PEPPER SEED

  

 

Peter Tosh: Pepper Seed (Link)

 

I'M GONNA PUT IT ON

Feel them spirit

Feel them spirit

Feel them spirit

Lord I thank you

I rule my destiny

I rule my destiny

I rule my destiny
 

Lord I thank you

I’m gonna put it on

I’m gonna put it on

I’m gonna put it on

Good Lord help me

Wailers: Put It On (Link)

Wailers: Put It On (Link)

I Admire You

     (Hey) Girl 

            I Admire You

                 From a Point Of View.

               From The Very First Time 

       I Place My Eyes In You

  I Picture You

            To Be My Bride.

 

Key: 

Music and Lyric:  I Admire You: Larry Marshall (link)

Picture 1:  Leonardo da Vinci: Study for a kneeling Leda, 1506-08, pen and ink over black chalk.  Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

Picture 2:  Leonardo da Vinci: Study for head of Leda, 1505-07, pen and ink over black chalk, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.

Everything Crash (2) -- Leonard Dillon (The Ethiopian) and David Bedford

The Ethiopians -- Everything Crash (Link)

David Bedford (pictured with Mike Oldfield) and featured on:

Kevin Ayers And The Whole World -- Shooting At The Moon (Link)

We mourn the passing this week of Leonard Dillon and David Bedford, gifted artists who added so much pleasure to so many people's lives.   

Everything Crash is my favorite Ethiopians record.  It really makes its case and, for me, puts it all into perspective.  (Or, as that wonderful line in Spinal Tap puts it, "a little too much perspective.")

David Bedford accomplished so much as a musician, composer,  teacher, and also through his leadership at the Performing Rights Society in the UK.  For me his crucial work will always be as a member of Kevin Ayers and The Whole World on Shooting At The Moon, perhaps the most imaginative, innovative and poetic record of the rock era.  The collaboration of Ayers, Bedford, Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill and Mick Fincher remains like the loudest thunderclap, the most massively visible, but still fugitive, cloud scudding across the sky, and the rippling, concentric pond rings after the falling stone.  No one ever made a record like that before.  No one has done so since.