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paradise city - GnR

the wind cries mary - hendrix

Its all in the song writing and live performance. If I had to pick my favourite musician of all time it would most likely be Tom Waits. The best description I have heard of him was he has a voice like a worn out shoe. As for behaviour most of the bands that I really relate to tend to be comprised of flawed and dis-functional individuals that find some from of release or expression through music. I certainly don’t look to them for moral guidance or social etiquette!

I doubt if there are many bands I really like that I would want to share a house with or date my daughter. Coldplay seem like a nice bunch of lads though but I wouldn’t want to listen to their music.

Maybe I am missing something but I would have thought the flaws, complexities and life experience of the individuals in a band (particularly the songwriters) shape the art they produce so I really can’t agree that any of the above bands would have been better with a different singer. I also don’t get when society started to take the opinions of people that kick bladders up and down a football pitch or sing for a living seriously let alone comment about it on the news. Really strange world where rock stars are meant to be PR experts and brand ambassadors.

loose change - royal blood

Anarchy in the UK - Pistols

nothing compares 2U - (Sinead O’Connor) Prince

Waterloo sunset / the kinks

terror in the canyons - phosphorescence

I thought saying and doing stupid and crash things was part of the appeal of becoming a rock star. I guess I grew up in a different era!

Fair enough. I always thought of Turner and Constable as Romanticists who largely painted landscapes based upon what they could see albeit in an idealised manner. Dali painted surreal images, often ugly but containing beauty and challenged the viewer. But then I don’t know much about art,

You sound like someone who really likes Turner and Constable describing a Dali painting.

running up that hill - kate bush

we are all made of stars - moby

walk the dinosaur- was(not was)

Some could argue that old dudes in Mali many generations ago sowed the seeds of rock music. It gestated in the USA under the guise of the blues, was combined with some European folk and C&W and was later re-invented in the UK in the mid to late 1960s before morphing further into different branches. It’s all just progression.

alright now - free

she’s not there - the zombies

Its been mentioned already but Gallops slot in The Cure. One of a small number of bands with a multi decade career, have played some huge gigs and festivals, have never been pawns of record labels or fickle fans and in their 60’s are still doing what they love doing.

It has just grown into a far larger, far more organised event that appeals to a very large demographic. So far I have watched Idles, Khruangbin, Roisin Murphy, Bonobo, St.Vincent,Big Thief, Billie Eillish and a bit of Leon Bridges.. something for everyone there. Its never going to be the same as the old days. I can remember wandering down to the local HMV about a week after the tickets were released, no one queuing and paid in cash. It’s just a very different festival. Still great that people are enjoying it and being exposed to music they may never otherwise listen to.

dust my broom - elmore james

Yep. I had a Stingray body made for me a while back and wanted it to be light. Basswood was out as I wanted a grain. I found a youtube video of someone trying to use the slurry method on Paulownia and he was having a total ‘mare. It is a very porous wood. I went for Ash in the end.

there’s a ghost in my house - the fall