vrijdag 21 september 2012
woensdag 19 september 2012
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (Dick Cavett Show 1969)
Vandaag 42 jaar geleden overleed Jimi Hendrix ,maar zijn muziek leeft voort Jimi R.I.P.
maandag 17 september 2012
Awna Teixeira - Faden (De Wegwijzer 13 Sept..2012)
Ik kom nog even terug op het concert van Awna en Bart vorige week in De Wegwijzer.Deze mooie opname van een van de hoogtepunten van de avond kwam ik tegen op mijn FB pagina.Sluit mooi aan op mijn eerdere blogbericht , daar kan ik met mijn simpele toestelletje natuurlijk niet tegen op.Filmer ,bedankt!!
Faden (van het album"Where The Darkness Goes)
Faden was a fiery soul
His eyes would open,you would know
With his fire,he did love
Bigger than the sky could hold
In the morning he would comb his hair
Clench his fist and punch the air
He could easily lose control
With fire you can shape gold
Pearl and brandy soaked in the sun
He,d dance and holler around
A mind for lovers,a taste for thorn
easy eyes as black as coal
In the mirror he,d stare long and hard
Pat his face with aftershave
He came and went day after day
Looking for a love he could name
She,s a darling sweet desire
A burning fever blazing high
Sweet it burns the story told,
with fire you can shape gold.
Foto Hans Janssen
Faden (van het album"Where The Darkness Goes)
Faden was a fiery soul
His eyes would open,you would know
With his fire,he did love
Bigger than the sky could hold
In the morning he would comb his hair
Clench his fist and punch the air
He could easily lose control
With fire you can shape gold
Pearl and brandy soaked in the sun
He,d dance and holler around
A mind for lovers,a taste for thorn
easy eyes as black as coal
In the mirror he,d stare long and hard
Pat his face with aftershave
He came and went day after day
Looking for a love he could name
She,s a darling sweet desire
A burning fever blazing high
Sweet it burns the story told,
with fire you can shape gold.
Foto Hans Janssen
zaterdag 15 september 2012
Awna Teixeira & Bart De Win (De Wegwijzer 13 Sept.2012)
The Little Review (Where Darkness Goes)
Po,Girl besloot na 8 jaar toeren het wat rustiger aan te gaan doen en dat was een mooie gelegenheid voor Awna lang uitgestelde plan,een solo album opnemen,uit te voeren.In het voorjaar nam ze het album "Where Darkness Goes" op,in mijn ogen zeer geslaagd.
Het optreden was een mix van folk ,pop,zigeuner ,americana en soms een snufje country muziek.Ook mooie persoonlijke liedjes over haar familie en over haar Portugees/Canadese afkomst. Ze begeleid zichzelf op gitaar,banjo,accordeon en ukelule.Haar eigengebouwde "wastobbe"bas,bekend van haar Po,Girl optredens,had ze deze keer thuisgelaten.Bart de Win ,een muzikale alleskunner blijkt de perfecte begeleider te zijn.

Foto Hans Janssen
Natuurlijk nog even de nabespreking onder het genot van een hapje /drankje.De laatste nieuwtjes over de stand in de music scene doorgenomen en met een tevreden gevoel en een mooie CD op weg naar huis.De zon was ondertussen onder gegaan.....
Website De Wegwijzer
maandag 10 september 2012
Van Morrison - Born To Sing
Mooie tijden voor Arthur,afgelopen week het prachtige nieuwe Bob Dylan album Tempest,gisteren een voorproefje van het Neil Young & Crazy Horse album (zie mijn blog) en komende week hopenlijk het nieuwe Van Morrison album (Born To Sing) op de plank.Hier alvast de titletrack(thanks to the filmer)
Van Morrison - Born To Sing (Sept.Belfast Arts Festival)
Van Morrison - Born To Sing (Sept.Belfast Arts Festival)
zondag 9 september 2012
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Walk Like A Giant
Een van de nummers van het nieuwe Neil Young & The Crazy Horse album.Weet niet wanneer het uitkomt en weet ook nog geen titel maar dit klinkt in ieder geval veelbelovend. Ook erg mooi gefilmpt(thanks to the filmer)
Walk Like A Giant Live at Red Rocks 8-6-2012
Walk Like A Giant Live at Red Rocks 8-6-2012
vrijdag 7 september 2012
Bob Dylan Brussel 22-4-2009
De routeplanner zou me wel even de weg naar Vorst Nationaal in Brussel wijzen,maar door de verschillende omleidingen vanwege de vele wegwerkzaamheden raakte dat ding behoorlijk in de
war.Hij liet me alle mooie(en minder mooie) plekjes van Brussel zien maar uiteindelijk belande ik toch bij de Vorst.Ondanks dat ik vrij vroeg was hadden er al zo,n honderd man zich bij de deuren verzameld.
Ik raakte in gesprek met een paar echte die-hard Bob Dylan fans,waaronder een amerikaans echtpaar die alle concerten van Bob proberen bij te wonen.De vrouw(Frederica) dacht dat zij zo,n 1000 concerten van Bob gezien had.Dat waren dus echte fans!!Van alle kanten kreeg je de mooiste Bob Dylan verhalen te horen en ondertussen kwamen er ook allemaal gitaren tevoorschijn dus het werd erg gezellig allemaal .Om 7 uur gingen de deuren open,de hele meute stormde naar binnen om een mooi plekje voor het podium te krijgen,Ik deed daar natuurlijk niet aan mee,wandelde rustig naar binnen met als gevolg een prachtige plaats rij twee ,pal achter mijn amerikaanse vrienden.
Klokslag haf negen gingen de zaallichten uit en het concert kon beginnen.
De band komt het podium op,Al Capone outfit met zwarte hoeden en kostuums, pakken hun instrumenten en daar is Bob,breedlachend groet het publiek en zet in.
En wat een opener
1The Wicked Messenger van het album John Wesley Harding
wat gelijk opvalt is de stem van Bob, klink goed! Frederica gaat waarschijnlijk voor de 1001ste keer uit haar dak.
Ik wil graag een paar foto,s maken,maar de securety is zeer fanatiek dus dat word moeilijk.
2 It,s All Over Now Baby Blue
Een van mijn favoriete B.D nummers,moet wel even wennen aan het arangement,maar als Bob de mondharmonica pakt komt het allemaal goed,prachtig!
3 Man in The long black Coat
(foto Arthur)Een van de hoogtepunten van de avond,Bob pakt zijn gitaar en doet een prachtige versie van the Long black Coat.Voor de rest van de avond zou hij zijn gitaar niet meer aanraken en dat is dan wel weer jammer.
4 Stuck Inside Of The Mobile WithThe Memphis Blues AgainMooie lange uitvoering,Bob ,s keyboard is goed te horen.
5 Blind Willie McTell
(foto Arthur)Indrukwekkend!
6 Desolation Row
Van het Highway 61 revisted Album Bob leeft zich uit op het keybord tot groot plezier van Donny (Mandoline)
7 Honest With Me
Van het album Love and Theft
8 Sugar Baby
nog nummer van Love and TheftDe Vorst Nationaal word omgetoverd in een nachtclub,erg mooi.
9 Highway 61 Revisted
Bob krijgt het erg warm,zweet gutst langs zijn gezicht

10 Ballad of a Thin man
Audio 22-04-2009 (Brussel)
11 I Dont Believe You
erg mooi,maar.. de securety man (zie pijl)heeft me in de gaten ,even oppassen met foto,s maken dus.
(foto Arthur)12 Aint talking
van het album Modern Times ,heerlijke versie.
13 Thunder on the Mountain
nog een nummer van Modern Times SWINGT!!
(foto Arthur)
14 Like a Rollin Stone
Bob exeleert op de Keyboards
Publiek gaat uit zijn dak ,de band en Bob verlaten de stage.
Niet voor lang ,de toegift is bekend
15 All Along the Watchtower
Mooie uitvoering
16 Spirit on the Water
Nog een hoogtepunt,geweldig!
17 Blowin in the Wind
Het laatste nummer ,natuurlijk Blowin in the Wind met Bob op harmonica en Donny op vioolBandintroduction
(Foto Arthur)De Bob Dylan Band
Tony Garnier - bass
George Recile - drums
Stu Kimball - rhythm guitar
Denny Freeman - lead guitar
Donnie Herron - violin, viola, banjo, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steelEn dan is het afgelopen,de lichten gaan niet direct uit dus mischien...Nee het is nu echt klaar.
Op weg naar de uitgang natuurlijk nog een paar souveniers gescoord ,de routeplanner werkte deze keer perfect ,kortom een Topavond
Bob Dylan Brussel(Vorst Nationaal) 22-04-2009 Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/225952195/brussel_p1.rar(re-upload)
http://rapidshare.com/files/225958789/brussel_p2.rar(re-upload)
http://rapidshare.com/files/226020015/brussel_p3.rar (re-up-load)
http://rapidshare.com/files/226035128/SC_D2T07_BobDylan_Brussels_20090422_Blowin_In_The_Wind.rar (re-upload)
In het Muziek Magazine Goddeau kwam ik deze mooie recentie tegen,zo mooi kan ik het niet opschrijven.
Black Lillies- Where Black Lillies Grow
The Black Lillies are an Americana band from Knoxville, Tennessee that was founded in early 2009 by Cruz Contreras (formerly of Robinella and the CCstringband). Other members include Tom Pryor on guitar/pedal steel and Jamie Cook on percussion (both formerly of The Everybodyfields), bassist Robert Richards and vocalist Trisha Gene Brady. Cruz plays guitar and mandolin as well as providing vocals and song writing. The Black Lillies music provides a unique sound with influences from rock, country, blues, bluegrass, and jazz.
zaterdag 1 september 2012
Jackie Leven - Live in Kiel(Germany)26-3-2000
Jackie Leven (18 June 1950 – 14 November 2011) was een Schotste singer/songwriter,een man met een prachtige stem een uitmuntende gitarist.Ik zag hem twee keer"live" begin jaren 80 een keer in een wat rumoerige pub in Edinburg en een paar dagen later op een wat groter podium in dezelfde stad.Ik was hem eigenlijk een beetje vergeten tot ik het bericht van zijn overlijden tegenkwam.Ik ben wat van zijn muziek gaan verzamelen en kom er steeds meer achter wat een enorm talent deze man was.Zijn eerste succes had hij met de new wave band Doll By Doll ,later maakte hij platen onder zin eigen naam en onder een pseudoniem Sir Vincent Lone. De onderstaande beelden zijn van een optreden in Kiel, Germany, Raeucherei,op 26 Maart 2000 (many thanks to the taper) Naar aanleiding van zijn overlijden verscheen het volgende artikel in The Guardian ,het toch wel tragische verhaal van een in mijn ogen zeer onderschatte artiest.
Jackie Leven R.I.P.
Stranger in town
Jackie Leven, who has died of cancer aged 61, was a brilliant outsider, a remarkably prolific Scottish singer-songwriter who built up a devoted cult following during his lengthy, wildly varied and often turbulent career, but never achieved the level of success that he deserved. An intense, passionate giant of a man, he first came to attention in the late 1970s and early 80s, as leader of the highly praised but commercially unsuccessful band Doll By Doll. He went on to found a successful charity, the Core Trust, which treats "addicts of any sort", before continuing his musical career as a soloist – still acquiring devoted fans, but never selling many albums
Marble City Bar
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang. He was first married at 16, but began travelling, sometimes working as a labourer, although still performing, now sporting orange hair and using the name John St Field
I Saw My Love In to The Cloud
His friend Joe Shaw, the guitarist with Doll By Doll, remembers meeting him in a folk club in Bridport, Dorset, and finding that their common interest was "not folk songs about young maidens, but Hendrix and Van Morrison". He says that Leven was "very intense. He could make you feel uncomfortable or the best ever – and he made me feel the best ever. He was the best friend I ever had."
Universal Blue
They shared a squat in a farmhouse in Dorset, and met up again in Hamburg "and spent all our time jamming on guitars". Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours"
Single Father
The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
The band recorded four albums between 1979 and 1982, including Gypsy Blood, which would later be hailed as a forgotten rock classic. At one memorable show at the London Venue, they were supported by the young U2. Shaw says: "It's a mystery why we didn't make it, when all our contemporaries did well. And our live shows were something else."
Medly
In 1984, Leven's musical career was brutally interrupted when he was mugged as he walked home at night in north London. His ribs were broken, and his larynx was "almost destroyed". With his career apparently wrecked, he turned to heroin, and told me later: "I was spending £150 a day, and found I had no money." He beat the heroin habit using acupuncture and reflexology, and with Carol Wolf founded the Core Trust to help addicts by using alternative medicine. He and Wolf recruited other counsellors offering free treatment, and was helped by Pete Townshend and Westminster city council. When I met him in 1988 he seemed far keener to discuss Core than Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, the short-lived band that he and Shaw had then started with the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock.
Slim Slow Slider (Van Morrison)
For the last 17 years, Leven worked as a solo artist, recording for the independent label Cooking Vinyl. "It took me two years to sign him," according to Martin Goldschmidt, who runs the company, "and since then we have released 26 of his albums. I kept telling him there were too many, but he kept coming up with scams to get another album out." Some of his albums were credited to Sir Vincent Lone.
His remarkable solo output also included the 1994 album The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death, which included contributions from the poet Robert Bly and musician Mike Scott, along with one of his most thoughtful, lyrical songs, Call Mother a Lonely Field. It was ranked by Q Magazine one of the "best 100 albums of all time". On other albums he was backed by former members of Doll By Doll, by his partner Deborah Greenwood, and by David Thomas of Pere Ubu. After finding that he was mentioned in one of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, he contacted Rankin, and the result was the stage show and 2005 album Jackie Leven Said (a parody of a Van Morrison song) in which a Rankin story is matched against Leven's music.
My Philosophy
Leven was himself a great story-teller, and delighted in teasing his followers. According to Goldschmidt, his much-publicised whisky brand Leven's Lament was "a complete scam – new labels on old bottles", and so was Leven's claim to have written a song with Bob Dylan on a train to Moscow. He was a hugely likeable, larger-than-life figure, with a legacy of more than 400 songs, and I suspect his music will reach a wider audience still.
Leven was married twice, and is survived by Deborah; his son Simon, from an earlier relationship; and his sister, Wendy.
(Bron The Guardian)
Doll By Doll - Main Travelled Roads(1981)
“Main travelled roads behind me
and a white bird in the sky
A secret sign to show me
where the ocean comes to die
I arose and left you
sleeping in your silent room
Eternal is the warrior
who finds beauty in his wounds”
RIP Jackie
Jackie Leven Website
http://www.jackieleven.co.uk/home.html
Jackie Leven R.I.P.
Jackie Leven, who has died of cancer aged 61, was a brilliant outsider, a remarkably prolific Scottish singer-songwriter who built up a devoted cult following during his lengthy, wildly varied and often turbulent career, but never achieved the level of success that he deserved. An intense, passionate giant of a man, he first came to attention in the late 1970s and early 80s, as leader of the highly praised but commercially unsuccessful band Doll By Doll. He went on to found a successful charity, the Core Trust, which treats "addicts of any sort", before continuing his musical career as a soloist – still acquiring devoted fans, but never selling many albums
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang. He was first married at 16, but began travelling, sometimes working as a labourer, although still performing, now sporting orange hair and using the name John St Field
His friend Joe Shaw, the guitarist with Doll By Doll, remembers meeting him in a folk club in Bridport, Dorset, and finding that their common interest was "not folk songs about young maidens, but Hendrix and Van Morrison". He says that Leven was "very intense. He could make you feel uncomfortable or the best ever – and he made me feel the best ever. He was the best friend I ever had."
They shared a squat in a farmhouse in Dorset, and met up again in Hamburg "and spent all our time jamming on guitars". Later, when Leven moved to another squat, in Maida Vale, London, he suggested they bring in a bass player and percussionist to form a band, and they started rehearsing "with mattresses around the walls to deaden the sound, but still annoying the neighbours"
The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
The band recorded four albums between 1979 and 1982, including Gypsy Blood, which would later be hailed as a forgotten rock classic. At one memorable show at the London Venue, they were supported by the young U2. Shaw says: "It's a mystery why we didn't make it, when all our contemporaries did well. And our live shows were something else."
In 1984, Leven's musical career was brutally interrupted when he was mugged as he walked home at night in north London. His ribs were broken, and his larynx was "almost destroyed". With his career apparently wrecked, he turned to heroin, and told me later: "I was spending £150 a day, and found I had no money." He beat the heroin habit using acupuncture and reflexology, and with Carol Wolf founded the Core Trust to help addicts by using alternative medicine. He and Wolf recruited other counsellors offering free treatment, and was helped by Pete Townshend and Westminster city council. When I met him in 1988 he seemed far keener to discuss Core than Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, the short-lived band that he and Shaw had then started with the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock.
For the last 17 years, Leven worked as a solo artist, recording for the independent label Cooking Vinyl. "It took me two years to sign him," according to Martin Goldschmidt, who runs the company, "and since then we have released 26 of his albums. I kept telling him there were too many, but he kept coming up with scams to get another album out." Some of his albums were credited to Sir Vincent Lone.
His remarkable solo output also included the 1994 album The Mystery of Love is Greater than the Mystery of Death, which included contributions from the poet Robert Bly and musician Mike Scott, along with one of his most thoughtful, lyrical songs, Call Mother a Lonely Field. It was ranked by Q Magazine one of the "best 100 albums of all time". On other albums he was backed by former members of Doll By Doll, by his partner Deborah Greenwood, and by David Thomas of Pere Ubu. After finding that he was mentioned in one of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, he contacted Rankin, and the result was the stage show and 2005 album Jackie Leven Said (a parody of a Van Morrison song) in which a Rankin story is matched against Leven's music.
My Philosophy
Leven was himself a great story-teller, and delighted in teasing his followers. According to Goldschmidt, his much-publicised whisky brand Leven's Lament was "a complete scam – new labels on old bottles", and so was Leven's claim to have written a song with Bob Dylan on a train to Moscow. He was a hugely likeable, larger-than-life figure, with a legacy of more than 400 songs, and I suspect his music will reach a wider audience still.
Leven was married twice, and is survived by Deborah; his son Simon, from an earlier relationship; and his sister, Wendy.
(Bron The Guardian)
Doll By Doll - Main Travelled Roads(1981)
“Main travelled roads behind me
and a white bird in the sky
A secret sign to show me
where the ocean comes to die
I arose and left you
sleeping in your silent room
Eternal is the warrior
who finds beauty in his wounds”
RIP Jackie
Jackie Leven Website
http://www.jackieleven.co.uk/home.html
vrijdag 31 augustus 2012
Van Morrison 68 Year - Happy Birtday Van!

George Ivan Morrison (Belfast, 31 augustus 1945)
Van Morrison vandaag 67 jaar ,Gefeliciteerd!(Congractulations!)
Wanneer kwam Van in beeld,dat moet in 1964/65 geweest zijn.Alle beatbandjes hadden Gloria op het repetoire staan en allemaal meezingen G-L-O-R-I-A .Het nummer was van Them ,dat aparte bandje met die zanger met die speciale stem ,de mooie eerste LP.Het was de tijd van de Stones en Beatles maar dit was net iets anders.Daarna Astral Weeks ,Van Morrison solo ,dat was even wennen,totaal anders dan de toenmalige popmuziek,maar o zo mooi ,tot op de dag van vandaag toe.Er zouden nog vele mooie albums volgen ,de een nog mooier dan de andere.Ook de ,,mindere ,,bevatten altijd wel een paar pareltjes.En dan zijn concerten,vele bijgewoont ,de mooiste waren in de ,,kleinere,,zalen als De Doelen ,en Vredenburg.De eerste moet in De Doelen geweest zijn ,de laatste in Peer ,afgelopen zomer.Zeker niet zijn beste concert maar ik had het toch niet willen missen.
Natuurlijk is onze vriend niet altijd het vrolijkste jongetje van de klas,is niet altijd even vriendelijk(understatement?)maar dat is absoluut niet van invloed op zijn muziek,en daar gaat het tenslotte om.Dus Van ,nog vele jaren en blijven doen waar je goed in bent, mooie muziek maken!!!! en en je humeur? dat nemen we op de koop toe.
In The Afternoon/Acient Highway/Get On Up
Live at the Mountain Winery Saratoga,California 31-08-2004,
Jawel,op Van,s 59ste verjaardag,Let op Martin Winning(sax)na zijn ruzie met een vlieg zie je zijn voorpret,hij gaat Happy Birthday in zijn solo verwerken,het publiek pikt het op en zingt Van toe,mooi spontaan optreden
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