🎵 Music
🪦 Goodbye 🎵 Rudolph. Gone at 84, married for 68 of them. Congratulations on a good life. A well lived life.
🎵 The venom of people writing how they hate Water’s new take on DSOTM is quite extraordinary. Not going to bother engaging with them … but, for the record 😂 I think it is quite brilliant … And the videos allow you to truly let those amazing words sink in.
🔗 🎵 ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog.
Back in the day I had ‘my Moondog’ … it still lives with my other vinyl down in Surrey.
🔗 🎵 Now THAT is a Secretary of State!
… Warning … it is on the site formally known as Twitter.
Us vs Them OR Us and Them OR Us + Them
Interesting thread over on LinkedIN from my friend 🔗 Dave Wilt - who started on the track of ‘vs’.
🔗 Corporate Identity Politics. (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? But no.)
Anyway - about half way through I managed to pivot the thread to 🎵 Music … mainly because the core topic just gets talked about - and IT IS NEVER FIXED - so … ‘BORING’.
From the thread …
You might notice that the original song was called ‘Us and Them’, while the tour and film is called ‘Us + Them’.
“It’s not a mistake. It’s a subtle modification. The original ‘and’ was not necessarily inclusive. It was highlighting one or the other. The power of ‘+’ sign is additive. It drives home the idea of being united. Together.”
It’s a small and very important detail. It’s language.
If you want to read the newsletter I was going to write about … ‘🖇️ Rewriting History’
🎵 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 Ryan Waste. He and his band 🔗 Municipal Waste just flew in from the US for a 🔗 three week tour.
Had to get a selfy …
Him with his band …
A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.
🔗 🎵 Afterwords is no exception.
🎵 Back in the day, a gentleman by name of Pete Frame produced two stunning 📚books … Rock Family Trees. Hand drawn ‘family trees’ of Rock Giants at the time.
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 🖇️ John Marshall’s obit’.
Family Trees tend to be very hierarchical, so I plugged the two threads together and then added 50 years of humanity.
‘Hierarchy’ is old school. ‘Networked’ is new school’.
How cool would it be to choose (say) 50 musicians like Theo and build networks of
- the people he has played with (studio and live) as
- one offs or over a prolonged period of time and
- inside bands and as a solo artist
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.
Just #SpitBallingHere
🪦 RIP John Marshall (1941-2023). A tribute by Theo Travis.
A sad loss to the 🎵industry.
(Originally shared by @artkavanagh on Substack)
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.
🎵🔗 Rock Bottom with Ninet Tayeb
🎵🔗 Economies of Scale … wonderful video, so click on the YouTube link.
🎵 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 ………
‘John McLaughlin’, ‘Mahavishnu Orchestra’, ‘You Know’ … from ‘Inner Mountain Flame’.
He looked at be blankly? Quizzically? As if I was speaking in tongues.
I am guessing his parents weren’t born when it came out.
“That’s it” … he replied.
“But how come your Shazam works and mine doesn’t?” … I asked
“I have a secret speaker”" he replied “up there - away from the background noise.”
I might have known the song. He clearly knows the hidden tech of the store.
📸 230911 🖇️ #MBSept
Released in 2011, 🔗🎵 The Floyd Retrospective is itself old enough to be a retrospective, but in any case, this footage is not part of it, because it has just been rediscovered.
🔗 Former Trump White House adviser found guilty of contempt of Congress.
… dum dum dum, and …
🎵 📼 Another one bites the dust.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
Jax; ‘What’s that song? You know ‘Dada da da … Sally?
No no .. you know … da da Sally ..
No … harder …
Yeah that’s it.
What about it?
I really like it.
Not read much about Burning Man this year - except how it is no longer ‘hot’ (culturally speaking) - but in case you want to ‘sing along’ - 🔗 🎵 there’s a web site for that.
🎵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.