3rd Virtual Headbang - 8th July, 2020 - Votes etc

Despite what I reported in my earlier post, most of us did manage to watch and listen to some interesting music on Wednesday night. Here's the story of the music played:

GENARIANS

Septuagenarians first - a segue of extracts of the following was played:

Tom Robinson	War baby
Suzi Quatro	Devil gate drive
Barbara Gaskin	It's my party
Ann Wilson	Barracuda
Michael Monarch	Born to be wild

Others who had reached the age of 70 since our last gathering were:

Deniece Williams	"Free"
Joey Kramer	Aerosmith drummer
John Paul Young	Singer - "Love is in the air"
Huey Lewis	& the News

Next were the Octogenarians:

Tom Jones	Long time gone
Nancy Sinatra	Bang bang
Ringo Starr	Boys

In the first track, Tom Jones was, rather bizarrely, backed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on this David Crosby tune.

Only one other 80 year old - session bass player Chuck Rainey.

OBITUARIES

Just 3 tracks played:

Steve Priest	Sweet bass	Tribute
Keith Tippett	Jazz pianist/King Crimson/married to Julie Driscoll	Cat Food
Ennio Morricone	Composer - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly etc	Advert

Others who passed recently:

Ricky Valance	"Tell Laura I Love Her"
Maragarita Pracatan	Cuban singer - Clive James show
Jeanie Lambe	Glaswegian Jazz singer (George Chisholm)
Johnny Mandel	Composer - M.A.S.H. etc.

NOTABLE ABSENTEES (5)

Just 4 tracks:

Chicken Shack	See see baby
Streetwalkers	Run for cover
John Cooper Clarke	I don't want to be nice
Tenpole Tudor	Swords of 1,000 men

CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS

Three segues were played, each containing 3 extracts of music that was either "inspired by", plagiarised or simply rock versions of classical pieces. First up was:

Procul Harum	A whiter shade of pale
Move	Night of fear
Love Sculpture	Sabre dance

Respectively, the Classical Connections were:

J.S. Bach	Air on a G String
Tchaikovsky	1812 Overture
Aram Khachaturian	Gayane (ballet)

Next were a band who some of us remember playing at the Burns Howff pub in Glasgow back in the late '60's/early '70's - BEGGAR'S OPERA. Their 9 minute opus, Raymond's Road is well worth a listen on You Tube, but I extracted the following 3 pieces to play:

Bach	Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Rossini	William Tell Overture
Grieg	In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite)

The last segue was:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Joybringer
ELP	Fanfare for the common man
Sting	Russians

In turn, each came from:

Gustav Holst	Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (Part IV of the Planets Suite)
Aaron Copland	Fanfare for the common man
Sergei Prokofiev	Romance theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite

The Headbangers performed well identifying the sources of all the tracks.

AMERICANA (2)

Six tracks and voting for our first and second choices produced the following results:

1=	Band	The Weight
1=	Ry Cooder	Dark end of the street
3	Gillian Welch	The way it goes
4	Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder & Van Dyke Parks	Do re mi
5	Emmylou Harris	C'est la vie
6	Whiskeytown	Houses on the hill

BEST OF THE BEST (3)

The winners of the Headbangers' votes for the best track of the evening at each of our 10 gatherings from December, 2016 to November, 2019 were played and everyone voted for their top 3 tracks from this selection, producing the following results:

1	Dire Straits	Sultans of swing
2	Faces	Losing You
3	Ike & Tina Turner	Proud Mary
4	Lynryd Skynryd	Freebird
5	Ian Dury	Sex and drugs and rock and roll
6	Nirvana	Lithium
7	Fleetwood Mac	Black Magic Woman
8	Status Quo	Paper Plane
9	Moody Blues	Question
10	Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley

ISLE OF WIGHT (2)

For our last theme of the evening, we played 6 of the best tracks from this millennium's festivals and had a quick vote for the best performances:

1	REM	Losing my religion
2=	Muse	Starlight
2=	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	Learning to fly
4	David Bowie	All the young dudes
5=	Sex Pistols	Pretty vacant
5=	Blur	Parklife

The team photo was taken midway when all 10 of us were present: