their own material, you get people to gigs by sweet talking,
emotional blackmail and low level bullying initially. And then you
graft. And often it’s the quality of grafting and the tenacity and
persistence of the band that are the deciding factors in the success of
the group – more than the quality of the material. I can name a dozen
great songwriters and amazing musicians who have bowed out of the
musical rat race because they lack the stomach for the real hustle. And
who can blame them?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
a bassist in a covers/tribute band, I have effectively capped my
earnings. With the exception of The Bootleg Beatles, The Australian Pink
Floyd and Oasis (KIDDING!), bands like mine never rise above the
200-300 venue ceiling. If your career takes off in an original band –
“Hello Wembley”… The other gripe is that ‘Every local venue just puts on
tributes’…well, that as we say in Halesowen, is BullPlop. There are a
handful of local venues round these parts which specialise in
cover/tribute bands, but by the same token, there are WAY more that may
turn their noses up at By Jovy or MaltLoaf etc. And if you really are
stuck in a venueless void, find a pub, community centre, leisure centre
etc, hire/buy a vocal PA and put your own damn gig on. Guerrilla gigs
are so 21<sup><span>st</span></sup> century right now. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
prejudice works both ways, with rather superior trib musos looking down
their noses at the ‘wannabees’ who write their own material. To them I
say that hopefully one of those ‘wannabees’ will hire your band to play
at the celebration party for their quadruple platinum album. Right now,
that band playing original material may not have ‘the chops’ but they
may have something way more useful – potential. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
we sometimes forget is that we’re all in the entertainment industry.
Some people like to be entertained by something familiar. Some people
like to seek out The Next Big Thing. These people pay our wages and they
deserve something which doesn’t insult them. Rather than wasting time
bitching, I suggest we go back to the rehearsal room, the kitchen table
or wherever the muse may strike and get better at what we do. </span></span></span></div>
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little background...in March 2008, I submitted a proposal for the
excellent "33 1/3" series of books. Sadly, it didn't get picked, but
I've always liked what I wrote... and I do love 10CC so here it is - my
consolation prize to myself...)</strong></span></span></span>
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was eleven years of age in 1974. Chubby, bespectacled and lisping. I
may as well have had ‘Kick Me Hard’ embroidered on the back of my
anorak. I was too clever for the bullies, not clever enough for my
teachers and the thought of any kind of organised sport filled me with
an icy dread. Ritual humiliation in nylon shorts wasn’t my favourite way
to spend a wet Tuesday afternoon. In spite of all that, I think I got
off lightly in the exquisite torture chamber of ‘the best years of your
life’, because I had one unique talent. I knew everything about The Hit
Parade. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Not the LP charts with
its weird melange of bearded virtuosos crafting concept albums and the
hastily assembled album’s of songs by faded stars, new Pop sensations
and tortured singer-songwriters. No… my forte was the singles chart. In
the playground, I was seen as a sort of wise elder of the tribe and as
such, immune to the lion’s share of the beatings handed out by ‘The
Rough Boys.’ Apparently, knowing far from intimate facts about The Sweet
is tantamount to having an invisible shield around you. The source of
my power was my radio… My baby blue Binatone wireless went everywhere
with me and although the dial held the promise of a whole world of
music, it may as well have had just one setting -</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">247 metres on the Medium Wave -</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Radio 1.</span></span></span></div>
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loved that station and I loved that radio. I’d plug its single earpiece
in my right ear and let that fizzy signal take me to a place where no
one laughed at my hand knitted tank tops. This world was a million miles
away from the three day weeks and the terrorism which haunted reality.
This was Panavision and Technicolor. Of course, this was only background
information in comparison to the visual overload of ‘Top Of The Pops’.
Every Thursday night, the nation would gather around their
only-just-about colour TVs and would be either enraptured or appalled by
what they saw. ‘Serious’ music fans - devotees of Oldfield, Wakeman,
‘The Floyd’ and all those bands comprised of bearded Germans didn’t
complain though. TOTP (as no one called it at the time) was so far
beneath them that they’d get nosebleeds just thinking about it. Which
they didn’t, as they had ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’ where everyone
played live, never smiled, wore brushed denim and was ugly. </span></span></div>
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in the playground, I was king and I thought I knew it all. I knew Alvin
Stardust’s real name. I knew the Glitter band had two drummers. I knew I
felt a bit funny when I saw Suzi Quatro, but I didn’t know why. Only
one band were a mystery…</span></span></div>
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were on the radio all the time, but no-one knew anything about them.
They looked a bit like an ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ type of band, but they
were on TOTP a lot. And when they were, instead of the usual silver
satin hotpants, they wore earnest expressions, neatly creased jeans and
blow dried centre partings. They sounded…odd. One single would sound
like those old Rock and Roll tunes which were re-issued with alarming
regularity during the early 70s. Another would sound like a showtune.
Another would sound a bit ‘Whistle Test’, but with a great hookline that
burrowed its way into your subconscious. But that was all I knew.
Occasionally a girls teen mag would have a soft focus picture of all
four of them, but with Eric Stewart (nominally, the girls favourite)
towards the front. Never a biography. Their favourite colours and what
they looked for in a girl remained undisclosed. They looked awkward in
photographs and resembled geeky university students who were still
dressed by their mothers. But they were still Pop stars. I was hooked
and I didn’t know how or why. </span></span></div>
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be fair, everyone was a bit confused in the early 70’s. The sixties had
finished, but the hangover persisted well into the following decade.
With the Lovable Moptops out of the picture, we needed direction and a
clear sense of something happening. What we got was a blindfolded
trolley dash through Tin Pan Alley, grabbing the shiniest or the most
elaborate items on display. The gulf between ‘Pop’ and ‘Rock’ couldn’t
have been wider than in 1974. David Bowie had hit singles, but they were
perceived as calling cards for his ‘serious’ albums. Slade tried hard
to be the tough, rockin’ band they aspired to be, but were constantly
depth charged by Dave Hills’
toothy grin and tinfoil stage gear. 10CC slipped neatly under the wire.
Devoid of any discernable image, they sneaked into the singles charts
singing about prison riots, the economic downturn and how love songs
(the lingua franca of Pop) were ‘silly’. Their albums offered further
subtle deviation. Their debut album mixed bubblegum Doowap pastiche with
12 bar Blues tunes about drug addiction and a heartfelt tribute to
Charles Atlas. ‘Sheet Music’-their second LP- went even further. This is
where I came in. After a period of protracted and heavy negotiation
with The Parents, I was furnished with the funds to purchase my third
Long Player. (Benny Hill and Herman’s Hermits were one and two, in case
you were interested). After drawing my gaze away from the searing
yellow of the cover (and Kevin Godley wearing what seems to be a
dressing gown) I slipped the record out of its dust jacket and placed it
on the turntable of my not-quite-Dansette. Pretty quickly, I came to a
simple conclusion. This was the greatest music I had ever heard. </span></span></div>
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are 10 songs on ‘Sheet Music’. The album is 37 minutes long. It was
filed under ‘Pop’ in your local Woolworths, alongside David Essex and
The Wombles. Let’s examine the lyrical content shall we? We’ll start,
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‘Big business is shafting everyone and no one can do anything about
it’. (Also note the use of the phrase ‘screw me’, which didn’t halt its
progress into the UK Top 10).</span></span></div>
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‘Our band is terrible, but we still sell millions of records’. What a
refreshing outlook. (Also note the use of the phrase ‘up yours’, which <u>did</u> halt its progress into the UK Top 10)</span></span></div>
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‘I am a bomb on board an airplane, waiting to blow up’. We also hear
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the tunes…brimming with ideas and invention, but all reined in with a
lovely, elasticated Pop sensibility. What they also had was the ability
to make an album with such a disparate selection of themes and styles
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Music’ was released into a Pop culture which was so far removed from
reality you almost needed a passport to enter it. As IRA bombs blew a
hole in the centre of Birmingham,
the Bay City Rollers topped the album charts. We huddled in our
kitchens, playing pontoon by the candlelight, waiting for the power cut
caused by the fuel crisis to end, while Rick Wakeman jostled for the top
slot with Perry Como, Slade and The Carpenters. You want gritty social
realism? Turn the radio off. ‘Sheet Music’ however, manages to hold a
mirror up to contemporary society, whilst giving it the finger and a
lingering French kiss, all at the same time. The album is an unassuming
masterpiece. But the album (or the band) will never be listed in one of
those ‘best bands/albums/haircuts of the 70’s’ TV programmes which
litter our screens in the small hours of the morning. Yet they’ve had 9
Top 40 albums and 12 Top 40 singles in the 70’s, three of which were UK number ones. Their most recent compilation CD sailed easily into the UK
top 50 and they can still fill 2-3000 seater venues. Critically
however, they’re off the map. I believe the phrase is ‘Only popular with
the public…’</span></span></div>
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a band with such a rich and fascinating history, 10CC has been poorly
served when it comes to the printed word. Alongside the occasional
fanpiece in the aforementioned teenmags (and the odd mention in the
‘serious’ Music press), there are just two full length books about the
band, both of which are well out of print. The most recent (Liam Newton’s
‘Worst band In The World’) crops up on Ebay from time to time. It sells
for the cost of a modest sofa. Both books offer an excellent overall
impression of the band, but being given the luxury of just being able to
focus on this one album would mean I could concentrate on the two main
areas which (in my opinion) gave the album it’s shape and form:</span></span></div>
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way they integrated a vast number of contemporary issues into their
material, which none of their peers – ‘serious bands’ or otherwise –
would have dared to do.</span></span></div>
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best music happens when the creators show no respect for musical
boundaries. The Beatles mixed Rock and Roll with a strong Music Hall
sensibility and breathed life into a dying genre, perceived as nothing
more than a novelty. The Byrds then combined that hybrid with ylan, then
Shankar, then Parsons to create something far greater than the sum of
the parts. Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead…all these bands straddle
borders beautifully and sound all the better for doing so. 10CC managed
to do that so successfully that they went from being described as ‘Pop’
to ‘Progressive’ almost overnight. There is a precedent for that, of
course – both King Crimson and Gentle Giant have Pop skeletons in their
cupboards, but both those bands changed their sound (and image) to
appeal to more ‘serious’ fans. 10CC did it by simply stretching a tune
or two over four minutes long. </span></span></div>
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fully intend to contact all the key figures attached to the making of
this album. Fortunately, all four members of the band are still alive
and active in the Music Industry – Graham Gouldman helms a version of
10CC (along with longtime members Paul Burgess and Rick Fenn) who are
soon to embark on a sell-out tour of Europe, Eric Stewart is about to
release his fourth solo album, Lol Crème is working alongside such
luminaries as Trevor Horn in The Producers and Kevin Godley is working
with Gouldman in the GG06 project. He also made a memorable return to
the live stage last year (after almost 30 years) with 10CC to sing ‘Old
Wild Men’ – a standout track from this album. I’d also like to speak to
the venerable George Hardie (of Hipgnosis fame) to ask him about the
concept behind the eyecatching cover and graphics of the album. All
these people live and work no further than 100 miles from where I sit to
write this. </span></span></div>
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was fifteen years of age in 1978. That was the year I saw my first live
band. The band was 10CC. The first song they played was ‘The Wall
Street Shuffle’ – the first song on ‘Sheet Music’. </span></span></div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-34048519055249847722017-06-01T15:06:00.002+01:002017-06-01T15:06:33.890+01:00The Worst Gig Ever Part 1 - Bolton<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Ask
a musician about the best gig they’ve ever played and you’ll get
nothing but head scratching and stumbled words. Ask them about the worst
and you’ll get dates, places, times – all in the most minute detail.
Which goes to show that we’re a defeatist lot with just gallows humour
to keep us going. Everyone has a war story of such terrible magnitude
that it’s a miracle anyone ever gets on stage…but we do. I guess we want
to be loved, or as Rick Savage of Def Leppard so succinctly puts it….
“Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want
to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and
have all the girls looking at our bollocks”. Nicely put Sav…</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s
1990. My hotshot Indie outfit ‘Little Red Schoolhouse’ are just about
to release an album. We can fill most Pub/Club sized venues in a twenty
mile radius of Birmingham;
we’ve had John Peel airplay and appeared on local radio so many times,
we’re blasé about it. We think we’re hot shit, in other words. We need
to prove this to the world, so we do what every other band does and hire
a transit van and take our music to the people (maaan). And on this
occasion, we take it to the people of Bolton. For any non UK readers, Bolton is a town in Northern England, approximately 80 miles from Birmingham.
Now I realise that my American friends would travel this distance to
buy a packet of cigarettes and a newspaper, but to us British, this is A
Long Way. Especially on a Tuesday night. I’ve spoken to the survivors
of this ghastly experience and no-one can tell me why we thought Bolton
was going to welcome us with open arms or why we chose this particular
venue, but with a song in our hearts, the four members of the band, plus
our legendary Roadie/tambourine virtuoso ‘Wildman’, climbed aboard the
van and headed north on a cold winters night. A few non-threatening
flakes of snow pitter-pattered on the windscreen, but spirits were high.
We got to the venue –the name of which has been cruelly excised from my
memory - and we unloaded our equipment. The stage area was upstairs. As
a rule of thumb, the stage area is ALWAYS upstairs, or in the case of
one storey buildings, in the basement. Either way, there are always
stairs. So we wrestled the equipment upstairs and surveyed the scene. It
was a typical back room of a pub – there was a five inch high wooden
platform at one end of the room which was the performance area which
would probably been suitable for a small boy playing the accordion but
it was still larger than we were used to. Cheerfully, we set up…drumkits
were built, amps turned on and guitars tuned – so far, so good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eventually,
we caught sight of the landlord of the pub- a pimpled youth who looked
too young to get served in a bar let alone run one. He was accompanied
by an elderly lady we took to be his mother and a barmaid in her early
twenties. No one came up to say hello, so we got on with it. After a
while, Andy, our lead singer/guitarist went up to the baby faced barman
and asked where the PA was. Babyface pointed to two speakers, suspended
from the ceiling. ‘Those are speakers’ said Andy, confused… ‘The PA is
what you plug stuff into…’ the Barman scratched his head and muttered
something about ‘the contract’ which none of us had seen. In fact, the
only contact we had had with the bar was a phone call where we were told
to turn up promptly and send some posters. The same posters which were
sitting unused on a chair on the stage. It was at this point that I
began to feel uneasy. I then looked around the bar. The only evidence of
any ‘promotion’ for tonight’s event was a chalkboard behind the bar
with the words ‘Tonight: Little Red and the Schoolhouse’ which made us
sound like the backing band for a local prostitute. Anyway, Babyface was
adamant that we should have bought a PA amp and stomped off to try and
find us something ‘from out the back’. After about twenty minutes, he
emerged with a desk mounted microphone about the size of a telephone
directory with a curved horn protruding from it…the kind of thing a
1920s taxi controller would use. When we pointed out that Andy would
have to lie on the floor and sing with one finger on the ‘talk’ button,
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is at this point, gentle reader that I have to tell you a little about
myself. When it comes to alcohol, I am a lightweight. Whenever I gig, I
treat myself to a bottle of Budweiser to take the edge of any nerves and
that’s it. On this night however, I decided that blissful oblivion was
the way to go and my single, pre gig beer became two, then three…and so
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
back to the story…Babyface was dispatched to find something we could
use to sing through…at this point, even a rolled up newspaper would have
done. He came back with the kind of microphone that came free with a
1970s music centre. The lead was about five feet long and held together
with sticky tape. To make it work, it had to be plugged into the spare
input on Andy’s Fender guitar amp which gave the vocals a certain
‘Stephen Hawking’ ambience. We also had to gaffa tape it to a cymbal
stand, much to our drummer Gary’s chagrin. But we soldiered on. There
were about 20 people in the bar when started to play, including the
obligatory drooling drunk. Fortunately for me, at a table by the stage
were two rather attractive young ladies, who got the full benefit of my
‘hot stage moves’ (cough). We struggled manfully through our hour long
set, said ‘Thank you Bolton and goodnight’ and I
trotted off to see Babyface for our fee. ‘You ain’t finished’ he
replied in a charmless bark. ‘Bands that play ‘ere play for an hour an’
‘alf…it’s in t’contract”. I replied that we hadn’t seen ‘t’contract’ and
that we had an hours worth of material and that’s all. ‘Then ya dunt
get paid’ came the reply. I relayed this information to my colleagues
and unsurprisingly it was greeted with less than joy. After a brief
discussion, we decided that rather than repeat numbers we had already
played, we would play the Velvet Undergrounds’ ‘Sweet Jane’ for 30
minutes. 30 minutes <u>exactly</u>. I decided I needed something to make
this egregious occurrence slightly more palatable and marched to the
bar and ordered two large whiskeys which I downed in about 20 seconds.
Now, I was ready.</span></div>
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lurched into the cyclical chord progression. Andy decided he was just
going to sing and left his guitar on the stand and improvised often
profane variations on one of Lou Reeds’ finest works, whilst glaring at
Babyface, who seemed oblivious to it all. By now, I was steaming drunk
and barely capable of playing the incredibly simple bass line.
Occasionally, I would stop to steady myself on the drumkit or reach
forward and steal the drinks from the table of the two nice young girls,
who now looked at me like I was a basket case. Our drummer and
guitarist diligently plugged away with murder in their eyes. About
twenty minutes into this interminable dirge, I decided I needed a rest
and found a suitable place for a lie down…a ‘bench’ about 18” wide.
Perfect! I gingerly manoeuvred myself into a horizontal position and
continued to plunk away whilst grinning inanely and looking at the
ceiling. Something felt wrong…and then it occurred to me that I was
lying on the railing at the top of the staircase and to my immediate
right was a thirty foot drop to the ground floor. With all the elegance I
could muster, I got back into an upright position and carried on,
pausing only to yell ‘Sweeetchaynee!’ into the toy microphone. This
herculean effort and my lack of multi-tasking skills meant that I had no
idea what bass notes I should be playing and had to stare intensely at
Derek the guitarists fingers on the fretboard of his Strat to have any
idea where I was in the song. After EXACTLY 30 minutes, in the middle of
a chorus, Andy yelled ‘STOP!’ and walked straight over to the bar for
the fee. But Babyface was nowhere to be seen. Andy asked the barmaid
where he was and she opened the door to the stockroom…there was Babyface
in the middle of a passionate and noisy clinch with the woman we took
to be his mother. It was at that moment I decided I needed another
drink. Whilst at the bar, I was slapped hard on the back by the
obligatory drooling drunk – obviously feeling I was a kindred spirit –
and with his face about an inch from mine he yelled that we were ‘the
best thing he’d seen since Hendrix!’ Given that he looked about 30, he
was either a precocious gig-goer or, more likely, King of the
Bullshitters. Anyway, he bought me a drink and then fell down most of
the stairs. </span></div>
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make matters even more bizarre, one of the twenty punters turned out to
be the music critic from the local paper and collared us for an
interview. Andy decided he wanted nothing to do with it and sat on his
amp, drinking heavily and shouting at Babyface who was still
French-kissing his septuagenarian 'girlfriend'. The intrepid reporter
placed his portable tape recorder on the beer soaked table in front of
us and I immediately broke it. He carried on. Gary and Derek tried to
keep it together and said all the right things, whilst I just sang Judas
Priest songs into the microphone of the broken tape machine. At the end
of this mercifully brief ordeal, he asked for an address to which he
could send a copy of the paper. Quick as a flash, I grabbed a beermat
and wrote something on it. Obviously not my address as we never saw a
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next hour is a blank. I have no idea how my gear ended up in the van or
if we ever received the £50 from Babyface. My next memory is sitting on
the wheel arch in the back of the van feeling cold and nauseous. ‘I
need a Pee’ said Wildman. ‘Me too’, said Derek and Gary. Rather than
pull into a service station, Andy immediately wrenched the van to the
side of the road and flung open the doors. By now, the light scattering
of snowflakes had turned into a blizzard and we were ankle deep in white
slush. On leaving the van, the three intrepid travellers had to go down
a fairly sharp incline to get to the nearest tree to pee against. All
well and good on the way down, but due to the weather conditions and the
inebriated state they found themselves in, no one could get back to the
van. They would get halfway up and then slip down like contestants on
some unholy episode of ‘Total Wipeout’. I was alerted to their plight by
the screams and profanities which shattered the peaceful night air. I
fell out of the van to see what the commotion was, to be greeted by the
sight of three soaking, mudsplattered figures yelling at me for a hand. I
am not proud of this, dear reader, but I laughed so much at their
condition, I was completely incapable of reaching down and pulling them
up. Eventually, they scrambled back to the roadside. I think Gary
may have punched me, as I found a large bruise on my side at a later
date, but my recollections are hazy. Andy stayed in the driver’s seat,
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when a pointless argument over some piece of trivia broke out. Wildman,
drunk and belligerent started to bang on the metal side of the van
shouting ‘let me out you bunch of f**kers’. So at 5.30 on a snowy,
windswept winter’s morning, we left one of our dearest friends at a bus
stop in the middle of nowhere, safe in the knowledge that he wouldn’t
see any evidence of public transport for at least two hours. It took
about two miles for good sense to prevail and we turned around and
picked him up, still standing at the bus stop, shivering, with just a
Sonic Youth T shirt to keep him from hyperthermia. The rest of the
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I was the first to be dropped off at home. So, at six thirty in the
morning – half an hour before I had to get up to go to work – I
extracted myself woozily from the van. After removing my amp, two basses
and a plastic carrier bag full of leads, spare strings etc, I steadied
myself against a rather lovely Oak tree on the traffic island in the
middle of my street and puked over my Chelsea boots. Full of self
loathing and feeling like I had moments to live, I brought my gaze
upwards from my ruined footwear to be greeted by the faces of the
postman, the milkman and my next door neighbour, just arriving home from
the nightshift. With all the dignity I could muster (i.e., no dignity
at all) I dragged myself and my gear (leaving the bag full of leads,
spare strings etc under the tree) into my house. I made myself the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On
arrival, my colleagues took one look at my deathly pallor and put me on
a chair in the stockroom with a telephone in my hand. Here, I dozed all
day and if a member of the management team was in the area, I was
nudged awake and began barking a non-existent stock order to a non
existent supplier. Propped up with Tea, doughnuts and Guarana, I made it
through the day. Just. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
got home, I retrieved my plastic bag full of leads, spare strings and
now, melted snow etc, from under the tree, cleaned my Chelsea boots, applied some styling mousse to my hair and got myself ready. Well, I had a gig in Liverpool that night….</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">There is nothing I can say about this picture </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Certain things in life are difficult.
Explaining the rules of Cricket to a Frenchman, for example, or trying
to look suave and impressive whilst eating Spaghetti. But these things
pale into insignificance against The Most Difficult Thing in The World —
trying to explain to your parents the function of the Bass Guitar.</span> </h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">For
years I’d secretly yearned to be a Rockstar Guitarist like most of my
generation, but it all seemed so difficult. Those tricky chords, those
superfast lead guitar licks (not to mention the pouting and the high
maintenance trousers) all seemed far too much like hard work All the
Keyboard players of the era (with the possible exception of Rick
Wakeman) looked like Geography teachers and maintaining a sexy hairdo
whilst flailing away at a Drumkit seemed impossible. Singing seemed
promising - until I realised l had neither the voice nor the torso to
really carry off a line like, "I‘m gonna roll ya all night long baybee
baybee yeah". This left but one option - the humble Bass Guitar.
Perfect! No chords, no solos (until delusions of grandeur set in), four
big, fat, friendly strings and most importantly, Lemmy played one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">After
many months of hard bargaining and undignified pleading, my parents
bought me a second hand Rickenbacker copy Bass for Christmas. I tried to
play it. I couldn’t. The Bass was fabulous, it was me who was crappy,
I'd pose with it in front of the mirror in the bathroom but it was
seldom played, so it came as quite a shock when l found myself in a
local indie band. It came as a bigger shock when a record company signed
us up. A record deal! We quickly shifted from local obscurity to
national obscurity. We made a record! It was quite good! It sold about
nine copies! At last l had something to show my parents - a real record
as opposed to the home made cassettes I made and circulated, hoping in
vain that one would land in Richard Bransons lap - possibly at a Polo
game. I dreamed of the day I would play it to them -all those years of
putting up with tuneless thumps and aimless plods would fade away and I
would be showered in glowing praise. And one day that dream became real
and turned into a nightmare...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">I
could barely speak as I lowered the crackly test pressing of our album
onto the record deck of my parents music centre, having first removed
the copy of ‘James Lasts 40 Hammond Greats’ which seemed to live there.
The needle hit the groove. My parents assumed serious listening
positions on the edges of their chairs, and I sat back to await the
plaudits. What I wanted was a comment like "Good Lord! The groove riding
genius of Bootsy Collins combined with the power and precision of Chris
Squire, the rhythmic audacity and master musicianship of Jaco Pastorius
and the melodic invention and pure daring of mid-to-late-sixties
McCartney!" What l got was, "Is that you'?" after each instrument began
playing in the first song. Wearily, I had to explain to my parents that I
was not the drummer, guitarist or singer in the band in a tone normally
used by Primary School teachers to backward five year olds; I was in
fact, making that low sort of ploddy, thumpy sort of noise that you
could barely hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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father looked puzzled as he struggled with the concept of playing an
instrument no-one notices until it stops or goes wrong. My mother
however was able to summon up a comment that almost killed all my
musical aspirations stone dead. With a withering, pitying smile she
fixed me with a kind of "I’m sorry; your pet puppy has just been run
over” look and said, "I bet that’s much harder to play than it actually
sounds? </span></div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-84367247640900968222017-06-01T15:04:00.003+01:002017-06-01T15:04:37.456+01:00On The Road<br /><div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Musicians are all masochists. This is the only reason I can think of why they
would contemplate, even for a second, the notion of going “On The Road".
Apparently, it isn’t enough to play in front of nobody in a pub down
the road - oh no - your average local band wants to play in front of
nobody a long way from home too</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">For
whatever twisted reason, a local blues band have managed to play a gig
in some woodworm festooned shack in a minuscule provincial ghetto in the
middle of nowhere. This is perceived as BIG NEWS by all the other sad
local outfits and they begin to pump the aforesaid three chord
bluesmurderers for information. Being stout fellows all, they lie on a
massive scale and elevate their tragic half hour of slaughtering Elmore
James tunes into an event akin to Hendrix at Monterey.
They also inflate the fee they receive. This has a strange effect on
all those within earshot... Within minutes, you make a grovelling and
undignified phone call to the pub, where you claim your nasty little
fourth rate beat combo is outselling Madonna, Oasis and Aqua in your
home town. Grudgingly, the landlord books you for the highly sought
after fourth on the bill slot, on a Tuesday night, for a tiny fee. You
are pathetically grateful. Then, like a slap in the face, reality
appears. The only transport the band has is the keyboard players’ 1976
Mini and this has a Guinness label for a tax disc at the moment. This is
clearly unsuitable for carrying an entire bands gear; even such a
tragically poorly equipped one as yours. The only van you can afford is a
clapped out Transit from ‘JustLegal CheapoVans’. Someone’s brother is
conned into driving so now you’re ready to rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">The
big night is here. After just a few near death experiences you make it
to the venue, which bears a striking similarity to a portaloo with a
carpark. In time honoured tradition, you play without a soundcheck to
three people, one of whom is clearly mad, while the other two are too
busy beating each other up to even acknowledge the fact that there is a
band in the room. After twenty-five lengthy and humiliating minutes, the
plug is mercifully pulled and your first out of town gig is over.</span><br />
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of the band sheepishly asks the landlord for the mythical fee. He
mumbles something derogatory and hands you £25 in damp fivers. Clutching
this like the Holy Grail, you run back to your comrades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Of
course, you get lost and the van breaks down. You limp to a motorway
service station (nearly always Newport Pagnall) and feast on a plate of
lukewarm beans and chips. By a miracle you repair the van and at seven
in the morning, with just enough time for a shower and a quick nervous
breakdown before work, you arrive home. A swift calculation later and
taking into consideration the cost of the van, a pint of Fosters each,
your service station "banquet", the road map of Leeds you had to buy to
determine where the bloody hell you were, twenty five Twix’s, thirty
packets of Monster Munch and the Bass players Taxi fare home (well he
was crying a lot, and he had turned a funny shade of blue), you come to
the grim realisation that this sad and sorry night has cost the band
about £200.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Welcome to Showbiz.</b></span></div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-46812823320959752572017-06-01T15:03:00.005+01:002017-06-01T15:03:43.328+01:00In The Studio<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">When
I first entered the Beer soaked arena of sadness we laughingly call
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’, to record anything that didn’t sound like it was
produced either underwater or accompanied by the sound of frying bacon,
one had to drag oneself into a recording studio. What an eye opener that
was. If you think it's all technicians in white coats scurrying around
with clipboards, George Martin and Phil Spector furiously arguing over string
arrangements, recording spaces larger than the Isle Of Man. etc, I'm
afraid you are sorely mistaken. For a band like mine with a budget
slightly smaller than a decent round of drinks, the reality is all too
different. Imagine your living room after the best party you've ever
had. Now, imagine it with 25 miles of cheap cable on the floor, a
clapped out drumkit in the corner and brown carpet on the walls. Now
throw in approximately 10 000 cigarette butts distributed at random on
every surface. And for that distinctive budget studio ambience - a smell
of urine which is surpassed only by the "St Loosebladders Rest Home for
the Old and Incontinent'. Voila! Welcome to the wonderful world of
recording! This is where you intend to record a "Sgt Peppers" for the
new millenium. Or possibly not.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Along
with these incredibly creative surroundings comes that most rare of
beasts -the engineer. He will greet you as you arrive at about 10
o'clock in the morning, with the ninth spliff of the day clamped between
his teeth, Your confidence is further dashed by the way he cannot seem
to make any of the vast array of outdated equipment work. "A manual is
for wimps- I go by feel and experience!" is the cry. This can be
translated to 'It’s very big, full of long words, with no pictures of
naked women in it. My attention span is two seconds shorter than that of
a goldfish and anyway I tore up to use as rolling papers when the late
night garage had closed." After about four hours of setting the drums
up, drinking awful studio tea, reading back issues of 'Modern Studio’
magazine and trying to stop the engineer playing Drum & Bass tapes
at ear shredding volume, you are ready to begin recording your
masterwork. You've rehearsed your tune to perfection - well you listened
to a rehearsal tape recorded on your kid sisters 'Teletubbies Tape
Recorder' in the van, on the way in, so you're ready to make recording
history. Sadly, within moments, your dreams of Grammy awards are dashed
when a few home truths become glaringly obvious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">1.
That twin guitar line you spent ages working out is so out of key that
even a diehard Sonic Youth fan would leave the room screaming.</span></div>
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2. Your drummer really is as bad as you thought he was.</div>
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3. Your vocalist couldn't find the right key with both hands, a flashlight and a pack of military trained, pitch seeking dogs.</div>
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4. The only bassline your bassist can play competently is 'Black Night`.
To your horror, you find he has managed to incorporate this into every
song.</div>
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5. Your keyboard player’s slightly-less-than-state-of-the-art-equipment
makes every song you record sound like a Kajagoogoo B side.</div>
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6. Your harmony vocals are neither harmonious nor, strictly speaking, actually vocals.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">But
you persevere. At the end of the most gruelling and soul destroying day
of your life, the engineer will play your masterpiece back at you at
about 1000 decibels. Surprisingly, it sounds brilliant! When you take it
home and play it, on your slightly more humble Hi-fi, however, it
sounds like what it really is - a dismal, uninspired piece of two chord,
strummage, woefully played and incompetently recorded. If you sent it
to a record company, somebody would be sent to your house to break your
guitar. And you've spent nearly a month’s wages to find that out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">As
long as bands exist, people will want to record their music. In the
future, what I suggest is that if you feel the need to do this - DON'T!
Take all the money you intend to spend on studio time and spend it on
useful stuff like ice-cream. If people want to know what you sound like,
then you just describe your band to them. And lie like a rug.</span></div>
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Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-64582947740993127322017-06-01T15:02:00.002+01:002017-06-01T15:02:39.233+01:00The First Gig<div class="post-header" style="text-align: justify;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Thanks for the loan of the amp, mate"</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b>You've
joined a band. You've rehearsed a few times. You know all the chords to
'September Gurls' but not necessarily the order in which they're
played. Your girlfriend thinks you're brilliant (but she'll learn). You
think you're ready to gig. This is a bad idea. No, it's A VERY BAD IDEA.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
scenario normally runs like this - one member of the band has a mate
who is in another band. They're playing in some gruesome nightmare of a
pub next week and they're stuck for a support band. (Or more to the
point they're stuck for a drumkit), and they thought it would be a nice
gesture if they gave you the opening slot. This is, of course, complete
and utter nonsense because they know that, as crappy as they are,
following you would be a bit like The Who following Daphne and Celeste.
Anyway, you accept and the night of the gig rolls around. The following
things will occur:</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">All
your mates will turn up. Not to cheer you on in your moment of triumph
but to skulk around by the bar and snigger at you. At no time during
your set will they clap or cheer (unless of course, you fall over or
snap a string and then the roars will be deafening). They will not
dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Someone
will take photographs. Not of that exquisite moment where you leaped in
the air whilst pulling of the most difficult Jazz chord in the world,
but of that slightly less than exquisite moment when you were picking
your P.V.C. trousers from out of the crack of your butt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">That
really dramatic pause in that aching ballad three quarters of the way
through the set will be somewhat spoiled by the drummer's crash cymbal
falling off its stand and rolling down the stairs. <br /><br />You have one four note solo. You will screw it up. Your mates will cheer at this point. <br /><br />Your
electronic tuning device will not work, resulting in you trying to tune
by ear whilst the drummer of the headline band re-enacts great tank
battles of the twentieth century on your band's drumkit, which of
course, he has now broken. <br /><br />All your carefully rehearsed, pithily
witty, Oscar Wilde-esque stage banter will be forgotten and the best
you will be able to manage is a mumbled "Cheers" in between every other
song.<br /><br />Whilst you are singing a heart rending song of undying love
dedicated to your girlfriend, she will be in the loo with her mates,
laughing at your sexual inadequacies.<br /><br />In many ways, playing your
first gig is rather similar to your first sexual encounter - nervous,
amateurish fumbling followed by embarrassment and apologies with a
lingering feeling of disappointment combined with almost existential
feelings of detachment, failure and futility. But at least after a shag
you don't have to carry a bass amp down three flights of stairs…</span></div>
Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-33856358333184603762017-06-01T15:00:00.001+01:002017-06-01T15:01:34.491+01:00The First Rehearsal<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">This
is the first of an occasional series in which I'll be laying out a step
by step guide to playing in a pop group - the laughter, the tears, the
bad times (lots of 'em), the good times (seldom) that an aspiring
musician may encounter on the rocky road to megastardom - or more
realistically, that much sought after, third on the bill support to
'Septic Death' on a Tuesday night at the Flapper & Firkin</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"That's Roy Wood's old amp, mate"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My
'career' in the local band scene began in 1986, when one of my
colleagues, a normally sensible chap called Darrall, asked me to try out
for his newly formed, R.E.M. style janglepop combo. I have to point out
that at this time, my Bass playing prowess stretched as far as two Thin
Lizzy riffs and the intro to 'Satisfaction', but he was desperate -
really desperate. It did involve a trip to the pub however so I
reluctantly agreed. It was at the pub that I first met Gary, the
drummer. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He
took one look at my tragic Motley Crue wannabee outfit and decided to
get blind drunk. I later found this was not an unusual occurrence.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">We finally reached the rehearsal room, (Gary
had taken the precaution of walking twenty metres behind us so as not
to be mistaken for an acquaintance of mine). Down about a million steps,
we arrived at a shabbily padded door. As we pushed it open, the sound
of six of the crappiest bands in the West Midlands
assailed our ears. Gingerly, Darrall asked which of the rooms was ours
and without lifting his head from a ten-year-old copy of 'Razzle', the
Black Sabbath roadie look-alike pointed to the corridor. As our eyes got
accustomed to the gloom, we could vaguely make out a prehistoric
drumkit and a few amps. This was not the kind of place Celine Dion would
rehearse in.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Don't forget to use the ashtrays..."</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">About half of our two-hour session involved setting up the gear. Gary clattered around the kit like an epileptic shed builder, whilst Darrall struggled with what was once a Marshall
amp but was now little more than an electric rabbit hutch. The sound
that dribbled out of its ruined speaker was like six angry wasps trapped
in a galvanised bucket. My amp was about sixty years old with perished
Bakelite knobs and woodworm. After much farting and spluttering, a sound
resembling a forty-foot bungee rope being twanged by an arthritic pixie
emerged. We pronounced ourselves ready to rock.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Darrall
showed me his first tune--a pretty neat little four-chord rocker
(bearing in mind this was one more than I was used to), and off we
lurched. Rock & Roll history was not made. The vocal P.A. (possibly
last used by the bingo caller to Henry VIII) made Darrall sound like a
mildly peeved Dalek and this along with the slightly less than virtuoso
playing made for what my father so rightly describes as "a bloody row".
About halfway through our last "song", we were interrupted by the band
vacating the room next to ours. Their looks of barely concealed mirth
will haunt me forever - in fact, their drummer laughed so hard at our
dismal strummage that he dropped his cymbals, which hit the threadbare
carpeted floor with a resounding CRASH! On reflection however, that was
probably the most musical sound to come out of that room all day</span></span></div>
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</span>Rushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-29723550758291942042017-06-01T14:56:00.002+01:002017-06-01T14:58:06.116+01:00Taylor Swift Broke My Heart<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Drugs. All of them. Look at those eyes!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I used to be a Music Teacher. Now then – let me stop you
there. Before you start the “Endless holidays, short hours, not a proper job”
gubbins, I’ll just put you straight. Imagine this deliciously nightmarish
scenario:</b> You are alone in a room with 26, 11 year old children. All of them are
standing behind cheap, Yamaha keyboards. Well maybe not all…three or four have
got electric guitars plugged into unfeasibly large amplifiers. You have the
task of teaching them all, at once, how to play a 12 bar Blues. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot show fear. That is their food.
Instead you gavotte around the classroom, forcing prepubescent fingers into the
shape of a C chord whilst counting out loud “1..2..3..4” in an attempt to give
the piece some sense of pulse. Whilst you do this, you are breaking up fights,
praising the ones that are getting it and encouraging the ones who will, quite
frankly, never be able to play the Blues if John Lee Hooker came back from the
dead and gave them a series of one-to-one lessons. Possibly with a boxed set of
instructional DVDs thrown in. And the noise. It makes Ornette Coleman sound
like Boyzone. 26 slightly wrong versions of the chords C, F and G played
slightly out of time. But loudly. Always loudly. 50 minutes later, mercifully
it ends and the instruments are abandoned and off they scurry to terrify
another poor teacher. Still think the jobs a doss…?</span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Now I know what Taylor Swift looks like!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But there were surprises. A lot of my job was the technical
stuff. My colleagues were all properly trained classical musicians and (through
no fault of their own) hadn’t much of a clue about how music got from the
instrument onto a disc. That was left to me. This meant I got to listen to
hours of student’s performances, ranging from the “pretty darned good” to the “do
you even know what that thing you are pounding with your fist is called?” I
recorded nervous, angsty compositions, thousands of covers of “Wonderwall”,
drum rudiments, bass solos, lush piano ballads and an a Capella version of “Wild
Thing”. Teacher would wheel ‘em in – I’d mic ‘em up, be encouraging and off we’d
go. Something (often not, strictly speaking, Music) would be recorded. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here
comes the point. Teacher drops off a 14 year old girl to record a performance.
This meant she could pick any appropriate material for her range or instrument.
“So, what are we recording?” says I, friendly but with just a hint of authority
(I wish…) “Taylor Swift”. Taylor Swift. What’s a Taylor Swift? It sounds like a
bird found only on the Isle of Man. “Oh, Taylor Swift”, says I, already massively
out of my depth. “And what’s the song?” “Never Grow Up…and can you play the
Guitar for me please?” I silently prayed that this Taylor Swift wasn’t someone
who’d played for Frank Zappa for years that I’d forgotten about and mumbled
something about chord charts. She had the song on her phone. Of course she did.
At the time, every teenage girl came pre-packaged with a pink Nokia, bristling
with low res, Pirate Bay supplied, Avril Lavigne knockoff tunes. So I settled
back to listen to a bad version of song I’d hate through a speaker smaller than
a penny. Sigh. Keep smiling…lunch next period and it’s Rogan Josh Lasagne today.
No, really. They did that at my school. Multi-cultural much? She pressed the
tiny button and some rather nicely played acoustic guitar forced its way out of
the Poundland speaker. Then the vocal…how old is this girl? “Taylor Swift wrote
this didn’t she?” The student nodded. By now, she knew I was bluffing, I’m sure.
But something really struck me about the lyric. Even in the least salubrious
circumstances, I was finding this quite moving, For you non-Swifties (cough),
the song is about wishing that your child would stay three years old forever
and never have to deal with all the trials and tribulations of modern life. As
a father of two children (7 and 9 years old at the time), this sounded like perfection.
Can you imagine – days full of simple wonder, everything new, every object a
toy, every person a playmate? I got three quarters of the way through the song.
“I’ll have to get a Guitar from the storeroom”. And when I got to the
storeroom, I had a little cry. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A lot of my response was due to the fact that it was such a surprise
to me. I wasn’t expecting what I got by a country mile. Diligently, I grabbed
the schools’ only working Guitar, got the chords via Ultimate Guitar.com and
off we went. She did a bang up job. While I artlessly plunked away, she sang in
a light, breathy alto voice, with just the right amount of vibrato. Not showy.
Not X Factor. Just right. She left a few years ago. I hope she’s still singing.
She had a gift. And good taste.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We forget how powerful Music is. No matter what you think
you are and how you think you should react, Music will always find the truth in
you. You can claim you hate U2, but when you hear the opening notes of “I Will
Follow”, you’re strumming your belt before you can stop yourself. I could leave
my chair and pull out recordings by Neu! Miles Davis, The Clash and the MC5.
These are recordings that I love…but none of them has ever made me cry. It took
Taylor Swift to do that. </span></span></div>
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