Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence - ROBERT FRIPP.
Information is not knowledge;
knowledge is not wisdom;
wisdom is not truth;
truth is not beauty;
beauty is not love;
love is not music;
MUSIC IS THE BEST - FRANK ZAPPA.
I think we're a little happier when we have a little music in our lives - STEVE JOBS.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe - LAO TZU.
Rock and Roll is fire, man. FIRE. - DAVID BRIGGS.
Music grips you, gets into your soul -
GEORGE MARTIN
Bad CompanyBad Company(CD - Swan Song, 1974) *** Genre: English pop/rock Places I remember:JB HiFi (Hamilton) Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Bad Company
Gear costume:Can't Get Enough Active compensatory factors: True fact: I am a latecomer to Bad Company. In theory I should have gobbled up the debut in 1974 but I was a teenager and so my priorities and my hard earned pocket money went in other directions. Then when I had some spare cash and the opportunity in the late seventies I'd moved on via punk/ new wave and Paul Rogers and Co. seemed a little passe. Listening to the whole album now suggests I didn't really miss that much. I love the singles from this album and from Straight Shooter - great guitar crunch and vocals, however, the album tracks are good but not great rock. Paul Rogers, of course, stands out with his rock cool vocal style. Clearly with Bad Company he found a real home.
Where do they all belong? The Firm (Paul Rogers and Jimmy Page) is the closest next step I have. I'll get to it eventually when I'm back cruising through the vinyl.
Free All Right Now / Wishing Well; My Brother Jake (Island 12", X 13098, 1982) For some reason I was never into Free or Bad Company that much back in the day. I should have been - great vocals, guitars, a blues rock back beat - but I never was. Instead it was Led Zeppelin who demanded my attention. They and The Faces held more interest and personality for me at the time. So this is the only Free vinyl I own and I have the first Bad Company album on CD but that's it and I only bought that a few years ago. I think I sensed that these were their best songs and I bought the single in 1982 - nearly a decade after they'd broken up! [I've included all three as videos below for this reason - three classic Free songs in one place] By that time All Right Now had become a staple of rock radio. Its omniscience has only increased over the years and so it's lost a lot of its freshness through over familiarity. Hidden gems: Both B side tracks are definitely gems. Wishing Well is a classic as well as All Right Now but better for being less well known and My Brother Jake contains some wonderful vocal mannerisms from Paul Rogers.
