To go from "God Save The Queen" to "Fanfare For The Common Man", we'd have to be a republic 😉 Bring it on! Although Copland wrote the original in response to the US entering WW2. So that would probably rule it out for most countries other than the US. Tricky business, isn't it?

It's all about England, and wouldn't be acceptable to the other three home nations. Unless of course you were thinking only of England! And someone once said that the appropriate responses to it - read the lyrics - are "No. No. No. No. Get them yourself!". 😄

Steve, meet David. David, this is Steve. I think you have something to discuss... 😄

The best method in such circumstances is for the moderator, list owner, Mayor, or whatever, to forward, with your permission, your email address to the person that you are trying to contact. That way, no privacy is violated, and it's up to the person you're trying to contact whether they respond to you.

I'm thinking of conventional-sounding jazz, something with Bebop lines or Fusion or Bossa Nova/Latin, chromatic phrasing, and alt harmony. Well you're probably in the wong place, then 😉 Surely the whole point of Bill's music is that it's not "strictly" anything - jazz, blues, rock, Mongolian throat singing, etc. And why stick labels on everything, anyway?

Yup - #68 here. A lovely, lovely book - beautifully photographed and assembled. Thank you, Martin - and of course Bill as well.

So was this recorded on Bill's Mackie equipment, before he moved to Cubase? Or have I lost 6 years somehow? 😮

It came in 5th :(

Amen to that. A King of the Telecaster. I have only "88 Elmira Street" and "Cruisin' Deuces". So much good music to hear - so little time :(

I have actually just responded to a report of this on a national newspaper's website. And the word I used was also "silly". It's actually the "1812 Overture" that they have removed. A piece that was written to commemorate the heroic defence of a country from an invading army. Of course that country was Russia, but the context was the precise opposite of what is happening today. When Phil Spector died a year ago, one newspaper published a piece saying that we should not listen to his music because he was a murderer. My response, calling, on the same grounds, for Caravaggio's paintings to be removed from public view, didn't go down very well :) Make sure your copy of "War and Peace" is safe. They will be coming for it next!

I missed that - didn't see it reported here in the UK. An important influence on Miles, turning him onto the music and culture of the late 60s, as well as being a formidable performer in her own right. I don't have any of her own work, but will dig out "Filles de Kilimanjaro", with her on the cover, and track 5 "Mademoiselle Mabry". (And having done that, I am reminded that it uses that catchy chord change from "The Wind Cries Mary". Betty is often credited as having introduced Hendrix's music to Miles.)

I don't usually contribute to RIP threads, but he was a very funny man, and he himself or his scripts for others have made me laugh literally all through my life. He will be sorely missed, but he has left us such a wonderful legacy.

2 copies sold now, Martin! 😉

In the early days of coloured vinyl, they were often very inferior in quality compared to traditional black discs. So that's a "yes", Alec :) BTW, there are 32 white copies of DP for sale on discogs.com , starting at US $4.

December 04, 1971 - 50 years to the day as I write this. Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around, but some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground. If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you. Ask yer granpa. I do sometimes wonder how the stupid with the flare gun felt about being immortalised in one of the most famous rock songs ever ... but couldn't admit it :)

I assume that the box will be the same size as the other boxsets :) The original box came from an EU supplier, but for subsequent boxsets Brexit forced them to use a UK supplier. That's why your Sunburst Finish box is slightly taller than the others.

Try asking Dizzyjam what's happening. You're dealing with them, not with Dreamsville.

I'm with Brassneck - I don't find the pictures in the slightest bit funny. (I'm no fan of the monarchy, so it's not because you've used the Queen.) And I don't want a remake of "Sunburst Finish". Humour in music? Start with the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band - though I doubt that they would be understood in North America. Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" always makes me smile, as well as being a fantastic piece of work. Sadly, I have to put Randy Newman away in the "should have got into, but never got round to it" file. And to get back to "Sunburst Finish", surely "Blazing Apostles" is nothing but ironic or satirical humour?

Continue the phallic imagery - replace it with a model of a rocketship :) Would also create some tension due to the conflict between his clothes/hairstyle and the rocketship - similar to BBD's retro-futurism from around Modern Music time.

I was reading one of the guitar mags the other day. I forget who it was, but this guy was going to be playing on stage with Les Paul. One of the numbers had a really difficult, fast, high-notes sequence in it, so our hero took great pains and a long time to learn to play it. He pulled it off perfectly on stage, and then looked across at Les Paul - who was pissing himself laughing! "I recorded that an octave down at half the speed!", said Les 😄