Hopkins with the Creekers...

Playlist

Various - Fill Your Head With Rock

Miles Davis - The Complete Concert 1964

Isaac Hayes - Live At The Sahara Tahoe

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Various Composers - Children's Introduction to Good Music

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Procol Harum - A Salty Dog

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Miles Davis - The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions

Santana - Santana

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th Anniv)

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

The Move - Shazam

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Al Stewart - Zero She Flies

King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon - 40th Anniversary Series

Soft Machine - Third

Yes - Time And A Word

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Santana - Abraxas

Genesis - Trespass

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake and Palmer

King Crimson - Lizard

Chicago - Chicago III

Yes - The Yes Album

The Doors - L. A. Woman

Weather Report - Weather Report (1971)

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

Isaac Hayes - Shaft

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame

T Rex - Electric Warrior

Pink Floyd - Meddle

Alice Cooper - Killer

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Paul Simon - Paul Simon

Neil Young - Harvest

Deep Purple - Machine Head 

Lou Reed - Lou Reed

Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht

Yes - Close To The Edge

Genesis - Foxtrot

Focus - Focus III

Gentle Giant - Octopus

Electric Light Orchestra - ELO 2

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

Sly & the Family Stone - Fresh

Golden Earring - Moontan (UK Version)

Roy Wood - Boulders

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (RM)

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black [4oth Anniversary]

Focus - Hamburger Concerto

Sparks - Kimono My House

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place

Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge

Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

The last day of the fifteenth year of daily blogging...

No celebrations or special events...

Just, as usual, bought some CDs, during a walk up to Tollcross...

Didn't get a chance to listen to any of them as I was off out tonight to the Usher Hall with Creek chums Stu and Craig for Mr Jon Ho[kins and the first concert in his 2020 tour...

I don't recall the name of the support act but let's just say I could've done without the singing...

Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" welcomed the audience to their seats...

Mr Hopkins did his own set up - the quality of some of these pics emphasises how an iPhone might be good for taking pics on the go but hopeless for zooming in...

Almost show time...

The light show as minimal but good...

The audience...

..was the weirdest spectacle, although respectful to the music, despite the usual interminable coming and going to the bar all night...

So, no, not respectful...

Hopkins started with some quiet piano improvs accompanied by violin, cello and guitar and tyou could have heard a pin drop in the hall...

Then, he moved over to his "machines" and, soon, banging house music was ringing around with the entire audience on their feet as if at a rave in the 1980's...

...before sitting down again...

..and listening in silence to more piano music...

This happened a number of times and the behaviour was fascinating...

All too soon, the 90 minute set was over and the quartet took their bows...

Some good chat with Craig tonight re the still proposed new CBQ LP and good to catch up with Stu too, outside the confines of Capital Models rehearsals...

A bus home in the dark, with said CBQ album (albeit the short versions) on the cans for the first time in a while...

Highlight of the Day : Hopkins with the Creekers...