THE SEALYMAN MAESTRO DROPPED IN TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN AND TO SAY YOU DO KNOW SWAPPERS THE RAMONES covered The CHAMBERS BROS original!?
Well we surely do
NOW!
David Lindley and Jackson Browne
The Night David Lindley Brought the Whole Instrument Shop
There are guitarists.
There are multi-instrumentalists.
And then there was David Lindley, who apparently regarded the phrase "pick up a guitar" as merely a suggestion.
This is Jackson Browne and Lindley performing "Mercury Blues" during their 2006 Spanish tour, with the remarkable Tino di Geraldo on percussion.
By this point, Lindley and Browne had been musical companions for decades. Lindley had been Browne's guitarist, fiddler, steel player and occasional entire musical department during the seventies and early eighties.
But watch Lindley here.
There is no great wall of amplifiers.
No rock band behind them.
No attempt to recreate the Californian machinery of thirty years earlier.
Just three musicians, a pile of instruments and a song about wanting a Mercury automobile badly enough to apparently require musical violence.
"Mercury Blues" was already part of Lindley's personal mythology. He'd recorded it on *El Rayo-X* in 1981, turning K.C. Douglas and Robert Geddins' old blues into something altogether more excitable, with Lindley himself on slide guitar.
And here, twenty-five years later, he still sounds like somebody has accidentally given a bluesman access to the contents of an ethnomusicology department.
The tone is wiry.
The phrasing is mischievous.
The rhythm is constantly being nudged sideways.
And Tino di Geraldo is sitting underneath it all, adding percussion that makes the whole thing feel less like a conventional blues performance and more like somebody has opened a window and allowed several continents into the room.
Lindley was one of those musicians who made the distinction between "lead" and "accompaniment" rather pointless.
He could accompany you while simultaneously wandering off with the furniture.
And that's the joy of watching him.
Nothing feels like a demonstration.
He isn't saying:
"Observe my extensive knowledge of unusual stringed instruments."
He's simply making the music sound like this.
Jackson Browne watches on.
The percussion keeps cooking.
And David Lindley, looking like the world's most eccentric geography teacher, proceeds to extract noises from a piece of wood and wire that really have no business being that entertaining.
There are virtuosos who make you admire their technique.
Lindley made you wonder what the hell he was going to pick up next."
Just because I find his technical skills so overwhelming we maybe haven’t featured Marcin since his first ‘outbreak’ where he hit UK tele! Sitting in on Sunday Brunch he is also incredibly NICE! Could he not have had the good grace to be at least arrogant?! (he isn’t)
There then come this . . . . . . . .
Might sign off with another Ger and Guest Charlie
Talking Heads – Psycho Killers Live:
Talking Heads - Take Me To The River (Live at Entermedia Theatre, 1978)
Talking Heads – Psycho Killers Live: 1977-1979
Liberated Bootleg
Compilation of Fm broadcasts from various venues:
3, 8, 10 & 11 Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA December 3th 1977 KSAN-FM
1, 2, 9, 12 & A3 Park West, Chicago, IL August 28th 1978 WLTR-FM
6 & 7 Tokyo, Nikon Seinenhan, Tokyo, Japan July 8th 1979 KRK radio
4, 5, 14 & 15 Berklee Performing Center, Boston, MA, August 24th 1979 WBCN-FM
An Xray Special
if you don’t find your bad self twerking roun’ the living room to this then kindly
check your pulse!
NDIYO HALI YA DUNIA - SALUM ABDALLAH & CUBAN MARIMBA BAND
50’s
Vintage Tanzanian Pop Music
A gorgeous discovery from the Tanzanian archives.
Salum Abdallah, a pioneering figure in Tanzania’s golden age of dance bands, brings us Ndiyo Hali ya Dunia, and what a sound.
Artist biography on Wikipedia.
BANGI n'yahman
I was born in the city of Celaya Deep in the heartland of Mexico There was work to be had in the maquiladoras But I was young and I had to go
There must have been troubles and trials But I only remember the river was low On the other side I caught a ride North to San Antonio
Had a cousin of mine on a carpenter crew I lied to his boss and he put me on I hadn’t a clue what to do and he knew But I caught on
In the swing of a hammer a lifetime flew by I raised a family but now I’m alone Voy a volver a Celaya
I’m goin’ back home
Had my own crew before I turned twenty I began buildin’ a life brick by brick I did alright and a contractor sponsored me I got my citizenship
I married fair Graciela his daughter Soon there were children and now they’re all grown Two of our boys went to fight in Afghanistan One of ’em didn’t come home
I raised them to believe in this country That I barely recognize now The migra come masked in the night without warning
The children scream when they knock the doors down Then the angels took my Graciela Nothin’ else here for me now that she’s gone Voy a volver a Celaya
I’m going back home
. . . . local boys play live . . . . a favourite song (check the guitar solo!)
. . . . do we ALL love Laurie? I think we do . . . . . .
. . not entirely sure why anyone would post this from 'greatest hits Vol 2’ (1971) a largely money spinning idea from Sony rather than Bob hisself on 'Another Side of . . .1964’ Let alone the brilliant Tripping Mantras. But hey . . . . . . whatcha gonna do?
