Saturday, February 04, 2017

Two threes and new music makes for a happy day...

Playlist
King Crimson - The Road to Red Improvs
Françoise Hardy - Alone
Françoise Hardy - Françoise
Trees - On The Shore
Jean-Michel Jarre - Chronologie
Miles Davis - Star People
Parliament - Live: P-Funk Earth Tour
Various - A Decade Of Pop - The 70s
John Greaves - Tambien 1-7
Iain Ballamy - Anorak More Jazz
The John Dummer Band - Blue
Led Bib - Sensible Shoes
Jimmy Guiffre - Trav'lin' Light
Jane Siberry - The Life is the Red Wagon
Human - Being Human

February 4 - Happy Birthday to the Coop...


Role Model since 1972...


A good day...

Out early and a lift down the hill from the EP, she on the way to the dentist, me walking to Helen the podiatrist's...



Murrayfield (where, later today Scotland would beat Ireland) and, in the distance, the castle....




Post treatment and chat, a bus across town to meet up with the EP...

Breakfast at, new to us, Tiramisu in Easter Rd..


I very much liked the back room...



...as did the EP...



Anne wanted the cappuccino with more chocolate...


Tasty omelette for your correspondent and Anne had something she likes...


In fact, the coffee was so good, I had to have a second...

Anne headed to Jane and Bobby's to watch Hearts beat Motherwell 3-0 away from home...

I walked along Montgomery St...


...and past our first home...



...before meeting up with Dr Prog at the record fair...


...where I saw many LPs I used to own - going for stupid prices...



This Charly re-issue was £15...


This Virgin re-issue £25...


The music is exactly the same...

£7 not bad for this classic but,a s with all of these, they sound so much better on CD...


£25 for this?


...or this?


Nuts...

To be fair, leafing through the albums, there was a strange attraction - surely though just a hankering for days gone by, weirdly conceived as better times - times when it was impossible to carry around tens of thousands of LPs in your pocket...

Suffice to say I acquired a goodly number of CDs (see below) for less than the price of just two of these LPs...

The bespectacled music loving tubes made their way down Leith Walk...


Dr Prog liked his new hat and bag...


Lunch and a chat ensued...

...including two more coffees for Mr CBQ...


...and a look at our ill-gotten gains...


Good times...

A 26 all the way home, as the Hearts game drew to a close...

Rugby tubes were heading for Murrayfield and holding up the traffic...


Back home, a goodly amount of time spent ripping and listening...

A sunny afternoon spent at home...


Anne walked back home (having driven home as I met with Dr Prog and then having walked to Jane and Bobby's)...

"Watching" the Queens game on Twitter - they beat Morton 3-0, consolidating 5th place and looking to get into the play-offs yet again...

This was their first home win in the league since September...

The dreadful run started when we were in London in October, when Morton thrashed them 5-0 - so revenge today was sweet...

After thsi morning's haul, these have entered the collection this week...


Oh dear...

But I refer to my collection as my library because, unlike any unlimited music streaming service, I've curated the collection myself over a period of 47 years and counting...

My first purchase was the 7" of Elvis Presley's "The Wonder of You" in 1970...


In the evening, a Chinese takeaway, the last "Father Brown" and catching up with "No Offence", having done so last night with "Unforgotten"...

Then, more listening, trying to go through the purchases methodically...

Let's see how long that lasts...

To bed with new music in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : New music and footballing victories...

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 05


This week's eclectic selection has a little bit of everything...

Featured LPs


Addison Project - Mood Swings
Joan Armatrading - Same
James Blake - The Bells Sketch
Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear
Gurdjieff - Chants, Hymns & Dances
Françoise Hardy - Canta Per Voi In Italiano
Helbig - Pocket Symphonies
Heldon - Electronique Guerilla
James - Pleased To Meet You
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
King Crimson - The Road To Red
Jacques Loussier Trio - Handel
Brad Mehldau Trio - The Art Of The Trio 3
David Reilly - Rubinmusik 1977-2017
Meloni/Orru/Oxley - Improvised Pieces for Trio
Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream
Various - Ambient 3
Various - Golden Age Of Elektra
Various - Funk
Various - Island Presents: 38 Hard & Heavy Dub Cuts 76-90
Various - Pulp Fusion
Various - Strange Soul
Various - That Cat Was Clean!
Various - Trojan Dub Box Set
Various Composers - Diverse Light Volume 2
Various Composers - 100 Best 20th Century

Enjoy? Pop by again!

Cloudland Blue Wetton Selection (A Tribute to John Wetton)


Mr CBQ's personal tribute to John Wetton, musician and songwriter who passed away on 31 January 2017. A trip through his prolific and illustrious career...

Featured LPs:-


Mogul Thrash - Mogul Thrash (1971)
Family - Bandstand (1972)
Pete Sinfield - Still (1973)
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (1973)
Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place (1974)
King Crimson - Red (1974)
Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (1975)
Uriah Heep - High And Mighty (1976)
UK - UK (1978)
Jack-Knife - Jack-Knife (1979)
Wishbone Ash - Number the Brave (1981)
Asia - Asia (1982)
Wetton/Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera (1987)
John Wetton - Battle Lines (1994)
Steve Hackett - Watcher Of The Skies: Genesis Revisited (1996)
David Cross - Exiles (1997)
Ian McDonald - Drivers Eyes (1999)
Wetton/Downes - Icon II - Rubicon (2006)
Asia - Phoenix (2008)

I hope there might be some unfamiliar pieces here, along with many musical friends and classics...

COVER : WETTON/DOWNES ICON, GLASGOW 10/03/2006

Friday, February 03, 2017

Hopefully fitting...

Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Wetton Selection
Françoise Hardy - Canta Per Voi In Italiano
Françoise Hardy - In Vogue
King Crimson - The Road to Red Improvs
Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 5

The Wetton podcast is up...


...and I think it's not too bad...

Hopefully, a fitting tribute...

At lunchtime, a chance visit to the BHF shop resulted in these for four quid...




Tasty...

Of course, these days, I often have to use a magnifying glass to read the credits...


Not to worry...

No time to listen early evening as I recorded this week's Eclectic Selection for tomorrow...

So Trees accompanied me to bed...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : New music and podcasting...

Thursday, February 02, 2017

Return of the drumming Johnny....

Playlist
Wetton/Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera
John Wetton - Battle Lines
Steve Hackett - Watcher Of The Skies: Genesis Revisited
John Wetton & Geoff Downes - Icon II - Rubicon
Mogul Thrash - Mogul Thrash
Family - Bandstand
Pete Sinfield - Still
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place
King Crimson - Red
Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
Uriah Heep - High And Mighty
UK - UK
Jack-Knife - Jack-Knife
Wishbone Ash - Number the Brave
Asia - Asia
Françoise Hardy - Canta Per Voi In Italiano

After last night, I'd been thinking a drummer would assist us...

Out of the blue after several months of silence, a txt from Johnny Weizen, brother of Dr Prog, signalled his readiness to join the party...

Which was good...

In the evening, finalising and recording the Wetton podcast - and the links for this week's Eclectic Selection, for which the tracks were chosen a while back...

A couple of replacements re this week's string quartet and Hardy acquisitions...


...the Hardy having been picked up at lunchtime at Fopp - it includes a 10 track Italian LP which I did not have already...


Anne enjoyed a night out with chum Gillian, allowing me to talk pish into the recorder...

So it goes...

Lights out...

Highlight of the day : Podcasting and drumming progress...

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Collating, covering, winning...

Playlist
Mogul Thrash - Mogul Thrash
Family - Bandstand
Pete Sinfield - Still
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place
King Crimson - Red
Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
Uriah Heep - High And Mighty
UK - UK
Wishbone Ash - Number the Brave
Asia - Asia
Wetton/Manzanera - Wetton/Manzanera
John Wetton - Battle Lines
Steve Hackett - Watcher Of The Skies: Genesis Revisited
David Cross - Exiles
Ian McDonald - Drivers Eyes
John Wetton - Icon II - Rubicon

Work commenced this morning on a tribute to Mr Wetton - collating tracks from across his career...

I decided early on not to include any live tracks or tracks from compilations and that only one tracks per "act", including his solo output, could be included...

Home in the dark...


No podcast recording tonight though as chum Keith was round for some musicking (while the EP enjoyed Hearts' thrashing of Scotland's newest club 4-1 at Tynecastle)...

We worked on a few songs, 2/3rds covers, a third mine...

Half way through, we moved to the "wee" room and played along with voice and acoustic recordings I made two years ago - that seemed to inspire us...


Keith left clutching a CD of the 20 covers we've decided we might play...

On Anne's return, a wee friend trotted in behind her...


Tiger the Cat...






Meanwhile the podcast took shape...


Lights out...

Hihglight of the Day : Musicking/JTs winning...