craig profile picture

craig

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Music fan, i have been playing bass for three years and guitar for one, I'm not very good at them but I hope I'll get better. I'm a big fan of the 1960's music scene (but not only) which is the main purpose of this page. I will be posting reviews of records that I like.

My Interests

Music

Music:

The Kinks, Brendan Benson, The Beatles, The Buzzcocks, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, The Byrds, Fountains of Wayne, The Dandy Warhols (only the 3rd album...), Belle and Sebastian, Xtx, Blur, Oasis (yes I like the two), JJ Cale, The Hollies, The Zombies, George Harrison, Sweet apple pie, As dragon, Judee Sill, Cotton Mather, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Johan Asherton, The Undertones, Ron sexsmith, The La's, House of love, the Jam, The Move, The Saints, The fleshtones, Echo and the bunnymen, Tom Petty, My morning jacket (thanks to Val for this one), Tony joe white, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nelson Bragg, Townes van Zandt, Fred Neil, Tim Hardin...

Movies:

Monty Python (the holy grail), A fish called wanda, Walk the line, The last emperor, Broken flowers, Le convoyeur...

Heroes:

The one and only Alexandre carrrrrrrrrrrrrascooooooooo.

My Blog

Blur : Thirteen

As I've cut one of my fingertips... I've got plenty of time on my hands (nice pun....) so here's another review.... I must admit that I prefered Blur when Damon Albarn was stealing most of his ideas ...
Posted by craig on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:50:00 PST

Simon and Garfunkel : Bridge Over Troubled Water

For a  start, I'd just like to point out that this album beat The Beatles's Abbey Road album at the grammy awards in 1970 (album of year category I think...) so without hearing it you suppose th...
Posted by craig on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:26:00 PST

The Charlatans : The Charlatans :

Back into sixties territory, after all I'm supposed to be a "1960's music fan" as my profile says... The Charlatans are famous for starting the psychedelic scene in San Francisco in the mid-sixties. ...
Posted by craig on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:46:00 PST

Jeff Lynne : Armchair theatre

Mr Lynne is mostly known for two things : - being the leader of Electric Light Orchestra (popular rock band of the 70's, especially in America). - producing the Beatles two comeback singles in the m...
Posted by craig on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:48:00 PST

Cotton Mather : Kontiki

Cotton Mather was formed in Austin (Texas, USA, North America, World, Universe) at the beginning of the 1990's. They put out their first lp "Cotton is king" in 1994. "Kontiki" is their second album ...
Posted by craig on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:20:00 PST

Paul and Linda Mccartney : Ram

When you ask people what their favourite ex-beatles solo album is, you often get John Lennon's "Imagine", George Harrisson's "All things must pass" or even Wings's "Band on the run" but never a word ...
Posted by craig on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:48:00 PST

Be Bop festival, Le Mans and Mamers, 1-3/11/06

Every year during the month of November, several gigs are organised during a 15 day period. All musical genres are covered (world music, rock, reggae, rap...). I went to two gigs this year.andy partri...
Posted by craig on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:03:00 PST

Peter von poehl + Jack the ripper, Le Chabada (Angers), 27/10/06

One week ago, I went to Angers to see Peter von poehl (I reviewed his first album "Going to where the tea trees are" a few month ago). I was expecting to see a solo acoustic show. Peter started his g...
Posted by craig on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:07:00 PST

The Fleshtones, La Maroquinerie (Paris), 22/10/06

Super-rock legends came to Paris one week ago for a tour celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band. I had missed them last year while they were touring to support their latest album ("Beachead") s...
Posted by craig on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:44:00 PST

Johan Asherton : Under the weather

I discovered Johan Asherton one year ago in a french magazine called Crossroads. There was an advert for his new album "Amber songs". This album on its cover had a nice picture a seaside which remind...
Posted by craig on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:30:00 PST