Four Tops : Animal Predators that is! How to stay COOL! HEATWAVE approaching!

 I was learning about the polar bear and they featured on the news last night in terms of their being monitored somewhere up North just shy a hundred miles from the North Pole! They maybe cool, but they sure ain’t cute and heck they ain’t cuddly but these days folks need to be TOLD!!!

There are four main top animal predators that will actively hunt man

Lions, tigers, leopards and

Polar bears!

Only one of these will not stop to pursue you for miles until it has caught its prey 

The polar bear!

It can eviscerate you with one blow of its paw

It will start to eat you before you are dead (tbf most predators will will!)

It is considerably faster than you and it’s stamina means it will pursue you for days if needs be!

You better hope you have a functioning vehicle as the only way to beat it is to run away in a transport that it cannot follow

If it finds you in a cabin it will stay encamped outside until either you come out or it can get in

It simply won’t stop trying

It will not stop

Prof Stanley Unwin : “Stay Cool Won’t You?!” [Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake]

 

WINGED EEL FINGERLING [I Love You Alice B Toklas]

 

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Elliot Ingber aka Winged Eel Fingerling with Peter Sellers in a scene from the 1968 film 'I Love You Alice B Toklas’. Elliot's brother Ira was interviewed by Steve Froy for the Beefheart Radar Station site last year and he talked about Elliot's appearances in films and much more, link here: https://www.beefheart.com/ira-ingber-talks-about-his.../

Birthdays: the legendary Brian Wilson was born in Inglewood, California on this day in 1942.

 Never the greatest fan of Surf Music (and what was a Little Deuce Coup? ) but then something happened and people started singing about vegetables and their pets and I thought well something’s happening . . . . . . . I started picking up good vibrations

Brian Wilson was born in Inglewood, California on this day in 1942. He's picking up good vibrations.

Route

Remembering the great Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001)

 

My beloved brother, Steve, loved Chet Atkins, me not so much and whilst I appreciated the technique it left me somewhat cold as I was looking for expressionism and feeling, Chet seemed too absorbed in technique but master of his craft none the less

Chet Atkins advice on how to play:

#1 It is in the hands, the individual touch, and in the expression of emotion that touches the inner soul, not the equipment.

#2 Play a style that you want to play, not one that you think others want you to play.

#3 When learning a song, the first thing is to figure out the chords, find the substitution, and the inversions that will enhance the tune.

#4 Do not memorize the song, but only “kind of know it.” That way it is an expression of emotion at that moment.

#5 When you play, don’t play mechanically, play like you are singing the notes.

#6 Don’t learn from tab.

#7 Play like yourself…be recognized by your style.

#8 Don’t copy. It’s okay to borrow, but never copy.

#9 Most importantly, don’t over-play. (Chet said, “ A good musician should be like a good poet, he should use as few notes (or words) as possible to convey the thought and feeling.” Les Paul said essentially the same thing. He felt that overplaying is a sure sign of a poor musician, and that while you may appear to be a flashy at first, it will tire the listener eventually, and you lose the respect of others. Chet felt that when playing with others, a good musician should not showboat, but instead hang back and help others sound their best.

# 10 Don't over-stay your welcome. Chet said, "There's a difference between being an artist and being an entertainer. An entertainer knows when to leave the stage."

#11 Slow down so the listener can savor your music. Fast and flashy is unnecessary and usually undesirable.

# 12 Stay close to the melody. Don’t just play notes to fill up space.

#13 Musical rests are just as important as the notes.

#14 Help others be successful.

Source: TDPRI Forum.

Photo: Wolf Hoffmann

Don's Tunes

 

Chet Atkins - Yakety Axe Live 1991

Flagging Down The Double Es : Being Bob Dylan's Stand-In (at the secret 20117 Nobel taping) | RAY PADGETT

 

Being Bob Dylan's Stand-In

Conor Lumsden, who stood in for Bob Dylan at the secret 2017 Nobel taping, shares his surreal story

RAY PADGETT JUN 20

When I interviewed director John Hillcoat a couple months ago about his work with Bob Dylan, he sent me a bunch of photos from his various shoots with Bob. One you can see above, from the secret 2017 Nobel performance-video taping outside Dublin. When I looked at this photo, though, something seemed off. That guy standing by the piano sort of looks like Dylan, but not quite, right? Then I noticed Hillcoat had typed a caption: “Stand-ins.”

A stand-in is someone who, as the term says, stands in for someone else. It’s common in the film world. You don’t want to make a famous actor just stand there for hours while the crew adjusts the lighting, so you find someone roughly the same height and build to do it. In Hillcoat’s photo, you see a bunch of other people standing in for Dylan and the band—people who are roughly the same size, wearing roughly the same clothes. In addition to fake Bob Dylan, you’ve got, from left, fake Donnie Herron, fake Charlie Sexton, fake Tony Garnier, and fake George Receli. (And, looking more closely now, I think that “piano” is a stand-in too.)

When I posted my Hillcoat interview on Instagram, one comment caught my eye. @music.city.conor posted: “Being Bob’s stand in was the best job I ever had!”

You know I had to find out more. So today, we hear from the guy standing in for Dylan in that photo.

When he’s not standing behind a fake piano, Conor Lumsden records under the name Music City (his new power-pop album Welcome To Music City just got a rave in Mojo). But, for a few days in 2017, he played a different role: Bob Dylan

This is a delightful entry from Ray and interviews with Conor and John and both well worth the read I thought. At once fascinating and funny at the same time what a life Conor and John H have had . . . subscribe and read on 

There are links to Conor’s own music too  

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Conor Lumsden (Music City)

Note: Read the John Hillcoat interview for more context on what this shoot actually was for and for Conor follow the link

Flagging Down the Double E’s is an email newsletter exploring Bob Dylan performances throughout history. Some installments are free, some are for paid subscribers only. 

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RTE - THe Late Late Show: Brendan Gleeson - A Pint Of Plain is Your Only Man (with his son Fergus on guitar)

 Having just finished watching the brilliant Mr Mercedes [Netflix] starring Brendan Gleeson this seemed appropriate!

 ‘A Pint Of Plain Is Your Only Man’ by Brendan & Fergus Gleeson

(RTE - thats Irish TV to you!)

Birthdays contd. | KAT DENNINGS

       I have got to the age where I take great delight in the lives of others and youngsters getting married fills me with joy like the wonderful Zendaya Coleman and her brilliant beau Tom Holland ( I found it fascinating that both should use the term “safety” when discussing the fact they had got wed! - sign of the times but somehow touching also.) 

       I was overjoyed too discovering the breathtaking young woman musician artist Dua Lipa marrying a favourite actor of mine Callum Turner who I have watched his career unfold from the earliest TV days and long before I knew who his wife was!

       I note also it is the hilarious comedy actor and personal favourite Kat Dennings whose wedding to her rockstar beau we noted when it happened but I am stunned to discover she has turned 40!?! Wan't it just a moment ago she appeared on our screens in the classic comedy 40 year Old Virgin ( I make no comment here!!!?!!!) with the legendary Steve Carell as his teenage daughter!?!

Happy Birthday anyway Kat keep us in stitches wherever you are gorgeous ‘girl’!

[P.S. I am allowed to call her girl now I am officially a grumpy ole git!]

err......well not a LOT like Slash!?!?

even less like Slash TBF!!

Capelet’s Rool!

Frankly the make up is fine but you’d look fine without it!

like it but check that beautiful HAIR!

Toni Lindgren & Elle Cordova with Shane Akers ‘RAMBLE ON!’ (Led Zeppelin cover)

 Our acoustic trio cover of Ramble On by Led Zeppelin featuring Shane Akers on dobro!

Toni Lindgren

So I’m BACK! thanks boys you know who you are

So we played a snippet of this as I was AFK at the ‘Hostipal'! So we will share a thanks to be back and for the boys who asked how I got on this one is for them! (Dell, Brother Jobe and neighbour Diamond Dave - he’s a diamond you know!)

Heck Demi got some gams huh?

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Drive Back [HERBERG DE KELDER]

Drive Back

whatever gets you through the night

that’s alright with me

HERBERG DE KELDER