Hindustan Times
Around 10 days back, my colleague in London mailed me a link with a short note that simply said “Yes they are back! And I can die in peace”. The link was to a lyric video (the kind where you can read the lyrics while listening to the song) of The Rolling Stones’ latest new single, Doom And Gloom. And the note from my colleague who’s obviously a huge Stones fan besides being an erstwhile (or, is he still one?) bass slapper himself, is an example of how much diehard Stones fans love the 50-year-old band. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Alex Chilton, Anant Rangaswami, And The Spiders From Mars, Aquarium Drunkard, argus48, Beatle Drums, Blind Faith, David Bowie, Doom And Gloom, Download Central, Eric Clapton, Exile On Main St., First Post, Flashing Light, Ginger Baker, Goats Head Soup, GRRR!, I Go To Sleep, Let It Bleed, Love Me Do, Metz, Music, Rabindra Sangeet, Rick Grech, Rolling Stone-ness, Rolling Stones, Sanjoy Narayan, Scotch on the Socks, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sidecar, Steve Winwood, Stones Jumpin’ Jack Flash, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Motions, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The Shadows, Twitter, Wet Blanket
Rick Grech’s violin solo on Sea of Joy is probably the reason why I keep going back to Blind Faith, the eponymous and only album by the 1968 British super-group that Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker and Grech formed. I am not sure whether they lasted together for a full year but that album has so many of my memories attached to it that I can’t even begin to tell you. I must have been just a bit older than the pubescent girl on that risqué and controversial album cover when I first heard Blind Faith. It came out in 1969. I must’ve heard it in 1973 in my friend Sujoy’s mezzanine den where we used to meet for our nefarious activities. It was a vinyl that we played on a rather robust record player that he had – believe me, it took all kinds of mishandling, including some that I would be embarrassed as hell to tell you.
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(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Beatles, Blind Faith, Dave Grohl, Download Central, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Ginger Baker, Music, Narayan, Nirvana, Rick Grech, Sea Of Joy, See What Happens, Sgt Peppers, Sing This All Together, Steve Winwood, The Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Wasting Light
The best supergroups—collaborations between already famous musicians—are often the ones that don’t last too long. Remember Blind Faith, which in the 1960s had heavyweights such as Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech yet released just the one eponymous album? Or, what about The Traveling Wilburys, comprising Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, who recorded just two albums? Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Baby Boomer, Blind Faith, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Buffalo Springfield, Clapton, Conor Oberst, Cream, Crosby, Dave Grohl, Download Central, Eric Clapton, Evil Urges, Foo Fighters, George Harrison, Ginger Baker, Graham Bond Organisation, Hold Time, Jack Bruce, Jeff Lynne, Jim James, John Paul Jones, Josh Hommes, Led Zeppelin, M Ward, Manfred Mann, Mike Mogis, Monsters of Folk, My Morning Jacket, Nash, Neil Young, Nirvana, Outer South, Queens Of The Stone Age, Ric Grech, Roy Orbison, Sanjoy Narayan, Steve Winwood, Stills, Temazcal, The Byrds, The Byrds or Crosby, The Hollies, The Traveling Wilburys, Them Crooked Vultures, Tom Petty, Twitter, Young, Zooey Deschanel
