What are you listening to?

[mim]

Yes, always. I do listen to a lot of Michelle Nicole, some Jamie Oehlers, Dale Barlow etc. At the moment I'm just trying to make my way through my most recent stack. Plus, quite a lot of the really decent aussie stuff isn't actually available that easily in Adelaide. I'll have to wait til I get to Basement Discs to find some of it.

[Kenny]

Sigur Ros - Takk. Hmmm ... grandiose psych pop from Iceland.

Calvin Newborn - Up City and New Born. Vet guitarist burns the hard bop flame on a Memphis label.

William Parker - The Peach Orchard and Mayor of Punkville. Listening to a lot of Grateful Dead is having an interesting influence of my jazz listening habits. Half-hour "tunes" definitely the go.

Ben Winkelman Trio - Stomps Pieces & Variations. Weird but compelling.

GD - Dick's Picks No.4 and Stepping Out With ... Boy am I glad I pre-ordered the 10-disc complete Live/Dead sessions, as the 10,000 run November release has already sold out. Ha! See you on eBay baby!

Petula Clark - Greatest Hits. Still my No.1 gal.

[isaacs]

Hey Kenny, FYI re Petula Clark, since you're a buff, have you ever come across a song she released called "In a Little Moment"? It wasn't a hit, it was a B side kind of deal. Anyway, my dear Dad wrote it.

[Kenny]

admin said:

Hey Kenny, FYI re Petula Clark, since you're a buff, have you ever come across a song she released called "In a Little Moment"? It wasn't a hit, it was a B side kind of deal. Anyway, my dear Dad wrote it.

Hey Mark that is very freaking cool!

Nope, I'm not aware of the song; the CD I have is just your bog standard hits package. Don't Sleep In The Subway was the first disc I ever owned - a gift from my uncle. I remember my dad looking on as I played it over and over and over and over again, then saying to his brother: "Geez mate I think you might've started something here ..." (The first disc I ever bought was Itcycoo Park).

Does your dad get any royalties?

I was somewhat distraught when family matters prevented me from checking out Pet when she played Melbourne a few years back.

Great pop songs!

[isaacs]

I think there is a multi-CD set of everything she ever did that has Dad's song on it, it would have originally been a B-side vinyl single of course. As I recall Dad explaining he let it go back in the 50s when he was a lad for a small lump sum buyout but as it wasn't a hit there was not much in it anyway.

I'm writing from Jakarta by the way. Hellish humid.

[Kenny]

admin said:

I'm writing from Jakarta by the way. Hellish humid.

Are you playing there?

How is:

1. The tucker?

2. The music?

[Kenny]

WARNING, WARNING - Greville Records is injurious to your financial well-being:

Jerry Garcia/Merle Saunders Band - Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974. Actually a pretty good price - three discs for $45. I don't think the Keystone is still standing. I saw one of those Bay area horn/funk/psychedelic bands, Stoneground, there in 1977. I had to deface my NZ driver's licence, making myself 21 rather than 20, in order to gain entry and buy a beer. I was so stoned on Columbian grass, I got lost - walking around and around the same block - when I left. I also saw Bill Kirchen's outfit there, he being a former mainstay of Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen. Bill's still rocking out in Virginia, I believe. Amazing how much music I crammed into my first few weeks outside of the southern hemisphere - the Dead, John Stewart, the Holy Modal Rounders and oodles more, before even getting to Texas, a whole 'nuther story.

Dock Boggs - Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-29). Oh my - scary stuff.

[isaacs]

kennyweir said:

admin said:

I'm writing from Jakarta by the way. Hellish humid.

Are you playing there?

How is:

1. The tucker?

2. The music?

Playing and teaching. Both challenging sometimes but OK. Fresh mango for breakfast tops and the indonesians do good things with oxtail.

[Someone somewhere]

In a state of wonder, the ARIA finalists

Keller, Angels and Rascals
Aronas, Culture tunnels
Oehlers & Keevers, Grace
Grabowsky & Noonan, Before time
The Necks, Mosquito/See through

Anyone know who is voting for this? What the hell are they thinking?

[me]

whats wrong with this?

[aj]

So who SHOULD have made the list, in your humble opinion ?

[belindablahblah]

mark are you making it to bangkok again? - im here til oct 16

[isaacs]

Not making it to Bangkok BM, straight home to Sydney. Hope our paths cross another time. People still talk about you here in Jakarta

[Kenny]

Big Star - In Space. As the blurb says, first studio album in 30 years. And still rockin'. Not sure of this is anywhere near as great as the best of Alex and Jody, but compared to the machine-like thoroughly forgettable bands that clutter up the contemporary rock scene, it is ON. Lots of anglo swagger and twang, sparse production, Memphis soul, New Orleans funk and general goofiness.

Calvin Newborn - New Born. Ha - more Memphis! Vet hard bop/R&B guitarist all aglow.

Various - Jazz Studio 5/6. Big band led by Ralph Burns and quartet led by obscurities Dave Amram and George Barrow. Intriguing - cool on the east coast.

[happy]

Where do you find all this stuff Kenny?
Must admit I wandered broke into Greville Records the other day for the first time in a few years and it was a very teasing experience...some nice dvds there too...

....................

for me,
a few old faves: Don Cherry, Bob Marley

and a heap of great music at HalfBent - personal highlights Tinkler/Barker duo, Barry Cockcroft solo, Matt Keegan trio, THAT, Cleverhorse, Bumford.

Didn't care much for Hughes/Keller proj, Mosaic, Boneclan, Tinkler/Slater qtet but that's ok coz I know heaps of people who did!