BAIBS Tuesday 21/05/13

Well it seem an age since I've blogged. 4 days in actual fact. The main reason for starting this blog was to post the play list of the show so no radio show = no blog. Unless I throw a gig review out there. I failed to get to the radio on Friday and Monday both due to gigs the previous night. Admittedly my failure yesterday was purely cos OPM didn't want to go home after playing The Leopard Sunday night. They spent longer having a beer with their fans than they did on stage. Quality night though.

I'm writing this blog with an injury. Managed to sustain a paper cut during this morning's show and now I've managed to spray deodorant directly onto the cut. Trust me, it's pigging agony. Ah, another deodorant mishap to go along the time I managed to spray it directly into my eye or sprayed shaving foam under my armpits in a still half asleep attempt to get ready.

So since we last spoke I've done 4 gigs, a wedding and Rovers have got a new manager. The weekend was far too hectic for me to blog about. Basically I can't remember much about it. Short blog again today, had to get a nap in and I'm at work in just over an hour. It's all go.

Today's playlist is heavy with The Doors. Keyboard player Ray Manzarek died yesterday. I think all music fans have a Doors stage were they are simply the most important thing you can possibly listen too. You may move on but that dependence on The Doors is always lurking. Partly it's the mysticism of Jim Morrison, the live fast die young ethos that we all like to think we have whereas in reality we want to live at a steady pace and die at a ripe old age with the odd Morrison moment thrown in earlier rather than later. But their music shouldn't be lost in all the romanticism. One of the most innovative, influential bands that ever existed. Tunes driven by Manzarek's keyboard just as much as Krieger's  guitar and Morrison's voice and poetry. For  me Ray Manzarek almost reinvented the use of the keyboard in rock music. Taking it from a supporting role to a crucial, sound defining role in The Doors catalogue. The man was a pioneer.

Laters

SS

Playlist Tuesday 21/05/12

People Are Strange - The Doors

Light My Fire - The Doors

Night Mail - Public Service Broadcasting

Second Minute Or Hour - Jack Penate

Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives

Rose Tattoo - The Dropkick Murphys

Star - James

Peaches - In The Valley Below

Soul Uncensored - Section 60

Nothing Our Way - Frankie And The Heartstrings

Like A Dancer - The Enemy

Dreaming - Blondie

Front Row - The Fallows

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Johnny Come Lately - Steve Earle

Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths

Legacy - The Ratells

Given To Fly - Pearl Jam

Just Like A Woman - Black Spiders

Solid Bond In Your Heart - The Style Council

You Overdid It Doll - The Courteneers

Thousands Are Sailing - The Pogues

Paint It Black -The Rolling Stones

Digging In The Dirt - Peter Gabriel

Roxanne - The Police

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors

La Tristesse Durera - Manic Street Preachers

Blood, Sweat And Tears - The D.O.T.

Just Like Honey - The Jesus And Mary Chain

Start To Run - Dexters

Right Now - Bang Bang Romeo

Regret - New Order

Straight To Hell - The Clash

The Doors Of Then - Tim Burgess

The Way We're Made (Made In England) - Missing Andy

No Hope - The Vaccines

To Be Like - China Rats

Riders On The Storm - The Doors