Monk at Newport.
Pee Wee Russell does his thing on the clarinet.
Starts at about 4:35 and goes on for about 4 minutes.
By the way, even if it is great from vinyl on the stereo, on the computer with shitty speakers it doesn't really do that much. The nerve of the music is lost. oh well.
I seem to do a lot of listening on the bus these days. Purely self-defence, really, shutting out the inane mutterings and assorted grunts, farts and occasional screams of my fellow passengers.
This morning it was Unhalfbricking, and it occurred to me that apart from the obvious charms of Sandy Denny, a large part of the charm and success of this album is down to the brilliance of poor Martin Lamble. Have a listen to this, especially the gorgeous cymbals on the wind-down from 10:00 onwards. Delicacy and genius...
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The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in their flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert air into tree.
S'been a while since I've heard one of them moments of musical brilliance but here's a cracker.
Right, starts off as nice gently chugging Blues, everythings got it place, nothing to see here...lyrically everythings going awry for poor ol' Boz but listen to what happens in the bass guitar part @ 1.02ish under the hook line. That phrase, its been used before but here it's so simple but soooo effective.
'3rds in the bass'.
Total awethumnessessness (IMO). I don't know which bassist it is, 2 are listed in the album credits, Freddie Washington and Hutch Hutcherson.
Ooo....Oooooo......Oooooo. Listen to this, 0.00 - 0.36, phwoooaaarrrr, the way all them 'component riff's' all slot together beautifully by 0.42. Thats awethumne (IMO).
Dave the bass wrote:Ooo....Oooooo......Oooooo. Listen to this, 0.00 - 0.36, phwoooaaarrrr, the way all them 'component riff's' all slot together beautifully by 0.42. Thats awethumne (IMO).
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"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
Keep in mind this is an album from 1974, listen to that guitar riff and sound that comes in at 12.09...its a good riff (IMO) but it got a strange tonality about it, I think its because the guitarist Tony Duhig used to tune his guitar to a 'C' chord (or so I've read).
But at 12.59 on the button...Oh my!
That phrasing, that shift on the basic riff..........phwwwwwwwoooooooooaaaaaaaaarrr! Hark, is that classic proto-death-metal in the making?
Patti Smith starts singing 'shadda-do-wop , shadda-do-weh' near the end of 'Birdland' from Horses.
I don't know why it's so moving, but it's some sort of instinctive poetic inspiration.
Perhaps the way it develops ( the vocal harmonies ) marks a spreading balm-like warmth at the end of a tortured story, it just seems right.
( at ~8:05 - but you need to listen to the whole track )
"Once you find out ... the Circumstances ; then you can go out"