Pinboard #15 (Thursday 12th January 2023)

The light was going when I took this and the flash caused too much glare, so this was handheld at a very slow shutter speed in my porch. These empty covers are all Paul Weller related, but from a period before his very successful solo career. The Style Council were his next band after The Jam, Bruce Foxton was the Jam's bass guitarist and Tracie was a protégée of Paul Weller's who also sang on Beat Surrender and toured with the Style Council as an unofficial member. Dee C Lee also sang and toured with the Style Council, having been a singer with Wham! She and Weller had a child together.

P.S. I retook this image in better light the following day to get a sharper image.

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Thursday 12.1.2023 (1745 hr)

Blip #3795 (#3545 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #005/265 + #001/100 Extras
Day #4674 (1138 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2936 (#2776 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DMC-LX100 M4/3 compact and close-up +1 filter

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Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Yardbirds - The train kept a-rollin' (recorded 12 September 1965, Sam Phillips' Studio, Memphis TN; vocals added at 21-22 September at Columbia Studios, New York)
Yardbirds: Keith Relf (vocal, harmonica), Jeff Beck (lead guitar), Chris Dreja (rhythm guitar), Paul Samwell-Smith (bass guitar, vocal), Jim McCarty (drums)
R.I.P. Jeff Beck (b. 24 June 1944, Wallington, Surrey - 10 January 2023, near Riverhall, East Sussex)
It is a mark of Jeff Beck's status that when Radio 4's Today programme ended by playing Beck's Bolero as a mark of tribute this morning, they didn't play just a 30 second extract, but the whole piece. Although he was still very active musically his hit singles period was mostly during his time with the Yardbirds, after he replaced Eric Clapton following their first hit, For Your Love.
The Train Kept A-Rolling was never a Yardbirds single (except in Germany) but was almost their signature piece, both as part of their stage act and as a song recorded while on tour for the US album Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds (not released in the UK). The session took place with the legendary former Sun Studios producer Sam Phillips, who had discovered Elvis Presley.
Jeff Beck brought the song to the group having recorded it earlier in 1965 with his previous group, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages.
The Yardbirds recorded the song again for their appearance in the film Blow-Up (for contractual reasons they had to quickly re-write the lyric and call it Stroll On). Jimmy Page had joined the band by this time and when he left and formed Led Zeppelin, they opened their live shows with Train Kept A-Rollin'.
The song was written and recorded by Myron 'Tiny' Bradshaw with his orchestra in 1951 but it was revived in rockabilly fashion by Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio in 1956 with the arrangement that inspired the Yardbirds version. The Yardbirds were still playing it in 2003 when they reformed for an album with the original rhythm section and Gypie Mayo on lead guitar.

One year ago:
Coate Water Park (Heron)