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Your favourite listenings......

I really do not understand the problem with sprouts. I am quite happy to eat them just plain boiled in unsalted water. To encourage the kids, 66% of whom like them, we used to cut holes in the sprouts and place them on top of a breadstick to make a sprout lollipop.

Happy to try all other methods of course.
 
Is it me getting old and nostalgic? Sprouts don’t seem to taste as strong/peppery as when I was a child, I suspect that people who were put off previously might find them more palatable now.
 
Cabinetman":1xc2zics said:
Is it me getting old and nostalgic? Sprouts don’t seem to taste as strong/peppery as when I was a child, I suspect that people who were put off previously might find them more palatable now.
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There's been a lot of breeding of sprouts to try to remove the bitterness that put people off (I liked them before and I still like them, but I think they tested better with a bit more bitterness).

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20 ... sprouts-bo
 
Just watched this on Sky Arts.
The Who live at Kilburn 1977

Pete Townsend. Can anyone play guitar like that today and Keith Moon nobody has ever played drums like that before or since.

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The whole concert is on youtube.
 
Malc2098":bakz13i9 said:
I really like seeing covers of originals performed live, that I've never seen the original artist perform.
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I was fortunate to see Paul Simon in the late 80’s performing this & many others from the Gracelands album, great concert.
 
Phil Pascoe":36w20bp0 said:
I saw Simon & Garfunkel live in Feyenoord Stadium, 1982. Wonderful, quite wonderful. :D
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Bridge Over Troubled Water, the album, has spanned the generations in my family. My father could sing along to the whole album, so can I and so can my kids.
 
What a melancholy delight is this. I know the song from the cover by This Mortal Coil, with the remarkable vocals of Liz Fraser. I was a big fan of Kate Bush in the 80s, but only discovered this existed yesterday. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, Another Day:

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That Eagles HC cover was good. Needed a proper drum kit though. I saw them in the same places as you Malc. Really good band. This kind of quite complex music is not rally being written today, so it is good to see young musicians capable of playing it.
 
As I can tell Phil is a closet fan really, here's a better copy of the whole BBC Kate Bush Christmas special 1979, from which the previous clip comes:
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Music is very much a matter of personal taste, and I'm resigned to the fact that not many people share my taste ! But in this case, I think I'm far from alone. Recalling that her debut, Wuthering Heights, was only released in 1978 she must have been quite a phenomenon to have her own Christmas show the year after.
 
Always thought the guitar solo created and played by Ian Bairnson on Wuthering Heights was good. He did lots of session work at the time. Kate is a bit shrill though for my taste. Some of the lyrics are nice.
 
AJB Temple":1tp3b7qq said:
Always thought the guitar solo created and played by Ian Bairnson on Wuthering Heights was good. He did lots of session work at the time. Kate is a bit shrill though for my taste. Some of the lyrics are nice.
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Ian was quite an accomplished motorcycle trials rider, but didn't have a motorcycle licence. I taught him road riding and got him trough his test. Lovely chap. Loved all his music kit at his house.
 
I took my lad to the transatlantic sessions at the South Bank centre last weekendish for his first ever gig. Don't know he's born etc lol. . For some reason I thought I was going to see Martha Wainwright as a solo act but it was an amazing concert. Virtuoso musicians from both sides of the pond playing music of shared tradition.
One of my favourite artists is Liam O'maonlai of the Hothouse flowers playing much more traditional music and he was there on the bodhran. Wainwright was incredible. The best female singer I've ever seen live. She was mesmerising. There was a couple of young girls of unbelievable talent playing what the Americans refer to as old timey music and they were superlative banjo and fiddle players, just breathtaking at a young age. A huge range of top musicians and then as a surprise performance Eric Clapton strolled on and played a duet of While my guitar gently weeps and then to top all that covered one of my favourite songs. Sam Hall, the Irish version.
My lad did really well bless him but he's 12 and this wasn't his music. Who's Eric Clapton Dad? And I'm whispering in his ear about musical history and he shrugs. Yeh he's ok Dad.
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AJB Temple":1wg6udgx said:
Always thought the guitar solo created and played by Ian Bairnson on Wuthering Heights was good. He did lots of session work at the time. Kate is a bit shrill though for my taste. Some of the lyrics are nice.
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I recently heard that Ian has passed away following a battle with dementia.
 
Have you ever wondered how an organist rehearsed for their performance at the Royal Albert Hall?

Well, after midnight, obviously.

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I wonder what memories the sound of this theme tune will bring back for members of a certain age.

His old producer is still posting old programmes.

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I quite like Dean Martin's version of this, but I stumbled across this and rather like its arrangement of voice and instruments.

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Unless you are into your football AND Robbie Williams look away now.

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Made us all smile here.
 
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