Calne (Monday 28th August 2023)

Bank Holiday Monday isn't a good day to go anywhere public if you have the luxury of choice, and I had a number of activities I could do at home and didn't plan to go out. However by mid afternoon it became clear that I needed supplies from the shops, and so I walked into town.

This is a slightly unusual perspective of a very familiar walk aong Curzon Street, the A4, taken from in front of the vets, with the garage I use beyond it (in Extras' background). On the other side of the main road you can see the start of the Town Gardens, which is my more normal walking route to and from the town centre.

L.
Tuesday 29.8.2023 (1120 hr)

Blip #3946 (#3696 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2023 #152/265 + #080/100 Extras
Day #4902 (1146 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3086 (#2926 + 160 in archived blips)

Calne series
Landscape series

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 M4/3 compact

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Beatles - The Night Before (recorded 17 February 1965, Abbey Road)
This was another of Emma Anderson's Inheritance Tracks (see previous blip for details) from Radcliffe and Maconie. Stuart Maconie introduced it as one of the Beatles more obscure tracks. To Beatle afficionados there is really no such thing and even the more casual fans will be aware of the tracks on official albums and singles, but I do see what he means, because this track from the soundtrack album Help! was generally regarded as throwaway filler. In the film the band are miming to the record in a field on Salisbury Plain.
Listening to it in isolation now it sounds like a forgotten gem, from George's lead guitar and harmonies, John's electric piano and Paul's amazing bass patterns, his dual lead guitar part matching George's and simultaneous to his lead vocal, and of course Ringo's ever loyal drumming to serve the song, all add up to something no other band of the time could come close to, even for an A-side single.
When a new Beatles album came out, it would be dissected and plundered by all the performers of the time hoping to get a hit by covering one of the songs, but the only cover of The Night Before at the time was by the Dutch band The Whiskers, who recorded it for their album Beat-Parade With The Whiskers.

One year ago:
Chippenham (River Avon)