
Location:
United States
Genres:
Music Podcasts
Description:
25 years of compositions, arrangements and tunes
Language:
English
Episodes
Spanish Suite 3. The Last Bus
2/14/2025
No3. of the Spanish Suite put together during the covid lock down in Madrid in 2020. The buses kept running in Alcobendas, the district I lived in. At time they were the only things on the road. It was a bit of normality in a very strange situation.
Duration:00:05:00
Longer Days Shorter Nights
2/13/2025
At last in the UK a sign that the winter is starting to be over. I don't have any Seasonal Affective Disorder.
But it is nice to see the day starting a little earlier ( about 7.15am now ) and finishing that little bit later ( about 5.15pm)
I had to check what S.A.D was - I thought it was a sunshine related thing - apparently not ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder where people who typically have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year. It is commonly associated with reductions or increases in total daily sunlight hours during the summer or winter
Duration:00:03:29
Where to now ?
2/12/2025
I am just coming up to 1,000 episodes of the podcast - as one very pleasant chap posted - " thats more than most people do in a lifetime " .
I'm just think about where we go from here. This was intended tp just organise old material and also as a sketchpad for new ideas.
Duration:00:03:07
Z bed
2/11/2025
Or Zed Bed as I know it . The fold up temporary bed you use for guests. Mighty uncomfortable. Anyone can manage a really bad nights sleep without any difficulty at all. You'd think you didn't really want anyone to stay in the first place - I suppose its unlikely they'd ever come back for more ...
Duration:00:03:44
Whats Up ?
2/10/2025
As opposed to Whats App. The old greeting term - "How's it going ?" Heres a few others :
"How's it going?""How's everything?""What's the story?""What's the latest?""What's cookin'?""What's the word?""What's new, buttercup?"
The last one I've never heard...
Duration:00:02:09
Thats your lot
2/9/2025
Nice and ambiguous - Thats your lot - meaning that is it- that is your world - deal with it OR
Thats your lot - the end - finito .. take your choice
Duration:00:03:32
Please Sir, I want some more
2/8/2025
The line from Oliver Twist everyone remembers
Duration:00:02:31
Spanish Suite 2 Is anybody flying ?
2/7/2025
Piece No2 of the Spanish Suite put together when I was staying in Madrid through the 2020 lockdown.The airport was in the distance and you could always hear the planes - but not nearly so many as I remember.
Duration:00:01:53
Influences 5. Shape of My Heart - Sting
2/6/2025
In about 1980 Outlandos D'Amour was the first Police album with the singles So Lonely and Roxanne. I followed the Police and even saw them in a downpour at Milton Keynes bowl before they split. I loved Andy Summers guitar playing and enjoyed his instrumental album Golden Wire. This Sting song lives on very well over generations. I was a little unsure whether to do it - its done now.
Duration:00:02:10
Not likely
2/5/2025
One of the slightly more generous assessments of Donald Trumps suggested movement of the Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt.
Duration:00:04:23
Taking Instructions
2/4/2025
Another take on the Delay Deny Defend idea - You certainly hear this one a lot - often when very little is happening
Duration:00:03:33
The Great Auk
2/3/2025
The magnificent Great Auk apparently died out in about 1844 - hunted for its down and single eggs in the end its flightless life couldn't cope.
Duration:00:03:47
Don't Leave it Alone (If you've got an itch)
2/2/2025
A metaphorical itch is intended otherwise taken literally this song is just a little unpleasant
Duration:00:06:05
Spanish Suite 1. Alcobendas
2/1/2025
This suite of 4 pieces was put together during the covid lockdown in 2020. I was in Madrid for that time - teaching with a remarkable lack of enthusiasm. The part of Madrid I was living in was quite comfortably off, warm and pleasant - but I didn't deal at all well with the isolation.
Duration:00:02:45
Influences 4. Babylon - David Gray
1/31/2025
I'm not sure what he is doing now but this was a track from a really good album by David Gray - White Ladder. I likened his music to a pop version of John Martyn - but now I'm not so sure. Anyway my acoustic version uses the characteristic John Martyn percussive guitar accompaniment.
Duration:00:03:24
A snowballs chance in hell
1/30/2025
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit back at Donald Trump's threat to use "economic force" to absorb Canada into the US saying there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" to join the two.
What a great way to tell him where to go ..
Duration:00:04:25
Variations on a Theme by Mozart - Fernando Sor
1/29/2025
Students used to call him Fernando Bore when I was studying - but I've grown over many many years of playing his music to really love his compositions the Beethoven of the guitar ? Perhaps a little over the top but this is one of his more well know tunes. I'd forgotten I'd recorded it - in about 2010.
Duration:00:07:32
That Ship has Sailed
1/28/2025
Thats a lovely expression - a gentle way of saying - "you gotta be joking - there's no way you should even be thinking of doing that now "
Duration:00:04:14
Pat
1/27/2025
The versions of this I've done over the years never quite worked until I did this one - which is how the piece is intended. American Garage was an album I particularly enjoyed and at the time I recorded this I was doing a version of Steve Reichs Electric Counterpoint in which Pat Methenys original version was my reference.
Duration:00:02:52
Song for Sarah
1/26/2025
This version is on a Yamaha Martin Taylor semi acoustic guitar that I used alot when asked to do jazz guitar playing ( god knows why I was asked to do that - I think there was just a shortage of jazz guitarists in the area I lived in ).
Duration:00:03:04