Musical interlude.

End of the week, at last, been a busy one as usual. Though I listen to music in the car there's nothing like relaxing with a glass of something & both listening at home.
The old CD player has a new lease of life, it was pretty well on its last legs and the sound quality in particular wasn't that good, then one of Gary's friends was getting rid of a couple of speakers, nothing wrong with them but they were heading for the dump so Gary tried them & eventually we got them. With Tara's help we got them fixed up to the main CD player and the sound is brilliant! The machine itself does play up abit sometimes. The CD compartment doesn't always open first time & it has a mind of its own when you try to play the CD's on a random mix, but having said that when its working  properly it sounds great!
This evening I'd put on 'Cautionary Tales' by TRADarrr. This is a folk group made up of Marion Fleetwood, Greg Cave, Guy Fletcher, PJ Wright (both formerly of 'Little Johnny England')  & Mark Stevens with guest appearances by Chris Leslie, Dave Pegg & Ric Sanders no less, of Fairport Convention fame. They are a great mix of traditional folk tunes from the like of Ralph Vaughan Williams & Morris tunes in the shape of the 'Upton Stick Dance.'
Tara said we saw their first public performance as TRADarrr at the Cropredy Festival, all accomplished musicians in their own right put them together and it sounds brilliant.
From one extreme to the other as we followed this with Judas Priest's 'Defenders of the Faith.' Originally recorded in 1984 in the days when Rob Halford, the singer, could hit all those high notes the title track is a fave of mine. JP are not top of Tara's list I have to say  though she'll always give different bands a try, more so than I do!
Third CD was one by WASP that is 25 years old this year called 'The Crimson Idol.' We are going to see WASP in October & to celebrate this album they are going to play it in its entirety for the first half of their set so its an album we need to get into. It's a very good album, the singer Blackie Lawless has a great  gravelly voice it should be a great gig!
After this we watched the last part of the adaption of Alex Hayley's 'Roots.'  Talking about this we both decided as brilliant as it was, it was kind of wrong to say that you really enjoyed it. The violence was so vicious and so random 'enjoyment' just isn't right. It made for compelling viewing & incomprehension as to how nasty humans can be to their fellow humans.

CD player and Tara's Bacardi and Coke, plus crafting stuff.

My glass of red and assorted CD's waiting to be played.