Day: Oct 15, 2018

Monday the 15th of October 2018

My weekend went well considering how terrible the weather was. But besides it being wet and cold, I enjoyed listening to the heavy downpour for some reason it’s always been relaxing to listen to. I used to enjoy hearing it when I was back at secondary working on my music theory with Ben which is nice to reminisce on.

This morning in Music Business, Chris went over that the cut off point was today and that everyone else is safe and that he’s now expecting everyone to work at their full capability. After that, we watched a video of a great band called ‘The Tower Of Power’ the song in question is called ‘The Soul Side Of Town’ which I personally enjoyed being into Funk and all that other fun stuff.

After that Chris said we had our one to ones today so for the final twenty minutes or so of the session he went off to his office whilst he eventually got through every ones blogs and asking each and every one of us how we feel, etc.

After that, we had rehearsal which is always, in my initial band our singer was at a funeral which is sad to hear and my thoughts go out to her.

But I spent most of my time with the other band Chris has put me in to play the guitar in which is a challenge but fun none the lease, we started to come up with an original song and went through ‘Lucky Man’ by ‘The Verve’ which is fun the other guitarist/vocalist has totalled his fingers so I had to play his part rather than the lead part which went well, then after that we had lunch.

After we went through that song we began on the original piece and came up with an upbeat chord progression that Jason previously helped us out with which I remembered from a couple weeks back, now it’s up to our vocalist to come up with something to go with it!

When lunch was finished, we had directed independent study, but I didn’t know what to do as I’ve done a hell of a lot over the weekends as I have no social life quite frankly, so me and Tom went to talk to Chris and he told us to rehearse now so the others can leave early and for me to go have my one to one after which was fun times, Chris enjoyed my blog and my progress and we talked about many fun things including Les Claypool.

After that Chris came back over to music with me and we worked with my other band because the setlist was a mess and the bassist wasn’t in, and we agreed to do ‘Red Red Wine’ by UB40 which is a good tune, after that it was the end of the day and we went home.

I have training tonight so I’m going to be either totalled tomorrow morning or in the mood to destroy, so we shall wait and see…

Album of the week

Rattle That Lock – David Gilmour

It is the fourth solo studio album by Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour.

It was originally released in September 2015, on the record label Columbia.

The genre of the album would be considered all of the three in which being Rock, Jazz and Ambient, and the album lasts for 51 minutes roughly!

Gilmour completed short tours around Europe in September and October 2015 and South America in December 2015 to support the album, with a similar tour of the United States and Canada following in March and April 2016.

During his short tour around Europe, as previously mentioned I saw him at the Royal Albert Hall which was amazing for my first ever live music event!

The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the direction of Aubrey Powell, who has worked with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd since the late 1960s!

By any Pink Floyd Fans standards, Rattle That Lock is definitely worth setting aside the time to listen to properly to experience its inner meaning.

With lyrics by his wife Polly Samson, who has had a massive influence upon this album, Gilmour reflects heavily on an aspect of time passing by and the urgency to live what’s left to the fullest, which explains the opening with his creeping-dawn guitar overture ‘5 A.M’.

And the morning-train glide of the title track. The flow of moods — the waltz ‘Faces of Stone’; the jazzy-youth memoir ‘The Girl in the Yellow Dress’ (with distant bleats of cornet by Robert Wyatt); the martial rock, ringed with light, of ‘Today’ — is striking and effective, recalling the hooks-and-choruses side of 1971’s Meddle by Pink Floyd.

One of my favourite tracks off of the album would have to be ‘A Boat Lies Waiting’ with sighing harmonies by David Crosby and Graham Nash, and a mumbled monologue similar to that on ‘The Great Gig in the sky’ – is dedicated to late keyboardist Richard Wright so this may be Gilmour’s own life on display summarised within a spectacular album.

But Gilmour is, inevitably, most eloquent here as a guitarist, if it wasn’t for his playing and musicianship I wouldn’t be here today at Fareham Music.

In the iconic arcs of silvery treble illuminating the instrumental of one of the final tracks ‘Beauty’, the guitarist sounds like an expressive master of his craft, one who hasn’t aged a day.

And on that note, I definitely recommend setting aside to experience this album in full if you’re a fan of David Gilmour and Pink Floyd, or into Rock and Jazz because it’s bloody brilliant all round!

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