Saturday, January 15, 2022

When a drummer is on the mend, that is good...

Playlist
Public Image Limited - What The World Needs Now...
Ekin Fil - Feelings
Billy Cobham - Drum 'N' Voice: All That Groove
DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski & Scofield - Hudson
Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
Various Composers - The Renaissance Of Italian Music
Adrian Sherwood - ON-U Sound Crash / Slash&Mix-Adrian Sherwood
Herbie Hancock - Inventions & Dimensions
Public Image Limited - What The World Needs Now...
The Killers - Direct Hits
Dave Van Ronk - Folksinger
David Cross & Andrew Keeling - October is Marigold
Aurora Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Music of the Spheres
Brian - Symphony No 1 "Gothic"
Vivaldi - Cecilia Bartoli/IlGiardino Armonico : The Vivaldi Album
Eluvium - Pianoworks
Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo (Deluxe Edition)
Various Artists - The Impulse! Album
Public Image Limited - 9 (2011 - Remaster)
Various Artists - 100 Hits: The Best Rock 'n' Roll Album
France Gall - Mes Débuts
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
Nightwish - Decades (An Archive Of Song 1996-2015)
Various Artists - Chess Pieces - The Very Best Of Chess
Mongrel - Mongrel
Recondite - Taum
Aizuri Quartet - Blueprinting
Downliners Sect - The Sect
Various Artists - Milano Jukebox 2021
Don Bolo - BAHAMUT
John Coltrane - Crescent
Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano
Kit Armstrong - William Byrd & John Bull: The Visionaries of Piano Music
Keith Jarrett - Arbour Zena
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - Bye Bye Blackbird
Various Artists - Young, Gifted & Black - 20 Classic Reggae Hits
The Tubes - Tubes Have Arrived (Record Plant 1974)
King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend (Live In Washington & Albany 2021)
FLUX - Theorem
Huelgas Ensemble - Di Lasso : Lagrime Di San Petro
Palestrina - Masses and Motets
Palestrina - Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
Josquin Des Prez - Guitara Illuminata
Alan Holdsworth - Against the Clock
Brumel - Et Ecce Terrae Motus
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Weber - Wind Concertos
Hayden - Elk-Lake Serenade
Variosu Artists - Electronic 80's
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Gregory Porter - All Rise
Elliott Smith - Either/Or

Saturday and my batteries had been fully, no, "sufficiently", charged...


A picture popped up on my Twitter feed - taken by Brian Duffy and which appeared in the Sunday Times on this day in 1967 - I thought it might be a good outfit for niece Kitty - she was less enthusiastic...


Mr Duffy took the cover shots for Bowie's "Aladdin Sane", which soundtracked part of the day....


Into town this morning for a 10 am meet up with Dr Prog - Allan Holdsworth accompanying me on the bus...


On approaching Fopp, I could see that the doc was, surprisingly, on time and that someone was engaging him in conversation,..


It turned out to be his brother John, drummer of Capital Models, who has, for the past few weeks, been pretty badly under the weather with the Covid - the Delta version not the new Omicron...

He was feeling much better and hoped to be back able to drum shortly...


The three musketeers eschewed Fopp for the time being and retired to Cafe Centro for coffee and chat...

John went off for a haircut leaving the doc and Mr Quartet to return to Fopp...

Nothing enticed the latter but the former partook of a Jean-Luc Pony box (which the latter already has)...

A bus up to Tollcross and to Comb for some lunch...



...which, for me, comprised Granola with coconut yoghurt and blueberries...


Post more chat, we parted ways and I started the walk down to Shandwick Place for the bus home...

Stumbled across an interesting shop (or shop containing a pile o' shite, as the EP might opine)...



I bought this for a quid...


At the nearby cancer shop, I figured it'd be nice to have this for just £3...


...and this for £1.50...


...and I took a chance on this, which turned out to be very good, for £2...


On to the BHF shop at Tollcross and these for a further £4 outlay...

4CDs of top 80's pop...


A much respected but, until now, never heard by me, singer songwriter - also very good indeed...


And, surprisingly, I took a chance on Gregory Porter, the big guy in the stupid hat, for a quid and found it to be, ok definitely not jazz despite being on Blue Note, but pretty good soul...


And an LP by the late Elliott Smith - always worth a quid...


Finally - this - which, it turns out, I bought a very beat up copy of 201 weeks ago - which can now be replaced..
 

Perusing the book on renaissance music on the bus home, led me to be soundtracked by this favourite...


Back home, the listening and ripping commenced...



A good pile today...


For tea, a tasty Indian takeaway from Khukuri, both of us opting tonight for the kodai...


...and some telly, including new Irish thing on BBC4, "Hidden Assets", which sucked us in...

Another reasonable Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : Johnny Drummer on the mend...

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