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Isn't that the chap who sang "Oooh yeah life goes on, long after the thrill of living has gone......."?
That was on that K-Tel compilation "Drive Time USA". You can never go home to that music once you leave it, same with Suzanne Vega and I hate to say it, Motown.

Some serious West Coast Cool from 1956, the album "Just Friends" by Bill Perkins.

Last edited by Maximilien de Robespierre (2010-11-01 19:38:10)

There was a great many players who had more powerful chops than Miles, Donald Byrd springs to mind, none of them had his sophisticated urbane vision and technique.  Not to mention his many style periods from bebop, cool, hard bop, modal, avant garde, fusion and on into the most banal elevator music imagined.

Have to say there's few Miles albums I listen to regulary now, with the exceptions of 'Birth of the Cool', 'Miles Smiles', 'Miles in Berlin' and 'Lift to the Scaffold' soundtrack.

Currently listening to the Pacific Jazz album from 1956: 'Quartet: Russ Freeman and Chet Baker' not mentioned in the title is Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne. Swings like a mutha'.

JAMES Freud, former singer with Australian rock band Models, has been found dead.

Freud, 51, had lived and breathed the rock-and-rock liquor-laced lifestyle and after many rehab stints became sober in 2004.

The father-of-two documented his descent into alcoholism and his subsequent recovery in two autobiographies: I am The Voice Left From Drinking (2002), and I Am The Voice Left From Rehab (2007).

He died just one week after the Models, without him, were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

During the Hall of Fame ceremony in Sydney, Freud's former bandmate Sean Kelly explained the singer's absence by saying he had "fallen off the bike".

A statement from the office of Michael Gudinski, whose Mushroom Records launched Freud's solo career and that of the Models, said the musician had taken his own life.

"It is with much sorrow that we share the news of the passing of James Freud.

"James Freud passed away this morning. James’ battle with alcoholism has been well chronicled. His two books on his recovery and five years sobriety were bestsellers and gave a lot of people who were suffering the same affliction comfort and hope.

"Unfortunately, James has succumbed to his disease and taken his own life this morning."

Gudinski said he and his wife Sue were devastated by Freud's death.

“James was a true pioneer - he successfully crossed over from Australia’s burgeoning punk scene in the early 80s, to then create some of the most played tracks in Australia’s recording history. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends, the industry, and music fans everywhere.”

Freud began his music career at 17 as a member of the Teenage Radio Stars who had their first Australian hit with I Wanna Be Your Baby.

He joined The Models in 1982 and wrote their smash hits Barbados and Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight from their hugely successful Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight album.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_(band)
Freud is survived by his wife Sally, and sons Harrison and Jackson.

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Today's masterpiece:

Jimmy Hendrix: Electric Ladyland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCNsZXCd58

FM Classics Radio - while working - nearly 2 am time for bed. - mmh 10 am NYC - 7 am LA - Good Morning America

Krommer Partita in B flat, Op 45 No 1 - Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble
Chandos CHAN 9905 22'38
Gilles Diligam te, Domine - Agnes Mellon, s; Veronique Gens, s; Howard Crook, t; Tom Phillips, t; Peter Kooy, b; La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901341 25'40
Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op 20 No 3 - Mosaïques Quartet
Astrée E 8784 27'13
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Ballet: Dance of the Mirlitons - London Sym Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras
Telarc Set 8137 2'06
Satie 3 Gnossiennes - Nancy Phil Orch/Jerome Kaltenbach
Naxos 8.554279 9'01
Alternating with
Satie 3 Gnossiennes - Tamara Anna Cislowska, p
Artworks AW010 8'57
Berkeley Serenade for Strings - English Sinfonia/John Farrer
IMP 60 13'05
Stanford How Beauteous are thy Feet 4'04
Sumsion They that go sea in ships 6'37
Rutter God be in my Head 1'47
- Huw Williams, o; Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott
Hyperion 67087
Holst St Paul's Suite - English Sinfonia/John Farrer
IMP as above 60 12'52
Borodin Polovtsian Dances - Sydney Philharmonia Choir and Orch/Antony Walker
ABC465 684-2 13'42

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Last edited by Big Tony (2010-11-10 11:12:58)

Serious question: Does anyone know why metal is often associated with fantasy imagery and stuff?

Yes, but Jimmy Page never dared live in Crowley's house.  He summoned up a demon in there and did not complete the rites - risky business.

Have to say I don't listen to much metal, did have The Who Live at Leeds on in the car the other day.  That's the closest I get to metal, that and John Denver's 'The Eagle & The Hawk'.