Post stuff here, compadres, about overlooked or forgotten or out of fashion musical icons. Anything goes.
I'm going with Jonathan Richman
apparently he's only played accoustic music for the last few years because of his fear of going deaf
Tune
And, in respect of Barry Jones - legendary Liverpool singer/songwriter and progenitor of Americana-UK - this:
I'll plump for Tim Hardin. Saw him once, he was stoned and fell off his piano stool at one point. Tragic.
Well this thread didn't exactly catch fire as I thought it would. Undeterred let's go with this:
Tune:
This. Now this. Now this is a tune along with the five hundred other tunes I'm taking to my desert island (until I've culled a few). This will survive I'm absolutely certain. Wasn't the singer (or another band member...) a relative of the late queen? Read that somewhere. Check out the BBC documentary about them on YouTube. It's very much of its time but a good insight into how folk thought the world could be better principally by forming communes.
This tune formed part of the 'Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dancehall' album along with a few others (which will be a story for another time). Like an absolute knob I'm going to have to tell you that I have both Volume 1 and Volume 2 on vinyl. That probably shouldn't matter and indeed it doesn't. Old habits die hard though...
Context: the past is another country - they do things differently there...
@paul-villers A great band. I've got the first album on vinyl and the two disc CD compilation. James Lascelles is a second cousin to that turd Charles the turd apparently. I got that from Wikipedia which also confidently informs me that the band were known, affectionately, by their fans as "The Globs!" Not in my manor.
Have to mention Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers. Bongos Over Balham is a treasure.
Great cover by Barney Bubbles and a great band. For a brief period it looked like they might break out of the pub rock circuit. I saw them numerous times back in the day, I just wish I could remember more of those nights. They had a young drummer who showed potential called Pete Thomas.
