Music | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:37:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Variations on a Spotify theme….. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/04/variations-on-a-spotify-theme/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:11:02 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1420 I found out tonight that there are over 70 versions of the Bob Dylan song ‘All along the watchtower’ on the online music service Spotify.  I sort of worry that there might soon be a ‘Watchtower radio’ channel online somewhere that plays nothing but versions of the song –  and, of course, there are songs […]

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]]> Johnny Cash and me. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/04/johnny-cash-and-me/ Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:45:20 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=876 An early memory of mine is listening to my Uncle Idris play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar.  Particularly he did a great rendition of ‘Ring of Fire’, though without the Mexican trumpets, Mexican trumpeters being singularly rare in the town of Warsop in the 1960s. Back then, Cash was a big name, although I’m […]

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]]> Last tango in Sheffield… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/09/last-tango-in-sheffield-2/ Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:46:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1230 It’s safe to say that I do not have a body built for dance – well, unless you count the thing they do in Lederhosen that involves bumping bottoms and slapping thighs and faces as dancing.  I have slightly flat feet, dodgy knees and no sense of coordination.  I don’t dance like my dad – […]

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]]> Chasing Cars https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/07/chasing-cars/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:01:46 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1185 ‘Chasing Cars’ is the name of a song by the band ‘Snow Patrol’.  I quite like it – I’m a sucker for sad songs and this is a fine example of the genre.  However, it has a little bit of ‘back story’.  According to Wikipedia: “The phrase “Chasing Cars” came from [singer Gary ] Lightbody’s father, […]

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]]> The end of 6 Music https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/03/the-end-of-6-music/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:11:34 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=886 So, the BBC are going to close down 6 Music – which will be a great shame as it’s one of the few stations around that play a good mix of contemporary and past music, AND also has presenters that are knowledgeable about music and that have a love and passion for it.  Which is […]

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]]> RATM vs X-Factor – Corporate Music Win! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2009/12/ratm-vs-x-factor-corporate-music-win/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:07:55 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=438 There’s a lovely comment in the movie ‘Con Air’ in which the character Garland Greene, a psychopath played by Steve Buscemi, watches the inmates on a prison transport plane celebrate their take over of the aircraft by having a mid-flight party to the song  ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ by Lynyrd Skynyrd.  This encourages him to define […]

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]]> In Praise of Drummers https://joepritchard.me.uk/2009/11/in-praise-of-drummers/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:09:29 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=394 There’s an old joke amongst musicians – ‘What do you call someone who hangs around on stage with musicians?’ The punchline? ‘A drummer.’ Well, I like drummers – most of them, anyway. I think that the first drummer that I became really aware of as a personality within a band was Charlie Watts of ‘The […]

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]]> Death of a celebrity https://joepritchard.me.uk/2009/10/death-of-a-celebrity/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:17:58 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=75 This weekend the singer Stephen Gately died at his residence in Majorca.  At the time of writing, the cause of death is unknown but suicide,  foul play and drugs abuse are not being suggested.  I was provoked in to making this post by the reaction to the death that I noticed from various friends and […]

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]]> `Viva la Vida` – `All Along The Watchtower` for 2008? https://joepritchard.me.uk/2008/06/viva-la-vida-all-along-the-watchtower-for-2008/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:09:24 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=58 The perennial question of ‘What the heck is that all about?’ with regard to the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ was kicked off last year when a haunting version of the song by Bear McCreary was used in the season finale of ‘Battlestar Galactica’.  The brooding, beat-driven, almost trancelike music provided a […]

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]]> Jeff Healey – Like a Hurricane https://joepritchard.me.uk/2008/03/jeff-healey-like-a-hurricane/ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:57:50 +0000 http://www.joep.communityhost.org.uk/?p=21 Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey died this week, losing a battle against cancer.  I have to say that he’s a musician that I’ve heard occasionally and really enjoyed.  He was younger than me when he died – something that always brings me up short. Tonight on the Bob Harris show (http://www.bobharris.org/pages/playlist.asp?progcode=s08032008 Jeff’s version of Neil Young’s ‘Like […]

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