Music – Page 15 – Splendid Isolation

I saw them live once, and I nearly quit Atlantic Show Band to go and play in a blues band. Yeah, I would have starved. That’s just the price of the Blues, baby.

Army Songs

December 30, 2023 Kim du Toit Music

Not songs about the army… songs that came out when I was in the army, doing my bit for my country by playing bass guitar:

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I think I played about a dozen of those songs over the years with various bands, and most of them… ugh, disco disco disco (as well as my un-favoritest Stones song, which says something about how dreadful it is, and which thankfully I never had to play).

Thank goodness for Baker Street, then and now one of the greatest ballads ever.

Afterthought: I never liked the syrupy Light Up My Life, and listening to it now, it has to be the worst production ever, with absolutely no redeeming features. The piano, for starters, sounds like someone’s hammering on the keyboard with a mallet, and the cheesy string arrangement would have made Mozart commit suicide. To cap it off, the desperately-unsexy Debbie Boone sounds like she’d taken a large dose of Xanax in the studio on the day it was recorded.