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My piece on the BBC re Roberta Flack - interview cut from 5 to 2 minutes due to Donald Trump's childlike ramblings !! BBC World News Roberta Flack R.I.P

10 February 1937 - 24 February 2025 9 January 1950 - 28 February 2025

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Bill has mentioned this (on FB) as one of his favourite albums. One to promote and recommend widely - it has so many classic, memorable tracks. Everyone seems to have different favourites from it. I especially love the title track and Windswept. Some of the most stunning guitar I've ever heard on this album, although you wouldn't call it a "guitar album" as such, it's just totally integral to the whole amazing groove! Return to Jazz of Lights - Bill Nelson

Richard Paul Buckler (6 December 1955 – 17 February 2025) was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band the Jam.

Tonight I've begun to assemble the track list/running order for 'My Private Cosmos.' I think it's going to present something of a challenge to those listeners who gravitate more towards the 'straight rock' end of my musical spectrum. Whilst there are plenty of electric guitar parts featured, the structures and surrounding framework of the songs are not exactly orthodox. There's something dark and mysterious about several of the tracks. How to describe things? Some might think of the tracks as resembling 'ambient, psychedelic avant-garde pop songs.' And that's not a bad description, despite its convoluted connotations, but it's only part of the story. Sonically, there's a deep, cavernous quality to several of the tracks, a 'lost in the void' feeling that requires a simpatico response from the listener. There are grandiose moments too, set against stripped back, minimalist verses. Electronic distress gets mixed up with smooth, tuneful guitar tones to create a feeling of gleaming chrome blighted by rust and decay. The album pulls together several threads of my musical interests and weaves them into an obscure, perhaps 'baroque' tapestry. It's sometimes familiar sometimes bizarre. Certainly not an album to be grasped and appreciated in a superficial listen, but, I hope, one that will blossom fully from extended plays. It's a slightly weird work, a little different from my usual, but also perfectly reflecting and extending some aspects that you may have become familiar with over the last few years. Oh, and at the moment, it's going to be a double album, maybe even a triple masterwork. More info will be posted here as the shape of the album progresses. 😉

I'm very much moving towards 'DAZZLEBOX' as a strong contender for the first album release of 2021, which will be the second of my Cubase recordings after the upcoming 'NEW VIBRATO WONDERLAND' album. I know this is pushing all the previously recorded but unreleased albums back even further but I'm rather enthused about this one and thinks it's something special. This will be a totally instrumental album. There are 22 tracks recorded for it so far, so it may even end up being a double album. Here are the titles of the tracks completed, though there may well be a couple of additions later on. This is not a running order, just a list of track titles: 'SLEEPLESS CITY.' 'FOOTSTEPS IN SNOW.' THUNDER, PERFECT MIND.' 'THE CLOCKWORK LIGHT MACHINE.' 'GREEN TIGER IN THE GOLD.' 'REVERSE ENGINEERING.' 'SELECTATONE.' 'TREMOLA.' 'VENETIAN SUBMARINE.' 'WHEN WE WERE BEAUTIFUL.' 'IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL.' 'BILLY'S BLUES.' 'MOONLIGHT RIDER.' 'BLUE SPIN.' 'UNEARTHLINGS.' 'THE INFERNAL MACHINE.' 'ANTIQUE GODS.' 'COVERED IN CHROME.' 'THE MEMORY MUSEUM. (ROOM ONE.)' 'COASTING.' 'AMIGO.' 'OTHERWORLD.' ' '

I WAS GOING TO PUT THIS PARTICULAR THREAD INTO THE 'A BILL NELSON MISCELLANY' BUT THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE NICE TO GIVE IT ITS OWN SPACE. I HOPE TO ADD MORE IMAGES TO IT AS TIME ALLOWS BUT MY INTENTION IS TO PUT TOGETHER A PERSONAL COLLECTION OF GUITAR AND GUITAR RELATED IMAGES THAT HAVE A PARTICULAR RESONANCE WITH MY BACKGROUND AND HISTORY AS A GUITARIST. IN THIS THREAD YOU WILL FIND CLUES TO MY LONG TIME INFATUATION WITH THE GUITAR, THE ECLECTIC AND ECCENTRIC, THE WIDE RANGING AND UNUSUAL, AND THE THINGS THAT HAVE COLOURED MY IDEAS AS A PLAYER OVER THE YEARS. HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY IY! COUNTRY GUITARIST JOE MAPHIS WITH AN UNUSUAL ARCHTOP AND STANDEL AMPLIFIER. IN THE 1960S I BOUGHT AN ALBUM OF JOE PLAYING ALONGSIDE FELLOW COUNTRY GUITARIST MERLE TRAVIS. HERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE OF JOW WITH HIS DOUBLE NECK GUITAR, ONE NECK BEING A NORMAL SIX-STRING AND THE OTHER AN ELECTRIC MANDOLIN. WHO ARE THESE WEIRDOS? NEVER HEARD OF THEM BUT THAT GUITAR LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO MY ISANA BLACK PEARL ARCHTOP SO I SUSPECT IT'S GERMAN AND FROM THE SAME FACTORY. ISANA 'BLACK PEARL' GUITAR. I OWN AN IDENTICAL ONE. 'SAMANTHA' FROM 'BEWITCHED' WITH A VERY PSYCHEDELIC ARCHTOP AND A RATHER FETCHING MINI-DRESS! ME WITH GUITAR DESIGNER EXTRODINAIRE, JOHN BACKLUND. THE GUITAR I'M HOLDING IS ONE OF JOHN'S DESIGNS AND MANUFACTURED BY THE EASTWOOD COMPANY. AS YOU CAN SEE ITS SHAPE IS SIMILAR TO THE ONE 'SAMANTHA' IS HOLDING IN THE PREVIOUS PHOTO'. THIS WAS A BAND I LISTENED TO WHEN I WAS FIRST STARTING OUT ON GUITAR. PETER JAY AND THE JAYWALKERS FEATURED FOUR GUITAISTS WHO ALL PLAYED VOX PHANTOMS. THE STRANGE LOOKING VOX AMP IS AN EXTREMELY RARE BEAST AND WASN'T VERY SUCCESSFUL. IRINICALLY, THE ONLY OTHER EXAMPLE I'VE EVER SEEN WAS OWNED BY A GUITARIST IN A LOCAL YORKSHIRE BAND. CALLED 'THE FONTANAS.' AND HERE ARE 'THE FONTANAS'. YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT STRANGE VOX AMPLIFIER BEHIND THE LEGS OF THE BASS GUITARIST, (MIDDLE OF THE THREE GUITARISTS.) THE GUITARIST AT THE RIGHT WAS JOHNNY WELLSBY, WHO I KNEW WHEN I WAS JUST STARTING OUT ON GUITAR. HE WAS A FEW YEARS OLDER THAN ME AND WOULD BOAST THAT HE WAS 'THE FASTEST GUITARIST IN WAKEFIELD.' MY DAD USED TO CALL HIM 'BIG HEAD'! THE MAN WHO REALLY INSPIRED ME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT PLAYING THE GUITAR, THE GREAT DUANE EDDY WHOSE SINGLE 'BECAUSE THEY'RE YOUNG' I LOVED WHEN MY MOTHER BOUGHT IT FOR ME, OVER 50 YEARS AGO.

Burning Shed has the "Cries and Whispers" book at half-price until the end of February. "Detailing the fascinating musical adventures of Richard Barbieri, Rob Dean, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn and David Sylvian from 1983 to 1991, the book takes in Sylvian’s solo work, The Dolphin Brothers, Dali’s Car, the brilliant but ill-feted reunion release Rain Tree Crow, and more. Designed by Carl Glover, it includes many rare photographs, plus contributions from Bill Nelson, Johnny Marr, Bill Bruford, Robbie Aceto, Simon Raymonde, Ivo, Martin Fry, Michael Brook, Tim Bowness, Paul Morley, Thomas Dolby, the late Colin Vearncombe and others." https://burningshed.com/store/flash-sale/anthony-reynolds_cries-and-whispers_book