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This wonderful album, first released in January 2012, is now available as a digital download from Bandcamp! And Bandcamp Fridays are back again - support your favourite artists!!!

Ahead of the new CD release Bill tells us about, Is there any chance of Caliban & the Chrome Harmonion as a Bandcamp Friday download. One I don't have! 🙂❤️

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Great album and packaging, splendid! Thanks Bill😉

I'VE ALREADY WRITTEN A PIECE ABOUT PETER GREEN'S PASSING IN 'THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE WINDOW' FORUM BUT WILL COPY THE MAIN PART OF IT AGAIN HERE WITH AN EXTRA BIT OF PERSONAL INFO NOT MENTIONED IN MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE: Peter was one of the greatest blues guitartists of all time. BB King said that he was the only other blues player who could make him sweat. I've admired Peter Green's playing since first hearing 'The Supernatural' when he was with John Mayall. His work on the first Fleetwood Mac albums was outstanding and his version of 'Need Your Love So Bad' was soulful and showcased his heartfelt vocals. 'Man Of The World', 'The Green Manalishi' and 'Albatross' were all classic tracks which I loved back in the day. In the late 1960s I saw Peter play with the original Fleetwood Mac at a pub just outside of Bradford. I went with fellow Global Village member Alan Quinn. I think Global Village drummer Bryan Holden may have come with us too. There was no stage at the pub and Fleetwood Mac set up on the floor, the same level as the standing audience. I stood just a couple of feet away from Peter and his playing was a revelation. I leaned so much about feel in that hour or so of witnessing him play. All that was before Peter's mental health condition kicked in and there were many 'wilderness' years ahead. Thankfully, Peter eventually returned to live performance but still seemed somewhat fragile. He was 73, only a year and a bit older than myself. It saddens me so much that we're losing an entire generation of great musicians at such an alarming rate. Rest in peace and God speed Peter. Additional to the above, I just remembered that I actually met Peter briefly in the early 1970s. There was an infamous club in London called 'The Speakeasy' which was an after hours hang out and watering hole for many famous musicians, some of who played there in impromptu jam sessions. The club was frequented by people such as The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Neil Young, Johnny Winter, etc, the list goes on and on. I first visited the 'Speak', (as it was known to its regulars,) with Jenny Haan of Babe Ruth and I remember on that night Peter Green was sitting in a corner of the club. I wen't to say hello, wanting to tell him that I was an admirer of his playing but he seemed totally out of it and somewhat confused. It was just a few seconds interaction that ended with me feeling rather disappointed and embarrassed. I guess this would be sometime around 1974. But the speakeasy was a great place, a members only club where musicians could relax and share stories. And sometimes get absolutely legless. I met Curtis Knight there once. Another time, around 4 am in the morning, I left the club with Be Bop's agent, John Jackson, who was driving me back to my hotel in his Camaro car. There was very little traffic at that time of night but when we pulled up for a red light, a low rumble was heard and when we looked out of the window a cool American Hot Rod had pulled up next to us...and at the driving wheel was Jeff Beck. Jeff looked across at the Camaro and when the light turned green took off like a rocket, beating us to the next set of lights effortlessly. As we pulled up alongside him the next set of lights he looked across at us again with a smirk on his face. 😄 Happy days! Here's a photo' of the entrance to 'The Speakeasy.'

Part of the things I do is art, mostly more simple illustrations on paper and (more recently) digital. Occasionally I use other mediums such as acrylic paints. I thought I would post some of them here, since it doesn't seem to currently be a thing on this forum. If anyone else does artwork, I would be happy to see them! It's great to see what other people can and have done. Especially now with so many posts about the passing of people, it's good to hear about news, but what is with that? Bit of a mood killer. Here's some Bill related ones to get this started. The robot on the cover of Sound on Sound. I decided to go for a different angle than the cover shows. This was done on my iPad This is the picture used for my current profile picture. Bill of course. A quicker one done on my computer, using a fairly small Wacom tablet, that was actually the first (proper!) device I used for digital work. For this one I decided to make it more like Bill's style, with science fiction elements, a style more reminiscent of Jean Cocteau, and of course, a guitar (You can tell I'm not good at drawing guitars though.) This was the first thing I did on my iPad when I got it in December last year. So it's been a bit, but I've finally found the courage to post it here. When I make more, or when I decide to, I'll post more as a reply to this post. It may not be all related to Bill of course, since that's not the only topic/person I draw, that would be weird and creepy in fact.. 😂😂😶🤔😇

I suspect some of you will be interested in seeing this: https://www.goldminemag.com/features/goldmine-premiere-of-be-bop-deluxe-documentary 😉 😃

Can somebody make "lesson" video of "Bring back the spark" intro Riff for me?

Santa knew just what I wanted this year. All of these were waiting under the tree for me this morning! I bought all the 2-disc sets over the last year or so, thinking that would be enough. But as a completist, I couldn’t resist any longer and put them all on my list this year. Now to find the time to listen to it all…

Just been watching an episode of Pop Quest (UK music quiz show) and they have a feature on setting up gear for the Modern music gig at the Hamersmith odeon with chats from tour manager Robbie Wilson and promoter Harvey Goldsmith and at the end the contestants are asked questions then they play an excerpt of Kiss of Light I'm going to try and get it on youtube if that's ok with Bill

Studio Cadet is here despite the torrential downpour. Thanks to Postie and can’t wait till Christmas to listen to it. Looks very fine…as usual.

Recommendation: Listen to the album, 'Quiet Bells', by Bill Nelson, on a misty, slightly chilly Spring morning, without preconceptions or expectations. Sometimes it's amazing how all the worry and bullshit can disappear into nothingness in the face of quiet modest beauty. Here's wishing that all the "Joes" and "Vlads" of the world can let go of the past, and step into a future in which we're delighted by artists and nature, not terrorised by idiots! 🌻🌍🔔 Personal favourite track from the album: 'A Perfect Night - The Dawn Rejoices'. That E-bow is something else!

What an event that would be after the year we have all endured . And as Bill fans we are all at the age where we will have been vaccinated !!! LOL Give it a thought Bill. !!

As the General Election exit polls reveal, it looks like the morally obnoxious and cynically lying leader of the Tory party is set to gain a majority of the votes in the latest General Election, dooming us all to yet another five years of pathetic Conservative government, trampling down the so-called 'working classes' and paving the way for the extremely wealthy to carve an even greater divide between the 'have nots' and 'have lots.' This tragic and divisive election seems to have been fought purely on the naive and, to be perfectly blunt, ignorant topic off 'Brexit'. (The dumbest move this country has ever attempted to inflict on itself.) The election has not been about real political policies or any concerns about the well being of ordinary people. Sadly, we so-called 'ordinary people' will eventually find out that we have shot ourselves in the foot. A big mistake and the repercussions of our error will come to haunt our lives for the next five years. We now must reap what we have sown...This is truly a mirror image of the mindless Trump ignorance in America. Shame on us...

Hot on the heels of 'All The Fun Of The Fair'... With a release date of 1st December, 'Starlight Stories' is now available to pre-order from Burning Shed.(https://burningshed.com/store/billnelson/bill-nelson_starlight-stories_cd) A fantastic Christmas present if ever there was one!!!

Two photos I took on the night. I apologise for the poor quality of these. I was at the side of the stage, it was a small stage with low lighting and a low ceiling and there was a microphone stand blocking my view of Bill!

Sad to see - Glasgow-born David McCallum, oboe-ist and heartthrob spy Ilya Kuryakin of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ Dies at 90. Another childhood icon gone.