Slow painter...

Playlist

Genesis - And Then There Were Three

Jack-Knife - Jack-Knife

Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion

Nina Hagen - Nina Hagen Band

Elf - Elf

Elf - Carolina County Ball

Elf - Trying to Burn the Sun

Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Rainbow - Rainbow Rising

Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules

Dio - Holy Diver

Dio - The Last In Line

Dio - Sacred Heart

Dio - Dream Evil

Dio - Lock Up The Wolves

Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer

Dio - Strange Highways

Dio - Angry Machines

Dio - Magica

Dio - Killing The Dragon

Dio - Master Of The Moon

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know

Genesis - 1978-06-24 - Knebworth, UK

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin'

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 01

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 02

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 03

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 04

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 05

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Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 09

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Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 07

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Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 11

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 12

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 13

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 15

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 16

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 17

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 18

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 19

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 20

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Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 28

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 29

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 30

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 31

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 32

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 33

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 34

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 35

Polar Bear - Held On The Tips Of Fingers

Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra

Thelonious Monk - Genius Of Modern Music: Vol. 1

Horace Silver - Song For My Father

John McLaughlin - Extrapolation

Tim Webb & Cloudland Blue Quartet - Double Bass Improvisation

Slept in again...

A beautiful sunny morning though...

Bur I would not be going out...

A horse has become visible in Anne's painting...

A coffee while she slept on...

Then, once again, catching up with my random LPs of the day...

This, from Genesis, sparked a discussion on the Twitter...

It's the last LP by the group I can play all the way through without skipping a crap track...

It always reminds me of seeing them at Knebworth on 24 June 1978...

On consulting the diaries, it turns out I bought this on 5 May 1978, on which day I had a ticket to see UK at the Edinburgh Odeon but gave it up to sister Pam to go to chum Rory's leaving party instead (he was off to a kibbutz in Israel)...

The party was good but, as I got older, I came to regret that stupid youthful decision...

Sister Pam taped the gig though - complete with occasional chat between her and chum Janice Murray and the creaking of their seats...

And the next LP has a UK connection in that it's a kind of solo LP by John Wetton...

Recorded in February 1978 while in UK...

It's OK rather than UK...

Not one of his best...

And up to date with today's selection - Alice Cooper's "Flush the Fashion" received as birthday present in 1980 - here pictured with Anne's copy...

He was attempting to change his image...

Mostly short , fast tracks - the LP runds for a mere 32 minutes...

It contains a couple of faves like "Pain" and "Grim Facts" but, in hindsight, was the start of a spiral into a deep personal hell for Mr Cooper...

All of that before breakfast!

Later Twitterchum Andy Long as having a tooth out, which reminded me of my gruesome box of tooth-based remainders...

I got a head of myself by choosing tomorrows's record and playing it a day early...

Nina Hagen's debut...

 Her initial backing band, with whom she made this & "Unbehagen" in '79, went on to be Spliff... 

Bought in Kaufhof Munich 13/7/79 for DM15.80 (£15.88 today). Even though it's a bit off the wall, probably her most "normal" record....

Then, enthused by Anne's pics being framed up and hung, I fetched my 1993 works from the attic...

This is a reasonable spot for them and, given their abstract nature, they look fine on their sides...

(Sacrilege I hear you say)...

This trio is now 10 years old...

...as noted on this mug...

I am a slow painter...

As predicted, today I moved on from prog...

Prompted by a Tweet, I made a swift compilation of all 20 studio LPs recorded by Ronnie James Dio during his career - - Elf, Rainbow, Dio, Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell - the longest track from each - a kind of 2CD set - very good indeed...

Then, I played the shortest track from around the first 30 or so Wire Tapper CDs...

Then, stumbling across a list of 100 jazz albums that shook the world, I found I have 51...

And, of course, a playlist was created...

That was it..

Night all...

Highlight of the Day : Getting my paintings out of the attic...