What can you do when you grow up in a household with Jim Reeves on the Dansette? Luckily I recall listening to the radio in the 60s, the Stones’ Little Red Rooster and a succession of Manfred Mann hits stick in my mind. I certainly wasn’t a Beatles fan, no, it was the Monkees for me. I was a bit of a nerd, first two 45s were Millie ‘My Boy Lollipop’ and Freddie and the Dreamers ‘You were made for me’.
Redemption came with my first LP, T Rex ‘Electric Warrior’, which I still enjoy today. I remember being at school and all the cool kids walking around with albums under their arm, Cream ‘Wheels of Fire’ and King Crimson ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ stick in my mind. My sensibilities were really awoken having fallen for Christine, unrequited love, but she did result in my purchasing Deep Purple ‘Burn’, still one of my all-time favourites, and things have gone from there.
Music has the power to feed happiness and commiserate when feeling blue, this blog is an attempt to document a musical journey, revelling in the excellent and continually searching for unfound delights.
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Nigel Foster // December 6, 2008 at 4:37 pm |
OK, so we’ve established you’re a baby boomer – teenager in the sixties – what a perfect time!
I can’t let you off buying a Freddie and the Dreamers though, but Millie, nothing wrong with that! Did you know that, contrary to popular belief, the harmonica player was not Rod Stewart but none other than our very own Pete Hogman!
If you get a chance catch one of his gigs – The Pete Hogman Blues Band” or “Hoggie and the Sharpetones”.
Oh, incidentally, a nice eclectic mix of album covers at the top! The only one that’s got me foxed is the pink smoke emerging from a subway.
wighteye // December 6, 2008 at 5:29 pm |
Hi Nigel, thanks for your comment, agree with you about poor old Freddie, makes me cringe now! The unknown cover is Loaded by the Velvet Underground, not one of their most famous, but one I really enjoy; come to think of it, I enjoy most of their albums! I’m still enjoying discovering music from the 60s and 70s as well as more recent attempts, above all I enjoy live music. Funnily enough I picked up a book about learning to play blues harmonica the other day, though I think it may take a while to master!!! I’ll check out Pete Hogman, thanks.