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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
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Monganaut
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 28 March 2015 CE
Mar 29, 2015, 17:06
Not listened to lot this week, spent a pleasant 5 days mooching around Dawlish/ Devon and environs.

Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984
Stumbled across this in a charity shop in Exeter. Beautiful African thumb piano and instrumentation lovelyness. Seriously chilled and funky at the same time. played it all week really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy_C3XiH6O8&list=PLwOeeAAuJkW6Au5RGnF02Rgz8mHBHBnLt

Low Frequency In Stereo - Futura
Not played this in ages. Kinda like a more motorik/rhythmic version of The American Analogue Set, good stuff.
Solar System - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk2UZjSXnUc
Astro Kopp - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PB3GNlV4lA

Rest has been stuff on walkman shuffle. Has thrown up some groovy sequences that's fer sure.

Holiday reading was...

Simon Napier Bells 'Black Vinyl/White Powder'.
Wow! the first few chapters (birth of rock n roll/ 50's) are quite shockinging in the blatant exploitation/grooming of working class youth by their public schoolboy managers and racoteurs. Hell, Lional Bart and Larry Parnes take the desription 'preditory' to a whole new level with their behavior to their consorts. Makes perfect sense reading this how the behaviour of people like Jimmy Saville came to be almost accepted amongst people in the entertainment system up through the 50's,60's and 70's. The class system was in full effect, where artists were treated as something to be tolerated cos' they made the money, and thought of as rather unsavoury, much as actors were in the vaudelville days. Dunno how true this is, but for 'Rock Island Line', Lonnie Donegan was allegedly payed the princeley sume of £3.50, his session fee, nothing else.
Gets a little less intersting the further it goes, but worth a look, if only for those shocking first few chapters. Backs up what I already surmised a long time ago, managers, agents and Labels are just parasites. Also lays bare the blatent chart rigging that went on from the very start.

Other Book - Sympathy For The Devil - Brian Jones biog
This is a good read, if, like me, you always thought ole' Bri got a rum deal from the Stones, and all their later self mythologising. OK, he could be a dick sometimes, who can't, but FFS, he was the fire in their belly, he pushed them to be better, he got them the early gigs, he was the purist, the driven one, the true musician. As he slowly lost control of his 'baby', and was slowly inched out of the creative process, you can see his downward spiral was inevitable. Not only cos' of his background (cold, loveless, standoffish post war middle classes) but the fact that his love of the music is how he validated himself. Perhaps the saddest thing about the biog is that neither Charley or Bill stood up for Brian, even though they knew the way he was being treated/ manipulted by Jagger/Richards and Oldham was wrong. Fuckin' cowards the pair of em' happy to go with the flow, as long as the money was rolling in.

Anyways, have a good week.
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