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Guy
| | Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 05:49 pm: | |
Well wanted to start a thread re the appeal of the GBS in general and how there music has impacted life or been a sound track to it in many ways. So here is the first offering. Starts with cold wet morning with a borrowed walkman heading to a building site in fleet street , London, working on a building site -back breaking work that made the days go on forever and it rained constantly for two months in mud , concrete and dust and the soundtrack to all this was Liberty Belle. Spring Rain seemed like a cosmic joke at the time due to the predicament I was in day after day but the rest of the album came back like a balm during breaks from the work . So thats what my first GBS album was. A tape copy borrowed from a flat mate who I am greatful to for introducing me to the band. I have been a loyal follower every since -more a case of Robert, Grant and I -well it might make a song one day :-) Tallulah sound tracked romance and its end perfectly and 16 LL went the way of a soundtrack to my own personel film that ended with me being married and in love etc The first three albums where discovered later when I could catch my breath a bit and make sense now in the form of things still in ferment both musically and line up wise for the band. The two from the lastest phase are now firm favourites with a pair of twin daughters that think the GBSare a "cool" band to use their phrase and I am happy to agree with them for that is an often used phrase but it applies. I think it was John Lennon who said great music artists should be recognised for their catalogue, their complete picture rather than a fragment, a one off and I believe this in relation to the go betweens . They are a great band -not too deep purple not too bob dylan but the just the right amount of the "wild mercury sound" for these ears, heart , brain ,and feet to make sense of. |
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