what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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The very freakiest

....and here's the British 'comedian' Peter Kay miming to 'Amarillo' in 2005.

F*** me.

Some people get irate at the suggestion that evolution has gone into reverse over the last 30 years or so, but sometimes I wonder...I really do...

Late 1974, T Rex performing live on the Don Kirshner Rock Show in the USA. The core of the band is still intact, with Mickey Finn on congas and Steve Currie on bass, as well as Bolan, of course.

The keyboard player is Dino Dines, who had been with the Beach Boys and was only a member of T Rex for a short time, but I love his performance here. Gloria Jones is the female backing singer - many Bolan fans blame her for breaking up his marriage to June Child and his subsequent decline, and of course she was driving the car in which he was killed in 1977. I don't know...

This in my view is an excellent performance - Bolan's physical state had declined alarmingly from drink and drugs since his peak in 1971, but his guitar work is brilliantly powerful, as are his vocals, though in a somewhat raw and unorthodox style...

I'd agree that many folks are evolving backward.

Bolan's decline was very sad. I enjoy your musicology stories so keep them coming!




Sandy Denny ^. Another tragic story.

Don't know, don't know, don't know, don't know how to react -- so I won't

The world is in your hands or it's at your throat

They provoke you to tell the fukking punchline, before you've told the joke

Your past-times consisted of the strange and twisted and deranged

That's the way it seems to go, when tryin' to get to something real