Along with celebrating those long forgotten records on DJTees. I’ve also wanted to do the same thing with musicians. People who were often pillars of our lives, making music we listened to in awe. And although they may have been forgotten or only appreciated by a few or even hero-worshipped 50 years ago, it’s my small way of paying thanks for all the music,
So I picked out some favourites. They mostly hardly ever or never sell but I still think thor music is fantastic.
Ted Turner and Andy Powell - Wishbone Ash
Perhaps they never broke out of the ‘City Hall’ circuit but for much of the 70s they were a part of our everyday lives and in Argus they created a legacy that will live on for its imagination and melody along with great guitar work from Ted Turner and Andy Powell. I used to run home from school to listen to it one more time. Hard to believe they were only about 10 or 11 years older than us!
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John McLaughlin - Mahavishnu Orchestra
I first heard them when I was 14 and I remember being astonished. I’d never heard anything like it and it turned out The Inner Mounting Flame was profoundly innovative and it remains an influential record. I saw him in 2016 in Edinburgh
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Robin Trower . I bow to no-one in my admiration of Robin. I started with Long Misty Days and worked backwards. I saw him on the Victims Of The Fury tour. From the start the whole ‘Hendrix imitator’ accusations were ridiculous to me and found the only connection was using a stratocaster. Bridge Of Sighs is a classic album which we used to get stoned to
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Zal Cleminson. When I saw SAHB in 1976, I couldn’t believe he didn’t seem to be regarded as one of the best, His riffs were so memorable and cutting. I loved them. Maybe because of the make-up etc he didn’t get taken as seriously, if so that was a big mistake
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Allan Holdsworth My introduction to him was through Tempest’s Living In Fear and then Soft Machine's Bundles and Land of Cockayne. The antithesis of the guitar hero and a real innovator, all of his records are worth exploring. I've never heard his debut, ‘IgginbottomIn 1969
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