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My friend (and co founder of the original Just Good Music blog) John Parker sent me an email โ€ฆ

I have found that the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small, and I KNOW that you are one of the ones that does, hence my email. Every once in a while I need to reach out and touch base just to know that I’m not insane, it’s the rest of the world that is lost.

And

So you motor along and see cool music videos. and you say"yeah!" and “cool!”. And everyonce in a while, you see one that makes you close your computer just go take a walk. Like… goddamn. This is a goddamn video โ€ฆ

This is that video - and DAMN - heโ€™s right.

๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ“ผ Ren

And if you like this - here is Renโ€™s YouTube channel .. so you can fill your boots.

๐Ÿ”— Ren on Wikipedia tells a story for sure.


As to John’s throwaway line;

“the number of people that really listen to music is vanishingly small”

Needless to say - I wholeheartedly agree which is why I take solace in podcasts like The Rockenteurs, YouTube channels like Rick Beato and Newsletters like Ted Gioia.



If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.

๐Ÿ“ผ๐Ÿ”— Join ICE - Jesse says to ..

… via Colbert

๐ŸŽถ Apparently Vanilla Fudge could have been as big as Zeppelin and if not - certainly Purple.

Say what now? No they couldn’t. Listen to their stuff back in the day and then to early Purple and Zep. It’s clear where the talent is.

To riff on Rob Reiner’s mum …

“I’ll have what they’re having.”

And ‘they didn’t stay together’ is the excuse?

Neither did Purple and Zep - but a number of individuals in the two English bands went on to great success in solo careers.

Name me one member of Vanilla Fudge - and what was their best album.

๐ŸŽถ Been a while since Larkโ€™s Tongue were played through my speakers โ€ฆ and it remains just as big, extraordinary, relevant and engaging as I remember it.

๐ŸŽถ Just discovered Jesse Wells

.. this just in from the #LivingUnderTheRockArchives

๐ŸŽต Public Service Broadcasting are just so so good.

๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽต Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic

I had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late

๐ŸŽต Paul Simon wrote The Sound of Silence nearly 60 years ago. Not as a hymn to peace, more a warning - about noise drowning out meaning. Yet here we are in 2025, trapped in the Noise Economy: dashboards buzzing, leaders performing, everyone talking, no one listening.

๐Ÿ”— Read More

๐Ÿ”— ๐ŸŽตElle

๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽต Guthrie 1

๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽต Guthrie 2

๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽต Guthrie 3

.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.