After what has been an emotional week I thought I'd play one more piece of music on my humble 'Friday Music Spot' for Keith. 
Taking my cue directly from him as a huge Eric Clapton fan, this is the concluding part or 'coda' from 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos. A farewell to an old friend. 

Lockdown 3.0 - Day ?? who knows anymore? 

It's quiet.... too quiet !

ALEXA play some music: Play Smooth Jazz

😉 - hmmm Grrreat !

"So smooth and slick it glides and slides as it soothes your soul"

- Niiice ! 😁 video

Here's the info bit > Track is 'Bright', released in 2009 by Peter White, not a very jazzy name, I admit. Born in Luton, England, he first gained fame with his distinctive guitar style as accompanist to Al Stewart, during a 20-year period from the 1970s to the 90s. Which means I must have seen him 'live'.

Here he is playing 'Bright live', this time in 2019 > 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Jrwx6Sxx4 

Apologies to John Thomson of the 'Fast Show's Jazz Club' for borrowing his character - (a short clip). 

Last weekend was full of David Bowie on the BBC in 'Sound and Vision' (radio and TV) - most of which is still available on BBC iplayer, if you missed it.
One of the shows featured was a 'TOTP2', broadcast in 1999, that had a version of 'Under Pressure' I'd never heard before and certainly I'd not seen the clever video they'd created. 
This video was directed by DoRo Productions a film company based in Vienna, Austria and features footage of Freddie Mercury from the Wembley concert on 12 July 1986 and David Bowie at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert also at Wembley on 20 April 1992 spliced together by digital technology (and with Annie Lennox carefully edited out), it looks like Bowie and Mercury were on stage together.
It's quite a different mix (*Rah Mix © Dec 1999). I rather like all the phasing on the guitar - see what you make of it >

Or if you can't be doing with this version here's the Classic Queen mix over the same video footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk

*Taken from the 1999 Queen's 'Greatest Flix III' compilation.

No music today. Just a short music story in memory of Keith Fallace, who died this week.
I have spoken of posting a Music Spot in the New Year about the 50th Anniversary of 'Hobbits Garden' - and this was one of the memories I was going to share.
Having asked Del Clack to see if he could help me with a list of artists that appeared at the club, one of his replies revealed this:

All I can confirm is we went to see Stray on 5 March. I can also confirm I met you and Keith Fallace on 5 February to see Brian Auger, but apparently he didn’t turn up so we went to the White Hart instead!

So it appears we swapped the Club for the Pub and a night of Brian Auger & The Trinity for a pint of Whitbread Light & Bitter.

It might have been Whitbread Tankard or Trophy, or even a Heineken. 
Either way, let's raise a glass of something to Keith. A real 'Double Diamond' bloke.

Bill 

 

I was looking for a track that might in some small way reflect 2020 while offering hope for the New Year ahead. A few songs came to mind and then this track with it's lyrics seemed to strike it right.
An idea to celebrate some of our Unsung Heroes has been in my head for some time and this gives me the chance to start the ball rolling with Guitar Hero: Steve Lukather.
You may not know the name though I'll wager you know his music. A founding member of the American band Toto, one of the Top 10 session guitarists of all time, Steve Lukather has recorded (according to Wikipedia) guitar tracks for more than 1,500 albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. Listen to his contribution on Lionel Richie's 'Running in the Night', for starters: (click link)  

Today's Star Track is better known for the original version on The Beatles 'White Album' and for Eric Clapton playing the guitar. But I hope you'll agree this cover by Steve Lukather and Toto is every bit as good. With a nice intro dedication to 'brother George' -

With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps