My library often sells off obsolete stock and I picked up the 3 CD box set of Layla for £3.
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Bought Rory Gallagher's debut and Earthspan by The Incredible String Band at the flea market.
Do you mean the album called "Rory Gallagher"?
Yep.
Dozy died. RIP
I see that the Zombies are making a new album. They are the kind of band I think would still make an interesting album after all this time.
Quote: Chappers @ 14th January 2015, 10:43 PM GMTDozy died. RIP
I see that the Zombies are making a new album. They are the kind of band I think would still make an interesting album after all this time.
The last one (Breathe Out, Breathe in) was pleasant...but not especially interesting. Though Colin Blunstone has one of those rare voices which takes even average material to another level.
Seen them loads of times in recent years.
And look - they said it would never happen. I wonder if there's any footage.
http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2015-01-15/rod-stewart-private-faces-reunion
Tangerine Dream's mastermind has died this weekend. RIP Edgar Froese. 
One more reason to buy The Sorcerer on DVD, a great film by William Friedkin. Tangerine Dream wrote the soundtrack for it.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 25th January 2015, 9:19 PM GMTTangerine Dream's mastermind has died this weekend. RIP Edgar Froese.
Yes, I noted it.
Very sad.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/23/tangerine-dream-founder-edgar-froese-dies:
While Kraftwerk became the epitome of cool electronica, Can's experimentalism regularly made the critics' all-time charts and Neu! were more influential than is often appreciated with their stripped down motorik sound, Tangerine Dream suffered with the advent of punk from being seen by many as rather overblown.
However, their second time around did arrive in connection with the raves of the late 1980s and 1990s. See also Steve Hillage and other musicians in System 7 - and even Gong, if not the idiosyncratic Amon Duul I/II.
To my mind, all the German bands who were pushing so many boundaries in the early 1970s have a special historical place which is difficult to describe in words as it is more of a vibe. But I guess one can say that they were an expression against WW2 forces which still had something of an impact in the national psyche - that sense of having been ordered - and a representation of the fringe where it meant more than it could ever possibly do now. It was very distinct and any crossing over into the mainstream appeared to be by default although they were clear in what they were doing, ie being experimental in music - and different.
By 1977, punk rock had many of those elements, albeit in a totally different way, but it was also more commercially contrived. And when that went, there wasn't any niche that was removed from the potential for packaging to suit markets. Certainly by 2000, every process had become so automatic that total order had been re-established on a global basis via the new capitalism with all of its constraints on innovation.
Quote: Chappers @ 14th January 2015, 10:43 PM GMTDozy died. RIP
RIP
But are Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich dying in the wrong order?
Finally found an HMV where I could use my card. (Croydon - what a dive but it's not a bad HMV.
Bought Essential Ten Years After, Best of Southside Johnny, Planet Claire (with the classic Rock Lobster) - B52s, Vanilla Fudge and World of Mann double CD - Manfred Mann hits on one and Earthband on the other - all for £20. (Well I had to pay an extra £1.96)
Quote: Chappers @ 26th January 2015, 9:45 PM GMTFinally found an HMV where I could use my card. (Croydon - what a dive but it's not a bad HMV.
Bought Essential Ten Years After, Best of Southside Johnny, Planet Claire (with the classic Rock Lobster) - B52s, Vanilla Fudge and World of Mann double CD - Manfred Mann hits on one and Earthband on the other - all for £20. (Well I had to pay an extra £1.96)
Sounds all very good. Is it Vanilla Fudge's debut album?
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 26th January 2015, 9:47 PM GMTSounds all very good. Is it Vanilla Fudge's debut album?
I don't think so. It's just called Vanilla Fudge but I think it's a compilation with People Get ready, Eleanor Rigby, Ticket to Ride, She's Not There - and (the main reason I bought it) You Keep Me Hanging On - plus 4 tracks that add up to STRAWBERRY FIELDS. I haven't played it yet though.
The Wilko Johnson/Roger Daltrey album is now available as a deluxe edition with live material on the second disc.
Quote: A Horseradish @ 25th January 2015, 9:22 PM GMTCan's experimentalism regularly made the critics' all-time charts
I found an old VHS tape with this seldom/never seen video of my favourite band covering a Can song and uploaded it to YouTube a few weeks ago; might as well post it here, too. Wilco's Nels Cline is on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz4jcYHjqzw
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 28th January 2015, 7:37 PM GMTThe Wilko Johnson/Roger Daltrey album is now available as a deluxe edition with live material on the second disc.
Speaking of Wilco/Wilko and Daltrey, Wilco are headlining one night at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and The Who (my second-favourite band) are headlining the next. My head would melt if they managed some sort of collaboration.