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« Reply #80 on: February 27, 2015, 06:10:50 PM » |
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« Reply #81 on: February 27, 2015, 07:59:03 PM » |
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I'd agree with much of your results there, but I'd put M&H ahead of Gladys Leap (let down by a dreadful performance from My Feet Are Set For Dancing) and also Tipplers Tales and Bonny Bunch of Roses (much as I enjoy them, I feel this one pips both to the post). I think it probably beats WKWTTG as well. You didn't mention Old New Borrowed Blue, which I would put as a score draw, as I also would with Jewel in the Crown.
Gladys has to have a special place for longer standing fans, as it meant FC were back after we thought we'd lost them. I liked it because it was a statement that they were back, but its not an lp i play, like most of their sucessive records. |
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« Reply #82 on: February 28, 2015, 12:52:02 PM » |
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Well, that is a very good album, I must say. I could probably do without the Leslie-esque Bring Me Back My Feathers on a first listen, but Clear Water is an absolutely splendid piece of work for those of us who like to read between the lines on the gatefold sleeve. It's also an impressively solid slab of vinyl and I can see myself shelling out for the CD version just to catch up on what they've shaved off to fit it on two sides of an LP. Buy with confidence, waverers!
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« Reply #83 on: February 28, 2015, 01:07:00 PM » |
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Done gone & bought it on the strength of the chatter here,so it's all your fault if I don't like it! Mind you the Skirkmeister does have impeccable taste(Usually)  |
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« Reply #84 on: February 28, 2015, 01:09:51 PM » |
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Done gone & bought it on the strength of the chatter here,so it's all your fault if I don't like it! Mind you the Skirkmeister does have impeccable taste(Usually) Still wavering! |
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« Reply #85 on: February 28, 2015, 02:20:00 PM » |
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Well, that is a very good album, I must say. I could probably do without the Leslie-esque Bring Me Back My Feathers on a first listen, but Clear Water is an absolutely splendid piece of work for those of us who like to read between the lines on the gatefold sleeve. It's also an impressively solid slab of vinyl and I can see myself shelling out for the CD version just to catch up on what they've shaved off to fit it on two sides of an LP. Buy with confidence, waverers!
I wish I could get the vinyl as well. I recall hearing some questionable opinions about Feathers when the band was playing it last year. My thought upon hearing it is that I can hear that song spreading throughout the folkosphere and I could really see someone like the Carolina Chocolate Drops to name one, performing it. |
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« Reply #86 on: February 28, 2015, 03:49:27 PM » |
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Well, that is a very good album, I must say. I could probably do without the Leslie-esque Bring Me Back My Feathers on a first listen
Not my favourite song on the album either but not a Leslie composition as I recall. Somebody mentioned that they could imagine it being sung by Swarb in the Nine era and I can hear that. Perhaps it just needed a different vocalist at that point on the album, though I am not sure it is suited to Simon. |
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« Reply #87 on: February 28, 2015, 04:24:31 PM » |
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Well, that is a very good album, I must say. I could probably do without the Leslie-esque Bring Me Back My Feathers on a first listen
Not my favourite song on the album either but not a Leslie composition as I recall. Somebody mentioned that they could imagine it being sung by Swarb in the Nine era and I can hear that. Perhaps it just needed a different vocalist at that point on the album, though I am not sure it is suited to Simon. "Leslie-esque". Written by Anna Ryder. |
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« Reply #88 on: March 02, 2015, 01:55:06 PM » |
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Apologies for being drum nerdy, but the cover shows Mr Conway playing both a green kit and a red kit. Were some of the drum tracks laid down separately?
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« Reply #89 on: March 02, 2015, 02:23:35 PM » |
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Is the red kit, his 'little kit'?
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« Reply #90 on: March 02, 2015, 03:04:23 PM » |
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Could be that, yes. Maybe it's a colour perception thing, like that dress.
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« Reply #91 on: March 02, 2015, 03:53:09 PM » |
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Maybe he used both of his drum kits on different tracks depending on the sound he wanted to get. My "drum nerdy" question - I'm just wondering when and why he switched cymbal allegiance from Paiste to Zildjian having used the former for many years. I knew there was something I forgot to ask him at the gig a few weeks ago !  |
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« Reply #92 on: March 02, 2015, 03:57:33 PM » |
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Take a look at the sleeve notes for the past few albums.
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« Reply #93 on: March 02, 2015, 04:05:50 PM » |
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"...why he switched cymbal allegiance from Paiste to Zildjian"Maybe it's something of a status cymbal.. Coat, hat scarf and gloves already on  ...
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« Reply #94 on: March 02, 2015, 04:55:20 PM » |
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The first clue I had of any change was the below photo from Cropredy 2014 (green drum kit). Paiste cymbals are credited in the sleevenotes for Festival Bell and By Popular Request. They're also credited in the booklet for Myths & Heroes, but in the first photo he's using Zildjians (with Paiste hi-hats). Confusing, if a little retentive - I think it's best I ask him about this when I catch the band on the Easter tour [Photo over 400 days old. Removed by Admin.] |
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« Reply #95 on: March 02, 2015, 09:50:16 PM » |
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I wonder if Kraftwerk use CTRL-V to get their cymbal sounds? Staying on topic, M&H continues to impress with each play... Definitely the strongest album for years, IMO. |
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« Reply #96 on: March 03, 2015, 12:11:00 PM » |
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"Since the current line-up (Leslie, Pegg, Sanders, Nicol, Conway) came together in 1998, making its recording debut with The Wood and the Wire, they’ve not put a foot wrong." apparently... http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2015/03/fairport-convention-myths-and-heroes/ |
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« Reply #97 on: March 03, 2015, 12:17:05 PM » |
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I decided I should probably get this and it arrived in the post this morning. Will let you know what I think after a few plays, but with all the other positive comments I am looking forward to hearing it.
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« Reply #98 on: March 03, 2015, 12:48:32 PM » |
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Myths and Heroes has ,'definite touches of the Levellers'?? |
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« Reply #99 on: March 03, 2015, 01:00:26 PM » |
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Myths and Heroes has ,'definite touches of the Levellers'?? No. It doesn't. Which is in no way a criticism of either band. |
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