Yesterday I stumbled across this marvelous mockumentary which I hadn’t seen before (strangely enough). The film was directed by Monty Python’s Eric Idle and Gary Weis and was broadcasted on English telly in 1978. It is starring Eric Idle, Mick Jagger, Eric Idle, George Harrison, Ron Wood, John Belushi, Bianca Jagger, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey and the fabulous Neil Innes who also wrote 19 songs for the film. It must have been a great inspiration for Spinal Tap. Enjoy the satire that follows the musical career of The Rutles, whose resemblance to The Beatles was purely and entirely intentional.
This is such a great project, i just have to post this.
From now until October this year you can get access to the late great John Peel’s record collection.
During his life and career as the best known radio DJ in the world he collected about 26.000 vinyl albums, 40.000 singles and uncountable CD’s. The man himself called the collection the ‘Peel Acres’.
His wife is doing the project in collaboration with the Arts Council England and the BBC.
They just started with the letter ‘A’ and feature the quite obscure artist Mike Absalom.
So if you have some time just click on the picture above.
We are the happiest people because we are back in our favourite studio at RadioTransmissionMusic to record our second album. It’s going to be great. We have loads of new material and they are great songs for sure.
Ed East and Andy Tex Jones are going to produce the whole thing with us and we can’t wait to get everything tracked to give it out to you.
Much Love,
Man, this must have been a great late summer’s day in California.
Hanging out with a bunch of hippies and seeing CSN & Y playing an electrifying set at the pool.
Here is this great version of Neil Young’s ‘Down by the river’.
From now on we will start posting more stuff regularly that fills up our days and lightens our nights.This might be music, videos, playlists and other stuff. At the moment I’m in a Bowie mood so here we go with one of his master pieces in a hilarious TV performance.
Enjoy.
Much Love,
Juri.
Our thoughts are with Levon Helm whom many considered to be ‘the’ true voice of America. As we can read on his website he is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. In his great career as the drummer and singer of The Band he wrote and recorded such great songs as ‘The Weight’, ‘The night they drove old Dixie down’ just to name two.
We can feel through his music what a great man he is.
Much love to you Levon.
I am proud to present to you Ed East’s Band ‘Beasts’ that I am also playing in. Ed had also produced our record and he has just finished his own recordings for an album.
We have done some great recordings you should check out and like it on FB.
Juri.
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