Rock - what are you listening to?

[jadarin]

[quote="cybot"]On the tt. Playing this a lot since I received it this morning....It's improvised solo electric guitar using minimal fx and a Telecaster. Not what I expected.....



Sounds interesting Dermot..Must have a look out for this!!
How are those Dustin Wong albums sounding??

[cybot]

On the tt. Playing this a lot since I received it this morning....It's improvised solo electric guitar using minimal fx and a Telecaster. Not what I expected.....



Sounds interesting Dermot..Must have a look out for this!!
How are those Dustin Wong albums sounding??

Would you believe I'm actually listening to his first Lp at the moment! I hate both of them with a vengeance! Very light sounding and relies far to much on looping/layering which tends to leave the music sounding very samey (and totally boring especially over 4 sides!) No such thing as space with this guy unlike the fantastic Dean Mc Phee. Still I'm trying to get the connection but I'm left with the feeling that Dustin gets it Wong every time ;) Definitely not one of my better purchases :((

Edit: Listening to the other Wong Lp (his new one and another 4 sides!) and there's a lot more variety and superior sound too! So far it's not half bad but if I was to describe his music to anyone I would only need one word: annoying :)

[mcq]

When I think of the final years of Judee Sill's life, nothing comes to my mind more vividly than one of Dylan's latterday masterpieces, Not Dark Yet, and in particular, the following lines:

Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
I've been down on the bottom of the world full of lies
I ain't lookin' for nothin' in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear the murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there.

In Barney Hoskyns' excellent article on Sill's life, The Lost Child, he comments that "it's strange how few people appear to have any recall of Judee Sill" and he wonders whether "there was any lingering guilt over her fate - a conspiracy of silence around the fact that she had more talent than many of the Asylum artists that did make it". As Tom Waits (who was also on the Asylum roster in the Seventies) remarked to Hoskyns, "The trouble with history is that the people who really know what happened aren't talking and the people who don't ... well, you can't shut them up".

Beyond the sad realities of her life, the music is imperishable and will endure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gThm6vHwCQ

Wow! I had to stop myself a few times reading the above as I thought I was reading something penned by Ian McDonald! Who could forget his last piece on Nick Drake? Honestly Paul, I don't know how you do it! That is writing of the rarest breed. Let me know when your next book is coming out! Unfortunately my Judy Sill albums, all two of them, are well hidden upstairs! Blast this leg ;)

Thank you, Dermot. As ever, I appreciate the kind words.

Judee had a sad life and a hard life. All of our lives are unscripted and there comes a time when we are put in impossible spots and we have to make some decision. We may seek advice from family and friends, but, ultimately, that decision has a 50/50 chance of being wrong. If it does turn out to be the wrong decision, we can only hope and pray that there's a safety net waiting and that we have a soft landing. But, for some people, when they fall, there is no safety net waiting for them, and they fall hard on the cold, unyielding ground. That, I think, is what happened to Judee. There is a tendency, I think, for people to fetishize the broken moments of sensitive souls like these, but let us not forget that, whilst for us they may exist as music to be enjoyed at will, once upon a time these were people that were born into their bodies, lived their lives as they saw fit and endured as much as they could mentally withstand. For that reason, they deserve close listening and our undying respect.

[jadarin]

[jadarin]

[DaveF]

Fantastic double LP from Music On Vinyl

[Fran]

[cybot]

Ah! I remember the very first moment I heard this. I was frantically flying around the basement in Freebird looking for something when on came River Man....

[cybot]

Wow! On double vinyl. As I listen I can imagine Pompei just before the eruption....The most atmospheric bass/electric guitars I've heard in an age...The cover calls to mind Trespass (Genesis)



Tom Carter w/Bardo Pond - Live in studio jam from 2003 plus bonus live cd and mp3 dl

[cybot]