The best Monkee passes on! R.I.P. Mr Jones
Jem's Music blog does just what it says on the tin - it's all about music. Stuff he's listening to, bands he's seen, bands you ought to see and listen to, and anything else he wants to talk about - all music related.
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Sunday 26 February 2012
Giles Robson & the Dirty Aces
One album I shall certainly be downloading when my emusic subscription refreshes for March is 'Crooked Heart of Mine' from Giles Robson & the Dirty Aces released last year. But if like me, you'd like a bit more now, the 'Blues Fury' CD on the cover of the April 2012 Classic Rock magazine includes the album version of this track. Enjoy!
Monday 6 February 2012
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
I never had any interest in the London Weekend Television political show 'Weekend World' as a teenager, but the theme tune was amazing. Took me a while, but when I finally found out that it was Mountain's 'Nantucket Sleighride', I promptly went out and brought the album. Check out the bottom right-hand sleevenote with advice about how to play it.
Sunday 5 February 2012
Ten Years After - Sssh
Been meaning to do this for a while - bit of an off-and-on mini-series on classic vinyl from my own collection. This is the inside sleeve of Ten Years After's gatefold album 'Ssssh' released on Deram in 1969. This was the first TYA album I purchased (second hand admittedly - but mint all the same). Seeing their performance of 'I'm Going Home' in the epic film version of Woodstock clinched it for me, and Alvin Lee's lightning-fast fretwork sold me on the band which would become one of the most inspiring in my formative years of music appreciation. There's a lot of good stuff here - from the opening 'Bad Scene' to the closing 'I woke up this morning'. But the penultimate track on side 2 is my Sssh favourite I think. The Stomp pre-dates 70's stadium rock by several years and yet somehow epitomises what so many bands to follow would take from the classic period of British blues rock to which this timeless album belongs.
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