Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 28 - Coatigan - Instrumentals (pg 444)

[BimboBob]

Mark Hollis.

Nothing really to say here apart from stopped working and left us far too soon.

 

[threespires]

Mark Hollis.

Nothing really to say here apart from stopped working and left us far too soon.

A huge talent who chose to focus on being a Dad and Husband rather than a star, which makes him doubly endearing.

 

[Out on blue 6]

A huge talent who chose to focus on being a Dad and Husband rather than a star, which makes him doubly endearing.

I had a long list and Mark and Elliot Smith were on it. I knew Mark would be put on here and quite rightly so and I wonder whether Smith's Figure 8 album which is more accessible would have done better. Obviously the album put forward was more personal

 

[RobMCFC]

The obvious choice for in in this category is Chris Whitley, but as we've already reviewed the Living With The Law album, I thought I'd choose this raucous track from Dirt Floor.

"Altitude" - Chris Whitley

 

[OB1]

Are we supposed only to pick lesser known musicians or just any that passed away far too soon?

 

[Out on blue 6]

Are we supposed only to pick lesser known musicians or just any that passed away far too soon?

Anyone. Well known or not doesn't matter just ones personal to yourself

 

[threespires]

Duane Allman is obviously very well known but completely hits the "what could they have done with more time" category. Just 24 years old when he crashed his bike. This track also features fellow band member bassist Berry Oakley, who 12 months after Allman's death also crashed and died just 3 blocks from where his bandmate was killed. He was only 24 too. I think they're buried next to each other.

The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky

 

[Coatigan]

Tuesday Wonderland - Esbjorn Svensson Trio.

There were a few I was torn between, but it IS Tuesday after all..

'On 14 June 2008, Svensson went missing during a scuba diving session on Ingarö outside Stockholm, Sweden. His diving companions, including an instructor and his then 14-year-old son, eventually found him lying unconscious on the seabed. Having sustained serious injuries, he was rushed to Karolinska University Hospital by helicopter, but could not be saved. He was 44 years old, married and the father of two sons.'

Other songs I considered, for anyone wanting to follow up a bit more. Brewery of beggars, good morning susie soho, the face of love.

 

[OB1]

Anyone. Well known or not doesn't matter just ones personal to yourself

Thanks.


In that case I will make no apologies for starting with a song that I have reviewed on this forum but I think is very fitting: "In My Time of Dying" by Led Zep and featuring the incomparable John Henry Bonham. This playlist is about people who have kicked the bucket but before Bonzo's untimely demise he could kick the bass drum like no one else.

 

[OB1]

My second track is "Wild Dogs" by Tommy Bolin, an immensely talented guitarist who took on the, at the time, near impossible task of filling Ritchie Blackmore's shoes in Deep Purple. This track his from his fine solo album "Teaser". If you want to hear him scorch the fret board, check out something from Billy Cobham's "Spectrum" album.