More good ones guys!
Colosseum 1969 - aaah, the days of vinyl and the 40 minute album!
Dave Greenslade and Dick Heckstall-Smith with very fine work on the title track in particular.
Nice fusion music anyway.
Bakerloo is a new one for me. I see they didn't stick around for long but plenty of moves on to later well established groups by the group members.
Liked the interesting adaptation of JS Bach which showed they were much more than the "heavy blues rock" label that I saw applied to them online.
I was finding in general that the slower more reflective parts of the album were more interesting and impressive.
A shout out too for the "Bring it on Home" cover of the song by the highly influential Willie Dixon.
Love that Henk Poort track Hans.
For someone with musical theatre background who had no experience of singing with any distortion to manage this version so well after a few hours of distortion training is mind boggling. His control over the gradual build of the song is also very impressive.
Nice to see Floor fan-girling her idol Henk in this one. The finish to the song was so beautifully judged too.
That series of Beste Zangers was wonderful viewing, and left me seething that nothing of that quality is allowed on UK TV, where everything has to be competition, judges and ritual humiliation. Our sick little society where humiliation and winning is all that matters.
A favourite of mine from that Beste Zangers series was a duet of Henk and Emma Heesters singing "Vivo Per Lei".
Henk giving Emma all the space she needed to shine, and encouraging her along during the performance.
She showed herself to be far more than just a YouTube cover songs artist.
A performance full of emotion and the language(s) of the lyrics doesn't matter. Very moving and uplifting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OumZnDaQINo
Nearly 10 million views now I see - there's a few of those are mine.