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On 27/04/2021 at 18:27, ProfJames said:
Mark Hollis being Paul Weller before Paul Weller discovered how to be Paul Weller ☺️
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I had it too. FWIW - changed pw - probably no bad thing. I had no personal info on the site never having really used it to buy or sell anything.g
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Rory and his 61' Strat remind me of a photo of a tree that had grown around an abandoned bicycle.What a talent this guy was and by all accounts an incredibly humble, generous and likeable guy. His timing and phrasing are so spot on.
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On 23/04/2021 at 19:57, meterman said:
Mostly The Police.
Box set of their five albums on CD, all in neat looking card gatefold sleeves, with a sixth disc of B-sides and non-LP tracks.
€16 from the local supermarché. Had all the original LPs when I was a kid. “Zenyatta Mondatta” and “Synchronicity” still sound great to me.
I had a friend that worked for a top hi-fi shop in the 80's and I remember going with him to deliver and set up a system in a small stone barn with 2 floors - it wasn't a huge place - maybe 10m x 5m - he was showing off a pair of Linn Kan speakers - relatively small speakers but able to handle a lot of power. He used a couple of special audiophile vinyl pressings of Police albums - UHQR, heavy weight vinyl and/or half-speed masters - to show off how they handled the incredible punch and dynamics of Copelands percussion and Strings bass - the albums were Zenyatta and Ghost In the Machine - my friend made us all sit and listen in the dark and you could feel the drums and hear the stereoscopic effect so clearly - to this day I can't remember a more outstanding listening experience for volume, clarity and sheer detail (other than Tangerine Dream when I was at the front of the Dominion Theatre for the Logos tour) - the hi-fi system was an expesnsive one but the recordings are incredible.
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A solid album for the summer - windows down on the car - layers of guitar parts and harmonies
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21 hours ago, peteb said:
The girl in the video is the excellent Beth Hart. At the time she had a bad heroin habit, which I think was her primary issue rather than anorexia.
I guessed as much before I looked her up - I might differ in an opinion about the primary problem but honestly who can say - I spent nearly 3 years in an eating disorders support group (specifically for "carers" of people with eating disorders - not the actual sufferers - they had their own meetings run at the same place) and it was two cases of a daughter (with anorexia) with a heroin addiction and a wife (with anorexia) and an alcohol problem that I found too traumatic to hear about on a regular basis - what I heard at the meetings used to play on my mind too much after the meetings that it actually caused me to stop attending.
Good to know she has managed to bounce back and is still making music.
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12 hours ago, Nail Soup said:
Sad to hear that. I hope your use of past tense means your daughter is OK (or thereabouts) now. It must be a really difficult thing to support someone through.
Yes (thereabouts) - it's not as simple as anyone would like it to be - it's a mental illness through and through and a strange one. She is in a small minority who have made a good, possibly very good "recovery" from having been in a really terrible state.
SpoilerIt's one of the hardest things that eats away(!) at us is why - it's hard but we have to accept we may never fully know and one thing people might find surprising is that it's no good asking my daughter - her cognitive state was so impaired, the brain shrinks physically by a huge amount and memory is severely affected - she has almost no memories for a 6 month period and is very sketchy for a 2 year period. She had to be admitted to an eating disorders unit just before her 21st birthday and drop out of the 3rd year of her medical degree - she was there for 6 months - the worst moments were when her BMI was below 14, her electrolytes levels (Sodium(Na), potassium(K), creatinine, blood urea nitrogen (BUN)) were all outside normal ranges and difficult to manage - we were told to prepare for the worst as patients her condition at that time can succumb to multiple organ failure - she was being woken for blood tests every 4 hrs day and night - she had heart arrhythmia, signs of kidney failure, etc
She is in a good place now - happy in a long term relationship and in her work , back exercising normally (still likes to run up mountains), eating healthily and working as a hospital doctor - no one would know about the illness to look at her BUT she does have to manage certain things in her life and that will go on for many years I think.SpoilerShe organises her life to avoid anxiety - difficult in her job you'd imagine but she copes really well with pressure - she's actually quite a tough cookie having been to hell and back mentally and physically, she is calm in high pressure situations which is a plus in her line of work - it is anxiety that she find difficult to deal with.
She finds it hard being around very thin people or people with AN (so avoids it where possibly) - she finds it very "triggering" - this is not uncommon - it's a very real phenomenon - it can bring about very complex and irrational feelings in her - most in a direction that might make her want to start considering her own body image (dysmorphia - they have a distorted view of their own bodies) and her eating habits - it is definitely a mental illness - it is so clearly a very complex, frustrating and hard to understand mental problem - certainly one of the confusing, contradictory, irrational, changeable, subtle, complex things I have ever encountered - it is not uncommon, as it was for her, to suddenly plunge into binge eating (others have bulimic episodes) and to oscillate between the conditions during the very start of the recovery phase (measured in years - say 2-4 years) - she found that very scary and upsetting - to see her upset was actually a relief in some ways because the AN made her distinctly cold, hard and emotionless - so yes - when seen close up it's very complex. It's terrifying in it's destructive force .- not just in the sufferer but the illness has a self-preservation mode that means it tries to control behaviour, relationships and situations that may threaten it's existence - the illness takes the sufferer hostage - that is how it seems - you have to negotiate very carefully in order to try and navigate your way out of the illness. I know of fatal relapses as long as 10 years after initial diagnosis. She is forever changed and so are we but, without going in to even more detail - there were valuable things to take away from the whole experience - not that I'd recommend it to anyone.
Anyone who wants to talk or ask about anorexia can PM me if they like - there is nowhere near enough support available.
SpoilerFriends and close family who don't understand the illness (and who could not learn to understand it) made the situation for us, as carers, a lot worse - some of them are not in our lives any more but other people really shone through and became more important to us.
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I burned the Royal Albert Hall Killers gig to DVD (broadcast on TV a few years ago) - it was a corker. The song works for me. A friend loaned me (gave to me I think!) the latest CD Imploding the Mirage and I agree with him - it's dire - lots of familiar elements but it just doesn't get off the ground for me. I did read that the guitarist Dave Keuning didn't want to spend all his life on tour and wanted more family time - all credit to him imho for that - I think he is still involved with the band but there seems to be a lot more keyboards and electronics and a distinct lack of guitar riffs. Still - they are still one of the most popular live acts around.
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The latest Killers album is dire! Can't believe how bad it is.
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On 02/04/2021 at 18:00, ProfJames said:
Having had a daughter who got sucked into the vortex of anorexia - I find this uncomfortable watching - no idea who she is but once you've tried to care and support someone with anorexia you start to see there are many of them around. I'm not complaining in any way about your post though - it's just my reaction - it's a hell of thing for all concerned to get through.
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Anouar Brahem, an oud player: one of my favourite musicians - he makes some very atmospheric, at times, meditative, music - this is from 1991
I can recommend Blue Maqams (2017) and The Astounding Eyes of Rita (2009) and many other of his albums.
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@meterman @upside downer - clearly I have no wizarding skills - I feel like a right muggle now.
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1 hour ago, Andermtc said:
The re-release on vinyl of the World Party. album Bang!
What on earth is going on with that acoustic - it's upside-down and strung normally - I'm really thrown by that. World Party - under-rated and forgotten about.
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Also listening to Vivaldi RV807 - only discovered in 2005! Scholars continue to search for and succeed in unearthing long lost scores as many are known of, but are known to be missing.
This is not the best audio quality (there are CD quality versions on YT) but it's more entertaining to watch than an album sleeve.Not exactly rock'n'roll but it probably was, in it's own way, back in the day... -
I was never in to Lloyd Cole when he was around in the 80's but I looked him up a couple of years ago and dip into his stuff now and again. I only came to listen to him again after laughing at a misheard and misremembered lyric ("You're my favourite salty animal") which stuck in my head so much that I put it in to a song I was writing when I was struggling for something (when I found out what the song was called (Old Wants Never Gets) I found the actual line was "You're like to think you're a solitary animal").. anyway - nothing to do with this track Jennifer She Said - I like all Lloyd Cole demos and B-sides albums.
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6 hours ago, meterman said:
Traffic, Nick Drake and this:
I saw him 3 times over a period of 10-12 years and he was like a candle - gradually melting and loosing his shape - his voice was once all husky, twisted barleycorn and rye - then slightly hazy and inebriated - and finally just one long incomprehensible slur. I can remember going home on the bus once elated after one gig after he sang Over The Rainbow for an encore - it was so beautiful and uplifting I could hardly speak - you could have heard a pin drop - it was like a magic spell being cast on the audience.
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40 minutes ago, ProfJames said:
I had the chance to go and see them - this gig -
but because they didn't fit in with the other music I was in to I was too cool to go
I kick myself because people were talking about how great they were for what seemed like months after and my mate, who invited me, came back with this mirror badge.
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I was looking for an Aria Pro II bass as I have one of their electrics - I love the feel of the neck on that and rate it - I bought a 32" Fernandes bass in the end which feels great in my hands too but I would have been interested in this a year or 2 back - I did find a couple for sale but - I don't know if it's coincidence at the time I was looking or something more meaningful but they were, like most interesting basses I found, dotted around the coast - do bass players emerge from coastal areas or do they move there?
GLWTS.
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On 06/03/2021 at 11:08, Doctor J said:
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
I saw the Banshees in 1978 and I reckon it was around that time that I ran in to Discharge in Clay Records in Hanley Stoke-on-Trent - I walked in and they grabbed me and threatened to beat me up unless I got out - I was like Who TF are you? We're Discharge, they explained!, and I said I've heard of you but they still threw me out - I thought it was a pretty cool experience at the time - the shop was only about 2ft square anyway. I'd been threatened with a flick knife by short-arsed punk in a bowler hat (lol!) at the Banshees gig because I was "looking at his lapel badges" so TBH the Discharge incident was just one of those things that happened at that time.
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YouTube live stream of the Perseverance landing
20:48 GMT contact with atmosphere
20:52 parachute deployed
20:54 Powered descent
20:55 Wheels down
IF it goes to plan.
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i was looking for an Annie Lennox live performance on UK TV that blew me away but I can't find it - she had a long black leather coat on - it was a live acoustic with Dave Stewart presumably as Eurythmics - no idea what the song was but 87 seems to be the year a lot of videos feature that coat (it's not some coat fetish thing either!) - gave up looking for what i remember but had to have a look at the rehearsal and the live performance she did with Bowie (Under Pressure) for the Freddie Mercury tribute concert - she was a lot more committed in the rehearsal than Bowie but when you see the actual live performance both of them really bring their A-games - she had a great voice.
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I found this - is this a bit better?
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On 08/02/2021 at 13:16, stewblack said:
Whenever a song comes on in a book, I like to play it while I'm reading - helps create what the hip kids call an immersive experience.
Sometimes it's a corker
One of my favourite songwriters - I have quite a few CD's of hers - but not this one - I've must have sung 7-8 of her songs at open mics. In recent years she has sounded more and more like she's "under the influence" of something - a bit like John Martyn the 3rd and last time I saw him - all the words sounded so slurred together. Her 3rd, self-titled album is one of the best albums I've heard but I like that simple singer-songwriter stuff you can do without a band.I might even have this disc but I don't remember the track. I always thought she had some great people in her live band.
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The one song of theirs I still like - don't know why I was so keen on them. Can't stand Billy Corgan now.
What are you listening to right now?
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A lifetime ago I listened to If You Wait a lot - I quite like her voice although I can understand people not liking it (e.g. my wife hated it) but I really can't listen to what sounds to me like poor attempts to reproduce a sweet and sour vibe that Dido and Eminem created with Stan.