OT - Music. Gigs. Sounds bought.

[ramAnag]

Best definition - anything that you can't dance to. I enjoy listening to music rather than moving to it...perhaps having 3 left feet could be why.

My musical taste has moved from mid 60s to mid 70s rock music / progrock, via punk, reggae, southern US rock to Radiohead etc al, and then sort of back to square one as the various genres of rap largely turned me off music.

But my playlist top 10 acts would be Gong, Neil Young, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ten years After, Allman Brothers, Linkin Park, Mountain if it creates a profile!

Fairport Convention are still going strong. They were on in Buxton last month and I met Ashley Hutchings last year. Once described by Bob Dylan as the most important figure in English folk rock. Nice man...mid seventies but still got it.

[swaledale]

Fairport Convention are still going strong. They were on in Buxton last month and I met Ashley Hutchings last year. Once described by Bob Dylan as the most important figure in English folk rock. Nice man...mid seventies but still got it.

Indeed they are, saw them only a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed a chat with their bassist Dave Pegg and the current drummer Dave Mattacks, who a lot of people don't realise is one of the the best and most recorded drummers around! He has had a long career as a session musician and has played with the best across a range of genres.

GP's list is scarily close to mine - I see Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd and possibly the last original member) died this week.

Recent gigs? Suzanne Vega, Richard Thompson, Nick Mason's Saucer full of Secrets (early Floyd stuff), Keith Hackett and his band doing early Genesis (Foxtrot at Fifty) plus his own solo work, Kast Off Kinks (with the original drummer!!), Show of Hands, hoping to get across to the States to see a farewell gig of the remains of the Grateful dead with a few additions known as Dead and Company.

[GUNTERYY36]

Fairport Convention are still going strong. They were on in Buxton last month and I met Ashley Hutchings last year. Once described by Bob Dylan as the most important figure in English folk rock. Nice man...mid seventies but still got it.

Jacui Mcshee Fairport Convention/Pentangle Voice of an angel

[GUNTERYY36]

Fairport Convention are still going strong. They were on in Buxton last month and I met Ashley Hutchings last year. Once described by Bob Dylan as the most important figure in English folk rock. Nice man...mid seventies but still got it.

Jacqui Mcshee Fairport Convention/Pentangle Voice of an angel

[ramAnag]

Jacqui Mcshee Fairport Convention/Pentangle Voice of an angel

Don’t think she was ever in Fairport Convention, Gunt...but I agree about the rest, although it’s a long time since my copy of Pentangle’s ‘Basket of Light’ was last unfolded.

[GUNTERYY36]

Don’t think she was ever in Fairport Convention, Gunt...but I agree about the rest, although it’s a long time since my copy of Pentangle’s ‘Basket of Light’ was last unfolded.

Come alll ye (2005) although better known for songs recorded by Pentangle

[MadAmster]

Best definition - anything that you can't dance to. I enjoy listening to music rather than moving to it...perhaps having 3 left feet could be why.

My musical taste has moved from mid 60s to mid 70s rock music / progrock, via punk, reggae, southern US rock to Radiohead etc al, and then sort of back to square one as the various genres of rap largely turned me off music.
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Reggae being an exception then? Does head banging count as "dance"?

From my side, obviously, I'm a dancer, less agile these days although I still get the odd compliment. Backdrops are still achievable, just can't get back up again.

Other music I listen to? Big band sounds from the likes of Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington. ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac (Pete Green Era and the more poppy version), Long John Baldry, Beatles, Stones, Springs****, John Kongas, Blondie, Who, Tracey Ullman, Suzi Quatro, Siouxie and the Banshees, Jam, Style Council, Prince Buster, Stranglers, Specials, The Beat, Small Faces, Roxy Music, Simple Minds, U2 (crap live though), Ten Sharp, Tears for Fears, Jackson Browne, Chicago, Clash, Pretenders, Moody Blues, Meatloaf, Joan Jett, Guess Who, Them, Frankie gt Hollywood, Melba Moore, Kim Wilde, Eurhythmics, Elvis Costello, Dexy's, Desmond Dekker, Deep Purple, CCR, Communards, Chicago, Cheap Trick, Bananarama, Animals, Amen Corner, 10CC, American Breed... and more, I own vinyl from all of the above so can't really be accused of being a one trick music lover.

[Andy_Faber]

Best definition - anything that you can't dance to. I enjoy listening to music rather than moving to it...perhaps having 3 left feet could be why.

My musical taste has moved from mid 60s to mid 70s rock music / progrock, via punk, reggae, southern US rock to Radiohead etc al, and then sort of back to square one as the various genres of rap largely turned me off music.

But my playlist top 10 acts would be Gong, Neil Young, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ten years After, Allman Brothers, Linkin Park, Mountain if it creates a profile!

I spent my holiday reading A New Day Yesterday by Mike Barnes, a massive recap of all things 70s prog, and it reminded me how much I loved and listened to ‘prog’ from Gryphon to Gentle Giant and Yes to Fruupp. I’m in the process of reacquainting myself with all that tomfoolery and last week I found an amazing Blondel album that I must have bought in around 74 and never played as it’s still in its shrink wrap, I intend to debut it next week. That’s an anecdote by the way, so not everyone will believe it

[Andy_Faber]

Fairport Convention are still going strong. They were on in Buxton last month and I met Ashley Hutchings last year. Once described by Bob Dylan as the most important figure in English folk rock. Nice man...mid seventies but still got it.

I saw Fairport at the Knebworth Festival in August 79, it was billed and announced by them as their farewell gig. I bet they’ve played 5000 gigs since then!

[Geoff Parkstone]

At least 40 of them being at Cropreddy