Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are
Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer
Family – Bandstand
Focus – Hamburger Concerto
Various – Blue Note Years 1963-67 : The Avant Garde
Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Ash
Ken Hensley/John Wetton – More Than Conquerors
Ken Hensley/John Wetton – One Way or Another
Wishbone Ash – There’s The Rub
Pulsar - Pollen
Six days into 2009 and no new CDs purchased...
This is a good thing...
Today I thought to myself, “why don’t I just buy CDs I actually want rather than CDs that may be interesting and are cheap enough to take a chance on?”...
I’m sure I’d save a load of cash by doing this...
And so I decided to try it....
Yesterday I was in HMV and saw a Blue Note disc by trombonist Grachan Moncur III...
He’s involved in much of the music I like best on the label and so, tonight I resolved to go back and buy it, even though it was £11 as opposed to the usual £2, £3, £4 or £5 I like to pay for a disc...
Alas, it had already gone...
No wonder – on Amazon and e-bay his stuff’s going for crazy prices – oh well..
Back home I dug out my 2CD set "The Blue Note Years : The Avant Garde" and played the two Moncur tracks it contains - top stuff - all in all Mr M is featured on four tracks, including one from the album I was trying to buy...
After playing through three of my new songs on the old geetar, and another excellent tea from the fair hands of the Exec Producer, we watched “Oz and James Drinking Tour of Britain” before I headed back up to the PC with my favourite big cup containing some lovely coffee...
I was on a mission to download some Wishbone Ash, inspired as I was by their performance of “Vas Dis” on the “Prog Rock at the BBC” programme I tried to watch the other day (and again tonight, to no avail) on the BBC’s I-Player...
In a rather frustrating session of time outs, multi pop up annoyances etc etc, I managed to get their first album and their fifth, “There’s the Rub” which I remember buying along with Lou Reed’s “Berlin” and “Sally Can’t Dance” from Boots in 1975 (I remember too, prior to that, owning the single from the album, “Silver Shoes/Persephone”)...
Later I found an album (“Pollen”) by obscure French sub Pink Floyd proggers, Pulsar, which soon found it’s way too onto the external hard drive...
In my “My Received Files” there, I now have over 100 albums downloaded – I must also have around a further 500 or so albums copied either from Chris-with a -ch’s Mybook or German chum Jorg’s MP3 player during his visit last October...
So of course these and the myriad downloadable MP3s there are around the net ought now to take the place of all these daft cheap purchases which I listen to once and file away?
We’ll see...
Highlight of the Day : Rediscovering Wishbone Ash...
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