So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

Another recent upload to the Jack Bruce channel. The accompaniment is not what I expected.

[Dave W]

[Pilgrim]

Another recent upload to the Jack Bruce channel. The accompaniment is not what I expected.

That's s fun clip!  I note that Jack was playing through Hartke amps.  I've had some Hartke gear and liked it just fine.

[Dave W]

That's s fun clip!  I note that Jack was playing through Hartke amps.  I've had some Hartke gear and liked it just fine.

Jack used Hartke gear for decades, he was one of the first users dating back to the mid-80s or whenever they were introduced. By the time of the 2005 Cream reunion concerts, he was using Hartke cabs with paper cones rather than aluminum.

[Dave W]

Rodney Crowell is 73 today.

[Ken]

Never gets old

[uwe]

That's s fun clip!  I note that Jack was playing through Hartke amps.  I've had some Hartke gear and liked it just fine.

Celtic Cream (That sounds a bit like a Sottish dairy producer, doesn't it?), just lovely!

Nothing wrong with Hartke cabs at all. If you wanted a clean sound as most people in the 80ies did, they were perfect. If you're more for overdrive and distortion, the paper cones make more sense.

[uwe]

The great late Herr California (= former one-off Deep Purple guitarist) plus other luminaries ...



I guess there is no death more worthwhile as a dad than while (successfully) saving your 12-year-old son. It's the way it should be. You can't bear it the other way around.

[uwe]

It's all fake, but a labor of love. The Stranglers never covered Dave Brubeck nor did he write their Golden Brown.

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Jim gets all Celtic and orchestral - with a dash of Beatles …

[uwe]

I really miss Don Felder in the Eagles. Granted, he's no Don Henley vocally (yet does a fine job here), but he plays his original parts like not even Steuart Smith and Joe Walsh (both of them no slouches) can emulate them.

[Dave W]

A woman with ample talents.

[uwe]

All threads end in Deep Purple, inevitably so does this one, Dave (but I'm sure you had a premonition of that already):







Rare Sweden only album

Undoubtedly the most popular Playboy bunny of the 1970s, Barbi Benton. Her early albums featured a superb team of top notch Nashville session musicians to back her up. In 1975 she released a single called The Reverend Bob and it would be the B-side, Ain’t That Just The Way, that would become a major hit in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, topping the Swedish singles chart for 10 weeks in 1977. It also topped the charts in Finland and reaching position 2 in Norway. Barbi released an album with the same name in 1978 and it was only released in Scandinavia.This time around it was not only the Nashville musicians that helped out. For the Ain’t That Just The Way album the label brought in a lot of guest to help out. Among them we find Deep Purple drummer Roger Glover and Whitesnake members David Coverdale and Mick Moody. The three of them wrote a track together called Up In The Air but Mick Moody worked on some more track while he also played guitar on the whole album while Roger Glover laid down some drums as well as taking over the job as producer for the album. The album in itself were much in style with her previous works with country pop gems and emotional ballads. For any rocker this is the most interesting of her albums as its topped with that bluesy guitar work from Mick Moody.

Track list:
1. Ain’t That Just The Way
2. It’s Hard To Say Goodbye (It’s Hard To Say Hello)
3. It’s A Long Way To Heaven
4. Up In The Air
5. Take Some And Give Some (And Leave Some Behind)
6. I Don’t Know If I’ll Ever Love Again
7. Isn’t It Always Love
8. One Step From Your Arms
9. Morning, Noon And Nightime
10. Close Your Eyes
11. Better Days


"Is the most evil thing you’ve actually done producing Barbi Benton, Roger?

I wouldn’t say that was evil. You know, as a producer in a studio, it doesn’t really matter what kind of artist you’re producing, it’s the same problem. And that problem is to create an atmosphere in the studio where an artist is comfortable and can perform to their best. That’s the only prime for a producer and how he does it.?Of course, different producers have different means, but that’s the main objective. And Barbi Benton was just something that came along and I was not doing anything else. Why not? Everything’s a challenge. Day by day, you never know what’s going to happen.

How did you get the gig? Did Hugh Hefner tempt you with an unholy threesome?

No, no. There was some connection with my manager at the time, Bruce Payne. I think we did a little tour with them with Cozy Powell. They had a bit of fun driving her and her people around in Scandinavia. I was just asked. BTW, she was a joy to have around and totally professional and committed in the studio."


Roger's soft rock (no, not what you were lecherously thinking!) rerecording of her 1975 song was actually the one that became the hit version in Sweden (Mo Foster on bass and Simon Phillips on drums, which makes Barbi PROG I guess):

[uwe]

Fast Forward, Suzi is finally making age- and voice-appropriate music ...





Tunstall's songwriting is so sympathetic to her, it's touching.