So, "Black Magic Woman". Santana or Fleetwood Mac?
For me, it's got to be Fleetwood Mac.
But I like Santana.
As Harry Hill would say ... fight!
heresey for most on here .. I prefer the Santana version, it's part of my all time favourite album 'Abraxas' which came out (ouch) in 1970!!! .. the whole album is programmed and produced so that all the disparate pieces gell superbly .. Black Magic Woman segues perfectly into the cataclysmic 'Gypsy Queen', a kitchen sink n all percussion and guitar thrash .. I love the Fleetwood Mac version as well ... incidentally has anyone else come across the theory that Green, spencer, Kirwan were all victims of the same batch of polluted acid (LSD) .. they all went mad and became virtual recluses at around the same time .. just a theory.
So, "Black Magic Woman". Santana or Fleetwood Mac?
For me, it's got to be Fleetwood Mac.
But I like Santana.
As Harry Hill would say ... fight!
heresey for most on here .. I prefer the Santana version, it's part of my all time favourite album 'Abraxas' which came out (ouch) in 1970!!! .. the whole album is programmed and produced so that all the disparate pieces gell superbly .. Black Magic Woman segues perfectly into the cataclysmic 'Gypsy Queen', a kitchen sink n all percussion and guitar thrash .. I love the Fleetwood Mac version as well ... incidentally has anyone else come across the theory that Green, spencer, Kirwan were all victims of the same batch of polluted acid (LSD) .. they all went mad and became virtual recluses at around the same time .. just a theory.
Fair comment. At the end of the day, both versions are classics, aren't they?
As to the acid thing, I don't go for it. Not looking it up, but wasn't there quite a gap between Spencer going missing, and Green going off the rails?
Even it there wasn't, I'm not a "grassy knoll" type bloke, if you know what I mean!?
So, "Black Magic Woman". Santana or Fleetwood Mac?
For me, it's got to be Fleetwood Mac.
But I like Santana.
As Harry Hill would say ... fight!
heresey for most on here .. I prefer the Santana version, it's part of my all time favourite album 'Abraxas' which came out (ouch) in 1970!!! .. the whole album is programmed and produced so that all the disparate pieces gell superbly .. Black Magic Woman segues perfectly into the cataclysmic 'Gypsy Queen', a kitchen sink n all percussion and guitar thrash .. I love the Fleetwood Mac version as well ... incidentally has anyone else come across the theory that Green, spencer, Kirwan were all victims of the same batch of polluted acid (LSD) .. they all went mad and became virtual recluses at around the same time .. just a theory.
Fair comment. At the end of the day, both versions are classics, aren't they?
As to the acid thing, I don't go for it. Not looking it up, but wasn't there quite a gap between Spencer going missing, and Green going off the rails?
Even it there wasn't, I'm not a "grassy knoll" type bloke, if you know what I mean!?
Green was down to acid, at least according to Record collector..... This is taken from an article on Peter Green by Martin Celmins in Record Collector, November 2008:
That he was determined to leave the commercial keep-the-hits-coming world behind became crystal clear a month before he quit Mac when the band played in Munich. Much controversy still surrounds 'the Munich incident': Fleetwood, Spencer and McVie remain convinced that their leader was somehow stolen from them by a rich hippie commune who gave him some potent LSD. He was never the same again, and he began to fixate about Mac becoming a charity band and playing for no money.
Nearly 40 years on, Peter insists that the big change that took place at Munich was a musical one: " I was down in the cellar of this country house playing music with some other people. I had taken LSD and was playing guitar with a wah-wah pedal... it felt as though etc etc......
Of course Peter's mental issues are another aspect to it as well. Think Spencer went off to join the 'children of god'.
I had forgotten all about lovely Laura .. who died so young .. her love songs are so poignant .. she wrote stuff for Streisand, for the Fifth Dimension .. the female Jim Webb
Now, see I always thought that The Fifth Dimension covered her tunes. I'm familiar with their versions of Wedding Bell Blues and Stoned Soul Picnic. This is probably tantamount to blasphemy, but I must admit, I prefer their versions. Sorry.
Now, see I always thought that The Fifth Dimension covered her tunes. I'm familiar with their versions of Wedding Bell Blues and Stoned Soul Picnic. This is probably tantamount to blasphemy, but I must admit, I prefer their versions. Sorry.
I also prefer the 5th Dimension versions .. probably my favourite 'cover' of a Nyro song is 'Stony End' by Streisand .. a real let down schoolgirl drama queen kind of lost love song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MslgVPqapNE Hendrix 'tribute band' playing in Jimi's home town to commerate his 40th year since he died. Sorry about that photographer at the start?.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MslgVPqapNE Hendrix 'tribute band' playing in Jimi's home town to commerate his 40th year since he died. Sorry about that photographer at the start?.....
There's a Hendrix tribute band at the Mick Jagger Centre in November, if you're interested.
I've been listening to The Diving Board for a few days now. Reminiscent of Elton's early albums - the eponymously titled album from 1969 (I think) and the slightly later, Tumbleweed Connection, especially. I've found his albums over the past twenty years or so to be a bit hit and miss - I enjoyed Peachtree Road, for example, but really didn't think much of the Big Picture. This one is his best for a very long time. Elton's reputation has suffered from his decision sometime around 1973 to become an out and out glam pop performer and from often appearing to be such a miserable, cantankerous git as he grew older. But he has been a hugely successful artist around the world for over forty years and has produced a lot of excellent music in that time. As with his contemporary, David Bowie, I am hoping that this late renaissance is more than just a temporary return to form.
The James Taylor Quartet - In The Hand Of The Inevitable.
Quality still.
The Jazzrocker from Rochester .. if James were an American, he would be a jazz world superstar .. one of the best keyboard men and one of the tightest little bands of the past 1/4 century
Comments
So, "Black Magic Woman". Santana or Fleetwood Mac?
For me, it's got to be Fleetwood Mac.
But I like Santana.
As Harry Hill would say ... fight!
As to the acid thing, I don't go for it. Not looking it up, but wasn't there quite a gap between Spencer going missing, and Green going off the rails?
Even it there wasn't, I'm not a "grassy knoll" type bloke, if you know what I mean!?
This is taken from an article on Peter Green by Martin Celmins in Record Collector, November 2008:
That he was determined to leave the commercial
keep-the-hits-coming world behind became crystal
clear a month before he quit Mac when the band
played in Munich. Much controversy still surrounds
'the Munich incident': Fleetwood, Spencer and
McVie remain convinced that their leader was
somehow stolen from them by a rich hippie
commune who gave him some potent LSD. He was
never the same again, and he began to fixate about
Mac becoming a charity band and playing for no
money.
Nearly 40 years on, Peter insists that the big
change that took place at Munich was a musical one:
" I was down in the cellar of this country house
playing music with some other people. I had taken
LSD and was playing guitar with a wah-wah pedal...
it felt as though etc etc......
Of course Peter's mental issues are another aspect to it as well.
Think Spencer went off to join the 'children of god'.
Laura Nyro
Hendrix 'tribute band' playing in Jimi's home town to commerate his 40th year since he died.
Sorry about that photographer at the start?.....
Tom Petty - Damn The Torpedoes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Quality still.
The Jazzrocker from Rochester .. if James were an American, he would be a jazz world superstar .. one of the best keyboard men and one of the tightest little bands of the past 1/4 century