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March 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Hal Blaine
Hal Blaine has died. The session drumming legend was 90. What a life. What a legacy. If he wasn’t the most prolific sessioneer skinsman he was certainly the most successful of the busy-schedule players. A part of one of the greatest groups of all time – The Wrecking Crew (not a band as such, a collective […]Archive
May 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Monkees: Good Times!
The Monkees Good Times! Rhino Records Perhaps no one expected that a new album by The Monkees in 2016 would get rave reviews, but Good Times! is deserving of a great gush. For a start it’s fun (with an exclamation mark to remind us – though it almost evokes that famous question-mark from those hippie-times, […]Archive
January 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 759
Fats Waller, Piano Solos 1929-1941, Vol. 2 (1982) Recently I watched – for the first time – the movie Stormy Weather. Genius. I had seen some of the sequences, but amazing to watch it all the way through and think back to that time…I love the music of the 40s, and some of the music […]Archive
February 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Diamond: Melody Road
Neil Diamond Melody Road Capitol Here’s the new album by Neil Diamond, his first for Capitol and it’s either his 32nd studio album or his 400th or somewhere – anywhere – in between, like it matters… It’s hard to fault it really, but harder, still, to give any sort of actual shit about it. It’s […]Archive
November 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Diamond: NZ Tour (October, 2015)
Neil Diamond returns to New Zealand in October 2015 with one North Island show and one South Island show as part of his 2015 World Tour. Kicking off in Auckland at Vector Arena on Monday October 19, 2015, the tour will travel to Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday October 24, 2015 for Labour Weekend. The 2015 tour […]Archive
October 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 10 – Neil Diamond, Auckland, 1996
We were in Auckland – the whole family – for my brother’s graduation. I was at uni in Wellington and had flagged seeing Santana on the Thursday night on the promise I’d get to go to them on Friday in Auckland. I drove up from Wellington to Hawke’s Bay on Thursday. And then straight in […]Archive
October 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1007
Neil Diamond, Diamonds (1974) Every record collection should have at least one Neil Diamond hits compilation – mine has at least two. This being the latest – and though this sounds like I’m trying to run, I didn’t choose this, I inherited it. I would say I probably didn’t need this double comp, but then […]Archive
June 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1095
Neil Diamond, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (1978) I went and saw that Neil Diamond guy live one time. It was in Auckland. Mid-90s. We were up there to celebrate my brother’s graduation from one of his degrees. I had started uni – but wasn’t in any hurry, at that point, to finish. We went […]Archive
December 20, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1218
Neil Diamond, Rainbow (1973) The world is filled with Neil Diamond records – don’t believe me? Go to any second-hand bookshop, record-store, Salvation Army shop, etc. Even the bookshops that don’t have records, as such, will have a single box of records and it will have Neil Diamond LPs in it. I bought this one […]Archive
April 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1383
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (1976) I can’t remember when I first heard this album – I was already a convert, sold on Damn The Torpedoes and that live album, Pack Up The Plantation. And then everything on from there. So I arrived back at this debut some time after, […]Archive
March 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman