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Post by Zenrider on Jun 18, 2017 17:30:42 GMT
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Post by sc on Jul 3, 2017 14:01:30 GMT
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Post by beef on Jul 15, 2017 12:41:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 13:10:13 GMT
Strangelove!
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Post by sc on Aug 1, 2017 19:45:30 GMT
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Post by beef on Aug 2, 2017 11:27:29 GMT
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Post by sc on Aug 5, 2017 17:58:29 GMT
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Post by beef on Aug 5, 2017 19:39:06 GMT
That's wonderful SC! And follows The Caretaker perfectly.
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Post by sc on Aug 5, 2017 22:41:24 GMT
That's wonderful SC! And follows The Caretaker perfectly. Thanks Beef, I listened to The Caretaker, and thought "Shit! what I am playing with would fit perfectly with that! but I only have a draft of what I was thinking and haven't finished off yet", but then thought "Sod it, it fits"  Will use the feedback, and sort out the site over the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions gratefully received. Personally I want a channel that isn't perfect and slick, a bit like sitting down with a mate and chatting after a couple of beers, warts 'n' all |
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Post by beef on Aug 7, 2017 18:50:12 GMT
SC - I was thinking it could be a way of telling a piece of family history or story... funny, sad or very ordinary... Like you say, informal, not too polished... maybe relating or contrasting with something in the present.... but loved everything about the first part... So this is my next song - the first track of I Trawl The Megahertz, by Paddy McCaloon (Prefab Sprout) - the whole album is great, but the first track is just over 20 minutes of heartrending beauty...
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Post by sc on Aug 12, 2017 15:14:25 GMT
SC - I was thinking it could be a way of telling a piece of family history or story... funny, sad or very ordinary... Like you say, informal, not too polished... maybe relating or contrasting with something in the present.... but loved everything about the first part... So this is my next song - the first track of I Trawl The Megahertz, by Paddy McCaloon (Prefab Sprout) - the whole album is great, but the first track is just over 20 minutes of heartrending beauty... Such a gorgeous track Beef, how do you keep a dry eye to: "I said, Your Daddy loves you, I said, Your Daddy loves you very much, He just doesn't want to live with us anymore" |
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Post by sc on Aug 12, 2017 15:48:22 GMT
The notes to the following track:
"And so we end with the personal exploration that produced "Constantine's Dream." It began with an image on a postcard sent to me by Dimitri Levas in 1988 - a detail of an unidentified painting of a conquistador and a young page, dressed in a white tunic and red boots, guarding a sleeping King. I misplaced the postcard, and confused by the soldiers' armour, I was unable to locate it in realm of Spanish art, yet the image haunted me.
Years later, on a plane to Rome, about to embark on an Italian tour, I mentioned the coveted image to Lenny, pledging I would one day find it. Our tour ended in Arezzo, That night, I had a troubled sleep and dreamed of an environmental apocalypse and a weeping Saint Francis. I awoke and went down to the courtyard and entered a church to say a prayer. I noticed a painting on the back wall. Piero della Francesca had created the frescoes of The Legend of the True Cross. There, in all its glory, was the full image that the postcard had detailed - The Dream of Constantine!
As fate would have it, it was in the Basilica of St. Francis. I decided to learn more of his life and contribution and also of the painter of Constantine's Dream. This opened a period of intense study and pilgrimage. Our friend, Stefano Righi, guided Lenny and I through the stations of Saint Francis' life: the mountain where birds covered him, singing, the forest in Gubbia where he tamed a wolf, the frescoes of Giotto and finally his magnetic tomb, beneath lower Basilica of the Papal Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. We left the memorial card for our beloved friend, the poet Jim Carroll, who revered Saint Francis.
There are many stories I could tell in the creation of "Constantine's Dream" but let it suffice that Lenny and I prayed before the paining for the strength to achieve our mission......."
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Post by beef on Aug 12, 2017 20:04:24 GMT
Gosh..... that was epic and intense SC - the notes added to the experience - I didn't realise that I would like Patti Smith...so much - don't know what else to listen to?
What could follow? Well, without wishing to trivialise the genuis of Constantine's Dream, Dead Flag Blues is a track that I've loved for almost... getting on for 20 years, spanning different eras of my life... including a terrible time at work that required seemingly endless long days - ridiculously early starts and late finishes... I'd joke with a work friend about how this track provided the perfect soundtrack...but listening today, it feels more like an ominous accompaniment to the dark and surreal days that we're living in.
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Post by Zenrider on Aug 28, 2017 4:06:57 GMT
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Post by sc on Aug 28, 2017 15:04:44 GMT
Beef, I've not gotten around to playing yours yet, I shall, I promise, but leading on from ZR and the great David Gilmour and the era of "The Guitar Gods" for me I think the last "Guitar God" track that I loved was this one coming up, from that point on that style of "look how wonderful I am" guitar music was closed, time to move on. and the track that closed that door for me is this little beauty |
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Will use the feedback, and sort out the site over the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions gratefully received. Personally I want a channel that isn't perfect and slick, a bit like sitting down with a mate and chatting after a couple of beers, warts 'n' all 
