2015-11-26 Deck the Guild Halls

5 Players: G, J, K, Si, W
Game: Guildhall
Location: W
Choice: K



She said she was a dancer...

Game One:

Player	Points
G	20
J	18
Si	17
K	15
W	12

Game Notes:

• Game ended early so we started a second game which we could not finish

Music Notes:

Kevin Yost: Small Town Underground Vol 2 (2003)

[Notes by G] W really enjoyed this American jazz-inspired house music.

Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band (1975)


[Notes by G] Not a popular choice. Skipped most of Side One.

[Notes by wikipedia] The only Deep Purple studio record featuring Tommy Bolin, who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and is also the final of three albums to feature Glenn Hughes on bass and David Coverdale on lead vocals before he later left to form Whitesnake.

Pink Floyd: Saucerful of Secrets (1968)


[Notes by G] The band's sophomore release catches the band in a time of forced transition from the Syd Barrett driven band of Piper to the Waters/Gilmour juggernaut that would power the 1970's prog-rock movement through to it's eventual death. Bridging both predominant vibes of the psychedelic sixties (light, whimsical and stoned versus dark, heavy and stoned), the album mixes both sensibilities. For example, the song Corporal Clegg, with it's bouncy rhythm and a kazoo in the musical forefront is, has a dark lyrical counterpoint (really it's a song about madness, limb amputation and the toll of war). What really defines this album and puts it up there in the annals of rock and roll history are the mostly instrumental pieces including he title track and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. Forever associated with LSD and the band's first album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn (re-issued together in the late seventies as "A Nice Pair"), this album remains one of my all time favourites.


Also, you have to check out this link. It absolutely blew me away and shows clearly that there's an uncredited image from Doctor Strange comic hidden in the album art. I certainly never noticed this before. But now that I see it, I cant help but see it everytime.

Augustus Pablo: King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown (1976)


[Notes from the discussion board of Rateyourmusic.com]Aphexquan said: ... It's a compilation of tracks that Augustus Pablo produced from 1972 to 1975 with artists like Jacob Miller and Hugh Mundell. Pablo then brought these tracks to King Tubby. The result is this meeting of two brilliant talents. You've got Augustus Pablo on clavinet and organ-piano. I find that Pablo's melodies have this very earthy, pastoral quality to them. Then King Tubby adds these effects like echo, reverb, and delay to create tension and release but he never overwhelms the natural beauty of the songs. It's like cosmic folk music. The bass lines, pushed to the front of the mix, have this great thick and fat sound to them. Check out the bass swagger on "555 Dub Street". If there actually was a street called Dub, that bass line would pimp stroll its sidewalks. And on the title track, you can pretty much see the beginnings of drum 'n' bass when it was just a glimmer in it's mother's eyes. I highly recommend this album as an introduction to dub and a lesson in how the mixing desk can be an instrument in its own right.