Great guitar on this one -
The Spike Drivers - Strange Mysterious Sound
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Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Not heard this in YEARS.
Listening to/watching Hendrix documentary on BBC1.
Quote: george roper @ October 29 2013, 11:46 PM GMT
Suggest you check that link.
Just realised that the Neko Case clip is a take on Carole Bayer Sager's "You're Moving Out Today". Not sure if it is deliberate. It's still a good song from a good new album.
Hints of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" run through this one but it's still one of my favourite feel good songs. I like the studio version but I'm posting the live one too:
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music
Sing it Back-Moloko http://youtu.be/7DBG_uDp8Qc
Gang Bang-Black Lace
Mirror in the bathroom-The beat http://youtu.be/-cbUW2EY4KE
Quote: george roper @ October 30 2013, 11:59 PM GMTGang Bang-Black Lace
What a tasteful song.
Quote: Chappers @ October 31 2013, 12:06 AM GMTWhat a tasteful song.
'bout sums him up really.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ October 31 2013, 8:06 AM GMT
Great photo - 
Sorry. Eight days late with this one.
Emile Latimer RIP
From Buffalo Spree - The Magazine of Western New York
Ok, so Emile Latimer wasn't the first three-year-old to bang on pots and pans. But he's one of the few to break the pot...Now it's the sixties-a Greenwich Village open mike. Guys like Richie Pryor, Bill Cosby, and Jimi Hendrix are there, as well as Richie Havens, who will tour and record with some guy banging a big blue drum-really good, tireless. His name is Latimer. "I went to work with Richie and never looked back," the drummer says. "We used to play damned near all night long. Six or seven sets a night. Jump from this coffee house, run over to this one, do a set, run over to that one, do a set. That's how you pay your rent."
Around this time, Nina Simone is looking for a guitar player. She auditions Latimer. Simone and Latimer, it turns out, have both written a song called Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair. "You played and wrote what I wanted to write," says Simone. "You'll sing that in my show." They tour the coast. Play L.A., Montreal, Europe. Then back to New York, in 1969, with a twist: "Here's a New York guy, only played down at 44th street," Latimer recalls. "Now I'm with this superstar, at Lincoln Center, now I'm really scared. She never told us she was going to record that night. It was sold out. I was nervous; I made a mistake. I started all over again, and I was so determined. I can play this. This is mine. I wrote it. So I played it the second time, man, there was screaming applause. She looked at me: Take a bow. She was all happy."
The record, Black Gold, is released-with Latimer's mistake edited out.
Nina Simone and Emile Latimer - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Just seen on BBC4, TOTP (1978):
Picked up - yes I bought them - a couple of CDs from one of my favourite outlets - the good old charity shops. Age Concern this time - how appropriate!
The first one was Branigan. NOT Eastenders. Laura Branigan was stunning in the 80s and I think it was seeing her smouldering as she sang Gloria.and the cover has her in a pair of leather trousers. However the album is not really that interesting.
The second one was a Melody Gardot album and after Branigan it really was quite fantastic in a smooth jazzy sort of way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qphknagXqA
After those 2 I decided to pick one of my CDs at random and found Speedball + 11 by the Count Bishops. One that Old Rocker should listen to. At the time of pub rock and the conception of punk there were also several good Rock n roll/ R & B bands and the Bishops were one of them. Covering lots of old R & R standards but speeding them up.
Unfortunately I can't locate anything of them on You Tube.