Question What are you reading?

[LCBB72]

Checked out the reviews of this on Amazon and (as you say) he doesn't do the dirt on his fellow Byrds or even Steve Stills who he played with in Manassas.Talking about his fellow Byrds, I saw Gene Clark play at Badalona here back in the day.Since he asked for any requests, I called out for Dublin Blues, which he seemed happy that someone in the mainly Spanish/Catalan audience knew and promptly played it.Great concert.Who knows, maybe Chris Hillman will be booked to play at Badalona in 2021?

Gene Clark most underated Byrd .

 

[blues exile]

Checked out the reviews of this on Amazon and (as you say) he doesn't do the dirt on his fellow Byrds or even Steve Stills who he played with in Manassas.Talking about his fellow Byrds, I saw Gene Clark play at Badalona here back in the day.Since he asked for any requests, I called out for Dublin Blues, which he seemed happy that someone in the mainly Spanish/Catalan audience knew and promptly played it.Great concert.Who knows, maybe Chris Hillman will be booked to play at Badalona in 2021?

Saw Hillman with Herb Petersen at Brighton around 8/9 years ago and McGuinn at another Brighton venue in 2014. Wish I'd seen Gene Clark but never had the chance. His album with Carla Olsen one of my favourites with some extras including his version of Phil Och's 'Changes'.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Saw Hillman with Herb Petersen at Brighton around 8/9 years ago and McGuinn at another Brighton venue in 2014. Wish I'd seen Gene Clark but never had the chance. His album with Carla Olsen one of my favourites with some extras including his version of Phil Och's 'Changes'.

My bad.It was Guy Clarke I saw in Badalona.Sorry.Checking on the net, see Chris Hillman played there back in 2004.Missed that one.

Edit.Did see The Byrds twice back in the day though in the UK:First time at The Albert Hall and the second,a few days later,at the Lincoln Folk festival (when they were supposed to play an acoustic set but didn't).That would have been in 1971, IIRC.

 

[blues exile]

My bad.It was Guy Clarke I saw in Badalona.Sorry.Checking on the net, see Chris Hillman played there back in 2004.Missed that one.

Edit.Did see The Byrds twice back in the day though in the UK:First time at The Albert Hall and the second,a few days later,at the Lincoln Folk festival (when they were supposed to play an acoustic set but didn't).That would have been in 1971, IIRC.

I was at the Albert Hall for that. IIRC the lineup was McGuinn, Clarence White, Gene Parsons and Skip Battin with somebody else whose name escapes me. Very different from the original lineup but still a great band.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nearly finished Douglas Stuart's wonderful Shuggie Bain.Easily the best first novel I've read this year.Set in 1980's Glasgow.Spent a couple of weekends in pre-Thatcher Glasgow in the mid,late 1970's.That was educational.This childhood memoir is harrowing and deeply moving.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Partick Masterson's Quality time at St Chinian.Supposed to be a campus novel set at the University of Sant Chinian,which as every Languedoc local knows (and the author freely admits in the preface) doesn't exist.Enjoyable enough but not a patch on Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge's great campus novels.

 

[pottster]

Daylight robbery by dominic frisby. Fascinating insight how tax has shaped our lives. I know a book on tax sounds boring but it isn't it's a real eye opener

 

[Swiss Tony]

Young Winston, all about Rays younger days,cracking read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game.Enjoyable thriller.Seem to remember this was filmed back in the day by Wim Wenders as An American Friend with Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper.

 

[LCBB72]

Ambushed 2 , By John Martin great read

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Ambushed 2 , By John Martin great read

Sure the author isn't Ron Martin?

 

[pottster]

Despised, why the modern left loathes the working class by Paul embery. Interesting read

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Patricia Highsmith's The Boy Who Followed Ripley.My 4th in the Ripleyiad.Great fun.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nearly finished Patria Highsmith's Ripley Under water.The fifth and last of the Ripleyiad.Hugely entertaining.

 

[Napster]

Tried to get into a few books recently:

Stephen King's if it bleeds - OK in parts but not gripping enough
The much-lauded The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - fell apart halfway through, not particularly interesting, just felt a bit flat when the elk started to get more central.

Loved the history of slasher movies and their directors, Shock Value by Jason Zinoman. Very interesting insight into their ideas.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

War Lord, latest and maybe last Uhtred story by Bernard Cornwall.
Once again a good tale with neat lessons in English history.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Nearly finished David Mitchell's dazzling GhostWritten.Gives you hope for the future of the post-modern novel.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Paul Du Noyer’s ‘In The City: A Celebration Of London Music’ (published in 2009) really achieves its title with detailed and well-written aplomb. It provides a rich history of the city’s vast array of performing talents from Brother Rahere at the Bartholomew Fair in 1133 to M.I.A. in more recent times, taking in the social context for the different eras in which the many musicians, songwriters and bands associated with the capital – and actually, far too many to mention – delivered their work. It’s a great read with some cracking stories. I particularly liked the Bolan and Bowie see-saw scenario that he depicts during the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

With belated thanks to this thread’s creator and regular contributor, ‘Tangled Up In Blue’, for sending it my way some years ago.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Paul Du Noyer’s ‘In The City: A Celebration Of London Music’ (published in 2009) really achieves its title with detailed and well-written aplomb. It provides a rich history of the city’s vast array of performing talents from Brother Rahere at the Bartholomew Fair in 1133 to M.I.A. in more recent times, taking in the social context for the different eras in which the many musicians, songwriters and bands associated with the capital – and actually, far too many to mention – delivered their work. It’s a great read with some cracking stories. I particularly liked the Bolan and Bowie see-saw scenario that he depicts during the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

With belated thanks to this thread’s creator and regular contributor, ‘Tangled Up In Blue’, for sending it my way some years ago.

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So how many lost London music venues have you visited?My total was in the high single figures IIRC.

 

[Rob Noxious]

So how many lost London music venues have you visited?My total was in the high single figures IIRC.

Ah - I haven't read that one yet; I think that it's probably more of a "dipper-inner".