• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Your favourite listenings......

very dif to hear /get a decent radio station......
but pleasantly suprised by Amazon alexa offerings.....
I like soft rock and country.......
 
I am raving over John Martyn 'Solid Air'. I'd never heard of him until one of his songs was used in the uber-xxcellent current series on Channel 4 "Truelove".
 
Oddly enough I met John Martyn back in the late 1980s. He was rehearsing in a studio in Brighton and I was asked to play piano on some stuff they were doing (I was there by pure coincidence with an artist friend who was trying to get a recording deal for his g/f maxine). Very good acoustic guitarist despite being absolutely off his head most of the time that weekend and a bit of a dark character. As I recollect people in the studio called him Dave.
 
He was interviewed not long before he died. He was in a lot of pain from diabetic foot and leg ulcers, but he said there was no pain four bottles of whisky a night didn't overcome.
I somehow doubt this. I remember at 3am one day bursting into tears hearing Hello darkness my old friend - because I was afraid to go to bed. Morphine, codeine, amitriptyline, pregabalin, gabapentin and tramadol didn't beat the pain.
 
Currently giving this a run through:-

Angie (Angelina)

I was mesmerised watching Gordon Giltrap perform live, the superb clean fingering is a pleasure to listen to.

The casual retuning of his instruments to different keys for a particular demonstration piece whilst chatting away about his experiences a measure of his mastery of the art.
 
CHJ":49fthdxy said:
Currently giving this a run through:-

Angie (Angelina)

I was mesmerised watching Gordon Giltrap perform live, the superb clean fingering is a pleasure to listen to.

The casual retuning of his instruments to different keys for a particular demonstration piece whilst chatting away about his experiences a measure of his mastery of the art.
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Nice. Loved the tune ever since I heard Davy Graham do it in the 60s. I saw some chap play it at a boozy party in the late 60s, and then Paul Simon brought it out after his trip over here back then.

Never, ever, been able to play it myself.
 
Currently given lots of stuff a run through.
Top of my list and always well be is the early stuff by this lot.
I was in my first year of secondary school when I was introduced to them. I look back and still wonder how and why an 11/12 year could could get into this genre of music. Seen them live many times including the farewell tour in 2022.

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Malc2098":mc73fsti said:
CHJ":mc73fsti said:
Currently giving this a run through:-

Angie (Angelina)

I was mesmerised watching Gordon Giltrap perform live, the superb clean fingering is a pleasure to listen to.

The casual retuning of his instruments to different keys for a particular demonstration piece whilst chatting away about his experiences a measure of his mastery of the art.
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Nice. Loved the tune ever since I heard Davy Graham do it in the 60s. I saw some chap play it at a boozy party in the late 60s, and then Paul Simon brought it out after his trip over here back then.

Never, ever, been able to play it myself.
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Beat you. I heard both Giltrap and Graham play it. :lol:
 
Phil Pascoe":2k0vpjh2 said:
Malc2098":2k0vpjh2 said:
CHJ":2k0vpjh2 said:
Currently giving this a run through:-

Angie (Angelina)

I was mesmerised watching Gordon Giltrap perform live, the superb clean fingering is a pleasure to listen to.

The casual retuning of his instruments to different keys for a particular demonstration piece whilst chatting away about his experiences a measure of his mastery of the art.
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Nice. Loved the tune ever since I heard Davy Graham do it in the 60s. I saw some chap play it at a boozy party in the late 60s, and then Paul Simon brought it out after his trip over here back then.

Never, ever, been able to play it myself.
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Beat you. I heard both Giltrap and Graham play it. :lol:
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Yeah, but you weren't at the boozy party! :D
 
First came across The ShowHawk Duo at a street session in Bath about 10 yrs. ago and indulged in a CD, its tracks have been on my mobile play list ever since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrkhJut4Ew

EDIT: time flies, it was more like 15 yrs, ago according to my comp. and the CD was Take 2
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Thanks for posting that Gordon Giltrap version of Anji. It was that song - the Bert Jansch cover though - that inspired me to learn to play guitar, and I worked and worked to get it note perfect. Don't think I recall hearing the Giltrap version before, but I agree his technique is superbly clean. He adds a lot more complexity to the Jansch classic cover, though mostly hammer ons and pull offs so it sounds more complex than it really is, he gets a fantastic sound. Can't quite understand how that version has escaped me. I still play that tune on guitar today. Never saw Davy Graham unfortunately. Did see Bert, on some tour with Ralph McTell.

I know Gordon is known for using Fylde guitars, but it would be interesting (to me anyway) to know what instrument he used in that recording.
 
Some of you of a certain age may recognise this.

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Andyp":2xcmipv1 said:
Out of Town. Jack Hargreaves

Does that make me of a certain age :shock:

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Not to worry if it does, there's still a way to go; having reached LXXXIII today I'm sitting quietly re-reading some Anne McAffrey and listening to Vangelis
 
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