What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)

On vinyl...

I've had the song Too Much Saturn on repeat play in my head today, so had to play it when I got home. Played that song three times and the album once. I have seen FD in concert either with It Bites or with Robert Plant or solo somewhere approaching 30 times. His recent albums have gone off the boil a bit, but the early ones are all very enjoyable and this is one of the best.

Bon Jovi: Best of to celebrate my homecoming and then Vivaldi Guitar Concertos, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown, Philips, 1984 as a prelude to sleep. Both original pressings and delightful in their own ways, but the Vivladi is a stunningly clear and natural recording.

The opening tune on Steve Davis' - Interesting Alternative Show tonight was about 15m long and was either track 2 or 5. I'll investigate this album.

Camembert - Negative Toe [ https://altrockproductions.ban...m/album/negative-toe  ]

Now Playing........ 

Dave Matthews Band - Crash

Streaming on NAS............   Before leaving the house this morning I enjoyed Dave's 'Come Tomorrow' and after a hectic day at work I thought it would be appropriate to come home and Crash!   ........Dave and the band is sound exceptionally sweet, and the volume is  rising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD6MxJaPQhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A978lRnpbrs

Now Playing.......

Joshua Redman - Mood Swing

Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass) and Brian Blade (drums).

Streaming on NAS............  A recent purchase from Fat Cat Records and taking out for a spin...... The lineup is impressive and the opening number delivers, Joshua is sounding fantastic and the interplay between the quartet pulls you right into the music. They are sounding mighty sweet! Looking forward to the next 60+ minutes........

Now Playing.................

Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson - Temporary Kings

Mark Turner  (tenor saxophone) and Ethan Iverson  (piano).

Streaming on NAS.........  I had recently gave this a spin on TIDAL and liked it so placed and order, arrived today, ripped and now taking out for a spin!  Opening track is sounding mighty sweet!

Clive B posted:

I've had the song Too Much Saturn on repeat play in my head today, so had to play it when I got home. Played that song three times and the album once. I have seen FD in concert either with It Bites or with Robert Plant or solo somewhere approaching 30 times. His recent albums have gone off the boil a bit, but the early ones are all very enjoyable and this is one of the best.

I saw It Bites at the 100 Club in Wardour St. in 1986, and it remains one of the very best gigs I’ve ever been to. Many years later, long after I’d stopped wondering “whatever happened to them?,” I saw Francis Dunnery play a solo concert at Seattle’s OK Hotel. He’d clearly been through some rough times, and was a long way from the cocky and charismatic front man of yore, but the music was all there. Funnily enough, Too Much Saturn is the one song I remember from that gig. I got chatting to him afterwards – he was sipping water and was closely accompanied by what seemed to be a record company minder – and he told me, without going into specifics, that he had screwed up and that he took responsibility for the decline and demise of It Bites. All that aside, it’s good to see that he made it out the other side.

Cat Stevens. Tea For The Tillerman. On original vinyl from 1970. Another one of those albums I've come to appreciate more the older I get.

An earlier album, a bit more rocky than the last one, but also great...

Very good - a reference for Haydn piano sonatas...

Trevor Watts: Drum Energy. Now on Bandcamp with some other releases.

His ECM album is one of my favourites on that label so I couldn't miss this one.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Hard Promises (1981). On HDCD from 2001. I really love Petty's early stuff and this fine album is a reminder of what a fantastic musical talent we lost this past October.

Pink Floyd. Music from the film More (1969). On original CD from 1995. Did Floyd ever do heavy metal? Listen to track 2 (The Nile Song) of this eclectic album and see what you think. 

Corry posted:

Clive B posted:

I've had the song Too Much Saturn on repeat play in my head today, so had to play it when I got home. Played that song three times and the album once. I have seen FD in concert either with It Bites or with Robert Plant or solo somewhere approaching 30 times. His recent albums have gone off the boil a bit, but the early ones are all very enjoyable and this is one of the best.

I saw It Bites at the 100 Club in Wardour St. in 1986, and it remains one of the very best gigs I’ve ever been to. Many years later, long after I’d stopped wondering “whatever happened to them?,” I saw Francis Dunnery play a solo concert at Seattle’s OK Hotel. He’d clearly been through some rough times, and was a long way from the cocky and charismatic front man of yore, but the music was all there. Funnily enough, Too Much Saturn is the one song I remember from that gig. I got chatting to him afterwards – he was sipping water and was closely accompanied by what seemed to be a record company minder – and he told me, without going into specifics, that he had screwed up and that he took responsibility for the decline and demise of It Bites. All that aside, it’s good to see that he made it out the other side.

I'm amazed that anyone else on here has heard of him. After It Bites he had serious alcohol problems, but managed to turn himself around. Over recent years he's been doing house concerts where he has recounted a lot of his life story and it's not pretty. 

I too think It Bites was one of the best live bands I've ever witnessed. I first saw the band supporting Robert Plant where they were promoting the Big Lad In The Windmill album and finished the set with You'll Never Go To Heaven, which with its stunning guitar solo at the end, was as good as anything that followed in the Robert Plant set - hardly surprising then that Plant chose Dunnery to play on his Fate of Nations album.

Later I saw It Bites promoting the Once Around The World album, which remains one of the best rock albums in my collection and what a storming gig that was. Whilst Dunnery was clearly the front man, John Beck provided the layers of keyboards defining the sound of the band. A band of four enormous talents.

joerand posted:

Pink Floyd. Music from the film More (1969). On original CD from 1995. Did Floyd ever do heavy metal? Listen to track 2 (The Nile Song) of this eclectic album and see what you think. 

I like the phase 69-72 a lot, when they started to abandon the psychedelic music and turn to progressive rock. The More/ Obscured/ /Meddle are very , very good. 

And because I've just mentioned it above, why not start the day with this marvellous album? It Bites - Once Around The World.

Clive B posted:

Corry posted:

Clive B posted:

 

I've had the song Too Much Saturn on repeat play in my head today, so had to play it when I got home. Played that song three times and the album once. I have seen FD in concert either with It Bites or with Robert Plant or solo somewhere approaching 30 times. His recent albums have gone off the boil a bit, but the early ones are all very enjoyable and this is one of the best.

I saw It Bites at the 100 Club in Wardour St. in 1986, and it remains one of the very best gigs I’ve ever been to. Many years later, long after I’d stopped wondering “whatever happened to them?,” I saw Francis Dunnery play a solo concert at Seattle’s OK Hotel. He’d clearly been through some rough times, and was a long way from the cocky and charismatic front man of yore, but the music was all there. Funnily enough, Too Much Saturn is the one song I remember from that gig. I got chatting to him afterwards – he was sipping water and was closely accompanied by what seemed to be a record company minder – and he told me, without going into specifics, that he had screwed up and that he took responsibility for the decline and demise of It Bites. All that aside, it’s good to see that he made it out the other side.

I'm amazed that anyone else on here has heard of him. After It Bites he had serious alcohol problems, but managed to turn himself around. Over recent years he's been doing house concerts where he has recounted a lot of his life story and it's not pretty. 

I too think It Bites was one of the best live bands I've ever witnessed. I first saw the band supporting Robert Plant where they were promoting the Big Lad In The Windmill album and finished the set with You'll Never Go To Heaven, which with its stunning guitar solo at the end, was as good as anything that followed in the Robert Plant set - hardly surprising then that Plant chose Dunnery to play on his Fate of Nations album.

Later I saw It Bites promoting the Once Around The World album, which remains one of the best rock albums in my collection and what a storming gig that was. Whilst Dunnery was clearly the front man, John Beck provided the layers of keyboards defining the sound of the band. A band of four enormous talents.

I saw him play at Cropredy about 20 years ago, he’s been on my long list of “must take some time to listen more” artists ever since.

Richard Morris posted:

Trevor Watts: Drum Energy. Now on Bandcamp with some other releases.

His ECM album is one of my favourites on that label so I couldn't miss this one.

I really like the look of this record percussion and drums in particular always sound fantastic on my system. Thanks Richard I'll be checking this out tonight.

al9315 posted:

LP - Very lucky to have discovered Miles all these years ago - keep coming back to him

Listening to this & shortly after treated to 'In A Silent Way' !

I guess you already have heard 'Circle in the Round' from the same period but if not then you are in for a treat I heard it a couple of nights ago and it blew me away .  On the LP of the same name or on the 'Complete Quintet Recordings' I think it's called

Van Halen. 1984. On HDCD from 2000. The group's best album? "Panama" and "I'll Wait" might be my two favorite VH songs.

Alban Berg Quartett - Mendelssohn

joerand posted:

Pink Floyd. Music from the film More (1969). On original CD from 1995. Did Floyd ever do heavy metal? Listen to track 2 (The Nile Song) of this eclectic album and see what you think. 

Funnily enough over the weekend when going through my old vinyl boxes, I found a first pressing of More from my student collection - not listened to it since then. I'd completely forgotten what a varied mix it is. Followed it up straight away by Obscured By clouds from the same record crate. Without a clean yet (I know!), they both still sounded remarkably good given their age. 

Released 1999 - A very pleasing album. 8)

Don Alias - Percussion
Eric Benét - Vocals
Michael Brecker - Sax (Tenor)
Dean Brown - Guitar
Ronnie Cuber - Sax (Baritone)
Dr. John - Sampling
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Gil Goldstein - Piano (Electric)
Fareed Haque - Guitar (Acoustic)
Lalah Hathaway - Vocals
Gene Lake - Drums
Marcus Miller - Bass, Clarinet (Bass), Composer, Drum Programming, Drums, Engineer, Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Producer, Sitar, Vocals
Ricky Peterson - Organ (Hammond)
Lenny Pickett - Sax (Tenor)
Hank Roberts - Cello
Wallace Roney - Trumpet
David Sanborn - Sax (Alto)
Sting - Vocals
Cassandra Wilson - Vocals