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« Reply #1980 on: February 13, 2018, 08:05:44 AM » |
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A couple of days ago , the very splendid G.F.(Gerry) Fitz-Gerald, maker of strange and wonderful music with Lol Coxhill and others and creator of Mouseproof, an LP first released in 1970 for which I was delighted to sing. He shared the flat in Notting Hill with Simon and me and was a gentle and unique person..  |
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« Reply #1981 on: February 13, 2018, 01:57:21 PM » |
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So sorry, Jude.
And Ian_ - I remember seeing the cover of a Pearls Before Swine LP - ESPDisk label? - a detail from Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" - I have to admit I've never knowingly heard anything by PBS, but I guess I should have a listen...
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« Reply #1982 on: February 13, 2018, 02:41:14 PM » |
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Hi Paul. They're probably an acquired taste - there can't be many singers with such an obvious speech impediment! - but there's a sort of misty melodious quality to their music and the lyrics are often fascinatingly unusual 
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." Albert Einstein
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« Reply #1983 on: February 13, 2018, 03:54:29 PM » |
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Really saddened by the death of Tom Rapp.
I have been a massive fan of Pearls Before Swine since I first heard the album “The Use Of Ashes” at the age of 14. It has remained a favourite album of mine throughout my life and I have great fondness for all the Pearls / Rapp albums.
Rapp disappeared from the music scene in the mid 1970s, but made a surprise reappearance in 1999 with the excellent “Journal Of the Plague Year” album and I always hoped we might here more from him.
RIP Tom, and thanks for playing such a big part of my life music wise.
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« Reply #1984 on: February 18, 2018, 10:39:58 PM » |
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« Reply #1985 on: February 19, 2018, 11:20:11 AM » |
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Tom Rapp and PBF are a thing I've been meaning to check out for years. Is the new edition of the One NAtion Underground a good place to start??
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« Reply #1986 on: February 19, 2018, 01:11:47 PM » |
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Definitely a good place to start.
If you like it, just carry on in the order they were released.
There is also an extremely good compilation album called “Constructive Melancholy” if you want more of an overview.
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« Reply #1987 on: February 19, 2018, 01:22:47 PM » |
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He played with Magma too. |
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« Reply #1988 on: February 20, 2018, 10:59:56 AM » |
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Definitely a good place to start.
If you like it, just carry on in the order they were released.
There is also an extremely good compilation album called “Constructive Melancholy” if you want more of an overview.
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« Reply #1990 on: February 24, 2018, 02:26:15 PM » |
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I loved The Real Thing and Eddie had a great soul voice. At the time I thought they were American, I didn't know they were Scousers! RIP Eddie Amoo |
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« Reply #1991 on: February 24, 2018, 03:19:15 PM » |
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Barbara Ann Alston, original lead singer with The Crystals, gone at 74 from flu. |
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« Reply #1992 on: February 25, 2018, 12:46:25 PM » |
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I loved The Real Thing and Eddie had a great soul voice. At the time I thought they were American, I didn't know they were Scousers! RIP Eddie Amoo David essex's backing singers don't you know.....  |
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« Reply #1993 on: March 14, 2018, 01:33:39 PM » |
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Just announced on RTE news. Liam og O'Flynn, uileann piper with Planxty and on many collaborations such as the magnificent Brendan Voyage. A genius and a gentleman, RIP. Ni bheidh a leitheid aris.
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« Reply #1994 on: March 14, 2018, 02:18:58 PM » |
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I just wrote this on FB. I don't believe in absolutes in music-best guitarists or drummers, that sort of thing. But if there is one singular moment in Irish Folk Music the last 50 years or more, it would be when O'Flynn's pipes take over on the medley with Raggle Taggle Gypsies. It is a chill inducing moment and it gets me every time.
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« Reply #1995 on: March 14, 2018, 03:15:10 PM » |
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Just announced on RTE news. Liam og O'Flynn, uileann piper with Planxty and on many collaborations such as the magnificent Brendan Voyage. A genius and a gentleman, RIP. Ni bheidh a leitheid aris.
Aww now that's the worst news of the last few weeks, RIP Liam og 😞 I saw him many times with Planxty and solo. That's the chance of another reunion gone😢 |
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« Reply #1996 on: March 14, 2018, 03:18:15 PM » |
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I just wrote this on FB. I don't believe in absolutes in music-best guitarists or drummers, that sort of thing. But if there is one singular moment in Irish Folk Music the last 50 years or more, it would be when O'Flynn's pipes take over on the medley with Raggle Taggle Gypsies. It is a chill inducing moment and it gets me every time.
Spot on Robert,it never fails to tingle the spine 45 + years since he recorded it on Prosperous with Christy and the first Planxty album. |
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« Reply #1997 on: March 14, 2018, 03:43:38 PM » |
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Claudia Fontaine, Pink Floyd backing singer, member of Soul II Soul and the Selecter.
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« Reply #1998 on: March 14, 2018, 04:18:09 PM » |
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Just announced on RTE news. Liam og O'Flynn, uileann piper with Planxty and on many collaborations such as the magnificent Brendan Voyage. A genius and a gentleman, RIP. Ni bheidh a leitheid aris.
Aww now that's the worst news of the last few weeks, RIP Liam og 😞 I saw him many times with Planxty and solo. That's the chance of another reunion gone😢 One of those seminal bands for me. First saw them live with Liam , 73  ?.. I had already seen Christy Moore solo, a few times......but as a band !!!!!! and Liam's playing just soared! I will now stick the black album on ...... |
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« Reply #1999 on: March 14, 2018, 05:03:25 PM » |
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I just wrote this on FB. I don't believe in absolutes in music-best guitarists or drummers, that sort of thing. But if there is one singular moment in Irish Folk Music the last 50 years or more, it would be when O'Flynn's pipes take over on the medley with Raggle Taggle Gypsies. It is a chill inducing moment and it gets me every time.
Spot on Robert,it never fails to tingle the spine 45 + years since he recorded it on Prosperous with Christy and the first Planxty album. Spot on for me as well - it still sends a warm tingle through me every time I hear it. Funny how a moment in music can have such power. See how the crowd reacts to it here (the change is around 2.33 for those of you really in a hurry  ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP407UnUWwI was lucky to see them on I think the last but one night of their "reunion" concerts in Vicar Street about 10 years ago, and that single moment brought many of the audience spontaneously to their feet. To ramble a bit, I think one of the strongest points of the new Irish trad revival in the early 70s, apart from the obvious new form of "chorded percussion" via the bouzouki et al, was the new importance placed on the changes between tunes in a set, which could at times be as powerful as the tunes themselves (sorry, I digress). So now, in fond memory of the great man himself, here's him live with the finale of the Brendan Voyage - pure bliss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z-3OKzUEDwMagnificent stuff from a magnificent man. RIP. |
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