upside downer

Ok. Or herself. I was commenting on a three-piece I was in with a guitarist who regularly had his hand in his undercrackers 'rearranging' himself.

With himself.

Snooker Loopy - Matchroom Mob with Chas & Dave

Friday, feelin' fine....

Listen Up! - Gossip

Weekender - Flowered Up

Drink the Elixir - Salad

Heard a lot in the last few days about Bob Dylan turning 80. He's one who I've never properly engaged with, just skimmed the surface.

Loving this.

Not artists as such, but I feel like throwing in the towel when I see some 9 year old 'wunderkind' on Youtube playing with a finesse and effortlessness that I can only dream of. It also makes me feel like giving up watching Youtube, too.

Happy African Liberation Day, composition chums!

Can't Get Out of Bed - Charlatans

Captain Beefheart's Magic Band had some superb nom de plumes. John French - Drumbo Jeff Cotton - Antennae Jimmy Semens Bill Harkleroad - Zoot Horn Rollo Mark Boston - Rockette Morton Victor Hayden - The Mascara Snake Art Tripp - Ed Marimba Elliot Ingber - Winged Eel Fingerling And the good Captain started life as Don Van Vliet.

Baby, Come Back - The Equals

Under the House - PiL

No Birds Do Sing - Public Image Ltd

You'll have to post a link to it if you have a recording as I'd love to hear that, your Lordship.

Knackers. I forgot Friends. Uses an open C tuning.

Off the top of my head Thank You, Ten Years Gone and For Your Life. Oh, and Wearing and Tearing from 'Coda'.

And never forget that, "Charlton Heston put his vest on".

Gasping for Air - Autopsy

We're Having a Gang Bang - Kim Cordell

Here's my go for the merry month of May. Inspired by the sheer lunacy of people wearing pigeon heads I've gone oddly peculiar with the lyrics which speculate on other remarkably strange pastimes that could fill your day. The tune is a bouncy little thing that bobs along happily with a spring in its step. Mrs UD helps out on backing vocals by putting to good use her experience of going "woo woo" on stage with my old band when we used to play 'Sympathy For the Devil'. For those that like to know, I used the Hydrogen drums software, an Epiphone guitar, a Roland Cube amp, a Westfield violin bass, a Daphon Wah Wah pedal, an Apogee Mic+ and an M-Audio Fast Track Pro interface. Recorded as usual with Audacity and Wavepad. Lyrics -

Low Life - PiL

I can't unhear the jarring, unwanted chord at about 0:35 in this.