What was the first

As I recall mine was UB40's Labour of Love, not too embarrassing at all, still love UB40 in fact!


What was the first album you ever bought?


Bo Diddley, 1962 Bo Diddley -Hey, Pye International and mono. I bought it the week of release, first issue, so must be worth a bomb. Actually, no because there are lots of the about at about £20 a go :-(

Just digitised it a few weeks ago. I had probably only ever played in half a dozen times I imagine, so it is still in excellent condition.

Carol King: Tapestry

love the "I think" <3

I just picked up a perfect copy of the Thick as a Brick LP including the newspaper insert for $6 in the States.

Esperanto.

They would have been/should have been a huge success but they

ahead of their time.

Eccentric, and vibrant like an electric storm on stage with several

vocalists and more than 4 electrIc violinists.

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What is it with these red albums? When I was searching for the price of the Elvis album yesterday, I found that the engineer who recorded the Christmas Album had pressed himself a red vinyl version. That is up for sale for $30,000! My ordinary black one might be worth a few bob, but if I reach for the red spray can...

Just looked on Ebay UK for this (which I've got) EMI APPLE RECORDS THE BEATLES / 1962 - 1966 12" DOUBLE LP ALBUM RED VINYL RECORD. They want £60

'Pretentious'. That's the word I should have used :-)

He "got out of hand"? He couldn't......he had only half a finger on one of them ( like Django, and Dave Allen)

Horses for courses Brian. John McLaughlin to me was always a bit pretentious, especially with Shakti and The Mahavishnu Orchestra . Best thing about him is that he comes from Doncaster! Have heard him play "regular" jazz and he knows his stuff. Same with guys like Miles who went from the best trumpeter in the world to garbage, in his later life.

Don't knock modern jazz too soon and hard, have a serious listen to John McLaughlin playing his Gibson double-neck and later the Bogue 'Double Rainbow'. Have particularly a listen to his playing at the time on the Apocalypse album he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. He, like Montgomery, worked with Billy Cobham who is probably the best living jazz drummer still. Take a look at McLaughlin playing at Eric Clapton's 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival on YouTube. The more you look and listen the more you hear his big influence deep in there, namely Django Reinhardt. The one we might be forgetting here, Charlie Mingus, could play that bass so brilliantly that the purity of the music turned out could be simply classical contrapuntal like some Bach rather than 'modern jazz'. It depends what you listen to and for. Then, I also listen to Cage and Ligeti as 'modern classical' music, where perhaps the likes of Miles Davis meet somewhere in there.

Sorry it was '61.

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It was Acker on the stage when things "got out of hand". He didn't appeal to the ultra Moderns.

Quite reminds for of the Beaulieu Jazz Festival (was in '62?) where there was a pitched physical battle between supporters of Trad and Modern Jazz who didn't agree the festival programme. I was there in the middle of the crowd and we eventually had to take refuge on the stage where the band didn't play on! Eventually fire hoses were brought in to cool down the ardour of the factions. I remember a double bass player (forgotten his name or the group) who charged the crowd with the spike/rest of his instrument. The whole thing was being televised live and ended when a huge scaffold tower for lighting collapsed under the weight of those who had climbed it to get a better view. My dear old mother was watching it on TV live and thought it was the end of civilisation as we know it!

Glad you liked it Tony. I like anything with a tune especially if it's got a good hook. You can shove "modern" jazz where the sun don't shine. It always seems to me that they are all playing different tunes at different tempos & don't know how to stop. I was brought up with Trad. Jazz & spent many a happy hour at the local Co-op Hall bopping to Acker Bilk & trying to pull the birds ;-) I always thought Wes was a bit special since I was told my "weird" guitar style was actually how this Wes guy played. Apparently he played with his thumb so as to not make too much noise & upset his mum which is pretty much how I came to use the same technique with unfortunately not the same success as Wes :-(

Yes Tony, my first album was of him. Nowadays Martin Taylor and Russ Malone are on my shortlist.

Good if he is playing, mind you being a couple of years older than me he is also pushing it some and after years of poor health... Pity, his guitar playing was great.

David, have you listened to the BBQ......Brubeck Brothers Quartet? Have a listen.

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Peter Green is as you describe but gets about to play from time to time, I believe.