The most impossible task but 3 tracks that I will always listen to when they come up on the ipod, unfortunately I have no idea how to upload stuff.
1 Mr Big by Free, Free Live album. 4 young (at the time) musicians playing at a level I've never seen before or since, Paul Rogers vocals were everything they could have been, every note and nuance is perfect in the context of the performance. Simon Kirkes drumming is nothing short of a masterclass, simple and muscular, it drives the song and gives it a base. Andy Fraser, I think he was 17 at the time, plays the bass like a veteran who has discovered a new way of playing, his notes and the fluidity is brilliance itself. Paul Kossof, one of my favourite guitarists ever, he was the master of wringing every tortured emotion out of each and every note. The track astonished me when I first heard it in 1970ish, it still does.
2 Heroin by Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal (live). The best track ever written about smack, nothing has ever come close to it IMO. Lou delivers every lyric as a personal statement, which it was, and the guitar playing by Steve Hunter is ridiculously brilliant and captures every meaning that the song imparts. emotive notes and crashing chords are all there.
3 Dweller on the Threshold by Van Morrison, Beautiful Vision. I'm not sure i would describe myself as spiritual but this song captures the very essence of it, it pounds forward all the time and seems without time, its Van, so its arrangement is perfection, the guitars keep the tune and the brass adds the highlights. I wouldn't necessarily say its his best track but its one could never pass over.
1 Mr Big by Free, Free Live album. 4 young (at the time) musicians playing at a level I've never seen before or since, Paul Rogers vocals were everything they could have been, every note and nuance is perfect in the context of the performance. Simon Kirkes drumming is nothing short of a masterclass, simple and muscular, it drives the song and gives it a base. Andy Fraser, I think he was 17 at the time, plays the bass like a veteran who has discovered a new way of playing, his notes and the fluidity is brilliance itself. Paul Kossof, one of my favourite guitarists ever, he was the master of wringing every tortured emotion out of each and every note. The track astonished me when I first heard it in 1970ish, it still does.
2 Heroin by Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal (live). The best track ever written about smack, nothing has ever come close to it IMO. Lou delivers every lyric as a personal statement, which it was, and the guitar playing by Steve Hunter is ridiculously brilliant and captures every meaning that the song imparts. emotive notes and crashing chords are all there.
3 Dweller on the Threshold by Van Morrison, Beautiful Vision. I'm not sure i would describe myself as spiritual but this song captures the very essence of it, it pounds forward all the time and seems without time, its Van, so its arrangement is perfection, the guitars keep the tune and the brass adds the highlights. I wouldn't necessarily say its his best track but its one could never pass over.