I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Kelly Boesch - Met A Stranger

Well if this is AI then give me more  - true creativity here! 

Truly breathtaking IMHO! Staggering work . . . . . 


Kelly says:
This is another song I wrote a while back and reworked. This version is a duet and a bit slower than the original. It’s about being bored in life. It was actually perfect for this video. This one is a bit different for me but I like to change it up from time to time. The visuals came from me experimenting in the new Midjourney V8. I made a few videos with it so far. It’s actually a bit weird and different. Still trying to work it out but I like it so far. Not sure if it’s available yet but I got early access. Animated using VEO3.
Met A Stranger
[Verse 1]
Flipped a coin, it rolled away,
Should I throw it away, or keep it in play.
Bought a chart, tore it in two,
Looking for a new breakthrough?
[Verse 2]
Coffee’s cold, sun won’t rise,
Same old blues in a new disguise.
Seconds slipping, but who’s it for?
Don’t really care, it’s all a bore.
[Chorus]
Nothing matters, fell off your lips,
Truth’s just a lie with better tricks.
Spinning in circles, loving the fall,
Climbing the ladder, nowhere at all.
[Verse 3]
Tried to care, gave it a shot,
Left it somewhere, now I forgot.
Bought a watch, time still ran,
Turns out nothing gives a damn.
[Chorus]
Nothing matters, everything sticks,
Truth’s just a lie with better tricks.
Spinning in circles, loving the fall,
Climbing the ladder, nowhere at all.
[Bridge]
Met a stranger, knew his face,
Asked directions, lost my place.
Turned the page, the words were gone,
Same old story, different song.
[Outro]
Another day, another dime,
Writing poems without a rhyme.
What’s the point? Who really knows?
Anyway, here’s how it goes.
Lyrics written by me, Kelly Boesch. Music created under my creative direction with assistance from Suno.

Jeff Beck the Petrol Head | Don’s Tunes

 

Jeff Beck was undeniably a world-class guitarist (named the fifth best of all time by Rolling Stone), but that didn’t stop him from spending half his life with his mitts shoved firmly in the finger-crunching inner workings of an engine. “If I worried about my fingers, I’d never pick up a pair of pliers,” he said.


His motoring passions stretched back 60 years – before joining the Yardbirds, he worked in a car body shop as a mechanic to make ends meet. He was that rare breed of celebrity who didn’t just know his way around an expensive car showroom, but underneath the bonnet as well. The chances are, if you visited him at his Surrey mansion, you’d find him tinkering away in his purpose-built garage, where a whole fleet of his beloved hot rods is housed. When his old friend Eric Clapton showed him his collection of Ferraris, an unimpressed Beck commented: “Anyone can buy those.” Then he indicated the hot rod he’d driven over in. “These, you make.

He'll be remembered as one of rock's greatest pioneers, a titanic influence on modern guitar music who was universally respected for an iconoclastic, innovative approach to his work that took in genres as varied as jazz, opera and punk.

The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer told the crowd at his second induction that “I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That’s the point now, isn’t it? I don’t care about the rules.

“In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly.”


Source: Benjie Goodhart / GQ

(Photo by Robert Knight Archive)

Jeff Beck - A Day in the Life (Beatles)
The 25th anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert
The ‘mechanic’ at work!

The Kinks - Lola - Top Of The Pops 1970 | Dedicated to Richard Melville Hall! (he’s a dick, ya know it!)

 For Moby!

The Kinks - Lola - Top Of The Pops 1970

The Ethiopians - Praise Far I (1970) | Guess I’m Dumb

 Praise Far I

The Ethiopianslmislaballeimage

The Ethiopians - Praise Far I (1970)

March is Women’s history month, and it seems only appropriate to recognize Sonia Pottinger, reggae producer in a field dominated by men. She produced hundreds of songs from the 1960s to the 80s. This is a fine tune by The Ethiopians mislabelled as Prince For I!

Ed Kuepper & Jim White - Collapse Board [After The Flood] | Herberg De Kelder

 Collapse Board

Ed Kuepper & Jim WhiteAfter The Floodimage

Ed Kuepper & Jim White - Collapse Board [After The Flood, 2025]


HERBERG DE KELDER

Jimmy Witherspoon - Hootie Blues [Goin’ To Kansas City Blues] | HERBERG DE KELDER

 Hootie Blues

Jimmy WitherspoonGoin’ to Kansas City Blues image
HERBERG DE KELDER

Radiohead - 2+2=5 [Bonnaroo 2006] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/812415469330055168/radiohead-2-2-5

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Bellerin Pain (Lick My Decals Off Baby) |jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/812503931744894976/captain-beefheart-the-magic-band-bellerin

Monday, March 30, 2026

Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls/ Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls 1980 | URBANASPIRINES

Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls: Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls 1980


The Invisible Girls were a British rock band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1978 to provide a musical backdrop to the recorded output of Salford punk poet John Cooper Clarke. The band's nucleus was Joy Division and New Order producer Martin Hannett and keyboardist Steve Hopkins, with contributions from Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks and Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe, amongst others. The band played on the first solo album by Pauline Murray (lead singer of Penetration), the eponymous Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls and some singles, and later with Nico for her 1982 single "Procession".

The Invisible Girls was a band formed in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1978, to provide backing music for punk poet John Cooper Clarke*. It initially featured Factory Records producer Martin Hannett on bass guitar, Steve Hopkins on keyboards, 10cc drummer Paul Burgess, and guitarist Lyn Oakey. This line-up played on Cooper Clarke's debut album Où est la maison de fromage?, before they named themselves the Invisible Girls.   


*where and how I discovered the Invisible Girls backing Dr John Cooper Clarke*



An obviously brilliant follow up from Kostas today after the Penetration posting yesterday!
I bought their first single and album when they came out


For Kostas *

The Invisible Girls back John Cooper Clarke - BEASLEY STREET

The Invisible Girls back John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chicken Town

Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968 usa, electric blues masterpiece, 2017 japan reissue) | Rockasteria

 Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968 USA,  2017 Japanese reissue)

We mentioned Taj Mahal the other day and how it was his second album that my brother first brought a whole album to my attention after my hearing his Statesboro Blues from the compilation album Rock Machine Turns You On 1968 this is the debut album from which it comes. Sadly I didnt get this album until long after its release!




Taj Mahal's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on record in a year when even a lot of veteran blues artists (mostly at the insistence of their record labels) started turning toward psychedelia. The guitar virtuosity, embodied in Taj Mahal's slide work (which had the subtlety of a classical performance), Jesse Ed Davis's lead playing, and rhythm work by Ry Cooder and Bill Boatman, is of the neatly stripped-down variety that was alien to most records aiming for popular appeal, and the singer himself approached the music with a startling mix of authenticity and youthful enthusiasm. 

The whole record is a strange and compelling amalgam of stylistic and technical achievements -- filled with blues influences of the 1930s and 1940s, but also making use of stereo sound separation and the best recording technology. The result was numbers like Sleepy John Estes' "Diving Duck Blues," with textures resembling the mix on the early Cream albums, while "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues" (even with Cooder's animated mandolin weaving its spell on one side of the stereo mix) has the sound of a late '40s Chess release by Muddy Waters. Blind Willie McTell ("Statesboro Blues") and Robert Johnson ("Dust My Broom") are also represented, in what had to be one of the most quietly, defiantly iconoclastic records of 1968.
by Bruce Eder
Taj Mahal - Statesboro Blues
Tracks
1.Leaving Trunk (Sleepy John Estes) - 4:52
2.Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell) - 2:59
3.Checkin' Up On My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) - 4:55
4.Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (Sleepy John Estes) - 2:58
5.E Z Rider (Taj Mahal) - 3:04
6.Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson) - 2:39
7.Diving Duck Blues (Sleepy John Estes) - 2:43
8.The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (Traditional) - 8:53

Musicians
*Taj Mahal - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Slide Guitar
*Ry Cooder - Rhythm Guitar, Mandolin
*Jessie Edwin Davis - Lead Guitar, Piano
*Bill Boatman - Rhythm Guitar
*Christopher Sisson - Acoustic Guitar
*James Thomas - Bass
*Gary Gilmore - Bass
*Sanford Konikoff - Drums
*Charles Blackwell - Drums


Taj Mahal "Ain't That A Lot Of Love" - The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 1968