My Generation of Sun. 25 Sep.: Miller Anderson, Starman’s Belgian Vaults 5 [Ed’s Show 2016-39]

SPECIALS: Miller Anderson, Starman’s Belgian Vaults vol. 5 ** AND ALSO: Exclusive Radio 68 interview with Jim McCarty about Keith Relf, Savoy Brown **  
SHOWTIME CET (Brussels) Sundays  non-stop four-hour show from 12 noon till 04:00 in the morning (Monday.
SHOWTIME GMT (London) Sundays  non stop four-hour show from 11 a.m. till  3 a.m. (Monday morning).

MY GENERATION (new show: 1200, 1600, 20:00 and 2400 hrs CET)
SPECIAL:  BELGIAN VAULTS  vol. 5 : PATRICK, NEW INSPIRATION,  THE R&Rs, PAUL’s COLLECTION, THE KLAN,  THE SWALLOWS, MOZAIQUE  ** YOU HEARD IT FIRST ON RADIO 68: ON RADIO 68 TODAY, RELEASED ON  14 OCTOBER * Many thanks to Starman Records www.starmanrecords.com  ** LONGPLAYING:  WATTS PROPHETS: ON THE STREET IN WATTS (1967) +  THE FUGS second album  ** THREESOME: STEVIE WINWOOD with BLIND FAITH, TRAFFIC, THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP ** AND ALSO: ADAM FAITH, REPARATA & THE DELRONS, RANDY NEWMAN, DANTALION’s CHARIOT, THE GLASS PRISM, SAM THE SHAM & PHARAOHS

MY GENERATION BLUESIDE (new show: 1300, 1700, 2100 and 0100 hrs CET)
SPECIAL:  MILLER ANDERSON  2cd reissue on MIG, 2016, cd1 Bluesheart, originally  2007 + NORMAN BEAKER & JOHN PRICE , GRAY & WYATT  http://www.grayandwyatt.com/ , JON LORD BLUES PROJECT feat. Maggie Bell and Miller Anderson** STRUTTIN’ THEIR NEW STUFF: LIL  ED & BLUES IMPERIALS: The Big Sound Of , new on Alligator ** AND ALSO: LONNIE MACK, NINA SIMONE, SIMON PRAGER.

MY GENERATION (repeated 1400, 1800, 2200 and 0200 hrs CET)
SPECIAL: KEITH RELF & RENAISSANCE  EXCLUSIVE RADIO 68 INTERVIEW with JIM McCARTY ** THREESOME: GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS ** LONGPLAYING: BLACK WIDOW: Sacrifice * CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY: LP, 1969 **  AND ALSO: RONNIE SELF, STEAMHAMMER, a poem by  ADRIAN MITCHELL,  FRIJID PINK

MY GENERATION BLUESIDE (repeated 1500, 1900, 2300 and 0300 hrs CET)
SPECIAL:  SAVOY BROWN: GETTING TO THE POINT, 1968 ** NEW STUFF:  SI CRANSTOUN: Old School, Ruf, thanks to V2 Records Belgium and Ruf Records ** AND ALSO: MUDDY WATERS, LIGHTNIN HOPKINS, MICK MARTIN & THE BLUES ROCKERS, THE METERS, BOB HALL & GEORGE GREEN

MY GENERATION, incl. BLUESIDE: THE SHOW 
MY GENERATION / BLUESIDE is a four-hour show. Each week, a new 60 minute episode followed by the previous show, totalling two hours of all the sounds and the voices that shaped the 60s. Each show includes a special highlighting one artist, release, topic or trend. BLUESIDE: a new 60 minute episode every week, followed by the previous show, totalling two hours of the blues that influenced and inspired the sounds of the sixties – from the originators till the present day. Each show includes a special highlighting one artist, release, topic or trend.

SPECIALS: BACKGROUND

BELGIAN VAULTS VOL. 5 (180 gr. LP met cd)

Voor de vijfde keer op rij, slaagt Felix van Starman Records de Belgische sixties scene te doen herleven middels een uitgebalanceerde compilatie van 15 nummers die evenveel artiesten voorstellen. Dit keer bevinden we ons op het einde van de jaren zestig, begin de jaren zeventig en het geluid wordt dus heavier. Zo herdoopten The Swallows zich tot The Bunch en speelden ze stevige rock in plaats van luchtige pop. The Bunch beroerde de hit parade in  Portugal, terwijl  The Klan opende voor de Stones in Parijs  en goed verkocht in Zuid Amzerika (!) en The New Inspiration op internationaal vlak werd uitgebracht en zelfs ging opnemen in de Apple studio’s.  Andere artiesten blijven obscuur (MozaIque) of kenden een kort platenbestaan (Patrick).
De volumes  2, 3 en 4 zijn nog altijd verkrijgbaar bij www.starmanrecords.be

MILLER ANDERSON: BLUESHEART

Heel veel albums geleden speelde zanger-gitarist Miller Anderson bij Keef Hartley die vele albums daarvoor bij John Mayall speelde. Maar Anderson dop al lang zijn eigen boontjes, want hij speelt wel meer instrumenten dan de gitaar en hij kan ook componeren. De ene keer houdt hij die composities bewust traag en akoestisch, zonder veel decibelgeweld. De andere keer knipoogt zijn blues naar rock, maar het tempo houdt hij meestal traag tot halfsnel en de gitaar wordt nooit een eenzame loeier.  Wij richten onze aandacht op de eerste cd van deze dubbelaar, Bluesheart uit 2007, waarop hij begeleid wordt door de uitstekende musici  van de Norman Beaker Band (Norman Beaker gitaar en zang,  John Price bas, Paul Burgess drums, Dave Baldwin toetsen). Op de tweede cd, die vandaag niet aan bod komt, heeft Anderson voor andere begeleiders gekozen, o.a. Kris Gray op bas.  Eén bonus komt van Jon Lord Blues Project-cd, waarbij Anderson een hoofdrol speelde.
Referentie: Bluesheart (2007) / Chameleon (2008), Collector’s Premium Series, MIG records, 2016, www.mig-music.de 
www.milleranderson.co.uk

JIM McCARTY about KEITH RELF

Radio 68 exclusive interview with Jim Mcarty (Yardbirds, Renaissance , Illusion, etc.) about Keith Relf’s solo recordings: the two singles released in 1966 and rereleased on the remastered 2cd “Roger the Engineer”  and home recording to be found as bonus tracks on “Renaissance. Live at the Fillmore West 1970”.
Angel Air Records recently issued a new album by Renaissance, the band formed by Keith Relf and Jim McCarty when The Yardbirds had broken up. “Live At the Fillmore West 1970” is taken from a live tape sent to Jim McCarty and features exactly four tracks, three of which can also be found on the first Renaissance album. The odd one out is titled ‘No Name Raga’ and hasn’t appeared anywhere till now. To me, the added value of this release lies in the four bonus tracks: one unreleased recording by the band at the Island studios and three recorded at Keith Relf’s house – equally unreleased. Whereas ‘Statues’ is a fully finished track, the home recording are just that: Keith and his sister Jane trying out songs as the tape is running. Still, they give a valuable insight into the sort of sound Relf was into apart from The Yardbirds and even apart from Renaissance / illusion.
Sincere thanks to www.angelair.co.uk and Jim Mc Carty
MY REVIEW OF Live At the Fillmore West 1970:
http://www.eddybonte.be/just-good-music/blues/yardbirds-world/renaissance-live-fillmore-west-1970/

SAVOY BROWN: GETTING TO THE POINT

“Getting to the Point” is Savoy Brown’s second album (Decca, 1968). After a number of personnel changes, this is very much the album of central point Kim Simmonds, new singer Chris Youlden and  Bob ‘solicitor by day and boogie pianist by night’ Hall. It also features new songs by Simmonds and Youlden, who had left Shakey Vick’s band to join Simmonds.

“Producer Mike Vernon arranged for sessions for the group’s next album, Getting to the Point, which took place in March 1968. Alongside Kim, Youlden emerged as co-leader of the group, and jointly or separately the pair composed most of the material. While the U.K. version of the album had cover-art depicting Kim wearing round glasses with the image of a black man in each lens, the U.S. cover art depicted more innocuous and politically correct images of a maze breaking up a collage of artwork. Kim explained what the original cover design was trying to depict to Melody Maker: “Our cover tried to show that although we are white we see things the same ways as a Negro but for some reasons it was changed.” With just two cover songs and seven originals, the album was to have been the Savoy Brown Blue’s Band’s transition from being a blues covers outfit to a band that had asserted its own identity. Unfortunately, the songs were not as strong as the pieces on the previous album, with the exception of the moody “Mr. Downchild” and the Willie Dixon-penned “You Need Love’” (Source: http://www.savoybrown.com/history)