My increasing love for Robert Wyatt

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#1 My increasing love for Robert Wyatt

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Every time I see him talking on telly I get a warm feeling in my tummy ....

I've just listened to 'Solar Flares' from 'Ruth is stranger than Richard' .
It just increases my need to get all of the albums he's ever recorded and listen to them regularly .

More soon on this subject .
Need to dig out 'The end of an ear' now.
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I'm not sure where to start, but the drumming on this track is as good a place as any :

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....and Kevin Ayres voice and delivery, and the heavily compressed short scale semi acoustic bass that's overdriving summat beautifully....or the organ sound.... Its all too much (for me to take etc etc etc)!

But yeah, the drums are great too. Just took delivery of the first 2 Blodwyn Pig albums BTW.

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Dave the bass wrote:Just took delivery of the first 2 Blodwyn Pig albums BTW. DTB
You little tinker !

Meanwhile, I think this one almost needs no introduction :
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One of the great love songs -
From 'Rock Bottom' . ( Original UK cover pic is different , if you're looking for the LP )

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From 'Rock Bottom', again . 'Little red riding hood hit the road' , I have no idea how long it took him to construct this amazing track . It's about the accident that left him a wheelchair . Starts with everything going forward, then increasing numbers of tracks go backwards , I suppose conveying the idea of wanting to go back in time . The ending with the massed trumpets fading out ( on the inner track of an LP ) is one of the most challenging things to get right on a vinyl set-up : but worth it !

"Oh blimey , mercy me ! "

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Possible Christmas pressie Mark? :)

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Aaarg ! - too late .
However, I feel a post-Christmas present coming on .
Looks good - very good reviews .
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I had a leaf through that book in Waterstones ( I used my 'WH Smith overcoat', with the false arms :) ) on Saturday . Very nice - many pictures.
I read a bit of the section about his tragic fall from the window. He admits he was very very drunk ( at the time... ) . When he fell he said he was so shocked he didn't know how to react or what exactly was happening. He recalls hearing someone across the road scream . Later in hospital someone told him that it was him that screamed .
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There's a good documentary here about RW BTW ->
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Thanks Dave . I have that documentary on tape ( two tapes - split .. with a 1 minute bit missing, where I was frantically looking for another tape that was blank or expendable ! - must get the bits onto the Sony machine and re-combine them to put onto a DVD ) .

Anyway I bought that book at the weekend . It's great , I started reading it . Superb . Just looking at page 53 now :
"The Wild(e) Flowers debut, Whitstable, 15 January 1965, in Mrs Hopper's shirts . From left : Hugh Hopper, Kevin Ayers, Robert, Brian Hopper, Richard Sinclair"

Happy Days ! ( I just went looking for an emoticon for that, but there isn't one that has a smiling face with tears rolling down the cheeks )

Anyway, it'll be available for loan at some stage - Nick gets first dibs !
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S'good read innit, I'm up to page 233, Mongs has just died of Pneumonia.
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Essential book for anyone into SM and RW ..
Meanwhile ( question posed to Dave today ) : was 'The Soft Machine' the first Dub album ? ( listen to those echoed rim-shots )
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Dunno about 1st Dub album but that choice selection certainly features the sorta sound manipulation associated wid-de-dub vernacular (I!), but on Joy of A Toy(the SM track, not the KA debut album) the Bass is a soloing instrument which I don't think I've heard in Dub, usually its part of de-riddum section innits.

That same year (from the same club actually) 'The' Pink Floyd were playing with fast repeat echo, Arnold Lane has a very fast repeat on the drum sound I believe. Wot an era, so much experimentalism's going on, sound, music, fillum, society, rude things! I was only ~3 years old and had no idea what was going on around me.

Just like today then eh Dave? :)
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I must say that for the Soft Machine fan , the film 'Alive in Paris 1970' is well worth a careful look . Just had it via Lovefilm .
Some great content on there with Bob in drummer-biped mode ; also impersonating an old English sheepdog.
The highlight must be at the end with a great rendition of 'Out-bloody-Rageous' :

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