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My (nine years older) brother was always playing Earl Bostic 78s in the 1950s when I was just a kid. Hence my appreciation of one of the best saxophonists of his time.

 

 

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I saw Terry Reid last thursday night at a pub in Birmingham, now Terry Reid is one of the guys who can be called the unluckiest man in rock.

 

Among other things, he recorded an absolutely killer version of the Whole of the moon, only to find his record company failed to release it as scheduled, and released the single in the same week as some young band called the Waterboys released their version  .......

 

And then there was the time when, a few days before his band were off to the States for a fairly extensive tour, he was aproached by his mate who was trying to form a band, and asked Terry if he'd like to be the singer.

 

"Sorry Jimmy", said Terry, "I'm off on a big tour of the States in a few days, we're pretty big there, so no, mate."

 

"But,", said Terry, only willing to help his mate Jimmy Page, "I know of a bloke called Bobby Plant who you might want to speak to, he'd make a good singer for your new band, and the drummer in hs band, Johnny Bonham, is pretty good, too."

 

And then his fantastic album - at least, receiving fantastic reviews from critics all over the UK and the States, River, was about to be released, and his record company went bust the day before release date.

 

It's no wonder that after he fell out of favour with audiences in the States he decided to pack in this group stuff and began a long career as a session musician, and singer songwriter and singer in various clubs in and around LA.

 

Anyway, he came back to the UK this September/October, playing venues as diverse as the Jazz Cafe in London, the Cluny in Newcastle on Tyne and the Hare and Hounds in Birmingham. Nothing too big, I think the Hare and Hounds has a 250 capacity, just him and a young British pedal steel guitarist called Chris Hillman (ot the guy from the Byrds, as I first thought), and he was great.

 

Tremendous, soulful voice, great guitar playing wonderfully highlighted and fleshed out with the Pedal Steel guitar, and here's a sound only track of one of his best tracks;

 

 

So I just listened to his first album, Bang Bang - after his version of Cher's "Bang Bang he shot me down" on the album.

 

Now I'm listening to The Who live in Paris 1970.

 

The set list is pretty much the same as that on Live at Leeds.

 

 

 

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Lets see in the last 24 Hrs its been Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Rainbow, & Chicago the early albums with Terry Kath. My wife's entire family went to the same High-school as him, so we have a minor connection in that small way. 

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I was playing Buena Vista Social Club, but after a few hours ROON had somehow transitioned to some full-on odd jazz. And when I say odd jazz, I mean Fast Club-style jazz club (nice). It got a bit weird....

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21 hours ago, Biggles87 said:

We went to see ELO at Wembley a few decades ago, just after that album was released, great concert introduced by Tony Curtis.

I never got to see the original line up, but I've seen the video of that concert. Brilliant

I have seen the revamped ELO Pt.2 a couple of times, and they are also top notch.

 

John.

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Only by sheer chance last night I was looking on Kate Bush's itunes and noticed that she released this radio edit of Snowflake from her 50 Words For Snow album from 2011. A bit bizarre releasing it yesterday I thought. Then, just heard news on the radio that she's thinking about making a comeback.

 

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On a whim, I picked up a ticket to go see "Go Now" with the Dallas Symphony this weekend.  Made me fall in love all over again with the various songs, albums and concepts of the Moody Blues.  Oh yeah, the concert was a pretty nifty thing.  Although you know you are getting older when you go to concerts and one of the groupies up front, who I sat next to, was a mid-70s woman with a walker.  She informed me since she retired she just follows the band whenever they play in the United States. Now back to "In Search of the Lost Chord".

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