Muso-bable
The thoughts and ocassional ramblings of a 30-something muso.
Hello, I’m a muso. I'm one of those guys you see digging around the racks of vinyl in London's backstreet record shops. I'm not addicted, I can give it up whenever I want. I just need to find that limited edition 7" single that the NME made single of the week. Maybe you've bumped into me in the queue for the bar at The Academy or The Astoria. There are thousands of us in London - I've seen all the regular faces in the record shops and at the gigs.

This blog is my attempt to write about the records that I love, the gigs I've been to and, well, anything else to do with music. Hopefully you'll find something here that makes you nod in agreement or rant in disagreement or maybe even laugh.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
 
Managed to see the last 20 minutes of last nights TV program on John Coltrane and was amazed to find out the following nuggets of music trivia:

1/ His masterpiece, A Love Supreme, is a prayer that 'Trane wrote after finally quitting heroin - each syllable of the prayer is spelt out with a note on the saxophone.

2/ Other smack addicts have apparently quit on the spot after hearing A Love Supreme. Maybe Pete Libertine should give it a go. Expect The Libs to venture into Jazz Odyssey if he does.

3/ He died from Liver Cancer rather than an LSD overdose as I had always been lead to believe.

All in all an interesting piece of TV – well done BBC.

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