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Growing up with rock and pop in the late 60‘s and early 70‘s I was completely taken be surprise when I first heard the album Blues from Laurel Canyon from John Mayall. The base lines, accords and even most of the rhythms of the tunes on that album were basically the foundations on which all […]

Hi everybody, for those who have been following my alterations to the podcast site may have noticed that I have been tinkering around with the data base and the lists of titles for the paulcasts. I had thought that my list was pretty cool until I looked at my spread-sheet list and made a pivot

Hi everybody, now I have gone and done the dirty!! For more than one reason I was getting a little nervous that my podcast site was open to the internet without any entrance restrictions so, after long deliberations with myself and even longer messing around with coding the site, I have put up a restricted

The founder, lead singer and organist of the band Iron Butterfly, Doug Ingle passed away last Friday at the of 78. One of the few records I have that only come out on very special occasions is my very dated and crackly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, released in 1968. It is one of those records

You may not have heard much about him in the news or in the charts but David Sandborn is one of those musicians whose work in the background of the music industry has influenced trends and sounds over decades. Mostly remembered for his soft jazz albums of the 80’s and 90’s his influence goes a

Among all the self-infatuated stars of the early 70’s, Steve Harley stood out at overrating himself and demeaning others. Even before he ever launched a single record on the discerning public he prophesied that he and his band, Cockney Rebel, would push Davie Bowie, Marc Bolan and all the other shining stars of the day

Sad news for all of the Woodstock generation and all who love the music of the time, Melanie Safka, better known as just Melanie, passed away on Tuesday, 23rd January in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 76. I still remember Ower’s tattered copy of The Four Sides Of Melanie back in the days at

Hi everybody, after a long delay all services are now back up and running. In effect, there should seem to be no change as all updates were for the Virtual Environment and the security setup. The updates for the apps themselves are normal updates and the apps themselves have not changed so mostly they look

Hi everybody. The feedback on the current Misfits has been so overwhelming that I have done overtime and patched the third edition together and have just published it on my podcast site. Once again, it is a mix of tunes that have been gathering dust on my hard disk and tunes that I have published

With the fantastic success of my Misfits Number One screaming out for a follow-up, the absolutely fantastic and groundbreaking sequel, Misfits Number Two, has just been released and posted on the world famous podcast site. Although suffering from chronic hubris flanked on the left by chronic bronchitis and on the right by chronic laziness, lack