Laughing Dog: Hello Jan and welcome to MFTM. How are you and where are you?
Jan: Hello thank you, I’m on the beach of Life in Almuñecar.

Laughing Dog: I have to say I really enjoyed your new CD Mas Duro Que Jimi Hendrix with Caremelito Fuxia – could you tell me something about it?
Jan: Well it’s normal that you like it it’s great music

Laughing Dog: Where did you make it?
Jan: At home in Barcelona in my studio with old equipment, a Pearl drum kit from the Seventies, amplifiers from the Seventies, cables from the Seventies, pedals from the Seventies, and of course microphones from the Seventies. Although we are not so old, most of us were born in the Seventies so we are also from that era.

Laughing Dog: The guitar work is amazing can you tell me where you get your inspiration?
Jan: Well from meditation chillums and sex.

Laughing Dog: Could you tell us something about your other groups?
Jan: Well I’ve been in a few bands but these are the highlights:

Urban Trapeze a progressive rock band – really good with a style like Camel, Caravan and King Crimson. The drummer we had left because he lives in Colombia so now the band sound a little different but it’s still great music.

Mariachis Fumetas from Andalucia in Almuñecar. With the Mariachis Fumetas we just like to enjoy making good music.

The Gerreros Superconcientes (Superconcious Warriors) Jan Satorras and the Gerreros Superconcientes – the next CD will be with this title and I’ve teamed up with the original drummer from Urban Trapeze Juan Camilo Anzola and the basist from Mariachis Fumetas Mario Pino so with this new CD we have brought together three musicians from great groups to make one amazing group.

There will also be singing and other instruments added but you will hear it shortly hopefully I will have it finished by the end of the summer or by the end of the year at the latest. It will be an amazing album recommended to everyone and for all audiences.

Laughing Dog: Sounds great – who or what inspired you to become a musician and why?
Jan: That would have to be my mother, because when we where children she was always playing music like Pink Floyd and others to get us to sleep, there was always music at home and great music and that was when I decided that yes this is what I wanted to do play music

Laughing Dog: Tell me what do you love most about music?
Jan: Playing it.

Laughing Dog: What are some of your passions outside music?
Jan: It’s great to do nothing sometimes, I also like working and selling on my market stall, sitting on the toilet that’s very important most of my best tracks I have composed sitting on the toilet . A lot of great musicians compose music sitting on the toilet but they never admit it.

Laughing Dog: Tell me what is the hardest thing about being a musician?
Jan: Making money with music is the hardest.

Laughing Dog: What do you love most about being a musician?
Jan: Well, playing music.

Laughing Dog: What is the strangest thing to happen to you on stage?
Jan: Strange, well I don’t know if its strange but most women when they see me playing guitar get really excited and want to have sex with me, the strangest thing is that some of the men do too!

Laughing Dog: Are you going to be doing any gigs in the near future?
Jan: At the moment I haven’t got any gigs planned because I am in Andalucia and I have the band a bit disorganized as they are spread out around Spain. But there may be some around the beginning of next year. At the moment I’m concentrating on the recording and mixing of the new album, once that is finished yes we will be doing concerts and possibly in the UK as well I have a very good manager in England and I have another great manager here in Spain, so between the two of them they’re going to make me famous and of course all our friend will be famous as well and that way we can help each other , that’s the idea anyway.

Laughing Dog: Well Jan, thank you for answering my questions, enjoy the beach and keep playing great music .

Ahead of the release of his new album, Band of Joy, Robert Plant talks to Andy Gill about the move from fronting the biggest band in the world to his success in exploring a diverse range of styles, from vocal harmony and country to North African and Arabic.

Read the article here

However, I must be honest with you and say that in the two videos below he looks like someones Dad doing his best to wreck a classic song at a Xmas Karaoke

Now I know it’s Youtube so it was probably shot on a mobile phone or small video camera – but to me it just looks, sounds and feels so horribly wrong.

What do you think?

My favourite thing about this website is the new music that I have had the pleasure of passing onto you and of course receiving from you as well.

With this in mind, I would like to introduce to you a new category “Music For Music Lovers” - a place where you can put your music mixes for all to share and a place where you can download and enjoy the very best in music.

Here’s what I hope will happen:
The Music mix will remain the same 20 tracks from me.
The Guest Mix will remain the same 20 tracks from you
The mixes in Music For Music Lovers will be maximum 12 tracks
Please provide some words a simple introduction will do – if you want to write notes for each track please do
We need a name for the mix – (e.g.) Sweet Soul Music 70’s style or Ripe but not ripe enough Vol. 1 (coming soon)
Artwork – we will need an album cover (maybe LZ will help with this)

I will email all the usual contributors with more details soon – if you wish to put a mix here please let me know

Any questions? No…..then lets here some more great music

Image by musicmovies.org.

I was recently having dinner with my good lady and we spent an enjoyable, burgundy-fuelled hour or so discussing who (dead or alive) would be in our ultimate band. The results were as follows:

Her -

Vocals/ frontman: Kelly Jones 

Guitar: Jimi Hendrix

Bass: Flea

Keyboards: Matt Bellamy

Drums: Keith Moon

Me -

Vocals/ frontman: Freddie Mercury

Guitar: David Gilmour

Bass: Jack Bruce

Keyboards: Steve Winwood

Drums: Jon Bonham

So….. who would your ’supergroup’ be?

Eric Johnson “Cliffs of Dover”. Live at the Bottomline, NY, 1990.
Cliffs of Dover appeared on Johnson’s 1990 “Ah Via Musicom” album. It was voted number 17 in Guitar World magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos and won a Grammy award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in1991.

This is a song which I got to know through playing Guitar Hero with my sprogs. My nephew, Wezside, sort-of adopted it as his favourite Guitar Hero track (well, that and “Freebird”).

The version on this video is FAR longer than on Guitar Hero, which is just as well. My fingers would cramp on Beginner Level in the game, on 10+ minutes. Where do these guys get the stamina, let alone the dexterity ?

Richie Hayward, drummer with Little Feat, has sadly died.

Good obituary in The Guardian
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Rush – Moving Pictures and the track is Limelight

Modest Mouse – This Is a Long Drive and the track is She Ionizes & Atomizes

Roots Manuva – Brand New Second Hand and the track is Baptism

Is it the album, the band/artist, the song, the producer? What is the link?

No prize just a bit of fun to test your musical knowledge

URD highlights the following from Floyd (Southampton Dock) as one of his favs
“… but now
she stands upon Southampton dock
with her handkerchief
and her summer frock clings
to her wet body in the rain …”

The reason – Any political and contextual allusions aside, I find the imagery incredibly poignant, romantic (as in emotional and sentimental), melancholic, yada yada yada. Maybe it has something to do with being able to relate to the many, MANY, times that the Aunty (Mrs URD) had to watch me sail off into the sunset, or wait for my ship to come alongside (often, yes, in the cold and wet).

Me – I like songs to tell stories, to paint pictures or to use words that simply jump out the speakers – like Nick Cave does with “Into My Arms”. Just love the way he has used some quite unusual words and phrases to demonstrate his feelings.

I don’t believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

So…what lyrics do it for you, and why

Singer/songwriter Bobby Hebb died on 3 August 2010 aged 72.

RIP Mr Hebb. I still don’t understand why you were not a huge star.

21 July 2010
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