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To you all Blues lovers!
Got a copy on cd today.
I did forget how good it is.
Warmly recommended!

quote:

Originally posted by SteveGa:
I always seem to be able to remember where I bought the CD I am listening to - am I alone?

Anyway as a change the one I am listening to now was bought here:



and is

Great album, I remember this one very well. It was outside the theater in Mobile, AL after a live performance. Brilliant. Cheers, Larry

Not the Japanese CD import but the original 10" 33rpm EP.

Ian

The Beatles - Sgt Peppers

Too many of my CD's get only a few, one or even not a complete listen before they wander into the "vault". The one I'm listning to, currently, is a dear exception with at least 20 (?) spins - which for me is a lot... Too nice:



cheers
Stefan

stefan,

Nice cd cover and appealing title, can you say a bit more ? It this one we should all have ?

Ian

Who has moved onto Peter Gabriel ..

John Martyn "Bless the Weather" - sounds great but I picked it for the wrong reasons - the weather in London right now sucks - humidity raging, looney temperatures - must be a thunder storm lurking.



Peter

Working my way through



and trying to get the Drift of it all - some very good stuff and some decidedly average stuff, but Tilting towards the good - so I've No Regrets in the purchase.

quote:

Originally posted by IanGtoo:
stefan,

Nice cd cover and appealing title, can you say a bit more ? It this one we should all have ?

Ian

Who has moved onto Peter Gabriel ..

Let me put it like this:

Haim would definitely like it
Huw might. In fact, I guess he would
Geoff wouldn't
Gianluigi - maybe
ROTF - possibly
PB - uhm, no.
Nuno - depends on the amp he uses
HH - possibly (although: I failed with my latest Haden reco)
Expat - Yes, for 1.5 spins (provided a good bottle of red)
MichaelV - Sure, he recommended it. I think
mtuttleb - On vinyl, yes.
Felix - don't worry, on holidays
Fredrik - Don't tell him I listen to stuff like this
kuma - nope (no horn section, no funk bass, no black front singers)

Think I better stop, here.

For the more serious: It's a collection of ancient songs from the mediterranean area (no, Haim: still nothing from Israel), seperated into cycles (childhood / wedding / marital life / birth / lost love / death), all accoustic (mostly drums, timpani, etc. and some occasional other instruments), most songs with vocals in all languages, an accoustic gem which allows you to look DEEPLY into the room the musicians span.

One of my favorite CDs, but understandably not for everyone.

cheers (and thanks for asking, Ian )
Stefan

Trying out the new (secondhand )credos with,

Little feat- time loves a hero
The band-The band
Rickie lee jones-Ricky lee jones
Bob marley-uprising
JJ cale-okie
Jeff buckley-grace

quote:

Originally posted by sjust:

For the more serious: It's a collection of ancient songs from the mediterranean area (no, Haim: still nothing from Israel), seperated into cycles (childhood / wedding / marital life / birth / lost love / death), all accoustic (mostly drums, timpani, etc. and some occasional other instruments), most songs with vocals in all languages, an accoustic gem which allows you to look DEEPLY into the room the musicians span.

One of my favorite CDs, but understandably not for everyone.

cheers (and thanks for asking, Ian )
Stefan

Sounds good to me - just ordered it - a nice something to welcome me back from my holidays in a couple of weeks.

Thanks a lot.

Ian - onto Arvo Paert

Be sure to drop me a line - I can deal with the truth... after MY vacations...

Happy holidays, then !
Stefan

Night cap, probably:



cheers,
Stefan

Stefan - it has just entered my wishlist

Has been:





2nd spin



Now

Missouri Sky: Excellent Night Cap !

Have persuaded myself to some more of Carla Bley's "Escalator Over The Hill" (disc 2). Too warm to sleep, anyway...

cheers
Stefan

Haydn symphony no.93, Colin Davis and the Concertgebouw.

I can hear why Fredrik rates this disc so highly. [big grinning smiley]

regards, Tam

Two kindly forum memebers in a row led astray (in th nicest way) by another member from Hereford! [Smiley]! Fredrik

All the Blue note on various vinyl.

I had to slip in a few well chosen dance tunes though, against my religion
but, it was grooving.

Happy listening to all.

cheers,steve

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Two kindly forum memebers in a row led astray (in th nicest way) by another member from Hereford! [Smiley]! Fredrik

Again!..... [smiley]

Dear Tam,

There is one of my classic typos in there as well, I have just noticed. [Kindly Forum Memeber Smiley]! Fredrik

Schubert's Impromtus will see me off tonight. Edwin fischer's set of recording is my favourite and I am in the mood for favourites tonight. Too much challenge can be just,... erm,... too,... erm, challenging!

All the best from Fredrik

[Available on Testamant, APR Apian, and Pearl...]

quote:

Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Dear Tam,

There is one of my classic typos in there as well, I have just noticed. [Kindly Forum Memeber Smiley]! Fredrik

Being perfect in anything is boring Fredrik.

Right now I am listening to Husker Du-Zen Arcade on the original vinyl.

It is kind of depressing when I think back on how many years ago I bought this LP. Seems not that lomg ago but 20 years have zipped by.

Matt

kickin' off the start of an 8 day vacation!

Dear Matt,

How true! I was never technically the finest player of the bass on the block, and certainly had bad days, though I noted them the most, and it pained me. But I was almost brain-dead nerveless when it came to keeping going in a concert if things went wrong, and they certainly do go wrong in live performance. I never stopped playing even if it amounted to semi-inspired busking! I remember one time when I was playing is a little concert which basically was an excuse for two Worcester-born soloists at the ENO to show how fine they were at a parish church near where they were born. The choir was to sing a part frm the Brahms Requiem, Thy Dwelling Places are Becomeing... and the conductor was rather choral in style; he threw the whole band except me. No one else in the band started and the choir was resolutely accompanied by one double bass. He stopped us and we restarted with the band in tow, after an apology.

I was severely tortured in the pub afterwards, for not conceeding defeat, but I never would. I was reliable and occasionally inspired, but far from perfect, at least in my own estimation. I used to get invited back except in amateur cirscumstances, where my trenchncy would cause troble.

One time was when I was rehearsing the famous fourth horn concerto of Mozart with a good friend of mine playing solo. The conductor actually asked me for a lower dynamic, which I was always happy to accomodate as it is less work! But apparently it was still too much, so again I was asked for less. No trouble, but in forte I was already playing soto voce!

I played the whole passge without ever contacting the strings with the bow! Still too loud! I lay the bass on the floor having explained that I could not play quieter. Amateures for you! The idiot conductor had failed to differentiate between the 'celli (like a herd of elephants) and the solitary double bass!

So my temerament was not perfect either!

I am so much less nasty now! Fredrik