Morning Campers!
Imagine the scene . . .you've been invited to a party. You hand over your coat to your hosts and they also offer to get you a drink. What do you do to keep yourself occupied while you wait?
If this was yours truly, I'd be having a nose at their CD collection. Back in the day it'd be their record collection - remember them? Nowadays, we all download tracks or albums from Itunes.
I don't know about you, but checking out someone's CD collection is a great way of learning about someone. Noticing someone has an album that you have is a great way of learning more about someone, enhancing your appreciaion of them or maybe re-evaluating your relationship with him or her!
I bring this up because none other than Jon Bon Jovi has lamented the demise of the CD and the record thanks to the rise and rise of the download and the Ipod courtesy of Steve Jobs, your man at Apple.
Jon Bon Jovi reckons that generations will miss out on the excitement of the purchase of the album from the store and the feeling of being alive with nervous anticipation as you put the album on, listen to it with your headphones on turning the sound right upto almost Spinal Tap like levels to truly appreciate the new CD from that particular band or singer.
Now, modern technology is wonderful. Let's face it I would not have met my wife if it wasn't for the miracles of the aforementioned modern technology! However, there's something comforting about buying a CD and looking at the album cover, reading the lyrics of the CD and listening to that album. To me, the download, although wonderful, is cold and clinical. Just click and it's done.
I suppose we'll all get used to it eventually. We got used to saying "2011" after "19. . ." and I suppose we'll get used to this. I'm beginning to feel a tad middle aged at the moment because the beyond meteoric rise of tablet computers has left me thinking "wow . . " and leaving me a tad bemused!
I remember the excitement of buying singles from Martins The Newsagents in the Shopping Precinct back home in West Heath, Congleton back in the 1970's and 1980's. 69p they cost! Then as I got older I graduated to albums - that's after embracing the joys of 12" singles! Now, here's one final thought. We've just put our whole CD collection onto the computer. It was a bloody big job believe you me! It dawned on us that we'll never buy a CD again . . . how strange is that?
Eddie
'The Nightclub Featuring The Late English Breakfast" video memory.
As this blog celebrates our show, which is now two years off-air ( hard to imagine I think ) I thought it only appropriate to feature a video of a song that celebrated our show, which featured the best of our non-British and British collection of songs. We featured classic tracks, new artists that caught our imagination. Every once in a while we'd play a fun British comedy tune.
To start this feature, the British selection is a British punk classic from 1978. It's a song of lost love . . . "Jilted John" by Jilted John. It's a song that got to #4 in August 1978.
It is a video from Top of The Pops from 1978. Hmmm . . . Top of The Pops . . . an idea for a feature has just occurred to me for a future blog!
The non-British selection is something from our catch phrase . . . "We play everything from Sinatra to The Stones" - Frank himself! Here he is singing "That's Life" a classy piece of music.
Adios amigos
Eddie
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