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Post by Andy P on May 1, 2021 18:44:42 GMT
I enjoyed it, some great snapshots of those glorious days of the Establishment being shaken to its core, the likes of which will never be seen again. Unlike andyhowell I came away believing that RT is an even more complex character than I imagined! As well as the Patrick Humphries book, there is this.
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Post by ocarolan on May 1, 2021 21:34:59 GMT
Andy P - The link doesn't work for me, Andy - do you mean Fairport by Fairport (Nigel Schofield)? Brilliant book, though out of print at the moment I believe.
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Post by Andy P on May 2, 2021 15:25:09 GMT
Andy P - The link doesn't work for me, Andy - do you mean Fairport by Fairport (Nigel Schofield)? Brilliant book, though out of print at the moment I believe. Sorry about the link, I double-checked my methodology and it was correct! The other book is "What We Did Instead Of Holidays: A History Of Fairport Convention And Its Extended Folk-Rock Family" by Clinton Heylin, published in 2019. I didn't know about it before yesterday. I've ordered it. Going back to RT's book, I found plenty of interesting insights and anecdotes but when I finished it I felt like I do after a medium-sized pizza: very enjoyable but I wanted more!
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Post by ocarolan on May 2, 2021 23:05:54 GMT
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Post by andyhowell on May 3, 2021 8:27:29 GMT
Andy P - The link doesn't work for me, Andy - do you mean Fairport by Fairport (Nigel Schofield)? Brilliant book, though out of print at the moment I believe. I probably did.
Andy P, I think RT has become more and more complex — much of this seems to have happened after this book though!
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Post by Welshruss on May 4, 2021 8:54:10 GMT
I read the book over the weekend and I would have like more too! I!ve ordered the Fairport book second hand off eBay, I think it’s out of print. Until it comes I have the latest novel by Willy Vlautin or Richmond Fontaine to read.
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Post by andyhowell on May 4, 2021 15:30:41 GMT
I read the book over the weekend and I would have like more too! I!ve ordered the Fairport book second hand off eBay, I think it’s out of print. Until it comes I have the latest novel by Willy Vlautin or Richmond Fontaine to read. Combine the Fairport book with the last book on Sandy Denny and you more or less have the Fairport story.
As for RT, he seems to have developed so much as an artist and a person since the end of the book. But, as I think I mentioned before, there isa long marriage and then divorse to consider and things may just be too raw!
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Post by Andy P on May 4, 2021 16:16:37 GMT
Is the other book "Fairport Convention: The Official 35th Birthday History" by Neil Wayne and Nigel Schofield?
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Post by andyhowell on May 5, 2021 8:00:53 GMT
Is the other book "Fairport Convention: The Official 35th Birthday History" by Neil Wayne and Nigel Schofield? I think it might be but I can't find my copy!
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Post by scorpiodog on May 6, 2021 10:06:32 GMT
Well look what turned up in my Youtube feed this morning. I really like this interview. He enhances what he says in the book, but without repeating it. It's also quite funny in parts.
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Post by andyhowell on May 10, 2021 7:01:47 GMT
Well look what turned up in my Youtube feed this morning. I really like this interview. He enhances what he says in the book, but without repeating it. It's also quite funny in parts. I really enjoyed that. It was funny in parts and the best stories here are not really in the book!
Nice to see he has foudn a way back into the UK. Hope to be watching him this summer!
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Post by walkingdecay on May 19, 2021 8:38:34 GMT
1) He acknowledges that Pentangle was playing trad arrangements in a modern style, and yet he asserts that Fairport were breaking new ground in Folk Rock. I think Pentangle were the groundbreakers here, and not Fairport, although Fairport's use of the rock idiom was more "Rocky". Thoughts? 2) Why does RT sing like that if he's a Londoner? He sings like a Geordie to my ears. I honestly thought he was one. 1. English and American folk songs were already being rocked-up in the skiffle era and folk rock as such already had a long - in rock 'n' roll terms - history in America, such that Dylan was already playing catch-up when he went electric, so were any of them really breaking new ground? The jazzy spin put on folk chestnuts by Davey Graham and Pentangle was decades late, as folk songs, madrigals, chanson and so on were common fodder for experimental musicians across the world. 2. He was trying to sing like a 'folk singer,' I suspect. To sing folk you had to sound Scottish, Irish, West Country (see also Rambling Sid Rumpo) or have lungs groaning with the burden of northern soot. He was probably going for the latter. One of the many things I like about Ashley Hutchings, incidentally, is that he's eschewed that assumed 'folkiness' in favour of sounding like what he is, like a middle class bloke from Muswell Hill.
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Post by andyhowell on May 20, 2021 12:55:57 GMT
There are times when RT's imagined Irish accent come out! Have guilty of that myself over the years.
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