No! 


Not last Thursday -  the audience wouldn't leave !!!


Now I do realise I am in great peril of being moved down the waiting list for BA'SS ( ) but I do not get how a comparison between the Floyd and Softs works, so different is the music. IMHO the Floyd did not produce any decent music after Syd  :-(  Maybe OK as "supermarket" music ha ha.  Having said that I know a lot of people did like it and it was a good influence of rock generally.


"Hardly" is the right word ha ha  -  and 20 minutes ? I could not last that long.

Anyway great that you like King Crimson a truly wonderful band.

Anyway in a later post I will reveal my (accidental) connection with Pink Floyd.

P

You are obviously a man of excellent good taste Hans !!!!

 

Ha!!  Theo Travis is a long collaborator of Robert Fripp (Mr. King Crimson himself) but now is with Soft Machine legacy. 

King Crimson were (are?) right up there at the very top. We are very lucky they appear in Aylesbury each year, so we see them regularly. This year though, not sure about their foray into "metal", but when they got that out of the way (this summer) the remainder of the performance was as usual stonking brilliant.

IMHO Soft Machine were key in the development of rock. With founders like Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayres what more can you say. Robert Wyatt is a mega hero and is still producing music of the very highest quality. He is a national treasure. Wyatt was the drummer in Soft Machine but has produced fantastic music over very many albums for many years !!!!!   Then there was Syd Barrett with whom on his first album the original Soft Machine members performed shame what happened to Syd Barrett we can only imagine what he could have produced !!

P

Whilst posting about good gigs I have been to I thought I should mention a new musician (to me anyway) I came across recently.

I never used to be a big fan of Country (or Western  ) but one of the advantages of years of experience is that you come to know that it just ain't that simple. Its the quality of the music not the type that matters.

So recently I went to the cinema with my good lady wife to see what turned out to be an excellent film "Hell or High Water". With Jeff Bridges (totally brilliant) and a sound track by Nick Cave this is one of and possibly even the best film I have seen this year.

Most of us know the credentials of Nick Cave so no surprises in the great tracks he contributed to the film but unknown to me at the time was Ray Wylie Hubbard.  I now have four albums (Dangerous Spirits, Growl, The Grifters Hymnal and The Ruffians Misfortune). This is proper good quality music. With shades and hints of Dylan, Johnny Cash and some of the great blues artists.

Recommended for sure.

P

Gong is on the Dansette - absolutely !!!!  or at least it will be when I have worked my way through the new Soft Legacy albums.

I would be interested to know if anyone out there in "XX" land knows Geri Allen ?

I have many of her albums and went to see her again last Saturday as part of the London Jazz festival. Another great evening with David Murray (awesome sax in the mould of Ornette Coleman) and Terri Lyn Carrington (drums) a long time collaborator of Geri Allen.

So Geri Allen is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Her piano playing is up their with the very greatest of Jazz musicians alive or dead. IMHO that is of course. She is well known in the US but not many seem to know her this side of the Atlantic.

So do you any of you know her?  if you don't and you are into the highest quality of Jazz then you need to investigate again IMHO.

Cheers

Paul

Yes indeed and music I was raised on. So great to see some of those great musicians live (and particularly "alive"  )again.

The first three of the Soft Machine Legacy CD's have arrived (Soft Machine Legacy and Live at the New Morning 1/2). They are on the Dansette now and I am very much enjoying.  What I really like is that the live performance and the "Legacy" albums are very much new interpretations with hints of the past. It is not at all just gong over old stuff. And with musicians of this calibre - just great music.

Happy bunny I am.

P

Two partitions one with W10 and XX only and it will not be used for anything else but to run XX. So internet access not required and updates not required. So no problems.  This partition will not be used very often maybe only on holidays with my portable hi fi system. But portable is probably stretching the meaning of the word :-).

The other partition will also have W10 and will be used for general stuff that laptops are used for and of course will have internet access.

So no problems.

Cheers

P

Ha ha guilty!!   too much detail what I should have said is:

"I want to install XX on my W10 laptop will there be any problems. I shall run XX on the laptop and the files will be on USB connected hard disc"

From what you say it should be OK but I do not understand this:


does this mean I should prevent W10 from applying any upgrades?  if so I will keep dual boot and on the W10 XX partition prevent internet access and therefore updating. Is that correct?

Cheers

P

Hi Peter,

At the moment I have dual boot on my laptop. I use W10 for general duties but the other OS is W8.1 with XX installed. I only use that for music and I have not bothered to update it as I do not use it very often. However I am thinking of upgrading to W10 on both partitions or possibly deleted one partition and install XX on the W10 partition.

The question is can I do that?   I remember that to get XX to work under W10 needed a fair bit of "tweeking" is that still the case or would be a straightforward install with later XX versions.

Cheers

Paul

Last night I went with a couple of like minded old hippies to watch Soft Machine Legacy (featuring JOHN ETHERIDGE: electric guitar ROY BABBINGTON: bass guitar JOHN MARSHALL: drums and percussion
THEO TRAVIS: tenor sax, flute, fender rhodes piano).

Man was this a good set the quality of the playing was superb we had a stonking good evening, one of the best evenings of music I have had for years. The Softs are touring the UK but also have gigs in Europe. If it is your type of music or if you like jazz don't hesitate go and watch them.

Paul

Yes of course I will have one!!

Cheers

Paul

I like "Jawdropping"

 

Hey Peter  -  I have just been reading in more detail your description of the BA'SS sound quality and noted this :


WOW I get that problem NOW -  does that mean I should not have the upgrade?

Cheers

Paul

And of course put me down as well 

Cheers

Paul