I won’t lie – it was a shock! Just as my good friend and co band leader Mr. Grimly and I were putting the final touches to the mix of our latest musical offering we got the call from our agent. It wasn’t a positive conversation.
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We’ve all had them ….. and some can be worse than others.
A song for Valentine’s Day.
In 2019 my good friend and co band leader Mr Grimly sampled a female vocalist singing ‘Let love shine’ and ‘We are beautiful.’
The rest is mystery.
It may seem strange to be writing a review of a book published over 30 years ago – but its subject is Miles Davis, one of the musical giants of the last half of the 20th century and reading it is as challenging as his music was. Moreover, despite being ghosted, it seems that all Quincy Troupe did was write down (with little apparent editing) what Miles said. So, there is little likelihood that Miles would feel mis represented…… which is telling.
Grandchildren – don’t you just love ’em?
Occasionally you have to take yourself aside for a good talking to, I find.
The Band had the Big Pink, Eric played dominoes at 461 Ocean Boulevard and Mr Stills had a whole railway station, whilst The Bad Dads (well two thirds of them) had Dock Cottage. It was all the rage in the 70s, bands would go all residential in big rambling houses in remote or exotic places in order to craft their next album, largely un-interrupted by the outside world. These sojourns would typically last for months with music being made at any time day or night – as the inspiration took them (or as Calvin Samuels, bass player in Manassas, put it ‘whenever the boss said so, as he was paying’).
The music industry can be a hard taskmaster. It’s not enough (according to our agent) to write, record and produce half decent songs (‘if only!!’ some may comment………), you also have to have visuals.
Visuals ??!!
Yup … to be a successful band you have to do music videos!
