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They got it wrong.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
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Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Classics:
Solid Air, One World, Grace & Danger
Good:
Bless the Weather, Sunday's Child, Glorious Fool, Sapphire, Piece By Piece, The Apprentice
For Fans Only:
Inside Out, Live at Leeds, Philentropy, And, The Church, With One Bell, No Little Boy, On The Cobbles, Heaven and Earth
Best Avoided:
Well Kept Secret, Couldn't Love You More, Glasgow Walker.
I'm a massive fan, so I love them all - particularly the ones under the 'For Fans Only' heading....
Classic - The Doors
Good - Strange Days, Morrison Hotel, LA Woman
For fans only - Waiting For The Sun, American Prayer
Avoid - The Soft Parade
Every album has at least one great track on it, but then that's what greatest hits are for, eh?
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Classic:
Where Have I Known You Before (1974, With Return to Forever)
Elegant Gypsy (1977)
Casino (1978)
Splendido Hotel (1980)
Friday Night in San Francisco (1981)
The best of (Manhatten years) (1985)
Kiss My Axe (1991)
World Sinfonia (1991)
Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody (2011)
Good:
No Mystery (1975, with return to forever)
Romantic Warrior (1976, with return to forever)
Land of the Midnight Sun (1976)
Electric Rendezvous (1982)
Tour De Force – Live (1982)
Scenario (1983)
Passion, Grace and Fire (1983)
Cielo e Terra (1985)
Soaring Through a Dream (1985)
Tirami Su (1987)
World Sinfonia II – Heart of the Immigrants (1993)
Orange and Blue (1994)
The Infinite Desire (1998)
Winter Nights (1999)
World Sinfonía III - The Grande Passion (2000)
Consequence of Chaos (2006)
Vocal Rendezvous (2006)
For fans:
Di Meola Plays Piazzolla (1996)
Flesh on Flesh (2002)
Diabolic Inventions And Seduction (2007)
Don't know:
Live in London (2007)
Melodia Live in Milano (2008)
Returns (2009)
World Sinfonia: Live From Seattle (2009)
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival (2012)
All Your Life: Tribute to The Beatles (2013)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
1) Drunken lounge singer. (Up to late 70s) This is the sort of the gateway to Waits starting with "Small Change" an "Nighthawks at the Diner". It's melodic, funny stuff and while the narrator may be in the gutter he's looking at the stars. See also "Blue Valentines". Start your Waits oddessy here.
2) Experimental Honking and Plonking. (Late 70s to late 80s) This can be a tough listen to the uninitiated. There is more of the shrieking bluesman and xylophones but there is a creativity at work missing from the earlier stuff. I love it now although I ran a mile from it at first. "Swordfishtrombones" and "Frank's Wild Years" are your choices here although "Big Time" has Marc Ribot at his best.
3) Throwing toolboxes down staircases while shouting about midgets. (90s to present). This is a glorious hodgepodge phase of percussion and noise, with absurdly tender ballads buried in there. "Mule Variations", "Real Gone" and "Orphans" are standouts here.
But really you can pick up anything and it will be good stuff.
Focus:
The essential albums: Moving Waves, Focus III and the Hamburger Concerto
Basically forget everything else.
The first album was In and out of Focus - a couple of decent tracks including House of the King and Anonymous and Focus 1 but too much filler.
Mother Focus [Mother Fucker] was Akkerman's last album. They were big in the US at the time and were persuaded to produce a US inspired instrumental album. Akkerman called it elevator music and hated it. He quit. Avoid like the plague.
Akkerman was replaced by Philip Catherine and for some bizarre reason the band recorded an album with P J Proby. I had a drink with Catherine who told me Proby was pissed 100 per cent of the time. There are a couple of OK instrumental tracks but this is one car crash too many and the band folds.
The band reformed in 2000 and has recorded a few albums none of which are worth buying. Akkerman was asked but declined and the line-up has seen a steady stream of guitarists pass through its ranks.
Worth a listen: Live at the Rainbow, Live at the BBC in 1972, Live at the BBC in 1976 and the Greatest hits compilation.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Ok, here's my first draft of Dylan!
Part 1
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Bob Dylan (mostly folk standards, collectors only)
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (almost essential) contains “Blowing in the Wind” “Masters of War” “ A Hard Rain’s-a-Gonna Fall” “Don’t Think Twice”
The Times They Are a Changing (almost essential) All original songs for the first time, contains more early classics from the protest years, for example the title track and “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
The transition album:
Another Side of Bob Dylan (almost essential
Dylan the poet emerges, less protest, more complex writing some simple throwaway pop but you can see him developing the writing style that’ll become the legend, contains “It Ain’t Me Babe” “My Back Pages” “All I Really Want to Do”
Goes Electric
Bringing it All Back Home (totally essential)
He’s steaming now, this is where he strikes gold. Classics like “Subterranean Homesick Blues” “Maggies Farm” “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” on the electric side, then “Mr Tambourine Man” “It’s Alright Ma” on the acoustic side.
Highway 61 Revisited (totally essential)
Utter classic, musically and lyrically. “Like a Rolling Stone” “Tombstone Blues” “Desolation Row”
Blonde on Blonde (totally essential)
Personally I don’t listen to this one as much as the previous two, but of course no Dylan collection would be complete without this. There’s mad songs like “Rainy Day Women #12 &35” and “Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat” alongside masterpieces like “Visions of Johanna” and “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”.
Back to the acoustic sound, and a bit of country
John Wesley Hardiing (almost essential)
A bit of a change from the “wild mercury” sound of the previous album, more stripped back, but still some great classics “All Along the Watchtower” “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest” and country pop like “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”