Mike Heron and Rose Simpson discuss the making of Smiling Men With Bad Reputations

I just have missed this interview with Mike about the making of a favourite album of mine [ [a favourite album - pay attention at the back]

Sound Techniques, Chelsea: film, book and podcast

Mike Heron and Rose Simpson talk about the special guests on Mike's first solo album 'Smiling Men With Bad Reputations', recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea in late 1970. Book coming soon. Please sign up to the mailing list for regular updates. Subscribers will get first opportunities for pre-orders and limited edition hardback version etc. https://soundtechniquesmovie.com/the-book/ Help us get to the finish line: https://streamlabs.com/thepartsyoudontheardocumen1653/tip #MikeHeron

Warm Heart Pastry · Mike Heron

feat The Who!

Smiling Men With Bad Reputations

℗ 1971 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited

SONG OF THE DAY

Mike Heron - Call Me Diamond 

feat Dud Pakwana

Smiling Men With Bad Reputations

℗ 1971 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited

stream album here on the TUBE . . . . .

As Summer drags itself to a close . . . . . this

 THE BRITS RETURN FROM A FORTNIGHT’S HOLIDAY

GILES cartoon (I grew up with them . . . . )

Sunday? So we’ll ease gently into the day for those of a delicate disposition!

 BRIAN ENO

Persis from album “Drawn From Life” with J. Peter Schwalm - performed at Fuji Rock Festival (July 29, 2001) . 

Albums Another Day on Earth (2005) and Drawn From Life (2001) will be released from Opal Records on October 16. Previously unreleased live…

Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Persis (Live) [Official Live Video]

The Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Appreciation Society | Tom Waits on Captain Beefheart

“He drew in the air with a burnt stick “ Tom Waits, one of the best description of Don’s work both audio and painterly perhaps!?

 

The Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Appreciation Society

A Message for our American pals over there . . . . . . . .

I have no idea who these people are and have never seen this programme (a Western I guess!) which is odd because I adore a good Western!

 

Dave Mason & Jim Krueger - Aquatennial (aka the Mississipi Riverbank Club) Minneapolis, MN 7/25/1986 | Voodoo Wagon - XRay

Dave Mason & Jim Krueger - Aquatennial (aka the Mississipi Riverbank Club) Minneapolis, MN 7/25/1986

 

Dave Mason & Jim Krueger

Here is a concert broadcast from the Aquatennial (aka the Mississipi Riverbank Club) 

in Minneapolis, MN on 7/25/1986. 

Recorded and broadcast by KTCZ “The Cities” 97.1 in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. 

For this concert, Jim Krueger accompanied Dave Mason on guitar and vocals. 

No other band members were listed.

Dave Mason - Vocals, Guitar

Jim Krueger - Guitar, Vocals

01. Tuning, talk 0.33

02. Feelin’ Alright (Mason) 4.38

03. World in Changes (Mason) 4.12

04. Every Woman (Mason) 2:48

05. Sad and Deep As You (Mason) 3:37

06. Instrumental (Mason/Krueger) 2:10

07. The Words (Krueger) 3.40

08. Not Fade Away (Petty/Hardin) 4.29

09. Let It Go, Let It Flow (Mason) 4.57

10. Shouldn’t Have Took More Than You Gave (Mason) 2.27

11. Dear Prudence (Lennon/McCartney) 3.01

12. Bird On The Wind (Mason) 3-46

13. We Just Disagree (Krueger) 3.49

14. Maybe (Mason) 3.32

15. Dust My Broom (James) 4.13

16. All Shook Up (Blavkwell/Presley) 3-04

17. Bring It On Home To Me (Cooke) 5.44

18. Dear Mr. Fantasy (Winwood/Wood/Capaldi) 3.09

19. All Along The Watchtower (Dylan) 11.06

20. Take It To The Limit (Meisner/Henley/Frey) 4.08

XRay 

Dave Mason and Jim Krueger sing "We Just Disagree"At Pasadena's Perkins Palace in 1981

The Fall - Iceland (1982) | Route

 Not intentionally dwelling on the negative but been meaning to address this for a while largely because Route obviously love The Fall. I don’t get it? Over their history some 66 members and always fronted by the same man the tragic alcoholic Mark E Smith the mannered slurring ‘poet’ front man. I met many drunken intellectuals at art school who thought it big and clever to drink more than anyone else and considered it superior to say and mean nothing over those trying to say something deeper and more meaningful but hey . . . . the mannered singing style largely influenced by drink [who can spin three syllables to the word WIRED!?] and his magic adoration clear amongst The Fall fans you only have to see the comments on YouTube on something like Totally Wired. I mean Maxine Peak’s a fan and starred in the Women of The Fall for the blokey band par excellence but here is ‘ICELAND' improvised on the spur of the moment whilst recording there. I just don’t get it and it always sounded awful to these ears . . . . . 

Route

The Fall - Totally Wired (New York 1981)

The Fall In Iceland

Paul Hanley recalls The Fall’s trip to Iceland in September 1981, where they spent the day in a recording studio built into a cave. They recorded three songs, including two which were included on the album Hex Enduction Hour: ‘Hip Priest’ and ‘Iceland’. Paul is talking to Ben Cottam for a BBC Radio 3 documentary, ‘Cave Life For Beginners’.

For Paul’s full account of the trip to Iceland and the making of the album, read his book Have A Bleedin Guess: The Story of Hex Enduction Hour. Details here: http://www.route-online.com/all-books...

 

Wilson Pickett 'Hey Jude' (Feat. Duane Allman)

Wilson Pickett 'Hey Jude' (Feat. Duane Allman

Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett quickly hit it off and Allman suggested they record the just released ‘Hey Jude’ which was climbing the charts and rapidly becoming one of The Beatles’ biggest hits. They recorded ‘Hey Jude’ on the first take and it seems Allman’s conviction that the track would work and become a hit in its own right was correct.  

The 'Hey Jude’ session catapulted Allman into the limelight such that Eric Clapton upon hearing the track demanded to know who the guitarist was. 

He said “I remember hearing Wilson Pickett’s 'Hey Jude’ and just being astounded by the lead break at the end. I had to know who that was immediately - right now.” 

From there Allman went on to record with Derek & the Dominos playing alongside Clapton on the definitive 'Layla’ -Clapton’s paen of unrequited love to George Harrison’s ex-wife Patti Boyd. 

I don’t hear it for one but what do you think? Sounds really quite ordinary to me . . . .repetitive and a little dull  to be honest

Gentle Giant: Discography Part 2 (1975 - 1980) 6 more albums | Urbanaspirines

 Well I mean you KNEW it was coming right?

Gentle Giant: Discography Part 2 (1975 - 1980)

07. Free Hand (1975)
08. Interview (1976)
09. The Missing Piece (1977)
10. Playing The Fool (Live) (1977)
11. Giant for a Day! (1978)
12. Civilian (1980)

Kostas says: 

Free Hand is perhaps Gentle Giant's most realized effort. After the excellent In a Glass House, the group further developed its Renaissance-medieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex 

recordings in progressive rock history. Their vocal approach to the four-part fugue "On Reflection" was revolutionary for its time and is looked upon as one of the genre's defining moments. Despite the complexity of the arrangements, the music never sounds academic and in fact is very accessible thanks to several melodic hooks. The combination of superb musicianship, dry wit, and creative compositions make this an essential and historical recording.  

read on here . . . . .

 

I searched through an awful lot of live footage of the band but really couldn’t bring myself to post any (never trust a man who seems to have had a perm, over trimmed beard and a white shortsleeved safari jumpsuit would be my best advice!!) so there is this album track which I found about bearable! It’ called Nothing at All!

😉😂

Gentle Giant - Nothing At All 

Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah, this is a girl who had everything Finds she's nothing at all Now the wind seems so cold Seems so old as it laughs at her fears And her tears And as ducks swim away from her Visions of past love appear In her tears She sees love in his face as she tells him to go And so here's a girl who had everything Finds she's nothing at all What would she say if she saw him, yeah Now that she's gone, man, you're losing Now you can see what she's seeing, yeah For sure she's more than just choosing Now she sits by the riverside Watching the waters glide by With a sigh And the things she put faith in Are ripples just waving her by With a sigh She sees lovers pass by with much more than a kiss Ah, this is a girl who had everything Finds she's nothing at all