The producers...

Production wise:

New York Dolls, The Band, Badfinger, Sparks, Hall & Oates, Meatloaf, Patti Smith, The Tubes, Tom Robinson, XTC, Bad Religion, Cheap Trick, Hiroshi Takano, The Psychedelic Furs, Steve Hillage et al

Artistically wise:

‘Strike’ would be a fine compliment to express the genius that is …........................
Todd Rundgren

Edwyn Collins:

A House - Endless Art

Orange Juice - The Day I Went Down To Texas

Ach Kene! Ye forgot Eno!

Calgary - Bon Iver, - their own Justin Vernon who sings, writes songs and plays innumerable instruments

Going to California - Led Zeppelin, - Jimmy Page

Big Weekend - Tom Petty, - Jeff Lynne, Mike Campbell, Tom Petty

Bowie - Prettiest Star - All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople

Bowie - Thursdays Child - China Girl - Iggy Pop

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge - Poor Poor pitiful Me - Warren Zevon

Bruce Springsteen - Promised Land - Jole Blon - Gary U S Bonds

Pete Townsend - Let My Love Open The Door - Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman

Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me - Let Me Kiss You - nancy Sinatra

Tom petty - Free Fallin - Cheap Love - Del Shannon

From The Bluebell Polka to A Day In The Life:

Theme One - Sir George Henry Martin

A quick by the by re my last comment on the previous blog - I misread a perfectly innocent comment from paolo re something that had nothing to do with my comment (or me at all, for that matter) right before his and left a further comment myself that was churlish and over-sensitive given it was my misreading, which is only too evident on my re-reading it. It was a timing issue - basically, I shouldn't be blogging when under any stress. It's not been the best week. But - well, I'm old enough that I should know better, whatever my excuses. Paolo - apologies for over-reacting and being prima donna-ish.

I saw the light - Todd Rundgren
A world without love - Peter (Asher) and Gordon
Cruel to be kind - Nick Lowe
Le freak - Chic (Rodgers and Edwards)

Joe
Linlithgow

#3

Is "Classical Gas" no one of Eno's?

writes, produces, sings, plays pretty much everything....

Reasons to love Paul McCartney No 2 - The Production on 'I'm The Urban Spaceman'

Mojo says " In 1968 the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's Viv stanshall met Mccartney who offered to produce a single. Too important to be hurried by record company clockwatchers, he presided over an eight hour session that yielded I'm The Urban Spaceman, insisting that Stanshall's hosepipe solo be properly miked up. He was creidted as Apollo C vermouth and the record reached number 5".

and reasons To love Paul Maccartney No 39,

Mojo says: The Instant Greatness Of" Come And Get It - Badfinger

"McCartney turned up at Abbey Road on June 24, 1969 and finished a release worthy version in under an hour, playing bass, piano, drums and maracas. He then handed it to BADFINGER and gave them their orders " It's got to sound exactly like this demo". Their version crash landed in the top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic."

I had lunch today with someone very involved in the Scottish music business who was fairly ambivilent about McCartney until he went to Hampden the summer before last, where he was backstage.

A complete convert, " he really is a giant..you think he's larking about, but he knows everything,I mean everything, I've never experienced anything like it..the guy is just so far ahead - the performance, the show, the musicianship, back catalogue.. just when he takes you by surprise and you think.. 'follow that'.. out comes another classic... "

I know people who were so stunned by the performance, they were reduced to tears on the night.

regardez youse

henri

#10 you by any chance (reduced to tears)?

BTW I will wear a red carnation at the Big Dish on Saturday...see you at my usual spot (bar).

Iam not 100% sure how much of a performer he is but Marius DeVries would be someone I would think of as a modern musician / producer:

David Gray - The One I Love or Teddy Thompson - In My Arms

Which then made me think of a really obvious one - Mark Ronson

Mark Ronson & The Buasiness Intl - bang Bang bang, great track

and then I thought of James Dean Bradfield

Kylie - Some Kind Of Bliss

or Dame Shorley - Girl From Tiger Bay

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins - Bats in the Attic - Jon Hopkins

Eric Clapton - She's Waiting - Phil Collins

August and Behind the Sun a bit despised I daresay by purists, but the two Collins-produced albums were out around the time when I saw EC twice at the Playhouse. I thought he was stunning, his music effortless and soaring and he'd had been my all-time hero so it was doubly wonderful.

Hmm. I realise that last probably doesn't count as I need to put in a Phil Collins song, not an EC one.

Pass.

cheers for little eva...she's great, specially the line...'you gobble' LOL.

the print on sleeve notes is too small for me to read so ah huvnae a clue mainly aboot who produces records.i quite like the patrician poshness george martin brought to the beatles but i don't know if he was ever lead singer of a rock band.
the only one i know of is mike batt* (only because i read a posh liberal, muesli cruchin, sandel wearin' kind of daily newspaper** and only because these pedants queried the number of bicycles in beijing....get a life yoos!!).

'if you were a sailboat'.......................melua/batt productions.....utterly beautiful

* see the wombles

** scottish son (sic) ( ha ha caught yes oot there)

cheers frae the dale

CAPTION COMP.

note to moderator. please see the context of the entry and DO NOT moderate.(or i'll send ma' mate roond)

context and background knowledge is everything.

i once nearly caught one of gary players balls.
sitting by a green at the open championship on the friday of the competition circa 1968, gary had just made an impressive putt, probably a birdie, and as he left the green he cheerily flicked the ball at us sitting watching.the ball trajectory definitley had my name on it***...however it took a nasty swerve and the guy sitting next to me got the ball. ach well mibbe the next time.....life , dear reader is not like that....i couldn't afford to go back the next day....but gary went on to win the open championship that weekend. godammit.
it took years to get over that.
now fast forward about 3.7 decades and i'm sitting in theatreland in london watching the amazing billy elliot....and you know how it is in a theater when you sometimes have to move yer head about because of the guy in front......so when the lights went up at the interval i was gonnae gie the guy a right slap......but all i could splutter at him was****.......'oh, it's you.....did i ever mention to you that i nearly had one o' your balls'?...............

*** like yoos, i've often pondered why gary was using a brand of golf ball called 'dale_kelvin'

**** artisitic licence.

and so to pressing matters................

....'well it was when i was playing a tournament at carnoustie that i noticed people were having trouble storing their golf tees. so i designed a pair of 'golfing spectacles' and believe me the results were even better if you kept them on as you addressed the ball' (g.player enterprises)

today i am feeling charitable so i am not accepting 'readies'. please make a payment by bank transfer to my cousin dale_kelvin and be sure to enclose all your bank details.

cheers frae the dale

Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge... thanks Norrie!

Cheers Mike.

I was trying to think of a Producer or Produecrs who have a quite different stage name than used for the production credits. And I came up with:

Harry Vanda and George Young.

As artists:

Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

Flash n The Pan - Down among the dead men

As Producers:

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air

#15-16

I don't think he sang, but he was once Ray Cathode.

Coincidentally I was at Billy Elliot last Saturday (and, whisper it, We Will Rock You the night before). No famous golfers at either. I always remember Lee Trevino's, "Had your banana today, Gary?"

One of my pals has put a clip on his f***book page of The Pearlfishers appearing on an arts programme called NB hosted by none other than our hero.

I've only got one Pearlfishers album but I'm tremendously fond of it.

Another of those bands form Scotland, like The Trashcan Sinatras, Love and Money, The Big Dish who you hear these days and think "Why weren't they absolutely massive?"

regardez youse

henri

#11
I wasn't reduced to tears, but accepting that you come with high expectations of a McCartney gig anyway (I've seen a few), there was something else going on -something in the air.

Occasionally that happens - everything just clicks above and beyond the already exacting professionalism and an emotional threshold is crossed.

I haven't met anyone who was there who didn't feel that something extraordinary and magical had taken place.

Looking forward to The Big Dish right enough. Smiffy and myself shall look out for your red carnation.

Thing Fish - I shall also be at the Jack Bruce/Lau gig. I was so late in organising the tickets though I'm on the balcony along with the differently abled, according to the website. I shall wave in the hope that we do better than our last attempt at Wilco Johnston.

regardez vous

henri

Jack White as producer:

Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks

Wanda Jackson - Thunder On The Mountain

And as performer/co-producer:

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes

The Dead Weather - Are Friends Electric?

Mikey Dread / The Clash - 'Bankrobber'/'Rockers Galore...UK Tour'

Lee 'Scratch' Perry :
'People Funny Boy' - Lee Perrry
'War In A Babylon' - Max Romeo

#20 Totally agree about The Pearlfishers, they had such great songs. Davie Scott produced a lot of their records so sounds like a good excuse to ask for:

The Pearlfishers - Saint Francis Songs

LL Cool J - 'I Need Love'

David A Stewart of Eurythymics co-wrote and co-produced:

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More

He also produced:

Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief

Which was written by Benmont Tench from the Heartbreakers...

Great shout BIA.

In have always wondered if there was a theme around rock family tree or connections eg. Dave Stewart - Tom Ppetty - Stevie nicks - Feargal all intertwined...

Why do idiots like you have your blog named when people of consequence such as Derek Bateman DO NOT?

T-Bone Burnett:

'If It Wasn't For Bad' - Elton John and Leon Russell
'No Better Than This' - John Mellencamp
'Gone Gone Gone' - Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
'The Weary Kind' - Ryan Bingham

#28 Glen? Is that you??

#28
I agree. I'd never heard of Mr Bareman before, but I like what I see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb5Mfh81afg

#2 - second your shout for 'Endless Art' Billy

#30

No.

#28.

I also agree, though I think the reason for it is that Councillor Derek Bateman of the Chester and Chester West Labour party sadly passed away in July 2011.

Maybe you were referring to the famous WWF Wrestling Star - Derrick Bateman?

In any event, both these gentlemen,even in death, deserve their profile much more than the very humble GIO bloggers, let alone our hero.

regardez - vous

henri

#31 A Freudian slip?

#32 Can but try. Another futile attempt with Karen Elson too?

and anyway, is our blog named? If it's not, could it be? What could it be?

Biffo the blog?

#27 Thanks! Sounds like a good theme idea. Like the Kevin Bacon game?

#28 welcom Mr Doonagain

#35...maybe but here's hoping.

Sly and Robbie - 'Underneath It All' - No Doubt

#27 I'm sure I emailed them once with a suggestion for a theme like that. It would definitely be fun - I think I imagined doing it like the on-the-spot shows they've done a couple of times with a word from one song title in the next. Maybe that would be too complicated, but I do think something to do with rock connections would be a great theme.

Pre-printed lists

Steve Lillywhite:

* Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (3/Melt)
* U2 - New Year's Day (War)
* Simple Minds - Waterfront (Sparkle in the Rain)
* Big Country - In a Big Country (The Crossing)
* The Pogues - Thousands are Sailing (If I Should Fall From Grace With God)
* Travis - All I Want To Do is Rock (Good Feeling)
* Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle (Dirty Work)
* Kirsty MacColl - Days (Kite)
* The La's - There She Goes (The La's)
* Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink (Talk Talk Talk)
* The Thompson Twins - In The Name of Love (Set - in their 7piece incarnation)


Discovered while researching the above:
Elvis Costello:
* The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Any More

Danger Mouse:

Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi (featuring Norah Jones) - Black

Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone

The Black Keys - Sister

Cap'n I've never seen Steve L credited either as a performer or solo artist. I'm sure you will have the details on this I'd be quite interested.

Chris Hughes - drummer on Kings of Wild Fronteir

Producer

Tears For Fears - Everybody etc

Gabriel - Red Rain

Hi Bryan, how about something by The Walrus Of Love? Barry White was a producer before he started singing. Please play My First, My Last, My Everything for my wife Jane - we are currently making a semi-lethal spaghetti alla arrabiata to try and kill the cold bugs. Cheers, Roy in Helensburgh

#47 Hopefully not fully lethal!

#47 Great shout by the way :-)

#45
Norrie, The Capn has never let the details of a theme get in the way of his shouts.

#47
Welcome Mr Roy!
Though we tend not to do the "what we're having for our tea" bit on the Blog.
Nevertheless, get well soon from your Blog Monitor of The Day.

:)

#45

And you're normally such a nice person.



A Literature theme - I'm beginning to get that SAGA bus feeling again. Whoever picks these themes must think they have an audience of goldfish.

#28

Who is Master Bateman?

#51

We've had literature before? Did they play my request?

a) I'm sure we've had literature at least twice before.

b) I don't know, I was out after 7.

c) where's the new thread?

Heathcliff?

#55...well there's another chance for 'Endless Art' tomorrow.

#56 Indeed :-)

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Aw!! It didnae work!

Repeat it then why don't you!

It's not bad, though. Quiet day in the office?

I think it is a catepillar. If he wasnt so busy he could have done a centipdede.

It's a diver blowing 51 bubbles?

I have just ordered the "The Complete Take Hart" box set from Amazon. See if that helps.


Where's today's threed? Is literature the theme?

It's on facebook AFR. Enjoy the book - happy doodling.

#63

I thought it was a reasonable attempt at a goldfish. I've just been excluded from the Aberdeen University site I used for HTML codes. So much for the dissemination of knowledge.

Scarlett O' Hara - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan

advertising? ...

"... they only did it for the fame ..."

'EMI' ~~ T Sex Pistols

#63/66

I thought it had the beginnings of Captn Link Hogthrob from 'Pigs In Space'.

Since we have no new thread I might as well put in my Pigs Might Fly request for tonight's show - though it's a stoater:

Jack Bruce - The Consul At Sunset from the utterly brilliant Harmony Row album.

Bryan, you could play this whilst plugging all that cultural significance thingy and mention the extrordinary Jack Bruce/Lau gig next week -which is part of the Celtic Connections festival.

Seems fair enough?

regardez - youse


henri

WEDNESDAY


Is this an attempt to lure us to the Dark Side or has Bryan broken the blog?


Oft requested, etc.

Riding the Waves (for Virginia Woolf) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

I think the goldfish ate the new thread...

Afternoon Bloggers, we are having technical problems getting the new thread to publish for you - really sorry about that. Hopefully it will get fixed later today, meantime please feel free to leave your suggestions for our literacy theme here and we'll pick them up. It's inspired by a librarian, so we're looking for songs about reading and writing.
Oh and remember if you are registering for our Burns Night show you've got til 5pm tonight - call 0370 901 1227 or visit the BBC tickets website
Miss Babs

Two great suggestions:

Plant / Krauss - Please Read The Letter
(great)

Mozz - Reader Meet Author (a cracker)

The Low Anthem - To The Gohsts Who Write History Books (also good)

And if just plain old books allowed:

Springsteen - The Gohst of Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath and all that)

Bowie / Jam - Absolutre Beginners (not the same song but both superb)

CobrasBurped

So not literature after all.

Death Letter - The Blues Band - Dave Kelly in top form

#71 that is not what the theme is on facebook. There it is "songs which have taken their cue from the bookshelf"

#72 The Low Anthem, that is a great shout Norrie, they should definitely get it on.

I was thinking Sylvia Plath - Ryan Adams, but that might be off-theme since despite it being about literacy it's far from clear what it's actually about.........

also

Edgar Allen Proust - Plastic Bertrand
Macbeth - John Cale

and now I'm off to see Warhorse, with a crate-load of hankies so will be back in time for GIO to cheer me up :0)

Inspired by a librarian...that reminds me...one of my friends, at her birthday party, had a collection for a charity to help Liberians. As it was noisy in the hall...and her husband is a librarian...we were a bit bemused by their shameless handing round the begging bowl!

Here's what it says: "We're wrapped up in books tonight - libraries, books, reading and writing". So we will accept Paperback Writer, Hey Jack Kerouac, Wuthering Heights, Writing to Reach You.
Hope that helps, and apologies, looks like this isn't going to be working this afternoon. We are on the case with it.
Miss B

EAT THAT PHONEBOOK from 25TH BIRTHDAY PARTY by GONG

Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand
Angelo - Brotherhood of Man (Romeo & Juliet)
Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel
Brave New World - Iron Maiden
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
Hans Christian Anderson - Danny Kaye

#79 and there's me thinking this had more to do with the news in todays Herald that Beeb Scotland is to shed 1/3 of its radio production team

Talking Heads - The Book I Read

Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love

Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write The Book

Oh well that'll be my B & S shout snookered ☺

#7 ah telt you no tae Marydoll. Why do women never listen ( he says nervously glancin over his shoulder as he types). :-)


Literature
Turn the page / bob seger

Field Music - Let's Write A Book

A funky wee tune

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood

What are words worth?

The Story Of My Life- Michael Holliday

#82

Some programmes do seem overstaffed.

The first song that I knew all the words to was probably something really embarrassing. I'll need to give it some thought to see if I can retain any street cred.

Mind you, why start now?

Thursday:

Showaddywaddy - Under The Moon Of Love

This Blog issue is just a clever ruse to get the Twitter stats improved!


Tomorrow Two Litt... Can you guess what it is yet?


Now where's Neil & Moss when you really need them?

Barbara, click this!

Just checked the playlist - what a great show and bang on theme. Superb.

'the threed'.
is this the title of some kafkaesque joke?

i cannae even whistle the toon but ah promose tae learn the words and sinalong the nicht if yiz play this wee corker.....

'deja vu'.......................beyonce

cheers frae the dale

#96 @ ya d_k......

have you been mis-sold a BBC tv licence?
well i have good news for you.
you may be entitled to compensation for 'lack of threed progress'
you don't have to worry about when you bought the licence, or even if you forgot to cellotape the licence on the back of your wireless.
all your bank account details will suffice in tracking down your mis-payments.
i'll get it sorted for ye.

cheers frae the dale

You need a licence?

Since nobody's looking here anymore

GOAL YA DANCER GET IT UP YE