Comments on: Recent Recommendations: N.V.Groep 65, Edgar Broughton, Lloyd Miller and more Kompakt

By: m.mitchell

m.mitchell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:32 +0000

Hi Jon,just been reading that fascinating article on The Moodies in The Wire-did you ever see them at the time they were playing?They look so incredible-very Dollsy -incidentally been re-reading the Bob Gruen book on the Dolls too.I still cant believe some of the photos in there-jeez these guys were brave!I was thinking that if anybody looked remotely like that now theyd be carted away for disturbing the peace!Theres a great pic of Thunders with Sable Starr where he looks really happy(not usually a word you would apply to him).When you hear that cd interview in Nina Antonio’s book it seems he is aware of his impending fate-very heartbreaking(no.really!
Hope some of that Moodies archive tv stuff gets released eventually-Polly Eltes does some great vocals on Eno’s Mother Whale Eyeless.Oh these were the days!Regards MM

By: m.mitchell

m.mitchell — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:13:38 +0000

Hi Jon,I do agree with your comments about the structure of the Eno doc-almost like they threw a pack of Oblique Strategies in the air and didnt bother to read any of the suggestions!I had been really looking forward to seeing it,but was aware that it would probably not be as music based as I would have liked-there was almost no narrative thrust there,almost like a pick n mix”you know Eno anyway” so choose your watching strategy accordingly.
Most of all loved the Roxy clips,which showed how extreme their live shows were-theres a tape floating around from Munich 1973-The version of Bogus Man segues into Ladytron,and is just awesome in its intensity.Manzanera’s guitar sounds like its taking the roof off the venue!
I did enjoy the Eno doc,but having just re-read Revolution in the Head by I Mac, I cant help concur that this doc provides evidence of the loss of narrative in culture.Every time I look at this book I swoon with wonder at his thoughts and the way he expresses them.Such a great loss.
That said…mmmmn Morley!Used to love his NME stuff,went off his style drastically when I bought Words and Music,which infuriated me immensely with its flagrant egoist spewings-all that ,if you like Godspeed youll like Slade stuff was excruciatingly painful-since then I winced at his interview on Elvis on Richard and Judy and tried to avoid anything he’s on-I do like him,its just that his style is so monotonous and annoying,but I do agree with a lot of his ideas.
I still find it extremely hard to find anything of note in U2,and as for Coldplay…….ssssszz=Best MM

By: jon

jon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:39:29 +0000

Hi Keith yes that really stood out. The sixties are both very near and very far away. Some of the records still sound very contemporary, and then you get lines like that one. best js

By: jon

jon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:38:32 +0000

Hi yes partially agree re Eno doc. It’s always great to see and hear him but I thought it wasn’t very well put together for rhythm, flow and storyline. The repeated ‘postman’ motif was a bore and the intellectual guests under-used. Also, love Morley as I do, even I found his narration of Eno’s musical clips a little too much. But it was better than watching “Road Wars” or whatever. best js

By: m.mitchell

m.mitchell — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:22:25 +0000

Great Eno documentary the other night-the Full House Roxy footage was priceless,but someone should really tell Bari Neon that Quincy Jones was the producer of State of Independence,not The Moroder One!Jon,sorry to bother you again,but I wondered if you knew if the lp that Dino Valenti recorded prior to his debut(with Jack Nitzsche I think?)has ever surfaced?I know hes not your fave member of Quicksilver,but I thought you might know about it(I love Nitzsches arrangements and productions).Thanks.

By: keith

keith — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:23:47 +0000

Oh the guilt/luxury of a fitted carpet instead of a carpet square with lino around the edges/recesses.
The sixties with still the rationing/going without /not wasting still on the minds/lips of many. Fitted carpet !! All that waste!!

By: m.mitchell

m.mitchell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:51:33 +0000

Hi Jon,hope you observed a reasonably warm festive period!At the moment trying to pretend it is summer by playing dub lps on headphones-Leggo Dub and Pick a Dub are in rotation frequently.That Feelies second lp is what I think the second Television lp could have led to,if they hadnt spit-Slipping into Something is transcendental.Watched that wonderful BBC 4 doc on Duffy last night-unbeleivably witty and loveable character despite his belligerent persona-his final comments on ”society” were priceless.Hope he is well-we need more people like him in the world.I wanted to ask you if you could put up your interview with Donald Cammell(referred to in the article in Time Travel on 60′s film?)I would love to read this,Performance is my favourite ever film.Rave of the moment for me is the Psych Funk 101 compilation -Kim Sun+”The Man Who must Leave”-Wow Baby!