I read this journal entry soon after it was posted, but I just took a moment to read it again. I always appreciate how Bill gives us that peek behind the curtain. Something many artist shy away from, which is a shame.
This has been an incredibly tough year for everyone, but Bill's music is one of the things that helps me struggle through it all. And each time a read about Bill opening a pouch of "Whiskas" it brings a big smile to my face.
So keep up the good work, Bill, and always feel free to share your thoughts. I know many of us truly enjoy the intimate view inside your daily life. And, of course, the music is always superb. I've really been enjoying New Vibrato Wonderland. Although it's odd that I've been working from home the past eleven months, but I seem to have less time to listen to music. I guess I'll have to do something about that.
'All men are hungry, all men are in search of time'.....so wrote Steve Harley on what I consider to be his best song on his best (and massively underrated album), Timeless Flight from 1976.
That 'timeless flight' is what we were all on as kids....even though some of us still felt that weird connection with mortality at an age where you really should have no real feelings about such a concept...like Bill, I certainly did, and it creates a kind of strange, early melancholia which seems to never really disappear - it's not depression...more of a state of mind which kind of prevents one from going down the disco as a teenager and 'throwing yourself into the middle of things'....you kind of stay sitting on the outside, watching the people at the disco dancing rather than joining in, so to speak.
Listen to that Harley album if you're not familiar with it....it's his best work by far in my opinion, and the song about the 'timeless flight' of youth( All Men Are Hungry) is both beautiful and heart breaking - I've thought it a work of greatness since it came out, but it's meaning has changed as I've grown older, and become more relevant, and I intend to go and hear him sing it again once this situation will allow.....
I read this journal entry soon after it was posted, but I just took a moment to read it again. I always appreciate how Bill gives us that peek behind the curtain. Something many artist shy away from, which is a shame.
This has been an incredibly tough year for everyone, but Bill's music is one of the things that helps me struggle through it all. And each time a read about Bill opening a pouch of "Whiskas" it brings a big smile to my face.
So keep up the good work, Bill, and always feel free to share your thoughts. I know many of us truly enjoy the intimate view inside your daily life. And, of course, the music is always superb. I've really been enjoying New Vibrato Wonderland. Although it's odd that I've been working from home the past eleven months, but I seem to have less time to listen to music. I guess I'll have to do something about that.
'All men are hungry, all men are in search of time'.....so wrote Steve Harley on what I consider to be his best song on his best (and massively underrated album), Timeless Flight from 1976.
That 'timeless flight' is what we were all on as kids....even though some of us still felt that weird connection with mortality at an age where you really should have no real feelings about such a concept...like Bill, I certainly did, and it creates a kind of strange, early melancholia which seems to never really disappear - it's not depression...more of a state of mind which kind of prevents one from going down the disco as a teenager and 'throwing yourself into the middle of things'....you kind of stay sitting on the outside, watching the people at the disco dancing rather than joining in, so to speak.
Listen to that Harley album if you're not familiar with it....it's his best work by far in my opinion, and the song about the 'timeless flight' of youth( All Men Are Hungry) is both beautiful and heart breaking - I've thought it a work of greatness since it came out, but it's meaning has changed as I've grown older, and become more relevant, and I intend to go and hear him sing it again once this situation will allow.....
Ace guitars, they look fabulous together......black and gold, always works for me..😎