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November 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Fall In The Sea/Eventually
I make sandcastles still, even now. The tide takes them out, straight away. I can see it coming as I’m building. I tell my son not to rush when he tells me he wants to be older; he should build a sandcastle. He should take a stick and draw a long driveway, he should search […]Archive
December 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Have You Ever Been Experienced?
Some 20 years ago I got a friend to drive me out towards Porirua to rehearse for a Jimi Hendrix tribute act. My car had been stolen, my drums too (they were in the car). The local guy we hired our PA from let me rent a kit for the weekend for $20. Amazing eh? […]Archive
December 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: On Mondays After Swimming We Drown In Jimi Hendrix
We listen to Jimi Hendrix in the car these days – the way we have with The Beatles, the Beasties and Queen. He’s in awe of Jimi Hendrix and I am too. When I was 13 I felt the world open up around me as I first heard Jimi chopping down tunes with the edge […]Archive
November 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui
Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui Sony Legacy So the story goes, that ratfink manager (Michael Jeffery) managed to score a couple of million for Hendrix to play in Hawaii and for a doco to be made – the manager made off with half of it and left a mild catastrophe to unfold. The film […]Archive
September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better
The first thing I heard by Jimi Hendrix was Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). And then the smelling salts. When I was back on two legs, I remember asking my dad if he knew anything about this guy that sounded like nothing else I’d heard. He laughed and reeled off the names of a few of […]Archive
May 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Rocks Off
He had seen The Rolling Stones one hundred and one times, ask again in two weeks and that number’s gonna be 111! Ten more shows, as he follows them across the UK. He couldn’t pick a favourite, but the time they played in New Zealand and shortly after and off his tree – Keef fell […]Archive
February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums
A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]Archive
July 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield: Hudson
DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield Hudson Motema Music, LLC As far as modern-day jazz supergroups go – this one is pretty, pretty good: master drummer (occasional pianist and also – here – cameo vocalist) Jack DeJohnette is joined by supple, subtle bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman), John Medeski (Medeski Martin & […]Archive
December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Music Biopics Usually Get It Wrong: The Problem Is Taking The Page To The Stage
The music biopic has a tough job I guess – it has to satiate the fan, someone who might know it all or be pretty sure they do. It has to also introduce people to the music, it has to explain why there is a narrative fictional film about this person – or at least […]Archive
August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 651
Tuck & Patti, Love Warriors (1989) Husband and wife duo Tuck & Patti were new to me when I heard this gorgeous sound – the voice was fine, lovely, really good but what really sold me was the guitar playing, it was a cover – I spotted it, though I’d never quite heard it played […]Archive
August 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman