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Hello Good People who read this blog
I have been thinking that I need to write a new post but was a bit depressed due to various things and didn’t…until now, and now I’m glad I have started writing because it bloody well cheered me up. How are you all in cyberspace, how is M15 and how are all you scammers, spammers, lunched out people, and hippies of course, and all those pretending not be hippies even though deep down you really are?
Instead of writing depressing stuff I thought I’d write this daft thing instead:
If I ruled Glastonbury…. Day 1.
I know I’m an old fart...but listening to the uninspiring airs and lyrics of some the blander bands the crowds love at Glastonbury, this early Friday evening, I thought I’d compile my own personal ideal Glastonbury line-up , just to cheer myself up a bit as a boring old fart.
So here it is in no particular order:
Jimi Hendrix singing Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” while chewing gum and playing around on his guitar with an ease, brilliance and charisma sadly lacking in the over rehearsed CD quality performances of today ( yes I am being an old complaining fart today).
Next,some Here & Now with their timeless song Addicted , the first song of theirs I heard and liked before I saw them live for the first time in 1979.
I don’t think this is the same version though, as the one on the Here & Now/Alternative TV Album ( correct me if I am wrong). I no longer have a copy. I wish someone would upload it on youtube.
I also would have loved to have put up Only Way from their All Over The Show album but only have it on vinyl.
In 1998 I was at Glastonbury in the monsoon, and decided to go and watch Tori Amos who I knew little about.Thanks to the rain, I stood in the front “row” , so close I could see my own reflection in her piano. I saw her do this amazing performance, every song was done with the most amazing psychotic passion, and she inspired me to go back to London and play and sing to my teeny audiences with a new crazy confidence.
I make no apologies for including Genesis with their early English subversive songs.
However they do feature Phil Collins , I must apologise very deeply for that.
This is Selling England by the Pound from 1973. I think we will be selling England by the pound very soon, to a stronger economy, perhaps China, Germany or to aliens who are secretly living among us with wardrobes lined with gold , platinum and diamonds they brought to trade with us in case of emergencies. I assure you I’m not stoned , just rambling to entertain myself.
At sunset I think there should be all night anarchy from Hawkwind ( Urban Guerrilla again):
Some English folk at sunrise with the lovely Anne Briggs singing Living by the Water.
I must go to bed now, having successfully ignored the 2011 Glastonbury procedings on the TV in the background for several hours now, and created my own Friday night/Saturday dawn alternative line-up.
I bid you goodnight and actually I wouldn’t want to see these acts at Glastonbury at all, it would have to be at a new “Peace, Love and Green Anarchy” free festival at Stonehenge .
I’m sure I will hear some good music this weekend on the TV from Glastonbury but I’m not sure if much of it will be innovative or spontaneous. Cynical old fart I am!
Love & Peace
Born2rant
p.s. now there’s an act on as I type this who I like a lot , I think the music improves the later it is. Ah it’s Primal Scream , now that the vocals are over and they are having a good jam, I quite like them.More old farts like me.
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