Bluesnik

Yeah, I guess it must be that, because the operating start from PRS is 1985. And The Blow Monkeys are my favorite 80s band, despite of what I said. That's in hindsight but I remember how The Blow Monkeys (I heard some REAL blow monkeys in jungles later) blew me away in 1985 or so. With their first, Limping for a generation. After that they were not as good anymore.

To me the two bands that best define the 80s for me are The Smiths and Talking Heads. From Talking Heads I prefer their four first over the later, when they were already mainstream. But the best for me is Remain in Light, from 1980, the fourth. It's produced between David Byrne and Brian Eno, and presents a very interesting African influence and polyrythms. Another album I like very, very much from the same time period (80/81) is My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which the pair also did together. Look up the list of samples it contains. It is overwhelming. From African Bushmen, to chants from Ethopia, to lebanese mountain singers...

“Reynolds masterfully captures the excitement of this period, when every week seemed to bring a new musical advancement”--The Tampa Tribune That's something I remember very clearly from the period. All the times there was a new thing or current. But seriously. Every year was quite different to the one that preceded it. Maybe that's why I like so much David Bowie and his Ch, Ch, Changes.

That must have been an early PRS, because the headstock is bit akward and because it still doesn't carry the bird inlays. I really like and discovered U2 with the following album, October. It's their second, produced by Steve Lillywhite and it's my favorite U2. This one's also great as it was their first and from the beginning. They did a later album with the same boy on the cover. Some years later and a bit bigger. I also like very much Echo and the Bunnymen.

Thanks for mentioning this again. I remember there was some additional info about the book. But I didn't know if I'd read it or not. Now I know I didn't. It was new to me.

Oh, I didn't know there was such a thing. The album that made me fall in love with them is their first, Blondie I think, when I was 15 or so. It sounds very 60ish, very girl group.

Yes it's a great book, and I was after the UK edition as opposed to the US, because of what you said some time ago. But I ordered it from my local bookshop and didn't know what I got. Specially since the cover was different. But now I know it's a reprint of the UK edition and can be calm. But it was logical they were ordering from the UK. I'm in Europe after all.

I have checked today and the book is a 2019 reprint of the English edition from 2005. One year later, in 2006, there was the American. On Penguin. The British is and was on Faber & Faber.

Just finished this: It is a very fine book and it's true it connects back to The spy who came in from the cold, which I luckily had read beforehand. Now on to this one: Which I like a lot. First because that music interests me very much. And second because I lived through all that when I was about 20. And it's true what Reynolds says about punk being destructive and post-punk (which the book deals in) constructive. I already said once here that I was never so much into punk, but all that came afterwards yes. Because for me post-punk was as exhilarating as 60s music. And here I agree with the author. A book I'll enjoy very much. But I don't know if I have the US or British version. I have that exact version. I know the initial British edition had a different cover, but I don't know if this is a reprint or what. A good review of when the book was published in 2005.

Or the book, which was before the movie, you might say.

Ah, I see. Because the model is HH, AFAIK. But with the piezo it should be really nice. I've also heard that Laurel is very near to Rosewood. But I like to have Rosewood. By the way, I made an error about the Murphy Lab guitars. They start at over 6000 or 7000 and go as far up as beyond 10.000.

I'm also very much against reliced or aged guitars. I hate when they are made old looking from their original state. They will come to look like that over time. But I'm not buying like this new. Something that has been damaged purposely. But this process costs much more than a pristine new guitar. Look at Gibson's Murphy Lab for an example. They all cost from 10.000$ upwards. I've been eyeing one of those too. But maybe mine was the FMT HH. Plus points for me: it's made of mahogany with a nice carved maple top and a set neck, which is also mahogany. And its Duncans, one 59 and one Pearly Gates. I didn't know they carry P90s. Wekanesses: its Indian Laurel fingerboard (no Rosewood), no case (it's Indonesian made and relatively cheap), Urethane finish, no Nitro (like in all Fenders for that matter).

AND film music.

That one I wanted to post a long time ago (I love the cover), after I had stumbled upon it diggin up Cal Tjader's Soul Burst, but I still have them lying around without having played them.

I found it on Spotify, where it's available. Will have to do some explorations there.

Just yesterday added her Fly or die and she was definitely someone to watch for, for me. When I saw this I thought it can't be the same person. She was young. Then I decided let's see. So what Ghost said.

Yes, very overlooked and I am the first to regret that.

That's going to be tonight's listening.

Oh, I discovered them while in Thailand. With the great Magnum cum Louder. You could buy cheap cassettes off the roadside in Bangkok. Ah, that was in 1989.

In the last times I've seen this too. But it's August 2022. But maybe it's been like this all this time.

I have just finished today this And it's as superb as everybody says it is. I'm a big Winslow follower, mind you. And if it's the beginning of a new trilogy. It's the Irish mob against the Italian one in New England. So an end with Mexico and back to the USA.

I've just added it to a songwriters playlist.

He also recorded with Tal Farlow as his backing guitarist. There was no piano as I remember. Parts of it are on the Mosaic.

Logical, they were the inventors and main supporters of Betamax.

Have that and there's no way I'm getting it again.