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Dr Feelgood – Roxette – Another genius R@B track
Dr Feelgood – Roxette – Another genius R@B track
Dr Feelgood were an early seventies Pub Rock band who specialised in R@B just like the Alligators. Wilko Johnson on guitar was amazing. Lee Brilleaux unfortunately died. But what a great band.
This is what happens when a bunch of Canvey Island guys do R@B.
Photography – Lea Valley Canal Pt. 2
Photography – Lea Valley Canal Pt. 2
Beauty in the heart of the city!
Poetry – Johnson the deceiver
Johnson the deceiver
He ducks debates.
He lies.
Afraid of scrutiny
And tries
To distance himself
From Tory policy
As they’ve robbed the life
Out of you and me!
Opher – 7.12.2019
I cannot believe anybody believes in this lying git. He is the epitome of Tory arrogance and elitism – a bumbling buffoon who consistently has been the most self-serving idiot.
We see him ducking debate after debate because his party know he’s a liability. Just like Rees-Mogg, they want to hide him away!
Yet the right-wing Tory media have been drip-feeding lies about Corbyn and presenting Billy Bunter, the Eton toff, as a jolly good fellow.
Poetry – Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip
Poison falls fron the Sun
Drip Drip Drip
Lies and propaganda
Drip Drip Drip
As the wealthy elite
Drip Drip Drip
Use Express and Mail
Drip Drip Drip
To control the masses
Drip Drip Drip
The media owned by the wealthy
Drip Drip Drip
Spread their slander.
Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip
Drip Drip Drip……………………
Opher – 7.12.2019
It is not a democracy when the capitalists control the media and deliberately manipulate the masses.
That’s a tyranny.
Photography – The Waddeston Manor 1870
Photography – The Waddeston Manor 1870
Nothing illustrates the inequality in the world so much as the lavish homes of the super-rich.
Waddeston was built by Baron Rothschild in 1870 in order to display his art collection and entertain. The wine cellar still contains 10,000 bottles of quality wines (Chateau Lafite and Mouton). One can only imagine the homes of the working people and the number of servants necessary to maintain this huge estate. The house was so far away it could not be seen and we had to be bussed in from the carpark.
We were passing and dropped in to get some food. We had National Heritage cards so it was free entry. Quite a sight.
I love trees.
Wine bottles.
I’m not sure what bird this was – a kite?
These were the stables
An accurate portrayal of Baron Rothschild?
The buttery.
An extensive estate.
Photography – Anthony Gormley’s at the Del La Warr – Bexhill 2010
Photography – Anthony Gormley’s at the Del La Warr – Bexhill 2010
This was a special Gormley exhibition in 2019. They were real fun.
Liz took this one
My friend Nic Walster is a professional photographer and artist. He used to like putting his shadow in to compositions. I nicked it off Nick.
I find the Gormley’s weird but fun.
The Mississippi Blues Trail – A bit of Elmore, BB and Sonny Boy
The Mississippi Blues Trail – A bit of Elmore, BB and Sonny Boy
The Mississippi Blues trail is a brilliant way to discover Mississippi. It takes you into the back of beyond and to strange parts of town. You pass the fields the slaves used to work in, the dives they used to play in and the street corners they used to busk on. By the time you’ve finished you’ve got a real feel for the place.
I saw Big Joe Williams perform in the late sixties on one of those Blues packages they brought across. He was on the same bill as Son House, Skip James, Bukka White, James Cotton and a few others. He went down so well that they couldn’t get him off stage.
You found the markers out in the middle of nowhere.
Back in the early days the people like Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie would mix quite freely with the black singers. Musicians seemed free of the evils of apartheid. Jimmie did a lot of blues numbers.
Trumpet records recorded my hero Elmore James (as well as people like Sonny Boy Williamson). I found it quite thrilling to stand where he had recorded a lot of those searing slide guitar riffs that I love so much.
Both Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson performed at the Alamo Theatre. A lot of those places were run down and neglected. But then they ripped the cavern in Liverpool down too. These politicians are fools. We should respect our heritage.
This was close to the place where BB King used to busk and record.
This was the site in Natchez where the Night Club burnt down killing so many people. Howlin’ Wolf sang about it in the song Natchez Burning.
The Best year for Rock Music – 1967? Hendrix, Beefheart, Doors?
The Best year for Rock Music – 1967? Hendrix, Beefheart, Doors?
Was 1967 the best year ever for Rock Music?
I think it might be.
This was the year when the British Underground and American West Coast took off with Acid Rock and Psychedelia taking Rock into a new dimension! This was the year where there was an explosion of new bands and a great expansion in music styles, depth, lyrics and complexity. 1967 was when it all began – Rock grew up!
Look at the albums that came out in 1967. A lot of them were the first albums of major new bands, new sounds, now genres and experimentation.
Roy Harper – Come out Fighting Ghenghis Smith
Doors – The Doors/Strange Days
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground
Canned Heat – Canned Heat
Jimi Hendrix – Are you Experienced/Axis Bold as Love
Cream – Cream/Disraeli Gears
Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield/Again
Country Joe and the Fish – Electric Music for the Mind and Body/ I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die
Byrds – Younger than Yesterday/Notorious Byrd Brothers
Beatles – Sgt Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour
Big Brother & the Holding Company – Big Brother & the Holding Company
Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gate of Dawn
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow/After Bathing at Baxters
Love – Forever Changes/Da Capo
Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free/We’re Only in it for the Money
Eric Burdon – Winds of Change
John Mayall – A Hard Road
Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request
Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk/Strictly Personal
Yardbirds – Little Games
Phil Ochs – Pleasures of the Harbour
Leonard Cohen – Songs of
Albert King – Born under a Bad Sign
Traffic – Dear Mr Fantasy
Incredible String Band – 500 Spirits of the layers of the Onion
Nice – Thoughts of Emmerlist Davjack
Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead
That gives you a flavour – What other year could boast such a range of great albums? With all those brilliant debuts?
Photography = Lea Valley Canal – Pt. 1
Photography = Lea Valley Canal – Pt. 1
In the centre of London next to the Hasidic Jewish centre there is a beautiful canal with wild-life and greenery. Far from the noisy bustle of the smoky roads you can wander down the tow-path and sit and drink a cup of tea at the café.
Swans, geese, ducks, cormorants and flowers.
