Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 4)

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Originally Posted by Dom66

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Never rated Edgar Winter, much preferring the work of his older brother Johnny.

Hence:

Johnny Winter – 'The Progressive Blues Experiment'

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Label: Liberty – LBS 83240
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1969
Genre: Rock, Blues
Style: Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock


and

Johnny Winter - 'Second Winter'

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Label: Columbia – KCS 9947
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1969
Genre: Rock, Blues
Style: Electric Blues

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Now:

Yardbirds – 'Five Live Yardbirds'

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Label: Columbia – 33SX 1677
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: UK
Released: 1964
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock

and

Yardbirds - 'Roger the Engineer'

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Label: Columbia – SX 6063
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: UK
Released: July 15, 1966
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock, Rhythm & Blues

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Good one. :)

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Originally Posted by Dom66

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Not a Zappa recording I'm familiar with. But then he produced so many: I have about 40 of Zappa's recordings, but not that one!

In my innocent past I was a bit of fan of the group The Nice, as I was fascinated by their fusion (or, as I later realised, the 'confusion') of classical music with rock music.

The Nice, lead by the classically trained keyboard player Keith Emerson, were one of the first groups in the late '60s to experiment with this. For some reason I decided to dig out some of their LPs:


Ars Longa Vita Brevis
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Label: Immediate – IMSP 020
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1968
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock

Nice
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Label: Immediate – IMSP 026
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 1969
Genre: Rock
Style: Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock, Psychedelic Rock

and

Five Bridges
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Label: Charisma – CAS 1014
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: 1970
Genre: Rock, Classical
Style: Symphonic Rock, Prog Rock

Oh dear, whatever I thought of them then (and having seen them twice), my tastes have certainly changed. :eek: In few words, I found their work a confusing mismash of covers of extracts of various famous classical works, played by rock musicians of average musical ability, mixed in with songs sung by a vocalist with one of the worse voices in rock history. Largely an excuse for Keith Emerson to show off with his organ "noodlings", which often verge on the bombasitic and performative. :doh:

Oh well ....!

Emerson Lake & Palmer – 'Emerson, Lake & Palmer'

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Label: Island Records – ILPS 9132, Island Records – ILPS-9132
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Pink Labels
Country: UK
Released: Nov 20, 1970
Genre: Rock
Style: Prog Rock

Somewhat better - almost wish I had persevered with ELP's successive recordings. :scratch:

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A wonderful Album

:lol: Great minds think alike! I have just been listening to collection of The Pogues - 'The Best of the Pogues'. :)

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I'll join you, sort of -

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Bauhaus - The BBC Sessions

Possibly the best BBC Sessions Album I own.

Snakefarm - 'Songs From My Funeral'

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Label: RCA – 07863 67687-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1999
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Lounge, Downtempo, Pop Rock

Snakefarm – 'My Halo At Half-Light'

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Label: Fledg'ling Records – FLED 3086
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk

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Legend artist.

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Some Rockadelic Funk.

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A cracking comeback Album

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That Akai 4000 looks like it has seen a lot of use. ;)

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Originally Posted by Dom66

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Worth a listen if only for Michael Kenyon, The Illinois Enema Bandit :) Assuming that was this album, a lot of years have passed since I last heard it.

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Originally Posted by Idlewithnodrive

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Oh yes :) best thing to come out of Swindon. Sorry about that, Naim Audio.

Arrived while I was away. A much nicer welcome home than a brown lawn and the cat glaring at me as if to say where the f__ have you been.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Arrived while I was away. A much nicer welcome home than a brown lawn and the cat glaring at me as if to say where the f__ have you been.

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Good purchase there Steve! :)

(And to add to the cat's enquiry, where have you been? Somewhere nice I trust. But wherever it was you were missed.)

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Originally Posted by Barry

Good purchase there Steve! :)

(And to add to the cat's enquiry, where have you been? Somewhere nice I trust. But wherever it was you were missed.)

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Thanks Barry. Cape Verde, Sal specifically. Had 11 days of doing bugger all, got through six books and ate more than we should have. But the food was so good, and as much wine and beers as you could handle. Though I wasn't greedy with the booze :)

Formerly a Portuguese colony, they gained independence in 1975. The official language is Portuguese, though the most commonly-used language was Creole. The locals, and especially the hotel staff, were just great - attentive, polite, and always smiling. Handsome men and beautiful women, who certainly lived up to their "no stress" motto. We really enjoyed our stay there, just a shame the mosquitoes made mincemeat of our legs.

Wow! Cape Verde has been on my "bucket list" for some time now. Did you take any photos to make me jealous? ;)

I did take a few photos (with my phone), but nothing that would make you jealous... probably the opposite really, as they are largely of the 'critters', a lifelong fascination of mine. Including a praying mantis, an elephant hawk moth caterpillar, a couple of blinded sphinx moths, and geckos climbing anything climbable :)

Most of Sal resembles a lunar landscape, and hardly what you'd call beautiful. But the beaches are superb, not crowded, and there is a 'vibe' to the place, it has been described as the "European Caribbean" and I get that.

The only 'fly in the ointment' (almost literally) has to be the mosquitoes. And we weren't the only ones suffering. But maybe Anita made more noise about it than everyone else, and the hotel gave us mosquito killer sprays, offered us a room upgrade which was really something special, with its duplex design with bedroom on a mezzanine overlooking the ocean and private jacuzzi. But we turned it down as we really liked our own 'swim up' room :)

Besides which I know there are folk who are professional complainers and routinely moan in order to get something for nothing, and I didn't want to be that person. But they did give us a free meal and drinks at the local 'Mediterranean' restaurant, and let us keep the room right up to departure time. I think the tour operators (Tui) are probably trying to avoid negative and damaging reviews. But we wouldn't have done that anyway.

But we know that if and when we return it will be during the winter months (it's only about 15 degrees north of the equator, so weather is pretty much the same all year round), and we'll go armed with a shitload of the best mozzie repellent money can buy!

Don't worry about the photos. When I'm in "parts foreign" I take all sorts of strange photos, sometimes of insects, but whatever takes my fancy to remind me of the trip.

My great uncle was a keen lepidopterist and has a rather dull moth named after him. (I don't know it's name but will probably end with dammerensis).
As a small child I was given a mounted butterfly (which he may have caught himself). It is Chrysiridia Madagascariensis; a colourful butterfly, about 3 to 4" in size. I had forgotten about it, but when I visited Madagascar some thirty years later, whilst trekking through the swiddens I was amazed to see a whole flurry of these butterflies flying about.

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It’s been a wee while since I played this
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Originally Posted by rmcin626

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Excellent LP. :)

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Originally Posted by Barry

Excellent LP. :)

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It certainly is Barry, not played since I had made some changes to my set up, always a good test record

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Originally Posted by Dom66

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Killababylonkutz

"Shitmat’s long-awaited debut album is a propa’ mashup ragga-rave dubplate bloodclot jungle tekno tour-de-force."

Sound right up my street! :lol:

Aretha Franklin – Queen Of Soul: The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin

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Label: Atlantic – 8122-71396-2
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Europe
Released: 1994
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul

Mazzy Star - 'So Tonight That I Might See'

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Label: Capitol Records – 0777 7 98253 2 5
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: September 27, 1993
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Ethereal, Shoegaze, Dream Pop

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One of those Albums you have to own, imo.

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Originally Posted by Barry

Aretha Franklin – Queen Of Soul: The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin

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Label: Atlantic – 8122-71396-2
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Europe
Released: 1994
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul

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The best female

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Originally Posted by Barry

Killababylonkutz

"Shitmat’s long-awaited debut album is a propa’ mashup ragga-rave dubplate bloodclot jungle tekno tour-de-force."

Sound right up my street! :lol:

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