Clifton Chenier - Jolie Blonde [Pasé Bél Tan] | jt1674

  . . . . eh toi! A Cajun classic . . . . .  (my ole fren John Northcote turned me on to Cajun music)

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Grateful Dead - I Know You Rider [Lyceum Theatre 1972] | jt1674

 . . . and this one goes out in memoriam to the Northcote boys (we all went to school together) as this one is for John’s brother Bill (real name Colin!go figure) . . . . . . he turned me on to the Dead as he suddenly turned up one day at my parent’s house with Working Men’s Dead and saying ‘Hey you gotta hear this!' . . . . . . miss you boys 

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Songs Bought When They Came Out NO.469! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN - SEX PISTOLS

 TURN IT RIGHT UP!

WARNING : CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT MAY OFFEND! WELL WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!?

well it is a nice sunny Saturday here. . . . . . . . . 

Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" HQ (live 2007)

I bought the virgin edition of the album which had a posted and a single inside! From my old pal John Northcote when he worked for them

le mystere des voix bulgares - sableyalo mi agontze

First came across this extraordinary album through a white label copy from my old dear friend John Northcote who firstly a friend of my older brother Steve and who started in town at the legendary Sunshine Records and went on to work for Virgin Records and then ran some of the best and biggest clubs in London. He came home one day with this and said ‘Hey you gotta listen to this is amazing! . . . so we did and it was! Miss you John

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Song for a Sunday : From 'Once Upon a Dream' by the Rascals : SATTVA (1968) | GUESS I’M DUMB

The Rascals - Sattva (1968)

If Once Upon a Dream was supposed to be the Rascals’ Sgt Pepper’s, then Sattva is Within Without You. Although George’s song never broke into a wonderful soul section in the middle of his tune. Kind of reminds me of Traffic’s fist LP. Very cool stuff, and the Rascals were actually playing the sitar, tamboura and tabla.

All the colours melting softly at my feet

Far from “dumb" they have found another extraordinary gem from The Rascals no less. I had always thought them somewhat straight until John Northcote (yes that John Northcote! he KNEW his music second to none!) turned me onto the more adult experimental work but must have missed this one!

Staggering stuff and as ‘Guess' points out they were actually playing the instruments here!

 

CARAVAN (live) - Land of Great and Pink / Golf Girl courtesy of TWILIGHTZONE (thanks for the memory!)

 TWILIGHTZONE posted this recently and off course Land Of Great and Pink was an album we bought when it came out (thanks to John Northcote who brought it home from work) and it was never off the decks at that time . . . . . . here they are thanks to Twilight

Still going strong . . . . . . . 

for John Northcote . . . . . always missed

JJ CALE :: On cutting 'AFTER MIDNIGHT'

 

JJ Cale backstage in the dressing room of the Carre Theatre, Amsterdam prior to his performance there in 1973 

(Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot)

J.J Cale "The original ‘After Midnight’ I recorded was on Liberty Records on a 45-rpm, and it was fast. That was about 1967-68, maybe 69. I can’t remember exactly. But that was the original ‘After Midnight,’ and that is what Clapton heard. If you listen to Eric Clapton’s record, what he did was imitate that. No one heard that first version I made of it. I tried to give the thing away, until he cut it and made it popular. So, when I recorded the Naturally album Denny Cordell, who ran Shelter Records at the time, and I had already finished the album, he said, ‘John, why don’t you put ‘After Midnight’ on there because that is what people recognise you for?’ I said, ‘Well, I’ve already got that on Liberty Records, and Eric Clapton’s already cut it, so if I’m going to do it again I’m going to do it slow.

I’ve had songs that just come out of the air, and it was over, and I wrote the words down, and I’d go, ‘Where did that come from?’ Because I was an engineer I wrote a lot in the studio. There is one thing I never did; I’m not a poet, so I never wrote the words out and then tried to put music to it. I’d always come up with the music first and then put the words to it, or write the music and the words on the guitar at the same time.  Some of the songs were a labor of love, some of the songs I had no idea why I wrote them. And, some of the songs I worked on forever. And a lot of them I worked on forever and they never came out, thank God. You name it, I’ve written that way, in studios, in the living room, on busses. ‘After Midnight’ was an instrumental track. I cut about four tracks, and I left it alone there for about six months, and then I went back in and wrote the words to it. But I have never written the words first and then put music to it." 

- by Derek HalseyOctober 2004

Q: Some guitar stars who are great stylists in their own right cite you as an influence and dip into your style – for instance, Mark Knopfler. Does it ever make you self-conscious if you find yourself doing something that others have borrowed from you – because it might be perceived the other way around?

J.J Cale: That’s okay to me. I’ll hear Eric Clapton do one of my tunes, and I’ll borrow some of the things that he put on my tune. That’s that trade-off. People will go, “Man, Eric Clapton is ripping you off.” No, you ain’t got a clue. We’re all just passing this around; it’s dinner for everybody. That’s the positive thing about musicians. You may go through a period where you’re really egotistical and that might worry you, but if you live long enough you see that none of us are really inventing anything. Music is music; there’s only so many notes and chords. I’ll hear something on TV, and either borrow it, or subconsciously it gets put in. One of my favourite Beatles songs was “We Can Work It Out.” If you listen to that and “After Midnight,” they’re totally different, but that was me kind of imitating the Beatles. That’s how that works. 

On a personal note I don't recall hearing Clapton's version until I saw him do it live much later and the album version by JJ was my first experience of that great song. Just as I heard 'Same Old Blues' by Beefheart and that's what turned me on to JJ's work in the first place and John from Sunshine* records turned us on top JJ's forst album and we bought pretty much everything after that . . . . . . to me its like listening to Clapton covering I Shot The Sheriff' Dreadful! Stick to the blues Mr C! Can't sing reggae and can't play the wah-wah peddle either come to that listen to Jimi play the peddle and then listen to Eric, he just can't cut it . . . . . .