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egb_hibs said:
Now and again, though probably more in a few weeks from now.

Hope you and everybody else is well.

Apologies to Jack K who I don’t know and wouldn’t have got the typically obtuse attempt at ‘humour’ the song I posted was!
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Great to see you back
 
Well right now Griff Rhys Jones is spraffing a lot of crap, but I guess I will be hearing the 'Pointless Tower'.
 
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Might have, (probably have) mentioned this before. Wife and I just had to leave another pretty little seaside coffee shop because of the background music. I think it's described as soft or smooth jazz piano. Basically someone sitting noodling away tunelessly for 30 odd minutes straight. On a Thai forum it was said that Asian hotels/restaurants/cafes/spas etc believe this noise is sophisticated and loved by foreigners. Whilst many do like it, the replies on the forum suggest if you don't it's one of the hardest musical genres to tolerate due to the unending repetitiveness.
Is it a thing in Britain? Love it? Hate it? Can you ignore it?
 
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That's great, made ma day. Never seen that clip before.
Cotton was a self taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.
This position meant that she played the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
In the close ups of her playing hand in this clip you can clearly see the thick E string at the bottom and the thin E string at the top.

P.S. she wrote that classic
 
Jack K said:
That's great, made ma day. Never seen that clip before.
Cotton was a self taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.
This position meant that she played the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
In the close ups of her playing hand in this clip you can clearly see the thick E string at the bottom and the thin E string at the top.

P.S. she wrote that classic
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I think on the iPlayer this documentary WAS available.

Jim White.

Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus

The album is rather good as well.....

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EH17 Jimmy said:
I think on the iPlayer this documentary WAS available.

Jim White.

Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus

The album is rather good as well.....

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I'm aware of the musical work of Jim White and have almost watched that docu on the iplayer a load of times, it's been on there forever.
I have an album by Johnny Dowd who is in the docu and i've seen The Handsome Family live who are also in the docu.
The Handsome Family were magnificent when I saw them. I was on the guest list for the gig and remember thinking, mid gig, wow! they really are extraordinary.
No idea what Cat Power and David Johansen are doing in the docu.
 
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Jack K said:
That's great, made ma day. Never seen that clip before.
Cotton was a self taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.
This position meant that she played the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb.
In the close ups of her playing hand in this clip you can clearly see the thick E string at the bottom and the thin E string at the top.

P.S. she wrote that classic
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Now that you mention it, wow.

I think humans adapt quickly with music and this is a great example even tho I am currently waitin for ma brain tae get back here fae the ceilin.

Kinda makes sense tho. Left-handed guys on rh guitars is always a source of wonder. Useless in the overall scheme of things but fascinating nonetheless in its innovative originality. Did I just say that?
 
HaarlemShuffler said:
Now that you mention it, wow.

I think humans adapt quickly with music and this is a great example even tho I am currently waitin for ma brain tae get back here fae the ceilin.

Kinda makes sense tho. Left-handed guys on rh guitars is always a source of wonder. Useless in the overall scheme of things but fascinating nonetheless in its innovative originality. Did I just say that?
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I am self taught and pick with two fingers the same as Liz Cotton.
I'm tempted to reverse the strings on my acoustic and give it a whirl but we both know my brain has not an earthly of playing the melody on the top strings whilst playing the bass on the bottom ones. The brain would be insisting on one at a time.
I know lefties that learned on a righty guitar and just changed the strings over but no one who did what this lady did.
She really was self taught!
 
One for the metalheads on the Bounce. I am mildly obsessed with the new King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album "PetroDragonic Apocalypse".

It's a progressive thrash record and I can honestly say it's the most excited I've been by a heavy metal album in a long time. It's full of insane instrumentation, time signatures changing all over the place from breakneck speed to jazzy interludes all the while being exceptionally tight and engaging with plenty of classic thrash and speed metal hooks and riffs linking up the weirder flights of fancy the band take.

I downloaded a few new albums to listen to over the last couple of weeks but all the others have been getting short shrift while I've been headbanging and air drumming along to this on a loop.

Loving this one :035:

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I know metal isn't acceptable to most on here but Inamorata from latest Metallica album is a thing of beauty 11 mins of twists and turns.
The harmony/octave guitars are sublime as the late Michael Kamen said its classical music with guitars
 
Braehead Cabbage said:
I know metal isn't acceptable to most on here but Inamorata from latest Metallica album is a thing of beauty 11 mins of twists and turns.
The harmony/octave guitars are sublime as the late Michael Kamen said its classical music with guitars
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Ill need to get around to this album. I wasn't that taken by the lead single so it's been on the back burner. There's always something interesting on a Metallica album though.
 
Braehead Cabbage said:
I know metal isn't acceptable to most on here but Inamorata from latest Metallica album is a thing of beauty 11 mins of twists and turns.
The harmony/octave guitars are sublime as the late Michael Kamen said its classical music with guitars
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You learn something every day. I can't believe an old shagger like me had never heard the word Inamorata or knew what it meant. A quick look on Spotify shows loads of bands, albums, tracks of this name. Anyway, most acceptable sir 👍
 
Just been listening to a Bowie compilation up to and including Aladdin Sane. Love all the old stuff especially Drive in Saturday. Who cares if the lyrics are absolute bollocks 😂😂😂
 
Bangkokhibby said:
Just been listening to a Bowie compilation up to and including Aladdin Sane. Love all the old stuff especially Drive in Saturday. Who cares if the lyrics are absolute bollocks 😂😂😂
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A wee pressie for you. The original cut of 'Space Oddity'

On 2nd Feb 1969, Bowie cut a new song, ‘Space Oddity’, with colleague John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (who sings the ‘ground control’ sections) for ‘Love You Till Tuesday’, a film that was being made by Bowie’s then manager, Kenneth Pitt.
A few months later Bowie secured a record deal with Mercury/Philips and the hit version was recorded on 20 June 1969

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Jack K said:
A wee pressie for you. The original cut of 'Space Oddity'

On 2nd Feb 1969, Bowie cut a new song, ‘Space Oddity’, with colleague John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (who sings the ‘ground control’ sections) for ‘Love You Till Tuesday’, a film that was being made by Bowie’s then manager, Kenneth Pitt.
A few months later Bowie secured a record deal with Mercury/Philips and the hit version was recorded on 20 June 1969

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Nice one 👍
 
I'm no fan of U2 or Mary J Blige but can't get enough of this video 🤷

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Sometimes Dwight Yoakam is the answer

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What the hell, a latter day Yoakam classic

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Jack K said:
Sometimes Dwight Yoakam is the answer

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Never heard of this guy, although I appreciate he’s probably past his best now.
Catchy tune, and some pleasant extras in the video.
 
I read that Robbie Robertson died yesterday. Only Garth Hudson left now from one of the greatest bands ever.

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Might have posted this before not sure. Anyway here you go, one of my favourite bands. Short lived but magnificent. Play it loud.

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The superb Gene Pitney.
 
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