HAPPY NEW YEAR

Thank you for your compliance with these matters

It's best if you don't. They're a pop-punk band from the 90s and I guess 00s that specialize in irritating, ill-composed songs about love and heartache. The singer has a nasal vocal range and ... ugh, I'm sorry for revealing this information

Thank you for keeping contact with my MTC profile, has Seasick Steve recorded much?

I fell out of love with the blues for a while, now I think I'm back in again.
He does more with three strings than I could ever hope to do with six.

I haven't constructed a fully cohesive mixtape since June, and I've missed out on the past three (four?) contests. So I guess I already have left. I'm working on a behemoth double-mixtape which will hopefully be done before Christmas, if it's done by then I'll upload it to the MTC.

I had an ok birthday mate. We gigged in Exeter and the audience was a little odd. I have an old English school friend coming for tonights show which I am excited about. Turning fifty feel weird but I'll get over it!

Hey, I just noticed your birthday was yesterday. I hope you had a happy one.

You could enter with multiple entries of Joanathan Richman playing 'The Bells On The Bus'...

Of course God would spend all his/her/it's time on MTC! As for Meester Young, I have been revisiting Buffalo Springfield stuff recently.

I went through this craze about a year ago of trying to find all the different live versions of down by the river from all phases of his career that I could. There is a great TV version on youtube from CSNY and there was an even better version by them from the Big Sur folk fest but that doesn't seem to be up there anymore.

Oh, and THANK YOU for The Last Waltz, it fits perfectly on the tape, and is highly enjoyable.

I highly doubt the God thing, if I were a God I wouldn't be spending my time on the MTC.

And yes, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is definitely grunge or proto-grunge or whatever you want to call it. I've been listening to a lot of Neil Young lately.

Again:

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Words cannot describe, I think I've found a new idol.

what did you think of John Martyn...that collection was very much just skimming the surface

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I know you will buy stuff when you can. In the meantime, I will sendspace some John Martyn things to you, including a couple of very hard to get things.

I'd read what you'd written about John Martyn before, and I found two of his videos on YouTube, but I can't find anything else from this guy. Everything's gone digital now, the nearest decent record store is about thirty minutes driving distance, and I've resorted to using iTunes as a way of managing music. I hope I'll be able to find one or two of his CDs, the way he plays his acoustic with the Echoplex is just unbelievable.

Battles, I will seek that out. I had a friend called Paul Battles who had a withered hand, but that has nothing to do with anything. Modern and sounding like Tago Mago. That sounds made for me. In return, I will recomend something very old, the album "Inside Out" by John Martyn. Jazzy bluesy incomprehensible in places and very very wonderful! Martyn used most of the band Traffic as session guys on this, plus Danny Thompson on standup bass. In part it is inspired by his hero Pharoah Saunders. Not easy listening, but among the best albums I have ever heard. It is available in an expanded version these days, and that is the one to get.

"it is not always a good idea to meet your heroes!"

Truer words have never been spoken.

And as to the music (or rather, noise) I recorded, keep in mind that it's tounge-in-cheek. Almost. Though I rather enjoy playing the last track.

but to answer your question, back in the day I talked to Cave for about three minutes, and I can't remember what either of us said. I talked to him briefly at a book reading in Brighton, England around 1990, but I asked stupid questions, and he showed the politeness of a man selling a book. I have found that it is not always a good idea to meet your heroes!