Why I love youtube

[Gob]

Just thought I'd look up some old faves..












and there they all were, some in versions better than the originals...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Fixed that for ya!

[rubato]

Bert Jansch;

Pretty song. Plays good except when he doesn't, which happens with some regularity.

John and Paco;

Sound great. You like this sort of thing or you don't. I always have.

Roy Harper;

Plays good, sings flat. No, just sings well off-key. A lot. Someone should say something to him.

Cream:

Why bother? Jack Bruce can barely get a line out without running out of breath and the music does not deserve this much repetition. They made a stink-load of money selling the records from this gig, apparently. Well good for them. They'll need a pile for respiratory therapy.

yrs,
rubato

[Sean]

Excellent! Yet another subject you are an expert in. I'm eager to hear your amazing insight.

Roy Harper;

Plays good, sings flat. No, just sings well off-key. A lot. Someone should say something to him.

Or maybe not...

[Gob]

Roy Harper does not sing flat, or "well off key", unless you have a tin ear that is.

Pink Floyd thought Harper a good vocalist, they enlisted him to sing on "Wish you were here."

Led Zeppelin dedicated a song to him on their third album.

Work of Heart was awarded The Sunday Times Album of the Year in 1982.

Harper was awarded the MOJO Hero Award by the staff of Mojo magazine on 16 June 2005

Jimmy Page released an album, and toured it, with him

Kate Bush did a duet with him.

David Bedford has released orchestral versions of his works.

David Gilmor has recorded and played on Harper's tracks.

Fleet Foxes and Californian harpist Joanna Newsom have stated that Harper's album "Stormcock" (one of my favourites,) is a major influence on them.

His girlfriend once, accidentally, stuck her thumb in my eye in the pub, Roy dedicated "me and my woman," (one of my favourite tracks of his,) to me that night.



Discography
Studio albums

1966 – Sophisticated Beggar
1967 – Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith
1969 – Folkjokeopus
1970 – Flat Baroque and Berserk
1971 – Stormcock
1973 – Lifemask
1974 – Valentine
1975 – HQ (US title: When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease)
1977 – Bullinamingvase (US title: One of Those Days in England)
1980 – The Unknown Soldier
1982 – Work of Heart
1984 – Born in Captivity
1985 – Whatever Happened to Jugula? (with Jimmy Page)
1988 – Descendants of Smith
1988 – Loony on the Bus
1990 – Once
1992 – Death or Glory?
1994 – Commercial Breaks (previously unreleased album from 1977; 9 of its 12 tracks are available on Loony on the Bus)
1994 – Garden of Uranium (reissue of Descendants of Smith)
1997 – Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles (A collection of spoken tracks with occasional instrumentation)
1998 – The Dream Society
2000 – The Green Man

Live albums

1974 – Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion
1984 – Live at the Red Lion, Birmingham (Volume I & II Limited edition cassette)
1985 – Live at the Red Lion, Birmingham (Volume III Limited edition cassette)
1986 – In Between Every Line
1992 – Born in Captivity II (Limited edition cassette)
1993 – Unhinged (Edited version of Born in Captivity II)
1996 – Live At Les Cousins
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume II (In Concert 1974)
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume IV (In Concert 1975)
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume VI (In Concert 1978 with Andy Roberts)
2001 – Royal Festival Hall Live – June 10th 2001

Compilations

1978 – Harper 1970–1975
1994 – An Introduction to .....
1997 – Song of the Ages (3-CD collection of Roy Harper interviews)
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume I (1969–1973)
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume III (BBC Sessions 1974)
1997 – The BBC Tapes – Volume V (BBC Sessions 1975 - 1978)
2001 – Hats Off (compilation of collaborative tracks)
2001 – East of the Sun (compilation of love songs)
2002 – Today Is Yesterday (compilation of demo, unreleased and rare material from 1964–1967)
2005 – Counter Culture (double disc compilation)
2007 – From Occident to Orient (compilation and initially, only released in Japan whilst Harper toured there)
2011 – Songs of Love and Loss (two volume compilation of love songs)

Reissues and remixes

1977 – The Early Years (reissue of Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith)
1994 – Garden of Uranium (reissue of Descendants of Smith)
1998 – Death or Glory? (tracks 1 & 9 remixed)

Collaborations

1970 – "St. Thomas" (guest lead vocal and lyrics for The Nice and appears on America - The BBC Sessions)
1971 – "Ravneferd" (co-written with Lillebjørn Nilsen and appears on the album Tilbake)
1975 – "Have a Cigar" (guest lead vocals for Pink Floyd)
1978 – "Short and Sweet" (co-written with David Gilmour and appears on The Unknown Soldier)
1995 – The Edges of Twilight (spoken word on hidden track for The Tea Party)
1995 – "Time" (guest lead vocals for The Tea Party's Alhambra multimedia CD)
1996 – "Hope" & "Bad Speech" on Anathema's album Eternity.

[Gob]

[Gob]

Another great thing about youtube, (apart from giving the retard another chance to demonstrate his ignorance,) is what you come across while looking for other things.

[Joe Guy]

A Roy Harper / Willie Nelson duet would be interesting.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'm jealous. "Stormcock" was one of my favourites too - along with Sophisticated, Flashes and Lifemask. And you got to see him up close and personal, even with only one eye working quite right. The only chance I had was this:



But it was a brilliant place and concert. (I mistakenly said "Weeley" which was in 1971 in my comment about Chapman and Terry Jones - they were booed off at Knebworth 1975)

Those were the days
Meade

[Econoline]

Another great thing about youtube [...] is what you come across while looking for other things.

Amen to that! I don't dare go there unless I have a lot of time I can afford to waste....

[rubato]

Excellent! Yet another subject you are an expert in. I'm eager to hear your amazing insight.

Roy Harper;

Plays good, sings flat. No, just sings well off-key. A lot. Someone should say something to him.

Or maybe not...

If you listened to that clip and could not tell that he was off-key most of the time then you are tone deaf.

God cursed you with deafness? sorry.





yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

I'm jealous. "Stormcock" was one of my favourites too - along with Sophisticated, Flashes and Lifemask. And you got to see him up close and personal, even with only one eye working quite right. The only chance I had was this:

Several times in fact. Having lived in the Westcountry for 20 years, where Roy lives and has his major fan base, I used to see him most years when he toured.

[rubato]

Roy Harper does not sing flat, or "well off key", unless you have a tin ear that is.
...

Ahhh right. So how are your ears? Really?

The last I heard you were partially deaf?



yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Ahhh right. So how are your ears? Really?

The last I heard you were partially deaf?

My ears aren't great, I have to wear hearing aids these days.

But I'm surprised our alleged "scientist" doesn't know the difference between deafness and tone deafness.

But there again, perhaps he thinks Beethoven's later works were written "way out of key," too.

[rubato]

Ahhh right. So how are your ears? Really?

The last I heard you were partially deaf?

My ears aren't great, I have to wear hearing aids these days.

But I'm surprised our alleged "scientist" doesn't know the difference between deafness and tone deafness.

But there again, perhaps he thinks Beethoven's later works were written "way out of key," too.

Someone familiar with "writing off-key" vs "playing off-key" would know why Beethoven did not "write off-key"

Just amazingly ignorant.

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rubato

[Gob]

There again, my point still stands unchallenged, deafness and tone deafness are two entirely different things..

[Lord Jim]

Another great thing about youtube [...] is what you come across while looking for other things.

Amen to that! I don't dare go there unless I have a lot of time I can afford to waste....

A double amen to that...

I was recently looking for something else and came across a whole bunch of Rowan Atkinson routines I'd never seen....

There went a couple of hours....

The old Dean Martin Friar's Club Roast bits and Johnny Carson clips alone can cause you to lose the better part of a day....

[Sean]

Excellent! Yet another subject you are an expert in. I'm eager to hear your amazing insight.

Roy Harper;

Plays good, sings flat. No, just sings well off-key. A lot. Someone should say something to him.

Or maybe not...

If you listened to that clip and could not tell that he was off-key most of the time then you are tone deaf.

God cursed you with deafness? sorry.





yrs,
rubato

Actually, I have a well-trained musical ear. I also have absolute pitch. Not only that, I am aware of the technique of singing slightly flat intentionally. It is a trick used throughout jazz/blues music. You, obviously, are unaware of this. My advice is to look up Ella Fitzgerald and 'blue note'. That's a good starting point.

No charge for the lesson.

[Joe Guy]

If you listened to that clip and could not tell that he was off-key most of the time then you are tone deaf.

God cursed you with deafness? sorry.

[dales]

rubato blues guitar solo (just for sh-ts and giggles).