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Half-way through Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at the moment; his style is infinitely more amenable to understanding than Popper's, and I think, indeed, seems a more valid view on the whole.
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« Reply #121 on: 20:16:39, 30-08-2007 » |
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Shouldn't really spend too much time on the r3ok forum digging into the minutia of roack family trees but I did find this in amongst an incredibly long article which confirms Martin Stone was an early member of Savoy Brown. As follows........
The band received a big break when Brian Wilcock, a DJ at Klook's Kleek R&B Club, Railway Hotel located in the West Hampstead area of London and a friend of Harry Simmonds arranged for the band to play the interval for Creams appearance there on August 2, 1966. Since Cream made their official debut at the 6th National Jazz and Blues Festival on July 31, this would be their first club engagement outside of a warmup gig held on July 29 at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. Expectations were high for the Cream which played two sets but Savoy Brown went down such a storm during their slot that they racked up enough gig offers to enable them to go full time-and Wilcock eventually became their tour manager in September 1967.
The band started to expand their gig list to include engagements at the Tiles Club, Flamingo and the Marquee in central London and the Metro in Birmingham. Kim once said about those early shows, "We started playing places like the Metro in Birmingham, which is like a big soul club, but we managed to please the people because we had Brice Portius, a black singer, and they would relate to him in the sense that they might relate to Geno Washington, even though we were playing blues. I mean we would play up-tempo stuff and bounce around a little." Several shows even found them backing Champion Jack Dupree. Altogether, their lineup remained stable except for pianist Hall, who once again had conflicts with his daytime job that caused him to drop out for awhile but return on a part-time basis when his replacement didn't work out. Demos and acetates were recorded with this lineup prior to the sessions for their first album. Ex-Stone's Masonry guitarist Martin Stone was added while O'Leary departed to become a member of John Dummer's Blues Band [see John Dummer's Blues Band]. Both Graham "Shakey Vick" Vickery and Steve Hackett auditioned to play harp during this period, but O'Leary was not replaced.
That is proof. So, I can only recommend the book even more ; God, *thinks* I was at some of those gigs at the time, so I probably saw him. Where did it all go... Now I feel depressed... b*st*rd.. I only recommend the book to people with short memories. And now back to radio 3... |
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« Reply #123 on: 23:45:13, 10-09-2007 » |
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Half-way through Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at the moment; his style is infinitely more amenable to understanding than Popper's, and I think, indeed, seems a more valid view on the whole.
Have you tried Paul Feyerabend's "Against Method", yet? ;-) |
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« Reply #124 on: 23:55:34, 10-09-2007 » |
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Only because it's on the MMus reading list for my students for the coming semester (yes, I DID put it there, I know...), Deleuze's 'Foucault'. Arrgghh!
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« Reply #125 on: 00:17:49, 11-09-2007 » |
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Philip k. Dick, 'Now Wait For Last Year' and 'Radio Free Albemuth'.
He creates these extraordinarily real environments and people in fantastic situations as he goes about telling his tale. Fantastic, and rather more-ish.
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« Reply #126 on: 10:57:20, 11-09-2007 » |
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Half-way through Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at the moment; his style is infinitely more amenable to understanding than Popper's, and I think, indeed, seems a more valid view on the whole.
Have you tried Paul Feyerabend's "Against Method", yet? ;-) ... no ... *googles* It seems a bit interesting, though I'm going to hypothesize that it rather overstates its case. Might check it out though. |
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« Reply #127 on: 07:46:49, 20-09-2007 » |
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 Wow! What a read. Do you know how sometimes you can meet someone and it feels like you've been friends for ages? Well reading this book felt like that to me. I just loved it's company, and kept picking it up - and before I knew it, it had grabbed me. The last half was just unstoppable. It's a love story where all the little things that make up a romance are there, and beautifully written. But the big themes and events that they stitch together are all different from expected. And I was almost in "sad-happy tears" at the end [...the only thing that got in the way was a bubbly Polish person answering her mobile phone on the tran next to me, just as I reached the crucial moment (Grump Room alert)]. Books don't do that to me very often (the last time being Captain Corelli's Mandolin on a train from Aosta to Milan), so there is something very powerful about this one. Just a brilliant book. Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #128 on: 18:40:05, 20-09-2007 » |
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Tommo, I read that last year and could not tear myself away from it. `Sad/happy tears` indeed. Apparently her next one is going to be quite strongly centred around Highgate Cemetary and she`s arranged to spend time working as one of the Friends of the place, keeping the rampant brambles in order and doing guided tours. Wish I knew when, I`d go on one of them!
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« Reply #129 on: 19:09:49, 20-09-2007 » |
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I've just finished Bill Bryson's "The Life and times of the Thunderbolt kid" - not my usual sort of thing but oddly moving at the end when he details all the changes in his former hometown and what had happened to some of his friends.
Now reading "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman - recommended to me by a friend.
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Best regards,
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #130 on: 18:32:27, 21-09-2007 » |
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Dahlhaus - Realism in Nineteenth-Century Music
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« Reply #131 on: 20:16:02, 21-09-2007 » |
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"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman - recommended to me by a friend
It's on my desk - recommended on here by our very own Tim R-J. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #132 on: 20:25:48, 21-09-2007 » |
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Love "Radio Free Albemuth", one of PKD's v v best, I think.
Lately:
Mishima "Confessions of a Mask", also the first of his Tetralogy - can't wait to get onto the rest of that.
Finishing William Burroughs "The Wild Boys"
Started Sade "120 Days of Sodom"
Lorrie Moore - Birds of America short story collection ws another recent favourite
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« Reply #133 on: 20:32:01, 21-09-2007 » |
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Love "Radio Free Albemuth", one of PKD's v v best, I think.
Interesting... I haven't read that one. Ubik and A Maze of Death are my favourites among the ones I have. I've been reading David Schiff's The Music of Elliott Carter and William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, alternatingly. |
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« Reply #134 on: 20:57:16, 21-09-2007 » |
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I've been reading David Schiff's The Music of Elliott Carter and William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, alternatingly.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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