A picture of four of the five Zombies with some Daleks, probably around 1964 or 1965. What’s weird is that they’re trying to smash them with guitars, but the guitarist - Paul Atkinson - isn’t in the picture!
Yeah, so remember this:
Jim Rodford is playing this same bass in the above video! I’m excited I found it, though I don’t really know why.
It seems every 6 February, something musical happens to me.
It started coincidentally. On 6 Feb. 2009, I learned to play my first song on the guitar (Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin”). I had wanted to play guitar because of the Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star,” not realising that it was satirical. Incidentally, the album on which that appeared was released on 6 February 1967, and it was named “Younger than Yesterday” - a phrase taken from Dylan’s “My Back Pages,” which the Byrds covered on that album.
In 2010, I was at a quiz bowl competition, and since I was the only varsity player present, I was the captain of the team. So my friend drew me a “Cap’n Dave!” logo, which I later took to be my moniker for when I write songs and such.
This year I’m done with the coincidences; I’m making things happen.
For a few months, I’ve been planning this. I cut out “¡Sapiano!” in paper letters, and taped it to my guitar. I based this off Chris White (of the Zombies, my favourite band), as seen in this picture.
I realise now that it says “This is a piano,” but in my excitement when I first found these pictures, I misread it as “¡Sapiano!” So… yeah.
The title is absolutely horrendous, but the CD itself is actually very good.
I was first exposed to Django Reinhardt through a CD collection titled “Swing Tanzen Verboten” which I got about two years ago. He had about four songs on there. Though, later, I read something where Chris White of the Zombies said something about him. That made me go back and really listen to them, because Chris White is possibly the most influential musician in my life. After that, I bought this collection at Half Price Books. It’s very similar to “Swing Tanzen Verboten” but just purely Reinhardt. One song in particular “Mystery Pacific” sounded almost exactly like “Hilversum Express” by the Ramblers from this other collection.
That being said, a lot of the songs on here are derivative of others. Many others are covers, though since they were covered so often in that era, I don’t know the original artists.
However, all of the songs are very well done, especially considering that Reinhardt had the use of only two fingers on his left hand - the fretting hand. A few months ago, I wrote half a song using only two-fingered chords. It really is a challenge to play like that. He not only pulls it off, but he also makes it seem effortless.
"This is just one day, but one day’s enough to start all over again."
— “Nothing’s Changed” - Chris White
