Category: Music

From old rock band Sweet, all about changes.

I actually met the vocalist/lead guitarist (with the long silver hair, can’t remember his name) at the King’s Arms in Wiltshire with The Englishman.

I think the song is about his dealing with cancer, because apparently he died of it not long ago.

Or it could be about his getting married to some hottie in Vegas immediately after hearing the diagnosis — it’s difficult to tell, because he had a fantastic sense of humor.  Lovely man:  quiet, unassuming, just an ordinary bloke whose band made it big and never let it get to his head.

Not bad, for a lesbian.

And yes, she does look like Kevin Kline.

Triggered by a flashback to a song The Atlantic Showband played, herewith some music of that time.

Hey, we enjoyed playing that stuff.  And see if you can guess which one triggered the flashback…

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Everybody loves somebody… sometime.

It’s been in my head since yesterday — I woke up singing it this morning — and it’s my favorite Dino song.

I have to admit that while I liked Cream’s studio albums, I never cared for their live performances, which one of my musician friends once described as “three guys all playing something at the same time”.

Nevertheless, I would recommend to you all this very sympathetic retrospective of Cream’s founding, flaming and falling…

…followed by a look at their last concert series at the Albert Hall — played, it should be said, when they were old, had lost all their youthful baggage (drugs, booze, pointless squabbling etc.) but still retained more than a few traces of their musical prowess.  Jack Bruce even makes the old and terrible Gibson “violin” EB-1 bass guitar sound okay, which is a feat all by itself, while Eric and Ginger do nothing more than work their usual magic.

It’s not a bad way to spend a couple-three hours on a Saturday.

Sweet Baby James and that smiling face.

Best bass line in any country/rock song.