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06 Jun, 2016
Good phones....shame about the ad !
These are a pretty good set of earphones. They deliver whatever you're listening to right into your ear so hearing is not a problem.
I have no complaints about them as earphones per se.....except that they were not recognized or supported by my Nokia 105 ! In the end I had to upgrade to the 215 which recognized them straight away. The 215 is a better phone so maybe in the end these earphones did me a favour but they shouldn't be advertised as being for the 105.
11 Mar, 2008
Fresh Blueberry Pancake - Lame name with a great taste
I really like three piece (that is, guitar/bass/drums) bands from the late 60s and early 70s; there were quite a few of them and to be honest, it's easy to see why this album was never taken up. You see, this was a demo album that Fresh Blueberry Pancake had recorded in the hope that they would land a contract and only 54 copies were pressed according to legend.
Personally, I think it's a brilliant "album", most of it good crunching heavy rock with attractive riffing, booming bass work, some brilliant lead guitar soloing - not the aimless jammy type, but solos that have a point and are integral to the songs - rhythmic, octopus like drumming, interesting lyrics, yet almost indecipherable....it doesn't matter that one can barely make out the words, nor does it matter that the vocalist isn't the best you'll ever hear; truth is, apart from the final song which isn't very imaginative or inventive, the rest of the songs hang together really well.
I like any kind of instrumental line up. With a guitar/bass/drums set up, things like energy and excitement come almost as standard and FBP have both in abundance. But it takes more than that to make an album interesting. The songs need to bear repeated listening and that's not easy. Just riffing, crashing and soloing will wear thin after a while. So it helps if there are interesting melodies and harmonies and also that the limited number of instruments are not only combining to make a good overall sound, but that they individually hold the attention. Fresh blueberry Pancake achieve all of that with near enough flying colours.
So why do I say that it's easy to see why they never landed that big contract ? Simply because of the sheer volume of similar bands around the time. If you consider that they were in competition with outfits (some past, some present) like Cream, The Hendrix experience, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, the Who, Help, Trapeze, Grand Funk Railroad, the James Gang, Free, Jeff Beck group, May Blitz, Blue Cheer, Budgie, the Stooges and a million other bands, some long forgotten, some turning up as "lost classics", then there may not have seemed enough to distinguish them from other bands. It's only now, 35 years down the line that one looks back and realizes what a good album it actually was and that's why it is a good move to issue it. Shame it never got released at the time because it's as good overall as much stuff by three piece bands of the time that I've heard.
06 Jun, 2016
I can't stand Arsenal but I love a good read !
And it is a good read. Though it was written before the Arsene Wenger era {it was written before the Bruce Rioch era !!} it is compelling. Tyler and Soar write with such obvious joy and knowledge and that makes for an irresistible combination. You know that their pleasure and opinions are backed up by history, good research and a confidence that they know what they are talking about.
To be honest, I really only bought the book for the chapter "Arsenal's double" which I had originally read in 1988, not long after the book first came out. I'm a Liverpool supporter and I still recall that hot May day back in '71 when, living in Islington as one of only two non Arsenal supporters in existence {!}, Arsenal broke my heart that day ~ the only time I ever shed tears as a football supporter in 45 years { I was 8. It wasn't easy living in Arsenal country}. Though I was thrilled at Liverpool's double in '86, we had done 7 doubles {of sorts} and a treble by then {'83~84} and Manchester UTD's one in '94 wasn't as thrilling as Arsenal's in '70~71. In fact, every one of the league and FA cup doubles have been kind of 'meh' to me, from Preston in 1888 right through to Chelsea in 2010. But Arsenal's one is the stuff of legend and in this book, Soar and Tyler capture that story in all its dramatic glory, starting with how some of the players first appeared in the team in the Billy Wright era, how Bertie Mee rebuilt the side over 4 or 5 seasons, who he kept, who he ushered out or let go, how he gave youth a chance and ended up almost accidentally with a team that blended youth, experience, functionality, grit, a never say die attitude and the necessary flair in Charlie George and overcame mighty Leeds after a 7 point deficit in the days when it was only 2 points for a win as well as surviving away draws in every round of the FA cup and coming from behind in possibly the most nerve shredding FA cup semi final in living memory and repeating the act in the final.
Their descriptions of some of the men, matches and moments are spellbinding and some of the photographs literally transport you back in time, wishing you had been there. But in today's saturation coverage of football on TV, online and in print, it's books like this that are the true carriers of the flame, that enable magical moments that one may not have been part of to live in the memory. Seeing some of the goals in videos that were described in such dramatic fashion by Soar and Tyler are almost inevitably an anti climax.
The book contains much to please the football lover and even though there have been revisions and updates, there's something to be said for original versions of books and movies and this is a prime example.