Bluesnik

Enjoying this light-hearted session of late Quebec. (I just read it was his last). With a brilliant Kenny Burrell. Very bluesy, but he also plays nylon strings. More according to Bossa.

I also like the book much better. But the movie is also good.

Yes, it was a long time ago. Maybe in the late 80s or early 90s. But Connery was already an old man then. And that added to his charm. Yes, he played a novice monk.

I remember him warmly for The name of the rose, based on Eco's novel. Which also started the career of a young Christian Slater.

Yes, I remember that one too. But from Siren is the first single I ever paid attention to, when I was 11 or 12: Love is the drug. And yeah,

Ah, that is Jerry Hall? I didn't know.

Very, very, very true. I think the model on the cover also appeared on other Roxy Music albums. But I was listening to this: I really like that album, particularly New kid in town and Life on the fast lane. Not only that, but I consider it one of my fave rock albums.

This reminds me of an Eagles song: New kid in town. There's a line in the song that goes Johnny came lately, a new kid in town.

Yes, I've got more of them: the West Coast Jazz, a couple of Blue Notes, the Bethlehem. A friend of mine once asked me, seeing the spines in Japanese on one of my bookshelves: Do you speak Japanese?

And to me too.

Yes, those exchanges were great. And I think there was also a full track with nothing else than drums-congas.

I would love to have that. Would even kill for it, but it's so damn expensive.

That's also an album I like a lot.

But that's typical of playbacks. And, by the way, I like surf music very much. At the first moment I thought you meant Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers.

I had a Vespa 125 in my twenties. Later, in my thirties a 200. But then I'm European. Vespas, and scooters in general, are good for the city. And that's what I used it for. In my travels, once in Thailand I rented a 250 Honda dirt bike and rode it on road and through jungle tracks. That was very much fun. And once in Indonesia a 250 Yamaha road bike, with which I fell, driving on the beach sand, and my naked leg touching the cylinder: Ouch!

Ah, I supposed that because he looks so young.

With the great frontline of Mitchell and Junior Cook. It's a bit on the souljazzy side, but there's also the outstanding Perception, by Mitchell and Chick Corea, who's the pianist here. Is that one of his early works? I saw him with the recently departed Harold Mabern a few years ago.

This is one I also have but have never listened to it yet.

That's what the liners say in a boxset I have of the series Live in Paris, which documents two concerts at the Olympia in 1960: one with Trane from march 21 and one with Stitt from October 11. The liners say Miles plays much better with Stitt than with Trane, who casts a deep shadow over him. And that's true. The album, or 4 CD set is this one: It's from 2014 and Fremeaux.

Thanks! I'll seek this edition then. (I'm already an expert at ordering different editions) Or paperbacks too, for that matter.

Dresden was bombed with incendiary bombs during WWII. It was horrible for the city. It's good there is a book on it now. But now that I think of it, wasn't there a movie too? I'll HAVE to take a look at that one. Because that was my favorite music in my early twenties and before. I never was so much into punk. But everything that came after, yes.

Oh, I wasn't aware he had a book on this. Will have to check it out, since I like glam-rock a lot.

My mother, who's German (she was just a kid then) remembers the nightly flyovers of the bombers on their way to Berlin and the big cities. But what I'm reading now and what I wanted to post is this: Greil Marcus - Lipstick traces: A secret History of the Twentieth Century I missed this the first time around (it's from 1989) but have this 20th anniversary edition, which is from 2009, so it's more like a 30th anniversary edition. It starts with British punk and then goes all along pop culture. I remember I read in another book (Please kill me) that McLaren had been in NY managing the New York Dolls, and that is where he got the idea of the nascent American punk, which he later took to the UK when he founded the Pistols. Of course who claims that idea is a New Yorker, but I find it totally plausible since in the early 70s NY already had its share of protopunk. But it must be said it wasn't mixed with situationist and May 68 Parisian philosophy as British punk became thanks to Malcolm McLaren, a man who openly said he wanted to make a quick buck through scandal.

That's the same I think. Or maybe it's because I don't like metal. But I always found the overblown credit he got very exaggerated.