Making it to 90...

Playlist

Various Artists - Invictus Club Classics

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Cockney Rebel - A Steve Harley Anthology

Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow

Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol 3 - Bud!

Various Artists - Now That's 1984-08 - 1984-10

Max Roach - It's Time

Various Artists - The Best Of Hallyday, Rivers, Mitchell, Anthony & Vartan 

Prokofiev - Scythian Suite & Lieutenant Kijé

Fasba Fpel - Book VIII: Dumbing Down to Win an Emmy

Various Artists - Trojan Presents: Lovers Rock

Various Artists - On The Corner

Toto - Greatest Hits: 40 Trips Around The Sun

Mark Farner - Mark Farner

Udo Lindenberg - Dröhnland-Symphonie

Haydn - Complete Piano Sonatas

Rheostatics - Live At The Art Gallery of Ontario - Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015

Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1981

Various Composers - Black Composers Series 1974-1978

Berlin Philharmonic String Trio - Late Romantic String Trios : Dohnanyi/Kodaly/Fuchs/Schönberg

The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul

Various Artists - Home Of The Hits - The Beserkley Story

Max Richter - Voices

Biffy Clyro - A Celebration of Endings

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Home Of The Hits: The Best Of Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

Hawkwind - All Aboard the Skylark

Keith Emerson - Emerson Plays Emerson

The Paper Kites - On the Train Ride Home

Johan Verminnen - 60

Various Artists - Adventure Music: 10 Years

Gang Of Four - Solid Gold

Huelgas Ensemble - Tears Of Lisbon - 16th Century Arts Songs & Traditional Fado

Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest

Roger Eno - Little Things Left Behind 1988 - 1998

The Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly And See

Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage

The Sign Of Four - Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup

Taylor Swift - September

Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther

John Lindberg Ensemble - Bounce

Lund Quartet - Lund Quartet

Nancy Wlson - The Capitol Recordings 1969-1976

Georgie Fame - Fame At Last

Otte - Das Buch der Klaenge

Kiss - Gold

Yello - Point

Betts(JP) - Osafune

William Christie: Les Arts Florissants - 10 ans Arts Florissants

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie

Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Beethoven

KMRU - Opaquer

Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen

Kansas - The Absence of Presence

August gone...

I continue to rise early...

Out to my mum's just before 8 and she managed to get up and downstairs for a cup of tea before her carer arrived...

She was still not 100% of course but soldiering on....

Later, her friend Janette visited as did Sheila and Senior...

She had perked up apparently but was obviously still a bit under the weather...

For me, back home, a day of WFH...

Which was rewarded with extremely tasty Spaghetti Bolognese from Annie...

Much of the day had been spent listening to tracks from my 100 over the years Record Store Day acquisitions...

We were back on track re "University Challenge" scoring almost 150 after last week's unmentioned below 100 total...

And, of course, there was some "Chuck"...

How hooked are we on that show?

Very hooked...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : My mum made it to 90...

Partying without the guest of honour...

Playlist

The Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly And See

FRKTL -Excision After Love Collapses

Yello - Point

Deep Purple - Whoosh!

Secret Machines - Awake in the Brain Chamber

Chuck Berry - All Time Greats

Various Composers - Black Composers Series 1974-1978

Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Luminous

Nancy Wilson - The Very Best Of Nancy Wilson: The Capitol Recordings 1960-1976

Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska

Elf - Elf

The Temptations - Gettin' Ready

Hawkwind - Road to Utopia

FRKTL - Prose Edda

Sunday morning...

My Record Store Day purchases awaited...

Who knew Chuck Berry’s Xmas no 1 live cover of “My Ding a Ling” was recorded at a polytechnic in Coventry on 3 Feb ‘72, in a set supporting Pink Floyd, who were playing “Dark Side of the Moon” over a year before it was released?

Here are the 100 records I've acquired on Record Store Days from 2008 to 2020...

Can you spot the only actually over-priced RSD release amongst them?

Today was the last day of the weekend and the last day before my mum reaches 90...

A few things for her were also on the desk...

Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, a couple of Raymond Chandlers, "The Name of the Rose" and the first ever Famous Fie adventure...

As to whether she will ever listen or read any of these, well that's another story...

Scenes...

A referred to record must be amongst all these somewhere - I did not look for it...

Coffee was purveyed in a cup of my song-based albums...

Collect the set here...     

Not the cups, the music...

A poll as to which of these four options would be the best cover for the "Beethoven" album...

The original idea, top left, won the day...

And so Max Klinger's statue of the maestro will not feature...

A call from Sister Sheila while we shopped for my mum...

Mum had fallen over in the night and been unable to reach her alarm and so had lain on the floor of her bedroom for several hours, till being discovered around 10:15 by her carer...

I dropped Anne at home and headed out...

The old lady was in her bed and not too bad...

We decided today's "party" would go ahead and that she might get up later...

Back home and then back out for 4pm, waiting on sister Sheila's side to arrive...

Eventually, they did and a cake, baked by Tori in Yorkshire was much admired...

Her boys slept for a while - which is a godsend re small children...

Here are some pics of my mum which I found on her dressing table...

...and my dad too...

...and my great Aunt Betty - she was to my mum as Anne and I are to the boys...

In her beloved North Berwick where my dad and sister Pam are...

Cards...

And a not very flattering pic of the birthday girl...

...who received visitors throughout the late afternoon...

Anne possibly quite liked the wee boys...

  

...while baby Harris was sick all over his mum...

An excellent large Chinese meal was enjoyed by everyone, except mum, and followed by the cake - quite a bit of which was left in her freezer and fridge for when she's better...

Kerr liked the flowers from it...

Portraits ensued...

...as is the way with families...

The house was tidied and we said our goodbyes...

Hopefully mum will be a bit better for the actual birthday tomorrow...

Home for some listening and some episodes of "Chuck"...

Highlight of the Day : Partying without the guest of honour...

How things are and how they might be...

Playlist

Max Richter - Voices

Bach, J S - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (String Trio Version)

Various Composers - Black Composers Series 1974-1978

Ivan Ilić - The Transcendentalist

Sons Of Kemet - Burn

Hawkwind - Live in Alberta '72

Yello - Point

The Temptations - The Temptations Sing Smokey

Saturday - no rest for the wicked...

Uploading the podcast...

Today was Record Store Day...

At Crispycat Towers, every day is Record Store Day...

Enjoying this this morning...

Of course, the colour of a composer’s skin, or indeed their sex, should not matter. It ought really to be about the music. And this is, in the main, to my liking...

Headed into town, with Anne, for breakfast...

It was strange to be out...

To Cafe Centro...

Good wall art...

Good service...

Good tables...

Good breakfasts...

To Fopp and a strange abandoned list spotted outside...

At first, I thought someone was looking to buy wasps...

But it was "foam 4 wasps"...

Mon the wasps!

In and, eventually, joined by a tardy due to a Hi Fi situation, Dr Prog...

The beast was masked and about its business...

...making purchases...

The new Yello...

A 5CD box of Temptations for £3...

Two Barry Whites for £3 each...

A 2CD set of Motown, £3..

Some Georgie Fame - bought for the cover of "The Monkey Time" - £3...

..and a 3CD set of Nancy Wilson (there's no place in jazz for vocals - unless it's 3CDs for £3)...

And a 2CD set of Chuck Berry (£3)...

Over to behind Waverley Station (following a fruitless visit to Avalanche) and coffees...

...with the doc...

...and god chat about "how things are and how they might be"...

A bus home - upstairs, up front - away from everyone...

...on the way, the lightning lead from my iPhone to my headphones gave up the ghost - dirty bastard Apple and your no headphone socket pish and charging £9 for a 2 inch piece of plastic...

Anyway, back home, some "Chuck" and some ripping and listening...

Tea was tasty prawn based pasta...

...followed by 2 not that great episodes of "The Inbetweeners" and a very good "Vera", featuring Craster...

Two books were also purchased today (you guessed it £3 each)...

...plus some stuff for my mum's birthday do tomorrow, pre her 90th on Monday...

Discs were enjoyed and books were perused...

This afternoon, I'd moved the CD player & right hand speaker along a shelf to the left, so the Exec Producer’s reintroduced (for me headphone listening) rocking chair wouldn’t be in front of the right speaker when I enjoy music from the sofa. Not that anyone needs to know any of this of course...

On posting the above pic and story, an old CD was played after being spotted on the end of a box by a Twitterchum asking for an opinion from Mr CBQ...

Duly given...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Shopping with Dr Prog...