Just Some Nice Music Thread Here...Post it Here...

[AleisterCrowley]

Peatbog Faeries from Skye ?! I've seen them a couple of times, very good.
And extra points for releasing an album called 'Croftwork'

[pje16]

ps anyone suggesting Bay City Rollers will be banned from this site

bye bye baby

[kindjim]

What I'm listening to at this moment - NEJ' - Paro (Clip Officiel)

[kiloran]

Peter Green was known as an excellent guitarist in his Fleetwood Mac days, before he went off the rails. As the wonderful BB King said "Peter Green has more talent in his little finger than I have in my entire body" and "He was the only one that gave me the cold sweats".

In his later years, he formed the Peter Green Splinter Group, playing some old Fleetwood Mac classics as well as classics blues and other songs.

I'd always assumed it was Peter Green on lead guitar when I listened to the albums, but it seems that most of the lead guitar work was by Nigel Watson. Apparently Green was not always comfortable taking centre-stage when playing live, and Watson provided an extra focus onstage. See, for example, 2m50s of Green Manalishi and 4m50s and 9m10s of Black Magic woman. What a wonderful sound he conjures from his guitar.

The Green Manalishi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsOMkbT8LI
Black Magic Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGe_KE6YJs

A pity he didn't get more exposure.

--kiloran

[DiamondEcho]

ps anyone suggesting Bay City Rollers will be banned from this site

bye bye baby

Bye, bye baby, don't make me cry (bye baby, baby, bye, bye)

[kempiejon]

Seen them a few times and they were pretty good live but...
the best from Scotland? ...ever?

Probably not.

That would be the Jesus and Mary Chain

Don't like Deacon Blue, I like JAMC and of course they spawned my top pick Primal Scream. A nod to the other Scottish brothers Reid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesps9w4HFw and Big Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eti8Lf2Zo

[XFool]

Why not listen to some lovely Darius Milhaud? Go on, you know you want to!

Scaramouche: Brazileira. Darius Milhaud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnC2xOQDM8&t=1s

Time to cool down now?

Carl Orff - Gassenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9_6W6bVoQ

Now you are relaxed it's time for a bit more Milhaud.

Darius Milhaud - Le Bœuf sur le toit (Alondra de la Parra, L'Orchestre de Paris)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iqZ-lyUsNM

[servodude]

Seen them a few times and they were pretty good live but...
the best from Scotland? ...ever?

Probably not.

That would be the Jesus and Mary Chain

Don't like Deacon Blue, I like JAMC and of course they spawned my top pick Primal Scream. A nod to the other Scottish brothers Reid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesps9w4HFw and Big Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eti8Lf2Zo

TBH Deacon Blue weren't a band I'd ever have chosen to see myself - but having been dragged along by "the bird at the time", and working at another gig, I do have to given them their dues for getting the crowd more excited than I would have expected...
..but then they weren't a patch on the Humpff family, or the Ampehatameanies, or Big Vern n the Shootahs or any of the better bands that gigged well everywhere but didn't do inoffensive middle of the road soul around Glasgow at the time... so are probably still gigging

Primal Scream were a bit hit and miss live - but the world's a better place for them being in it - even if at the time I couldn't keep up with their changing styles. Really good albums in retrospect though (similar to how I feel about Teenage Fanclub)

I'd written off Big Country by the time I was going to gigs - swore blind I couldn't be bothered with their bagpipe tunes
Ended up getting embarrassed in to going to see them at the barras one saturday and it was absolutely bouncing, utterly incredible
- you couldn't keep your feet on the ground given the way the floor was sprung

Still... JAMC are the business (and not just cos of the stripey tops, or managing to pull Hope Sandoval when you're from East Kilbride!)
- still going and probably better live now than when they were knocking lumps out each other (saw them twice in a week a couple of years back)

-sd

[DiamondEcho]

Don't like Deacon Blue, I like JAMC and of course they spawned my top pick Primal Scream. A nod to the other Scottish brothers Reid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iesps9w4HFw and Big Country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eti8Lf2Zo

I'm seeing another Scottish band in October, The Skids.
'To further illustrate': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udxbvHiqGw The Skids - Into The Valley [1979]

Funny isn't it how 40 years ago such music sounded almost dangerous, hence exciting for a teen, now it sounds more ... er, sufficiently motivated not to be outright dull?

[kempiejon]

I didn't know the Skids were Scottish or still gigging
I was listening to Sham 69, on tour this year and next, just the other week here's a happy ditty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQMIXGRjaw

[DiamondEcho]

I didn't know the Skids were Scottish or still gigging
I was listening to Sham 69, on tour this year and next, just the other week here's a happy ditty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQMIXGRjaw

I didn't know the Skids were Scottish either until I realised they're the support act for The Damned next month in London and looked further into their background. I clearly remember their chart track 'Into the Valley' and their 'gaelic aspect' but nothing more about them.

Sham 69. Wow still going, or at least Jimmy Pursey it seems. They always gave me the impression of being more of a football hooligan/thug end-of-the-scale outfit. Don't take that as a negative, as such Though I don't think I'd have gone to see them as a teen, their reputation - esp their audience - was way too violent. FWIW their ardent fans were the self-styled 'Sham Army' and wise to avoid...

[servodude]

I didn't know the Skids were Scottish or still gigging
I was listening to Sham 69, on tour this year and next, just the other week here's a happy ditty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQMIXGRjaw

I didn't know the Skids were Scottish either until I realised they're the support act for The Damned next month in London and looked further into their background. I clearly remember their chart track 'Into the Valley' and their 'gaelic aspect' but nothing more about them.

Sham 69. Wow still going, or at least Jimmy Pursey it seems. They always gave me the impression of being more of a football hooligan/thug end-of-the-scale outfit. Don't take that as a negative, as such Though I don't think I'd have gone to see them as a teen, their reputation - esp their audience - was way too violent. FWIW their ardent fans were the self-styled 'Sham Army' and wise to avoid...

Is it really the Skids without Stu though

This is sublime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9eQ2smjUM

[NotSure]

Some early Kate Bush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yj5OLE ... Bush-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu23otI ... Bush-Topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9pI40L ... Bush-Topic

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord

And just look a who's supporting

AiY(D)

[mc2fool]

Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord

And just look a who's supporting

AiY(D)

Is the white shirted acoustic strummer to Eric's left George's son? The resemblance (to a young George) is astounding...

[pje16]

Is the white shirted acoustic strummer to Eric's left George's son? The resemblance (to a young George) is astounding...

good spot, yes that is Dhani

[swill453]

Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord

And just look a who's supporting

Not to be a pedant or anything, but shouldn't this be on the music thread?

Scott.

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord

And just look a who's supporting

Not to be a pedant or anything, but shouldn't this be on the music thread?

Scott.

Hi Scott,

I hope you're well.

How on earth do you expect me to find that at 3:10 in the morning when I've had a little sherry or two and am two sheets to the wind? I feel I did my best under the circumstances

Oh my Lord

AiY(D)
In detention

[swill453]

How on earth do you expect me to find that at 3:10 in the morning when I've had a little sherry or two and am two sheets to the wind? I feel I did my best under the circumstances

I'll pass on your excuses to the missus who was woken by me unknowingly clicking on a YouTube link in bed at 6 this morning

Scott.

[kiloran]

I've only recently* discovered Calvin Russell and found a load of good stuff.

I really like his version of "All Along The Watchtower" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8MpeowHsM
Better than Dylan's original in my view, but perhaps not as good as the Dylan And The Dead version, though that is so different they probably cannot really be compared.

And I like his Crossroad. No, not the Crossroads we all know by Robert Johnson and covered by many such as Eric Clapton, but a completely different song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXuTuwAb9n8

--kiloran
* Maybe I haven't discovered him so recently after all. Back in the 80s and 90s I was frequently touring the bars on 6th Street in Austin after a hard day's work, and I remember one night having a few beers with some colleagues and there was a singer-guitarist with a somewhat gruff voice at the back of the bar who I thought was pretty good, though I didn't pay too much attention due to all the chit-chat. On reflection, I wonder if it was Calvin Russell.... it seems he was born in Austin.