Thanks to Neil Gaiman's blog, I found my way to this series of amazon.co.uk book user reviews.Like him, I found myself giggling like a schoolboy. Go read!That is all.
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Posts by celtichris
Penetrating Wagner's Ring
Bad week for a musician
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Track:Poor Poor Pitiful Me
In the past seven days, I've had to deal with losing 1/3 of my main band (Haiku Rd.) and getting kicked out of the other band I'd been helping to form as a side-project and as a solution to my need for a Celtic music fix.I suppose I'm lucky; I've never had either one happen before. But to get smacked with both in one week? Kinda sucks. (*pout*)
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Eerily accurate depiction of me -- one of those dorky quiz things
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I'm Bridge Over Troubled Water!Which Simon and Garfunkel album are you?
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Joel Plaskett Emergency's march forward continues
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Artist:Joel Plaskett Emergency
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Album:Ashtray Rock
For a second year, Joel Plaskett dominates the East Coast Music Award nominations, with a total of seven. I said it last year, and I'll say it again ... it's a rare and special thing when music I like gets a nod like this that shows that other people like it, too. And honestly, Ashtray Rock was a kick-ass album, so he and the band really deserve it. Who knew there was so much you could do with ...
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Godspeed, Dan
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Dan Fogelberg was my earliest and biggest influence, the man I wanted to be when I picked up a guitar and started trying to write songs. Anyone who thinks all he gave us was insipid soft rock only heard the overplayed '70s and '80s hit, but there was more, much more.The first concert I ever paid my own money for was to see him, and I dragged my mom and sister along with me.The news was far from...
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A moment of lyrical awe with Silly Wizard
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Album:Wild And Beautiful
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Track:The Fishermen's Song / Lament For The Fisherman's Wife
I can't even begin to laud Silly Wizard with enough superlatives to equal what I think of their greatness ... In my opinion, not the greatest Scottish folk band of the 20th century, but also one of the best bands ever, in any genre.Their singer, Andy M. Stewart, has a knack for writing songs that sound like they were actually found at the back of some moldy book in a forgotten archive. But then...
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Spandau Ballet proves that money CAN heal almost all wounds
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Word is leaking out (if you can call a press release a 'leak') that Spandau Ballet is reforming for a one-off show at a new luxury development in Las Vegas.I'm not seeing any specific dates, or even the name of the aforementioned 'luxury development', but I'm keeping an eye out.Considering the prolonged war of words (not to mention lawsuits) between the Kemp brothers and the rest of the band, t...
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Concentrated blast of nostalgia
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Few people remember Classix Nouveaux. And fewer still realize that singer Sal Solo went, appropriately, enough, solo after the band disintegrated.Before heading out on the Christian contemporary circuit, he recorded one pop album that I'm sure was a big hit in Poland (the one place in the world where Classix Nouveaux was guaranteed to hit the top 10 every time), but was a bit of a flop everywhe...
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Return of the Son of 'I'm Still Making Music' (the I'm sorry ... really, really sorry edition)
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Track:The Time Has Come
OK, here's the last SAW (my contribution from just this week) and my last post for at least a little bit, so I stop bombarding people's e-mail in boxes with 'new post' messages. After my being away from posting for so long- I've been busy with my own band stuff, plus some folk concert promotion (I'll just say right here that Richie Havens is an incredible singer and one of the most profoundly j...
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Son of 'I'm Still Making Music' (the Lightning Round edition)
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Track:Signs of Light
Now we move on to the next-most-recent SAW song.For any of its flaws (and they're there ... you'll hear the biggest ones in the first 15 seconds or so), I offer one explanation: This song took an hour and a half. Opening up the recording software, writing the song, inserting drum loops, recording all the various keyboard lines and vocals, mixing the thing, exporting it to WAV and converting it ...
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