What are you listening to at the moment?...

[Robusto]

Refreshing to see lots of us appreciate a similar mad.

[Robusto]

Just been watching one of my favourite Keith Jarrett clips on YouTube.

[nicwing]

I have a 3:23 track where the Sailor's Hornpipe is playing and VS is talking very drunkenly over the top....struggling to say anthropology?!? Is it that one!?!?! Buggered if I know......

Sailors Hornpipe
Traditional, Arr. Mike Oldfield
Vocals: Viv stanshall The Hallway. From The Outside An Ordinary House. A Great House, True. 483 Rooms, Each One With Its Own Marble Wash Bassin And Douche. Bide As It's Known. But Inside ... And The Positions Are Reversed. A Human Failing, Some Say A Disease, But A Disease That Sir Francis Dashwood Knew And Used Well. Upstairs, Inside And A Revelation, It's A Discotheque. No, No, Err ... There Are Paintings ... Real ... And Look Here! A Rare 17th Century Masterpiece. And If I Can Scrape A Little Of It Of, Beneath I Can Find Hidden ... A 14th Century Underpiece. Made Entirely Of Tiny Pieces Of Eggshell. This Lurid Work Has Caused Controvesary In The World Of Embroidery And Anthropology. No, I'll Say It Again; Anthropolopology. No Quite Possibly Making Anthropole. No, I Mean An Epilog ... It Has Enthralled Distinguished Professors And In Laymans Language, It's Blinking Well Buffling, But To Be More Obtusely; Buggered If I Know. Yes, Buggered IF I Know. And That's All We've Been So Far. From Experts In 14th Century Painting Renaissance Greengrocers, And Recently Revived Members Of The Public. Buggered If I Know. Vivian Stanshall, About 3 O'clock In The Morning, Oxfordshire 1973. Goodnight!

Stevieboy, sir you are a true wonder, It's just arrived (21.45) god knows what BT have been doing with it since you sent it.

I had forgotten just how wonderous it is, thank-you so much, I wish I could be that funny at 3.00 in the morning when I was as pished as he obviously was, a great great man and very sadly missed.

I used to see him shambling around Muswell Hill and it's one of my greatest regrets that I didn't stop and talk to him.

" He wrote a pictorial history of gargling...a very great work"

Thanks my man, I owe you!

[Stevieboy]

Nic - glad I could help mate...pleasure was all mine. It's a great track isn't it. I've not played it for YEARS but it always raises a smile

[Mr Moore]

Syd Barrett
Long gone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQtXUtnPqmg

[Mr Moore]

J L Hooker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrVwGxlcFA

This is for the peeps who think the game started with cats like Elvis, Hendrix, Clapton, Richards, Page, Jones etc etc.

The Game began over a hundred years ago in and around the old slave plantations.

This next passage is a real eye opener from 1903, the seeds were sown.

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Sloan was the mysterious hobo observed by musician W.C. Handy playing guitar at Tutwiler train station in 1903. Handy wrote in his autobiography of being awakened by "... a lean, loose-jointed Negro [who] had commenced plucking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar. ... The effect was unforgettable... The singer repeated the line ("Goin' where the Southern cross the Dog") three times, accompanying himself on the guitar with the weirdest music I had ever heard."
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This is where Rock n Roll, Heavy Metal and Brit rock etc, came from ! True !

When Clapton first heard Robert Johnson playing he thought it was two Guitarists.

I love Delta Blues.

I know most of you guys on here know this, but in case anyone does not, go out and get some old Delta, its where it all began.

[nicwing]

Wonderful Mr M. I bought the Seasick Steve new album this week (I started out with nuthin and I've still got most of it left) but he's gone all cultured and overdone, I will go back to his earlier stuff which was as stripped down as ole John Lee.

I am going to search out my old Arthur Alexander vinyl this weekend.

[nicwing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAw-3ERSIIY

[Boss Hog]

J L Hooker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrVwGxlcFA

This is for the peeps who think the game started with cats like Elvis, Hendrix, Clapton, Richards, Page, Jones etc etc.

The Game began over a hundred years ago in and around the old slave plantations.

This next passage is a real eye opener from 1903, the seeds were sown.

Quote;

Sloan was the mysterious hobo observed by musician W.C. Handy playing guitar at Tutwiler train station in 1903. Handy wrote in his autobiography of being awakened by "... a lean, loose-jointed Negro [who] had commenced plucking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar. ... The effect was unforgettable... The singer repeated the line ("Goin' where the Southern cross the Dog") three times, accompanying himself on the guitar with the weirdest music I had ever heard."
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This is where Rock n Roll, Heavy Metal and Brit rock etc, came from ! True !

When Clapton first heard Robert Johnson playing he thought it was two Guitarists.

I love Delta Blues.

I know most of you guys on here know this, but in case anyone does not, go out and get some old Delta, its where it all began.

Talking my language there Mick, I have a extensive collection of Delta, chicago, texas, west coast, east coast, memphis, louisiana and swamp blues. If anyone want anything in particular

Here's one of my favourites. a 1939 track by Bukka White called "Special Streamline" His rhythm and technique with the slide are outstanding in recreating ambience and tempo of a hobo train.

[Mr Moore]

Bukka White, good choice Mark.
Nic, I sometimes wonder if sea sick steve is a gimmick, I hope not.
I suppose it doesnt matter anyway, if the sound is good the sound is good, but I always liked the fact he is a real hobo, but sometimes Im not sure he really is, I dont know.
Have you heard him Mark.

[nicwing]

Bukka White, good choice Mark.
Nic, I sometimes wonder if sea sick steve is a gimmick, I hope not.
I suppose it doesnt matter anyway, if the sound is good the sound is good, but I always liked the fact he is a real hobo, but sometimes Im not sure he really is, I dont know.
Have you heard him Mark.

Hey Mr M, I saw him up close in the accoustic tent at Glastonbury last year and he was just fantastic, if I am any judge he is really real and he sounded just right up my street.

Saw a wonderful girl in the same tent one afternoon called Tift Merrit, she was just great and worked real hard to a small and fairly unapreciative (and somewhat hung over) crowd. She is real purdy and sounds great, her Another Country album is a little gem.

Then we went of to see My Morning Jacket, but thats a whole other story!!

[Mr Moore]

You know who I saw at reading festival not long before he killed himself and I'm so glad I did now because he was a legend.
Elliot Smith.
Such a shame, he was still a young buck really and a massive talent.
Why do they do it man.

[Davros]

Nothing like a bit of Roddy Frame to chill out with a good smoke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3VtM7wKFM/

[daverave999]

Currently listening to Sven V?th's Mayday 2001 mix. Furious is not the word!

[flamingsombrero]

You know who I saw at reading festival not long before he killed himself and I'm so glad I did now because he was a legend.
Elliot Smith.
Such a shame, he was still a young buck really and a massive talent.
Why do they do it man.

Was listening to him properly for the first time earlier today, really good stuff. "Southern Belle" is such a great song.

As for right now; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOn7eFnUs0