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Mark Paytress🌿
@Paytress
BORN ON 45. MOJO mag regular. Bolan biographer. Other books: Stones, Bowie, Banshees, Patti, Glam. Hollyweird. Italia. #MDANT rockandrolleggs.com
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Anyone still yet to hear The Tony Williams Lifetime, featuring the drummer extraordinaire alongside John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce and Larry Young? How about an earful of this…
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www.youtube.com To Whom It May Concern - Them Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupTo Whom It May Concer... Can't wait to get stuck into Bill White's new Tony Williams biography.
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Just realised that earlier This Heat repost managed to lose the link to the Peel sessions set from spring 1977. Never mind, here’s the track that span my head around.
Charles Bullen pulls off finest gtr solo since Lou's I Heard Her Call My Name. THIS HEAT's The Fall Of Saigon, 1977 youtu.be/r3Adedi0auQView quoted post on X
A late night post bemoaning the lack This Heat on this site prompts me to recirculate this. It wasn’t punk. It certainly wasn’t anything like the usual mid70s rock. Still devoted to 60s psych at the time, I could only imagine it might’ve been like early Floyd improvising at UFO.
Three Peel Sessions That Shook The (my) World.
1. This Heat, March 1977. Only caught one track, The Fall Of Saigon, on the night. But it suggested that punk’s ‘shock of the new’ rhetoric might open up new spaces in (moribund) rock.
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More desert island Fall. Yer actual post-punk.
It only needs a mere mention of The Fall’s New Puritan - 1980 Peel session vsn of course - to dig it out. MES relishes the ambiguity of the song. Riley & Scanlon scratch & mesmerise. The Hanleys pummel the repeat beat into your brain.
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