music posts in english
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Rock At The Oval 30th September 1972
Rock at The Oval?! I rejoiced when I discovered that the 1972 Readers' Poll Winners Concert for my favourite weekly music paper Melody Maker would be rocking The Oval Cricket Ground in South London on September 30th with Focus, Genesis, Jack Bruce, Wishbone Ash, Emerson Lake and Palmer. Memories of a great day out and a historic concert.
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The John Martyn & Danny Thompson Moment
At Reading Festival in 1973, I saw John Martyn play live with Danny Thompson. The music came from a place I didn't know existed. I was seeing Martyn play his acoustic guitar but I was hearing sounds that didn't match. The music from the guitar came in waves, an alien language with more than one voice speaking at once. Only two musicians on stage but they sounded like more. And John's voice was anything but ordinary, like someone emerging from deep sleep, a prolonged period in zero gravity or a night on the razzle. Let me try and tell you the story.
