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  "title": "🎵 Music on John PHI⑊PIN",
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/24/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 24, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"iFiesta Fatal! (Album Edit)\" by B-Tribe</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/ifiesta-fatal-album-edit/137332884?i=137332905\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/5b/f5/9f/5bf59fa2-2125-3a78-322c-fe134b9eae30/mzaf_9116888485831714861.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>I was  on a work trip in Finland. My hosts decided to expose me to some Helsinki night life. I can still picture it all - but sadly no pictures to share. At one point we were in a bar/restaurant/nightclub - which it was dependant on the time of day - and this music like no other swept through the whole place and I just disappeared into it.</p>\n<p>This was the track. Got back to the UK - bought the album - and it turns also out their second - clearly wasn't in the vanguard on this one. I also bought 3, 4 and 5 as they came out - they never failied to suck me in.</p>\n<p>There is a sixth - do not own it - but of course in my online library - though a little different to its predecessors.</p>\n<p>And all of this came to mind yesterday as I was wrestling with <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/aaah-the-irony.html\">🖇️ my blog issues</a> - to pick one random post that didnt arrive until today.</p>\n<p>BUT - iFiesta Fatal! kept me sane.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/screen-shot-2015-04-15-at-7.00.45-am.png\" alt=\"Fiesta Fatal?\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-24T11:23:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/24/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 23, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Personal Jesus\" by Depeche Mode</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/personal-jesus/1174246686?i=1174246806\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview211/v4/1e/21/03/1e21039f-1abd-b66e-da96-42cd2df3f238/mzaf_2649827075247185158.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>The live one in particular I think nails why I love Depeche Mode - 'electronica sensibility rocks out'.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0npwVQRScM\">Also adding this live cover by Depeche Mode of Depeche Mode</a> - Berlin.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1779485872-6a10ccb055a41.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-23T09:37:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/nuff-said-genesis-reborn.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>&lsquo;nuff said</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/GfIO9zdcv20?si=IinZsElnIsIPT8Qn\">🔗🎵📼 Genesis Reborn?</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-23T09:36:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/nuff-said-genesis-reborn.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
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        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/23/abba-meet-pink-floyd.html",
        "title": "Abba - Meet Pink Floyd",
        "content_html": "<p>Reading Alexandra&rsquo;s post this morning : <a href=\"https://wrywriter.ca/posts/striking-a-chord\">🔗 Striking a Chord - the Wry Writer</a></p>\n<p>This caught my eye.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I’ve enjoyed it all. From nobodies starting out, to big name groups like <high>Pink Floyd and Abba</high>, to Emerson, Lake and Palmer, to the Rolling Stones before they were mega rock stars.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Alexandra Wolfe</p> \n<p>If you know anything about my musical taste at all - you will know that a dude called <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/steven-wilson\">🔗🎵 Steven Wilson</a> looms large - starting with a growing collection of 50 albums (physical media - proper!) - and counting.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve heard him say it many times &hellip;  his mum loved <strong>Abba</strong> and his Dad played &lsquo;<strong>Dark Side</strong>&rsquo; on &lsquo;repeat&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"https://folkandtumble.com/article/interview-steven-wilson\">🔗 one interview</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My earliest musical memories are of hearing my parents playing records, and I was lucky that both of them had great musical taste. My mum listened to Frank Sinatra, <high>Abba</high>, The Carpenters, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, basically the great pop music of the late 70s, and my dad would play conceptual rock stuff like ‘<high>Dark Side of the Moon</high>’, and ‘Tubular Bells’. At that age, I had no concept of musical genre or musical snobbery, so it was just all magical to me, and in many ways that is still the way I feel now. I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Steven Wilson</p> \n<p>I put Steven in the category of probably &lsquo;the biggest rock star that you have never heard of&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>Anyone who wants to explore his work - it can get confusing .. diverse and many entry points - but if you love Abba and Pink Floyd - his Blackfield project is well worth diving into.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-23T08:23:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/23/abba-meet-pink-floyd.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/22/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 22, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Hurry On Sundown\" by Hawkwind</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/hurry-on-sundown/966240539?i=966240540\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/c4/dd/66/c4dd6620-f657-23ad-d3d7-cb89f3804a61/mzaf_2086783378088369895.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Came to mind this morning after reading <a href=\"https://remixes.stevenwilsonhq.com/p/hawkwind-warrior-on-the-edge-of-time-300\">🔗 this</a>. As a lad - Hawkwind definitely hit a nerve. Still does. Lemmy's successor - not so much. This is the first track on their first album - (a couple of albums before Lemmy became a full timer) .. because there are again too many to choose - but like other occasional references to tracks in this world - the first of the first started me on this particular journey.</p>\n<center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/fe2d4c2946.jpg\" alt=\"Slow Sunset\" /></p>\n</center>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-22T08:12:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/22/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/21/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 21, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Green Tambourine\" by The Lemon Pipers</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/green-tambourine/304781407?i=304781491\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/e4/30/b0/e430b0a7-7a9d-7906-f3aa-c07cfff15507/mzaf_12400730812399882423.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Continuing <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/crucial-track-may.html\">yesterday's 'theme'</a> .. another  'one hit wonder' - same kind of time - same kind of sound and definitely my jam - then and now.  It's  just that this  one is from the other side of the Atlantic.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/lemon-meringue-pie.jpg\" alt=\"A Lemon Meringue Pie\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-21T08:47:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/21/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Funny👁️ how suddenly things just come to mind. Take <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Conway\">🔗🎵 Russ Conway</a> - not thought of him for decades - my mum was a fan (which is why I even know his name), but I still have no idea how he suddenly cropped up in my brain.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-20T11:46:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/funny-how-suddenly-things-just.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Asides"]
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/the-next-seven-crucials.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">🔗🎵 The Next Seven Crucials</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paste-752f57ce.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"131\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-20T10:25:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/the-next-seven-crucials.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
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        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/20/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 20, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Kites (Stereo) [2004 Remastered Version]\" by Simon Dupree & The Big Sound</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/kites-stereo-2004-remastered-version/696262909?i=696264951\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/13/cb/25/13cb253b-4788-155c-692a-681331b88f72/mzaf_18339109397283519000.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>If you know Stackridge - you <strong>may</strong> know The Korgis.</p>\n<p>I know both. Love Stackridge. Like The Korgis.</p>\n<p>In case you don't know  ...<strong>Stackridge</strong> made quirky, melodic English pop-rock that mixed progressive, folk, and vaudeville, whilst <strong>The Korgis</strong> made highly melodic British pop with thoughtful lyrics, strong vocal harmonies, and irresistibly catchy hooks.</p>\n<p>Interesting then that the creative forces of Stackridge were the same as The Korgis  -  Progressive Rock 70s 'albums' band transitions to melodic harmonies 80s 'singles' band.</p>\n<p>I have known the connection forever.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/brandedline.png\" alt=\"Line\" /></p>\n<p>If you know Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - you <strong>may</strong> know Gentle Giant.</p>\n<p>I know both. Love Simon Dupree. Love Gentle Giant.</p>\n<p>In case you don't know ... <strong>Simon Dupree and the Big Sound</strong> blended blue-eyed soul and R&B with a psychedelic-pop sheen, whilst <strong>Gentle Giant</strong> played highly complex, fiercely inventive progressive rock that fused hard rock with classical, medieval, folk, and jazz .</p>\n<p>Interesting then that the creative forces of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound were the same as Gentle Giant - Soul/R&B band from the 60s (just about a one hit wonder) transitions to one of the most avant-garde and influential progressive bands of the 70s.</p>\n<p>I never - <strong>ever</strong> knew this - discovering it just this morning as I was being a squirrel around today’s crucial track. 🤯</p>\n<p>I guess you can't hold great creatives down and great creatives are not one trick ponies.</p>\n<p>Have a better than expected day (tip o’ the hat to ‘JW’)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1779227747-6a0cdc6340dc5.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-20T09:55:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/20/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/19/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 19, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Flowers in the Rain (2007 Stereo Mix)\" by The Move</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/flowers-in-the-rain-2007-stereo-mix/1681893886?i=1681893897\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview126/v4/c1/67/c1/c167c18a-c73a-d3ec-5977-d819b4bed25a/mzaf_13686294456142455942.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p><em>The last song you heard on the radio</em></p>\n<p>Another prompt - but going to bend the rules on this one ...</p>\n<p>Radio? What's that Daddy? So long ago that I can barely remember doing it - BUT - my choice would be a Crucial Track anyway - so let's call it a 'twofer'. Except this is a 2007 stereo remix - so it definitely wasn't this track. Mono all the way baby.</p>\n<p>The <strong>first</strong> song ever played on <strong>Radio</strong> One in 1967 in the UK - and yes I was there on the end of the speaker listening to it. The Move - and  their descendants have a permanent place in my heart. Tony Blackburn? Cough - not so much.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1779155741-6a0bc31d9793e.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-19T13:55:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/19/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 18, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Chicago\" by Groove Armada</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/chicago/304756740?i=304756741\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/ae/fa/7e/aefa7e0d-66fc-99e8-83bb-5ca9022d979a/mzaf_1788443193652627858.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>And Another 'Prompt' Entry ...</p>\n<p><em>Hit shuffle on your music library and post the first song played</em></p>\n<p>I generally post an image in my 'Crucials' that is connected to the song - but in an odd way.</p>\n<p>Bonus points today if anyone can tell me whatthat might be today.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/3438083cf2.jpg\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-18T17:35:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/18/twelve-years-ago-i-was.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Twelve years ago - <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0ySH2_s9E\">🔗📼🎵 I was there</a>. Love you man.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-18T11:46:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/18/twelve-years-ago-i-was.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/17/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 17, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"The City: Grass and Concrete / Taxi To Brooklyn / Speak Easy It's a Whiskey Scene\" by Mark-Almond</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-city-grass-and-concrete-taxi-to-brooklyn-speak/1442269089?i=1442269494\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/b7/6e/7a/b76e7a87-0d4a-0cf4-e034-d7185c87877a/mzaf_14807785182491469604.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>One of those bands that are so far under the radar in 2026 that subterranean doesn't even start to describe it - and they have so many 'CRUCIALS' - that I ended up choosing this one because it is over 10 minutes of total bliss. Originally from the Mayall School of Music - look it up kids.</p>\n<p>And it's Mark Almond - NOT Marc Almond - who one day will get his own entry.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778977820-6a090c1c4325e.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-17T12:30:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/17/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/16/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 16, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Oh Well (Live)\" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/oh-well-live/897792951?i=897792993\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/77/fd/2d/77fd2d34-cb80-2547-483b-690259957b0f/mzaf_4583712587235081798.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Talking of superb covers … as I wrote <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/tom-petty-does-the-mac.html\">🖇️ here not even a month ago</a> - a glorious cover of track by Fleetwood Mac. Before John and Stevie. Even before Christine.</p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Round ...</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/oh-well-pt-1-bonus-track/1441329962\">🔗🍎🎵 <strong>PartONE</strong></a> that Tom covered.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/oh-well-pt-2-bonus-track/1441329962\">🔗🍎🎵 <strong>PartTWO</strong></a> that Tom did not cover - totally different and Peter Green's favourite part.</p>\n<p>both performed by Fleetwood Mac.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778882341-6a079725657df.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-16T09:58:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/16/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/15/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 15, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"I Write the Songs\" by Barry Manilow</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-write-the-songs/268158570?i=268159034\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/62/98/40/62984047-f746-4b60-76c2-a03610836e88/mzaf_4793048152864461958.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Never a fan of Barry. Too saccharine, too schmaltzy. Not my style - but there is always an exception to the rule (still looking for Rush’s exception - but that remains another story.)</p>\n<p>When I first heard this in 1976 - my instant reaction - was - ‘TYPICAL - BLOODY BARRY. <high>’I’</high> write the songs … seriously? The arrogance.</p>\n<p>But it hooked me. Totally - and still to this day remains on my Apple Playlist called Just Good Songs.</p>\n<p>Of course he didn’t write the song, something I learned a little later - and so my dichotomy was resolved. Of course it was a great song - it was written by a ‘Beach Boy’ - and the claim ‘I write the songs …’ as certainly more defensible. Even more so when I realised that;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ‘I’ in the song is God, and that songs come from the spirit of creativity in everyone.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Bruce Johnston</p> \n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/6379a70ae3.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Johnston\" /></p>\n<p>(Why not share Bruce's version? In my mind - just not as good - so sticking with the version that hooked me.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-15T09:27:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/15/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/14/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 14, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Une Nuit a Paris, Pt. 1 / The Same Night In Paris, Pt. 2 / Later the Same Night In Paris, Pt. 3\" by 10cc</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/une-nuit-a-paris-pt-1-the-same-night-in-paris-pt/1440924535?i=1440924543\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/1c/ab/fe/1cabfe23-7362-f9a3-4e96-e6db81ab3e30/mzaf_11230673548907594657.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Thought I would follow a prompt for a change:</p>\n<p><em>Share a song you call something other than its official title. What do you call it?</em></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That's the way the croissant crumbles</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>Epic</strong> - from one of the most underplayed bands in the history of 'oldy goldys' - <strong>10CC</strong> - and this offering will always be 'One Night in Paris' - I am English for heaven's sake.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/paris10-slide.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-14T14:37:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/14/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/13/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 13, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Perfect Day\" by Lou Reed</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/perfect-day/976826793?i=976827222\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview116/v4/d7/e2/f4/d7e2f401-c53d-a528-ac37-c8e59061b1dd/mzaf_8392546870776957194.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Whenever it doesn’t seem right … Lou sets me straight.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778616758-6a0389b6ca175.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-13T08:12:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/13/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/12/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 12, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"The New Math (What He Said)\" by OSI</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-new-math-what-he-said/389385445?i=389385453\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/53/4e/cf/534ecf8a-5684-785c-702a-98bfc9ece9b1/mzaf_618412261042404389.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>I was sat on a plane reading an interview with Bowie who talked about this band he'd just heard. Made a note of it, and ordered it online. Their first album arrived and this was the first track and  I was IN. How could you not be?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/a5237e0699.jpg\" alt=\"Peanuts and New Math\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-12T06:31:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/12/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/11/the-first-seven.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">🎵🔗 The First Seven Crucials</a></p>\n<img style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/crucial-1to7.png\" alt=\"The First Seven of my Crucial Tracks journey.\" title=\"Crucial-1to7.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"525\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-11T09:53:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/the-first-seven.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/11/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 11, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Thank You for the Music\" by ABBA</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/thank-you-for-the-music/1440821028?i=1440821398\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/f0/ba/f4/f0baf471-befd-9c60-b7e9-611d17a15c84/mzaf_11126793477796884033.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Today’s post is a sister post to <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/abba-the-movie.html\">this one</a>.</p>\n<p>My memory … sitting alone tin a large Odeon(?) cinema - South London - Streatham. I really can’t recall the movie - except the closing credits - as Wiki says:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The song also plays over the closing titles as the camera pans out from the band performing in a hut on an island in the Stockholm archipelago to views of the archipelago itself.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>That is my only memory and on that day, for whatever reason found it so uplifting. Where are we now? What 47 years later - and that memory is locked. That song. Locked. Loved it then. Love it now.</p>\n<p>Abba? Sure I have great respect for what they did. The songs they wrote and recorded - but in all honesty - never really my bag.</p>\n<p><strong>Except this one.</strong></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778448775-6a00f9874379f.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-11T09:32:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/11/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/10/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 10, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease\" by Roy Harper</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/when-an-old-cricketer-leaves-the-crease/667739546?i=667740010\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/a6/31/f5/a631f5b3-e8c0-cd40-6171-4391d3942729/mzaf_12658045113437640971.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>I wouldn’t describe myself as a fan of cricket .. but this one is nothing to do with cricket and everything to do with life. Been in the soundtrack of my life for 51 and counting years and hard to reach the end without life memories coming to the fore.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778355111-69ff8ba79685a.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-10T07:31:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/10/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/09/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 9, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"The Ocean\" by Richard Hawley</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-ocean/693722705?i=693723053\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview126/v4/7d/00/06/7d000653-97aa-6601-b3b2-bc453e0a32d4/mzaf_16951888710369613795.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Hawley’s voice has me … every time. You can … I do ..  just fall into his songs .. not just the ocean,</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778270968-69fe42f825d2a.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-09T08:09:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/09/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/08/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 8, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Infected\" by The The</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/infected/203793465?i=203793494\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/f2/1b/ed/f21bedf7-f087-f92f-80e8-5aea7b391fa6/mzaf_6723454292923285668.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>The first track of Matt’s second album left the speakers in my living room and  arrived in my ears nearly forty years ago. I never looked back .. the power of this opening track hit me like a sledgehammer and does a stunning job of introducing  the ‘tour de force’ that is the album.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1778179506-69fcddb2393a6.jpg\" alt=\"Entry image\" /></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-08T06:45:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/08/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/07/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 7, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Fever (Adam Freeland Extended Remix) [Adam Freeland Master]\" by Adam Freeland & Sarah Vaughan</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/fever-adam-freeland-extended-remix-adam-freeland-master/1445747732?i=1445748010\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/19/43/75/19437593-d0c9-2cca-a58a-f4288fd4e07b/mzaf_1674746909733051196.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>Cover? Mix? Do not know. First heard it 21 years ago .. been on the non existent mix tape of my life ever since. Give it a whirl.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-07T06:24:54+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/07/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/06/crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 6, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Woke Up This Morning\" by A3</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/woke-up-this-morning/1442814433?i=1442814459\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview125/v4/5c/8b/fe/5c8bfe00-a5b8-e51f-0feb-f8257e874b58/mzaf_17866159016616125951.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>I watched the occasional Sopranos back in the day. But somehow it never stuck. Unlike the theme which has been in my Just Good Songs playlist since I discovered playlists.  Such a powerful song. Never tire of it. Here’s to the next 29 years.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-06T07:13:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/06/crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/05/rare-birds-by-jonathan-wilson.html",
        "title": " 🎵 Rare Birds by Jonathan Wilson",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_81194\"><img alt=\"Rare Birds by Jonathan Wilson\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ab67616d0000b2737e82b7f302c9df20af0f2d99.jpg\" /></a><p>I have no idea how I missed this - futzing with my sound set up last night and Siri suddenly started playing &lsquo;<strong>Trafalgar Square</strong>&rsquo; that I had to Shazam to find out what it was. Then listened to the album once and here we are. Great album. Always nice to discover a &lsquo;new&rsquo; artist.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-05T07:57:39+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/05/rare-birds-by-jonathan-wilson.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/04/062619.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 5, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Steppin' Out\" by Joe Jackson</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/steppin-out/1440641327?i=1440641332\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview211/v4/7f/b8/85/7fb88577-a301-beab-da78-c5f20a39f9a8/mzaf_6319136707027446662.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>I was listening to the new Joe Jackson album - really rather good - but for me - it still doesn’t meet the excellence of Joe’s <strong>crucial track.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/crucial-tracks/pl.u-g0qJu33j5N\">Listen to my Apple Music playlist</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-05T06:26:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/04/062619.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/04/todays-crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 4, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"(Don't Fear) The Reaper\" by Blue Öyster Cult</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-fear-the-reaper/170587019?i=170587451\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview122/v4/f5/4b/7f/f54b7f8c-35c3-e5e7-a3c7-4657832ae66b/mzaf_5045008210912451719.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p><strong>Prompt</strong>\n<em>Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title).</em></p>\n<p>A song that would have been in my ‘Just Good Songs’ playlist the day I heard it - it’s just that 🍎 hadn’t got round to inventing it - mainly because mere mortals didn’t have the internet.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-04T06:15:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/04/todays-crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/todays-crucial-track-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 3, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Rockin' In The Free World (Glastonbury 2009)\" by Neil Young</em></p>\n<p>Live. Glastonbury. Well over ten minutes. Neil rockin' out.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-03T12:58:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/todays-crucial-track-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/110413.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 2, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Hi Ren\" by Ren Gill</em></p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_nc1IVoMxc?autoplay=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"></iframe></div>\n<p><strong>Stunning.</strong> A friend shared this with me last year. If you want to listen to a totally original and highly talented artist - start here.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John G Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-02T11:04:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/110413.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/05/03/crucial-track-for-may.html",
        "title": "Crucial Track 🎵  May 1, 2026",
        "content_html": "<p><em>\"Permanating\" by Steven Wilson</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/permanating/1440885200?i=1440885214\" target=\"_blank\">Listen on Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><audio controls><source src=\"https://audio-ssl.itunes.apple.com/itunes-assets/AudioPreview115/v4/fd/36/66/fd366696-0618-cafb-652c-ad3e46ac5866/mzaf_16706194681557003278.plus.aac.p.m4a\" type=\"audio/mp4\">Your browser does not support the audio element.</audio></p>\n<p>In the Venn Diagram of music that jax and I both like - this one sits high ... so clearly needs to be pulled out first.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/johnphilpin\">View John G Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-05-01T10:55:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/03/crucial-track-for-may.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/tom-petty-does-the-mac.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/H34Uc9JWECQ\">🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does &lsquo;The Mac&rsquo;</a> - and his &lsquo;Welllllll&rsquo; must be the best &lsquo;Wellllll&rsquo; I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:59:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/tom-petty-does-the-mac.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/26/adactio-journaldilation-the-irish-tale.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://adactio.com/journal/22534\">🔗 Adactio: Journal—Dilation</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>And for a related 🎵 interlude …</strong></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Tír na nÓg</strong> are an Irish <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music\">folk</a> duo formed in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin\">Dublin</a>, Ireland, in 1969 by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_O%27Kelly\">Leo O&rsquo;Kelly</a> and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Condell\">Sonny Condell</a>.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0]<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%ADr_na_n%C3%93g_(band)#cite_note-LarkinGE-1\">[1]</a> They are often considered one of the first <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_folk_music\">progressive folk</a> bands with other artists like <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake\">Nick Drake</a> or groups like <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentangle_(band)\">Pentangle</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Wikipedia</p>\n<p>Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-26T11:52:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/26/adactio-journaldilation-the-irish-tale.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/vincents-tale-by-ren.html",
        "title": "🎵 Vincent's Tale by Ren",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_79364\"><img alt=\"Vincent&#39;s Tale by Ren\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ab67616d0000b2734d4e2eb15751307d223650d7.jpg\" /></a><p>Surprise? Not if you know Ren. One of the most extraordinary artists that have emerged in the past decade.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-23T10:57:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/vincents-tale-by-ren.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/23/boots-on-the-ground-by.html",
        "title": "🎵 Boots on the Ground by Massive Attack, Tom Waits",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_79350\"><img alt=\"Boots on the Ground by Massive Attack, Tom Waits\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/704cc4d055.jpg\" /></a><p>Massive Attack and Tom Waits &hellip; <strong>that&rsquo;s</strong> the surprise. The result? As wonderful as you might expect.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-23T07:56:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/23/boots-on-the-ground-by.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/22/hope-and-fury-by-joe.html",
        "title": "🎵 Hope and Fury by Joe Jackson",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_79167\"><img alt=\"Hope and Fury by Joe Jackson\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ab67616d0000b273b7260fd15248b5b1f721b33b.jpg\" /></a><p>Always liked Joe - and he has still got - <strong>22 albums</strong> in. The tour starts soon.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-22T13:54:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/hope-and-fury-by-joe.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/20/careful-what-you-measure-life.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>💬🎵🏢 Careful what you measure &hellip; life is a game .. life is gamed.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3199.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-20T09:15:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/20/careful-what-you-measure-life.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes","? Organisations"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/19/083550.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>💬🎵</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/8ca78f517e.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-19T08:35:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/19/083550.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/alan-is-probably-right-but.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Alan is probably right - but it is certainly mine - so off to see what else I can discover.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/17/i-understand-that-this-wont.html\">🔗 I understand that this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea ..</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:34:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/alan-is-probably-right-but.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/18/a-diecut-above-jeffrey-zeldman.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.</p>\n<center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/r-1376443-1405810411-5738.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"></p>\n</center>\n<p><a href=\"https://zeldman.com/2026/03/13/a-die-cut-above/\">🔗 A die-cut above - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-18T09:18:53+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/18/a-diecut-above-jeffrey-zeldman.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/04/02/when-i-was-a-lad.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/eaa8515410.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>When I was a lad - this <strong>1969</strong> image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGuRKgvWQ4\">📼🎵🔗Fast Forward to 2020</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hold My Beer</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Rammstein</p> \n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-02T07:44:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/02/when-i-was-a-lad.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/22/angine-de-poitrine-right-then.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Angine de Poitrine</p>\n<p>.. right then.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-03-22T19:20:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/22/angine-de-poitrine-right-then.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/14/africa-by-toto-with-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://flowingdata.com/2026/03/13/africa-by-toto-with-the-lyrics-switched-out-for-the-countries/\">🔗🎵😂 Africa by Toto with the lyrics switched out for the countries.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-03-14T11:03:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/14/africa-by-toto-with-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Humour"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/tenacious-d-another-one-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>[<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWkl5YpiD0\">🔗📼🎵 Tenacious D</a></p>\n<p>.. another one I have seen before an never shared - who knew that Jack Black had this voice inside of him?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:22:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/tenacious-d-another-one-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/15/el-estepario-siberiano-has-been.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ElEsteparioSiberiano\">El Estepario Siberiano</a> has been popping into my feed for well over a year - and every time I am blown away - but until now never shared him here.</p>\n<p>Fixed.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQKIXWMYfg8\">🔗📼🎵 This could be my BEST video TO DATE. - YouTube</a></p>\n<p>➕</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCVXLzQ170\">🔗📼🎵 MY STORY - HOW I MADE 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. - YouTube</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-15T08:21:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/15/el-estepario-siberiano-has-been.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/the-forgotten-band-that-changed.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj4n2P0Tha4\">🔗📼🎵 The forgotten band that changed British rock music.</a></p>\n<p>In all honesty - not a great video - but just happy to see The Strawbs being talked about.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:37:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/the-forgotten-band-that-changed.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/not-a-cover-totally-original.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Not a cover - totally original - and brilliant as Ren often is.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTn_bhTVr2U\">🔗📼🎵 Ren - Vincent&rsquo;s Tale - Starry Night</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:36:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/not-a-cover-totally-original.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/cover-loved-tears-for-fears.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Cover 2</strong></p>\n<p>Loved Tears for Fears - Bluegrass not so much - BUT there is some superb Bluegrass work that leaks through to my appreciative ears.</p>\n<p><strong>Like this one.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFIQgPAms88\">📼🔗🎵 Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022) - YouTube</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:35:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/cover-loved-tears-for-fears.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/12/cover-loved-yes-never-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Cover 1</strong></p>\n<p>Loved Yes - never a big fan of Asia - despite Asia often being made up of people I love … like Wetton, Howe, Palmer and Downes for example <strong>and</strong> Fanfare is one of my favourite ELP tracks.</p>\n<p>(BTW - nothing like ELPs and IMHO a massive improvement.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0aPWjs9M0\">📼🔗🎵 Asia - Fanfare For The Common Man </a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-12T14:34:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/12/cover-loved-yes-never-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/09/i-keep-playing-this-or.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=TnAgc1kgvLc&amp;si=PrEVxfYNfi-W-HHP\">🔗📼🎵I keep playing this - or at least different versions of it</a> - but this one mainly.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-09T12:14:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/09/i-keep-playing-this-or.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/08/you-should-say-goodbye-i.html",
        "title": "You (Should) Say Goodbye - I (Definitely) Say Hello",
        "content_html": "<p>Structured Thought Meets Music Meets The Business Equation &hellip; and probably more besides.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You say yes, I say no,<br>\nYou say stop, and I say go, go, go,<br>\nOh no.<br>\nYou say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello,</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Paul McCartney</p>\n<p>First song from Paul after Brian Epstein (no relation) passed on to the next stage of his life &hellip;</p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia:</strong></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s such a deep theme in the universe, duality &ndash; man woman, black white, ebony ivory, high low, right wrong, up down, hello goodbye &ndash; that it was a very easy song to write.&rdquo; McCartney also said that, in &ldquo;Hello, Goodbye&rdquo;, he was promoting &ldquo;the more positive side of the duality&rdquo;.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Which all came to mind this morning reading <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2026/02/06/what-to-grow.html\">🔗 this post</a> by Manton Reece who observed &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If everyone can ship software, what will distinguish the successful companies from the apps that are lost in the noise?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>To which I reply by quoting some lines from a less talented group of songwriters - and yet seem pertinent &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Shooting stars never stop even when they reach the top</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Those that believe they have won.</p>\n<p>and</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The world is my oyster</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Everyone else.</p>\n<p>.. or perhaps more simply - <strong>as one door closes - another opens</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>Corollary</strong> - not for everyone (the corpses of software companies that litter the technology freeway is testament to that.) &hellip; so what do we do?</p>\n<p>\n  <img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/3bbf0a4c35.png\" style=\"box-shadow: none; border: none;\">\n</p>\n<p>The shift that Manton is describing is right - but IMHO falls short of what a business needs in <strong>The Age of Engagement</strong> which is pretty much what I have been writing about for a while now &hellip;.</p>\n<p><strong>Two Foundational Posts</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/the-age-of-reason-is-over\">🔗 The Age of Reason Is Over</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/the-age-of-experience-is-emerging\">🔗 The Age of Experience is Emerging</a></p>\n<p><strong>Just this past week</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/coherence-is-the-new-moat\">🔗 Coherence Is The New Moat</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/engagement-platforms-as-coherence\">🔗 Engagement Platforms as Coherence Infrastructure</a></p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Post</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/marketing-in-2025\">🔗 Marketing in 2025</a> (and 2026 it turns out)</p>\n<p>From a marketing perspective - the 4Ps have been part of the lexicon of any marketeer on this planet since before I was born. But now &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>say goodbye</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&hellip; to the 4Ps: Price, Place, Product and Promotion</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>say hello</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&hellip; to The 4Es : Exchange, Ease, Essence and Experience</p>\n<p><strong>Price gives way to Exchange</strong><br>\nNot what you charge. What you trade. <strong>Mutual value.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Place gives way to Ease</strong><br>\nNot where you are. How frictionless you make it. <strong>If engagement hurts, product dies.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Product gives way to Essence</strong><br>\nNot what you make. Who you are - through your customer&rsquo;s eyes. <strong>Stop second guessing.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Promotion gives way to Experience</strong><br>\nNot what you say. What they feel. <strong>Their perception is your only reality.</strong></p>\n<h2 id=\"or\">OR</h2>\n<p>You say &lsquo;goodbye&rsquo; to &lsquo;<del>Product Efficient Supply Chains</del>&rsquo; while I say &lsquo;hello&rsquo; to &lsquo;<strong>Customer Effective Demand Networks</strong>&rsquo;</p>\n<p>(Those are two thought threads of mine that go back to the early oughts and are integral to The Business Equation.)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/2d43a268a6.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>When <strong>everyone</strong> can ship code (I know, I know), technical execution becomes table stakes - but I think although Manton&rsquo;s words are different to my words he is recognising the shift that I keep describing &hellip; <strong>constraint has moved from PRODUCT to EXPERIENCE.</strong></p>\n<p>So - back to Manton&rsquo;s list;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marketing shapes perception</li>\n<li>Customer support reduces friction</li>\n<li>Documentation enables ease (even &lsquo;easier&rsquo; intuitive UI)</li>\n<li>Building trust demonstrates essence</li>\n<li>Speed removes barriers to engagement</li>\n</ul>\n<p>These aren&rsquo;t the &lsquo;other aspects&rsquo; of running a software business. They are now the primary aspects. Code is just infrastructure. In fact just last week, my friend and partner for the development of the apps we are building said just last week.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The cost of code might be coming down - but people don’t buy code - they buy software.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Actually - being who I am I think they are buying what the software will do for them - but that&rsquo;s my marketing lens. What Tony was hitting on is right from th pot of what marketeers used to call &lsquo;Full Product&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>The 4Ps assumed scarcity of products, distribution and information, whilst the 4Es assumed abundance where engagement is the only moat.</p>\n<p>Manton&rsquo;s list is actually part of <strong>The 4Es</strong>.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Essence</strong>: Building trust (who we actually are)</li>\n<li><strong>Ease</strong>: Documentation + Speed (frictionless access)</li>\n<li><strong>Exchange</strong>: Customer support (mutual value delivery)</li>\n<li><strong>Experience</strong>: Marketing (perception management)</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>The Age of Engagement isn&rsquo;t coming. It&rsquo;s here. Code is just catching up.</strong></p>\n<p>and clearly - Jimi was way ahead of his time! (But we knew that already. Right?)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/51ddefd8f7.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>\n  <img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/3bbf0a4c35.png\" style=\"box-shadow: none; border: none;\">\n</p>\n<p>If you want to set some time to explore how all this can be used to help your business transition into the ‘Age of Experience’. <a href=\"https://app.cal.com/jphilpin/60\">📅 Let&rsquo;s Talk</a></p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin: 0;\">\n  <img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-0173.png\" style=\"max-width: 100px; box-shadow: none; display: inline-block;\">\n</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-08T13:31:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/08/you-should-say-goodbye-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm","? Organisations"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/02/04/coherence-is-the-new-moat.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/coherence-is-the-new-moat\">🔗 Coherence Is the New Moat </a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/9f136ed72e.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Another post restructure - and reissue.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-02-05T17:20:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/04/coherence-is-the-new-moat.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? LongForm","People First","? Organisations"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/go-neil.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Go Neil</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-27T17:58:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/go-neil.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/27/be-my-testimony-the-story.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://anglotopia.net/british-music-british-entertainment/be-my-testimony-the-story-behind-peter-gabriels-sledgehammer/\">🔗🎵 Be My Testimony: The Story behind Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer.”</a></p>\n<p>Fascinating</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-27T13:26:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/27/be-my-testimony-the-story.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/26/these-bands-honestly-sounded-like.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://apple.news/AdburlwlkTn2ds54dGS3RCg\">🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet</a></p>\n<p>Not to my ears - in fact ten of them <del>were</del> are in my album collection<strong>s</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-26T12:59:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/26/these-bands-honestly-sounded-like.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/18/youve-probably-already-seen-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>You&rsquo;ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎵musical part - <a href=\"https://youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?si=zP_gr70nTHl-jHDl\">🔗📼 just so good</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-18T10:08:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/18/youve-probably-already-seen-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/01/11/the-most-influential-prog-band.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/most-influential-prog-band-according-to-geddy-lee/\">🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band&quot;, according to Geddy Lee</a></p>\n<p>Not wrong IMHO.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-11T13:12:27+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/the-most-influential-prog-band.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/27/just-good-music.html",
        "title": "Just Good Music",
        "content_html": "<p>My friend (and co founder of the original Just Good Music blog) John Parker sent me an email …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have found that the number of people that really <em>listen</em> 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&rsquo;m not insane, it&rsquo;s the rest of the world that is lost.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So you motor along and see cool music videos. and you say&quot;yeah!&quot; and &ldquo;cool!&rdquo;. And everyonce in a while, you see one that makes you close your computer just go take a walk. Like&hellip; goddamn.\nThis is a goddamn video …</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>This is that video - and DAMN - he’s right.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRaADSdJLE&amp;list=RDoqRaADSdJLE\">🔗📼 Ren</a></p>\n<p>And if you like this - <a href=\"https://youtube.com/@renmakesstuff?si=ID-IgGx3t-BNekYY\">here is Ren’s YouTube channel</a> .. so you can fill your boots.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_Gill\">🔗 Ren on Wikipedia</a> tells a story for sure.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>As to John&rsquo;s throwaway line;</p>\n<p><strong>&ldquo;the number of people that really <em>listen</em> to music is vanishingly small&rdquo;</strong></p>\n<p>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.</p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-27T08:27:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/27/just-good-music.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/join-ice-jesse-says-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4hlig78w\">📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; via Colbert</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-23T15:15:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/join-ice-jesse-says-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/apparently-vanilla-fudge-could-have.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 Apparently Vanilla Fudge <strong>could have</strong> been as big as Zeppelin and if not - certainly Purple.</p>\n<p>Say what now? No they couldn&rsquo;t. Listen to their stuff back in the day and then to early Purple and Zep. It&rsquo;s clear where the talent is.</p>\n<p>To riff on Rob Reiner&rsquo;s mum &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have what they&rsquo;re having.&rdquo;</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And &lsquo;they didn&rsquo;t stay together&rsquo; is the excuse?</p>\n<p>Neither did Purple and Zep - but a number of individuals in the two English bands went on to great success in solo careers.</p>\n<p>Name me one member of Vanilla Fudge - and what was their best album.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-23T14:20:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/apparently-vanilla-fudge-could-have.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/been-a-while-since-larks.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 Been a while since Lark’s Tongue were played through my speakers … and it remains just as big, extraordinary, relevant and engaging as I remember it.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-23T09:11:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/been-a-while-since-larks.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/11/23/just-discovered-jesse-wells-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>🎶 Just discovered Jesse Wells</strong></p>\n<p>.. this just in from the #LivingUnderTheRockArchives</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-23T08:56:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/11/23/just-discovered-jesse-wells-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/10/20/public-service-broadcasting-are-just.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <strong>Public Service Broadcasting</strong> are just so so good.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-10-20T11:43:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/10/20/public-service-broadcasting-are-just.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/29/finally-a-new-idea-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/09/geese-getting-killed-album-review/684380/\">🔗🎵 Finally, a New Idea in Rock and Roll - The Atlantic</a></p>\n<p>I had a listen over the weekend. Not bad at all - and I am only 4 albums late</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-09-29T14:03:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/29/finally-a-new-idea-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/11/paul-simon-wrote-the-sound.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Paul Simon wrote <strong>The Sound of Silence</strong> 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.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/the-sound-of-silence\">🔗 Read More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-09-11T12:24:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/11/paul-simon-wrote-the-sound.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/09/elle.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w6W5B-E\">🔗 🎵Elle</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-09-09T14:33:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/09/elle.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/09/01/guthrie-guthrie-guthrie-govan-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=vw1958JtYTA&amp;si=1Q1mlJK-rrQhnEwE\">🔗🎵 Guthrie 1</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=l8IVorIw7Gk&amp;si=3lejSicVXyRJZAk8\">🔗🎵 Guthrie 2</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=k6ucIShHW7Q&amp;si=m0Eqt5n0Km2kSjxH\">🔗🎵 Guthrie 3</a></p>\n<p>.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-09-01T06:49:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/09/01/guthrie-guthrie-guthrie-govan-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/31/in-no-particular-order-just.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. <strong>All my children are equal.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/megan-greenwell-bad-company-interview\">🔗 “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream | Vanity Fair</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4&amp;si=HRBff1a1r9ruZ9VX\">🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-wishlist-for-12-substack-enhancements\">🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/dave\">@dave</a> .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/aol-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-and-were-just-surprised-they-even-offered-it-in-2025/\">🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oh no - what am I going to do?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://leavesubstack.com/\">🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/the_substack_branding_and_faux_prestige_trap\">🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-planned-migration-of-an-entire-country-is-underway/\">🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2263ca5700.jpg\" alt=\"Tuvalu on Apple Maps\"></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>… and it’s about to disappear.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/we-are-winning\">🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/@thememoryhole/note/c-130609742r=2d79\">🔗 TMH on Substack: One of the most chilling—annihilatingly chilling, actually—videos ever made in the 20th century</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/megan-greenwell-bad-company-interview\">🔗 “We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream.</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/@extremearturo/note/c-124657011\">🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-08-31T18:36:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/31/in-no-particular-order-just.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/31/have-i-shared-this-before.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=Cy_c2InwkSk\">🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.</a></p>\n<p>Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-08-31T18:19:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/31/have-i-shared-this-before.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/08/02/follow-me-down-to-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Follow me down to a place by the river<br>\nSold for my kidneys, sold for my liver<br>\nWhy so weedy, so fucking needy<br>\nThere&rsquo;s no such thing as being too greedy</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>🎵💬</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-08-02T20:45:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/08/02/follow-me-down-to-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/29/i-am-a-patriot.html",
        "title": "I Am A Patriot",
        "content_html": "<p>This post is extracted from something I received from my friend <a href=\"https://randallrospond.com\">🔗 Randall Rospond</a> - over on Maui.</p>\n<p>He writes …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I first became aware of this song in 1989 when I purchased the cassette of Jackson Browne&rsquo;s ‘World in Motion’ … and it spoke to me deeply then and has throughout the years.<br>\nIt speaks to me more these days in the midst of America&rsquo;s great lying disaster in the White House and the ruin of what I believed the USA had always ‘<strong>tried</strong>’ to stand for. Freedom. The song was written by Little Steven … and released on his Disciples of Soul album 1984.\nWith this … I pray some sanity , rule of law , integrity , honesty and compassion return to America and the world … asap.\n… peace and aloha Randall</p>\n</blockquote>\n<center>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blClyVPU3jA&amp;list=RDblClyVPU3jA\">🔗🎵Jackson Browne 1989</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHCAI7QEj9A\">🔗🎵Little Steven 1984</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7h7NjCjdg\">🔗🎵Jackson Browne … recent performance</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTpsRUPNqc\">🔗🎵Kris Kristofferson Live @ Farm Aid 1990</a></p>\n<center>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.benharper.com/songs-lyrics/collaborations/i-am-a-patriot\">Lyrics :Ben Harper&rsquo;s website 2025</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-07-29T15:42:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/29/i-am-a-patriot.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/07/23/and-so-farewell-ozzy-thank.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 … and so farewell Ozzy &ndash; thank you for asking that question at the very beginning. It is often my only one. 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-07-23T06:55:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/23/and-so-farewell-ozzy-thank.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/14/making-the-song-reality.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📸🎵 Making the song reality.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8e467348dd.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-06-14T06:39:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/14/making-the-song-reality.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/06/12/yes-you-mean-steve-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Yes? You mean ‘Steve and his mates that currently perform as Yes?</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, 54 short years later, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Billy Sherwood, Jon Davison and Jay Schellen are taking the timeless collection of songs (and a few other classics) on the road.</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-06-12T11:43:27+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/12/yes-you-mean-steve-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/31/muse.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/Xsp3_a-PMTw\">🎵📼🔗 Muse</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-31T18:17:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/muse.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/29/i-am-not-generally-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@mcc\">mcc@mastodon.social</a> - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - <del>55</del> 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/zDMtaIcrfQ0\">🔗📼🎵Really. Watch it.</a></p>\n<p>Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.</p>\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-29T08:31:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/29/i-am-not-generally-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/25/i-guess-im-reflecting-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I guess I&rsquo;m reflecting on history a little this weekend.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/rbeI1kI802M\">🔗📼🎵 Ohio</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-25T11:41:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/25/i-guess-im-reflecting-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>This morning’s song on rotate … <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/got-to-have-love/1811977986\">🎵🍎🔗 Thankyou Jarvis</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-24T11:56:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/24/this-mornings-song-on-rotate.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/18/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my albumwhale lists <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/31585\">albumwhale.com/albums/31&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/a2bdfd6d58.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-17T23:32:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/18/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/17/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html",
        
        "content_html": "<center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-05-17-at-23.30.152x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n</center>\n<p>🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/31585\">🔗 albumwhale</a> lists</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-17T23:31:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/17/the-inaugural-premiata-forneria-marconi.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/05/07/what-brad-said-but-until.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://bradbarrish.com/2025/05/03/ive-heard-creep-too-many.html\">What Brad said - but until you have heard this cover - you haven’t heard Creep 🤯🎵</a> by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/bradbarrish\">@bradbarrish</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROJZntCBZCc\">seeing Erin Morton perform it</a> gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-05-07T08:07:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/07/what-brad-said-but-until.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/097fd9.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/2a30e2662e.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
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        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f231a8e6d0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
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        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/2530f9.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c8ef1cd22d.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-26T15:22:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/26/2530f9.html",
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/257e8b.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/18046103f2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-26T15:22:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/26/257e8b.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/7c63c7.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/dd7161f184.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-26T15:22:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/26/7c63c7.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/d1ee02.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/2586041208.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-26T15:22:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/26/d1ee02.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/26/i-just-added-albums-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just added 5 albums to my &lsquo;<a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/neo-progressive\">🎵 Neo Progressive</a>&rsquo; (don&rsquo;t you just love pretentious genres) list on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a>.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-26T15:19:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/26/i-just-added-albums-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/15/on-occasions-if-given-an.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>On occasions if given an inch I will ask where the remaining 1759 yards, 2 feet and 11 inches is. Case in point &hellip; <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">#AlbumWhale</a> .. just recently re-discovered it and having - well - &lsquo;a whale of a time&rsquo; - <strong>and yes - pun absolutely intended</strong>.</p>\n<p>Anyway have had more ideas - time to write them up.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-15T00:48:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/15/on-occasions-if-given-an.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/yet-another-albumwhale-list-as.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Yet another <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/the-album-that-has-the-single\">🔗🎵AlbumWhale list</a>.</p>\n<p>As the intro says &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am not a singles guy BUT there are some wonderful tracks out there, that wouldn’t make it to my lists if not careful. This list of albums is made up of albums that are only there because it includes one very specific track - which is WHY the album is here. (Not to say it isn&rsquo;t a good album - not that other songs aren&rsquo;t great, and is all to say that the track named on the album notes is why the album is on the list. <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/albumwhale-singles/pl.u-NgpGuNNKm2\">🎵 I also have an apple playlist of the featured tracks</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T13:58:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/yet-another-albumwhale-list-as.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/120308.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/edd7bfc1c2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/120308.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/2517e2.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/3c78d27486.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/2517e2.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/59ad03.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/57c07ad70c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/59ad03.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/9d06da.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/fadb087020.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/9d06da.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/aa39a5.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/605b663bb5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/aa39a5.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/ad34bb.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/e1366100b7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/ad34bb.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/eb84a0.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">albumwhale.com/albums/29&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c7bba2005f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T11:03:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/eb84a0.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/13/mcmxc-ad-enigma-the-list.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29898\">🔗🎵💿 MCMXC a.D - Enigma</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-13T10:58:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/13/mcmxc-ad-enigma-the-list.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/011903.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">albumwhale.com</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/23d21b2ac1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:19:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/011903.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/4947a5.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">albumwhale.com</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/11eeacba3b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:19:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/4947a5.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/b0c3e0.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">albumwhale.com</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/76526b34ae.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:19:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/b0c3e0.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/d9d8c3.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">albumwhale.com</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/385b4fd86e.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:19:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/d9d8c3.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/ed1e25.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com\">albumwhale.com</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/9409ab4a9f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:19:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/ed1e25.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/more-pulp-the-list-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"More - Pulp\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29802\">🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp</a></p>\n<p>Hat Tip to <a href=\"https://danielsavage.uk/2025/04/10/pulp-are-back-with-new/\">🔗 Daniel Savage</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:16:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/more-pulp-the-list-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/11/more-by-pulp.html",
        "title": "More by Pulp",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_31365\"><img alt=\"More by Pulp\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bc7b12030b.jpg\" /></a><p>Found the link via <a href=\"https://danielsavage.uk/2025/04/10/pulp-are-back-with-new/\">Daniel Savage</a> - thank you  - it has been a while - so did not see this one coming. As I type not fully released (June) &hellip; but Pulp ✅ Jarvis ✅ Richard Hawley ❌ .. as far as I can see is not on the record - but there seems to be one of his songs on it - we don’t know which one right now. (Well try to come back to this an update when it gets fully released.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-11T00:12:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/more-by-pulp.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/09/the-overview-features-on-no.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - <strong>turns out all 4 are mine.</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neo Progressive</li>\n<li>English Progressive</li>\n<li>Steven Wilson</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>and</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surprises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The Surprise? He has an <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfRAJKFHqbE\">🔗🎵Orchestral version on YouTube</a> &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-09T14:58:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/09/the-overview-features-on-no.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/09/the-overview-by-steven-wilson.html",
        "title": "The Overview by Steven Wilson",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_31205\"><img alt=\"The Overview by Steven Wilson\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/389d42b730.jpg\" /></a><p>This album is currently featured on 4 public lists on AlbumWhale - all mine!</p></p>\n<p>BUT - this not exactly a reshare - but an opportunity for you to click on this link and hear the <a href=\"https://youtu.be/mfRAJKFHqbE\">Orchestral Version of The Overview</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-09T07:51:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/09/the-overview-by-steven-wilson.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/i-am-thinking-of-retiring.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I am thinking of retiring the &lsquo;<strong>Inspired By People</strong>&rsquo; Series</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0ec8def28d.png\" alt=\"A quote by Thomas Jefferson about the care of human life is placed alongside a crowded group of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0ec8def28d.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8ec1af370d.png\" alt=\"A quote by Woodrow Wilson about human service is accompanied by a crowded audience on the right side.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8ec1af370d.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/inspired-by-people.png\" alt=\"A quote by Anne Frank, No one has ever become poor by giving, is displayed on a brown background next to a vibrant crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/inspired-by-people.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ce88f79334.png\" alt=\"A quote by Cicero about people's welfare is juxtaposed against a crowded scene with Inspired by People and a note crediting a photograph by Documerica.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ce88f79334.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cc0bad243e.png\" alt=\"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ~ John F. Kennedy\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cc0bad243e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/731f68cc8b.png\" alt=\"A quote by Dwight Eisenhower about politics is juxtaposed with a photograph of a diverse crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/731f68cc8b.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ed84b6674e.png\" alt=\"A quote by Simon Sinek about leadership appears alongside a large group of people on the right.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ed84b6674e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5aa8ab3905.png\" alt=\"A quote by Alexis de Tocqueville discussing the health of a democratic society is set against a background featuring a diverse crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5aa8ab3905.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/31f6fe3912.png\" alt=\"A quote by Albert Camus about democracy is displayed next to an image of a diverse group of people seated in a stadium.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/31f6fe3912.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/16891d3fc0.png\" alt=\"A quote by Mahatma Gandhi about a nation's greatness is accompanied by a photograph of a large, diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/16891d3fc0.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/733318f2b1.png\" alt=\"A quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt about progress is displayed alongside a photo of a large, diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/733318f2b1.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/08c5c8b975.png\" alt=\"A quote from Benjamin Disraeli about government's duty is presented next to a crowded audience.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/08c5c8b975.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ec38447904.png\" alt=\"A quote by Sam Walton about the value of people is displayed beside a photograph of a crowded audience.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ec38447904.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/29fe9de3b3.png\" alt=\"A large crowd is depicted next to a quote by Ralph Nader about leadership, emphasizing producing more leaders.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/29fe9de3b3.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ffdc920736.png\" alt=\"A quote by Martin Luther King Jr. is displayed beside a crowd of people in a stadium.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ffdc920736.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7fc4b32198.png\" alt=\"A large crowd of people is shown on the right, next to a quote attributed to John Adams about the rights of the people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7fc4b32198.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b44ab0177e.png\" alt=\"A quote by Mahatma Gandhi about societal values is displayed alongside a photograph of a diverse group of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b44ab0177e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f336c15133.png\" alt=\"A quote by John Stuart Mill about the worth of individuals is displayed next to a photograph of a diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f336c15133.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4156a60360.png\" alt=\"A quote by Rutherford B. Hayes about government and corporations is displayed on the left, with a large crowd of people on the right.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4156a60360.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/72ef71431a.png\" alt=\"A quote by Hubert H. Humphrey about the measure of a society is displayed alongside an image of a large crowd of people, with the photograph credited to Documerica.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/72ef71431a.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d83e77107d.png\" alt=\"A quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about speaking up on important matters is displayed alongside a large crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d83e77107d.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/69bfa79846.png\" alt=\"A quote by Bertrand Russell about cooperation is displayed on the left, accompanied by a photograph of a large diverse crowd on the right.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/69bfa79846.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0349fe85bb.png\" alt=\"A quote by Winston Churchill on the left is accompanied by an image of a diverse crowd of people on the right.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0349fe85bb.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b729c02ff5.png\" alt=\"A quote by John Bunyan about helping others is displayed alongside a vibrant crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b729c02ff5.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d499ab07b5.png\" alt=\"A quote by Daniel Goleman about focusing on others is paired with a crowd image on the right side.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/d499ab07b5.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/63227ddae8.png\" alt=\"A quote by Irwin Federman is displayed alongside a photograph of a large, diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/63227ddae8.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4519397d03.png\" alt=\"A quote by Helen Keller about the power of togetherness is displayed alongside a photograph of a large, diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4519397d03.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/061503edca.png\" alt=\"A quote by Leo Tolstoy about the meaning of life is displayed alongside a photograph of a diverse group of people sitting together.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/061503edca.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ddfd2ae650.png\" alt=\"A quote by Muhammad about true wealth is displayed alongside a photograph of a crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/ddfd2ae650.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c5ef600519.png\" alt=\"A quote by Mahatma Gandhi is displayed on a beige background, accompanied by a photo of a crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c5ef600519.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6a85c2d6c0.png\" alt=\"A crowd of people is shown alongside a quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, stating, When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6a85c2d6c0.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/09ad525036.png\" alt=\"A quote by the Dalai Lama is featured on the left side, accompanied by a dense crowd of people on the right.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/09ad525036.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/92067dc91e.png\" alt=\"A quote by John Bunyan encourages doing something for others, accompanied by a crowded scene in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/92067dc91e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7c3be8ec13.png\" alt=\"A crowd of diverse people is gathered, accompanied by a quote from George Bernard Shaw about belonging to the community.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7c3be8ec13.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e00c572cd2.png\" alt=\"A quote by Leo Buscaglia about living for something greater, placed alongside a photograph of a crowded group of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e00c572cd2.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f0a1d647e3.png\" alt=\"A Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about the purpose of life is displayed alongside a photograph of a diverse crowd.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/f0a1d647e3.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/05bf009803.png\" alt=\"A quote by Confucius about securing the good of others is displayed alongside a crowd of people.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/05bf009803.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/36c6cfd4d7.png\" alt=\"A quote by Anne Frank is displayed alongside a photograph by William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/36c6cfd4d7.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a9567c40ff.png\" alt=\"A person is holding a camera on the right side, with a quote about teamwork on the left side.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a9567c40ff.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/80eb46f0f0.png\" alt=\"A quote by Audre Lorde about the challenges of recognizing and accepting differences is displayed over a blurred background, with a credit to William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/80eb46f0f0.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1f1d898e55.png\" alt=\"A person in a yellow shirt is photographed with a quote by Steve Jobs about teamwork in business, set against a blurred urban background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1f1d898e55.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5951e0557e.png\" alt=\"A person is holding a phone, accompanied by a quote from Ken Blanchard about collective intelligence, taken from a photography series by William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5951e0557e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/67db0e88c0.png\" alt=\"A quote by Patrick Lencioni about teamwork and trust is displayed on a partially blurred background, attributed to a photographer named William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/67db0e88c0.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2839f0717f.png\" alt=\"A quote by Anita Roddick about business responsibility is displayed on a light blue background, accompanied by a partially visible person wearing a white shirt.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2839f0717f.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/142bc86022.png\" alt=\"A Zig Ziglar quote alongside a cropped image of a person wearing a light-colored shirt, with the quote emphasizing the importance of helping others.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/142bc86022.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6bed77bb3f.png\" alt=\"A partially visible person gestures with their hand next to a quote by Muhammad Ali about service to others.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6bed77bb3f.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8d9ba5eeaf.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a white shirt is shown in the background with a quote by Sydney Smith about the importance of doing what you can.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8d9ba5eeaf.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2a1f881736.png\" alt=\"A person in a light-colored outfit is standing in front of a partially blurred cityscape, accompanied by a quote about team leadership attributed to John C. Maxwell.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2a1f881736.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/506d6d65e0.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a white shirt is positioned on the right side of the image, with a quote about teamwork by James Cash Penney displayed on the left side against a blurred outdoor backdrop.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/506d6d65e0.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5f951fb00b.png\" alt=\"A quote by Harry S. Truman, stating It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit, is featured alongside a partial view of a person and urban background, with photography credited to William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5f951fb00b.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b5dbd75ccf.png\" alt=\"A quote by Halford E. Luccock emphasizes the importance of collaboration, accompanied by a relaxed person in a light setting.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b5dbd75ccf.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e29e50d0a5.png\" alt=\"A quote by Vince Lombardi about the importance of individual commitment to group effort is displayed next to a blurred background of an outdoor setting.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/e29e50d0a5.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/bee163b442.png\" alt=\"A quote by Charles Darwin about the success of collaboration and improvisation is displayed next to a blurred outdoor background and a person adjusting a camera.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/bee163b442.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6cde7fe3ef.png\" alt=\"A quote by Aristotle, The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, is displayed next to a partial view of a person with blurred urban background elements.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6cde7fe3ef.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c2ce9ea787.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a light-colored shirt is partially visible next to a quote about real change attributed to Barack Obama.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c2ce9ea787.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b662f0634a.png\" alt=\"A quote by John C. Maxwell about greatness is displayed on a background featuring a person with folded hands.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/b662f0634a.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/276a4dbd12.png\" alt=\"A quote about teamwork by Margaret Carty is displayed on the left side, accompanied by an out-of-focus background featuring a person in a white shirt.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/276a4dbd12.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/584ab8eb2e.png\" alt=\"A quote by John Donne about interconnectedness is overlaid on an angled image featuring a blurred background and a person's arm.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/584ab8eb2e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3c51106151.png\" alt=\"A motivational quote by George Shinn adorns the left side, with a partially visible person on the right side of the image.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3c51106151.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/40cac858-f990-4315-9733-89de89c3f2bb.png\" alt=\"A quotation about collaboration by Paul Solarz is displayed along with a partial view of a person in a light-colored shirt.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/40cac858-f990-4315-9733-89de89c3f2bb.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c4c7d103f2.png\" alt=\"A person is raising a hand in front of a Vala Afshar quote about respect, trust, and care in teamwork, with photo credits to William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c4c7d103f2.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/297272ba9c.png\" alt=\"A quote by Norman Shidle about teamwork is displayed next to a person in a white shirt.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/297272ba9c.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8eddf85c62.png\" alt=\"A thoughtful quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. appears alongside a blurred background and a person holding an open book.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8eddf85c62.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/inspired-by-people-4.png\" alt=\"A quote attributed to Babe Ruth discusses the importance of teamwork, accompanied by the phrase Inspired by People and an attribution to William Recinos for the photograph.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/inspired-by-people-4.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7368167a0c.png\" alt=\"A person in a light shirt is in front of a cityscape with a quote by Robert Ingersoll saying, We rise by lifting others.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7368167a0c.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/577c45ebcc.png\" alt=\"A proverb saying Many hands make light work is displayed alongside a blurred partial view of a person in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/577c45ebcc.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/03ef7227bb.png\" alt=\"A quote by Herman Melville about interconnectedness is displayed alongside a partial view of a person in a light-colored shirt.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/03ef7227bb.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1627878e0a.png\" alt=\"A quote by Mother Teresa about the power of love and teamwork is displayed next to a person wearing a light-colored garment, with a blurred background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1627878e0a.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9c6eeb46-860f-4d65-a525-1d9953104d4e.png\" alt=\"A quote by Ken Blanchard reads, None of us is as smart as all of us, accompanied by the title Inspired by People and credited to a photograph by William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/9c6eeb46-860f-4d65-a525-1d9953104d4e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/553e337e-9dd4-438e-9c44-6e19efdde0ce.png\" alt=\"A motivational quote attributed to Phil Jackson emphasizes the importance of individual strength within a team, accompanied by a person writing on a whiteboard.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/553e337e-9dd4-438e-9c44-6e19efdde0ce.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a007db93a7.png\" alt=\"A quote by Satya Nadella about aligned purpose is displayed on a blue background alongside the profile of a person, with photo credit to William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a007db93a7.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1e871e42ef.png\" alt=\"A quote by Steve Jobs about teamwork is displayed alongside a photograph captured by William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/1e871e42ef.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/de0713468e.png\" alt=\"A quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of learning from others' contributions, accompanied by a person sitting in an outdoor setting.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/de0713468e.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3fbca662-ca79-4387-bffe-e3c258e1524e.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a white shirt is featured next to a Swahili proverb about focusing on work rather than credit, with attribution to a photo taken by William Recinos.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3fbca662-ca79-4387-bffe-e3c258e1524e.png\"></div>\n<p><strong>But Then</strong></p>\n<p>I have just started an <strong>AlbumWhale</strong> collection</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div> \n<p><strong>AND</strong></p>\n<p>A <strong>Protest</strong> Collection</p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a1393aa28c.png\" alt=\"A large crowd gathers in an urban park area, surrounded by leafless trees and high-rise buildings under a cloudy sky, with the text Hands off our Apple products and components.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a1393aa28c.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0ae314f5be-m.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of photos shows large crowds gathered in various U.S. cities with city names labeled above each location, including Boston, New York, Chicago, and others.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0ae314f5be.jpg\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/487f5168-50ef-4768-aa54-126ff30a27df-5568x3712.webp\" alt=\"A large crowd of people is holding various protest signs and banners expressing political messages.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/487f5168-50ef-4768-aa54-126ff30a27df-5568x3712.webp\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3d43e00c-b674-4a90-b366-d77b8c60e4a6-6000x4000.webp\" alt=\"A large crowd of people are gathered outdoors, many holding signs and flags, indicating a protest or demonstration.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/3d43e00c-b674-4a90-b366-d77b8c60e4a6-6000x4000.webp\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2b7f6043-18c0-46e2-b630-62af58f9947a-2552x4536.webp\" alt=\"A large crowd of protesters with signs fills a city street between tall buildings, with a prominent historic building in the background.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/2b7f6043-18c0-46e2-b630-62af58f9947a-2552x4536.webp\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5a21e5dc-fadc-4b6a-944c-c7b453969e99-5000x3335.webp\" alt=\"A large crowd of people is gathered for a protest, holding a variety of signs and banners in a city street.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/5a21e5dc-fadc-4b6a-944c-c7b453969e99-5000x3335.webp\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0776fea015-m.jpg\" alt=\"A large crowd gathers densely around an outdoor stage in a public space.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/0776fea015.jpg\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6ac44284bb-m.jpg\" alt=\"A densely packed crowd of people gathered closely together, viewed from above.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/6ac44284bb.jpg\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7b4fa480c6-m.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people at a demonstration hold signs, one with a painted face and another reading WITH FEAR FOR OUR DEMOCRACY I DISSENT.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/7b4fa480c6.jpg\"></div> \n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:19:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/i-am-thinking-of-retiring.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/121411.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/10291\">albumwhale.com/albums/10&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/89ceaee112.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:14:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/121411.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/c3d693.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies</p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/10291\">albumwhale.com/albums/10&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/a09e5839d4.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:14:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/c3d693.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/odessey-and-oracle-the-zombies.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/10291\">🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T11:09:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/odessey-and-oracle-the-zombies.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/113001.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure</p>\n<p>Hat Tip To <a href=\"https://micro.blog/patrickrhone\">@patrickrhone</a></p>\n<p>The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/23304\">albumwhale.com/albums/23&hellip;</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/f2a36a5738.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T10:30:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/113001.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/songs-of-a-lost-world.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/23304\">🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure</a></p>\n<p>Hat Tip To @patrickrhone</p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T10:24:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/songs-of-a-lost-world.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/07/093015.html",
        "title": "Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_31170\"><img alt=\"Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/0cabe321e2.jpg\" /></a><p>Always loved The Cure. First studio in 16 years. My thanks to Patrick Rhone for highlighting this. <a href=\"https://www.patrickrhone.net/15803-2/\">As he writes</a></p></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It’s fantastic. Both classic and modern at the same time.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>For me - his voice is definitely not what it was - but that would be hard - he's still got it.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-07T09:30:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/093015.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/06/another-albumwhale-question-bjhess-if.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Another #AlbumWhale question <a href=\"https://micro.blog/bjhess\">@bjhess</a></p>\n<p>If i see an album on someone else&rsquo;s list I can add it to one of my lists. BUT can I do the same if I have an album on one of my lists? If I want to add it to another one of mine - or even move it. Doable? Cos I can&rsquo;t see that I can. Looking to do some list sorting and consolidation.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-06T19:05:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/06/another-albumwhale-question-bjhess-if.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/a-brand-new-album-whale.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>A brand new <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/steven-wilson\">🔗🎵 Album Whale List</a> that is three times as large as my 2nd largest list.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-05T22:38:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/05/a-brand-new-album-whale.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/about-albumwhale-bjhess-any-known.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>About AlbumWhale - <a href=\"https://micro.blog/bjhess\">@bjhess</a>  - any known issues today - a large number of covers don&rsquo;t seem to be coming through on lists <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/tekphloyd/pink-floyd\">like this</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-05T09:41:27+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/05/about-albumwhale-bjhess-any-known.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/05/its-tomorrow-life-death-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29519\">🔗🎵💿 Life, Death And Dennis Hopper - The Waterboys</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-04T23:49:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/05/its-tomorrow-life-death-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/life-death-and-dennis-hopper.html",
        "title": "Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_30917\"><img alt=\"Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/bb4b02611b.jpg\" /></a><p>ALWAYS loved The Waterboys. This made me sit up - an entire album dedicated to Dennis Hopper - where the music itself moves through the years of Hopper&rsquo;s life.</p></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-04T23:46:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/life-death-and-dennis-hopper.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/back-in-january-announcing-life.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Back in January …</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://sunrecords.com/announcing-life-death-and-dennis-hopper-from-the-waterboys/\">🔗🎵Announcing “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” from The Waterboys | Sun Records</a></p>\n<p>The announcement wasn’t very clear …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” releases from The Waterboys on April 4th.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Today is the 4th. Not here. I guess it will be tomorrow - when it is the 4th in America.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:45:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/back-in-january-announcing-life.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/second-up-cambridge-station.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<center>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/29501\">🔗🎵💿 Cambridge St/ation - Pink Floyd</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"%5Bjohn.philpin.com/search-sp...%5D(https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=)%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF\">The List of Posts</a> that start on <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">AlbumWhale</a></p>\n<div class=\"microblog_collection\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\" alt=\"A rock is featured prominently against a dark background with text reading the Cure and Songs Of A Lost World.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-10.19.542x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\" alt=\"A person wearing a cowboy hat holds a drink, with red and white text promoting Life, Death And Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys, released on April 4, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.00.352x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\" alt=\"An album cover for Pink Floyd The Early Years: 1965-1967 Cambridge St/ation, released on November 11, 2016, featuring abstract artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.05.062x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\" alt=\"An album cover features colorful, psychedelic artwork with intricate designs, abstract figures, and bold text reading Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-07-at-11.09.002x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\" alt=\"A barren, reddish landscape with distant mountains is accompanied by the text More and Pulp, with a release date of June 6, 2025.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-11-at-00.15.032x.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\" alt=\"Enigma's album cover for MCMXC a.D features a cloaked figure standing before a radiant, cross-shaped light, with mystical and atmospheric artwork.\" data-microblog-lightbox=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/cleanshot-2025-04-13-at-10.54.562x.png\"></div>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:39:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/second-up-cambridge-station.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/04/ive-started-a-new-albumwhale.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I&rsquo;ve started a new AlbumWhale list (and I haven&rsquo;t even finished the others! Still.) The new list is called <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/formative-years\">&lsquo;Formative Years&rsquo;</a> &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m an &lsquo;artist&rsquo; guy, then an &lsquo;album&rsquo; guy and then a singles/track guy. I like my music &lsquo;in context&rsquo; The lists in here are way behind what I see in my mind&rsquo;s eye - <strong>BUT</strong> the topics provide a clue to how I relate them all. <br> This new list is all about albums that &lsquo;formed me&rsquo; and contributed to the music world I am today. At the time I might not have recognised it - but in the rear view mirror - absolutely.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>First Up: <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/albums/10291\">Odessey and Oracle By The Zombies</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-04T15:19:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/04/ive-started-a-new-albumwhale.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/04/02/man-cannot-endure-his-own.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Ernest Becker</p>\n<p>&hellip; and then I thought of <a href=\"https://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-steven-wilson-overview\">🔗🎵 The Overview</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-04-02T06:52:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/02/man-cannot-endure-his-own.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/25/scripting-news-monday-march-peter.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"http://scripting.com/2025/03/24.html#a141534\">🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peter O&rsquo;Toole starred in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruling_Class_(film)\">🔗🎬The Ruling Class</a>, a favorite when I was younger. The <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w936v-gomtc\">🎵📼 last song</a> in the movie is pretty freaking great.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Dave Winer</p>\n<p>I agree with Dave - &lsquo;The Ruling Class&rsquo; was a good movie (not great - but good). &lsquo;Favorite&rsquo;? Not so sure, definitely not &lsquo;in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a &lsquo;cult classic&rsquo;. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)</p>\n<p>Four years earlier was <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If....\">🔗🎬 If</a> - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-25T07:38:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/25/scripting-news-monday-march-peter.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","MyFilmReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/23/objects-outlive-us-her-shopping.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/c0KhmJwJzDc?si=tJ-TA6SpzxpbJ6Uf\">🔗🎵📼 Objects Outlive Us</a></p>\n<p>Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing<br>\nDown to the ground, just like star clusters smashing<br>\nBut no one will give her a glance<br>\nThey just shuffle on home in a trance<br>\nThe tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry<br>\nTo make it to church, well, she needs to hurry<br>\nWhen late she will bow down contrite<br>\nWhile a meteor turns out the light</p>\n<p>And there in an ordinary street<br>\nA car isn&rsquo;t where it would normally be<br>\nThe driver in tears, &lsquo;bout his payment arrears<br>\nStill, nobody hears whеn a sun disappears<br>\nIn a galaxy afar</p>\n<p>First day of the new job and hе was so nervous<br>\nThe suit and the platitude, &ldquo;Can I be of service?&rdquo;<br>\nHis boss made him clean all the cars<br>\nWhile he wondered, &ldquo;Is there life on Mars?&rdquo;<br>\nAnd meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order<br>\nWhile we bicker on with our fences and borders<br>\nBut best not think about that<br>\nIt&rsquo;s better to live without facts</p>\n<p>And now in her old wedding bed<br>\nA lady will dream that her husband is dead<br>\nOf course he&rsquo;s alive, he&rsquo;ll be home around five<br>\nStill, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way</p>\n<p>The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt<br>\nAnd oddly the first spots make Orion&rsquo;s belt as<br>\nYou queue at the bank for an hour<br>\n&lsquo;Cause a solar flare blew out the power<br>\nThe nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub<br>\nThe water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub<br>\nIs draining away as we speak<br>\nBut she loses her job there next week</p>\n<p>And there with his first telescope<br>\nA teenager stands full of hormones and hope<br>\nAs he squints at the night, like a painting of light<br>\nHe doesn&rsquo;t suppose that a black hole implodes<br>\nIn a trillion tears from now (Ah)</p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)</p>",
        "date_published": "2025-03-23T14:46:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/23/objects-outlive-us-her-shopping.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/23/its-incredible-how-supposed-pros.html",
        "title": "It's Incredible How Supposed 'Pros' Just Don't Get It.",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://puck.news/how-long-can-the-apple-tv-plus-experiment-sputter-on/\">🔗 How Long Can the Apple TV+ Experiment Sputter On?</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://deadline.com/2025/03/apple-appletv-annual-streaming-losses-1236345490/\">🔗 Apple Losing Over $1 Billion A Year On Streaming</a></p>\n<p><strong>And still they don’t get it.</strong></p>\n<p>In business there is a concept called channel attribution where they try to tie the expenses of email, social, web site, collateral, inside sales, field sales …. You name it .. to sales - and then leaders of those departments attempt to win more budget for their channel because that channel will give the best ROI. #Bollocks</p>\n<p>Back in ’96 a little company started up - its intention was to be the solution to omni channel attribution. Bought by Adobe 15 years later to continue to do that. It doesn’t but that’s an altogether different story. Today, the likes of Gartner even maintain a category called multi touch attribution it’s big - <strong>and still doesn’t answer the question</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>But - back to Apple.</strong> The thing that both those pieces up there are going on about is meaningless and strikes me more as ‘reverse Channel attribution’. In <strong>this</strong> model they are trying to work out what revenue contribution to the mothership each channel (streaming in this case) is responsible for and whether it is profitable. I am far from convinced Apple thinks this way. In face they barely even break out their hardware, much less something like streaming. (That said - if anyone really wants to get into the down and dirty look no further than <strong>[Horace Dediu])(<a href=\"https://www.asymco.com\">https://www.asymco.com</a>)</strong> - but I digress.</p>\n<p>IF that was even a concern of Apple’s do you think they wouldn’t have been doing something about it?  I could go on - but will resist - because  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/gruber\">@gruber</a> said it best.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How much did Apple &ldquo;lose&rdquo; on electricity bills last year?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>He had two pieces on the <strong>NON</strong> story. <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/21/belloni-apple-tv\">🔗 Here</a> and <a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/21/apple-tv-spend-loss-or-cost\">🔗 here</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/_2sz_YwwwQ4\">🔗🎵📼  Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-23T14:19:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/23/its-incredible-how-supposed-pros.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/14/day-zero-its-here.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Day Zero. It’s here.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-15T09:44:22+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/14/day-zero-its-here.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/11/this-bifrost-from-austria-amazing.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9XHwIggU5c\">🔗🎵📼 This Bifrost</a> from Austria - amazing as they are - are very different to</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC-KEBO6-1LxZTxjYmNjW4VQ\">🔗🎵📼 The Danish Bifrost</a> that I remember from the 70s</p>\n<p><strong>Danish Bifrost Hits</strong> (is that the right word)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVrslQu5Lw\">🔗🎵📼 Here</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCcAoZ8z3zs\">🔗🎵📼 And Here</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-12T09:36:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/11/this-bifrost-from-austria-amazing.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/need-to-look-into-woodkid.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Need to look into WOODKID more. <strong>A lot more.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/5tEfYvY3bAg\">🔗🎵📼 Watch</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-07T12:02:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/need-to-look-into-woodkid.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/06/great-rockentours-interview-with-andy.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Great Rockentours interview with Andy Partridge - more kudos and recognition of the Monkees than all their other shows added together.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-07T06:40:09+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/06/great-rockentours-interview-with-andy.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/04/daring-fireball-another-tim-cook.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/03/cook-something-in-the-air\">Daring Fireball: Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: &lsquo;There&rsquo;s Something in the Air&rsquo;</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/gruber\">@gruber</a> … Is it just me that thinks 🍎 missed a trick by not using <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=qJae3Q2l-BY\">🔗🎵📼Thunderclap’s song</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-05T04:24:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/04/daring-fireball-another-tim-cook.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/03/03/good-morning-good-morning-good.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📸</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/sjb9AxDkwAQ\">🔗📼🎵 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/c44f000aae.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-04T02:40:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/03/good-morning-good-morning-good.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/24/originally-posted-april-relevant.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Originally posted <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/29/this-week-i.html\">April 2020</a> - <strong>Relevant</strong>.</p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" playsinline=\"playsinline\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/22c864bf3b.mov\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" poster=\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2020/dbc226b365.png\" preload=\"none\"></video></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-02-25T15:38:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/24/originally-posted-april-relevant.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/23/blog-challenge-music-edition-thank.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/blog-challenge-music-edition/\">🎵 🖇️ Blog Challenge - Music Edition</a> - thank you for the inspiration <a href=\"https://micro.blog/Annie\">@Annie</a></p>\n<p><strong>🚧 Links To Posts by Others</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Annie\">@Annie</a> - <a href=\"https://anniemueller.com/posts/blog-challenge-music-edition\">Annie&rsquo;s Post</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/kaa\">@kaa</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/hutaffe\">@hutaffe</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/endonend\">@endonend</a> - <a href=\"https://endonend.org/2025/02/24/blog-challenge-music-edition.html\">Jason&rsquo;s Post</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/gregmoore\">@gregmoore</a> - <a href=\"https://blog.gregmoore.me/2025/02/24/blog-challenge-music-edition.html\">Greg&rsquo;s Post</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/mb\">@mb</a> - <a href=\"https://jarunmb.com/posts/blog-challenge-music\">Michael&rsquo;s Post</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/robb\">@robb</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-02-24T08:51:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/blog-challenge-music-edition-thank.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? WIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/23/love-the-waterboys-and-today.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://song.link/i/1785066779\">🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://song.link/i/1785066677\">🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys</a></p>\n<p>If these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-02-24T06:35:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/23/love-the-waterboys-and-today.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/09/til-that-buffy-saintemarie-wrote.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>TIL that Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote 🎵 Universal Soldier - a song that for some reason (maybe because I only ever heard his version and it was a relatively big hit in the UK) &hellip;  had always assumed <strong>Donovan</strong> wrote. 🤦‍♂️</p>\n<p>I found out by reading <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290971/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-canadian-honor-indigenous\">🔗 this</a> - which is a sad story that I have no opinion about.</p>\n<blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-02-10T09:52:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/09/til-that-buffy-saintemarie-wrote.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>? If you&rsquo;re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice&rsquo;s Restaurant</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Dave Winer</p>\n<p>Yesterday ..  (<a href=\"http://scripting.com/2025/02/06/230816.html?title=ifYoureFeelingStressed\">If you&rsquo;re feeling stressed</a>) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/02/best-viewed-on-the-site.html\">🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song</a></p>\n<p>Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.</p>\n<h4 id=\"but\">BUT</h4>\n<p>It is now <strong>2025</strong> - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?</p>\n<p>🎵 I know - who cares - its just a &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7H4mPmvBI\">🔗📼 Sign &lsquo;O&rsquo; the Times</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0\">🔗📼 Sign Of The Times</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JsGlr0i2Gk\">🔗📼 Sign Of The Times</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkeGjeUFpDM\">🔗📼 Sign Of The Times</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtuWWYWV7c\">🔗📼 Sign Of The Times</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-02-08T08:17:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/07/if-youre-feeling-stressed-hum.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/thank-you-roger-the-words.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Thank you Roger</strong></p>\n<p>The words throughout the 4 part ‘series’ courtesy of Roger Waters - so fitting to end this post with one of his.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Picture a courthouse with no fucking laws<br>\nPicture a cathouse with no fucking whores<br>\nPicture a shithouse with no fucking drains<br>\nPicture a leader with no fucking brains</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/j_JhGnC6MQY?si=gEuHayFxf9tgp32l\">🔗 🎵 📼 Picture THAT</a></p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-28T07:42:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/thank-you-roger-the-words.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/27/105300.html",
        
        "content_html": "<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/90b20c659e.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-28T06:53:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/27/105300.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? AI Expts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/26/140413.html",
        
        "content_html": "<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/4c2314fad0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-27T10:04:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/26/140413.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? AI Expts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/23/051506.html",
        
        "content_html": "<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8c360ffc8f.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-24T01:15:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/23/051506.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? AI Expts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/06/goodbye-cruel-world-im-leaving.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/a92429eb51.png\" alt=\"Goodbye cruel world, I&rsquo;m leaving you today, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye. Goodbye all you people, There&rsquo;s nothing you can say, To make me change my mind. Goodbye\"></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-07T06:15:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/06/goodbye-cruel-world-im-leaving.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? AI Expts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2025/01/04/confusion-will-be-my-epitaph.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Confusion will be my epitaph</p>\n<p>As I crawl a cracked and broken path</p>\n<p>If we make it we can all sit back and laugh</p>\n<p>But I fear tomorrow I&rsquo;ll be crying</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-01-05T18:35:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/04/confusion-will-be-my-epitaph.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/30/slowed-me-down-for-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Slowed me down for a second. Great - but how the hell do you find a record shop?</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/1311be7f54.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Ahmet moved on from planet earth nearly 20 years ago, so the quote pre dates that by a few more — so makes more sense, but still I think Bob’s quote machine needs more relevance.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/12/30/hit-records/\">🔗🎵 Lefsetz Letter - Hit Records\t</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-12-31T12:46:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/30/slowed-me-down-for-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/26/riverside-tim-bowen-pineapple-thief.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Riverside, Tim Bowen, Pineapple Thief, Gong, Luantic Soul, Gazpacho, Trifecta, Mars Volta, Gentle Giant, Opeth, Anathema, Haken, Gazpacho …</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-12-27T19:27:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/riverside-tim-bowen-pineapple-thief.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵🎙️So talented and humble. One of my favorites - and interviewed by Terry Gross to boot.</p>\n<p>[🔗 <strong>Beethoven</strong> meets <strong>Jazz</strong> meets The <strong>Blues</strong>](<a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNGyOc\">overcast.fm/+AAYs_mNG&hellip;</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-12-13T06:49:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/12/so-talented-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/29/beth-hart-wow.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/WYWaKp2yuU0?si=pIcZZHuhhE0IC-rZ\">🔗📼🎵Beth Hart</a> - WOW</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-30T10:05:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/29/beth-hart-wow.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/26/ian-anderson-guesting.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Ian Anderson guesting on ‘Opeth14’ .. BUT the ‘Death Metal scream’ is back.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-27T18:33:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/26/ian-anderson-guesting.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/08/revolution-did-it.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw\">🔗📼🎵 Revolution</a> … Did it happen? Is it happening? Will it happen?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-08T07:34:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/08/revolution-did-it.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/do-you-care.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/RhJ0q7X3DLM\">🔗📼🎵 Do you care about your rights?</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-07T19:03:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/do-you-care.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/twice-in-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8\">🔗📼🎵 Twice In A Lifetime - Apparently</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-07T18:21:39+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/twice-in-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/11/07/have-you-lost.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg\">🔗📼🎵Have you lost your religion? What is your ‘religion’ anyway? It should probably just be taken away - let’s not leave it to chance.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-11-07T17:45:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/07/have-you-lost.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/pete-wingfield-another.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html\">🎵🖇️ 18 - 1975</a> - Pete Wingfield.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://song.link/i/1629177761\">🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track</a> - this one from Paul Hardcastle.</p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes time goes slow.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-21T11:10:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/pete-wingfield-another.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://song.link/i/1585959748\">🔗 🎵 A Trip Down Memory Lane With Pete Wingfield</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-21T10:54:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/last-time-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why <a href=\"https://soundplate.com/songwhip-alternative-2024/\">🎵 🔗 TIL Why</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-21T10:48:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/last-time-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
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        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/21/for-me-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 For me - a collection that totally outshines everything he did around and for the Pistols.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/8ba856288e.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"156\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-21T10:42:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/for-me-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/16/i-hope-ted.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I hope Ted is right.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://substack.com/home/post/p-142732835\">🔗🎵9️⃣ Predictions for the Future of the Music Business</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a3ceb09a51.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-16T21:11:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/i-hope-ted.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/14/i-know-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I know I know - but yes only just discovered <strong>Mike Dawes</strong> - thanks to Rick Beato &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1FIm4KYZE\">🔗 📼 🎵Here</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdOCzLH6d4\">🔗 📼 🎵And Here</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMGZPhbSmwY\">🔗 📼 🎵And Here Again</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19egkC5QsM\">🔗 📼 🎵The Rick Beato interview.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-14T14:08:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/i-know-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/sault-essentials/pl.e5e56cb822524fc1bc858b980e09e2e2\">🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears</a> (🍎Essentials)</p>\n<p>Listen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat</p>\n<p>Its ONE &lsquo;band&rsquo; from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.</p>\n<p>They have produced a LOT of albums.</p>\n<p><strong>They are extraordinary.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-12T18:22:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/music-to-massage.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/03/just-listened-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Just listened to Gilbert&rsquo;s 2024 release - he&rsquo;s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original <a href=\"https://song.link/i/1713821445\">🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed</a> .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural musical habitat.)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-03T13:05:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/03/just-listened-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/10/02/you-might-not.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>You might not recognize the words - <a href=\"https://song.link/6xh3h0prgnrqm\">🔗🎵 but you will certainly recognize the song</a>. Superb re-imagination.</p>\n<p>How did i get here?<br>\nSitting on this spinning sphere<br>\nWhen will I leave here<br>\nWe know death is always near<br>\nI try to understand but answers don&rsquo;t come easily<br>\nFriends always deceiving me<br>\nIs this what life&rsquo;s supposed to be?<br>\nHuman animals<br>\nWe roam the earth in search of blood<br>\nHope for humanity?<br>\nI don&rsquo;t think there ever was<br>\nWe&rsquo;re in perpetual war, and that&rsquo;s the only law<br>\nCan I change it? I doubt it<br>\nSo I write songs about it<br>\nI was young once but now I&rsquo;ve grown old<br>\nRight in front of your еyes you&rsquo;ve seen my life unfold<br>\nI had no choicе as I became the underdog&rsquo;s voice<br>\nA young black kid&hellip; look what the fuck I did!<br>\nWhen I&rsquo;m gone there&rsquo;ll be someone to carry on<br>\nWe can give in, give up, or we can stay strong<br>\nHow accepting of the bullshit we&rsquo;ve all become<br>\nThis whole world is&hellip; comfortably numb<br>\nHello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?<br>\nHello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?</p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ve got a TV, a computer, so you don&rsquo;t care<br>\nA roof, some clothes, some food<br>\nThat&rsquo;s right, it&rsquo;s all there<br>\nLock yourself in your house, try to forget about<br>\nThe millions dyin' from wars, starvation and drought<br>\nYou&rsquo;ve got your own problems - yes, we all do<br>\nNobody is free from stress, not him, or me, or you<br>\nBut still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight<br>\nIn the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight<br>\nI don&rsquo;t want no drama but I carry a gun<br>\nI don&rsquo;t want no problems but they&rsquo;ll probably come<br>\nSo we get high to wash away the pain<br>\nSelf-medication, but that shit is all done in vain<br>\nWe think that we can hide away from the misery<br>\nYou can close your eyes but still can plainly see<br>\nThere&rsquo;s nowhere to run&hellip;<br>\nYou&rsquo;re just comfortably numb</p>\n<p>Hello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?<br>\nHello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?</p>\n<p>I spent half my life just trying to survive<br>\nAnd the other half trying to keep you all alive<br>\nFor some reason I still care<br>\nI&rsquo;ve done my dirt<br>\nIt&rsquo;s amazing that i&rsquo;m still here<br>\nThere&rsquo;s true evil out there, I&rsquo;ve been trying to warn you<br>\nYou could meet the devil himself, then what you gonna do?<br>\nNo time to pray, no chance to run<br>\nListen&hellip; &lsquo;cause I&rsquo;ve been on both sides of the gun<br>\nAs you stand before me we&rsquo;re all here as one<br>\nWe gotta come together or our chances are none<br>\nMaybe I&rsquo;m just a dreamer, too many obstacles<br>\nThe though of humans coexisting, that&rsquo;s impossible<br>\nBetter to stay numb, live in denial<br>\nWe&rsquo;re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves<br>\nToo much religious beef, too much racist shit<br>\nAnd if there is a God we probably make him sick</p>\n<p>Hello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?<br>\nHello&hellip; is anybody out there?<br>\nCan anybody hear me?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-10-02T07:50:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/02/you-might-not.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/09/15/doom-folk-tell.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Doom Folk? Tell Me More.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-09-15T00:02:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/15/doom-folk-tell.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/13/matchstalk-men-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmopSVOMSsU\">🔗 📼 🎵 📸 Matchstalk men and matchstalk <del>cats and</del> dogs</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/73d9fcf1cd.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-08-13T11:42:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/13/matchstalk-men-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/08/12/thanks-to-bob.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Thanks to Bob Lefsetz, I just found out about The Last Dinner Party and .. holy crap .. talk about arriving on the scene hot .. with a stunning debut.</p>\n<p>Rock is clearly not yet dead.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-08-12T15:22:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/12/thanks-to-bob.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/27/remembering-bill.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjOLX_PSUM\">🔗 📼 🎵 😂 Remembering Bill</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-27T18:10:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/remembering-bill.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Humour"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/20/i-find-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>💬 🎵</p>\n<p>I find a lot of Andrew Hickey&rsquo;s observations quite insightful. Like this one &hellip;.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/71ad21c045.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-20T10:02:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/20/i-find-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
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        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/10/bob-told-me.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html\">🔗🎵 Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found. I still remember sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-10T13:33:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/bob-told-me.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html",
        "title": "🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermarket",
        "content_html": "<p>Twenty Two Years Ago - give or take - my friend Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found called &lsquo;In Abstentia&rsquo;. Still at the top of my memory banks sees me sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown as I listened to …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/blackest-eyes/1581760123?i=1581760125\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Blackest Eyes - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p>He dropped me the MP3s that evening - and in turn they got moved to my iPod for my listening pleasure. That weekend I was up in San Francisco and did a detour to this store.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/babfb6c550.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Yes ‘that’ specific one - it had served me well thought the 90s and though Amazon was beginning to creep into my world - Tower still held a special place for me - particularly for special music.</p>\n<p>… and the rest is history - I have heard it all (ok - not &lsquo;all&rsquo; - the dude is prolific), but I do have over FIFTY of his albums in CD format and seen him live in different formats maybe eight times across two continents.</p>\n<p><strong>All this as a backdrop to this morning’s trip to the Supermarket.</strong></p>\n<p>.. and to say that if anyone spotted me this morning in the Supermarket  - smiling, taking my head, bouncing even … this is why. (Jax believes Wilson’s music is sad and makes her sad.) Me? Yes it is sad - but I am with Wilson on this</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“I don&rsquo;t tend to write songs about things that make me happy. I tend to write songs about things that make me angry or melancholic or sad.\nThose are the things that make me want to express or exercise something through my songwriting.\nThere&rsquo;s a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia.&quot;</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Steven Wilson</p>\n<p>In no particular order - other than this is the order the tracks got played .. and Yes &hellip; <strong>Apple Music</strong> - because why wouldn’t you?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-watchmaker/684102613?i=684102654\">🔗🎵 ‎The Watchmaker - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/pariah-feat-ninet-tayeb/1440885200?i=1440885210\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Pariah (feat. Ninet Tayeb) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/permanating-ewan-pearson-mix/1444887057?i=1444887060\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Permanating (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/trains/1581760123?i=1581760127\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Trains - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/sectarian/674008092?i=674008185\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Sectarian - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/four-chords-that-made-a-million/1576936763?i=1576936775\">‎🔗🎵 ‎Four Chords That Made a Million - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/like-dust-i-have-cleared-from-my-eye/674008092?i=674008204\">‎🔗🎵 ‎Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-raven-that-refused-to-sing/684102613?i=684102658\">🔗🎵 ‎The Raven That Refused to Sing - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/grace-for-drowning/674008092?i=674008182\">‎🔗🎵 ‎Grace for Drowning - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/index/674008092?i=674008198\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Index - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/belle-de-jour/674008092?i=674008196\">‎Belle De Jour - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/postcard/674008092?i=674008190\">‎🔗🎵 ‎Postcard - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/personal-shopper/1582188266?i=1582188593\">🔗🎵 ‎‎PERSONAL SHOPPER - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a> - featuring <strong>Elton John</strong> on &lsquo;Shopping List&rsquo;.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/luminol/684102613?i=684102617\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Luminol - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/deform-to-form-a-star/674008092?i=674008187\">🔗🎵 ‎‎Deform to Form a Star - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/signify/1170647017?i=1170647438\">‎🔗🎵 ‎Signify - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-10T13:30:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/07/06/142141.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📸🎵</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/0cb22ce6c7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-07-06T14:21:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/06/142141.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/24/woke-up-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📸 🌊 🎵 ‘Woke Up This Morning’ … duh duh da duh</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f1d40bd8df2d47a287397608437a831c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: auto;\" class=\"sunlit_image\" />\n<p>Maybe 🎵 ‘Morning Has Broken’</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/971d82b2f7b2423d895891f066efa0a2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: auto;\" class=\"sunlit_image\" />\n<p>No 🎵 ‘Same As It Ever Was’</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/e098c980fc9041aea1d6f0895eedd433.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" style=\"height: auto;\" class=\"sunlit_image\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-24T09:49:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/24/woke-up-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Bay"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/14/fascinating.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎈166/366 <a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/the-strangest-hit-songwriter-in-history\">🔗 🎵 Fascinating</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-14T07:59:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/14/fascinating.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/13/memories-moving-to.html",
        "title": "🎈165/366 🎵 Memories Moving To The Future",
        "content_html": "<p>A <strong>Musical Box</strong> - no, not <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIO-3Zj_QfY\">🔗 🎵 that one</a> - though in itself well worth a watch - <strong>Gabriel at his theatrical finest in 1974.</strong></p>\n<p>I happened to drift around some music videos on YouTube last night - and well - some of them just needed to be shared …</p>\n<h5 id=\"starting-with-a-couple-from-robert-plant-with-the-shape-shifters\">Starting with a couple from Robert Plant with the Shape Shifters</h5>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLB6i-Sg0lA&amp;\">🔗 🎵 1 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdbEMc7Geg\">🔗 🎵 2 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits</a></p>\n<h5 id=\"and-then-\">And Then …</h5>\n<p><strong>Moving on to why Music has a problem. 9 minutes from Rick Beato - listen.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns\">🔗 🎵 Rick Beato on Music created by AI</a> - All AI generated tracks come from <a href=\"https://www.udio.com\">🔗 Udio</a></p>\n<p><strong>Lets see how long it takes AI to do this …</strong></p>\n<p>All is not lost - except it might be because we have seen time and time again how the extraordinary is not always understood and often ignored.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DwiF-A_YM\">🔗 🎵 Guthrie playing .. in The Hans Zimmer Show</a> … just watch Zimmer’s face during this 2 minute solo …</p>\n<p><strong>Who the hell is Guthrie (apart from the finest living exponent of the guitar  you will ever hear.)</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9kWNc_WX8\">🔗 🎵 Rick spends 10 minutes answering that exact question</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-13T10:26:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/13/memories-moving-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/10/ten-new-albums.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎈162/366  <a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/ten-new-albums-im-enjoying-right\">🎵🔗 Ten New Albums I Am Enjoying Right Now - Ted Gioia</a></p>\n<p>This is a track from one of them.</p>\n<iframe src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2027826597/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=535295617/transparent=true/\" width=\"640\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n<p><strong>LOVE IT</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-10T12:20:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/10/ten-new-albums.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/08/early-one-morning.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎈160/366 📸 🌊 “<a href=\"https://youtu.be/hceIrvvbkkE?si=zhTUE9e_5B4AeEcS\">🔗🎵📼 Early one morning just as the day was dawning …</a>”</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6a77b6af13.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-08T08:04:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/08/early-one-morning.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos","366","? Bay"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/03/the-first-vision.html",
        "title": "🎈155/366 The First Vision Pro Concert Movie",
        "content_html": "<p>I have touched on this before but after reading a Lefsetz post over the weekend, decided to expand a little and log the thinking for posterity.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/05/31/dead-company-at-the-sphere/\">🔗 Lefsetz Letter - Company At The Sphere</a> - that&rsquo;s the link to where <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/02/ill-come-back.html\">🖇️ this quote</a> came from that I published this weekend. I said I&rsquo;d be back&hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2016/06/01/someone-else-who.html\">Around 2016 - &lsquo;the term &lsquo;spatial&rsquo; was being coined&rsquo;.</a> - though I personally think Apple&rsquo;s &lsquo;spatial&rsquo; is a light year or two ahead of where Mr. Scoble was at the time (He&rsquo;s very quiet these days, isn&rsquo;t he?)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/the-vision-pro.html\">🖇️ But February this year</a> I made some pretty logical predictions about the first Vision Pro Movie.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/17/i-dont-make.html\">🖇️ And in October last year I was predicting that The Sphere was a pretty good place to start on a ‘Vision Pro Concert Series’</a> - and I think Apple will be the one to do it. Well, maybe not &lsquo;doing&rsquo; it - but certainly financing it.</p>\n<p>I still think that.</p>\n<p><strong>But who will be the director and/or subject matter for this groundbreaking event?</strong></p>\n<h4 id=\"whos-out\">Who&rsquo;s Out?</h4>\n<p>Despite <strong>Tay Tay</strong>&rsquo;s global appeal, it won&rsquo;t be her. The Swifties don&rsquo;t have the money to buy the Pro.</p>\n<p><strong>Peter Jackson</strong> is deep into the latest tech to do great things, definitely a friend of Apple - and his foray into music with The Beatles is interesting - but no, no Sphere experience and besides <a href=\"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-2026-release-warner-bros-1235997102/\">🔗 he is deep into his next Trilogy</a> .. as Producer - not Director,  but still ..</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Original &ldquo;The Lord of the Rings&rdquo; trilogy filmmaker <a href=\"https://variety.com/t/peter-jackson/\">Peter Jackson</a> and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are producing the movie and &ldquo;will be involved every step of the way,&rdquo; Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during an earnings call Thursday.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>Phish</strong>? I dunno - not seeing it.</p>\n<h4 id=\"so-whos-in\">So Who&rsquo;s In?</h4>\n<p>Two very real possibilities &hellip;</p>\n<p><strong>U2</strong> - deeply intertwined with Apple - remember the album? And then they were first up at the Sphere - <strong>and</strong> Zane Lowe hanging out with them, talking with them. We have seen some of the footage, but who knows what was taken off the &lsquo;back stage&rsquo; for the first Vision Pro movie?</p>\n<p>&hellip; but I am wondering - and well out of left field - but &hellip;</p>\n<p><strong>The Grateful Dead</strong> - who have always been at the bleeding edge of touring and spectacle</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &lsquo;Home&rsquo; band for Bay Area based Apple</li>\n<li>Sphere residency happening - even as I type</li>\n<li>Residency coincided with Earth Day 2024 (very ‘Appley’)</li>\n<li>Lots of San Francisco through time imagery featured in the show</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-dead-rise-again_b_11417820\">🔗 and then there is this</a> - Huff Post - so maybe a pinch of salt is needed, written eight years ago …but <strong>written by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bradley\">Bill Bradey</a></strong>, so not his usual subject matter - but certainly no slouch.</li>\n<li>Note that <strong>Mayer is also part of The Sphere residency</strong>.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>It’s all fitting in for this bear.</p>\n<p>The only hard thing to reconcile is that ‘Tay Tay’ problem. Is there an overlap?</p>\n<p>I think there just might be.</p>\n<p>What do you think?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-03T11:06:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/03/the-first-vision.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Posts","? LongForm","? Links","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/06/02/ill-come-back.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I’ll come back to this later. Lefsetz has already connected some dots .. but he didn’t go on and introduce the lurking ‘hobby’ that ‘solves this’ and is a clear and present danger to the entertainment industry if they continue to focus on BAU.</p>\n<p>The last paragraph.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/248e0c67f2.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-06-02T07:50:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/02/ill-come-back.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes","Quotewise","MyFilmReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/27/you-just-cant.html",
        "title": "You Just Can't Tell. Nobody Can.",
        "content_html": "<p>I love listening to knowledgeable 🎵 people steeped in ‘the lore’, ‘the history’ .. I can swim in it forever. An inevitable question appears somewhere in the conversation .. “did you know it was going to be a hit?”</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>no clue mate</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>… is the usual <strong>and correct</strong> response.</p>\n<p>Same with newsletters. You just can’t tell. I keep reading over and over different writers that are surprised when their ‘magnum opus’ falls flat and a ‘throwaway’ goes viral.</p>\n<p>My throwaway newsletter from a couple of days ago gave me an equal numbers of unsubscribes and subscribes … no viral accelerator for me .. but after being flat for over a year - my ‘paid subscriptions’ increased by around 10%. Not only that, but the subscription broke a psychological barrier - paid for subscriptions hit ‘<strong>double figures</strong>’ 🥳</p>\n<p>The point is that you just don’t know - right?</p>\n<p>If you want to read it - <a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/im-not-stopping\">🔗 you can</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/dfecef2197.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n<CENTER>Photo by [🔗 James Lee](https://substack.com/redirect/09651325-975c-4a6e-a218-0fb09410b5ab?j=eyJ1IjoiMWxwdTM5In0.dEnYKl1imVKzccE2tJUXGZbsiuKVg5wkA36RX1iww2w) on [🔗 Unsplash](https://substack.com/redirect/c33d1219-1f48-49fb-b798-bbfccea70c66?j=eyJ1IjoiMWxwdTM5In0.dEnYKl1imVKzccE2tJUXGZbsiuKVg5wkA36RX1iww2w)</CENTER>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-27T12:25:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/27/you-just-cant.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/i-stumbled-across.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I stumbled across this today as I was collecting <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/in-no-particular.html\">🖇️ these</a>. I nearly moved through because ‘Kelly’ - but I am a sucker for Jeff, so …</p>\n<p>Holy Crap …<a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=qCdDpjZPREU&amp;si=WgSCwEFsD09Bscrz\">🔗 🎵 📼 Jeff Daniels</a></p>\n<p>.. I was under the impression he had only recently written it - but this from 13 years ago - suggests otherwise.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pa-XYi49Jg8&amp;si=tYwQNKd21niSo8NI\">🔗 🎵 📼 Jeff Daniels</a>.</p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n<p>&hellip; another two &lsquo;broken links&rsquo; .. has something changed?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-25T10:56:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/i-stumbled-across.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/25/in-no-particular.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>In no particular order (except for perhaps the first two) …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=EcKHuvkAEDM&amp;si=aVe4jFcaROfZsjsa\">🔗 🎵 📼 Nina Simone</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=_2sz_YwwwQ4&amp;si=DcD1j0LZS4jEFtlG\">🔗 🎵 📼 The Animals</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=F50KZ-iGs4k&amp;si=p_uJfaP7QmMCmXjY\">🔗 🎵 📼 Jac Ross</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=yOJmBI-ZgN4&amp;si=8lL5RamRE3O-WJOL\">🔗 🎵 📼 Cat Stevens</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=tE1axH-PocI&amp;si=5nDFw9jEFS2kgv7B\">🔗 🎵 📼 Elvis Costello</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=ity-l7be1z0&amp;si=ERXsdMB0Oo9RmQsK\">🔗 🎵 📼 Joe Cocker</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=-XvHy4PY_dg&amp;si=zmZxUWfGOVhttf9c\">🔗 🎵 📼 Cyndi Lauper</a></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvXeeus94GY&amp;si=fwKtdAFm9HuJu07a\">🔗 🎵 📼 Santa Esmeralda</a></p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n<p>We all get that broken link message from time to time don’t we? What is particularly interesting on this post is to find EIGHT blocks - I wonder if it is the writers insisting on the block -  I don’t think there I any other constant.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-25T10:51:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/25/in-no-particular.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/09/now-that-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Now 🎵 THAT is what I call a lineup.</strong></p>\n<p>The 2 &lsquo;permanent&rsquo; members of the Haiku Hillbillies plus their occasional <strong>phenomenal</strong> guest guitarist Tom Conway. Right there I miss Maui. And all the more special to be at Ocean Vodka.</p>\n<p>paging // <a href=\"https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold\">@crossingthethreshold</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d61b510fdb.png\" width=\"487\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-09T12:24:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/09/now-that-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/i-love-rick.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I love Rick Beato&rsquo;s podcast channel and Ted Gioia&rsquo;s writing and so was delighted to watch this meeting of minds last night &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4sEl8avug\">🔗🎵📼 Rick and Ted &lsquo;chat&rsquo;</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-02T07:20:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/i-love-rick.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/02/for-your-most.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎈123/366 For your most happy listening pleasure &hellip; put me in such a good mood.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8Y3R4dXyc\">🔗🎵📼 The Mariachis with Hugh Cornwell perform Golden Brown</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\" alt=\"straight line\"></p>\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/feed.xml\">📡 Follow with RSS</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366\">🗄️ All the posts</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-02T07:17:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/02/for-your-most.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/01/good-morning-good.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3O23zqqaE\">🔗 🎵 📼 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning</a></p>\n<p>(📸 from earlier today)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/2c1b93ec91.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-01T17:59:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/01/good-morning-good.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/05/01/cigarettes-after-sex.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/04/25/cigarettes-after-sex/\">🔗 Cigarettes After Sex</a> are playing Madison Garden.</p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t worry, I hadn&rsquo;t heard of them either.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/cigarettes-after-sex/apocalypse\">🔗 🎵 Apocalypse</a> is their &lsquo;biggie&rsquo;. (1,233,307,237 streams. Apparently, I must have been under my rock at the time.)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGwX1PrVEFA&amp;si=sA_CdWQjzqAkSB8j\">🔗 🎵 📼 Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die)</a> - not as many!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-05-01T12:50:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/05/01/cigarettes-after-sex.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/30/thats-entertainment.html",
        "title": "That's Entertainment ...",
        "content_html": "<p>No - <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/the-jam/thats-entertainment\">🎵🔗 not this</a></p>\n<p>We knew Ms. Redstone wanted out. Looks like it’s going to happen.</p>\n<p>And Ellison’s Skydance seems to be in the frame for the preferred acquirer  which I definitely do not get - but sure why not?</p>\n<p>I look forward to opinions from people like Rob Long and Peter Kafka, if I were to predict - I am guessing that Long in particular might be thinking like me. (Or am I thinking like him?)</p>\n<p>The main question is what does David think he is buying and what does Shari think she is selling - because <strong>I</strong> think they are two very  different things. But Heh! What do I know?</p>\n<p>(Side Note - The ‘Ellison’ is Larry’s son - who seems to be turning out to be a media/entertainment version of technology dad.)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-04-30T18:36:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/30/thats-entertainment.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/22/years-since-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎈112/366</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/al-stewart/soho-needless-to-say\">🎵 Years since I listened to this and as it turns out - 50 years old this year. As fresh and moving and as brilliant as it was back then.</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\" alt=\"straight line\"></p>\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/feed.xml\">📡 Follow with RSS</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366\">🗄️ All the posts</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-04-22T11:34:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/22/years-since-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/14/have-to-say.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Have to say that were somebody to back me up against a wall - put a gun to my head and ask me <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/top10artists/\">🖇️ who my top 10 artists</a> - ever - were, <strong>XTC</strong> would be on that list.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/ytc9fv96ZGg\">📼 Just finished watching this</a></p>\n<p>Just lovely and a tremendous trip down memory lane.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-04-14T20:53:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/14/have-to-say.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/04/07/but-we-had.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-akjypHazAM\">📼 🎵 But We Had Music</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; via the inimitable Maria Popova</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-04-07T08:33:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/04/07/but-we-had.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/31/in-case-you.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>In case you thought that there’s not much variety in music these days … turns out that at the Macro level - you are spot on.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.ifpi.org/taylor-swift-seventeen-and-morgan-wallen-top-ifpi-global-album-charts/\">🔗 🎵 Global Album Charts - IFPI</a></p>\n<p>TL;DR</p>\n<p>Taylor Swift and Kpop - that’s (just about) it.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-03-31T09:27:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/31/in-case-you.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/27/it-wasnt-just.html",
        "title": "Bowie - It wasn’t just his music that was ahead of its time.",
        "content_html": "<head>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n    <video controls autoplay>\n        <source src=\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2024/bowie.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">\n        <!-- Add more source elements for different video formats if needed -->\n        Your browser does not support the video tag.\n    </video>\n</div>\n</body>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-03-27T05:16:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/27/it-wasnt-just.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyVideoEmbeds","? LongForm","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/22/listening-to-steve.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 🎬 Listening to Steve Howe in interview and my mind keeps hearing Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) being interviewed in Love Actually.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-03-22T18:13:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/22/listening-to-steve.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyFilmReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/03/22/i-can-find.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I can find a song in 🍎 🎵 Music.<br>\nI can play that song in 🍎 Music.<br>\nI can add that song to my library in 🍎 Music.<br>\nI can add that song to a playlist in 🍎 Music.<br>\nAND THEN &hellip; <br>\nIn the playlist in 🍎 Music it is greyed out and I can&rsquo;t play it.</p>\n<p>What is up with that?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-03-22T17:56:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/22/i-can-find.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/06/no-action-except.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Some people respond to me with musical references.</p>\n<p>I do it. A lot. In reverse? Not so much.</p>\n<p>This is an example of someone who has done it a few times. ❤️</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/afea85e019.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>So, may I introduce you to - no, <strong>not</strong> &lsquo;Billy Shears&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>Elvis.</p>\n<p>No, not <strong>that</strong> Elvis.</p>\n<p><strong>This</strong> Elvis.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04xJCIXfh0Y\">🔗 🎵 📼 Elvis Costello Performance</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-02-06T11:48:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/06/no-action-except.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/03/orbital-gorgeous-totally.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yk9qUle01Q\">📼 🎵 Orbital</a></p>\n<p>Gorgeous. Totally gorgeous. Welling with tears.</p>\n<p>In the spirit of John Cooper Clarke and Simon Armitage.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://linktr.ee/st3amco\">🔗 From my friends at Steam</a></p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ll be hearing more about them soon as part of a larger initiative I am working on.</p>\n<p>Oh - and if you like Orbital - you might also enjoy <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oewMXXbl5O0\">🎵 📼 🔗 this</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-02-03T13:33:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/03/orbital-gorgeous-totally.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/02/02/ted-is-often.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>💬 🎵</p>\n<p>Ted is often very wise.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/c7aaac86d8.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2024-02-02T13:47:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/ted-is-often.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/31/moving-in.html",
        "title": "🎈031/366 | 🚚 Moving In",
        "content_html": "<center>\n<p>&laquo; <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/just-a-few.html\">030/366</a> | <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/the-vision-pro.html\">032/366</a> &raquo;</p>\n</center>\n<figure markdown>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/f59c112eea.jpg\" alt=\"a photographic image of &lsquo;cars moving in stereo&rsquo;\"></p>\n<figcaption>’A photographic image of 'cars moving in stereo' By 'Leonardo'</figcaption>\n</figure>\n<p>A lot going on today - net net, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQq91RgZJyw\">🎵 📼 this</a> came to mind.</p>\n<p>When all is said and done and after it’s all come together I’ll come back and explain in the comments.</p>\n<p>If you can&rsquo;t wait - there&rsquo;s a clue in both audio and visual.</p>\n<p>Until then. <strong>Enjoy …</strong></p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>LATER</strong></p>\n<p>1st February</p>\n<p>Teejay and om</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://categorypirates.substack.com/p/annual-strategy-planning-therapy?r=2d79&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_campaign=post\">https://categorypirates.substack.com/p/annual-strategy-planning-therapy?r=2d79&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_campaign=post</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://om.co/2024/01/21/week-3-project-365-wrap-up/\">om.co/2024/01/2&hellip;</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\" alt=\"straight line\"></p>\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/feed.xml\">📡 Follow with RSS</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366\">🗄️ All the posts</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-30T23:13:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/moving-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/28/i-learned-about.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I learned about a 🎵musical 🎻 instrument museum through a Substack a couple of weeks ago. I’m a sucker for that ‘kind’ of museum.</p>\n<p>Imagine my delight to discover that in another couple of weeks, when we have moved into our new digs, it will be just a 6 <strong>minute</strong> walk to visit.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-28T16:10:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/i-learned-about.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/24/theres-something-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>There&rsquo;s <a href=\"https://youtu.be/qJae3Q2l-BY?si=8iZixpuStW9x73i0\">📼🎵 something in the air</a>. Anybody else feeling it?</p>\n<p>It started happening last week. <strong>All good.</strong></p>\n<p>But .. not all good apparently 😖</p>\n<p>I tried to find a post on my site to link to - #FAIL.</p>\n<p><strong>This is the message</strong></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>2024-01-23 11:34:07\tError: Error building site: open content/2022/01/01/the-first-message.md: no such file or directory</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/01/the-first-message.html\">🖇️ But it <strong>is</strong> there</a></p>\n<p>Gnashing teeth.</p>\n<p>Talk about a downer!</p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-24T12:10:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/24/theres-something-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/24/hadnt-heard-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Hadn&rsquo;t heard this for years. Still love it.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc\">📼 Streetband - Toast</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-24T05:58:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/24/hadnt-heard-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/22/steve-winwood-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Steve Winwood and Carlos - and no - I do not know how I missed this 2 to 3 years ago - but missed it I did.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/santana/whiter-shade-of-pale\">🎵 🔗 Whiter Shade of Pale</a></p>\n<p>Well worth recording. Well worth a listen.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H34BgCdH7aY\">📼 .. and then a little older.</a> &hellip; GROOVIN!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-22T15:01:53+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/steve-winwood-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/20/three-different-links.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Three different links from three different sources covering 🎵 and the future thereof.</p>\n<p>TL;DR &hellip; It&rsquo;s not looking good.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/theankler/p/agents-new-big-deal-quitting\">🔗 The death of package fees, consolidation and layoffs have sharks swimming away in record numbers into management.</a> - The Ankler</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/\">🔗 How platforms killed Pitchfork?</a> - Casey Newton</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/why-is-music-journalism-collapsing\">🔗 Why is music journalism collapsing?</a> - Ted Gioia</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-20T10:00:09+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/three-different-links.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2024/01/12/cake-by-the.html",
        "title": "🎈012/366 | 🎂 Cake By The Ocean",
        "content_html": "<center>\n<p>&laquo; <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/11/a-future-vision.html\">011/366</a> | <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/13/typewriters-and-more.html\">013/366</a> &raquo;</p>\n</center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/69978f5225.jpg\" alt=\"A Cake By The Sea - courtesy of Leonardo.\"></p>\n<p>It’s true. My ‘under the rock’ habitat continues into 2024.</p>\n<p>I asked a six year old yesterday if he liked music … yes … so what’s your favorite song?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74_\">🔗🎵 📼 This one</a></p>\n<p>I hadn’t heard of DNCE - but liked this one enough to poke around … wait … it’s Joe Jonas?</p>\n<p>Personally, never a big fan of the Jonas brothers - but adding this to my list of (two so far) singers that switched me. The other one is Harry Styles (never a big fan of One Direction).</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ca962a7041.jpg\" alt=\"straight line\"></p>\n\n\n\n\nAt the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/feed.xml\">📡 Follow with RSS</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/366\">🗄️ All the posts</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2024-01-12T07:20:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/12/cake-by-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? LongForm","366"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/16/car-drivers-torment.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.honest-broker.com/p/car-drivers-torment-a-city-with-celine\">🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-12-16T20:12:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/16/car-drivers-torment.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📽️ Finally steadily working my way through ‘The Morning Show’ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last night’s episode …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/innerspaceorchestra/one-way-glass\">🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra</a></p>\n<p>Gorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-12-11T09:42:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/11/finally-steadily-working.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","MyShowReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/06/oh-no-denny.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 Oh no … Denny? Thankyou for the 🎵 music.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-12-06T08:15:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/06/oh-no-denny.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/03/gabriels-live-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Gabriel’s ‘Live and Let Live’ .. just one of many great tracks on I/O .. anyone else feel Christine and the Queens during the opening of that song?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-12-03T22:18:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/03/gabriels-live-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/12/02/ba-ba-ba.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 🎵 Ba Ba Ba .. and another one bites the dust …</p>\n<p>Bye George.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-12-02T10:17:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/02/ba-ba-ba.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/27/rip-geordie-walker.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 RIP Geordie Walker 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-11-27T14:08:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/27/rip-geordie-walker.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/hey-madonna-let.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/hey-madonna-let-me-bring-my-band\">🔗 🎵 Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-11-15T05:02:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/hey-madonna-let.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/11/14/pink-to-distribute.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/14/pink-tour-banned-books-florida\">🔗 🎵 Pink to distribute banned books at Florida tour dates.</a></p>\n<p><strong>YES!</strong></p>\n<p>Just wish she had more to hand out.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-11-15T04:53:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/14/pink-to-distribute.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/19/075417.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 Keep playing great 🎵 in the sky Carla, we’ll keep listening.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-19T18:54:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/19/075417.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/17/what-the-hell.html",
        "title": "🎵 What The Hell Happened",
        "content_html": "<p>This post was originally published on September 26th <strong>2003</strong>. Penned by John Parker - one of the founders of the original <strong>Just Good Music Blog</strong>. The source was found thanks to <strong>The Internet Archive Wayback Machine</strong>. These days it sits in my <a href=\"https://archive.philpin.com/2015/08/what-the-hell-happened\">online archives</a>, but just last month it was 20 years old and I wanted to resurface it, because I always liked it and for me, still holds true. What do you think? AND, I wonder if John would be interested in a twenty years later update? We will see.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lately I haven’t derived the same pleasure from my music collection, or even music in general, that I’ve been accustomed to my whole life. I’m trying to figure this out.</p>\n<p>It used to be simpler, I think. You would reach an age - let’s say 30 on average - and pretty much drop out of the current music scene. Your record collection would begin to age like fine wine. You’d stop going to gigs and reading Rolling Stone and Down Beat, and the station presets in your car were no longer college stations playing the wide range of emerging new stuff, but the major commercial channels playing bands who are all 6 months away from being featured in a Lexus commercial. There was a clear dividing line between the stuff the kids and the grown-ups listened to that has faded, blurred and, finally, today, disappeared.</p>\n<p>Leaving aside the impact on today’s teenagers of not really having a musical outlet for those rebellious impulses, where does this leave us? What are our options as we mature in our lifestyles? Do our musical tastes change, or, as I’m beginning to suspect, does the time pressure we’re under in the push for ever-greater productivity at work, quality time with family, expanding our educational horizons and seeking new experiences in our recreation hours force us to rely more and more on commercial filters for access to new music?</p>\n<p>Typically we proceed down one of two paths. The first is to go deeper instead of wider. We stick to the same bands that we listened to in our youth, kidding ourselves that we’re still at the bleeding edge. Somehow we allow it to escape our notice that the bands we once thought would lead the revolution and bring down the establishment are now peddling mobile phones. The other route is that we conscientiously seek out new sounds, but we do it in tightly defined context of the ‘Emerging Artists Block’ on KLLC Tuesday nights at 8:00pm. Surrounding ourselves with the familiar, grounding the experience just as firmly in our past. This exposes us to bands that are perhaps a year away from the TV commercial breakthrough, but still clearly well established successes, hardly bands that need our sponsorship, our interest or us.I think it mostly comes down to time.</p>\n<p>Certainly the world is a busier place, and cell phones, laptops, Internet access, Blackberrys, pagers and PDAs don’t help. Sometimes technology does us a disservice, and as much as the perpetually connected nature of our modern lives enhances our productivity and responsiveness, I miss the time I used to have alone with my stereo system.</p>\n<p>In high school, I spent 80% of my disposable income on my stereo system, Infinity Reference Studio monitors, Marantz receiver, Thorens turntable, and a Nakamichi cassette deck. After school, I would make compilation tapes while doing my homework. I miss lowering the stylus into the record groove, counting the seconds from the end of the previous song and allowing for the delay in engaging the tape deck, winding up the input volumes for smooth transitions between songs and volume-leveling wildly varying album recordings by ear. Today, I can drag-and-drop 10 hours of music into my MP3 player in about 8 seconds. I can save virtual playlists, creating, modifying and deleting compilations instantly. It’s certainly more convenient, but it’s nowhere near as engaging.</p>\n<p>In college, I spent 80% of my disposable income on records. Living in a dorm and in an off-campus apartment with roommates, we shared our record collections and commented actively on each others musical tastes. My friends collectively listened to a wide variety of music, and I eagerly devoured every new artist, new style, and new sound in my quest for great musical experiences. Today, I have less time for that, less engagement with my friends in purely recreational activities like listening to music. I miss that.</p>\n<p>One nice thing about record albums was that they had two sides. Again, it’s certainly more convenient to have all the music on a CD that can play straight through. And even more so to have them all recorded digitally on the PC. But having an album side that lasts 20-25 minutes forces you to pay attention. You have to get up and turn the record over, which reengages you. Having hours of music queued up, it’s easy to let your mind wander back to the ever-present to-do lists. These days, I too frequently put a new CD on, start listening to it, and realize some time later that the CD is over and I can’t remember anything beyond the first song.</p>\n<p>Today, my primary listening venue is my car. It’s not by choice, as it certainly isn’t an ideal listening environment even with the very best automotive stereo equipment. This is the only block of time that I have, however, that is long enough to listen to an entire CD at one time. In the car, though, I inevitably wind up spending all my time on the cell phone. And there’s simply no getting around the fact that your attention is going to be demanded by your driving, and the insanity of other drivers trapped in the 90 minute commute to Silicon Valley - flying down I-280 at 90mph mandates focused attention.</p>\n<p>Nor am I alone in this. I was over at a friend’s house last weekend doing some dedicated music listening - something that has happened all too infrequently of late. I have been thinking about these issues for a while, and decided to reach out and see if I could force some engagement. Miguel and Diana are from Brazil, and I brought up Brazilian music and they volunteered to play some of their collection for us. So we packed up some food and joined them for a musical lunch on Saturday. We heard Oswaldo Montenegro, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarqueâ, all great stuff. Miguel had, of course, ripped all the songs to his computer, and we were listening to it over some pretty crappy computer speakers. Hardly ideal. I complimented him on the selection, though, and his response was yeah, you should hear it in my car! This is just wrong.</p>\n<p>So now, understanding the issues a little better, I see a clear need to reengage my musical sensibilities. I think, for me, this means two things.</p>\n<p>First, I need to plan some dedicated music time. It can’t be an after-thought any more, because my free time for ad hoc recreational activities is asymptotically approaching zero. If it’s a priority, it needs to be reflected in my calendar. I need to put some thought into that, too, because I’m going to have a hard time defending hours of just sitting in the Lazy-Boy listening to CDs. I need to be doing something with the music. Maybe it’s time to develop a digital archiving system. Maybe wire the house for sound, including the patios outside. Maybe some stereo equipment upgrades are in order. Maybe I need to spend some time classifying my current music collection, and expanding it into new areas. Maybe write some music reviews I can share with friends or even wider audiences.</p>\n<p>Secondly, it’s also clearly time to get back into concert mode. I need to find the local clubs with live music, watch the major venues for show announcements and plan my calendar around some key concerts. And there needs to be a focus on new music. Nothing gets the blood flowing like watching the band hit their zone on stage, rocking out and feeling the music flowing through the crowd, that sense of being there that not even the finest stereo equipment can reproduce.</p>\n<p>Music is too important to me to let it simply fade into the background of my life. It’s a part of who I am and who I want to be, and it deserves some attention. We’re going on a quest to get reacquainted. My foray into Brazilian music my friends last weekend was the first conscious step on this journey. I’ll send you some notes from the road from time to time.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>This post was originally published on September 26th 2003, penned by John Parker - one of the founders of the original Just Good Music Blog. The source was found thanks to <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20030101000000*/http://www.justgoodmusic.net\">The Internet Archive Wayback Machine</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-17T21:38:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/17/what-the-hell.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/15/joni-mitchell-watched.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/19/joni-mitchell-watched-me-sing-one-of-her-songs-i-was-horrified-rick-beato-the-worlds-best-loved-music-nerd\">🔗🎵 ‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd.</a></p>\n<p>Love Beato</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-16T04:47:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/15/joni-mitchell-watched.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/13/goodbye-rudolph-gone.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 Goodbye 🎵 Rudolph. Gone at 84, married for 68 of them. Congratulations on a good life. A well lived life.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-13T19:14:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/13/goodbye-rudolph-gone.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/10/the-venom-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 The venom of people writing how they hate Water’s new take on DSOTM is quite extraordinary. Not going to bother engaging with them &hellip; but, for the record 😂 I think it is quite brilliant &hellip; And the videos allow you to truly let those amazing words sink in.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-10T18:56:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/10/the-venom-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Humour"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/his-work-seems.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/26/moondog-eccentric-musician-songs-and-symphoniques\">🔗 🎵 ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog.</a></p>\n<p>Back in the day I had &lsquo;my Moondog&rsquo; &hellip; it still lives with my other vinyl down in Surrey.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-09T08:25:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/his-work-seems.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/now-that-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://x.com/secblinken/status/1707230831528620109\">🔗 🎵 Now THAT is a Secretary of State!</a></p>\n<p>… <strong>Warning</strong> … it is on the site formally known as Twitter.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-09T07:55:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/now-that-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/08/us-vs-them.html",
        "title": "Us vs Them OR Us and Them OR Us + Them",
        "content_html": "<p>Interesting thread over on LinkedIN from my friend <a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/davewilt/\">🔗 Dave Wilt</a> - who started on the track of &lsquo;vs&rsquo;.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7116085630727585792/\">🔗 Corporate Identity Politics</a>. (It was kind of about Sales and Marketing alignment  - a problem which was a problem long before I started out in business. You would have though by now we might have fixed it? <strong>But no.</strong>)</p>\n<p>Anyway - about half way through I managed to pivot the thread to 🎵 Music &hellip; mainly because the core topic just gets talked about - and  IT IS NEVER FIXED - so &hellip; &lsquo;BORING&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>From the thread &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You might notice that the original song was called &lsquo;Us <strong>and</strong> Them&rsquo;, while the tour and film is called &lsquo;Us <strong>+</strong> Them&rsquo;.  <br>\n“It&rsquo;s not a mistake. It&rsquo;s a subtle modification. The original &lsquo;and&rsquo; was not necessarily inclusive. It was highlighting one or the other. The power of &lsquo;+&rsquo; sign is additive. It drives home the idea of being united. Together.”   <br>\nIt&rsquo;s a small and very important detail. <strong>It&rsquo;s language</strong>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>If you want to read the newsletter I was going to write about &hellip; ‘<strong><a href=\"https://substack.philpin.com/p/rewriting-history\">🖇️ Rewriting History</a></strong>’</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-09T07:40:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/us-vs-them.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? LongForm","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/06/092653.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📸 🎵</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ccc20b9c45.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-06T20:26:53+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/06/092653.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/you-know-how.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 You know how it is …. you check into your hotel and wander down to the bar and the next thing you know - you bump into <a href=\"https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;sca_esv=570067020&amp;rls=en&amp;q=ryan+waste&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=lnms&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwixofPd79eBAxXQX0EAHfx3BP8Q0pQJegQIGhAB&amp;biw=1552&amp;bih=960&amp;dpr=2\">Ryan Waste</a>. He and his band <a href=\"https://www.municipalwaste.net\">🔗 Municipal Waste</a> just flew in from the US for a <a href=\"https://www.municipalwaste.net\">🔗 three week tour</a>.</p>\n<p>Had to get a selfy …</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7557.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"510\" alt=\"\">\r\n<p>Him with his band …</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/image-asset.jpeg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-03T05:21:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/you-know-how.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/10/02/a-link-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/jon-lord/to-notice-such-things-vi-afterwards\">🔗 🎵 Afterwords</a> is no exception.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-10-02T21:56:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/02/a-link-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/back-in-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Back in the day, a gentleman by name of Pete Frame produced two stunning 📚books … <strong>Rock Family Trees</strong>. Hand drawn ‘family trees’ of Rock Giants at the time.</p>\n<p>I know of Theo Travis because of his work over the years with Steven Wilson, but also as a performer in his own right and then most recently with Soft Machine, which is how he came to write <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/rip-john-marshall.html\">🖇️ John Marshall’s obit’</a>.</p>\n<p>Family Trees tend to be very hierarchical, so I plugged the two threads together and then added 50 years of humanity.</p>\n<p>‘Hierarchy’ is old school. ‘Networked’ is new school’.</p>\n<p>How cool would it be to choose (say) 50 musicians like Theo and build networks of</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <strong>people he has played with</strong> (studio and live) as</li>\n<li><strong>one offs or over a prolonged period of time</strong> and</li>\n<li><strong>inside bands and as a solo artist</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>It needs to be someone like Theo … a wide enough eclectic career to be interesting but not so overwhelming it becomes meaningless. For example someone like Bowie would just be a page of lines.</p>\n<p>Just #SpitBallingHere</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-18T13:45:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/back-in-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Books","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/17/rip-john-marshall.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦 RIP <a href=\"https://londonjazznews.com/2023/09/17/john-marshall-1941-2023-a-tribute-by-theo-travis/\">John Marshall (1941-2023). A tribute by Theo Travis.</a></p>\n<p>A sad loss to the 🎵industry.</p>\n<p>(Originally shared by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh\">@artkavanagh</a> on Substack)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-18T10:35:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/17/rip-john-marshall.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/14/new-material-emerging.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>New material emerging from Steven Wilson. All links below are Songwhip, so listen via your app of choice. Listed in personal preference of the music.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/steven-wilson/impossible-tightrope\">🎵🔗 Impossible Tightrope</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/steven-wilson/rock-bottom\">🎵🔗 Rock Bottom</a> with Ninet Tayeb</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/steven-wilson/economies-of-scale\">🎵🔗 Economies of Scale</a> … wonderful video, so click on the YouTube link.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-15T07:48:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/14/new-material-emerging.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/11/background-music-playing.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Background music playing. I know it. I know it . Not placing it. 60s? 70s? I know I know I know it. Give up. Shazam. Three times … can’t find it. But McLaughlin I think … McLaughlin. Soundhound craps out. Jax asks attendant. He doesn’t know, pulls out Shazam. I walk over. Cracked it I said …&hellip;&hellip;</p>\n<p>&lsquo;John McLaughlin&rsquo;, &lsquo;Mahavishnu Orchestra&rsquo;, &lsquo;You Know&rsquo; &hellip; from &lsquo;Inner Mountain Flame&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>He looked at be blankly? Quizzically? As if I was speaking in tongues.</p>\n<p><strong>I am guessing his parents weren&rsquo;t born when it came out.</strong></p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s it&rdquo; &hellip; he replied.</p>\n<p>&ldquo;But how come your Shazam works and mine doesn&rsquo;t?&rdquo; &hellip; I asked</p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have a secret speaker&rdquo;&quot; he replied &ldquo;up there - away from the background noise.&rdquo;</p>\n<p><strong>I might have known the song. He clearly knows the hidden tech of the store.</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/mahavishnu-orchestra/you-know-you-know\">🎵 Songwhip</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-12T07:51:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/11/background-music-playing.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/11/mbsept-released-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>📸 230911 <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%23MBSept\">🖇️ #MBSept</a></strong></p>\n<p>Released in 2011, <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Pink-Floyd-Retrospective/dp/B000NA2UC8\">🔗🎵 The Floyd <strong>Retrospective</strong></a> is itself old enough to be a <strong>retrospect</strong>ive, but in any case, this footage is not part of it, because it has just been rediscovered.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cc1c84805a.jpg\" alt=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cc1c84805a.jpg\"></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-12T04:03:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/11/mbsept-released-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs","? Links","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/10/looks-like-carlos.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Looks like Carlos has a side gig 😂🎵</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/d189f869bf.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-11T07:08:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/10/looks-like-carlos.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Humour"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/09/07/former-trump-white.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/navarro-trial-guilty-contempt-congress-trump-adviser-january-6\">🔗 Former Trump White House adviser found guilty of contempt of Congress.</a></p>\n<p>… dum dum dum, <strong>and</strong> …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/-q4AHfVlgno?si=Y7P544cN7BkMC6m_\">🎵 📼 Another one bites the dust.</a></p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-08T17:58:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/07/former-trump-white.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/31/jax-whats-that.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Jax; ‘What’s that song? You know ‘Dada da da … Sally?</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/eric-clapton/lay-down-sally\">🎵 You mean this one</a>?</p>\n<p><strong>No no .. you know … da da Sally ..</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/pentangle/sally-go-round-the-roses\">🎵 This one</a>?</p>\n<p><strong>No … harder …</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/wilson-pickett/mustang-sally\">🎵 Oh … this one</a>?</p>\n<p><strong>Yeah that’s it.</strong></p>\n<p>What about it?</p>\n<p><strong>I really like it.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-09-01T03:49:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/31/jax-whats-that.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/30/wilsons-new-album.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/wmtyvKz8ubQ?si=XPj8Qkfip11I71MF\">🎵 📼 Wilson’s new album out at the end of September and this is one of the tracks.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-08-31T17:22:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/30/wilsons-new-album.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/26/not-read-much.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer &lsquo;hot&rsquo; (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to &lsquo;sing along&rsquo; - <a href=\"https://bmir.org\">🔗 🎵 there&rsquo;s a web site for that</a>.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/245e47335c.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"289\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-08-27T08:01:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/not-read-much.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/24/an-year-old.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵An 80 year old is demonstrating more creativity and musical brilliance in rehashing a 50 year old classic than pretty much any ‘young gun’ on the music scene is managing without such creative constraints.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-08-25T05:54:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/24/an-year-old.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/a-music-podcast-unlike-any-other\">🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker</a></p>\n<p>The New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts <strong>ever</strong> by Andrew Hickey.</p>\n<p>I’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of &ldquo;Doctor Who&rdquo;; a book about &ldquo;The Strange World of Gurney Slade&rdquo; (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an &ldquo;unauthorised guide&rdquo; to a comic-book series called &ldquo;Seven Soldiers of Victory&rdquo;; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>PostScript - I discovered the podcast via <a href=\"https://micro.blog/dave\">@dave</a> who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-08-11T13:14:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/10/a-music-podcast.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/08/03/that-whole-thing.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>That whole thing about your biggest  ever regret being what you didn’t do?\nI have this nagging feeling that it is actually a variation on that old classic <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA93sPlY6-8\">🎵 📼 ’the other man’s grass is always greener’</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-08-04T12:38:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/03/that-whole-thing.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/30/mother-with-sinad.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/j9_8zjdcUAY\">📼 🎵 Mother (with Sinéad O&rsquo;Connor) - Roger Waters - The Wall (1990)</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-31T08:23:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/30/mother-with-sinad.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/29/introducing-the-dark.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/dhUOLJAeXx4\">📼 🎵 Introducing The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-30T06:01:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/29/introducing-the-dark.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/28/spotted-in-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Spotted in a store yesterday … reminding me of the permanent loan of my vinyl collection to a friend in the UK.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/8f033e063b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-29T04:54:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/28/spotted-in-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/23/watching-this-made.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw\">📼 🎵Watching this</a> made me realize that I will need to get <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=TWLFAItkJY0\">this</a> when it comes out in October.</p>\n<p>Stunning. 50 Years Later … <strong>REIMAGINED</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-24T12:27:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/23/watching-this-made.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/art-for-arts.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/10cc/art-for-arts-sake\">🎵 Art For Art’s Sake</a> (?)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cbacb34b2b.jpg\" alt=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/cbacb34b2b.jpg\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0c2063e79a.jpg\" alt=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/0c2063e79a.jpg\"></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-16T11:34:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/art-for-arts.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html",
        
        "content_html": "<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/96c4cec487.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain - Album Cover\">\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/mountain/nantucket-sleighride\">🎵 Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain</a> is a massively important album to yours truly - part of my formative years if you will.</p>\n<p>TIL what a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket_sleighride\">🔗 Nantucket Sleighride actually is</a> …. thanks to the <a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+WaLEI2Ofg\">🎙️Freakonomics podcast</a></p>\n<p>🤯</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-16T07:36:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/15/nantucket-sleighride-by.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/11/listened-to-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Listened to a 🎙️podcast featuring Simon Armitage. I did not know he had a band. … LYR. During the podcast there was discussion about why the band is not called ‘Land Yacht Regatta’ - and if not that - why not L.Y.R. ?</p>\n<p>He wasn’t really sure - Label decisions he said … but I think I know.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/lyr2\">L.Y.R.</a> - not my cup of tea at all - that I jumped over to listen to is definitely a very different band to <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/lyr\">LYR</a> - a band that is very much my cup of tea.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-12T05:27:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/11/listened-to-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/05/song-of-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Song Of The Day : <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/jonathan-wilson/desert-trip\">JW</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; and no you didn’t miss my other &lsquo;Song Of The Day&rsquo; posts. This is my first,</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-06T05:35:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/05/song-of-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/07/02/today-i-learned.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Today I learned that Glenn Hughes was named for Glenn Miller. #BridgingGenerations</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-07-03T11:23:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/02/today-i-learned.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/25/to-me-chubby.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 To me Chubby Checker and Bob Dylan seem to be from totally different generations .. but in fact are the same age. 🤯</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-26T09:21:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/25/to-me-chubby.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/the-life-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=5GNuMp6zodc\">📼 🎵 The Life and Music of John Wetton</a> - the production of this video is everything that John Wetton was not. But the message and the story? I’ll take it - not enough written about the guy who <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starless\">🔗 wrote</a> <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/king-crimson/starless\">🎵 Starless</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/aa47c2a85f.jpg\" alt=\"So, I accept the fact that I might not be here tomorrow, but having said that, having come through it you feel great. It gave me a completely new outlook on life, that it could all end tonight while I&rsquo;m asleep, so let&rsquo;s make the most of today. Let&rsquo;s make the most of now!\"></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-21T05:28:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/the-life-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/steven-wilson-drive.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=7ce1XG4RhwU\">📼 Steven Wilson - Drive Home (4K Remaster)</a></p>\n<p>The track is &lsquo;old&rsquo; but as gorgeous as ever. The accompanying video has been remastered in 4K, which has no connection to 🎵 Guthrie Govan&rsquo;s guitar &hellip; but - oh my! From one of two albums that I consider to be &lsquo;sublime Wilson&rsquo;.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:42:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/steven-wilson-drive.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/20/til-that-metal.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 TIL that Metal / Ragga fusion is not just a thing - but has been a thing for a LONG time.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skindred?wprov=sfti1\">Skindred</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/Skindred\">🔗 Their YouTube Channel</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-21T03:34:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/20/til-that-metal.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/15/what-would-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 What would a modern equivalent to Jefferson Airplane performing two songs from Surrealistic Pillow on ‘American Bandstand’ and ‘talking; to Dick Clark whilst surrounded by lots of ‘young things’ be …. do you think?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-16T03:40:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/15/what-would-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/14/the-beatles-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1181906529/beatles-john-lennon-voice-song-ai\">🔗 🎵 The Beatles to release final song using AI to isolate John Lennon&rsquo;s voice.</a></p>\n<p>I wonder where the proceeds will go to?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-15T12:47:39+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/14/the-beatles-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/06/one-upping-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 One upping The Moodies?</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/b1210eadbd.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-07T01:48:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/06/one-upping-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/06/01/it-was-around.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>It was around 10 years ago that I got my first exposure to Guthrie Govan on Steven Wilson’s Raven album and in the touring band that IMHO was the definitive Wilson band.</p>\n<p>Nice to see <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=k6ucIShHW7Q\">📼 Rick Beato</a> wax lyrical on the man in 10 short minutes that includes some great YouTube footage.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=aA8fzsE7tWU\">🎵 Bonus - Guthrie running his magic on Wonderful Slippery Thing</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-06-02T05:58:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/06/01/it-was-around.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/mirror-to-the.html",
        "title": "🎵 Mirror To The Sky - Yes",
        "content_html": "<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/190cc230b9.png\" alt=\"Yes logo\"></p>\n<p>I have now listened to the new Yes album maybe 4 times. It is definitely not their greatest album - by any stretch - but it is also far from the worst.</p>\n<p>Peak <strong>Yes</strong> years for me were those leading up to Topographic &hellip; and to compete with that era is hard &hellip; but this does (though it does lose 😎).</p>\n<p><strong>Trivia thought.</strong></p>\n<p>I wonder why the &lsquo;title track&rsquo; off <strong><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/yes/mirror-to-the-sky\">Mirror To The Sky</a></strong> is called &lsquo;<strong>Mirror to the Sky</strong>&rsquo;?</p>\n<p>Intentional? If so why?</p>\n<p>Sloppy? Very &lsquo;un Yes&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>Favorite opening &hellip; the first minute of &lsquo;Unknown Place&rsquo; - it falls off very quickly.</p>\n<p>Favorite Track &hellip; the title track - which also happens to be the longest &hellip; I am a sucker for long musical exploration.</p>\n<p>&lsquo;One Second is Enough&rsquo; &hellip; meh as is most of &lsquo;disc 2&rsquo; &hellip; why did they bother?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-31T04:44:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/mirror-to-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/30/my-friend-scott.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 My friend Scott Schorr has just made 50 vinyl copies of the <a href=\"https://levintornwhite.bandcamp.com/album/levin-torn-white\">Levin Torn White</a> album available for sale, with &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>$5 from every purchase will be donated to Music Aid Northwest in Alan&rsquo;s name.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>It is a superb album.</strong></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/91561e23d6.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-31T04:16:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/my-friend-scott.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/mirror-to-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/yes/mirror-to-the-sky\">🎵 Mirror To The Sky By Yes</a> &hellip; as I type on my second time through it &hellip; so that&rsquo;s good &hellip; right?</p>\n<p>&hellip; update. <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/mirror-to-the.html\">🖇️ Review</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-26T12:34:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/25/mirror-to-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/the-neal-morse.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 The Neal Morse band is living proof that having a band full of rock stars (literally and figuratively) doesn’t guarantee a great outcome.</p>\n<p>Discuss.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-26T03:55:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/25/the-neal-morse.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/25/the-best-yes.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>“The best ‘Yes’ album in 20 years”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>… reads the review.</p>\n<p>That’s not a high bar, for a start there have only been 3 others.</p>\n<p>🎵 Will check it out and come back later.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-26T03:53:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/25/the-best-yes.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/24/kings-and-queens.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/renaissance/kings-and-queens\">🎵 Kings and Queens by Renaissance</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-25T08:28:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/24/kings-and-queens.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just found out about <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Converse\">🔗 Connie Converse</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/connie-converse/how-sad-how-lovely\">🎵 Her Album</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+BmH6DFBFE\">🎙️ Mike Pesca</a> talking to Howard Fishman who wrote <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Who-Ever-Asks-Converse/dp/0593187369\">📚 To Anyone Who Ever Asks</a></p>\n<p>Talk about a <strong>hole in history</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-24T08:59:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/23/i-just-found.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Books","? Links","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/have-to-say.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/eric-clapton/moon-river\">🎵 Have to say, I am in two minds about this</a> &hellip; but Beck&rsquo;s guitar &hellip; sublime.</p>\n<p>Side note &hellip; As a kid &lsquo;Moonriver&rsquo; seemed to be played everywhere - even years after its release. Funny to see two artists that my parents railed against performing a crooner standard!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-16T04:36:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/have-to-say.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/15/i-love-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>I love the Playing For Change Series.</strong> <br>\nStumbled across these over the weekend. <br>\nEnjoy.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtq6OmD-_Y&amp;list=WL&amp;index=5\">Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones) feat. Taj Mahal</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEp7QrOBxyQ&amp;list=WL&amp;index=6\">What&rsquo;s Going On (Marvin Gaye) Feat. Sara Bareilles</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dkwQY-_tk&amp;list=WL&amp;index=15\">La Bamba </a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUSVALW_Z4&amp;list=WL&amp;index=12\">Guantanamera</a></p>\n<p>🔗 🎵 📺</p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-16T03:40:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/15/i-love-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? Shows"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/02/et-tu-gordon.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🪦Et tu Gordon. I didn’t believe it when I read it .. but yes it is true. 84 … not a bad run.</p>\n<p>Thank-you for the 🎵music.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/4Iw7Jei8XOo\">🔗 A wonderful tribute.</a></p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-03T14:15:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/02/et-tu-gordon.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/05/01/crapa-pelada-what.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=BgVD0dNlJPE\">🎵 Crapa Pelada</a> - what is not to love about this ear worm that I first heard on Breaking Bad &hellip; or was it Better Call Saul?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-02T03:45:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/01/crapa-pelada-what.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/30/wait-brain-salad.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Wait … ‘Brain Salad Surgery’ came from a Dr. John Lyric?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-05-01T17:20:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/30/wait-brain-salad.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/29/talk-about-an.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQKjffxIOY\">🎵 Talk about an &lsquo;All Star&rsquo; Band</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-30T07:18:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/29/talk-about-an.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/28/gas-man-morning.html",
        "title": "🎵 The Gas Man Cometh",
        "content_html": "<p>The gasman had an appointment this morning &hellip; he was on time and we spent some quality time together. End result? The next step would be to call a plumber (not a carpenter) &hellip; see the first verse below.</p>\n<p>My mind went to Flanders and Swann&rsquo;s rendition of their wonderful song &hellip; <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VKNF5mEXA4\">The Gas Man Cometh</a>. The audio is well worth a listen if you don’t know it - and really - these days - who honestly does remember the duo.</p>\n<p>The lead up to this particular version should be listened to - not jumped across!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>T&rsquo;was on the Monday morning, the gas man came to call,<br>\nThe gas tap wouldn&rsquo;t turn, I wasn&rsquo;t getting gas at all;<br>\nHe tore out all the skirting boards to try and find the main,<br>\nAnd I had to call a carpenter to put them back again!</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-29T05:49:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/28/gas-man-morning.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/26/this-is-not.html",
        "title": "☢️ This Is Not America",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/david-bowie/thisisnotamerica\">🎵 This Is Not America</a> was always a 🎵musical favorite in my world - as indeed was <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/the-falcon-and.html\">The Falcon and The Snowman</a>, which featured the song &hellip; and then the movie came to mind this morning as I was catching up on my ‘piece of glass’.</p>\n<p>To some, the meaning of the lyrics …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A little piece of you,<br>\nthe little piece in me,<br>\nwill die<br>\n(this is not a miracle)<br>\nFor this is not America</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>… seem to be shrouded in mystery - but to me - not really. At the simplest level they seem to reference that the geography that the two characters found themselves in was definitely not America. Happy Days … you could leave wherever you are - come home to America - and all would be ‘well’ again.</p>\n<p><strong>Fast forward 35 years.</strong></p>\n<p>The lyrics remain relevant - except now you don’t need to leave America.  And because of that, there is no longer that safe haven that our two ‘heroes’ wanted to return to.</p>\n<p>(Yes - I am having a day - and it&rsquo;s not even 11am)</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Later - in the title, I really wanted to use the Americn Flag EMOJI - but for some reason, it wasn&rsquo;t rendering correctly on the web site &hellip;.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/4cae9c2686.png\" alt=\"US Flag not Rendering\"></p>\n<p><strong>So I changed it.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-27T05:52:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/26/this-is-not.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyFilmReferences","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/25/cable-news-dana.html",
        "title": "🪦 RIP Cable News",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/danafblankenhorn/p/cable-news-1980-2023\">Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn</a> has a <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/mark-knopfler/punish-the-monkey\">very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.</a>. You can find the <a href=\"https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858686830/\">🔗 lyrics</a> here.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Who &ldquo;wins,&rdquo; i.e., who is the last one standing?\nProbably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That&rsquo;s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the &ldquo;skinny bundle&rdquo; boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal &ndash; a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops.\nCNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there&rsquo;s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Dana Blankenhorn</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-26T06:28:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/25/cable-news-dana.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Quotes","? RIP","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/23/just-tried-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Just tried to add &lsquo;Perfect Day&rsquo; to an Apple Playlist. It adds just fine, but in the play list is greyed out - and not playable. Go back to the source and it plays just fine. The track was on Transformer. There is another version on &lsquo;The Essential Lou Reed&rsquo;. Add that - and no problem.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-24T11:12:56+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/23/just-tried-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/23/that-moment-you.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 That moment you realize that his really good ‘new’ stuff is now <strong>30 years old</strong>, his ‘transitional band’ … who were absolutely awesome … was around <strong>40 years ago</strong> and his first band (that he is probably best known for) was started over <strong>50 years ago</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-24T08:53:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/23/that-moment-you.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/23/just-dropped-jax.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Just dropped Jax off at the airport … heading back home …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Heh Siri … play some random music.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/melancholy-man/1440731756?i=1440731999\">… and up comes this 🎵</a> (<a href=\"https://songwhip.com/the-moody-blues/melancholy-man\">song whip</a>)</p>\n<p>Seriously? Siri is clearly tapping into something.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-24T01:42:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/23/just-dropped-jax.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/07/a-clue-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/yma-sumac/chuncho-the-forest-creatures\">🎵 A clue to how far through Better Call Saul I have got.</a></p>\n<p>Marvelous piece of Music.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-08T13:29:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/07/a-clue-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/03/if-i-do.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>If I do it - it will be 3 hours and 20 minutes of my life that I won&rsquo;t get back - but then &hellip;. it is 🎵 <strong>The Velvet Underground</strong> - and the information the guy delivers <strong>is</strong> always interesting <strong>and</strong> not the usual average &lsquo;fodder facts&rsquo;.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ebe778f004.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Podcast Promotion\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-04T14:50:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/03/if-i-do.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/i-havent-thought.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I haven’t thought about this album for years - and then Tedium wrote about it at length &hellip;.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://tedium.co/2023/04/01/jeff-wayne-war-of-the-worlds-history\">🔗 🎵 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The Rock Opera That Shaped the Form</a></p>\n<p>I relistened to some of it earlier today. I still enjoyed it - but to my ears it hasn’t aged well. Not yet put my finger on why - but I suspect a new listener might not engage with it in the same way.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-03T10:28:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/i-havent-thought.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/reminded-of-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote class=\"quoteback\" data-title=\"\" data-author=\"jay gawker\" data-avatar=\"https://micro.blog/wrenman/avatar.jpg\" cite=\"https://wrenman.micro.blog/2023/04/02/stick-a-fork.html\"><p>stick a fork in him, the motherfuckers done</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.uploads.micro.blog%2F67328%2F2023%2F4cf515e22b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"569\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<footer>jay gawker <cite><a href=\"https://wrenman.micro.blog/2023/04/02/stick-a-fork.html\" class=\"u-in-reply-to\">https://wrenman.micro.blog/2023/04/02/stick-a-fork.html</a></cite></footer></blockquote><script src=\"https://micro.blog/quoteback.js\"></script>\n<p>&hellip; 🎵 Reminded me of this classic &hellip; <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbBB8QEbUtg\">enjoy</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-03T08:36:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/reminded-of-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/02/just-read-colinwalker.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I just read <a href=\"https://micro.blog/colinwalker\">@colinwalker</a> &rsquo;s <a href=\"https://colinwalker.blog/blog/?date=2023-04-02#p3\">🔗 post</a> re Ryuichi Sakamoto&rsquo;s passing &hellip;</p>\n<p>Sharing a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGs_vGt0MY8\">🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago</a>.</p>\n<p>Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-03T07:43:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/02/just-read-colinwalker.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/me-im-keeping.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Me? I&rsquo;m keeping it all in the <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/family2/music-in-a-dolls-house\">🎵 Family</a> tonight.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-02T13:53:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/01/me-im-keeping.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/concerto-for-group.html",
        "title": "🎵 Concerto For Group and Orchestra",
        "content_html": "<!--excerpt-->\n<p>Using just one album as an example of the mess that is Apple Music Meta Data ….</p>\n<p><strong>Concerto For Group And Orchestra</strong> was a 1969 album by Deep Purple. It’s always been a favorite - despite not being a big fan of the band itself. I mean - it’s not that I don’t like them - they just don’t feature large in my ‘go to’ artist list … although <strong>Jon Lord</strong> … totally different story. A massive fan of Jon Lord.</p>\n<p>He features in three lists I have on AlbumWhale</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/big-albums-from-artists-you-might-not-know\">Big Albums From ‘Small’ Artists List </a>.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/gateway-drugs\">Gateway Drugs</a> … where he is one of five artists that loomed large in my musical preferences in <strong>1969</strong>. That’s how long I have been aware of his work.</li>\n<li><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/but-is-it-classical\">But Is It Classical</a>.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Anyway - back to the plot.</p>\n<p>To put the album into context these are the first four albums in the Deep Purple discography ….</p>\n<ul>\n<li>July ’68 - ’Shades’.</li>\n<li>October ’68 - ’Taliesyn’.</li>\n<li>June ’69 - ‘Deep Purple’.</li>\n<li>December ’69 - The ‘Concerto’.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>In other words in 17 months they released 4 albums - the 4th being this live album with <strong>The Royal Philharmonic</strong>;</p>\n<p>With all the Apple Classical back and forth recently, I was delighted to find that it is indeed in the ‘classical’ app - which is great because for whatever reason I had never before found it in the main music app &hellip;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>‘<a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/deep-purple/135532\">Deep Purple</a>’ - it is not there. (Not in albums, live albums nor compilations.).</li>\n<li>‘<a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/jon-lord/29437055\">Jon Lord</a>’ - it is not there either.</li>\n<li>‘<a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/artist/royal-philharmonic-orchestra/672409\">The Royal Philharmonic</a>’ - not there.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>I have the original vinyl. I have the CD. I have ripped the CD into my iTunes Library, so it never really bothered me …. until now, because in the Classical App when I searched for Deep Purple <strong>OR</strong> Jon Lord - I found it …</p>\n<center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/89c7932aac.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Searches\"></p>\n</center>\n<p>Which got me to wondering - so back to the main app - and a quick search for ‘Malcolm Arnold’ - <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/concerto-for-group-and-orchestra-live/403182007\">and voila</a> - though if you search for ‘Malcolm Arnold’ in the classical app - who know if it is there … life is too short to wade through the results!</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Seperately, the recording that Lord did in 2012 is much easier to find - but that is the problem with Apple Music across the board. History and originals tend to be ignored if there is something more recent with the same / similar name.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>Also interesting that literally in the past two weeks there has been a lot of coverage about a group of artists going out on tour to play this music &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-bruce-dickinson-kicks-off-2023-tour-performing-jon-lords-concerto-for-group-and-orchestra\">Watch: BRUCE DICKINSON Kicks Off 2023 Tour Performing JON LORD&rsquo;s &lsquo;Concerto For Group And Orchestra&rsquo;</a>.</p>\n<blockquote>\n</blockquote>",
        "date_published": "2023-04-02T13:17:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/01/concerto-for-group.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/04/01/friend-of-mine.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Friend of mine was telling me out <a href=\"https://powertrip.live\">🎵 this event</a> coming up soon in The Desert &hellip;</p>\n<p>The prices are &ndash; well shall we say &lsquo;higher than i might have expected&rsquo;, but I guess they have to pay for LA Billboards somehow!</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/44c712177f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-04-02T12:11:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/04/01/friend-of-mine.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/26/its-been-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s been a while (over 3 years), but just now rebuilding my connected networks and home music system &hellip; and my Sonos is back online.</p>\n<p>First test artist &hellip; 🎵 <strong>Aha</strong>.</p>\n<p>God they were good!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-03-27T07:43:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/26/its-been-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/03/14/the-theme-song.html",
        "title": "🎵 The Theme Song Of Madam Blanc Is More Of A Mystery Than Any Of The Stories.",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/hagueandwhite/passing-through\">The Theme Music</a> for the Madam Blanc mysteries has firmly embedded itself into my brain and I love it. Still do. But who is the artist?</p>\n<p>Turns out, a ‘duo’ called ‘Hague and White’. But the White might not be who you think.</p>\n<p>I thought ‘the white’ was one ‘Steve White’. You might know him as the drummer for The Style Council and pretty much all the subsequent solo albums of Paul Weller. He clearly has chops in the drumming arena. He is also married to Sally Lindsay - the star of Madame Blanc - and the co writer and creator of the show. (I guess they thought they would keep it in the family).</p>\n<p>But no &hellip;</p>\n<p>The song is actually written by Hague and <strong>Joel</strong> White - who is also the vocalist. In fact Joel is credited with writing their first (and only album), Alan seems to have come along later.</p>\n<p>And who is Joel White? Only Richard Hawley’s cousin!</p>\n<p>That explains (so much of it) it.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-03-15T08:35:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/03/14/the-theme-song.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/22/cant-find-my.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L82II1lNjo\">🎵 Can&rsquo;t Find My Way Home</a> &hellip; Winwood, Clapton .. oh - and Trucks.</p>\n<p>A friend of mine down under shared with me &hellip; seemed a pertinent message at this point time &hellip; not to say it is just <strong>gorgeous</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-23T13:30:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/22/cant-find-my.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html",
        "title": "🎵 This Is The End",
        "content_html": "<p>I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for <strong>decades</strong>, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘<strong>the end</strong>’.</p>\n<p>I guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.</p>\n<p>Because I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘<strong>The End</strong>’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.</p>\n<center>\n<p><em>This is the end</em>  <br>\n<em>Beautiful friend</em>  <br>\n<em>This is the end</em><br>\n<em>My only friend, the end</em></p>\n<p><em>Of our elaborate plans, the end</em><br>\n<em>Of everything that stands, the end</em><br>\n<em>No safety or surprise, the end</em><br>\n<em>I&rsquo;ll never look into your eyes again</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/doors/theend.html\">The Full Lyrics</a></p>\n</center>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood.&quot;</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Jim Morrison</p>\n<p>If you want a really good cry,  the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/CIrvSJwwJUE\">🎥 Apocalypse Now</a></p>\n<p>If you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/eqgXGMAS__M\">🎵 The original recording</a></p>\n<p>If you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_Festival\">The Isle of Wight</a> …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/MA_TnixTfHc\">🔗 Live at The Isle of Wight in 1970</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-20T12:32:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/19/this-is-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Films","? Links","? Quotes","? Videos","MyFilmReferences","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/19/a-couple-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>A couple of revised posts on the blog.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/you-might-have.html\">🎛️ Will Arnett doesn’t like the word content either</a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/english-progressive-redux.html\">🎛️ Why my term &lsquo;English Progressive&rsquo; might make sense  in musical genres</a>.</p>\n<p>Opening up a new category on the blog that I call &lsquo;<a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/mypodcastsnippets/\">snippets</a>&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>More refinement might yet occur.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-20T08:53:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/19/a-couple-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyPodcastSnippets"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/17/having-said-that.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Having said that <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/26/i-reject-lists.html\">I reject lists</a> I am quietly building some interesting lists of albums on AlbumWhale &hellip; and when I say lists &hellip; were I to tell you that one of those lists has just two items on it &hellip; you will understand that the word ’list’ is being rather loosely used.</p>\n<p>Because actually, I like lists &hellip; but <strong>I like them to have context</strong>.</p>\n<p>Sometimes the context is helped simply by knowing who created the list and maybe why they created it. ‘Top 50 guitarists in Rock music created by Rolling Stone’ might be one such example. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with who is on it, or what position they are in &hellip; But the source being a known quantity … Rolling Stone .. is sufficient for me to engage.</p>\n<p>Lots of albums listed by someone I don’t know, where I rarely know the albums listed and those I do, I don’t like most of the time gives me no reason to engage. <strong>NONE</strong>.</p>\n<p>If that album had a sentence that explained why? … my engagement interest goes up … significantly.</p>\n<p>Back to my lists, they aren’t the 50 albums I’ve always loved … mainly because such a list would include bands like Talking Heads, Pink Floyd and Tears for Fears … and really … who cares?</p>\n<p>Rather I have taken a different tack.</p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>A list of phenomenal albums by artists you might not have heard about - and why I think they are so good? <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/big-albums-from-artists-you-might-not-know\">🎵 Would that be interesting?</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>How about <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/gateway-drugs\">🎵 a list of albums in chronological order of release that highlight the single album that opened my eyes to the artist?</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>A new &lsquo;WIP&rsquo; list - focussed on something I am calling <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/englishprogressive/\">🔗 English Progressive</a>. Early days yet, <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/english-progressive\">🎵 there are only three listed so far, but the future is big</a></p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p>You can find all my AlbumWhale lists <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin\">here</a> - but those three are the main focus for now.</p>\n<p>Thankyou for your attention.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-18T13:43:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/17/having-said-that.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/well-i-guess.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Well, I guess Roger is in Polly’s cross hairs.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/e0093a1cac.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-17T19:58:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/well-i-guess.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/family-sadly-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Family. Sadly a band that sits in relative obscurity &hellip; to the detriment of society and the future of our children. Album 4 (which I have never managed to find in the streaming world) is being re released. #progrock❓ who knows❓ who cares❓</p>\n<p><strong>This is a public service announcement.</strong></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/6bcb3c321b.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"523\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-17T13:17:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/family-sadly-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/16/i-have-been.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I have been working my way through Breaking Bad. Last night <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=qckWhsw-RZM\">this was played with one of the characters singing along</a>.</p>\n<p>I had to look it up. Never heard it before. Didn&rsquo;t know the artists. <strong>Superb</strong>.</p>\n<p>The comments seem to be all related to the show, I guess it&rsquo;s not just me.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-17T08:12:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/16/i-have-been.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/english-progressive-redux.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎛️ <strong>English Progressive Redux</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-157-see-emily-play-by-the-pink-floyd/\">🔗 Andrew Hickey&rsquo;s &lsquo;500 Songs&rsquo;</a> includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who &lsquo;arrived&rsquo; in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.</p>\n<p>What do you think?</p>\n<html>\n    <body bgcolor=\"white\">\n        <!--Adding the image file-->\n        <!--also adding the link of video source.html to the image-->\n        <a href=\n\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/f8a67baf28.mov\">\n            <img src=\n\"[john.philpin.com/uploads/2...](https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/c54ef72c7f.png)\" \n                 >\n        </a>\n    </body>\n</html>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/englishprogressive/\">🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive</a></p>\n<p><strong>The Full Podcast:</strong> <a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+7bvHDCYXM\">🎙️ 500 Songs - &lsquo;See Emily Play&rsquo; by The Pink Floyd</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-16T11:03:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/english-progressive-redux.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts","MyPodcastSnippets"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/transatlantic-are-set.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_(band)\">Transatlantic</a> are set to release a new concert set. I just watched a <a href=\"https://youtu.be/nGT94QDBuFg?t=18\">video</a>.</p>\n<p>BRILLIANT (not the performance &hellip; the idea.)</p>\n<p>Many artists complain about cell phones in their concerts and the ensuing distractions for them and the audience.</p>\n<p>Portnoy has clearly solved the problem.</p>\n<p>Get everybody to use their phones like an old fashioned lighter and get those batteries drained to zero!</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/b7331194f2.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:30:53+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/transatlantic-are-set.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/apparently-hakenare-set.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Apparently</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>HAKEN are set to release their seventh studio album ‘Fauna’ on the 3rd March 2023.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&hellip; and they celebrated Valentine’s Day with the launch of their latest single ‘Lovebite’. </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=MjqRKeTOTk8\">Happy Valentine’s Day</a></p>\n<p>I guess Valentine’s Day is not what it used to be?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:20:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/apparently-hakenare-set.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/15/one-more-example.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵One more example amongst the millions of examples that people don’t read.</p>\n<p>There is a thread on Reddit talking about genres. I commented that I used a personal genre that I call <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/englishprogressive/\">🔗 ’English Progressive’</a> <strong>adding the specific words that</strong> “an artist didn’t need to be English for me to classify them in that genre”. I then gave three example … Dream Theater, PFM and Focus.</p>\n<p>This morning I have been informed that Dream Theater are American.</p>\n<p><strong>Thankyou - thankyou very much!</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-16T04:15:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/15/one-more-example.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/14/charleys-paia-maui.html",
        "title": "🎵 Charley’s, Paia, Maui is no more",
        "content_html": "<p>If you know Charley’s, this is not new news.<br>\nIf you don’t know Charley’s - then why should you care?</p>\n<p>This just in from my good friend <strong>Randall Rospond</strong> … number 25 in the image below, right beside another friend Tom Conway.</p>\n<p>Randall’s friend and Maui artist John Woodruff is the artist, the painting features many Maui Musician Regulars on stage with many of the Charley’s staff and regular patrons.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Although this famous live music venue in Paia is no longer … the history will always stand.&rdquo;</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I saw numerous <strong>Willie Nelson</strong> shows, <strong>Neil Young</strong> w/ <strong>Promise of the Real</strong>, <strong>Leon Russell</strong>, <strong>Kris Kristofferson</strong>, <strong>Steven Tyler</strong> and <strong>Pat Simmons</strong> and so many more.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Randall Rospond</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Randall’s performances at Charley’s included opening shows for;</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>St. Paul Peterson: keyboardist for  “The Time” discovered by Prince</li>\n<li>John Kadlecik of Dark Star Orchestra &amp; Further { Bob Weir &amp; Phil Lesh }</li>\n<li>Guested w/ the Planetary Bandits  { Willie Nelson’s Maui Band }</li>\n<li>Performed solo and with  the Haiku Hillbillys for over 25 years</li>\n</ul>\n<p>(Sadly the resolution of the image of the index is not good enough to always get to the &lsquo;numbers&rsquo;.)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/fc0cb90339.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" alt=\"\">\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/db1611f06d.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-15T09:21:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/14/charleys-paia-maui.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/13/musical-muscle-memory.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.</p>\n<p>Listening to an <a href=\"https://songwhip.com/renaissance/renaissance\">🔗 awesome album from my youth</a>.</p>\n<p>Back in the day, vinyl - of course <strong>AND</strong> as &lsquo;well played vinyl&rsquo; the middle of one track jumped.</p>\n<p>It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.</p>\n<p>Listening without the jump just felt wrong.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-14T13:54:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/13/musical-muscle-memory.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html",
        "title": "An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating",
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by <a href=\"https://books2read.com/ap/vxbkLR/andrew-hickey\">🔗 Andrew Hickey</a> .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.</p>\n<p>A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as  Love.\nOr how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on &lsquo;the wiki&rsquo;.</p>\n<p>So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.</p>\n<p>Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : <a href=\"http://sweetwordsofpismotality.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-history-of-rock-in-500-songs-new-book.html\">Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs</a> that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery &hellip; <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/over-on-scriptingcom.html\">something I referenced in my first post on him</a>, and it turns out there is a reason.</p>\n<p>Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the &lsquo;names&rsquo; - highly recommend.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+7bvE3DHpo\">🎙️ The Podcast</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-10T15:35:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/an-unknown-podcaster.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Podcasts","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/09/pretty-things-wikipedia.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Things\">🔗 🎵 Pretty Things - Wikipedia</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Who knew they were so ‘badass’?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-10T06:50:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/09/pretty-things-wikipedia.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/06/i-always-had.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I always had <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=45KREhFGtRw\">🎵 BrandX</a> as ‘Jazz/Fusion’ - but they are sometimes classified as ‘Progressive’. That’s why <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/englishprogressive/\">🔗 ’genres’ are so hard</a> - if not to say meaningless. Whichever they are - a great listen - delivered courtesy of <strong>The Old Grey Whistle Test</strong>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-07T04:58:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/06/i-always-had.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/05/willy-and-bonnie.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Willy <strong>and</strong> Bonnie still got it apparently.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-06T18:20:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/05/willy-and-bonnie.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/over-on-scriptingcom.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Over on Scripting.com <a href=\"https://micro.blog/dave\">@dave</a> <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2023/02/01.html#a213144\">mentioned</a> that back in the day he was a fan of The Monkees. Unashamedly - so was I. He linked to <a href=\"https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-162-daydream-believer-by-the-monkees/\">this show</a>. It’s long. The narrator (that&rsquo;s what he sounds like) - has a boring voice - but still an interesting listen.</p>\n<p>Never heard of the <a href=\"https://overcast.fm/+7bvE3DHpo\">🎙️podcast</a> - so had a look at other episodes. Just as long - and I suspect that the voice will be just as boring - BUT - some really interesting deep dives into some good songs and bands. I will be listening to <a href=\"https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-161-alone-again-or-by-love/\">this one</a> - the band &lsquo;Love&rsquo;.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-05T08:42:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/over-on-scriptingcom.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/third-of-three.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Third of three … in the bucket of ‘well I never’ …</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=ei2i1NelYV0\">Los Lobos covers The Beatles</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=m7EJGXa-5Rc\">‘The Dukes of September’</a> .. who? Skaggs, McDonald. Fagen and needless to say, quite a few other great musicians around them.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-05T08:33:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/third-of-three.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/running-through-some.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Running through some YouTube music last night - and well - seriously - what is not to love? Stunning. Two very different songs from the same album.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=E3MpGBwGdVk\">Steven Wilson - Luminol</a> (Mexico City)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtZIUgY0IM\">Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing</a> (Germany)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-05T08:32:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/running-through-some.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/04/jon-lord-plays.html",
        "title": "🎵 Jon Lord plays Dave Brubeck",
        "content_html": "<p>As a kid, shall we say my musical taste did not jibe with my dad&rsquo;s. Nor with my mum&rsquo;s for that matter - although she did understand what I was listening to - and why. Probably because of that there are artists that she introduced me to that are still part of my listening cycle - like Dave Brubeck.</p>\n<p>She passed a while ago, but would have loved Deep Purple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=VACwF7djomQ\">Jon Lord</a> covering &lsquo;UnSquare Dance&rsquo;.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-05T08:26:34+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/04/jon-lord-plays.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/02/02/just-added-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Just added a <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/soundtrackofmylife/\">few pages about music</a> to my site that emerged from a conversation a few weeks ago with <a href=\"https://micro.blog/hutaffe\">@hutaffe</a> &hellip; enjoy.</p>\n<p>I hope it also contributes to a better understanding of &lsquo;why only three&rsquo; <a href=\"https://micro.blog/SimonWoods\">@SimonWoods</a> 🥺</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-02-03T19:34:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/02/02/just-added-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/30/elsewhere-i-referenced.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://toot.rknight.me/2023/01/29/added-my-oddlyspecific.html\">Elsewhere</a> I referenced Tim Minchin’s ‘3 minute’ song. Very clever. Very funny. And guess what … it is only three minutes long!</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ugFFXI3L4\">🎵 Tim Minchin</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-31T08:05:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/30/elsewhere-i-referenced.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/29/the-only-public.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 The only public list I have at Album Whale that I am not tracking is <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/one-decade-at-a-time\">this one</a> - because it is finished! One album for each decade since I &lsquo;discovered&rsquo; music.</p>\n<p>These are the other three.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/05ec864bc8.png\" width=\"453\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\">\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-30T11:12:47+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/29/the-only-public.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/25/lioness-hidden-treasures-by-amy.html",
        "title": "Lioness: Hidden Treasures by Amy Winehouse",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_1469\"><img alt=\"Lioness: Hidden Treasures by Amy Winehouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/4cb54a1514.jpg\" /></a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-25T18:59:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/25/lioness-hidden-treasures-by-amy.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/25/over-on-albumwhale.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Over on AlbumWhale I now have three lists running, the first two are still growing.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/big-albums-from-artists-you-might-not-know\">Big Albums From Artists You Might Not Know</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/gateway-drugs\">Gateway Drugs</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"\">One Decade At A Time</a><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/one-decade-at-a-time\">albumwhale.com/johnphilp&hellip;</a>)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-25T18:52:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/25/over-on-albumwhale.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/22/definitely-keeping-my.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Definitely keeping my eye out for this one ….</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/2933ec677f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" />\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/86d3701441.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" alt=\"\" />\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/db14572bbd.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"236\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-22T11:16:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/22/definitely-keeping-my.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/20/rip-mr-crosby.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 R.I.P. Mr. Crosby … Thankyou for the music.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-20T12:16:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/20/rip-mr-crosby.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/19/reprise-by-moby.html",
        "title": "Reprise by Moby",
        "content_html": "<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/surprises#album_1423\"><img alt=\"Reprise by Moby\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/1400x1400bb.jpg\" /></a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-19T22:45:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/19/reprise-by-moby.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/19/steven-wilson-start.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Great artists, in no particular order, that make up the genre I call <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/english-progressive/\">&lsquo;English Progressive&rsquo;</a>.</p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Steven+Wilson\">Steven Wilson</a></strong> - and if you want a great place to start exploring, look no further than <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Steven+Wilson/Grace+for+Drowning\">Grace for Drowning</a>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/0fddc5fe498146cca2cfa1e1a6d28cc5.png\" alt=\"Grace for Drowning - Steven Wilson poster\"></p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/englishprogressive/\">What is &lsquo;English Progressive&rsquo;</a>?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/englishprogressive/\">Other &lsquo;English Progressive&rsquo; Artists</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-19T06:19:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/19/steven-wilson-start.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/17/disappeared-down-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Disappeared down the Cat Stevens / Yusuf rabbit hole this past weekend as I connected dots around Jeff Beck. It all goes back to the Yardbirds - famous for being ‘the start’ of three world class guitarists <strong>and</strong> Renaissance/Illusion <strong>and</strong> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samwell-Smith\">Paul Samwell Smith</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-17T10:14:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/17/disappeared-down-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/17/its-a-work.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 It’s a work in process - and definitely more to come - but two personal music lists you might enjoy</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/big-albums-from-artists-you-might-not-know\">Big Albums From Artists You Might Not Know</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/gateway-drugs\">Gateway Drugs</a></p>\n<p>Thankyou AlbumWhale and <a href=\"https://micro.blog/bjhess\">@bjhess</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-17T10:06:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/17/its-a-work.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/16/is-the-eurovision.html",
        "title": "🎵 Is The Eurovision Song Contest Designed To Be An 'Equal Opportunity' Employer?",
        "content_html": "<p>That is the only thing I can think of that created the news that caused me to write this post!</p>\n<hr />\n<p><a href=\"https://songwhip.com/public-image-ltd/hawaii\">This is nothing like a PiL track</a>. It is also nothing like a John Lydon track. That said,</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Public Image Ltd. (PiL) have been selected for the 67th annual Eurovision Song Contest airing on February 3. The band will represent Ireland with their new single ‘Hawaii.’.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/john-lydon-dedicates-eurovision-entry-hawaii-to-wife-3380808\">NME</a> and <a href=\"https://americansongwriter.com/former-sex-pistol-john-lydon-enters-eurovision-pil-song-hawaii/\">American Songwriter</a> are both ‘kind of saying’ that;</p>\n<center>Public Image Ltd are representing Ireland in the next Eurovision song contest.</center>\n<p>‘kind of’ because i THINK that there is an Irish ‘run off’ in February before the final decision to compete in May(?)\n<a href=\"https://americansongwriter.com/former-sex-pistol-john-lydon-enters-eurovision-pil-song-hawaii/\">This article</a> is one of many providing a little back story to the song.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The song … is a love letter to Lydon’s wife. Nora Forster, Lydon’s wife of nearly 45 years (who) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2018.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>It goes on ..</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“A deeply personal track for Lydon, ‘Hawaii’ is sobering reflection of the couple’s life together. The song is punctuated by one of their most special memories, a trip they once took together. Some begin again / We’re here / You and me … Remember me / I remember you / Hawaii. Written by Lydon, “Hawaii” professes the power of love through the good and the most traumatic of times.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>All good. No problem. Sorry to read about his wife’s diagnosis. The song is nice enough - though to these untrained ears a little schmaltzy - if not to say ‘derivative’ - as in ever since Elvis went to Hawaii, songwriters have been picking up their instruments and writing <a href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-with-hawaii-in-the-title/ranker-music\">yet another song about Hawaii</a>. John is no different.</p>\n<p>But here’s the thing</p>\n<p>1] <strong>Lydon was born in London</strong>. Yes to Irish parents (and holds an Irish passport) but he also has American citizenship and is on record as saying “I view myself as British first and foremost.”</p>\n<p>Let me take you back to Eurovision ’81. The winner? Buck’s Fizz, with a song called ‘<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-lKMGII_k\">Making Your Mind Up</a>’ .. maybe John should acquaint himself with a little Eurovision history and decide who he is.</p>\n<p>2] An entire song called <strong>Hawaii</strong> - whoever thought of doing that … <a href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-songs-with-hawaii-in-the-title/ranker-music\">oh wait</a> - to represent <strong>IRELAND</strong> - the home of some of the greatest writers and musicians in the world. Is there really not a real Irish choice?</p>\n<p>Fun fact - Ireland is the ONLY entry <strong>ever</strong> to win the competition <strong>twice</strong> with the same singer songwriter - not only that,he wrote a third song … that <strong>also won</strong>.</p>\n<p>3] The chintzy Hawaiian sound does a massive disservice to the real music that emerges from those islands.</p>\n<p>Just on Maui … there are superb professional musicians that I know, including;</p>\n<p>🔸 <a href=\"http://randallrospond.com\">Randall Rospond</a><br />🔸 <a href=\"https://mauitomcat.com\">Tom Conway</a><br />🔸 <a href=\"http://www.gailswanson.com\">Gail Swanson</a><br />🔸 <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jamiegallomusic/\">Jamie Gallo</a> (sorry - Facebook link)<br />🔸 <a href=\"https://vinceesquire.com\">Vince Esquire</a><br />🔸 <a href=\"https://kanekoa.live\">Kanekoa</a></p>\n<p>Not to mention Alana Cini, Joel Katz, Peter Kater, Chris Sendrey, John Grover and so many others I know and love - and even that list doesn’t include even more famous musical residents like</p>\n<p>🔸 Willie Nelson<br />🔸 Lukas Nelson<br />🔸 Alice Cooper<br />🔸 Mick Fleetwood<br />🔸 Lily Meola<br />🔸 Steven Tyler<br />🔸 Kris Kristoferson (I think - he certainly used to.)</p>\n<p>None of them … <strong>NONE</strong> .. produce music that the world associates with that Hawaiian sound. Even a ‘Ukulele band like Kanekoa play their Ukuleles less like Tiny Tim and more like well - Led Zeppelin.</p>\n<p>Kanekoa : <a href=\"https://kanekoa.live/music/\">Going to California</a></p>\n<p>Led Zeppelin : <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Led+Zeppelin/_/Going+to+California\">Going to California - </a></p>\n<p>I don’t dislike his song - but <strong>I really hope somebody Irish with Irish music wins the chance to represent their country and that yet another piece of misappropriated Hawaiiana is stopped from taking the world by storm.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-16T14:15:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/16/is-the-eurovision.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/16/atom-heart-mother.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Pink+Floyd/Atom+Heart+Mother\">Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd</a></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/d5c32bd61b744deccd79d60d793becf5.png\" alt=\"Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd poster\"></p>\n<p>Seems right that we experiment with posting an experimental album. No?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-16T12:31:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/16/atom-heart-mother.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/15/steven-wilson-one.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Steven+Wilson\">Steven Wilson</a> - one of my &lsquo;three&rsquo; and at the same time trying out <a href=\"https://lantern.rknight.me\">Lantern</a>.</p>\n<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Roger+Waters\">Roger Waters</a> is another and</p>\n<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Peter+Gabriel\">Peter Gabriel</a> is the third.</p>\n<p>Thanks for the heads up <a href=\"https://micro.blog/gaby\">@gaby</a>.</p>\n<p>Thanks for the work <a href=\"https://micro.blog/rknightuk\">@rknightuk</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-15T13:07:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/15/steven-wilson-one.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/15/now-this-is.html",
        "title": "Now THIS Is A New MicroBlog App That I Would Use",
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Imagine</strong> if you could export all your posts on Micro Blog <strong>with associated meta data</strong> down to a csv.</p>\n<p><strong>Imagine</strong> that you could then</p>\n<ul>\n<li>sort, filter the posts</li>\n<li>add / subtract categories</li>\n<li>edit entries</li>\n<li>normalize information</li>\n<li>merge and purge posts</li>\n<li>find THE post that has the largest number of comments in the thread</li>\n<li>find any posts with an image included, 2 images included, 3 &hellip;</li>\n<li>find the posts that contain (say) &lsquo;🎶&rsquo; so you can replace it with &lsquo;🎵&rsquo; - in line with all your other music posts</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&hellip; you know - <strong>any and all of the stuff that you might want to do with all those posts to better manage them</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>Imagine</strong> that you could then <strong>upload your work back into Micro Blog</strong> - and have a blog that is now</p>\n<ul>\n<li>easier to find entries\n<ul>\n<li>for you AND</li>\n<li>for others</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>cleaner and more organized</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Apparently all the hooks and data and APIs are in place to build such an export.</strong></p>\n<p>Once that is done - imagine moving that simple download upload into a fully fledged app.</p>\n<p>Just need a clever person to make it so.</p>\n<p>Any volunteers?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-15T06:21:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/15/now-this-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/13/including-goodbye-pork.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/some-reminders-of.html\">Including ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’ here</a> reminded me of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfeXvvQ98y8\">Bert and John from 68</a> - and later Pentangle - one of my <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/john-philpin-3c343a30/gateway-drugs\">‘gateway entries’</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-13T08:21:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/including-goodbye-pork.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/13/some-reminders-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>🎵 Some reminders of how awesome Mr Beck was …</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OccmcfZ9ZnY\">With Roger Waters on Amused To Death</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1s7jpdjiEw\">Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Brush With The Blues</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGg7mr6RGYM\">Live at the Hollywood Bowl</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHKsg3NIIgQ\">Induction to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=8bUlXDJcv-k\">Live at Ronnie Scott’s</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-13T07:58:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/some-reminders-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/13/do-people-like.html",
        "title": "🎵 Do 326 people 'like' Jeff Beck being dead?",
        "content_html": "<p>There has been a lot of traffic on Micro Blog about ‘like’ buttons - as in should there be one? Some of those conversations have been repackaged and moved into other places - like <a href=\"http://scripting.com/2023/01/09/163016.html\">this one from Dave Winer</a>.</p>\n<p>The challenge is that writers tend to see the like as a ‘nod’ of agreement with what they have written .. or at least as some kind of feedback …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“In real life there’s all kinds of non-verbal communication. you can nod your head, smile. We’ve come up with a similar language online, I don’t think there’s any more meaning in this. We’re being human. Not a huge surprise.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Dave Winer</p>\n<p>I’m not so sure. I am far from consistent as to how I use likes and I am guessing I am not alone. BUT … But the point of this post is not to provide a counter argument - but rather highlight the inadequacy of the like button a measure of popularity.</p>\n<p>You won’t have missed yesterday’s news of the passing of <strong>Jeff Beck</strong>.</p>\n<p>Patti Smith used her newsletter to share the news and a link to just one example of Beck’s extraordinary guitar playing.</p>\n<p>As of this morning she has 326 likes and 59 comments …. it is clear from the comments the sentiment - but the likes?</p>\n<p>What are they liking?</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The news he is dead?</li>\n<li>The track from ‘Amused to Death’?</li>\n<li>That the ‘liker’ is flagging their solidarity with her and Roger’s position on Palestine?</li>\n<li>The fact she posted something - and they are bookmarking ‘seen’?</li>\n<li>They just ‘auto like’ everything - and haven’t even read it? <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/21/even-readers-in.html\">Because even Readwise users, who you would have thought actually did … well … read! … don’t.</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>To be clear, I have no horse in the race. IF <a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">[@manton](https://micro.blog/manton)</a> added like buttons here -</p>\n<ul>\n<li>it wont be the end of the world</li>\n<li>i bet whether they are enabled will be under my control</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Back to Jeff … one of the best comments was a simple</p>\n<p>💔</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/44143451f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"600\" /></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-13T07:34:26+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/13/do-people-like.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/12/legendary-rock-guitarist.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/12/legendary-rock-guitarist-jeff-beck-dies-aged-78\">🎵🔗 Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78</a></p>\n<p>… “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis”</p>\n<p><strong>F U C K !</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-12T14:49:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/12/legendary-rock-guitarist.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/05/good-morning-world.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://youtu.be/FEq0hp06-3Y\">Good Morning World, It’s A Brand New Day </a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-05T08:27:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/05/good-morning-world.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2023/01/03/not-one-but.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Not one .. but two of my album lists on AlbumWhale are featured on their ‘staff picks’ … I am sure right now that it is a small community … but honored none the less.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/staff/picks\">Check out the staff picks.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2023-01-03T09:24:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2023/01/03/not-one-but.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/25/just-got-myself.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Just got myself a pixelfed account .. not a photographer .. so what images?</p>\n<p>Decided to reconnect with #JustGoodMusic and so will promote albums through different lenses and filters that will tie back to #AlbumWhale  … if I can sort it all out.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-25T17:26:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/25/just-got-myself.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/25/just-discovered-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Just discovered a new playlist in Apple Music called ‘My Shazam tracks’ … neat … every song I have Shazammed in a handy play list. A great musical reminder of where I have been when I have heard a great track … now if only I could remember where I was when I Shazammed each one.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-25T15:41:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/25/just-discovered-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/20/staff-picks-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/staff/picks\">Staff Picks on Album Whale</a></p>\n<p>I like this resource.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-20T10:48:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/20/staff-picks-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/12/music-was-my.html",
        "title": "🎶🎵 Music Was My First Love",
        "content_html": "<p>Music was my first love  <br>\nand it will be my last.  <br>\nMusic of the future  <br>\nand music of the past.  <br>\nTo live without my music  <br>\nwould be impossible to do.  <br>\nIn this world of troubles,  <br>\nmy music pulls me through.</p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 John Miles</p>\n<p>🎶🎵Interesting to see the albums that appear roughly daily in <a href=\"https://birchtree.me/tag/365-albums/\">Matt Birchtree’s  feed</a> where he celebrates a different album each day. So far, I am personally not inspired - but that is the beauty of music. It is all different. We are all different.</p>\n<p>It might also be that there just isn’t enough context around a post to make me think why I should be bothered - particularly when on the whole - the artists he posts that I do know, just ‘don’t do it ‘ for me. All good. I know it’s me — <strong>BUT</strong></p>\n<p>I do think this quote needs refinement.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“I love music, and even at the stage in life where most people seem to listen to the same artists they did when they were decades younger, I&rsquo;m still prowling the new releases every week to see what&rsquo;s new. I&rsquo;m obsessed with music.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Matt Birchtree</p>\n<p>&lsquo;What&rsquo;s New&rsquo; can&rsquo;t come from an established artist?</p>\n<p>Surely it depends on the artist and what they are producing?</p>\n<p>I would agree that there are people who hit a formula and then repeat over and over and are really un interesting - and then there are others who keep evolving … keep changing … refusing to fall into that trap, to pick on a few &hellip;.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Pink Floyd in their early days refused to play their hits like Emily Play and Arnold Layne in their concerts (though &lsquo;Saucerful of Secrets&rsquo; doesn’t seem to have imposed that limitation on themselves!)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The Arctic Monkeys open up concerts with brand new music that the audience will never have heard.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Neil Young and Brian Eno are both famous for their position of refusing to talk about their music from the past.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Most importantly - if you never listen to music from artists that have been around - you&rsquo;d never have heard Bowie&rsquo;s Blackstar.</strong></p>\n<hr>\n<p>I would also argue that a true music aficionado would explore the roots of music. When you listen to real musicians talk, to understand their influences, their history - WOW. To trace the roots of how artists get to where they are is fascinating.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>For my part, I am building a few lists in Album Whale that I hope might provide insight into the music I like - and how I came across it &hellip; it’s a different spin on &lsquo;best of&rsquo; &hellip; and more to do with the interconnectedness and relationships in music - and me. When they are ready I will be back.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-12T09:47:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/12/music-was-my.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/09/sad-to-read.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 Sad to read that Jet Black of The Stranglers has moved on to the ‘great concert venue’ in the sky.</p>\n<p><strong>BUT</strong> - The big news for me was his age … <strong>84</strong> - which means he was born before World War2 … you can work out the rest.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-09T11:35:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/09/sad-to-read.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/official-video-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Official video of <a href=\"https://youtu.be/3q6XJfKxKb4\">🎶🎵 Riverside - I&rsquo;m Done With You</a> - early single release from their upcoming new album <a href=\"https://album.link/i/1647627440\">ID.Entity</a>.</p>\n<p>If you are into that ‘post modern’ ‘neo’ ‘progressive’ ‘European’ Rock genre - WELL worth a listen</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-05T13:22:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/official-video-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/axl-rose-promises.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/03/axl-rose-guns-n-roses-promises-to-stop-throwing-mic-into-crowd-after-reports-a-fan-was-hurt\">🎶🎵 Axl Rose promises to stop throwing mic into crowd after reports a fan was hurt.</a></p>\n<p>He’s been doing this for most of his career and am amazed that this is the first injury.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-05T12:10:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/axl-rose-promises.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/05/album-whale-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵🎶 Album Whale is another list making service - this one for music - specifically albums.</p>\n<p>My first ‘experimental’ list … <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/john-philpin-3c343a30/very-specific-albums\">Very Specific Albums</a></p>\n<p>Have already suggested that they should allow connections to services like Odesli.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-05T12:09:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/05/album-whale-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/02/dear-abby-recently.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Dear Abby</p>\n<p>🎶🎵 Recently heard a superb conversation with <strong>Chris Spedding</strong>. Current📚 is by <strong>Jarvis Cocker</strong>. Just finished listening to Guy Pratt &amp; Gary Kemp talk with <strong>Richard Hawley</strong> and now Zane Lowe talking with Alex Turner from the <strong>Arctic Monkeys</strong>.</p>\n<p>Am I a closet ‘Sheffy’?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-02T11:28:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/02/dear-abby-recently.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Books"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/12/01/so-long-christine.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/30/fleetwood-macs-christine-mcvie-dies-at-age-79\">So long Christine - Thankyou for contributing to the soundtrack of my life.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-12-01T09:34:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/12/01/so-long-christine.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/29/another-one-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 <a href=\"https://albumwhale.com/mrshawnliu/foa\">Another one of these list services</a>. This one is for creating lists of (music) albums. It is a wait list at the moment so no idea of it is going to be what I want.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-11-29T17:25:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/29/another-one-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/28/today-i-learned.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 Today I learned that Zane Lowe is in New Zealand and opened for Groove Armada at their Auckland gig on Saturday</p>\n<p>I really need to pay more attention &hellip; AHEAD of time.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-11-28T13:47:19+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/28/today-i-learned.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/28/the-sound-track.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 <a href=\"https://words.philpin.com/the-sound-track-of-my-life\">The Sound Track Of My Life</a> is another old post that popped up over the weekend when i was searching for other stuff.</p>\n<p>It was meant to be a &lsquo;living post&rsquo;. It clearly died.</p>\n<p>I merged it with other things I am writing in Obsidian.</p>\n<p>One day it might make it back into the wild.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-11-28T08:04:18+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/28/the-sound-track.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/11/28/years-ago-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 7 years ago I was listening to <a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com/\">The Loop</a>, which is probably why I wrote <a href=\"https://words.philpin.com/2015/12/letter-jim-dalrymple-merlin-mann\">A Letter To Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann</a>. They were clearly chatting about music and I obviously took issue.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Never heard anything back.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Not sure why it was Merlin and not Dave on the show.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-11-28T07:59:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/11/28/years-ago-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/17/if-you-dont.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>If you don&rsquo;t like 🎶🎵 <strong>Yes</strong> &hellip; Don&rsquo;t bother.</p>\n<p>If you like <strong>Yes</strong>&hellip; But hate <strong>Topographic Oceans</strong> &hellip; Don’t  bother.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/iJrbmUAybFs\">Otherwise, this is a fun YouTube</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-10-17T22:24:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/17/if-you-dont.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/17/nme-on-blinks.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-delonge-says-new-blink-182-album-is-their-most-progressive-3329318\">🎶🎵 NME on Blink-182’s New Single</a></p>\n<p><strong>I really like</strong> <a href=\"https://song.link/i/1648505749\">Edging</a> &hellip; BUT .. I take issue with the label ‘progressive’.</p>\n<p>Yes - I think they have progressed from some of their earlier work - but no - it is not ‘Progressive’ .. am I getting pedantic in my old age?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-10-17T12:14:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/17/nme-on-blinks.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/10/06/the-turtles-were.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 The Turtles were NEVER a &lsquo;silly&rsquo; band. NEVER!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-10-06T10:38:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/10/06/the-turtles-were.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/28/new-to-me.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎼🎵 New (to me) from New Zealand … <a href=\"https://youtu.be/irWQxI5p8Fo\">Tablefox</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-09-28T18:53:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/28/new-to-me.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/28/love-me-some.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎼🎵 Love me some <a href=\"https://youtu.be/roE7-lECtOs\">Tears For Fears</a> … just a few favourites from a recent session … songs ‘old’ and ‘new’. Enjoy!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-09-28T18:44:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/28/love-me-some.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/26/apparently-according-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 Apparently.</p>\n<p>According to ‘Albums’.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/0e08e22024.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2022-09-26T10:42:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/26/apparently-according-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/23/nice-to-listen.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎙️🎵🎶 <a href=\"https://www.rsspod.net/leon-mika\">Nice to listen in to your conversation</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/martinfeld\">@martinfeld</a> and <a href=\"https://micro.blog/lmika\">@lmika</a> - thankyou.</p>\n<p>A different kind of musical note … check out the work of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Viv provided ‘MC’ services for all those lines you referenced, including;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“Spanish Guitar and introducing acoustic guitar”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>The Bonzo’s track <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie_(song)\">Death Cab For Cutie</a> also gave that band their name.</p>\n<p>Love me some solid (English) Progressive.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-09-23T12:48:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/23/nice-to-listen.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Podcasts"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/09/21/why-singalong-s.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/20/chirpy-chirpy-cheep-cheep-why-singalong-70s-pop-was-edgier-than-you-think\">Why singalong 70s pop was edgier than you think.</a></p>\n<p>I don’t buy it!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-09-21T12:24:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/09/21/why-singalong-s.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/16/guyville-boys-girls.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 🎵 🎼 Guyville : <a href=\"https://thetableread.co.uk/new-indie-rock-track-boys-girls-w-guitars-takes-you-on-an-intriguing-sonic-journey/\">Boys + Girls With Guitars Takes You On An Intriguing Sonic Journey</a></p>\n<p>.. out of LA -</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-07-16T13:49:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/16/guyville-boys-girls.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/07/16/this-just-spotted.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 🎵 🎼 <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2022/jul/14/running-up-that-hill-watch-brisbane-choirs-rendition-of-kate-bush-classic-video\">This just spotted in The Grauniad</a></p>\n<p>But, if you only have one click in you <a href=\"https://www.pubchoir.com.au/watch\">use it here</a> &hellip; if you want to spend a good 30 minutes crying (in a good way).</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-07-16T13:38:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/07/16/this-just-spotted.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/23/its-a-cover.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWTQiQlQhGs&amp;list=WL&amp;index=1\">🎶 It’s a cover of Alan Parson’s Eye In The Sky.</a></p>\n<p>… a very good cover - and with just two people performing.</p>\n<p>You will only be disappointed if you don’t like the original to begin with.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-05-23T13:35:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/23/its-a-cover.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/23/i-have-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://albumstheapp.substack.com/p/music-app-stuff-12-albums-44\">🎶 I have to say that I do like the Albums app - but I REALLY like the newsletter updates that go with it.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-05-23T12:05:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/23/i-have-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/05/21/vangelis-dead-oscarwinning.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 <a href=\"https://gizmodo.com/vangelis-obit-blade-runner-chariots-of-fire-oscar-compo-1848950874\">Vangelis Dead: Oscar-Winning Blade Runner Composer Gone at 79</a></p>\n<p>Chariots of Fire seems to be the other headline.</p>\n<p>I haven’t seen one that reads ‘Keyboard Player for Aphrodite’s Child’.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-05-21T13:20:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/05/21/vangelis-dead-oscarwinning.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/28/rip-klaus.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 RIP Klaus</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-04-28T09:19:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/28/rip-klaus.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? RIP"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/26/way-better-than.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaD5zbI2oyQ\">🎵 Way better than the first track I heard from the new Porcupine Tree album</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-04-26T11:37:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/26/way-better-than.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/04/21/as-a-s.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 As a 60s &lsquo;pop song&rsquo;, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Dupree_and_the_Big_Sound\">🔗 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound</a>&rsquo;s Kites has always had a place in my heart.</p>\n<p>As a progressive band, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentle_Giant\">🔗 Gentle Giant</a> sits in my personal pantheon of musical influence.</p>\n<p>Just discovered today that the latter were essentially the same band as the former. 🤯</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-04-21T14:32:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/04/21/as-a-s.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/13/remember-labi-siffre.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 🎵 Remember <a href=\"https://castro.fm/episode/JtPTBF\">Labi Siffre</a>?</p>\n<p>I liked his stuff at the time, but never really kept track of him.</p>\n<p>This podcast with <a href=\"https://www.rockonteurs.com\">Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt</a> woke me up to everything this man is and stands for.</p>\n<p><strong>Well worth a listen.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-03-13T11:28:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/13/remember-labi-siffre.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/03/06/from-you-know.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵From You Know Where.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2022/08420fea00.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2022-03-06T14:46:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/03/06/from-you-know.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Humour"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/02/27/dave-grohl-calls.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎼🎵<a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/dave-grohl-calls-liam-gallagher-one-of-the-last-remaining-rock-stars-3170177?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=dave-grohl-calls-liam-gallagher-one-of-the-last-remaining-rock-stars\">Dave Grohl calls Liam Gallagher “one of the last remaining rock stars”</a></p>\n<p>I like Dave Grohl. I’m enjoying his new book. But that doesn’t mean to say I agree with him on everything.</p>\n<p>This is one of those. Vehement disagreement.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-02-27T16:14:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/02/27/dave-grohl-calls.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2022/01/12/182102.html",
        "title": "1971 : 🚀 🧙‍♂️🎵",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-hunky-dory-50th/\">David Bowie&rsquo;s Glam Masterpiece &lsquo;Hunky Dory&rsquo; Turns 50</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his book Never A Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded, British music journalist David Hepworth lays out a case for considering 1971 as the most consequential year (from beginning to end) in music.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>&hellip; which reminded me of <a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14544732/\">1971 - The Year That 🎵🎼 Music Changed Everything</a> - excellent series.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2022-01-12T17:21:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/12/182102.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/10/05/revisiting-odessey-and.html",
        "title": "🎶 🎵 Revisiting 'Odessey and Oracle'",
        "content_html": "<p>Revisiting <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/odessey-and-oracle/252723845_\">Odessey and Oracle</a> today after listening to the Rockentours talking to Colin Blunstone.</p>\n<p><strong>Great Songs.</strong></p>\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https://embed.music.apple.com/us/album/odessey-and-oracle/252723845\"></iframe>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-10-05T17:12:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/10/05/revisiting-odessey-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/27/halcyon-days-do.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎼 Halcyon Days</p>\n<p>Do you know who they are?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://ultimateclassicrock.com/u2-first-rehearsal/\">Read More</a></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/92e2970eb7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2021-09-27T10:57:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/27/halcyon-days-do.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/23/if-you-havent.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 If you haven&rsquo;t heard New Zealand&rsquo;s Maori Metal band &lsquo;<strong>Alien Weaponry</strong>&rsquo;, you are missing out.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-dQF9cOw5M\">This video</a> touches on my reasoning. I&rsquo;m not a metal lover &hellip; but a sucker for musicians driven by a passion with a message.</p>\n<p>The video tells the story behind one of their songs.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-09-23T15:51:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/23/if-you-havent.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/11/the-helicopter-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/1566401361\">The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost</a> is a great new album.</p>\n<p>The back story of why it has taken 20 years for the songs to surface is mind wrenching. It stands unique - but closest ‘sound like it could be’ comp would be Blackfield.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/a38b38004a.png\" width=\"501\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2021-09-11T17:43:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/11/the-helicopter-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/11/at-least-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵 At least the music for 2021 is panning out well ..</p>\n<p><video controls=\"controls\" playsinline=\"playsinline\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/08614f41e2.mov\" width=\"294\" height=\"640\" poster=\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2021/428e937602.png\" preload=\"none\"></video></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-09-11T17:34:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/11/at-least-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/09/10/may-i-introduce.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 May I introduce you to</p>\n<p>Nick Beggs, Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman</p>\n<p>AKA</p>\n<p>&lsquo;Trifecta&rsquo;</p>\n<p>AKA</p>\n<p>&hellip; the extraordinary musicians that are the &lsquo;backing band to Steven Wilson&rsquo;s &lsquo;solo&rsquo; work.</p>\n<p>Wonderful album.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/a7a772f1dc.png\" width=\"492\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2021-09-10T18:21:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/09/10/may-i-introduce.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/21/i-watched-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders a while back, Finally got round to Seasons 3 to 5 - not disappointed.</p>\n<p>After such a binge - time to switch to something completely different.</p>\n<p>Jack Irish!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“I thought you finished watching Peaky came the voice from the kitchen.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I had - the two shows happened to choose the same Nick Cave song as it’s theme.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-08-21T17:56:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/21/i-watched-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyShowReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/20/mesmerising-links-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎵<a href=\"https://youtu.be/e8zYJ46PTX4\">Mesmerising</a> (links to video)</p>\n<p> </p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/e8zYJ46PTX4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n<p> </p>\n<p>To remind - many of us have this capability sitting in our pocket - likely unused!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-08-20T15:09:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/20/mesmerising-links-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/20/dream-theater-has.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵🎶 Dream Theater has a new album coming out - launch track just dropped.</p>\n<p><strong>Stunning</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/V462IsOV3js\">click here if you can’t see the video</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/V462IsOV3js\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-08-20T15:06:47+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/20/dream-theater-has.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/14/sf-music-hall.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 🎵 <a href=\"https://www.sanfranciscomusichalloffame.com/\">SF Music Hall Of Fame</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; now this looks like a place I want to visit next time I&rsquo;m in town.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-08-14T15:23:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/14/sf-music-hall.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/08/07/in-my-mind.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 In my mind - not surprising, but Apple is doing a great job with music;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>1971</li>\n<li>McCartney 3, 2, 1</li>\n<li>Mark Ronson’s ‘Watch The Sound’</li>\n</ul>\n<p>All really excellent.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-08-07T18:35:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/08/07/in-my-mind.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyShowReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/28/the-the-santana.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵\nThe The<br>\nSantana<br>\nWaterboys<br>\nSpandau Ballet<br>\nK D Lang<br>\nLonnie Donegan<br>\nGilbert O’Sullivan<br>\nJohn Mayer<br>\nLeadbelly</p>\n<p>Eclectic ?</p>\n<p>Yes … but that’s what yesterday’s musical selection was meant be.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-28T09:17:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/28/the-the-santana.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/26/faces-not-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Faces not on albums by the Faces.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/bf3c617661.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" />\n<p> </p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/bfd83a99a0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-26T15:54:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/26/faces-not-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/20/203945.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 A Reminder</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/bbd4024201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" /></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-20T20:39:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/20/203945.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/09/scott-weiland-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 <a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/scott-weiland-and-robert-trujillos-sons-have-formed-a-new-band-called-blu-weekend-2984301\">Scott Weiland and Robert Trujillo&rsquo;s sons have formed a new band called Blu Weekend</a></p>\n<p>I’m getting old &hellip; Scott Weiland&rsquo;s <strong>son</strong>?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-09T08:29:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/09/scott-weiland-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/09/steve-howe-alan.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 &ldquo;Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood&rdquo; &hellip; how many incarnations of Yes can you fit into one?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-09T08:21:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/09/steve-howe-alan.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/07/07/where-has-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 <strong>WHERE</strong>  has the Melbourne Ska Orchestra been all my life?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-07-07T22:11:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/07/07/where-has-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/28/is-black-sabbath.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 Is Black Sabbath a ‘prog’ band?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-06-28T10:24:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/28/is-black-sabbath.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/06/19/foo-fighters-cover.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶🎼 <a href=\"https://ultimateclassicrock.com/foo-fighters-bee-gees-covers-album/\">Foo Fighters Cover Bee Gees for Record Store Day LP</a></p>\n<p>… didn’t see that one coming!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-06-19T14:09:22+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/06/19/foo-fighters-cover.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/26/nielsen-completes-acquisition.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶<a href=\"https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/press-releases/2017/nielsen-completes-acquisition-of-gracenote/\">Nielsen Completes Acquisition of Gracenote.</a></p>\n<p>Makes total sense - but cannot believe it happened 4 years ago.</p>\n<p>Lifts rock off head!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-05-26T15:03:09+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/26/nielsen-completes-acquisition.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/26/lone-rhino-adrian.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 <a href=\"http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2544856\">Lone Rhino - Adrian Belew</a></p>\n<p><strong>Review</strong></p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2021/53d281e88b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2021-05-26T14:29:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/26/lone-rhino-adrian.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2021/05/26/bruno-mars-becomes.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶<a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/bruno-mars-becomes-first-artist-to-have-five-songs-certified-diamond-2946320\">Bruno Mars becomes first artist to have five songs certified Diamond</a></p>\n<p>Not a big fan - but that is an awesome achievement for a young lad from Hawaii!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2021-05-26T14:22:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2021/05/26/bruno-mars-becomes.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/12/16/message-from-a.html",
        "title": "Message From A 🎵 Musician",
        "content_html": "<p>As a reader of this blog and newsletter or as a listener of my podcast - you know that I am a keen supporter of the broad category of &lsquo;creative professional&rsquo; - and specifically &lsquo;musician&rsquo;. What follows are not my words, but those of a musician that wrote to me recently. Reproduced with their permission and names and venues changed/anonymized to &lsquo;protect the vulnerable&rsquo;.</p>\n<hr>\n<p>I just got my first real paying gig since March 17 for Saturday December 26th. Meanwhile, due to an uptick in local COVID cases the county has announced that restaurants are to remain open, but no one allowed at the bar for the next 2 weeks.</p>\n<p>By my calculation from today (Dec. 10), that takes us to December 25th. So, December 26th we will be back to normal?</p>\n<p>After 9 months of ‘COVID communications with the owners of a local ‘hostelry’ - and having played there every Friday for over fourteen years, I have now experienced a full u-turn, so instead of returning to my Friday Afternoon slot - which they said “would be there for me whenever I was ready to return”, they have instead told me I will be “on call”, if they need a last minute substitute as ‘their schedule is booked full’.</p>\n<p>I told them actually no …. no I won’t.</p>\n<p>Beyond that, they are no longer paying what they used to - and that was never a lot to begin with!</p>\n<p>The business (music AND the hostelry) has never been stacked with integrity, but this has to be a new low. Maybe to match the pay rates of the stand-ins?</p>\n<p>Meanwhile on the other side of town, my Tuesday night gig (again over 14 years) has been taken over by a guy playing bass with a karaoke backing machine … in return for ‘a burger and a beer’ !!</p>\n<p>The musician said “he did not want to steal my night” … funny - because he did. He could have said no. I guess the burger temptation was too great.</p>\n<p>He was offered the gig by the owner because his belief was that I wouldn’t work for free. (Correct!).</p>\n<p>I grew up in a Union town. I remember what those kinds of people were called.</p>\n<p>I get it. I really do. I know the venues are struggling with finance like us all - musicians included - but if they can’t afford musicians - why bring them on at all?</p>\n<p>If your business model is to offer live music - shouldn’t you pay for it?</p>\n<p>And sure - I can hear the gallery calling down - you’ll make it up in tips.</p>\n<p>With luck - but in reality - no.</p>\n<p>So take a share of the profits of extra beer sold …. yeah - good luck with that! When THEY are doing well, YOU are on a fixed (low) fee - &ldquo;make it up in tips&rdquo;. But now they are down … well, you know how it goes.</p>\n<p>As you know I’ve made my living as a full time musician and creative all of my life, so sad to reflect on COVID lessons;</p>\n<p>loyalty - out of the window\npromises - not worth the paper they are written on\ndogs - they will eat dogs\nDon’t get me wrong, the competition is just getting ramped up. The number of musicians - in this area seems to be growing by the day - and I am pretty sure that the number of hostelries are reducing. (One of the biggest just 10 miles away has announced that it is closing for GOOD. )</p>\n<p>Not sure how this is going to play out - but I stand with my belief that a business should only offer what it can afford - and the race to the bottom of price is not a race I am going to join in.</p>\n<p>When I order Lobster, I don’t expect to eat it and then renegotiate the price - but that seems to be the life of the live performer.</p>\n<p>Still - one door closes, another opens - I wonder what happens when two doors close!</p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Thinking Allowed</strong></p>\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://philpin.com/peoplefirst\">More about People First</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/peoplefirst/\">Other People First Posts</a> <br>\n(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)</li>\n</ul>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-12-17T09:28:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/12/16/message-from-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Posts","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/12/07/i-think-its.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I think it&rsquo;s fair to say that <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.net\">Just Good Music For Micro Blog</a> whilst not a bad idea - has now run it&rsquo;s course. Time to pull it down and move on.</p>\n<p>// <a href=\"https://micro.blog/joejenett\">@joejenett</a> - what say you?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-12-07T12:40:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/12/07/i-think-its.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/11/03/what-are-we.html",
        "title": "What Are We Going To Do About The Rich?",
        "content_html": "<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I came across the Pet Shop Boys track 'What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? It seemed to be very People Firsty in nature.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:core-embed/youtube {\"url\":\"[youtu.be/CHMk9WdoF...](https://youtu.be/CHMk9WdoFHg)\",\"type\":\"video\",\"providerNameSlug\":\"youtube\",\"className\":\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n[youtu.be/CHMk9WdoF...](https://youtu.be/CHMk9WdoFHg)\n</div></figure>\n<!-- /wp:core-embed/youtube -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from the recurring refrain \"What are we gonna do about the rich?\" we do have other words;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>They say democracy is simply very bad for business<br>While deploring student protests in the middle of Hong Kong<br>They insist that people have to work on zero contracts everywhere<br>So profit margins grow and shares are very strong<br>But one group that they never take to task<br>And one question that they never seem to ask<br>Is...</p><p>They're buyin' football clubs today with absolute impunity<br>And so much of the media to give themselves the power<br>To destroy the very notion and the feeling of community<br>While poisoning the public discourse hour by hour<br>But although it never seems to make it into Hansard<br>The question at some point must still be answered<br>Oh...</p><p>They're avoiding paying taxes<br>While the welfare state collapses<br>Their extravagance and arrogance<br>Their lack of tact to balance this<br>Their lawyers and their attitude<br>The scale of their ingratitude<br>They only give to charity<br>For maximum publicity</p><cite>Pet Shop Boys</cite></blockquote>\n<!-- /wp:quote -->\n<!-- wp:block {\"ref\":15416} /-->\n",
        "date_published": "2020-11-04T18:26:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/11/03/what-are-we.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/10/08/people-first-is.html",
        "title": "People First Is Not Political",
        "content_html": "<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2>Though it might well be political.</h2>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":14596,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"className\":\"is-style-default\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img src=\"https://peoplefirst.vision/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Roger-Waters-Buffalo-NY-2017-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14596\"/><figcaption>Scene From Us+Them, A Film By Roger Waters</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I am writing this post, which is extracted from an email I had cause to write this week when someone questioned a stance I had taken in a newsletter that Pink Floyd was a punk band.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>I know - right?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To quote the writer ...</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"And Pink Floyd a punk band, WTF!!???)\"</p><cite>an email correspondent </cite></blockquote>\n<!-- /wp:quote -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I often take a contrary stance on things to elicit a response. But when I take that stance, it isn't uninformed, just different. So 'Pink Floyd is a punk band' had the desired effect, it elicited response - but no logical argument back, just a preconceived notion that they are a rock/progressive band - which cant possibly be punk. Me - I still say <strong>YES.</strong> I mean if Malcolm McLaren can produce an album that fuses opera and R&B has he lost his punk? Rigid classification just doesn’t work - I think that also goes some way to explaining how databases have transitioned over time from hierarchical to relational to graph. But back to Punk Floyd.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"color\":{\"background\":\"#ffffff\"}}} -->\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>A Collection of Links you might enjoy - if not - read on</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><a href=\"https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.2/mto.15.21.2.cohen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MTO 21.2: Cohen, Expansive Form in “Dogs”</a></li><li><a href=\"https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/05/pink-floyds-animals-pulls-no-political-punches-40-years-later/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pink Floyd’d Animals pulls no political punches 40 years later</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/15093-Punk-Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There is actually a punk band called Punk Floyd</a></li><li><a href=\"https://louderthanwar.com/punk-floyd-pink-floyd-one-biggest-influences-punk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punk Floyd : Were Pink Floyd one of the biggest influences on punk?</a></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The point of it all being that if Punk is only about the music / style / genre … then <strong>no</strong>, Pink Floyd is not a Punk Band</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BUT</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If Punk is all about anti-establishment commentary and political action - <strong>then absolutely yes</strong>, they are ... and Roger Waters specifically<strong> is the original punk</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https://happymag.tv/roger-waters-shares-epic-anti-trump-performance-of-pigs-in-front-of-300000-people/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Have you seen his Mexico concert?</a></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"backgroundColor\":\"primary\"} -->\n<p class=\"has-primary-background-color has-background\">The desire of the article and a lot of what I write is to take a non obvious stance to make people sit up and either respond \"right, I never thought about it that way\" or \"the guys talking crap” … and I look forward to that debate … always seeking to learn.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Thinking Allowed</strong></p>\n\n\n\n\nThis is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://philpin.com/peoplefirst\">More about People First</a></li>\n<li><a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/peoplefirst/\">Other People First Posts</a> <br>\n(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)</li>\n</ul>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-10-09T11:37:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/10/08/people-first-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/29/the-antithesis-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://om.co/2020/06/27/the-antithesis-of-streaming-music/\">The antithesis of streaming music</a> &hellip; as you think about Apple and &lsquo;AppStoreGate&rsquo; &hellip;. spare a thought for the musicians.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-29T19:14:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/29/the-antithesis-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/29/little-bit-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-my-way/169718883?i=169719259\">🎶 Little bit of furry psychedelia.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-29T15:30:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/29/little-bit-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/26/thelonious-monks-unlikely.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/thelonious-monks-unlikely-palo-alto-high-show-becomes-thrilling-live-album\">🎵 Thelonious Monk&rsquo;s unlikely Palo Alto High show becomes thrilling live album.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-26T13:18:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/26/thelonious-monks-unlikely.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/18/track-warbles-sweeter.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>“5-Track warbles sweeter than lost’n’lonely Neil Young during ON THE BEACH, almost as self-satirizing as the very Reverend Roky Erickson and &hellip; appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States’ next phase.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Julian Cope 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-18T17:33:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/18/track-warbles-sweeter.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/16/robin-rendleremember-my.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/remember-my-song.html\">Robin Rendle ･ Remember My Song</a> reminded me of Labi Siffre today. I liked him at his peak. Turns out I still like him. Until today I had forgotten all about him.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-16T11:32:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/16/robin-rendleremember-my.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/16/dave-winer-writes.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"http://scripting.com/2020/06/15.html#a131957\">GitHub is going to get rid of the concept of master for repositories because it&rsquo;s a reference to slavery.</a></p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Dave Winer</p>\n<p>He points out there are</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Master Bedrooms</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Master Degrees</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Me adding</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Masters Tournament</li>\n</ul>\n<p>and of course</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvfofcIE1Q\">🎵  Depeche Mode&rsquo;s Master And Servant </a></li>\n</ul>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-16T10:56:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/16/dave-winer-writes.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/15/its-doing-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 It’s doing the rounds. It just tickled me.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/9dfb00c869.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-15T17:49:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/15/its-doing-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/14/i-only-want.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 “I only want to be with you” &hellip; 50% of the songs were “ I … ”</p>\n<p>and finally in the final there was …</p>\n<p>“Chasing Cars”</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-14T13:03:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/14/i-only-want.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/14/i-know-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>”I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">🎵 💬 MSP</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-14T12:55:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/14/i-know-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/11/prog-rock-symphonic.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 Prog Rock &hellip; Symphonic Rock &hellip; Symphonic Pop &hellip; Power Pop &hellip; the genre differences seem to have very large fuzzy grey boundaries.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-11T14:26:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/11/prog-rock-symphonic.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/04/poolside-fm-get.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://poolside.fm/\">Poolside FM</a> get your retro 90s on with some smooth beats and awesome graphics.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/803fd09ea8.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-04T16:32:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/04/poolside-fm-get.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/03/i-forget-sometimes.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I forget sometimes that Robert and Toyah are married. This is a fun reminder.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZvhCNxjC88\">Here&rsquo;s the video if you can see the embed below.</a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/CZvhCNxjC88\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-03T13:12:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/03/i-forget-sometimes.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/02/time-to-listen.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-absentia/1271868494\">Time To Listen To ‘In Abstentia’</a></p>\n<p>AGAIN.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/4f250730e2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-02T15:37:47+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/02/time-to-listen.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/06/01/sometimes-you-forget.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Sometimes you forget how good old songs are.</p>\n<p>And then BOOM.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/IszlXuQ99Fo\">Like Here</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-06-01T16:25:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/06/01/sometimes-you-forget.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/29/wait-what-well.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Wait What?</p>\n<p>Well - yes - sadly true. It has been delayed.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/45b23e028b.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n<p>Meanwhile - you too can join in the <a href=\"http://stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/remix-personal-shopper/\">remix game</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/Lrj-ktrsiYY\">In case you cant see the embed below.</a></p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lrj-ktrsiYY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-05-29T15:53:27+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/29/wait-what-well.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/20/hes-angry-hes.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 He&rsquo;s Angry. He&rsquo;s <strong>ALWAYS</strong> been Angry. And that&rsquo;s ok. There&rsquo;s good reason for it &hellip;.</p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9lCFaSL9aSE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/9lCFaSL9aSE\">In case you can&rsquo;t see the embed above.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-05-20T18:50:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/20/hes-angry-hes.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/05/03/i-am-often.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I am often accused of using dated musical references in my writings. (You know who that is ‘R’)</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://flowingdata.com/2020/05/01/looking-for-generational-gaps-in-music/\">Now we can begin to understand why.</a></p>\n<p>But, my results are a little better in ‘modern music’ than the younger generations seem to manage on ‘older' music 😊.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://pudding.cool/2020/04/music-challenge/\">Go straight to the test.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-05-03T13:48:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/05/03/i-am-often.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/09/may-i-introduce.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Introducing one of my best friends in the world. Sorry the video is small post some cropping. Hope to fix that.</p>\n<center><video src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/733c2ea8fe.mov\" poster=\"https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2020/82a692182c.png\" preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"319\" height=\"180\"></video></center>\n<p>PS - Everything you hear is Randall, live at that moment. No backing dubs or overlays - other than his loop box.</p>\n<p><strong>Original video by David Wiltsie</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2020-04-09T13:42:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/09/may-i-introduce.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyVideoEmbeds","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2020/04/08/why-i-was.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Why I was searching for this will become clearer in a future series I am thinking about - in the meantime &hellip;. seriously <strong>WTF</strong> !</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2020/b31377b4cc.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2020-04-08T14:35:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2020/04/08/why-i-was.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/12/03/the-latest-newsletter.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://johnphilpin.substack.com/p/passion-commitment-dreams\">The latest newsletter from People First</a> featuring links to 4 incredible musical performances that also happen to be Ted &lsquo;Talks&rsquo;. 🎵</p>\n<p>&lsquo;Passion, Commitment, Dreams&rsquo; - which you then turn &lsquo;all the way up to eleven&rsquo;</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-12-04T05:16:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/12/03/the-latest-newsletter.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/11/29/captain-fantastic-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Captain Fantastic is not my property and definitely not integrated into my music collection. 🎵</p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/microblogvember/\">MicroBlogVember</a> <strong>triple</strong> to match the <a href=\"https://micro.blog/macgenie\">@macgenie</a> <a href=\"https://micro.welltempered.net/2019/11/27/microblogvember-prompt-november.html\">triple</a> that ends the series!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-11-30T10:57:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/11/29/captain-fantastic-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MB 2019 11"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/11/24/string-theory-superb.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 String Theory &hellip; superb art and thinking from <a href=\"http://jens-ritter.art/series.php?id=6\">Jens Ritter</a>.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/ecead5993b.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-11-25T07:37:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/11/24/string-theory-superb.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/11/23/better-to-be.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>&ldquo;Better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note.&rdquo;</p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Robert Fripp</p>\n<p>🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-11-24T08:04:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/11/23/better-to-be.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/11/22/rattle-and-hum.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  Rattle and Hum is a much overrated album by U2 - definitely not one of their best. In fact every time I listen to it I feel - well - woebegone.</p>\n<p>Boom - a double - double word entry to celebrate <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/microblogvember/\">MicroBlogVember</a> !</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-11-23T09:48:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/11/22/rattle-and-hum.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MB 2019 11"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/11/22/quick-question-can.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><strong>Quick Question …</strong></p>\n<p>Can you hum the tune from the PBS Series Lake Woebegone?</p>\n<p>Sure - but that isn&rsquo;t how you spell ‘Wobegon’ !</p>\n<p>This line brought to you courtesy of two <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/microblogvember/\">MicroBlogVember</a> entries 😊 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-11-23T09:45:22+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/11/22/quick-question-can.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MB 2019 11"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/10/26/nick-cave-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-announce-2020-european-tour\">Nick Cave &amp; the Bad Seeds Announce 2020 European Tour</a></p>\n<p>Time to plan <strong>my</strong> European Tour.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-10-27T04:53:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/10/26/nick-cave-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/09/13/did-i-mention.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Did I mention that this week&rsquo;s newsletter is out &hellip; it dropped on Tuesday.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://johnphilpin.substack.com/p/rewriting-history\">Exploring Punk Floyd (no typos)</a> and the rewriting of history.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-09-14T04:20:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/13/did-i-mention.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","People First","Newsletter"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/09/10/rewriting-history.html",
        "title": "Rewriting History",
        "content_html": "<!-- wp:image {\"id\":7316} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https://people-first.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/image-1024x451.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7316\"/><figcaption>Guernica - Picasso - 1937</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Did John Lyndon Hate The Floyd?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Is Pink Floyd a punk band?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Are people really surprised when Roger Waters delivers protest?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why is the film not Called 'Us and Them'?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All this and more in this week's newsletter.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:html -->\n<p><a href=\"https://johnphilpin.substack.com/p/rewriting-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Recap (opens in a new tab)\">Read More</a></p>\n<!-- /wp:html -->\n<!-- wp:separator -->\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"/>\n<!-- /wp:separator -->\n<!-- wp:block {\"ref\":4121} /-->\n<!-- wp:block {\"ref\":3237} /-->\n",
        "date_published": "2019-09-11T10:38:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/10/rewriting-history.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/09/09/131929.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  ‘Us + Them’ &hellip; BOOKED</p>\n<p>&hellip; and I do like the subtle switch from &lsquo;and&rsquo; to ‘+’</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-09-10T08:19:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/09/131929.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/09/09/082051.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Roger Waters</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-09-10T03:20:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/09/09/082051.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/23/at-barry-godber.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 At 24, Barry Godber painted the design for the album cover of</p>\n<p><strong>In the Court of the Crimson King</strong></p>\n<p>He died from a heart attack shortly after the album was released.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-08-24T10:45:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/23/at-barry-godber.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/21/been-a-little.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  Been a little lax in keeping up recently - but <a href=\"https://micro.blog/justgoodmusic\">@justgoodmusic</a> is still cranking out posts thanks to <a href=\"https://micro.blog/Cassinato\">@Cassinato</a>  - <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/contributors/\">anyone else want to be a contributor</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-08-22T08:50:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/21/been-a-little.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/21/watch-pink-floyds.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.thatericalper.com/2019/08/20/watch-pink-floyds-david-gilmour-sing-shakespeare/\">Watch Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sing Shakespeare</a> via Eric Alper .</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-08-22T08:48:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/21/watch-pink-floyds.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/08/17/it-would-not.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp &amp; co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Ben Thompson, Mojo</p> 🎵 \n",
        "date_published": "2019-08-18T14:56:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/08/17/it-would-not.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/27/heard-part-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Heard part of this on the final episode of <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/07/03/594/\">Nick Mason&rsquo;s Sound and Technology podcast.</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdL3NR9Yno0\">This is a more complete 6 minutes of the David Bowie interview.</a></p>\n<p>The disbelief and facial expressions of Paxman are priceless.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-28T11:16:22+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/27/heard-part-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/26/ok-more-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Ok - more to come tomorrow/over the weekend but just discovered a new band out of Seattle called Kilcid - who in turn were telling me about a Welsh band called Super Furry Animals .. pumped.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-27T13:42:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/26/ok-more-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/25/your-taste-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.labnol.org/internet/music-taste-linked-to-intelligence/7489/\">Your Taste in Music Can Reveal How Smart You Are. </a></p>\n<p>Yeah - clever - but like so many of these things - the data source is biased.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-26T11:54:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/25/your-taste-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/25/is-it-just.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Is it just me that has <a href=\"https://youtu.be/Vgx7abJH6uI\">Boris The Spider</a> running through his head on constant repeat?</p>\n<p>🕷</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-26T02:31:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/25/is-it-just.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/18/its-clock.html",
        "title": "It's 5 0'Clock",
        "content_html": "<p>[caption id=&ldquo;attachment_5443&rdquo; align=&ldquo;aligncenter&rdquo; width=&ldquo;1280&rdquo;]<img class=\" size-full wp-image-5443 aligncenter\" src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/ce499be76c.jpg\" alt=\"thevogues\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" /> Nobody told The Vogues to retire.[/caption]</p>\n<p>Up every morning just to keep a job,</p>\n<p>I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,</p>\n<p>Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,</p>\n<p>While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).</p>\n<p>but it&rsquo;s a five o&rsquo;clock world when the whistle blows,</p>\n<p>No-one owns a piece of my time,</p>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s a five o&rsquo;clock me inside my clothes,</p>\n<p>Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,</p>\n<p>A-da-lay-ee-ee (up, up, up!).</p>\n<p>Trading my time for the pay I get,</p>\n<p>Living on money that I ain&rsquo;t made yet,</p>\n<p>Gotta keep goin' gotta make my way,</p>\n<p>But I live for the end of the day (Yeah, yeah, yeah),</p>\n<p>&lsquo;cause it&rsquo;s a five o&rsquo;clock world when the whistle blows,</p>\n<p>No-one owns a piece of my time,</p>\n<p>And there&rsquo;s a long-haired girl who waits, I know,</p>\n<p>To ease my troubled mind, yeah,</p>\n<p>A-da-lay-ee-ee (up, up, up!).</p>\n<p>In the shelter of her arms everything&rsquo;s okay (yeah-yeah),</p>\n<p>She talks and the world goes slipping away (it slips away),</p>\n<p>And I know the reason I can still go on,</p>\n<p>When every other reason is gone (Yeah, yeah, yeah),</p>\n<p>in my five o&rsquo;clock world she waits for me,</p>\n<p>Nothing else matters at all&rsquo;,</p>\n<p>Cause every time my baby smiles at me,</p>\n<p>I know that it&rsquo;s all worthwhile, yeah,</p>\n<p>A-da-lay-ee-ee (up, up, up!)</p>\n<p>A-da-lay-ee-ee (up, up, up!)</p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">The Vogues</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/L3wMesI8aiw\">youtu.be/L3wMesI8a&hellip;</a></p>",
        "date_published": "2019-07-19T07:32:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/18/its-clock.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/12/for-sale-years.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/for-sale-forty-years-of-vinyl-singles-that-topped-the-british-charts\">For Sale: 40 Years of Vinyl Singles That Topped the British Charts</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-13T16:11:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/12/for-sale-years.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/12/billie-eilish-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/music/news/billie-eilish-kate-bush-1203260731/\">Billie Eilish Is the Kate Bush We Need Right Now</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”Eilish is an outlier who arrived at a time of need: <strong>Despite her couture-in-a-blender look</strong>, “</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>(my bold)</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-13T15:36:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/12/billie-eilish-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/12/well-now-muse.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Well now - <a href=\"http://www.anglotopia.net/british-entertainment/british-music-british-entertainment/muse-frontman-takes-over-guitar-company-and-brings-his-gear-to-the-people/\">Muse frontman takes over guitar company and brings his gear to the people</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-13T15:04:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/12/well-now-muse.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/07/the-song-over.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵The song over &hellip; should it fade out - or come to a conclusion?</p>\n<p>Survey Time.</p>\n<p>// <a href=\"https://micro.blog/justgoodmusic\">@justgoodmusic</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-08T13:47:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/07/the-song-over.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/07/06/just-updated-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Just updated the <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/contributors/\">contributors page on Just Good Music</a> - 10 authors in total - we have a couple more registered - but they have yet to throw up a post. Wonderful to see the variety of music being written about.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-07-07T14:11:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/07/06/just-updated-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/26/the-working-day.html",
        "title": "The Working Day Is Done",
        "content_html": "<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>No, not Cyndi ... Neil.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>They say that life imitates art. In this particular <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">case</g> I would argue art is imitating life.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When the working day is through<br>\nAnd you're waiting in the rain<br>\nFor another overdue<br>\nOvercrowded railway train<br>\nAnd the movie poster screams<br>\n\"It's the best film ever seen!\"<br>\nBut it's all a different world<br>\nTo which you have never been<br>\nAnd you're bored out of your mind<br>\nSo you keep yourself amused<br>\nReading the Financial Times<br>\nOf the fellow next to you<br>\nThen something in you snaps<br>\nAnd you shout with all your lungs<br>\n\"We give and get nothing back!\"<br>\nWhen the working day is done.\"</p><cite>Neil Hannon - Divine Comedy</cite></blockquote>\n<!-- /wp:quote -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfair - possibly, but Hannon / <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Divine Comedy (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https://thedivinecomedy.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Divine Comedy</a> has a history of social observation. In this particular case and entire double album on Office Politics. Wont it be grand when we no longer have to deal with them?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https://thedivinecomedy.com/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"European tour in the autumn of this year. (opens in a new tab)\">European tour in the autumn of this year.</a></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-27T04:41:24+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/26/the-working-day.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm","People First"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/19/everyone-were-changing.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>”Everyone, we’re changing everyone,<br>\nyou name them all,<br>\nwe’ve had them here,<br>\nand the real stars are still to appear.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-20T10:58:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/19/everyone-were-changing.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/18/jacob-i-was.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://micro.blog/Jacob\">@Jacob</a> I was going to do this anyway - but I decided it had to be today because it is <a href=\"https://micro.blog/macgenie\">@macgenie</a> &rsquo;s birthday and she said that <a href=\"https://micro.welltempered.net/2019/06/18/if-you-want.html\">what she wanted for her birthday</a> is to call out and respond to others, so &hellip;. <strong>great work</strong>.</p>\n<p>Your new blog <a href=\"https://musicians.on-micro.blog\">Musicians on Micro.Blog</a> is a wonderful addition to the growing network of services being built around Micro.Blog.  It is now fully tied into <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.net\">Just Good Music</a> with a link in the top menu and interesting also to see the overlap of contributors to both worlds.</p>\n<p>Thanks also to <a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> - not just for Micro Blog - but his call out this morning to the <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2019/06/18/musicians-on-microblog.html\">musical direction of Micro Blog</a>. None of us know for sure who listens to what we say and write - but somehow, I do sense that when <a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> posts - people read :-)</p>\n<p>One final call out to my co-conspirator on JGM - <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JoeJenett\">@JoeJenett</a> Without his work - there would be no web mentions running back and forth between our various sites and the  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a> account - GREAT WORK.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-19T07:39:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/18/jacob-i-was.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/17/ws-obviously-revisiting.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Was obviously revisiting a lot of music <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/on-this-day/\">a year ago today</a>.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-18T11:45:29+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/17/ws-obviously-revisiting.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Ok .. if it’s ear worming me .. it can ear worm you.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/if-it-wasnt-for-bad/1440781577?i=1440781579\">Elton and Leon</a> - 🍎 🎵 🔗</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-18T08:48:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/17/ok-if-its.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","? Apple"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/14/well-heres-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Well here&rsquo;s a start <a href=\"https://micro.blog/kapsa\">@kapsa</a> - found your RSS feed and add it into the <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com\">JGM side bar</a></p>\n<p>and this post will also appear there ….</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-15T11:47:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/14/well-heres-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/12/spoiler-alert-arctic.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Spoiler Alert</p>\n<ul>\n<li>1975</li>\n<li>Arctic Monkeys</li>\n<li>Idles</li>\n</ul>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/best-greatest-albums-of-the-year-2018-2419656\">In case you are wondering what I spoiled.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-13T10:45:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/12/spoiler-alert-arctic.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/11/im-starting-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I’m Starting A Play List</p>\n<p><a href=\"music.apple.com/us/album/shut-your-eyes/1443301051\">Snow Patrol</a> and <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/chasing-cars/1443301051?i=1443301193\">again</a></p>\n<p>Oh - and</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/echoes/1450415526?i=1450415537\">Rodrigo y Gabriela</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-12T12:59:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/11/im-starting-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/11/a-lot-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 A lot of people sharing this today</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html\">The Day The Music Burned</a></p>\n<p>Only reason I am sharing it is so I can tag it with ‘justgoodmusic’ &hellip; the category I am playing around with to <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/music/\">feed Just Good Music</a> &hellip; so far things are getting through - but not consistently.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-12T11:44:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/11/a-lot-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/11/nad-sylvan-vocalist.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>”Nad Sylvan, vocalist with Steve Hackett is set to release his new solo album ‘The Regal Bastard’ on July 5th, 2019.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Add to the 🎵 list.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/886d5ff7a6cb/nad-sylvan-available-for-interviews?e=08523f4e49\">Read More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-12T06:24:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/11/nad-sylvan-vocalist.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/11/calling-all-radiohead.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Calling all Radiohead fans &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/radiohead-respond-hackers-release-18-hours-ok-computer-material-2507076\">Radiohead respond to &ldquo;hackers&rdquo; and release 18 hours of previously unheard &lsquo;OK Computer&rsquo; material in aid of Extinction Rebellion</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-12T02:15:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/11/calling-all-radiohead.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/11/sir-elton-duets.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Sir Elton duets with Plain Old Ordinary Elton</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.anglotopia.net/british-entertainment/british-movies/see-taron-egerton-and-elton-john-duet-after-the-release-of-rocketman/\">See Taron Egerton and Elton John duet after the release of Rocketman</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-12T02:01:54+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/11/sir-elton-duets.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/09/blown-away-more.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Blown Away &hellip;<a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/09/blown-away/\">more to come on this</a> &hellip; just a quick share for now from <a href=\"https://micro.blog/justgoodmusic\">@justgoodmusic</a> .. original post by <a href=\"https://micro.blog/bestoftimes\">@bestoftimes</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-10T05:10:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/09/blown-away-more.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/08/135715.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Happy to share a post via  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a></p>\n<p><strong>Author</strong> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/joejenett\">@joejenett</a>\n<strong>Topic</strong> Stevie Ray Vaughan</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/04/90/\">Come Explore More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-09T08:57:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/08/135715.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/08/135621.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Happy to share a post via  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a></p>\n<p><strong>Author</strong> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/stefp\">@stefp</a>\n<strong>Topic</strong> Esperanza Spalding – Noble Nobles</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/05/esperanza-spalding-noble-nobles/\">Come Explore More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-09T08:56:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/08/135621.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/08/135537.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Happy to share a post via  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a></p>\n<p><strong>Author</strong> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/BestofTimes\">@BestofTimes</a>\n<strong>Topic</strong> Earth - By Vangelis</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/05/earth/\">Come Explore More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-09T08:55:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/08/135537.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/08/135414.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Happy to share a post via  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a></p>\n<p><strong>Author</strong> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/joejenett\">@joejenett</a>\n<strong>Topic</strong> Bowie</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/07/%F0%9F%8E%B5-bowie/\">Come Explore More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-09T08:54:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/08/135414.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/08/happy-to-share.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Happy to share a post via  <a href=\"https://micro.blog/JustGoodMusic\">@JustGoodMusic</a></p>\n<p><strong>Author</strong> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/hollyhoneychurch\">@hollyhoneychurch</a>\n<strong>Topic</strong> Drum N Bass</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/08/exploring-dnb/\">Come Explore More</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-09T08:53:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/08/happy-to-share.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/07/just-in-case.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Just in case you’re not feeling overwhelmed &hellip; let’s try to fix that.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8504489/looking-ahead-a-release-calendar-for-upcoming-albums\">Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums - Billboard</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-08T03:36:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/07/just-in-case.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/06/i-have-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>I have <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/categories/music/\">this feed</a> - which got me to thinking - if I cant get the 🎵 JSON feed working for <a href=\"https://micro.blog/justgoodmusic\">@justgoodmusic</a> &hellip; maybe I could pull categories from anyone who wants to auto publish and not publish separately. LMK the feed you publish your music to and lets see if it works.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-07T12:52:58+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/06/i-have-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/06/just-killed-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Just killed the wordpress mobile theme on <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.net\">Just Good Music</a> &hellip; MUCH better.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-07T11:34:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/06/just-killed-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/05/all-four-contributors.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>All four <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/contributors/\">contributors</a> to <a href=\"https://micro.blog/justgoodmusic\">@justgoodmusic</a> have now posted. I have to say - the other three have delivered some great stuff.</p>\n<p>// <a href=\"https://micro.blog/BestofTimes\">@BestofTimes</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/stefp\">@stefp</a> and of course <a href=\"https://micro.blog/joejenett\">@joejenett</a>  - who has done some sterling work around web mentions &hellip; which are now working.</p>\n<p>More volunteers?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-06T09:00:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/05/all-four-contributors.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/04/im-only-human.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/human/1202354327?i=1202354334\">I’m Only Human Afterall</a> &hellip; came to mind after I heard <a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/05/136/\">this</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-05T13:31:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/04/im-only-human.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/06/04/just-good-music.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://justgoodmusic.philpin.com/2019/06/04/what-the-hell-happened\">Just Good Music - a post from the archive &hellip; originally written in 2003 - and I think still holds</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-06-05T05:35:53+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/06/04/just-good-music.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/29/music-interested-read.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎶 🎶 🎼 🎼 🎹 🎹 <strong>Music &hellip; interested? Read on.</strong></p>\n<p>I learned something today &hellip; thankyou <a href=\"https://micro.blog/smokey\">@smokey</a> - enter a URL &hellip; like (say) JustGoodMusic.Net &hellip; and it is suddenly an entity to be followed within micro.blog</p>\n<p>I choose that URL specifically &hellip; I own it - but it has sadly languished for a few years and is due for renewal. I was going to let it die &hellip; <a href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20140419071007/http://www.justgoodmusic.net/\">you <strong>can</strong> find it in the way back machine</a>, though  just a shadow of its former self and I just don’t have the time these days.</p>\n<p><strong>But, instead of letting it go &hellip; an idea &hellip;</strong></p>\n<p>What if JustGoodMusic.Net was reborn and lived in MicroBlog?</p>\n<p><strong>Here&rsquo;s what I am thinking …</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> sets up micro.blog/justgoodmusic</p>\n<p>I point the ‘justgoodmusic.net’ DNS to that account.</p>\n<p>The microblog account is a <strong>shared</strong> account that a few volunteers have access to &hellip; so they can post into that account … aswell as their own and all those music posts appear at justgoodmusic.net .</p>\n<p>Maybe we can set it up so that any post tagged with 🎶 or 🎼 or 🎹 automatically gets posted to justgoodmusic (stretch goal?)</p>\n<p>In this way - JustGoodMusic.Net becomes a music domain that represents the best of the micro blog music collegiate &hellip; is that something that could be worked out <a href=\"https://micro.blog/Manton\">@Manton</a>?</p>\n<p>// thoughts <a href=\"https://micro.blog/jacob\">@jacob</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/jw\">@jw</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/theWeeklyListen\">@theWeeklyListen</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/pgor\">@pgor</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/simonwoods\">@simonwoods</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/ron\">@ron</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/joejenett\">@joejenett</a> <a href=\"https://micro.blog/thedimpause\">@thedimpause</a> et al ?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-05-30T06:20:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/29/music-interested-read.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/29/led-zeppelins-robert.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.thatericalper.com/2019/05/29/led-zeppelins-robert-plan-is-starting-a-podcast/\">Led Zeppelin&rsquo;s Robert Plant Is Starting A Podcast</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; now that’s a podcast to be added to the queue.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-05-30T03:58:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/29/led-zeppelins-robert.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/26/oh-wow-same.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://music.apple.com/us/album/rare-birds/1320439940\">Oh. Wow</a></p>\n<p>&hellip;same last name &hellip; same sound &hellip; yet happy.</p>\n<p>Love it.</p>\n<p>🎶🎶🎶</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-05-27T15:34:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/26/oh-wow-same.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/25/anyone-want-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵🎼🎵 Anyone want to discuss &hellip; <a href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/how-computers-ruined-rock-music.html\">How Computers Ruined Rock Music</a>?</p>\n<p>and related &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/brian-eno-explains-the-loss-of-humanity-in-modern-music.html\">Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music - Open Culture</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-05-26T05:29:00+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/25/anyone-want-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/05/24/wake-up-punk.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sex-pistols-malcolm-mclaren-joe-corre-documentary-wake-up-punk-839482/\">Wake Up Punk</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”Joe Corré, son of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, is readying a documentary titled Wake Up Punk.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>You burn a pile of stuff supposedly worth $6million and 3 years later, you think wait, I’m broke, I’ll make a movie about burning the stuff.</p>\n<p>Got It. 🎵🎼🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-05-25T04:39:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/05/24/wake-up-punk.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/11/some-excellent-news.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Some excellent 🎵 News &hellip;.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/news/neil-young-is-back-in-the-studio-with-crazy-horse\">Neil Young is back in the studio with Crazy Horse</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-12T04:27:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/11/some-excellent-news.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/11/enjoyed-a-little.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Enjoyed a little 🎵AIR🎵 last night.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-12T04:26:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/11/enjoyed-a-little.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/02/moondogs-long-howl.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://tedium.co/2019/03/28/moondog-musician-history/\">Moondog’s Long Howl</a> - fascinating read …</p>\n<p>My original vinyl of this album is in England with my other vinyl (in very careful hands) … so time to pull this one out of <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/moondog/1364645907\">Apple Music</a>.</p>\n<p>50 Years &hellip;. Really?</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/f50bfee6b4.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"596\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-03T06:08:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/02/moondogs-long-howl.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/02/todaysselection-from-the.html",
        
        "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p>”Today&rsquo;s selection &ndash; from 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year In Music.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Andrew Grant</p>\n<p class=\"fullstory\"><a href=\"https://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?3815\">The Full Story</a></p>\n<p>1965 … the most revolutionary year in Music! Do We agree? 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-03T04:51:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/02/todaysselection-from-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/01/congratulations-the-cure.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”Congratulations The Cure – Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame inductees 2019! Are you as excited as I am?”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Excited Interviewer</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“By the sounds of it, no.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">Robert Smith</p>\n<p class=\"fullstory\"><a href=\"https://www.nme.com/news/music/cures-robert-smith-goes-viral-brilliantly-blunt-brand-interview-response-watch-2469439\">The Full Story</a>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-02T11:20:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/01/congratulations-the-cure.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/04/01/have-to-say.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Have to say, I don’t usually promote the music of 17 year old girls - generally not my bag - <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/when-we-all-fall-asleep-where-do-we-go/1450695723\">but making an exception for the first time ever.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-04-02T08:41:39+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/04/01/have-to-say.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/03/13/damn-it-if.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  Damn it &hellip; if it’s going to get worm its way into my ear &hellip; then it can worm its way into yours.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM\">Beware &hellip; Earworm</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-03-14T08:02:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/03/13/damn-it-if.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/27/heard-on-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Heard on a Rolling Stone Podcast</p>\n<p>People&rsquo;s main complaint about the Monkees not being a ‘real group’ because they were ‘put together’ by a TV producer.</p>\n<p>Why then is a band put together by someone who runs a clothes shop so much better?</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McLaren\">‘harsh - but fair’</a>!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-02-28T11:34:09+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/27/heard-on-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/24/peter-frampton-books.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/peter-frampton-degenerative-muscle-disease-ibm-797556/\">Peter Frampton Books Farewell Tour, Has Degenerative Muscle Disease</a> &hellip; sad to read &hellip;but I like the idea of not taking it lying down.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-02-25T05:13:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/24/peter-frampton-books.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/20/john-mayall-is.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/news/john-mayall-is-back-with-a-new-song-and-alex-lifesons-all-over-it\">John Mayall is back with a new song, and Alex Lifeson&rsquo;s all over it.</a></p>\n<p>Interesting that back in the day Mayall was the man who found and gave voice to amazing new talent. I have yet to hear this album &hellip; but the band is made up of already established names.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-02-21T03:59:56+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/20/john-mayall-is.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/02/03/jon-lord-plays.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵<a href=\"https://youtu.be/VACwF7djomQ\">Jon Lord plays Dave Brubeck</a> - and nothing wrong with that!</p>\n<p>I came across it accidentally when I was seeking out Dave&rsquo;s original - which I have written about - and will be publishing to <a href=\"http://www.people-first.net\">People First</a> shortly.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-02-03T13:23:59+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/02/02/jon-lord-plays.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/05/and-they-say.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵And they say long hair guitar bands are dead. Welcome 2019.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/222d87243c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-01-06T07:53:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/05/and-they-say.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/04/toto-you-say.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Toto you say &hellip;</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/7858c2194b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-01-05T09:43:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/04/toto-you-say.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/04/yup.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵YUP</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/29cae8f97b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-01-05T09:43:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/04/yup.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/04/i-do-not.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵I do not remember buying this much Hackett vinyl back in the day.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2019/c9ac7102c0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2019-01-05T06:52:54+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/04/i-do-not.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2019/01/03/the-anchoress-predicts.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-anchoress-predicts-the-return-of-the-concept-album\">The Anchoress predicts the return of the concept album</a></p>\n<p>Hmmm &hellip; there’s ‘good concept’ and ‘bad concept’ &hellip; always has been &hellip; so hesitant to say “Yaaaay” .. know what I mean?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2019-01-04T01:57:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/03/the-anchoress-predicts.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/12/03/talk-about-three.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Talk about three people who look like they definitely do not want to be in this photo &hellip; and I really don’t blame them. <a href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/news/prog-magazines-advent-calendar-day-three\">Prog Magazine&rsquo;s Advent Calendar - Day Three</a></p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/b08c7ed3f1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" />\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-12-04T03:53:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/03/talk-about-three.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/12/02/years-ago-neil.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  <a href=\"http://ultimateclassicrock.com/neil-young-geffen-lawsuit/\">35 Years Ago: Neil Young is Sued for Not Sounding Like Neil Young</a></p>\n<p>How dare he!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-12-03T06:40:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/02/years-ago-neil.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/12/02/bohemian-rhapsody-earns.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  <a href=\"http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bohemian-rhapsody-box-office-champion/\">&lsquo;Bohemian Rhapsody&rsquo; Earns U.S. Crown, $500 Million Worldwide</a></p>\n<p>That aside, the story of ‘Freddy in photos through time’ on the click through is a great trip down memory lane.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-12-03T06:34:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/02/bohemian-rhapsody-earns.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/11/20/ok-is-now.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 is now a tag on <a href=\"https://words.philpin.com/archives\">one of my blot sites</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-11-21T07:45:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/11/20/ok-is-now.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/10/11/232251.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Public Service Broadcasting</p>\n<center>\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https://embed.music.apple.com/us/album/people-will-always-need-coal/1363624981\"></iframe>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-10-12T11:22:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/11/232251.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/10/02/nothing-like-a.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Nothing like a little bit of <a href=\"https://www.publicservicebroadcasting.net\">‘Public Service Broadcasting’</a> to close the day out.</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/ba21f65e32.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"600\" />\n</center>\n<p>&lsquo;English Progressive&rsquo; at its best.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-10-02T13:10:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/01/nothing-like-a.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/09/29/true-story-enjoy.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵<a href=\"https://words.philpin.com/too-old-to-rock-and-roll-too-young-to-die\">True Story</a> - enjoy &hellip; particularly the two 🎵 links at the end.</p>\n<p>I will update with the links to the article when it is finished.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-09-30T09:14:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/09/29/true-story-enjoy.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/09/02/sitll-end-in.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1984’s It’ll End in Tears, 1986’s Filigree &amp; Shadow, and 1991’s Blood will return to shelves with new deluxe editions, soon available on both vinyl and CD with remastered audio.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.spin.com/2018/09/this-mortal-coil-announce-reissues-of-3-classic-albums/\">The Full Story</a></p>\n<p>I’m talking <strong>This Mortal Coil</strong> people</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-09-03T07:49:40+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/09/02/sitll-end-in.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/31/he-could-walk-down-your.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He could walk down your street<br>\nAnd girls could not resist his stare<br>\nPablo Picasso never got called an asshole</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">💬 Jonathan Richman</p> \n",
        "date_published": "2018-09-01T05:00:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/09/01/he-could-walk-down-your.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Quotes"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/15/202232.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I was just ruminating on my ‘travels’ yesterday.</p>\n<p>I started in Scotland, headed over to Ireland and ended up in England/ With thanks to John Martyn, Mike Scott, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Matt Johnson, Guy Garvey, Richard Hawley and Roy Harper.</p>\n<p><strong>Thankyou people.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-08-16T08:22:32+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/08/15/202232.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/10/the-pineapple-thief.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.loudersound.com/news/the-pineapple-thief-share-video-for-new-single-try-as-i-might\">The Pineapple Thief share video for new single Try As I Might</a> &hellip; and yours truly totally missed the fact that Gavin Harrison is a formal band member. Since 2016 in fact.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-08-11T03:33:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/08/10/the-pineapple-thief.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/09/musicians-only-made.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/musician-12-percent-43-billion-revenue/\">Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue</a></p>\n<p>We were talking about this the other day. When I have a moment, I will drop a link back here.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-08-09T13:22:25+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/08/08/musicians-only-made.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/08/zztops-legs-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://boingboing.net/2018/08/03/the-streets-have-no-legs.html\">ZZTop&rsquo;s &ldquo;Legs&rdquo; and U2&rsquo;s &ldquo;Streets Have No Name&rdquo; are the same song</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; no really - click through and have a listen.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-08-09T08:02:22+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/08/08/zztops-legs-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/08/07/oh-my-john.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://app.robly.com/archive?id=c3d15af1c5ed1892c55c9afd1bacfe80&amp;v=true\">Oh My</a>:</p>\n<p><strong>John Etheridge</strong> guitar<br>\n<strong>Theo Travis</strong> flute, sax, Fender Rhodes piano<br>\n<strong>Roy Babbington</strong> bass guitar<br>\n<strong>John Marshall</strong> drums<br></p>\n<p><strong>Soft Machine</strong><br>\nHidden Details (new album)<br>\nWorldWide Tour<br></p>\n<p>And one Bay Area Gig at ‘Freight and Salvage’ &hellip; next year.</p>\n<p>‘Freight and Salvage’? Really ?</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/68bf7b821b.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" />\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-08-08T11:45:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/08/07/oh-my-john.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/31/khruangbin-villain-pitchfork.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xKvHANqjk\">Khruangbin @ Villain - Pitchfork Live</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-31T12:03:02+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/30/khruangbin-villain-pitchfork.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/22/opera-based-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8466465/opera-based-on-pink-floyd-album-the-wall-makes-us-debut\">Opera Based on Pink Floyd Album ‘The Wall’ Makes US Debut</a></p>\n<p>Why on Earth would you bother?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-23T06:26:03+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/22/opera-based-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/22/fred-frith-founder.html",
        "title": "🎵 Fred Frith - Founder of Henry Cow - A Little Joint History",
        "content_html": "<p>I came across an old Fred Frith album in my collection today and recalled that when at school I ‘knew’ that he was the son of the headmaster of my school.</p>\n<p>I forget how I ‘knew it’ and over time even started to question the truth of my own memory (just because they have the same last name, blah blah blah .. )</p>\n<p>So, with the internet on hand, I just finished some ‘research’ - <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Frith\">ok I went to Wikipedia</a> to see if I could find out if there was any truth &hellip;</p>\n<p>Turns out he was. Still is I assume!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”In the early 1970s Fred&rsquo;s grey Morris Minor sported the band&rsquo;s heraldic logo, much to the amusement of boys at his dad&rsquo;s grammar school in York where he was the headmaster.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I even remember the car. The memory was real.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-22T12:28:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/21/fred-frith-founder.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/18/friedrich-nietzsche-without.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>”Without music life would be a mistake.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">\nFriedrich Nietzsche\n</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/1dfcfd911c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" />\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-19T08:39:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/18/friedrich-nietzsche-without.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/07/antoine-baril-one.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7Dqf-FQL4\">Antoine Baril - One Man Genesis</a> &hellip; if you like Genesis, instrumentals and covers - this is a pretty good 17minute Genesis medley - playing all the instruments himself.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-08T09:07:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/07/antoine-baril-one.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/06/and-while-i.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 &hellip; while I am on the topic of Danish Music … <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0g_SJjA6Q\">Kim Larsen with Gasolin</a> &hellip; no apologies.</p>\n<p>^^This version^^ didn&rsquo;t include the ‘opera singer’ &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXNHcDRvgE\">this one does</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55v3rvnjOIE\">slower, older, later</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPbKRH7OuaM\">the original album version</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-07T07:40:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/06/and-while-i.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/07/06/always-liked-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  Always <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A\">liked this song</a> &hellip; please don’t hate me for it.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-07-07T07:22:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/07/06/always-liked-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/23/the-guy-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 The Guy On The Left - Mick Moody, ex Whitesnake. The Guy On The Right - Harmonica player Alan Glen, ex Yardbirds and countless others.</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/06e6c55e1f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" />\n</center>\n<p>The occasion?</p>\n<p>A very private session in the English Countryside. Sometimes the best way to see music.</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/068066cffe.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-24T06:54:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/23/the-guy-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/19/i-like-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 I like to think of these albums as ‘perfectly formed nougats of beauty’ &hellip; not saying they are &hellip; it’s just how I like to think of them. 🎶</p>\n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/5f3b9cee5a.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" />\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-19T17:13:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/19/i-like-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/19/it-was-more.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 It was more a collective than a band per se</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/d8a9d3932d.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-19T17:11:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/19/it-was-more.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/19/anyone-know-this.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Anyone know this crew?</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/4504f183ee.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-19T17:10:09+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/19/anyone-know-this.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/and-right-up.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 &hellip;. and right up to modern times &hellip;. keep your ears open for Dom Martin 🎶</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/8f4ca50fb4.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T22:21:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/and-right-up.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/you-forget-dont.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 You Forget Don’t You?</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/e54cb2cc7c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T21:44:07+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/you-forget-dont.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/and-better.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 And Better</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/da7c4b10b0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T21:41:56+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/and-better.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/just-keeps-getting.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Just Keeps Getting Better</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/74978ba678.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T21:33:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/just-keeps-getting.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/and-lets-not.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 And Let’s Not Forget</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/45847adcf5.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T21:19:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/and-lets-not.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/17/more-old-school.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 More Old School</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/a4cb226802.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T21:17:43+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/17/more-old-school.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/16/old-school.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Old School</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/b11736f3c7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-17T06:44:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/16/old-school.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/12/completing-my-post.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Completing my musical post trilogy &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://castro.fm/episode/42iqph\">An excellent podcast featuring Angelique Kidjo and David Byrne</a> talking about <strong>Remain In Light</strong> - both David’s and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique_Kidjo?wprov=\">Angelique’s</a> versions.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-13T04:11:37+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/12/completing-my-post.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/12/and-more-added.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 and more music added to my buy list:</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/04/tears-for-fears-to-release-first-new-album-in-14-years/\">Tears For Fears to release first new album in 14 years - Consequence of Sound</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-13T03:56:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/12/and-more-added.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/12/spiritualized-to-release.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.thatericalper.com/2018/06/11/spiritualized-to-release-new-album-and-nothing-hurt-on-september-7/\">Spiritualized To Release New Album &ldquo;And Nothing Hurt&rdquo; On September 7</a></p>\n<p>Filed under 🎶 I can’t wait for.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-13T03:55:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/12/spiritualized-to-release.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/04/my-book-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📚 🎵  <a href=\"https://progreport.com/my-book-of-genesis-richard-macphail-review/\">My Book of Genesis</a> looks like a good one if you want a different spin on the band</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-05T09:03:46+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/04/my-book-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Books"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/03/marvelous-stuff-from.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Marvelous Stuff From <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvtUvQczaRk\">Guthrie Govan</a> and Mohini Dey</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-04T03:00:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/03/marvelous-stuff-from.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/06/01/riverside-are-back.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/fd4e4ade6e80/riverside-announce-new-studio-album?e=08523f4e49\">Riverside</a> are back &hellip; including a new European tour</p>\n<p>… add that one to your ‘music to listen to' list!</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-06-02T00:42:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/06/01/riverside-are-back.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/05/30/the-chords-of.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://aeon.co/essays/ringing-the-chords-of-the-universe-how-music-influenced-science\">The Chords Of The Universe</a></p>\n<p>&hellip; what were we all saying about Maths again …</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It’s no surprise that mathematics has influenced music. But did you know that the influence goes both ways?</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-05-31T10:28:23+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/05/30/the-chords-of.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/05/28/nothing-more-to.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Nothing More To Say &hellip;</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/74I4pCmq2Cs\">You might call it Deep Purple &hellip; I call it Jon Lord</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-05-28T14:30:01+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/05/27/nothing-more-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/05/21/steven-wilson-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Steven Wilson and his band then went on to perform <a href=\"https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/steven-wilson/2018/crystal-ballroom-portland-or-5bedaf80.html\">a stunning show</a> for over three hours to an audience of 1,000 in a hall capable of holding 1,500.</p>\n<p><strong>In March he sold more than 15,000 tickets over three consecutive nights at the Royal Albert Hall.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-05-22T06:07:10+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/05/21/steven-wilson-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/05/21/steven-wilson-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Steven Wilson on stage at Portland &hellip;</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>How many people in the audience saw us play Seattle last night?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>calls and noises and - maybe 30 people were counted  &hellip;.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Because if you thought <strong>that</strong> show was compromised &hellip; welcome to Portland!</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-05-22T06:04:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/05/21/steven-wilson-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/04/29/your-sunday-morning.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbmaGAXlGQ\">Your Sunday Morning Smile.</a></p>\n<p><strong>1969, the same year as</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(The_Nice_album)\">Nice / Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummagumma\">Ummagumma</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(Caravan_album)\">Caravan</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road\">Abbey Road</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Silent_Way\">Silent Way</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_(album)\">Led Zeppelin</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Did_on_Our_Holidays\">What We Did On Our Holidays</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Genesis_to_Revelation\">Genesis To Revelation</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_from_a_Room\">Songs From A Room</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Skyline\">Nashville Skyline</a><br></p>\n<p>oh .. and</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(Frank_Sinatra_album)\">My Way</a></p>\n<p><strong>&hellip; Sammy had it.</strong></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-04-30T02:46:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/04/29/your-sunday-morning.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/04/26/not-my-photos.html",
        
        "content_html": "<center><a href=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/859ca67667.jpg\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/859ca67667.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 200px; width: auto; padding: 1px;\" class=\"sunlit_image\" /></a><a href=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/84d60d66d5.jpg\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/84d60d66d5.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 200px; width: auto; padding: 1px;\" class=\"sunlit_image\" /></a>\n</center>\n<p>&hellip; not my photos &hellip; but will be when he gets to SF in mid May &hellip; pour vous <a href=\"https://micro.blog/apulianas\">@apulianas</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-04-26T12:40:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/04/25/not-my-photos.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/04/10/fleetwood-macs-split.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8300503/fleetwood-mac-lindsey-buckingham-split-questions\">Fleetwood Mac’s Split With Lindsey Buckingham</a></p>\n<p>Well, not the first time, but to me the Fleetwoods are Buckingham …</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-04-10T15:50:12+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/04/09/fleetwood-macs-split.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/04/08/suffering-convictions-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Suffering convictions on a two-way stretch inside<br>\nThe air in here is pretty thin, I think I&rsquo;ll go outside<br>\nCommitted for insanity and crimes against the soul<br>\nThe worst crime that I ever did was play some rock &lsquo;n roll.&rdquo;</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">\nThe Stranglers\n</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIX_6EVf7pI\">Take A Listen</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-04-09T05:52:27+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/04/08/suffering-convictions-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/04/08/something-better-change.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Something Better Change</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I said something better change<br>\nI said something better change<br>\nI said something better change<br>\nI said something better change</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p class=\"attribution\">\nThe Stranglers\n</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-04-09T05:33:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/04/08/something-better-change.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/26/220420.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵Well worth a listen - the truth is finally out, thanks to Rolling Stone. I didn’t see the film as a hatchet job - but it does make sense when you understand the back story.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://castro.fm/episode/yiSsyw\">castro.fm</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-27T10:04:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/26/220420.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/24/missed-this-at.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1MUSk44j0&amp;\">Missed this at the time - but sharing because I was blown away to see Steven Wilson on BBC Breakfast TV</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-25T06:11:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/24/missed-this-at.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/17/221021.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Arriving-Somewhere-Porcupine-Tree/dp/B0791WFFJS/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_qp_0_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_i=B0791WFFJS&amp;pd_rd_r=Y7JNK77ZJJ18VX55PAK7&amp;pd_rd_w=m6ZBZ&amp;pd_rd_wg=g3ZDm&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=Y7JNK77ZJJ18VX55PAK7\">OOOOHHHH</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-18T10:10:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/17/221021.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/14/two-years-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 two years and two days since the passing of keith emerson &hellip;. seems forever ago and just yesterday.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-14T16:54:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/13/two-years-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/10/what-do-we.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 What do we consider is the average price for rock concert tickets these days - not a big name - stadium gig - more a mid name - 1200 standing room only gig?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-10T12:15:20+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/09/what-do-we.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/06/robert-plant-at.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Robert Plant at 66 on The Jools Holland Show &hellip; educating us on how it is done. Absolutely phenomenal.</p>\n<p>And if you thought you knew ‘Whole Lotta Love’ .. you are likely wrong unless you heard him do it with The Shape Shifters.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-06T18:07:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/05/robert-plant-at.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/02/just-for-you.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 Just for you <a href=\"https://micro.blog/seansharp\">@seansharp</a> <a href=\"http://john.philpin.com/2018/03/02/seconds.html\">Click Here</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-03T10:59:33+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/02/just-for-you.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/03/02/seconds.html",
        "title": "🎵 26 Seconds",
        "content_html": "<p>The &lsquo;full&rsquo; version of the &lsquo;single second&rsquo; &hellip; for <a href=\"https://micro.blog/seansharp\">@seansharp</a> .. <a href=\"https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/30/160455.html\">more about Wilson can be read here</a></p>\n<center>\n<iframe allowFullScreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"564\" mozallowfullscreen src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/258346031\" webkitAllowFullScreen width=\"640\"></iframe>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-03-03T10:46:42+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/03/02/seconds.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/15/was-it-stefphttpsmicroblogstefphttpsmicroblogstefp.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 was it [<a href=\"https://micro.blog/stefp\">@stefp</a>](<a href=\"https://micro.blog/stefp\">https://micro.blog/stefp</a>) or [<a href=\"https://micro.blog/minton\">@minton</a>](<a href=\"https://micro.blog/minton\">https://micro.blog/minton</a>) or [<a href=\"https://micro.blog/laurentboileau\">@laurentboileau</a>](<a href=\"https://micro.blog/laurentboileau\">https://micro.blog/laurentboileau</a>) or [<a href=\"https://micro.blog/pgor\">@pgor</a>](<a href=\"https://micro.blog/pgor\">https://micro.blog/pgor</a>) that put me onto <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmX3XRh-HEw&amp;index=4&amp;list=PLrFH_TmVeJasgkx0j06NHwXK5_yX_NmGw\">Night Watch</a> - and I was told it was Genesis like &hellip;. Genesis derivative I would say - would fit right in with those first 5 albums - and the voice - O M G … they used to talk about Fish - but this is even closer. Thankyou for sharing.</p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-16T11:52:28+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/15/was-it-stefphttpsmicroblogstefphttpsmicroblogstefp.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/15/if-you-are.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 If you are already a user of <strong>any</strong> Rogue Amoeba product &hellip; this is a nice little thank-you from them.</p>\n<p>Soundsource is a handy little utility - and <a href=\"https://rogueamoeba.com/store/deals/ComplimentarySoundSource.php\">this is where you can get your free license from them</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-16T11:37:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/15/if-you-are.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/14/osi-this-popped.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 OSI <a href=\"www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1885114\">This popped into my feed today</a> Reminded me that I hadn&rsquo;t listened to it for a while … now I know what today&rsquo;s music will be.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-15T03:58:41+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/14/osi-this-popped.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/14/meets-there-has.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>There has been dialogue in the micro.blog network about Black Mirror … did not know that Sigur Ros was the music behind Series 4.</p>\n<center>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/EuOnRjWLrpA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-15T03:39:49+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/14/meets-there-has.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyShowReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/11/fascinating-short-on.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://youtu.be/3oxe4mlsQos\">Fascinating short on the making of 10CCs ‘I’m Not In Love’</a>. Creme and Godley were massive innovators of music and video in their day &hellip; and to my mind, too often ignored today. This gives lovely detail into the making of a massive song. Enjoy.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-12T03:44:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/11/fascinating-short-on.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/08/pete-frame.html",
        "title": "🎵 Pete Frame",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/\">Read all about him on Wikipedia</a> or - <a href=\"https://familyofrock.net\">pop over to his web site</a></p>\n<p>I had two of his books a long time ago. Long gone / misplaced / lost. But, if you are interested in the music of the 60s and 70s, the books and trees inside contain a veritable cornucopia of visual information relating to the music of the day.</p>\n<p>I have often thought that it would be interesting to see something similar done for the <strong>software industry</strong> - again starting in those heady days and how companies were gobbled up, grew, where the founders went to etc … I think the results would be fascinating.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-09T09:03:06+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/08/pete-frame.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/05/martyn-on-monday.html",
        "title": "🎵 Martyn On Monday",
        "content_html": "<p>Reminded of this today &hellip;</p>\n<p>A live BBC recording from his <strong>Solid Air</strong> album.</p>\n<center>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/YvFMEiVX_Ck\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</center>\n<p>John was never classified in the prog genre - quite rightly … but I definitely think there are some influences.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-06T05:10:16+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/05/martyn-on-monday.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/02/steven-wilson-concert.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵\n<a href=\"https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/steven-wilson/2018/sala-tejo-altice-arena-lisbon-portugal-53ee9b71.html\">Steven Wilson Concert Setlist at Sala Tejo, Altice Arena, Lisbon on January 31, 2018</a></p>\n<p>Looking forward to May, 2018 in San Francisco</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-02T15:55:17+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/01/steven-wilson-concert.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/02/01/david-does-david.html",
        "title": "David Does David",
        "content_html": "<p>Just watch</p>\n<center>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7HJZPlJn_U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</center>\n<p>It will take five minutes and 24 seconds of your day.</p>\n<p>**File Under ** Just Great 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-02-02T04:56:36+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/02/01/david-does-david.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/31/first-we-saw.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>First we saw the Coachella line up - and i remember reading that &lsquo;ROCK MUSIC is dead&rsquo; &hellip; in case there was any doubt, we just had the Grammies &hellip;\nIt is official .. rock 🎵 is dead. R.I.P.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-31T22:54:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/31/first-we-saw.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/31/observation-when-you.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>#Observation</p>\n<p>…. when you write a post with a headline in it <a href=\"http://john.philpin.com/2018/01/30/160455.html\">such as</a> - symbols like 🎵 embedded in the post - even at the top - are not passed through to the timeline - and therefore not tagged in the discover.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/manton\">@manton</a> &hellip; that might be planned / expected behavior - but it does mean that titled posts don’t appear in the stream.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-31T14:04:57+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/30/observation-when-you.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/30/160455.html",
        "title": "Steven Wilson",
        "content_html": "<p>File Under : 🎵</p>\n<center><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/9c3cb0b874.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" /></center>\n<p>Over the past ten days I have dropped a daily entry of an image, with a comment into the music feed.  This is the <strong>eleventh in the series of ten</strong> (doffing cap to Spike Milligan) that provides some context - and links back - to those entries. Suffice to say - I class Steven Wilson as one of the most prolific musicians and sound engineers that we have ever seen. It isn’t just the quantity - surely bands like The Dead and Phish can beat him on that count … but more the quantity with the both <strong>quality</strong> and <strong>variety</strong> of what he produces.</p>\n<p>It was late 2002 when a good friend put me onto a new album that had just been released - he’s one of those guys that when he says listen to this … you listen. The Album was <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/20/it-will-become.html\">In Abstentia</a> that came from a band that I had never heard of …. Porcupine Tree. The band’s creative force was a guy called Steven Wilson. Turned out that this was Porcupine Tree’s <strong>seventh</strong> album (depending on how you count them - and how you think of the Tree) …. but that was a lot of music to have passed me by - particularly since I loved it. Needless to say - I went into the back catalogue and discovered two albums that I liked even more … <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/26/still-contains-one.html\">Signify</a> and Lightbulb Sun. File under <strong>Progressive Rock</strong> / <strong>Psychedelic Rock</strong> / <strong>Alt Rock</strong> / <strong>Post-Progressive</strong> / <strong>Metal</strong></p>\n<p>But there was more, before - and during ‘The Porcupine Tree Years’ - Wilson had another band <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/21/revisiting-this-one.html\">No-Man</a> with <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bowness\">Tim Bowness</a>. To be clear, I am not a massive fan of No-Man … just amazed that in parallel with launching a solo project (Porcupine Tree - because that is how he started), he had the time and desire to create a second totally different sound, band and direction. File under <strong>Ambient</strong> / <strong>Art Rock</strong> / <strong>Dream Pop</strong></p>\n<p>But there’s even more, two years after I was introduced to In Abstentia - out comes Wilson with another project …. <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/22/dark-lyrics-happy.html\">Blackfield</a> - this was (is?) a collaboration with Israeli rock star <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/23/a-veritable-spectrum.html\">Aviv Geffen</a> … 5 albums to date - love everyone one of them. File under <strong>Art Rock</strong> / <strong>Power Pop</strong> / <strong>Alt Rock</strong></p>\n<p>It took until 2012 for another collaboration to be formalized. For many years Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt - who is essentially Opeth’s Wilson - had been friends, worked together and appeared on each others albums. 2012 saw the release of their first - and to date only - formal collaboration - <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/24/a-little-heavier.html\">Storm Corrosion</a>. File under <strong>Metal</strong>  / <strong>Progressive Rock</strong></p>\n<p>I doubt we will get a second - but you never know - because Wilson just keeps going …</p>\n<p>Consider <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/25/each-letter-has.html\">IEM</a> - another of his projects in the late 90s - this time with … well himself … file these albums under <strong>Krautrock</strong> / <strong>Pysychedelic</strong></p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/28/not-your-grandmas.html\">Bass Communion</a> -file under <strong>Ambient</strong> / <strong>Drone</strong> / <strong>Electronic</strong></p>\n<p>To my mind, it is his solo career that has really opened him out. He released his 5th, 6th or 7th (again - it is is how you count) solo album last year - and is now on tour with it. But his full creative genius absolutely shines with the one ‘before’ that … <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/27/art-an-album.html\">Hand.Cannot.Erase.</a> - that wasn’t just an album, it was a book, an experience a tangible engagement was created to engage the listener.</p>\n<p>My music collection tells me that I have over 50 of his recordings across all of these projects - and that doesn’t include the 5.1 surround sound mixes he has been doing since 2009 for classic Progressive bands including Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Caravan, ELP, Marillion, Rush, Roxy Music,  … oh and Hawkwind, XTC, Gentle Giant, and Tears For Fears. (BTW - he hasn’t won yet - but has been nominated 4 times for Best Surround Sound Album in the Grammies)</p>\n<p>All in all - safe to say - when it comes to music - <a href=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/not-much-he.html\">there isn’t much he doesn’t do</a></p>\n<p><em>Note : the classification / genres that I have used above come from Wikipedia with odd personal extensions</em></p>\n<p>Finally, Wilson is on record (if you will pardon the pun) that as a kid he listened a lot to Dark Side Of The Moon - because of his dad and Donna Summer - because of his mum &hellip; certainly explains a lot of the crossover you see in his music &hellip; but it doesn&rsquo;t explain this &hellip; which has nothig to do with him - but somehow seems related!</p>\n<center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/uVGz-UA7CSg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-31T04:04:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/30/160455.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/the-homepod.html",
        "title": "The Homepod",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/audiophile/comments/7t51a2/nda_is_up_what_can_i_tell_you_guys_about_the/\">Apple Homepod Review By An Audio Engineer</a></p>\n<p>##The Songs He Used</p>\n<ul>\n<li>“Hotel California” by The Eagles.</li>\n<li>“Way Down We Go” by Kaleo.</li>\n<li>“Lie To Me” by Depeche Mode.</li>\n<li>“Fitzpleasure” by Alt-J</li>\n<li>“Black Mambo” by Glass Animals</li>\n<li>“Delilah” by Florence and the Machine</li>\n<li>“Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley</li>\n</ul>\n<p>🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T07:03:15+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/the-homepod.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/pre-noman-album.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-29/tim-bowness-pre-no-man-band-plenty-to-have-album-released\">Pre No-Man Album Release</a> - take note <a href=\"https://micro.blog/minton\">@minton</a> 🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T06:54:47+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/pre-noman-album.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/artists-start-to.html",
        "title": "Artists Start To Get Paid A Bit More",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/01/apple-music-new-royalties-paid-out.html\">Read All About It</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“A federal copyright board has raised the music streaming royalties for songwriters and music publishers by more than 40% to narrow the financial divide separating them from recording labels.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Up to this point, music streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, Pandora, and others, have had to pay out 10.5 percent of their revenue to music publishers and songwriters. Now, though, after the court ruling, those platforms will need to fork over 15.1 percent of their revenue.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>It is still amazing to me how little artists get paid for streaming. While this is a step forward … it is a long way form being fair. Afterall, people complain about the  Tax on the app store at 30% - and yet a tax of 90% being reduced to 85% percent for music makes the news and is seen as acceptable.</p>\n<p>What am I missing?</p>\n<p>🎵</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T06:42:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/artists-start-to.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/maybe-i-am.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Maybe I am just getting too cynical for my own good, but when I read that <a href=\"https://progreport.com/marillion-release-deluxe-version-1994-album-brave/\">🔗🎵 Marillion is releasing a deluxe version of their 1994 album Brave</a> … is it just me that wonders if they are readying themselves for retirement and need a pension?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T06:26:08+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/maybe-i-am.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/181505.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"https://progreport.com/moody-blues-founding-member-ray-thomas-dead-76/\">Truly sad news</a> &hellip; I guess it happens to us all.</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/01a8d89e70.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T06:15:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/181505.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/29/not-much-he.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 10/10 Not Much He Doesn&rsquo;t Do</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/f813c8a177.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-30T05:55:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/29/not-much-he.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/28/not-your-grandmas.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 9/10 Not Your Grandma&rsquo;s Communion</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/97908c5317.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-29T04:27:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/28/not-your-grandmas.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2018/01/27/art-an-album.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 8/10 Art, An Album, A Scrap Book</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/e4b5a1b1c0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-28T05:55:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/27/art-an-album.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/26/still-contains-one.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 7/10 Still contains one of my favorite instrumentals</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/3b46f0beaa.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-27T06:22:44+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/26/still-contains-one.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/26/165931.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 <a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/01/25/homepod-can-play-purchased-itunes-music-podcasts-and-stream-beats-1-without-apple-music-subscription/\">Some Homepod Details</a></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>HomePod can play purchased iTunes music, podcasts and stream Beats 1 without Apple Music subscription</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>BUT</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you add music to your home iTunes library that was not acquired through a purchase, HomePod will not be able to access it. It appears HomePod doesn’t have Home Sharing, which would enable that kind of feature.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>For me - that right there is a non starter.</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-27T04:59:31+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/26/165931.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/25/each-letter-has.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 6/10 Each Letter Has Meaning</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/73a1024e7d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-26T03:18:13+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/25/each-letter-has.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/25/are-we-adding.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>Are we adding 🎬 to the  📚 and 🎵 search capability any time soon?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-26T03:13:05+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/25/are-we-adding.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Books","MyFilmReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/24/a-little-heavier.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 5/10 A Little Heavier Than A Storm In A Teacup</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/e576c42613.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-25T05:05:21+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/24/a-little-heavier.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/24/the-homepod.html",
        "title": "The Homepod",
        "content_html": "<p>🎵  <a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/01/24/on-homepod-and-audio-quality/\">What’s in YOUR HomePod</a> makes for a quick interesting summary of some of the tech that makes it what it is. Seemed right to share it here after yesterday’s to and fro, back and forth, this and that, well &hellip; you get the point.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com\">via Loopinsight</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-25T03:32:56+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/24/the-homepod.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/23/via-dave-mark.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵</p>\n<p>Via <strong>Dave Mark</strong> over at <a href=\"http://www.loopinsight.com\">LoopInsight</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/So5asOTi1Gc\">Pandora Promo Using Album Covers</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-24T08:55:35+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/23/via-dave-mark.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/23/a-veritable-spectrum.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 4/10 A Veritable Spectrum</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/b7385f7d62.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-24T03:59:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/23/a-veritable-spectrum.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/22/dark-lyrics-happy.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 3/10 Dark Lyrics. Happy Tunes.</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/9d4c1f91a4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-23T05:05:48+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/22/dark-lyrics-happy.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/21/revisiting-this-one.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 2/10 Revisiting this one today on the recommendation of <a href=\"https://micro.blog/laurentboileau\">@laurentboileau</a></p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/2749548a10.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-22T06:17:50+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/21/revisiting-this-one.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/20/it-will-become.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵 1/10\nIt will become clear. Probably in 11/10\nThis was the first &hellip;</p>\n<img src=\"http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/uploads/2018/feab7ab09e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-21T07:33:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/20/it-will-become.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://fractals.micro.blog/2018/01/18/anyone-in-here.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>🎵\nAnyone in here a Steven Wilson enthusiast ?</p>\n",
        "date_published": "2018-01-19T07:05:52+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2018/01/18/anyone-in-here.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2017/03/09/john-philpin-the.html",
        "title": "John Philpin - The Other One ",
        "content_html": "<center>\n<p><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2025/8f3206a0eb.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n</center>\n<center><br></center><p></p><center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/P3_WUqLw9hM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe></center><p></p><center><br></center><center>\n</center><p></p><center><strong>No</strong> we haven't met</center><p></p><center><strong>Yes</strong> we have talked on the phone</center><p></p><center><strong>Yes</strong> we are related (we think)</center><p></p><center><b><a href=\"http://www.johnphilpin.com\">johnphilpin.com is one of his philpin sites</a></b></center><p></p><center><a href=\"http://john.philpin.com\"><b>john.philpin.com is one of my philpin sites</b></a></center>\n<p> </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/johnphilpin.png\"><img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/johnphilpin.png\"></a></p>\n<p> </p>\n<center>\n<h2 id=\"listen---im-going-to-tell-you-a-story\">Listen - I&rsquo;m Going To Tell You A Story</h2>\n</center>\n<p>It was a few years ago now, you can tell, because I had to get up from my chair, walk to the kitchen and pick up the phone.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hello .. John Philpin</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><strong>.. and those were the last words that seemed to make sense in this particular conversation. The following is paraphrased, my memory is not that good.</strong></p>\n<p>Oh hello, we are calling to see if you have any commentary on the recent developments in Gainesville.</p>\n<p>Sorry, could you repeat that?</p>\n<p>Oh yes, we are following up on some recent developments around the murders in Gainesville, and calling to ask if you might add any perspective.</p>\n<p>I’m sorry .. what kind of perspective?</p>\n<p>Well given your involvement at the time, we were thinking ..</p>\n<p>Sorry. What involvement?</p>\n<p>Is that John Philpin?</p>\n<p>It is.</p>\n<p>P H I L P I N ? (Spelling it out).</p>\n<p>Yes.</p>\n<p>Well given your connection to ..</p>\n<p>I’m sorry, I think you have me confused with someone else.</p>\n<p>But you are John Philpin ..</p>\n<p>Yes. Tell you what if you give me your number, I will look into who it might be and get them to call back.</p>\n<p><strong>.. number exchanged and I sat down.</strong></p>\n<p>In 2024 if you Google “John Philpin”, you will indeed find that there are two of us, but back then, there wasn’t a Google … I know kids .. hard to believe. There was something called ‘Alta Vista’ and Yahoo - but nascent at best.</p>\n<p>In all honesty, I can’t recall exactly how I went about the next step. We had Compuserve - and of course at Oracle I had access to the &lsquo;real&rsquo; &lsquo;internet&rsquo; - but - there still has to be something at the other end to be found for a ‘search’ to work … so this was going to be tough.</p>\n<p>But … BUT - you may not know this, but ‘Philpin’ is a pretty uncommon name. Uncommon like there may be  5 to 6 hundred of us - tops - around the world today. I can also tell you that 75% of them live in Pembrokeshire, Wales, or at least in South Wales.</p>\n<p><strong>Ok - I jest - but it is not so far off.</strong></p>\n<p>Donald Philpin - a cousin of my dad’s - did some research back in the 60s and 70s and unpacked a family tree of sorts essentially connecting  us all back to a ‘Walter Philpin’ of Tenby, Pembrokeshire in the 1600s. (When I say - research - this was no internet search (see earlier google comment), this was serious - visiting parish churches, pouring through registers of birth, deaths and marriage and painstakingly putting it all together, by talking to family members. (Now <strong>THAT</strong> was commitment.)</p>\n<p>Anyway, long story short (let’s assume I used Compuserve) and tried to find this other Philpin. I failed. Kind of. I found an author called John Philpin - who was probably the writer this journalist thought I was. But - no way of connecting - no phone - certainly no email - even for the publisher - just an address in NYC, which IMHO seemed too hard. (Clearly I was no &lsquo;Donald&rsquo;.)</p>\n<p>I also found a musician by name of 🎵Five Philpin and there seemed to be a connection to a John Philpin - and I am a music nerd anyway - so what the hell - I reached out to him through email that seemed to be associated with his music.</p>\n<p>And <strong>nothing</strong> … for a few weeks and I then got an email from Five.</p>\n<p>We exchanged emails - and I bought every CD he had ever released - ( I like to support ‘smaller’ musicians and hell - with the same last name as mine - of course I was.)</p>\n<p>Asked him about John - and turns out John is his father - at the time Five was in LA / Seattle - and dad was over In New England. Anyway could Five connect me?</p>\n<p>Five - “Leave it with me.”</p>\n<p>… delivering a result a week or so later, here’s Dad’s phone number - give him a call.</p>\n<p>I did.</p>\n<p>We talked for a couple of hours … mainly around who both us &lsquo;John Philpins&rsquo; came to be us &lsquo;John Philpins&rsquo; .. and given the tightness of our Family tree, we tracked back to our mutual roots … in .. Pembrokeshire and and and …</p>\n<p>.. and finally I got round to telling him about the call from the news paper asking for a comment .. and there was a silence, and then .. (again ..paraphrasing)</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have no interest in talking to these people whose only job seems to be title tattle, so I wouldn’t bother getting back to them … but should they call again, I would answer their questions. They are looking to speak to John Philpin and gather ‘quotes’ .. give them. Don’t let knowing nothing about the cases they call about get in the way .. make it up .. it would stand more chance of being right than some of what they write. Might be fun?</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>We chatted a little longer - said our good byes and moved on with our lives.</p>\n<p>I never heard anything more from the journalist -  or any other for that matter, so I never got to try out John’s idea. I sporadically kept in touch with Five - had one more email exchange with John - but basically all our lives just continued, with this one tiny dent of connection.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showpost.php?p=3073972&amp;postcount=9\">🔗 John writing (in 2002) an analysis on 🎵 Kurt Cobain’s death - on the way through referencing his son ‘Five’.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2017-03-10T10:15:55+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2017/03/09/john-philpin-the.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links","MyVideoEmbeds","? Posts","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/11/04/doctor-strange-and.html",
        
        "content_html": "<center><b>🎬 🎵 Doctor Strange and Pink Floyd <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/nov/02/doctor-strange-psychedelic-dna-pink-floyd\">Read All About It</a></b></center>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-11-04T12:09:56+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/11/03/doctor-strange-and.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","MyFilmReferences"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/10/10/come-together.html",
        "title": "Come Together ",
        "content_html": "<p>&hellip; no <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM5MpKSnqE\"><b>not that one</b></a>. This one.<div><p>I first heard it nearly twenty years ago, bought the album and it has remained one of my &lsquo;go to&rsquo; pieces in the music library ever since. Powerful. Forceful. Driving.</p><div><center><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j9G7n8DBpO8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe></center></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p><h4>\nDelighted therefore to read the following in Spin.</h4></div><div><blockquote>.. to celebrate (the 20th anniversary), the English space-rock greats announced that they will play the album in its entirety at a show on November 7. To encapsulate the expansiveness of the album, the band will perform at Barbican Hall in London and be accompanied by a gospel choir and 15-piece orchestra made up of percussion, brass, and strings.</blockquote><b><a href=\"http://www.spin.com/2016/09/spiritualized-celebrating-ladies-and-gentlemen-anniversary-with-london-show-new-album/\">\nRead All About It.</a></b></div></div>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-10-11T04:36:38+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/10/10/come-together.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? LongForm"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/07/12/zappa-being-zappa.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>📼 🎵 Zappa Being Zappa Without The Music</p>\n<center> <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/n5WEU30Iods\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe></center>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-07-13T05:19:14+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/07/12/zappa-being-zappa.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/04/29/gilmour.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDHXoQmxu0WOW\">Gilmour</a></p>\n<p>WOW</p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-04-30T07:52:45+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/04/29/gilmour.html",
        "tags": ["? Music"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/04/22/prince-petty-winwood.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y\">Prince, Petty, Winwood, Lynne &hellip;.</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-04-23T08:14:30+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/04/22/prince-petty-winwood.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Videos"]
      },
      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2016/04/22/prince-winer.html",
        
        "content_html": "<p>My thanks to @davewiner for allowing me to join <a href=\"http://1999.io\">🔗 1999</a> - an auspicious day as Prince passes into history at 57.</p>\n<p>A salute to his <a href=\"https://youtu.be/2QM6vWdcUG8\">1999</a></p>\n<hr>\n\n\n\n\nIf you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The &#39;error&#39; is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.\n\n<p> </p>\n",
        "date_published": "2016-04-22T14:17:11+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2016/04/21/prince-winer.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Links"]
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2012/05/02/its-coming.html",
        
        "content_html": "<h1>📸 It's Coming</h1> 🎵 \n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/0a631d8680.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n</center>\n<pre>Originally Posted On Instagram</pre>\n",
        "date_published": "2012-05-02T16:27:04+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2012/05/01/its-coming.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
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      {
        "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2011/09/20/ordered.html",
        
        "content_html": "<h1>📸 Ordered!</h1> 🎵 \n<center>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2018/1425b77da0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" />\n</center>\n<pre>Originally Posted On Instagram</pre>\n",
        "date_published": "2011-09-20T21:30:51+12:00",
        "url": "https://john.philpin.com/2011/09/20/ordered.html",
        "tags": ["? Music","? Photographs"]
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