h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

G'night!

As a starter ...

Ta.

Careful timing ... and here's dessert!





We may not have a varied but we do have a balanced diet here

Indeed!

More tea?

Ta.

Wait for it.....

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Not just an incey-wincey bit previous, maybe?

Nope.

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That's alright then, I'd hate anyone to think that we have disordered drinking habits

Á propos thisenthat, forgot to say how much I enjoyed the band you mentioned last week. Such a familiar genre and I immediately thought 'They've been listening to the Flying Burritos and is this country folk, country rock or country gospel?'. Their MySpace confirmed that my reaction wasn't totally off the wall ... and I started thinking about Area Code 615 (poor BtJ was tasked, when he was working in the States some ten years ago, with sourcing CDs to upgrade (missing) music from my collection ... and he managed to get a double CD of their first two albums) and also Gram Parsons.

Then I was considering Mr Harding. Ignoramus that I am, I've already said I've never read any Trollope. Bear with me here ... I recalled a song called The Warden. I saw The Byrds just after Gram Parsons joined them, topping the first half of a concert at the RAH where The Move were top of the bill (we had arena seats and recorded it on my Stellaphone cassette recorder, tape now missing doh). Roger-then-Jim McGuinn (at least, I think he was still Jim at that time) introduced Gram who introduced the song he was about to sing, a sadly sentimental C&W sorta waltz. It never appeared on any of the Byrds' albums, nor on that of the Flying Burritos that I knew of (wrong, as it turns out). Given that the chorus went 'Sing me back home before I die' and the words were pretty much otherwise indecipherable, I couldn't figure out why he gave it that name.

Anyhoo, google being a fab thing, may I offer you Gram's recorded version of The Warden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOuhrCRfQJA

Where I first heard it:

http://www.marmalade-skies.co.uk/sounds68.jpg

I can hear the similarity but can't spot the connection to Mr Harding.

Cheers!

Just listening to Saturday Review, discussing the play tomorrow night on Radio 3:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d6wrp

What about George Knowall, another O'Nolan alias?



I did say 'Bear with me ...' ... Septimus Harding is The Warden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warden

Of course, doh.

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Sorry, my indisciplined thought processes are rarely as entirely random as they quite often seem

At another tangent all this country stuff has got me to think of an album I like-k d lang ingenue-track the mind of love (not on youtube afaik).

No, I can't see it there either ... I'll get it some other way (I have missed so much music being either in workaholic or hibernate mode).

This has surprised me, although I read earlier today that Parsons did hang out with Keith during the particular London visit I mentioned (and later, too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVJ9XYRxjc&NR=1

Good ol' Keith.

Meanwhile by a zig-zaggy path referring to the '80's, listening to 'the mind of love' and realising how dated it sounds despite the fact that I still love the music, I found this which I remember seeing on TOTP and thinking that well....somebody had made it through under the radar...I couldn't quite believe it. Very dated now in a way, but I love it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MT0IqPJsvU

Cheers!

'Nostalgia burns in the heart of the strongest....' (same artist)