The post Christmas/ New Year radical clear out and move toward minimalist living WAS going great……………two + bins fill of general waste, 10 bags of clothing, textiles ect for recycling and 8 boxes of books CD’s and assorted ‘stuff’ heading for the charity shop. Bang on track for the clear out of the millennium until…. I start preparing for the disposal of approximately 400 old vinyl music albums.
OHHHHH dear, my resolve is failing, I NEVER play these old things and they are a VERY high maintance as far as storage goes. BUT, once I took them out of the cupboard, saw all those lovely old album covers, remembered all those once familiar bands, I drifted off into some sort of time warp nostalgia, and ….. oh I’m not so sure I can do this. My head tells me get rid of all this stuff I don’t need any more, my head says it clutters up my house, it clutters up my life it owns me rather than vice versa. But somewhere inside this dilapidated old body of mine with its arthritic joints and failing hearing……….somewhere in there seems to be this long forgotton happy hippy desperate to hang on to her music. What inner turmoil, a battle of wills between me and me.
Camel
Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in 1971. An important figure in the Canterbury scene, the group has been releasing studio and live recordings steadily since their formation in 71.For an excellent write up on this band check them out at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_%28band%29
Camel - Snow Goose Excerpts.
And if that doesn’t rock yr boat try this line up.
K. Ayers, J. Cale, B. Eno, Nico with (Mike Oldfield on Guitar)
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno, Nico
Album: June 1, 1974
Track: Everybody's sometime and some people all the time blues
Mike Oldfield as guest musician on solo guitar.
Album: June 1, 1974
Track: Everybody's sometime and some people all the time blues
Mike Oldfield as guest musician on solo guitar.
It's late in the evening
And the weather is cold
I'm beginning to miss you
But that story's so old
I know I've been knocking
My head on the wall
And I must have been crazy
To leave
Oh yeah, yeah
Strange kind of blues coloured moon
Shines in the middle of my room.
Sometimes I'm burning
With a vision so bright
That it brings on the sunshine
In the middle of the night
And all those musical ladies
And the crazed young men
They are trying to make music
Together again? 0h no no
And a strange kind of blues coloured moon
Shines in the middle of my room.
