Satdee went to see S'wonder, JeremyKwee, James Morrison and Corrine Baily Rae.
CBR = as flat as her chest. Dull but very popular with the masses, superb Drummer, bassist (Kenny Higgins) and Keyboard player but backing vox were terrible.
JM = Pretty good actually, quite surprised. Superb backing band again, horn section VG.
Jamwickywicky= were piggin' sooperb. Totally awethum. Bit like a greatest-hits gig with clever segue's between songs. So tight, so right! P.A. system had trouble coping with Synth-bass bits on set-closer 'Deeper Underground'.... Yessssssss! Have that W-bins
S'Wonder = Meh, dull, too `showbizzy' and subsituting some lyrics with the crowd-non-pleasing-chant `God Bless Micheal Jackson' didn't win me over either. Syrupy? Yes!
Glad you had a good time DTB, I suspected SW may have entered his 'Elvis at Vegas' phase after catching footage of him a while back espousing the greatness of one Barack Obama. Damn shame, really.
'cos they're still piggin' amazing innit. Yes, they're old (so are you .. ha!) but boy they could still do it last time JTS saw 'em. She saw them in 1991-ish on the Acoustic Tour at the RAH (Royal Albert Hall BTW Al )
Dave the bass wrote:^^^^ <coughs...splutters coffee over keyboard>
'cos they're still piggin' amazing innit. Yes, they're old (so are you .. ha!) but boy they could still do it last time JTS saw 'em. She saw them in 1991-ish on the Acoustic Tour at the RAH (Royal Albert Hall BTW Al )
Witness.
This version of Guinevere is awethumne (IMO).
So there
DTB
Haha! As our transatlantic colonial cousins often remark 'Aw, I just teasin' ya'. And why do they always have to say that? Yes mate - we know!
In my early days whenever we gathered to drink herbal tea or Polish spirit and smoke hideous amounts of herb there was ALWAYS a friggin' copy of Deja Vu being skinned up upon.
It seemed to me if you didn't have a copy of that album you were not hip. There was a very good reason David Crosby got kicked out of The Byrds, lol, but I digress
And from that observation I came not to like them very much, though I do actually own a CD of Deja Vu, probably for nostalgia's sake. Twee, soppy, over rated, I could go on.
Have a listen to The Mothers Live At The Filmore '71 where Zappa and vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman reinvented themselves from Brit band The Turtles into Flo and Eddie.
They do a severe piss take of CSN which even back then was thoroughly deserved.
The only thing they done worthy of note was to individually and probably collectively shape up with Joni Mitchell. An interesting thought, n'est ce pas?
Which may or may have not have been the reason they fell out and made countless dirge-like solo albums and form dodgy bands with silly names like 'Manassass'.
All me mates seemed to like this lot whilst I often wondered what the fuss was all about.
Oh well, ho hum, if you like it, then it's good, and it's as simple as that Enjoy
Me, I'm having a non-music night so far, have just played a few hours of SAW on the X-Box. Luvverley.
And today I played a vinyl Pantera album, though I'm still not sure why.
Flippin' brillyant. No support just them + backing band consisting of Bass, Drums and 2 Keyboard players, one synth/Leccy Piano and the other B3 Hammond with obligatory Leslie Cab.
They came on at 8.00PM and left stage at just gone 11PM, stopped for 20min break after a rip roaring version of Wooden Ship, JTS blubbed a bit during Mr Still's epic solo's, he's a bit special that fella. Time flew by, highlights apart from all the 'hits' (natch) were their acoustic 'covers' set mid gig.... Norwegian Wood, Long May you Run, Behind Blue Eyes (!) and summat by the Allman Bros called Midnight summat.
Stephen Still's has a certain something about his playing, its not like he's 'tech' or 'blues/jazz/country' or anything, just soooooooo overall good. Soulful? Yes, thats the word.
Glastonbury was great this year,if very hot.Met a very drunk Harvey Bainbridge (ex member of Hawkwind) in the Green Room bar,and saw a great set in there from Alabama 3.Other highlights for me were The Beat,and Turin Brakes in the Acoustic tent.Lots of sun,and lots of beer.Lurvely!
Ali Tait wrote:Glastonbury was great this year,if very hot.Met a very drunk Harvey Bainbridge (ex member of Hawkwind) in the Green Room bar,and saw a great set in there from Alabama 3.Other highlights for me were The Beat,and Turin Brakes in the Acoustic tent.Lots of sun,and lots of beer.Lurvely!
Aye, our Lad reckoned it was fabbo too Ali. Jon drank from the Cider bus all the time
Harvey Bainbridge, <doffs cap> I really liked his playing around the Hawklords/Sonic Assasins era. His bass part on the track 'Freefall' deserve the Nobel Prize for brilliance alone(IMO)!
