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Trying out my new guitar ☀️

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Part 2 of a companion YouTube playlist for my recent review of ‘Light Years’ by Prog Rock band,The Drinking Club. It’s a second playlist of tunes by some of the bands & artists I mention in my review.⭐️

▶️Click on here for the Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJCkNfASneQfmQKEyKn8ELifxJLszAukB&si=xjZ-UmUlB7JflZeA

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The Drinking Club: Companion Playlist, Part 2

Part 2 of a Companion playlist to my review of the song, 'Light Years' by Prog Rock Band, The Drinking Club. This playlist features my revie

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My homemade Diddley Bow/ One string Blues Slide Guitar

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From a year ago…When you’re at a handfasting, sat in an orchard by Glastonbury Tor, dressed as a Knight, playing a Nick Drake tune ⭐️

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A guitar I’ve been working on (and a lot of fun to do!) I converted this ancient acoustic guitar into an occasionally used ‘Build-up’ slide-Blues guitar a couple of years back, but decided to convert it into something I could use more regularly. I’ve added nylon ball-end strings, as I usually play classical and flamenco guitars rather than guitars with steel strings and have altered & lowered the action, so the guitar has a bit more ‘give’ and I can get the kind of versatility I get from a flamenco guitar. One of the frets needed a bit of resetting as was dislodging slightly. I’ve put the guitar into my usual DGCFAD tuning to suit my voice and in the photo the capo on the 2nd fret puts the guitar back into standard tuning.

The idea behind this guitar is to have a loud acoustic/classical hybrid which has the flexibility of a Flamenco guitar & possesses clout and presence. There’s some nice warm tones (& very loud ones) I can get from this! ⭐️

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A three year old me from 1977 features on the video for the latest tune by No One Sphere. ‘Kids of the Night’ I’m very honoured to be part of this & I pop up quite a bit! Thanks to Dave from No One Sphere! ❤️

📽Watch the music video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXW8ojYy0#shoegaze

🎧Listen to the single: https://noonesphere.bandcamp.com/album/kids-of-the-night-faux-ep-100-faux

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A three year old me from 1977 features on the video for the latest tune by No One Sphere. ‘Kids of the Night’ I’m very honoured to be part of this & I pop up quite a bit! Thanks tii oh Dave from No One Sphere! ❤️

📽Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/IThH_aGKnAU

🎧Listen to the single: https://noonesphere.bandcamp.com/album/kids-of-the-night-faux-ep-100-faux

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Practicing some Beatles tunes tonight 💛

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If you missed it, here’s some Bandcamp codes for my 2019 album, ‘Sister Solitude’. Visit: https://masterharker.bandcamp.com/yum to redeem a code & download a free copy. This predominantly acoustic & guitar-heavy album mixes songs with instrumentals, combining Flamenco, Psychedelic-Pop, Jazz, Punk, Blues guitar & Folk. My songs have a Lo-Fi sensibility & are inspired by introspective songwriters including Nick Drake, Elliott Smith & Jeff Buckley, along with the Psychedelic-breeze of Syd Barrett and Mark Fry.

Please help yourself to a code & if you haven’t heard this album before, hope you enjoy it! ⭐️

James,

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Available on Digital & physical copy, the album, ‘Driving Evil Spirits Crazy’ by Alternative Rock band, The Grainhoppers

🎥Check out my video on the Grainhoppers on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CeUW7lFPQhu/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

🎵Listen to The Grainhoppers on ITunes: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/driving-evil-spirits-crazy/1621620105

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Happy 30th Birthday, R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic For The People’ 🎂

(A retrospective ramble by an ageing Alternative-Rock Fan)

That sounds strange, wishing a jolly birthday greeting to a far from jolly album. It’s strange to think that ‘Automatic For The People’ by seminal US Alternative Rock band, R.E.M. is 30 years old today.

I remember firsts hearing this album in the autumn of 1992, at the very beginning of my Uni days in London, England. I always think of this album as autumnal, not just because it was released it the autumn, or because I relate it to that particular autumn of 1992, (In my case spent trying to navigate the ruby leaved floor of Richmond Park in search of a mythological pub) nor the sometimes bleak, almost autumnal feel of the album itself, but I feel this album is synonymous with the autumnal years of the twentieth century: the 90s…where anything from a music video by a 4ad Indie band like America’s Unrest or Red House Painters or a promo vid by U.K. boy band Take That was covered in a shroud of autumn sepia or orange.

Gone now was the MTV friendly aura of REM’s previous album from the year before, ‘Out of Time’. Like many novice alternative music fans, ‘Out of Time’ was my first introduction to REM and (like many music fans) I spent the next 18 months gathering REM’s (Mainly IRS records) back catalogue of 80s albums.

By 1992, angsty US Grunge in the form of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden brought a downbeat introspection to the ears of a generation of Indie Kids, whilst bleak, self-destructive musings would be realised, when U.K. Indie band, Radiohead released inward-looking classic ‘Creep’ later that year. ‘Automatic For The People’ slotted in nicely to this wave of angsty, introspective and dark guitar based Alternative Rock.

The album itself, is bleak but beautiful, filled with either hits (‘Everybody Hurts’ ; ‘Drive’; ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’; ‘Nightswimming’; ‘’Find the River’ and one of my favourites, ‘Man On The Moon’) or strong album cuts. (Try Not To Breathe’ and ‘Sweetness Follows). However, there are (for me) weaker moments, which (only in my opinion) make this an imperfect album. Much as I consider ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ an ‘almost-perfect-album’ (sorry 70s-era Floyd Fans, it’s only ‘On the Run’ that doesn’t work for me), I’m not a big fan of REM singer Michael Stipe swearing; with some singers, (for me) swearing doesn’t always fit with my perception of that singer’s persona. I love the smooth glide and 10cc-esque instrumentation of ‘Star Me Kitten’ and ‘When the Levee breaks’-style harmonica of ‘Ignoreland’, (plus I’m not too fond of the ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ vocal parts), but when Stipe swears, it takes me out of the music. I’m the same with Luke Haines of English pre-Britpop Indie band, The Auteurs. (Who are one of my favourite bands) Certain singers swearing doesn’t do it for me. (Any ideas on this as it’s a riddle to me, please let me know in the comments!)

On a positive side, the songs ‘Drive"; ‘The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite’; ‘Everybody Hurts’ and ‘Nightswimming’ feature string arrangements by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. I feel the ‘Zeppelin’ influence (particularly from the more folksy Led Zep III & IV albums) seeps into other tracks on this record, especially the baroque-darkness of ‘Try Not to Breathe’, the Mandolin-led, ‘Monty Got A Raw Deal’ and the aforementioned, ‘Ignoreland’. I’d really encourage any Led Zeppelin fans who are unfamiliar with this album to give it a go…spirituality John Paul Jones inhabits it!

This album for me, never dates, as baroque-pop musings collide with guitar feedback and acoustic-folk sensibilities. Stripe’s voice soars throughout a blend of ballads & rock songs…there’s a consistency to the album which begs for 30 years of repeat listens! ⭐️

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R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Automatic for the People (1992)

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