Desert Island Discs are easy to find (like who would get on a desert island with a record anyway?), so how about Holy Grail Discs? These would be albums that are very hard to find, maybe not even bootlegged if they're unreleased. I can't even put them on a wishlist. Here's my list:
Jim Diamond - Live at the Shed (see Al Chantrey interview) - Someone in Scotland has it and will copy it for me.
cut._ - Millionairhead - Though on Ray Wilson's site, still a pricey find.
Denny Laine - see earlier article
Seal - Togetherland - see earlier article
Duran Duran - Reportage - see earlier article
Savoy - Velvet CD5 - With B-side "October" (a-ha cover)
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
INXS find new frontman
With the recent news of JD Fortune's sacking (at least that what he says) from INXS, fans wondered who'll sing in the band now. Many older fans say Michael Hutchence is irreplaceable, which is true of anyone. Life is for the living, so Larry Melton, also of the Toronto suburbs, has been chosen allegedly, according to Facebook discussions (as opposed to what tabloids call "sources"). An official statement on the matter has yet to be released. MiG Ayesa has a career of his own, so he was ruled out.
Fortune is back on the street and trying in vain to record his solo début, Death of a Motivational Speaker.
UPDATE: Fortune back for good. Melton melts back into obscurity!
Wikipedia images
This obviously doesn't count as a free image!
For the first post of the month, I'll explain my latest kick; obtaining images of artists I like or not for Wikipedia (English only). As a non-profit organisation, they have a strict policy on what kind of images are allowed pertaining to copyright laws to keep the solicitors at bay. Public domain and Creative Commons-licenced images for most people and things are sometimes few and far between (this site has the licence since I don't make a dime from this anyway). An image of Nicole Richie I put up the other day was CC licenced (almost like a paparazzi doing it for free). The list is long as to who will need pictures, but I can boil some of them down to most ex-members of Fleetwood Mac (except founder Peter Green and onetime member Dave Mason) and remaining member John McVie, who I'll try and track down on 16/3 when I see the current lineup in Rochester. Also ABBA, as pictured above, don't have a free image from their heyday, so I had to crop a Panoramic shot of them with the cast of Mamma Mia! at the Stockholm film première, making it the closest to a reunion in a generation, despite their ageing. I also need Jim Diamond alone and with Tony Hymas as Ph.D. If anyone has images to loan, do reach me. Thanks.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Roger Hodgson - Take the Long Way Home (live 1996)
Live version from his 1996 comeback Rites of Passage, filmed at the Miner's Foundry in Nevada City, CA (where he's been a tax dodge for about three decades). His son Andrew is on drums, and John Helliwell, then still in Supertramp (his loyalty was divided after the elder Hodgson's 1983 departure). Very laid back atmosphere. Like the other video here, this was deleted from YouTube; this one by his managers (1984's "In Jeopardy" was the most popular with praise from outside the Anglosphere, but I digress). It was saved from a fan site that was renovated.
I wonder if an official video exists of the studio version. Even a mimed TV appearance I'll take. Let me know if there is one. I looked already, but maybe not hard enough.
Take the Long Way Home is also the name of old man Hodgson's only solo DVD, which was big in Canada, where he's better known than on my side of Lake Ontario. On that note, does anyone have extra tickets to his Ottawa, ONT show in May?
Morten Harket - A Kind of Christmas Card
This was from his first solo album in English, Wild Seed in 1995, during an a-ha hiatus. This was on YouTube, but Warner pulled it, so I put it on Yahoo! instead, since it's not in the press as often (the video section anyway). I got it from French fan site. It's quite rare.
Morten Harket did not release any concept videos from last year's Letter fom Egypt. Too busy with the missus and baby, as well as the new a-ha album!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
New for 2009
This is the first post of the new year. We can expect a lot of new albums.
Confirmed:
Asia featuring John Payne - Architects of Time (Devgel)
Asia featuring John Payne - new live album* (Devgel)
GPS - Dreamscape (TBA) (Devgel/InsideOut)
John Wetton/Geoffrey Downes - iCon 3 (Frontiers)
Fleetwood Mac - Unleashed (Reprise)
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (Mute)
a-ha - Foot of the Mountain (Polydor/Universal Norge)
Hoping for:
Seal - Togetherland (Warner Music UK Ltd.)
Duran Duran - Reportage (Epic/Sony Music UK)
Paul McCartney - The McCartney Years II (MPL/Warner DVD)
Yes - In the Present (Rhino)
INXS* (Petrol/EMI Australia)
Savoy* (Genepool)
*Title TBA.
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