Whats playing on your system today?

YES -Tales From Topographic Oceans (now 50 years old).

Now Playing:

Elephant Gym- World 

(Jazz/Math Rock)

Now Playing:

This Winter Machine- The Clockwork Man

Keith Richards - Happy 80th!

@curiousjim

At the risk of being called philistine or unsophisticated, I bought that — only because I own a vinyl copy of everything PT and SW — and…

wasn’t disappointed so much as “meh.”

As much as I’ve enjoyed (and BOUGHT) everything SW has gotten his hands into (PT, SW, Blackfield, Pineapple Thief, re-engineering Yes, King Crimson, more), this struck me as sort of the SW equivalent of a sort of homage to Monty Python’s infamous “Contractual Obligation Record,” a rehash of much earlier PT stuff and some lollipop-ish sort of throwaways, like a bootleg green room recording of a true artist just flexing his chops before going on stage to give an otherwise unique virtuoso performance. But this ain’t it. More like a kind of musical “Where’s the BEEF!”

But I’m not a music critic, nor a musician, just a listener and vinyl collector off and on for over 60 years.

But thanks for the referral. I do try to keep up.