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Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1

TOY Album: Co-Producer and Guitarist Mark Plati Interview about David Bowie's TOY Album Can't wait for Toy:Box...It's going to be epic!

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I know nothing re this and haven't had time to read the link, but it's got to be a joke..I think someone's taking the p.....quite funny though.

He doesn't seem to realise the contradiction of the colonialist Stars and Stripes and the native American head gear, but then, I suspect there's an awful lot that he doesn't realise.

You're all Marxist muppets on here with a large portion of cognitive dissonance stuffed up your arrises. :)

From a guy who declares himself a defender of laissez-faire capitalism and name drops Ayn Rand . . . "Fascism and communism are two variants of statism. Both are forms of dictatorship. Neither one recognizes individual rights nor permits individual freedom. The differences are non-essential: fascism is racial statism and communism is statism of economic class. Communism advocates the abolition of private property; socialism advocates government ownership of the means of production." -- Harry Binswanger, contributor to Forbes

Groundhogs ~ Eleventh Hour One of my favourite ever songs. Great guitar right through this one, and I think Tony McPhee must have been a little pissed with something the day/s they recorded the solos for this track. A great guitar player that never seems to be mentioned much nowadays.

Takes me back to 1965 when Howlin' Wolf was my hero and I bought his 'Moanin in the Moonlight' LP. Still listen to it on CD.

What the hell's going on with political commentary in the US? There seems a whole alternative universe on Fox News (and RW social media), in which the amassing of Russian tanks and troops on Ukraine's border is seen as the result, not of Putin's imperialist militarism, but of a clever plot by Biden and the Democrats. And those arguing that Biden & Co masterminded this game in which Putin is essentially just a pawn, seem to be the same people who, not so long ago, argued that Biden was so riddled with dementia, and the Dems so pathetically weak, that Biden's presidency would be an ineffectual flop. But now Biden's somehow controlling Putin remotely, and Putin (a kind of peace-loving modern-day Jesus by comparison) isn't responsible at all. 😄

Bill used to be friends with the people who ran a pub in a village called Monk Fryston, near Selby. The pub was called The Crown Inn. This is a photograph from an impromptu gig thrown (possibly for a birthday party) in around 1989 at the pub. There was no rehearsal other than going through a couple of cover songs whilst setting their gear up, the rest of the set was a jam. Accompanying Bill and Ian on stage are Steve Walker (from 'To Heaven A Jet'), Leon Phillips (on bass guitar) and hiding at the back is Dave Purcell (also from 'To Heaven A Jet'). Apparently the pub was packed and (unsurprisingly) the gig went down a storm!

Thanks for the generous comment, Alec🙏... There's just something so special about the cover art on Sad Wings of Destiny, by Patrick James Woodroffe. The torture, torment and pain of the grounded angel, now wearing the Devils cross, is palpable, coupled with a sense of total regret and remorse, and a complete resignation and acceptance of the eternal fate that lies ahead. I think it's a wonderful piece, very powerful. Nowhere left to run, but the journey inside.

That photograph was taken around 1983 in the kitchen of Haddlesey House where I lived at that time. The Dalmation is Wallis. She was a wonderful dog with a good pedigree, bought as a puppy from Harrods pet department in London. Incidentally, the shirt I'm wearing once belonged to my father who bought it when we were on holiday in the mid 1950s. I still have it though it's too small for me now I'm afraid. 😕 The high waisted trousers were by Kathrine Hamnett whose clothes I often wore back then. The pine table under the tablecloth in front of me is actually here in my studio right now...it holds my computer and printer and various other things. One of the few objects I've managed to hang on to since those days.

It you like the more atmospheric, ambient type of recordings, you really shouldn't miss Stereo Star Maps and the quite recent The Last Lamplighter release...Both essential imho and two of my personal faves. ..and, as alec mentions, Theatre Of Falling Leaves, again a definite must have, and (as both wadcorp and myself have commented a couple of times before), unbelievably still available as a physical CD😲, for the bargain basement price of £5:99!!...you'd be a fool to miss it, and much the poorer.😉 ..and as Andre mentions, Gleaming Without Lights.....

This is the old ' Majestic' Cinema in Leeds, (now, predictably, a nightclub.) In the mid 1960s I went there to see 'The Sound Of Music' film with my then girlfriend Lynne Holliday and her grandmother. The cinema's interior was indeed majestic with a huge, highly decorative auditorium. I was a bit bored with the film as, at that time, I saw myself as a more 'avant garde' type of guy and Julie Andrews seemed too sweet and conservative to me, but nowadays, I can appreciate the movie a little more. 😉

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...and the last one re this edit, a night time/moonlit/snowy version

Freddie Mercury - Mr. Bad Guy