Musical snap shot.. (nb)

Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Myths and Legends of King Arthur... Superbe.

Saw a "live on ice" performance years ago on TV, wonder if it's available on DVD. Probably be crap if I saw it now though.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.
 
Heard a wonderful interview with Rick Wakeman (who is a funny, funny guy), explaining how the Ice Shows came about. Apparently, they'd booked Wembley, only to be told that there was an ice show on following the dates they'd booked (probably "Holiday on Ice" or some such festive cr@p") and that the arena would have to be frozen over in advance.

You or I might be disheartened by this. "Right," said Wakeman, "King Arthur on ice it is"!

It sounded like chaos, with Knights losing their skates and various other jolly japes. He also confirmed my suspicions that his ever expanding bank of keyboards didn't really need to be as large as it became, but that there was some serious competition going on, with the likes of Keith Emerson and Tony Banks, as to who had the biggest one (fnaar, fnaar).

Eeh bah gum; the Seventies may have been cr@p, but they were funny cr@p!

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Very impressed with that list - matches mine almost to the album (not a fan of Seal)

Do I assume you will also like Pete Yorn and Tom Baxter? Also the Reindeer Section?

Nice to see good music being mentioned after squirming at the post re Celine Dion!!

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Wakeman is a superb entertainer in his own right...We have seen him several times both with Yes, with his own band the English Rock Ensemble (now the New English Rock Ensemble) and doing his one man show. He is without doubt at his best on his own when he can play some music and then sit and have a chat with his audience telling jokes that would make Bernard Manning blush!

Well worth seeing when he next tours!

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If you are really sad like my crew and I you make your own music......

O blow the man down bullies, blow the man down
Way hay blow the man down
Oh blow the man down from Liverpool Town
Oh give us some time to blow the man down

Come listen to me and I'll sing you a song
Chorus Whey hey, blow the man down
Of the thing that befell me new home from Hong Kong
Chorus Give us some time to blow the man down

As I was strolling down Paradise Street
Chorus
A pretty young maiden I chanced to meet
Chorus

This pretty young maiden she said unto me.........

That's enough Kim might not like it!

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With the number of speed cameras about these days, I would have thought stuff like Made in Japan was just inviting trouble. Can you honestly keep below the limit with Highway Star blasting out the speakers?

Got it blasting in the background right now - courtesy of Kazaa. My typing spped has just doubled....................................

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In my "roadie/engineer" days I humped all the gear on and off stage for Journey at Crystal Palace Bowl. And Leo Sayer and Procol Harum - what memories. It took the BBC engineer all night to decouple what would have been Grandstand on the Beeb aerial, from his keyboards.

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Duke Ellington
Count Basie
MJQ
Sarah Vaughan
Frank Sinatra
Nat King Cole

Last two for SWIMBO

It shows our age!

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And at the time rehearsals for Journey were going on, he was approached by I think, the LPO.

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Yeah, I'm a big Wakeman fan too. Only managed to see Yes once, but it was a great gig nonetheless.

Sometimes I think I was born a decade too late for my music tastes ;)

Rick

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Thanks Tom

Ashamed to say that I am not familiar with any of the three, but I gather it might well be worth my having a listen.

Although I'm not a great Seal fan myself there are a couple of very strong songs on the album.

<hr width=100% size=1>Think I'll draw some little rabbits on my head, from a distance they might be mistaken for hairs.
 
Reindeer Section is more melodic stuff - band is run by the guy from Snow Patrol but he uses other people from the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian and other Glasgow based bands - album Son of Evil Reindeer worth a listen

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Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Powerglide
Jan Garbarek - Officium
Bets of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Eric Clapton and BB King - Riding with the King
Neil Young - Harvest Moon.

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maroon 5 or is it 4
pink floyd
beach boys latest
red hot chillies live
still - supernatural
Moby and Morcheeba


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James Taylor - October Rd
Mark Knopfler - Shangri La
The Beatles - Let It Be
Sting

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John Lennon - Legend
The Band - The Band
Love - Forever Changes
Genesis - Nursery Crime
The Doors - Best of
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Ageing hippy? - Moi?

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Worryingly, I have exactly the same selection as you, except Maroon 5 instead of Seal...

<hr width=100% size=1>"I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me" - A A Milne.
 
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