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Post by maddogfagin on Sept 30, 2014 13:43:34 GMT
Maart One group that hasn't been mentioned so far are The Bad Shepherds which you were involved with originally. I sadly never got to see the original line up but it must have been fascinating to have performed with Adrian Edmondson, of the Young Ones, playing punk/new wave songs with traditional music. I don't talk about The Bad Shepherds. Next...Fair enough, good answer though  What was it like recording with Yusuf Cat Stevens who has many fans amongst the Tull fraternity, many with memories of his very early work and concert appearances. |
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 1, 2014 10:17:56 GMT
Hi Maart,
I notice from your FB page that you like Alan Hull. I met him in the early 70's at a Lindisfarne concert in Glasgow and he seemed a really lovely,funny bloke. I love his lyrics and songs.
Did you play with him at any time?
Do you do any writing yourself?
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Post by maart on Oct 1, 2014 13:17:49 GMT
Fair enough, good answer though What was it like recording with Yusuf Cat Stevens who has many fans amongst the Tull fraternity, many with memories of his very early work and concert appearances. Yusuf is fantastic. A musical genius and a very very nice man. We recorded for two separate weeks at ICP Studios in Brussels, a fabulous facility and a great team. Producer was Paul Samwell Smith, who produced Cat's classic albums like Tea For The Tillerman etc, and incidentally produced Broadsword And The Beast and co-produced Paul Simon's American Tune. I made six albums with Paul in the 80s/90s, all with drum hero Russ Kunkel. On drums this time was multi-instrumentalist Kwame Yerboah, Yusuf's long-time sideman guitarist Alun Davies, and Yusuf on guitars, piano and keys. I was mainly on bass but I was also playing quite a bit of synths and samplers and Hammond organ as well as some electric guitars. Yusuf has a new album out this month, and is touring to promote it. He has an established live band, and I hope to go see them play somewhere. The project I was working on is for a career retrospective box set due in 2016. We recorded 17 songs from a projected 50 (one for each year). We remade some classics, some new things (well, new to me anyway) and some not-so-well-known songs and the overall feel is really great. There is no mistaking that voice. Incidentally he mentioned that he always liked JT... |
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Post by maart on Oct 1, 2014 13:34:11 GMT
Hi Maart, I notice from your FB page that you like Alan Hull. I met him in the early 70's at a Lindisfarne concert in Glasgow and he seemed a really lovely,funny bloke. I love his lyrics and songs. Did you play with him at any time? Lindisfarne were one of the first bands I ever saw live. My first gig was Keef Hartley Band featuring Miller Anderson and support was The Third Ear Band. The next night I went to see (bottom of the bill) Genesis, then Lindisfarne, then Van der Graaf Generator. Both gigs at Manchester Free Trade Hall. I fell in love with Lindisfarne and went to see them every time they came to Manchester after that. A lad at school said, "If you like Lindisfarne you're going to love Fairport." So I lent him my Dingly Dell and he lent me his Full House, which he's not getting back as it's been signed by lots of people...
I bought all of Alan's solo albums and played them regularly. I see that his son-in-law Dave Hull-Denholm and bassist Ian Thomson are out playing the songs now as The Alan Hull Songbook. Dave's voice is scarily similar to Alan's, and if you like the songs, you really must go and see them live. I'm going to see them in Dolgellau next month.
I never got to work with Alan, although we had a few scoops together from time to time. I learned to play bass from listening to Rod Clements' playing with Lindisfarne (likewise with Dave Pegg and Lee Sklar) and I played with Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw when we booked them for my wife's retirement party a couple of years ago. I'd only waited 40 years to play with Ray. I usually meet up with Ray whenever I'm in Newcastle.
Do you do any writing yourself? I do write stuff myself, and I've even written a few songs, the first of which, Whenever We See The Dark, features Ian Anderson on flute, on my OX15 album back in 1999. I have four solo albums out now, although the first, Maart (1990), is out of print. OX15 is nearly out of print, I only have a few left. OX15, Serving Suggestion (2004) and Chilli Morning (2012) are still available from my website at www.maartinallcock.com (which I'm going to update this week...).
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Post by nonrabbit on Oct 1, 2014 15:49:31 GMT
Hi Maart, I notice from your FB page that you like Alan Hull. I met him in the early 70's at a Lindisfarne concert in Glasgow and he seemed a really lovely,funny bloke. I love his lyrics and songs. Did you play with him at any time? Lindisfarne were one of the first bands I ever saw live. My first gig was Keef Hartley Band featuring Miller Anderson and support was The Third Ear Band. The next night I went to see (bottom of the bill) Genesis, then Lindisfarne, then Van der Graaf Generator. Both gigs at Manchester Free Trade Hall. I fell in love with Lindisfarne and went to see them every time they came to Manchester after that. A lad at school said, "If you like Lindisfarne you're going to love Fairport." So I lent him my Dingly Dell and he lent me his Full House, which he's not getting back as it's been signed by lots of people...
I bought all of Alan's solo albums and played them regularly. I see that his son-in-law Dave Hull-Denholm and bassist Ian Thomson are out playing the songs now as The Alan Hull Songbook. Dave's voice is scarily similar to Alan's, and if you like the songs, you really must go and see them live. I'm going to see them in Dolgellau next month.
I never got to work with Alan, although we had a few scoops together from time to time. I learned to play bass from listening to Rod Clements' playing with Lindisfarne (likewise with Dave Pegg and Lee Sklar) and I played with Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw when we booked them for my wife's retirement party a couple of years ago. I'd only waited 40 years to play with Ray. I usually meet up with Ray whenever I'm in Newcastle.
Do you do any writing yourself? I do write stuff myself, and I've even written a few songs, the first of which, Whenever We See The Dark, features Ian Anderson on flute, on my OX15 album back in 1999. I have four solo albums out now, although the first, Maart (1990), is out of print. OX15 is nearly out of print, I only have a few left. OX15, Serving Suggestion (2004) and Chilli Morning (2012) are still available from my website at www.maartinallcock.com (which I'm going to update this week...).
Thanks Maart, I checked out Dave Hull-Denholm - he really does sound like Alan - great voice. There's a great montage video of Winter's Song with both of them on it - you've probably seen it. Have a great time at the concert in Wales. The point has come up here on the Forum a few times with us fogeys (you and I are both the same age so we're young fogies on here)  that although we were lucky to hear all the greats back in the day and feel privileged for doing so, there's something to be said about re-listening to some songs after a long gap and hearing something even better. Has that happened to you? As we were mentioning Lindisfarne I re-listened to Lady Eleanor one of my first singles and played incessantly however hearing it again after decades it's sounds even better- fuller. Nostalgia, appreciation of great music or more? Patti |
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that although we were lucky to hear all the greats back in the day and feel privileged for doing so, there's something to be said about re-listening to some songs after a long gap and hearing something even better.
