A walk by the water...

Playlist

Fee Waybill - Don't Be Scared By These Hands

Bill Spooner - Mall to Mars

Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again

Fee Waybill - Read My Lips

Roger Steen - Roger Steen

The Tubes - Genius Of America

Bill Spooner - Warren S. Richardson JR.

The Tubes - Dawn of the Tubes - Demo Daze And Radio Waves

The Tubes - Mondo Birthmark

The Tubes - The Tubes

The Tubes - Young and Rich

The Tubes - Now

The Tubes - Remote Control

The Tubes - The Best Of The Tubes

The Tubes - Suffer For Sound (The Black Album)

The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle

The Tubes - Outside Inside

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Coldclear

If - Double Diamond

If - Waterfall

If - If 4 (Remastered)

Keimzeit - Kling Klang, Comic-Helden

Forgot to mention that, last night, I enjoyed an excellent internet radio interview with Fee Waybill of the Tubes and then read a long interview with Bill Spooner, ex of the Tubes (Fee : "Bill got divorced than married someone who wouldn't let him go on tour")...

Accordingly, today's soundtrack was all my Tubes group and solo studio LPs...

Their phenomenal musicianship was so often overlooked re their spectacular shows. All time faves!!

This evening, out for a very pleasant wee walk down at South Queensferry...

...and home to the best Mexican tea ever!

...executively produced by the Exec Producer...

We moved inexorably towards the finale of the 2nd series of "Jack Ryan" and also enjoyed further new to us episodes of "Modern Family"...

A good day (apart from WFH of course)...

Highlight of the Day : A walk by the water...

Ninety one...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Coldclear

Yes - Close To The Edge

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Genesis - Foxtrot

Gentle Giant - Octopus

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday

Focus - Focus III

If - If 4

If - Tea Break's Over

Rzewski - Rzewski Plays Rzewski Piano Works 1975-1999

Various Composers - Vivarte 60CD Collection

Matsudaira - Bugaku Dance Suite

Bach, J S - St. John Passion (Herreweghe)

Pesson - Dispositions Furtives

The Fugs - Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings

Craig Armstrong - Music for the Films of Peter Mullan

The Divine Comedy - Promenade

Various Composers - Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 4 - Pianists

Various Composers - Decca Sound : The Analogue Years 1954-1968

Die Ärzte - Wiir wollen nur deine Seele

Laurie Anderson - Walk the Dog : Live

Kaidi Tatham - An Insight To All Minds

Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (Special Edition)

Rabbitt - A Grunt and a Croak in the Night

L'Uovo di Colombo - L'Uovo di Colombo

Dallapicolla - Modern Times

Concerto Köln - Concerto Köln 10CD Box Set

Roy Brooks - Understanding (Live)

Phish - Hoist

Styx - Crash of the Crown

Pierre Monteux - Pierre Monteux Conducts Elgar & Brahms

Various Composers - The Planets & Enigma Variations

Kronos Quartet - 25 Years

Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China

Various Composers - Revelation & Fall; Tragedia

Various Composers - Year of Wonder (Vol 3: March)

Iestyn Davies - Arias For Guadagni

Carl - White Heron

Sam Baker - Mercy

Ornette Coleman - Skies Of America

Craig Armstrong - Dirt Music OST

R Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner - Make It Be

Mozart - Complete Works

Klaus Schulze - La vie électronique, Vol. 13

Die Ärzte - Bäst of

Die Ärzte - Im Schatten der Arzte

Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion

Tarwater - Donne-Moi La Main OST

Caccini - La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina

Ibert - Piano Music

Tarentel - Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun

Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Power

Craig Armstrong - Bridget Jones's Baby OST

Craig Armstrong - The One and Only Ivan OST

Frank Zappa - Zappa 88 The Last US Show

Grainger - Complete Piano Music

Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets

Tcherepnin - Chamber Music

Strauss, R - Der Rosenkavalier

Downes Brade Association - IV Halcyon Hymns

Various Composers - Organ Concertos

Bootsy Collins - The One Giveth

Malaria! - Versus

Various Composers - Year of Wonder (Vol 9: September)

Roedelius - Selbstportrait IX: Wahre Liebe

Roy Wood - Look Thru' the Eyes of Roy Wood & Wizzard - Hits & Rarities, Brilliance & Charm... (1974-1987)

Pink Floyd - Complete BBC Sessions 1967 - 50th Anniversary Edition (Hd Remastered Edition)

Frank Zappa - Under the Covers

Craig Armstrong - Mrs Lowry & Son OST

Heller - Piano Studies Etuden Op 45, 46, 47

Steffen Schleiermacher - Soviet Avant Garde 2

Various Artists - From Brussels With Love

Various Composers - Music From The Era of Pieter Bruegel The Elder Vol 1

St. Vincent - Daddy's Home

Die Ärzte - Live Die Nacht der Dämonen

King Crimson - Meltdown : Live in Mexico City

Peter Serkin - The Ocean That Has No West and No East

David Cassidy - Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes

Peter Serkin - Webern & Takemitsu

Craig Armstrong - Burnt Orange Heresy OST

Roy Harper - Descendant of Smith

Jethro Tull - A La Mode (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)

Sex Pistols - Indecent Exposure

Squid - Bright Green Field

Christ Church Cathedral Choir - English Choral Music (1514-1682)

The Church - Shriek OST

Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again

Morning Tuesday morning…

In 1930, today was the fifth Sunday in August. My mum turns 91 today. Without her, no new CBQ ambient LP this Friday. Yes, she bears responsibility. Happy Birthday mum…

And, as usual on her birthday, August is away...

Over the last 48 hours, it's become very apparent that you really have to be in the right mood to actively enjoy the output of the best Italian prog bands of the 1970's...

Up early and to work...

...which included prepping mum's card...

...under grey skies...

..and above a tidy garden...

Downstairs, one more fly to be let out...

The soundtrack today was no Italian prog, my upcoming LP, 1972 and the shortest tracks of those which have entered the collection in 2021 so far and which have not yet been listened to...

My system tells me I've not listened to 19,000 tracks from the almost 1,500 items acquired in the first 8 months of 2021 (almost 18 twenty four hour days of music).

I played a goodly chunk of the 400 tracks that last under a minute - had I gotten through them all, that would have taken almost 5 hours...

Perhaps my library is too big?

Nah...

Breakfast...

Eggs on toast...

Around mid-day, a break from WFH and a quick trip out to wih Happy Birthday to an old lady...

...who enjoys fresh cream bramble apple turnovers...

...but who does not like to open her blinds as she thinks people will see in, despite this proof that a massive tree and, notwithstanding that, the built in tnting of normal windows...

...precludes any such situation...

Back home to more WFH...

In the evening, it was Tuesday and so, "Holby City entertained...

That was, most probably, it...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Mum being well on her birthday for the first time since 2018...

No complaining...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet/Tim Webb - Smiling At Grief (Single)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Then Again, I Haven't Got Much Time (Single)

Cervello - Melos

Alusa Fallax - Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione

Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger

Marshall Hain - Free Ride

J.E.T. - Fede speranza e carità

Jumbo - DNA

Animals As Leaders - The Madness Of Many

Martha Wainwright - Love Will Be Reborn

Trifecta - Fragments

Lorde - Solar Power

Orrin Evans - The Magic of Now

Sanguine Hum - A Trace Of Memory

Alex Ward - Gated

Cage - Number Pieces

Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger

Toyah - Posh Pop

TesseracT - Portals

Son Lux - Tomorrows III

Fragile - Golden Fragments

The Physics House Band - Metropolis

Various Artists - We Were So Turned On

Various Artists - Last 35 Days Unplayed on Shuffle

Into another week and more WFH...

Soundtracked, mostly, by Italian prog and other new stuff into the collection...

It's funny how working "not FH" is perfectly acceptable, while WFH seems like an encroachment into my time, which I could be spending doing something "more worthwhile" (but far less lucrative)...

Still, there comes a point when you probably have enough money to keep you going for the rest of your possible days...

I think we maybe approaching that point...

Anyway, up late...

Chum Gaz is having a tough, tough time - he was diagnosed with Leukemia and is in hospital for a month undergoing his first bout of chemo...

He seems to be doing not too bad but has shaved his head...

I sent him this to cheer him up, by showing him he still looks better than me...

It  probably did not cheer him up...

Baked potato for tea... 

And we did pretty well on "University Challenge" - we regularly now score over 100 points, usually in the region of 115-125, which can often put us second...

Of course, we don't restrict our 5 point successes to those questions which follow a 10 pointer we have answered correctly...

But...

Who cares...

The second part of "Vigil" also entertained...

That was it...

Mondays eh?

I cannot, however, complain...

Highlight of the Day : Trying to cheer Gaz up re his baldness...

Italian prog discovery...

Playlist

Various Composers - World Sleep Day

Lee Scratch Perry - Reggae Greats

Sparks - Number One in Heaven (Extended Version)

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Storia Di Un Minuto

Gordon Beck - Sunbird

T Rex - The Slider

Focus - Focus III

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

T Rex - The Slider

Sun Ra - Space Is The Place

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Battle Axe

George Benson - White Rabbit

Wallenstein - Blitzkrieg

Jumbo - DNA

Area - Arbeit Macht Frei

Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

De De Lind - Io non so da dove vengo... 

Sunday and up and to it...

But to what?

I don't recall...

I am now 10 days into the future as I write this...

Let's see...

Obviously struggling for my "morning quartet" of pics...

Out for the shopping - I think I went solo today, noting this beauty hanging on in the garden......

Home for a salmon and egg based breakfast...

Then, some work upstairs as Anne and neighbour, Pietro, tacked the big tree...

In the afternoon, out to my mum's with her shopping...

...including new flowers...

She will be 91 on Tuesday....

Back home an unwelcome visitor...

...and a welcome visitor...

And..,

Mmm...

Fishcakes with...

Mmmm...

Beans...

Then, to trying to edit together, from all the different versions we have of Capital Models "doing" Sparks' "Number One Song in Heaven", to create the newly arranged version we are yet to play...

It doid not go well and, in the end, I recorded a voice and acoustic guitar version to send round the team...

Much simpler...

Also today, I downloaded and inordinate amount of Italian Prog...

These are the top 21 albums (only 1 by each group allowed) according to the site, www.italianprog.com.  I only had three of these prior to today - so 18 LPs of new stuff...

This is how I fritter my time away....

On telly, a good new thing "Vigil", which will continue tomorrow...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Italian prog discovery...