. . . so I will sign off the day with some Bert . . . lovely this
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
Beth Orton: Double Album Profile 1996 + 1999 | URBANASPIRINES
Beth Orton: Trailer Park 1996 + Central Reservation 1999
Again Kostas over at Urbanaspirines in Greece turns up the goods in his profile of Beth Orton who we like . . .a lot!
London-based singer songwriter Beth Orton, having learned the trade from William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers, spiced her pensive folk ballads with electronic sounds on Superpinkymandy (EMI, 1993), recorded under the supervision of her mentor William Orbit and at times evoking Lida Husik's ethereal early work. As a cross between Joni Mitchell and Bjork, Orton penned several gems on Trailer Park (Dedicated, 1997): She Cries Your Name, Touch Me With Your Love and Someone's Daughter. The ten-minute Galaxy Of Emptiness attempts an ambitious fusion of folk and trip-hop.
David Byrne Dec Newsletter - The Winter Solstice
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The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the turning point when days begin, little by little, to become longer.
Christmas and other holidays at this time of year appropriated an earlier celebration of the winter solstice. In our present calendar, it happens on December 21st, but in the old Roman calendar, it was on the 25th – our present Christmas Day. Commemorated in Stonehenge, Chaco Canyon New Mexico, Egypt, Rome, and numerous other sites around the globe, it was seen as the rebirth of the sun. Germanic people called it Yule. To us, it might seem that after December 21st, the winter is just beginning; colder days will be coming… But, to those ancients who watched the skies, it’s an obvious turning point – when warmth, sunlight, and plants commence their gradual return.
From the William Davidson Talmud: When the First Man saw that the day was continuously shortening, he said, "Woe is me! Because I have sinned, the world darkens around me and returns to formlessness and void. This is the death to which Heaven has sentenced me!" He decided to spend eight days in fasting and prayer. When he saw the winter solstice, and he saw that the day was continuously lengthening, he said, "It is the order of the world!"
Saint Nicholas brought gifts as well as punishments – a time of year that brings mixed blessings.
This playlist is not about the solstice, nor does it have some Pagan agenda - it’s rowdy, fun songs that gently poke at and refer to the holidays. Enjoy! -David Byrne
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The Gary Moore guitar Collection - The Final Encore | a Diamond Dave post
The Gary Moore Collection
£51,200
£48,640
The Final Encore
20 NOVEMBER 2025 | STARTING AT 14:00 GMT
Born in Belfast in 1952, Gary Moore rose to fame with his million-selling 1990 album Still Got The Blues and the 1978 hit single Parisienne Walkways. Alongside his successful solo career, he played guitar with the legendary rock band Thin Lizzy and was also a member of the jazz fusion group Colosseum II and the original Skid Row line-up. This auction celebrates Gary Moore's legacy, marking the last of a series of sales of Moore's collection to take place at Bonhams. The Final Encore collection includes guitars, amps, studio equipment, stage-worn clothing and accessories. The sale is led by a Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar from 1960, one of Gary's longest-serving instruments and probably the second most associated with him, used both in the studio and in live performance.
Available via Private Sale is Gary Moore's 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar also known as 'Stripe' and became Gary's most recorded guitar, famously used on Still Got The Blues, After The War, Oh Pretty Woman, Walking By Myself, and more.
Bonhams would like to thank The Gary Moore Estate, together with key auction partners including Guitarist Magazine and Gibson.
Click here to browse The Gary Moore Collection Online running 7-21 November
The Gary Moore Gitar Collection | Bonham's Auctioneers
Monday, December 01, 2025
Steve Earle & The Dukes - The Cotton Club, Atlanta 17th December 1988 [FM Broadcast Radio] | Floppy Boot Stomp
Steve Earle & The Dukes - The Cotton Club, Atlanta 17th December 1988 - Copperhead Road Tour
An XRay Special
Steve Earle & The Dukes - The Cotton Club, Atlanta 17th December 1988
Copperhead Road Tour
1. Copperhead Road
2. Good Ol' Boy
3. The Rain Came Down
4. San Antonio Girl
5. Even When I'm Blue
6. Someday
7. The Devil's Right Hand
8. Johnny Come Lately
9. Nothing But A Child
10. Week of Living Dangerously
11. Waiting On You
12. You Belong To Me
13. No. 29
14. My Baby Worships Me
15. It's All Up To You
Steve Earle - "Guitar Town" [Live from Austin, TX]
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road [Live on Letterman 1988]
Roy Harper - Another Day | cover version THIS MORTAL COIL | Guess I’m Dumb
Roy Harper - Another Day (1970) from Flat Baroque and Berserk
Still going at 84, on his “farewell” tour he performed this tune, one of his most affecting songs. Covered by This Mortal Coil.
Not knowing what on earth there was to know
– Another Day –
Lyrics Roy Harper
This Mortal Coil - Another Day
It'll End In Tears
Released on: 1984-10-01
Make me sound like a Beatle . . . . While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Eric Clapton uncredited guitar lick)
Back when we liked him, at the top pf his game and not the drunken racist or rabid alt-right antivaxxer we know today!
“Eric said the only way he’d play on it is if he sounded like the Beatles”:
How Ken Scott Confirmed the Truth Behind Clapton’s Uncredited Solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Eric Clapton’s appearance on a Beatles track is still one of the great surprises of The White Album—a guest spot from a musician the band adored. And according to Abbey Road engineer Ken Scott, it almost didn’t happen unless one very specific condition was met.
“The only way he’d play on it is if he sounded like the Beatles—not Eric Clapton,” Scott said recently.
That caveat changed everything about the way his solo was recorded.
How Clapton’s Solo Became “Beatle-ised”
To meet Clapton’s request, Scott and Chris Thomas used one of Abbey Road’s most groundbreaking inventions: ADT—Artificial/Automatic Double Tracking.
Originally created in 1966 by EMI engineer Ken Townsend to save John Lennon from singing doubled vocals he hated recording, ADT subtly detuned and delayed a signal to create a natural “double.”
On “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” ADT added a wobble and swirl to Clapton’s guitar that softened its blues edges and blended it into the Beatles’ sonic world.
“Eric played it, and it was really good,” George Harrison said.
“But he said, ‘It’s not Beatle-y enough.’
So we put it through the ADT to wobble it a bit.”
The Strange Part: Almost Nobody Remembers the Session
Scott says he has no memory of the actual moment Clapton entered the studio—something he’s tried to recover for years.
He checked with:
• John Smith, tape op – also remembers nothing
• Chris Thomas, producing while George Martin was on holiday – nothing
• Even hypnotherapy didn’t help Scott recall the session
The one consistent piece they all remember?
Clapton’s request to not sound like himself.
The Beatles didn’t just bring Clapton in—they bent the Abbey Road toolbox around him until he blended seamlessly into their world. The most famous guest solo in their catalog was literally engineered to sound less like Clapton… and more like them.
On Sontag . . . . .
Jill Krementz Susan Sontag 1974
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag, Interview with Leslie Garis, the New York Times 1992
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As an art student we all went around reading On Photography and thinking we were the bees knees and it took me a while to realise how ordinary, how mundane and ultimately how terribly bourgeois her views actually were! A lifetime to realise some is really boring . . . . . was that actually allowed? it almost upset me . . . . . . . almost
Trout Mask Replica instrumental || The Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Appreciation Society | member Zane Kordich drops a hot one . . .
Wow check this out
Zane of the Appreciation society dropped by long enough tob their F/B page to post this:
Zane Kordich
The Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Appreciation Society
I recently compiled all the "Bush Recording" Trout Mask Replica instrumental takes from the Grow Fins boxset into a playlist (without all the dead air between takes on the boxset) in tracklist order. I've found this to be great as a way to isolate the astonishingly tight musicianship of the Magic Band. I thought I'd share it here for anyone interested!
Youtube playlist:Here's the playlist of Clear Spot instrumentals!There's a great bootleg of instrumental takes from the Decals sessions that I've found similarly enjoyable to dive into (hearing Japan in a Dishpan and Flash Gordon's Ape without the horn overdubs is revelatory!), and the newest deluxe reissue of Clear Spot had some beautifully clear instrumental takes that really let you soak in Bill Harkleroad AKA Zoot Horn Rollo's incredible guitar lines.
so much was this noted that Drumbo dropped by to comment (he does that!)
John Drumbo French"The guys all worked their asses off on the "Decals" stuff, and probably more so on the Trout Mask Stuff, because it was a completely new musical world we all entered, so it took a complete alteration of how we thought about music. "
start the week with this . . . . some Imelda May will shake us up!
Imelda May - Johnny Got a Boom Boom
Why this track now? Well someone posted a clipped version on Flickennabokk and made it unsharable!
Why would you DO that? It’s on YouTube!
and y’ere ’tis!
Imelda May - Tainted Love (Jools . . . Later)
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