Following up on my last post Draw Your Strings, here are a couple more pieces which I find interesting. The first piece on the first CD of Western Classical music that I bought was Mozart’s ‘Rondo Alla Turka’ (or Turca). A search for something else (after hearing this I forgot about that original quest) led…
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Draw Your Strings
When I was in school and college, my friends and I used to debate on end the relative merits of the big names of the guitar world as known to us then – Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan…And for long, we swore by these and a few others. Every…
Return To Roots
I have been a little late with my posts the last 2-3 times for a variety of reasons, all unhappy. As usual, I prescribed myself an insane cocktail of the music drug to combat self-doubt and physical pain. There was Ali Farkah Toure and there was Jay-Z, Bach and Metallica, Pat Metheny and Zac Brown…
Right Now (Nov 9 2011)
I finally broke out of the Lindsey Buckingham loop 🙂 And it took some exceptional songs to pull me out of the ‘Seeds We Sow’ groove.
Return To Splendour
As much as I love Fleetwood Mac’s music, I’ve not followed the solo careers of its members. However, my very recent sampling of Lindsey Buckingham’s latest album ‘Seeds We Sow’ released this September had me intrigued enough to buy the CD from Amazon. What can I say but that it’s now on endless loop in…
Covering Note
One of the underlying themes of last week’s post set me off on this one. I find cover versions rich with potential for musicality. It’s tough for an artist to take an original and interpret it in his/her own way. Often the effort falls flat. Sometimes the cover versions strike a chord in us mainly…
A Celebration Not Rushed
Extravagant box sets – many richly done – are the norm for bands celebrating longevity landmarks. Re-worked material, outtakes, rarities, alternate versions, glossy booklets are all par for the course. Often what was released as part of a 20-year celebration gets released at the completion of 25 with a few minor tweaks, betraying the tiredness…
Pop Goes This Note
There has been a steady stream of top-notch female musicians coming out of the UK these last few years that have taken the world by storm with the force of their voices and remarkable expression. The sassy, unrepentant voice of Amy Winehouse, the stunning soul of Duffy (at least on her debut), the fierce passion…
REMember
The past Thursday was not a happy day – cricketer Mansur Ali Khan ‘Tiger’ Pataudi moved to the great beyond, I got a note from my favourite restaurant/bar, known for its weekend live music performances, that the cops have aggressively acted on breaking the ‘unholy’ alliance of drink and live music, and a band whose…
Oh Joy
This week’s post was planned to be something else. And then as what can only be a coincidence, I played ‘You Got It In People’ by Broken Social Scene and ‘Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour With Eric Clapton’. Very different musically from each other but both feature huge bands – 11 musicians each….
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