This concert is very similar to an official live album, "Other Aspects: Live at the Royal Festival Hall." Both were recorded in London in late 2018 with a band and a full orchestra. But this is an entirely different concert that took place about half a month after that concert. Naturally, their set lists are pretty similar. In all honesty, you might just want that official live album, since it's a full concert too and has more songs on it. But this is an unreleased BBC concert with excellent sound quality, so I'm posting it anyway.
Weller released the studio album "True Meanings" not long prior to this concert, in September 2018. So naturally there are a bunch of songs here from that. But he also goes back as far as his days with the Jam and the Style Council, selecting songs that work well with orchestral backing.
This album is an hour and 11 minutes long.
01 talk by Jo Whiley
02 One Bright Star
03 talk
04 The Soul Searchers
05 talk
06 Boy about Town
07 talk
08 Have You Ever Had It Blue
09 Wild Wood
10 talk
11 Aspects
12 talk
13 Amongst Butterflies
14 talk
15 A Man of Great Promise
16 talk
17 Gravity
18 talk
19 Private Hell
20 talk
21 Movin On
22 talk
23 Long Long Road
24 Mayfly
25 Tales from the Riverbank
26 You Do Something to Me
27 talk
28 White Horses (with Erland Cooper)
As I mentioned in previous write-ups, I think Morrison was great in the 1960s and 70s especially, and he even had a musical renaissance in the 1990s in my opinion, but he slowly turned into a reactionary asshole who also was just musically repeating himself, to the point that some of his more recent albums (like "Latest Record Project, Volume 1" in 2021) have to be some of the most critically panned albums by any famous artist, period. So at some point I had to step away from his music, and that point is right around the time of his concert. Mind you, this concert is fine by itself. But I don't have enough interest to post even more BBC material that's out there in the years after this, sorry.
Anyway, in October 2003, Morrison released the studio album "What's Wrong with This Picture?" Many of the songs here are from that. Plus there are some classics from earlier in his career.
I have to just say I couldn’t agree more with Paul here and had pretty much given up listening to him especially anything since the execrable Latest Record Project, Volume 1 : dreadful, truly awful! Phoned in album like so many performances! and I will not listen to any further pontification from the poor old boy. Turning into a laughable old curmudgeon was of course always going to be his destiny but heck its hard to hear. Put on St Dominic’s or Astral Weeks and go down Hyndforthe Street or Cypress Avenue and talk a walk through happier times . . . . . I’m off to clean my windows
This unreleased album is 57 minutes long.
01 talk (Van Morrison)
02 Whining Boy Moan (Van Morrison)
03 Once in a Blue Moon (Van Morrison)
04 What's Wrong with This Picture (Van Morrison)
05 Little Village (Van Morrison)
06 Have I Told You Lately (Van Morrison)
07 Listen to the Lion (Van Morrison)
08 Goldfish Bowl (Van Morrison)
09 Stop Drinking (Van Morrison)
10 It's All in the Game (Van Morrison)
11 Gloria (Van Morrison)
12 talk (Van Morrison)
Robert Fraser (and Karin) - Strawberries
Setlist:
The Wait
Message Of Love
Time The Avenger
Thumbelina
Show Me
Kid
My City Was Gone
Back On The Chain Gang
Middle Of The Road
Brass In Pocket
Room Full Of Mirrors
"I have this kind of philosophy that I can't do anything about what happened yesterday, or what's going to happen tomorrow. But I feel in full control of what's going on now. I think worry will make you sick. I've never seen it accomplish anything. I've never seen worrying about anything change it. So I decided not to do it. If you can't do anything about it, why in the hell worry about it? Every negative thought you have releases poison into your system, and will kill you or give you cancer, or tumors or whatever else you can think of. So if you are thinking negative about anything, erase that."
rec. January 1950 in Chicago, IL;Leroy Foster, vocals, drumsaLittle Walter, vocals, harmonicaMuddy Waters, guitar, vocals
In 1921, Ada Blackjack, a young Inuit mother desperate to provide for her ailing son, joined an Arctic expedition as a seamstress. She wasn’t an explorer, nor a hunter—just a woman trying to earn money.
The mission, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sought to claim Wrangel Island for Canada. Ada was the only woman, and the only Inuk among four white male explorers. When supplies ran low, the men set off for help across the ice… and never returned.
Ada was left behind with a dying teammate and a cat named Vic. Soon, it was just her and Vic—alone in subzero wilderness, 700 miles from help.
She taught herself to shoot a rifle. She fended off polar bears with a knife. She sewed her own mittens when her fingers froze. She trapped foxes. Ate seal. And through it all, Vic curled close to keep her warm.
Two years later, rescuers arrived. She was still alive. Thin. Worn. But unbroken.
The world nearly forgot her.
The men got the headlines.
Joris Johannes Christiaan (Chris) Lebeau
(Amsterdam, 26 May 1878 - concentration camp Dachau, 2 April 1945) was a Dutch designer, painter and anarchist.
Lest we forget
the news featured accounts of the first people into Bergen-Belsen
well it’s a bright sunny day here . . . . . .
Joni Mitchell began playing the guitar like countless young musicians of the '60s, but she quickly turned onto a less-traveled path. "When I was learning to play guitar, I got Pete Seeger's How to Play Folk-Style Guitar," she recalled. "I went straight to the Cotten picking. Your thumb went from [imitates alternating bass sound] the sixth string, fifth string, sixth string, fifth string. . . I couldn't do that, so I ended up playing mostly the sixth string but banging it into the fifth string. So Elizabeth Cotten definitely is an influence; it's me not being able to play like her. If I could have I would have, but good thing I couldn't, because it came out original."
At the same time that she departed from standard folk fingerpicking, Mitchell departed from standard tuning as well (only two of her songs "Tin Angel" and "Urge for Going" are in standard tuning). "In the beginning, I built the repertoire of the open major tunings that the old black blues guys came up with," she said. "It was only three or four. The simplest one is D modal [D A D G B D]; Neil Young uses that a lot. And then open G [D G D G B D], with the fifth string removed, which is all Keith Richards plays in. And open D [D A D F#A D]. Then going between them I started to get more 'modern' chords, for lack of a better word." As she began to write songs in the mid-'60s, these tunings became inextricably tied to her composing.
On Mitchell's first three albums, Joni Mitchell (1968), Clouds (1969), and Ladies of the Canyon (1970), conventional open tunings coexist with other tunings that stake out some new territory. "Both Sides, Now" (capo II) and "Big Yellow Taxi," for instance, are in open E (E B E G# B E - the same as open D but a whole step higher); and "The Circle Game" (capo IV) and "Marcie" are in open G. But it was more adventurous tunings like C G D F C E ("Sisotowbell Lane'], with its complex chords created by simple fingerings, that enthralled her and became the foundation of her music from the early '70s on.
"Pure majors are like major colors; they evoke pure well-being," she said. "Anybody's life at this time has pure majors in it, given, but there's an element of tragedy. No matter what your disposition is, we are air breathers, and the rain forests coming down at the rate they are . . . there's just so much insanity afoot. We live in a dissonant world. Hawaiian [music], in the pure major - in paradise, that makes sense. But it doesn't make sense to make music in such a dissonant world that does not contain some dissonances."
Well it’s not rocket salad but interesting none the less, hey?
Article by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
Acoustic Guitar (Magazine)
Mitchell a life long nicotine addict is not so much a serious singer one might be fogiven for thinking as her voice has been seriously damaged by smoke inhalation so much that she has lost octaves over the years
These are amongst the simplest and most basic of open tunings and nothing wrong with that but Mitchell is really not in the league of people like expert guitarists like Richard Thompson or folks purists like Martin Carthy who even plays in his OWN tuning for many songs and numbers these days! Open tunings are legion and my Line 6 Variax guitar models 11 tunings amongst 24 guitar modulations!
and of course the sites I visit still come up with folks I didn’t (don’t? - ED) know and today is no different
. . . and this one too just a wandering aroundt’interweb and curiously mostly visual art blogs . . . . .
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