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Up today at a better but less reasonable, of course, time...
Views...
Listening to new music (South African string quartets) and writing this up...
Post breakfast, out just before 9 and, with Anne about to head to Zumba, I walked down the hill...
...to the gym...
1,000 leg presses completed...
A walk along the main street and then a bus up to the terminus and back home...
Total time out, 2 hours...
Relaxing in the living room with two new ambient things while reading "Infinite Wibble" a very good, long article on Brian Eno by Ian Penman...
Lunch and a couple of "FBI" followed Anne's return...
Around three, it was into the car for us and over to the mall at the Gyle...
A look around resulted in nothing but some bargain Bounty bars and these...
Interesting...
Then, coffee and cake in M&S, Anne having found nothing...
...post which to the vaccination centre for our Flu jabs...
Went without a hitch and no after effects to speak of...
Home just after 5...
Chose one compilation each from these 15 rows…
Over 1,000 collections in the pool to choose from…
...and then...
...played them...
Also, Nashville chum Chris Schappert alerted me to the new single from Rheostatics...
Really looking forward to the new LP next month from them - my long time fave Canadian band...
"The Inland Sea" is the first release from "The Great Lakes Suite" - with Rush's Alex Lifeson on guitar...
Here's the first video from the project...
Superb...
Then, time for tea on a Wednesday evening...
Prawn and N'duja Pasta from the Masterchef of Crispycat Towers...
...and more "FBI", then, "Portrait Artist of the Year" for Annie...
I retired upstairs...
Some time spent determining the first music artists I discovered - by looking back at what I remembered from the 60's, singles I bought between 1970 and 1972 and LPs & singles bought from 1972 onwards...
Here's a rough list in chrono order up to the autumn of 1977 - I've left out the many, many people by whom I bought records but who didn't really go on to become lifelong faves...
There are 309 artists on the list...
Discovered 1960's Radio & TV etc
I recall music by, mainly, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and, of course, The Monkees...
Discovered via Singles 1970-1972
Elvis Presley
T Rex
The Move
Slade
America
Don McLean
Nilsson
Lindisfarne
Paul McCartney & Wings
Argent
Elton John
Gary Glitter
David Bowie
Alice Cooper
Hawkwind
Electric Light Orchestra
Mott the Hoople (My first LP was "All the Young Dudes" but discovered them first via the single)
Roxy Music
Bryan Ferry
Brian Eno
Family
Strawbs
The Moody Blues
Wizzard
Discovered via LPs & Singles Autumn of 1972 - 1983
Uriah Heep
The Who
Black Widow
Focus
Faust
Deodato (his "Also Sprach Zarathustra" single was my first jazz record)
Nazareth
Lou Reed
David Essex
Simon & Garfunkel
John Lennon
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Santana
Mick Ronson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Eagles
Genesis
Deep Purple
Yes
Fripp & Eno
Sparks
Gong
Cockney Rebel
10cc
Steely Dan
Bad Company
Queen
Free
King Crimson
Grand Funk Railroad
Golden Earring
Mike Oldfield
Cream
Bob Dylan
Rick Wakeman
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jethro Tull
The Velvet Underground
Wishbone Ash
Tangerine Dream
Jon Anderson
New York Dolls
Led Zeppelin
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Springsteen
Be Bop Deluxe
Isaac Hayes
The Tubes
Kiss
Rainbow
John Cale
MC5
Barclay James Harvest
Dr Feelgood
Kinks
Gentle Giant
Supertramp
Rush
Peter Gabriel
The Doors
Frank Zappa
Ten Years After
Can
Carole King
Steve Howe
Soft Machine
Billy Cobham
Sex Pistols
Jimi Hendrix
Gordon Lightfoot
Leonard Cohen
The Clash
Kraftwerk
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
AC/DC
Chicago
Grobschnitt
Vangelis
UK
Weather Report
Patti Smith
Jean-Michel Jarre
Mighty Diamonds (my first reggae LP)
Neil Young
Ultravox!
Trevor Rabin
Talking Heads
Parliament
Klaus Schulze
Rezillos
Amon Duul II
The Damned
Public Image Limited
Skids
Simple Minds
Steve Hillage
Caravan
Buzzcocks
Suicide
Udo Lindenberg
Nina Hagen
Neu!
Edgar Froese
Gang of Four
Cluster
Roedelius
The Crusaders
M
Japan
Telex
La Dusseldorf
801
The Durutti Column
Psychedelic Furs
Young Marble Giants
Cabaret Voltaire
The Cure
Joy Division
Jon Hassell
Bill Nelson's Red Noise
Magazine
Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark
The Teardrop Explodes
The Associates
Elvis Costello
Fehlfarben
Michael Rother
Harmonia
U2
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Bow Wow Wow
Echo and the Bunnymen
Material
Adam and the Ants
A Certain Ratio
Abwarts
Ideal
Captain Beefheart
Brian Eno & David Byrne
Chic
Wire
Scars
Pere Ubu
Yello
John Foxx
Comsat Angels
The Passage
Funkadelic
Heaven 17
Iggy Pop
Geisterfahrer
Palais Schaumburg
New Order
Yellow Magic Orchestra
The Revolutionaries
Quiet Sun
Laurie Anderson
Gil Scott-Heron
Die Krupps
Soft Cell
Asia
The Buggles
The Human League
Thomas Dolby
Adrian Belew
Michael Nyman
Grauzone
Marc and the Mambas
The Church
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Mathilde Santing
Popul Vuh
Meat Loaf
Prince
Dead Kennedys
John Coltrane
Cabaret Voltaire
Falco
Francoise Hardy
Pat Metheny
This is how I waste my time (Pt 1)...
Also today, I worked out hoe many LPs I have on my Apple Music which runs everything from my myriad hard drives - so (almost) all CDs and downloads...
Here they are by genre - Rock & Pop is all encompassing...
Rock & Pop 20,184
Classical 5,026
Jazz 4,961
Funk & Soul 1,074
Reggae 449
Sub Total 31,694
Plus
Backing Tracks 103
Podcasts (Including over 10 years of Eclectic Selections, each containing 52 or more podcasts) 44
Spoken Word 12
Field Recordings 7
Jingles 5
Birdsong 1
Overall Total 31,866
This is how I waste my time. (Pt 2)..
We are off to Amsterdam next year so I looked for concerts we might attend...
Maybe we could see the live performance that's happening of this...
...which closed the day...
To bed at 12:30 am with recent Belgian faves, Hemelbestormer in the cans...
Highlight of the Day: New Rheostatics...
Today's New Music:
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