Personal favouites from Dexy's Midnight Runners wonderful third album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My darling "I ache in places I used to play...It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear."

 

 

 

 

Hi Mike, is it still Christmas?!

 

 

 

 

 

"Caught in a riptide...what shall I do." 

 The surreal dreamlike melancolie of Robert Palmer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What joy to see you all Mike, Nick and Arabella. This is for you. Take it easy...

 

 

 

 

 

The many multitudes and the masks though which they are glimpsed...

"Je est un autre."

 "I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. It doesn't even matter to me."

"The names themselves are not solitary. It's the combination of them that adds up to something more than their singular parts. To go too much into detail is irrelevant. The song is like a painting, you can't see it all at once if you're standing too close."

 

"Breathe in happiness and smile"...A dedication to our wonderful friend Alexandra Ivan. Thank you for being you...

“Do you believe we’re going around the sun at 17,000 miles an hour? That makes me nervous. 17,000 miles an hour...There’s nothing I can do about it”

"Old pond. Frog jumps in. Splash."

A gentle man...a tender beautiful soul. Even if you don't know his name, you probably recognise his face. Not just a B-Side...Harry Dean Stanton...

 

 

 

 

"My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk"..."I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

"I play myself all the time... on camera and off. What else can I do?"

And from the great film "Lucky"...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 “.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands.”

Today we have for us all some real variety from a true original. A great guitarist and great man…Mike Bloomfield.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Here is a nice tribute to Mike Bloomfield from Robben Ford & Chris Cain,

“If you ever had a chance to see Micheal Bloomfield. He loved to play the slow blues…”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Early Fleetwood Mac and the two Guitar Legends who made it happen, Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Get out your harmonica.

Fundamental Blues with Annie Raines, Paul Rishell and John Sebastian...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Difficult, dangerous, brilliant...

Beware Mr. Baker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The great Tom Waits

One of the most wonderful, beautiful songs we've ever heard...

 

Romance in the morning

Originally on the lineup for Woodstock Beethoven backed out at the last minute due to a dispute over a girlfriend...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Woodstock experience

Great to remeber a wonderful time, place and music

Let's go get stoned 

Woodstock picks from 1969...