Get The Blessing - Low Earth Orbit

[Chris P]

http://youtu.be/GWXvp0ywSss

hard rocking jazz with a Master Builder of a glorious OM riff

[NormanD]

Excellent, thanks Chris, I really enjoyed this. What's an OM riff?

[Adam Blake]

Gong! I hear the Gong! (they should at least credit Didier Malherbe, the hipper than thou fuckpigs)

[Chris P]

an OM riff for Norman:
http://youtu.be/o2h95lX7kJc

(It's Hillage's name for Gong's Master Builder bass riff)

[Adam Blake]

Oh God, what did you have to do that for? Takes me straight back to a field in the middle of nowhere watching the Ozric Tentacles attempt to play that in 4-4 time.

[tulsehill charlie]

Drummer's ok but he's not Seb. Makes me miss Acoustic Ladyland all the more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFrDkzK1fMU
I think it's amazing that this was on Jools Holland's show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbxPehD ... re=related

[Chris P]

Funny you should say that Charlie, Clive Deamer's (Portishead) drumming is one of the things I really like about this. Seb sounds dangerously close to an over-player in the extreme skill Bruford/Vander mould, but I know I must be wrong about this, as my reliable drummer friend says he's a genius and an inspiration.

[tulsehill charlie]

Your friend is right, Chris, Seb R is far from an overplayer. He's very economical, effortlessly elegant, with a great drive, and he uses a small kit. Far from the Bruford mode. Don't be put off, and seize any opportunity to see him live.

[Chris P]

seize any opportunity to see him live.

Will do!

[Rob Hall]

That Get The Blessing clip was OK, but I'm afraid that the Acoustic Ladyland clips don't do anything for me, except make me want to listen to something from 'Turn It Over'. This will do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzDDO0G9YU

Edit: Here's another from the same album - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-XEV3i ... re=related

There's been so much posted here recently harking back to stuff we listened to in our teenage years; this album played a big part in mine.

[Chris P]

Saw Get The Blessing a couple of months ago. Drummer Clive Deamer wasn't available (Radiohead have put a price on his head & head hunted him), so the very highly liked & rated Dylan Howe was the drummer - for some reason he just didn't work with them for me, and we left a few numbers before the end.
BUT, Bristol's bestest drummer Daisy Palmer is now balancing on the drum stool, and that suits them a lot better. Try this clip and listen to the drumming from 2:42 onwards - just lovely:
http://youtu.be/US1sA1Rj08M
or this for a more punk jazzy feel:
http://youtu.be/m61JpgftkFM

btw tulsehill Charlie - as recommended by you, and as I said I would, I've now been to hear Seb Rochford play live (in a duo with Kit Downes), and he was......just great - very imaginative & individual player. (I also note he plays the drums all over, yet subtly, Fatoumata Diawarra's album from last year - a good 'un)

and as a bonus here's Daisy Palmer slapping Pete Judge (trumpet):
http://youtu.be/NsB8I-2gDkQ