Crispycat Recordings: Remake, remodel...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Remake, remodel...

Playlist
Cannonball Adderley – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Planet X – Quantum
Miles Davis - Siesta
The Pineapple Thief – Someone Here is Missing

Worked this evening on the backing tracks for the proposed set – eight of the songs from “Splinterheart”, with five of them re-worked from the versions on the LP...

Then spent some time running through the set – firstly with the electric, then just singing along, then singing along while playing the acoustic...

The third option was best...

Meanwhile Annie was listening to the CIS Cup, from which both Hearts and Queens were dumped out...

Hearts lost 4-3 away to First Division Falkirk - Hearts were reduced to ten men but had come back from two down to lead 3-2, only to concede a third almost immediately and then lose with the last header of the game in 94 minutes...

Bobby and Ollie were in the crowd...

Queens lost 3-0 away to Premier League St Johnstone in Perth, having held out for almost 70 minutes before conceding a penalty and promptly going to pieces...

The day was rounded off with a new acquisition courtesy of Prog Rock Willie – The Pineapple Thief – not really prog – more interesting rock in a kind of mid-period Radiohead stylee...

Nice...

Highlight of the Day : Progressing with the proposed live set...

2 comments:

impossible songs said...: Hi, thanks regards Calgary, moved onto Banff, enjoying the unseasonal snow and following in your tyre tracks!; 11:02 pm
Sour Grapes said...: Hey Mr CBQ....good to see you start your journey down the Pineapple Thief path.....it's good stuff....hang in there and it's worth it!

Au Revoir
Ryan - Sour grapes; 12:06 pm

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Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

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In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!