And todays' release:

1990 - Maiden Voyage - indeed the debut, 4 track demo. not the best soundng, it was transferred from tape. 3 studio tracks, 1 live.
All 4 of them sound rough, a real demo then. A try out. The band would evolve a lot over the years. Still I like the studio tracks. They have a very punky alternative edge to them. Track 4 Blueberry Daydreamshows the bands love for acoustic, and it's already quite an accomplished song, very kuch as the band would remain to sound when doing acoustics with vocal harmonies. Clearly the highlight from this tape.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-voyage

1998 - Hey Jane
This is one of the singles off of Trust Us and it's a lovely tune. Sitar driven in the verses it's one of the shorter songs on the album.
Mellow Muffin' Stomp and Celestine are eerie or dreamy (depending on when you kisten to them I suppose) songs. I like them a lot, they have a sort of free floating quality about them. Valis is an alternative type of banjo tune, minute and a half and it's over.
The track that actually comes for the album sessions here is The Ballad of Pat & Put, it sounds like a re-worked piece from Blissard but it's good, downtempo. not the cheeriest of EPs, then again not everything's always cheerie now is it?

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jane

I need to do a deep dive again here. I have the Lifehouse Chronicles boxset Townsend had for sale on his Eel Pie website. It's a 6cd set. It has all the original demos for the project, orchestration and even a radio play. I can imagine it drove him insane..

The album then: it's one of the my all time favourites, a classic example of what Arena rock sounds like.
Moons opening break to Bargain is to me perfection in how to play an opening break. In timing it's only rivaled by the Back in Black riff, but thats guitar..

I don't think Roger ever sounded better than on this album, he is so incredibly powerful it feels like he could full a stadium with his voice alone.

It has only 1 flaw this album: the omission of Pure and Easy. It's on most of the latter day Re releases though.

Great win, his first stage in a grand tour. Pogi taking a page out of MvdPs book trying to help Molano to the win.
And Milan, well.. Someone should teach him what aerodynamics is. He will win even more then.

that was alright, line 2 helped me a lot, still needed one more to get it.
About 2 minutes.
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Getting a bit predictable. But he did well if course. I hope he thanks Majka.

Statement from the Avrotros (Dutch organizer of the Eurovision event in the Netherlands).

English: We have taken note of the disqualification by the EBU. AVROTROS finds the disqualification disproportionate and is shocked by the decision. We deeply regret this.

An incident occurred after last Thursday's performance. Against clearly made agreements, Joost was filmed when he had just gotten off stage and had to rush to the greenroom. At that moment, Joost repeatedly indicated that he did not want to be filmed. This wasn't respected. This led to a threatening movement from Joost towards the camera. Joost did not touch the camera woman. This incident was reported, followed by an investigation by the EBU and police.

Yesterday and today we consulted extensively with the EBU and proposed several solutions. Nevertheless, the EBU has still decided to disqualify Joost Klein. AVROTROS finds the penalty very heavy and disproportionate. We stand for good manners -let there be no misunderstanding about that- but in our view, an exclusion order is not proportional to this incident.

We are very disappointed and upset for the millions of fans who were so excited for tonight. What Joost brought to the Netherlands and Europe shouldn't have ended this way

Quote from: Slim on May 11, 2024, 11:49:45 AMIn other news - I must say I find it distasteful that Israel have been allowed to take part, in the present circumstances. Classic Israeli selfish disregard for other people of course, considering the trouble they've caused. Hopefully the crowd will make their feelings known.

Don't be surprised if they win. Sympathy votes and all.
*Eurovision is not political* it's a joke.

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Quote from: Thenop on February 29, 2024, 06:34:38 PMRight, the Dutch entry is known, and it's either hilarious or horrendous. Meaning he will either get 0 points or takes them all.

It'll be 0 points, I'm afraid. The Dutch entrant has been sent home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68993726

Doesn't look like the sort of person to intimidate people. Odd one.

Although it is unknown what was exactly said, the person Joost Klein is not a person who'd do this without a reason, or under normal circumstances. He apparently said something wrong.
It's become a tightrope to walk these days and he stepped the wrong way. In Sweden anyway.

Shame really, I was looking forward to it.

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on May 10, 2024, 11:04:53 PMI was always puzzled by the former Celtic player, Jan Vennegoor Of Hesselink's name. Looked it up last night and discovered that of is Dutch for or. Seems there was a marriage between two well to do families, the Vennegoors and the Hesselinks and they decided to keep both names. I'd mistakenly assumed that Hesselink was a place until now.

Very old Dutch though, the 'of' (or) is not in use when referring to names anymore. Instead, marriage nowadays gives many options to choose from: You either keep your own last name, or you combine the 2 surnames with a hyphen. And that goes either way.
So: my name is de Jong, and say my wife's is Jansen (it's not but for argument's sake), I can keep my name: de Jong, I can add my wife's name (de Jong-Jansen or Jansen-de Jong) or I can take on my wife's family name.
Same goes for my wife.

Back to football then.

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Visma LaB was also running a double chain ring, they did alright in the end with none of the real specialists being there.
But yes, there is no doubt who will win this Giro. It's just about places 2 & 3 then.

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Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on May 09, 2024, 11:32:42 PMOoh, Cav won today's stage of the Tour de Hongrie, pretty perfect lead out for him.

He is doing another TdF right? Hope het gets that win he wants there.

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board (The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee). What a fantastic collection of (acoustic) blues and roots rock songs. And this thing sounds fantastic, as if you are IN the room with them. Highly recommended if you like this sort of thing.

Trip to the record shop was fruitful:
New Kamasi Washington 2LP (Fearless Movement) seesm to be hard to come by on black vinyl (why..?) so I had to settle for a red/blue one.
Ry Cooder & Taj Mahal - Get Onboard
and 3 x Bill Evans, what a find! These were imports, RSD Japan releases. Consecration 1/2/Immortal (?), the latter one capturing his last ever recorded performance only 8 days before his death. Curious to have a listen, need to make time for that because I want an extended session to sit down and listen to all 3.