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Rock and roll rhetoric: White Room
“In the white room with black curtains near the station. Black-roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings. Silver horses run down moonbeams in your dark eyes. Dawn-light smiles on you leaving, my contentment.” White Room (Brown, Bruce), Cream Maybe a … Continue reading
Songs for Sovereign Professionals: Maggie’s Farm
This song has been hijacked so many times, not least by the UK’s loony left, protesting against Margaret Thatcher. Wikipedia will tell you it’s a protest against protest folk songs. Take the song at face value: as a protest against wage-slavery … Continue reading
Rock and roll rhetoric: Werewolves of London
“Little old lady got mutilated late last night; Werewolves of London again.” Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon Warren Zevon was such a talented songwriter. He was musical and he was literate. He was eloquent and he was deliciously dark. He … Continue reading
Songs for Sovereign Professionals: Hello, Hooray
The sovereign professional walks a solitary path. Sometimes you need a lift, something big and empowering and energising. This has been the opening song on my daily soundtrack for the last few months. “God, I feel so strong!” Here’s Alice Cooper’s original … Continue reading
Rock and roll rhetoric: School’s Out
“Well we got no class And we got no principles And we got no innocence We can’t even think of a word that rhymes” School’s Out, Alice Cooper (Bruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith) This bears a moment’s thought, and then … Continue reading
Non-stop mellow – @GDRadio
The soundtrack for my current work and writing is the very wonderful Grateful Dead Radio (GDRadio.net). Non-stop streaming of concerts by the Grateful Dead and off-shoots; what more do you need? On my first, and so far only, trip to … Continue reading
Cornerstones, connections and musical memory
My music collection is built on the cornerstone of three albums that I bought during the last holiday I took with my parents. They were on vinyl, of course; CDs were still a few years away. I was at university … Continue reading
Greatest live albums?
Kurt at Cultural Offering offers a list of the greatest ever live albums: 1. Sinatra at the Sands, Frank Sinatra, 1966 2. One for the Road, The Kinks, 1980 3. Live at the Regal, B.B. King, 1967 4. At Folsom … Continue reading
Make (good) art – it’s what weekends are for – Nicholas Bate
Nicholas Bate exhorts us all to release the artist within and make art, in three easy steps: View lots of other art. Read lots of other art. Listen to lots of other art. Consider lots of other art. … The other … Continue reading
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Grace under pressure – Shawn Coyne
Here’s a three-times great piece from writer,editor and publisher Shawn Coyne, writing on Steven Pressfield Online. He describes Eric Clapton’s performance of Further On Up The Road in The Last Waltz. Firstly, it’s a great example of grace under pressure; … Continue reading
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