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Embarcadero BART, 28 September (for Quinault)

Steve, Very well put. Marvellous Realms has it's own atmosphere, like so many of Bill's albums, and it definitely gets better with each spin. I downloaded it as well, as I'm still waiting for my hard copies. I also downloaded Stupid/Serious, a very different kettle of fish, and just as enjoyable. When I downloaded Stupid/Serious, track 9 disappeared. I eventually found it under a different song title and artist. For me, each download is a new adventure. 🙄 I've had both albums in rotation for a couple of weeks now, and loving every minute of it. 😎 I hope to get the actual physical copies this week. Not sure if it's the postal strike in the UK or the increasing unreliability of the US mail, but this is the longest I've every had to wait. Burning Shed shipped the CD's out promptly as always, so it's nothing to do with them. Patiently waiting in Florida 🌞

"Couldn't make it fit in France (Juan-le-Pins)? I’m unsure of the meaning of that." ...they couldn't get the new neck to fit the body of the bass guitar...I would assume. Personally, I don't think a fretless bass would have suited the overall Drastic Plastic vibe/sound..It had somewhat of a hard, angular edge. A fretless may have sounded ok on 'Visions of Endless Hopes' and 'Islands of the Dead', but I think that then, that would have seemed rather disjointed and out of place, with the rest of the recordings..No, imo, much better the way it was/is....Just my opinion ofc.

Bill Nelson is a musician's musician.😎 What an honor to be left off of any of those Rolling Stone magazine lists.

Are you referring to ‘Good evening, Blazing Appstles, can I help you’?

If you're a AFOS fan like me you should check out this Peel Session, if only for the classic dry wit of John Peel on commentary between songs,with many mentions of our Bill of course! https://youtu.be/7ND_HjB7c0I?si=whn67PaEp3UCdmvP

The seller in question has sold several copies of both ‘Dreamland to Starboard’ and ‘Custom Deluxe’…as well as multiple copies of other artists rare albums. The artwork colouring is slightly out from the original, and the CD label artwork has a much wider border around the disc edge than a genuine one which goes almost right to the edge of the disc.

Thank you also. I think it’s still usual for most records to be released of a Friday?

Been getting reaquainted with Clocks & Dials, the last couple of days, and wow!, what a fab ride it is. 38 sumptuous tracks on this double CD delight, and almost impossible to single one out. But I'll choose this one, this time. Mystery Vortex (Oberon Touchstone)... ...and here's a nice pic of Bill signing my copies of Clocks, and Golden Melodies, at the 2008 Nelsonica meet & greet. ...It's one of my favourite albums and highly recommended = a buy you will definitely not regret...😎

Last week I got shots of a song thrush and a little egret, today it's a grey heron... ...and... ...my first great egret! Plus a cool cloudscape.

So I was this day old when I realized that front facing release pages in the "Store" are simply flown in from their chronological spot in the discography. Which makes . . . perfect sense. I was also this day old when I figured out that, at the same moment that a new release appears in the "Store," that page gets added to the discography. This kind of blindness to the obvious I would like to attribute to the vastness of Bill's catalog, and to the long history many of us have had with it. (This is going to sound like a rationalization, which it is, kind of, but stay with me . . . ). All those old 80s and 90s albums, which we tracked down on vinyl and cassette and CD, constitute one part of our experience with his music, whereas so much of the material released in this century we bought directly from him his various websites. I see copies of "Vistamix" and "Modern Music" in the used LP bins all the time, but I've never seen "Clocks and Dials" out in the wild, as it were. So "Two-Fold" comes from one part of my private Nelson cosmos, and "Arcadian Salon" from another, in terms of how I might view those two releases as per the discography overall. Hope that makes sense!

Wow, what a great shot, I don't think I've seen this before. Looks like some kind of function/after show gathering, possibly? Any background info on this Jon? BTW, imho, I do think Woody gets decent recognition for his drumming talents, but outside Bowie fans appreciation, I never thought Trevor Bolder really got/gets the accolades he deserved as a top bass player. Just my thoughts. Great pic😎👍 ..Mick Ronson Memorial concert?

..."Me? I've got enough music in me for a thousand years yet, and that's all I care about" 😎

Thomas Dolby, 11 November 2013 in Lawrence, Kansas. Photo by MiniCoopGuy. .

1976 UK white label vinyl 7" test pressing for the single...(CTTS b-side)

The Clash ~ ClampdownThe Clash - Clampdown (Official Audio)

Sunday Girl (Remastered) Blondie - Sunday Girl

More or less regarded as a weed/nuisance, but really quite pretty. Back garden earlier this evening. We like to leave a nice bit of natural vegetation for the critters, creatures and birds. Rather concerning is that insect numbers seem way down this year. In fact for the last couple of years or so. We've hardly seen any butterflies, moths, bees, crane flies etc, etc....and there is a small stream running at the bottom of the garden. I don't know if this is a local/regional issue, or more widespread. My guess is that it probably reflects a wider, general trend.....I might do a bit of research on this.