So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Lemmy would have appreciated this öne nö döubt ...



And Agnetha this here ...

[uwe]

I've been following Haim's development, the first two albums were neither here nor there, more dance pop than indie, not mirroring their live act and image at all. With their newish third album "Women in Rock, Part III", it seems like they have finally documented their style and found a sympathetic production that doesn't dilute it.

[Dave W]

Ah, the 80s.

[uwe]

Alas!, tempus fugit ..., fresh-faced turneth to grizzled ...



https://images.app.goo.gl/5Vxy65oizQkmp3d66

He and Lemmy must share the same men's w(e)ar shop too. 

[Basvarken]

Talk about the eighties.

here's a reunion of a band that was huge back then.



Excellent bass playing with a pick. Loud in the mix. Very articulate sound.

[uwe]

I'm sorry, but FGTH without Holly Johnson doesn't work for me at all. This sounds like a mediocre tribute. It's like Queen without Mercury.

BTW, the original FGTH  were a hard rock outfit without success before Trevor Horn administered his "Island of Dr. Moreau"-studio wizardry treatment on them.

[Basvarken]

Stop whining and listen to the goddamn bass Uwe ! 

[uwe]

I hate to say it, but I've grown out of that sound! Stone me!!!

Very processed, very 80ies, very compressed, too trebly. It's been 30 years since I liked that sound, can't help it. It's essentially a Trevor Horn bass sound. He already sounded like that when he played bass on Video Killed the Radio Star.

But for the record and for the peace of mind of all unmarried Dutchmen without curtains that once thought Steve Harris' bass sound is good:  It is pleasingly executed and FGTH always had good bassists and an upfront bass sound the way Trevor Horn likes it. He's a lifelong YES fan (was over the moon when he got to join them and retained friend- and mentorship even after he left), so Chris Squire's sound and role obviously left an indelible mark.

Do I get off now or do I have to laud Led Zeppelin too? 

[Basvarken]

I have no clue where you got the idea that I care that much about Led Zep? I own one CD of them (best of with the crop circles). 

[uwe]

Years back, you came up to their defense when I was once again mindlessly ranting about them. But of course they are not up there in your Thin Lizzy pantheon. And Lynott's lyrics win any comparison to Robert Plant's hands down. I support you, don't you know?!

[Basvarken]

Ah. Thin Lizzy, yes.
Led Zep, hmm... not so much. There's no denying they had a huge influence on lots of hardrock bands. I like Bonhams larger than life drums. But Pagey has always been too sloppy for my taste.

And the man is so full of himself that even to this day he still won't take the blame for the Live Aid disaster. Where he was sloppy drunk and/or high as a kyte, yet he put the blame on Phil Collins for the trainwreck that it was.
Fastforward to ± 7.21

[4stringer77]

Happened upon a plaque to Percy Heath while on vacation in Montauk at the eastern end of Long Island.



https://jameslaino.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/tribute-to-long-island-legend-percy-heath/

Turns out his brother Jimmy passed back in January. Hell of a year we're having. Here's an album the Heath brothers recorded in 78'.

[uwe]

Ah. Thin Lizzy, yes.
Led Zep, hmm... not so much. There's no denying they had a huge influence on lots of hardrock bands. I like Bonhams larger than life drums. But Pagey has always been too sloppy for my taste.

And the man is so full of himself that even to this day he still won't take the blame for the Live Aid disaster. Where he was sloppy drunk and/or high as a kyte, yet he put the blame on Phil Collins for the trainwreck that it was.
Fastforward to ± 7.21

To their credit, they weren't the only under-rehearsed band at Live Aid. Quo were rusty, Sabbath insecure, The Cars lackluster. Jagger with Hall & Oates doing Just Another Night? A catastrophy.  It sounded like The Carpenters were backing him.

Why anyone felt that Phil Collins and Tony Thompson of all people were the right drummers (both of them great in their own right) to emulate John Bonham is beyond me.  It was kind of like asking Steve Hackett and Nile Rodgers to stand in for Angus Young in AC/DC. Cozy Powell (and a myriad other hard rock drummers weaned on Bonzo) could have done a better job in their sleep.

None of this shall put down Bob Geldof's superhuman achievement in putting Live Aid together. He got musical credit for it too in form of this little anthem:  When he made the greatest show on Earth to help a country to survive ...



I always dug the quote of Do They Know It's Christmas/Feed The World in the coda of the Slade number.

[Dave W]

More 2020 losses.

Johnny Nash




Ray Pennington, Nashville songwriter/producer/record label owner and country singer, died in a house fire in a Nashville suburb. Golf cart in his garage caught fire and caught the house on fire. His wife escaped, he didn't. He was 86.

His most famous composition.