23-12-2020, 14:12
I was busy trying to post this last night when the power went off without warning. Half the peninsula in darkness thanks to a blown junction. This year's surprises just don't stop! Lol!! Oh well - according to the revised interpretation of the Mayan Calendar, 21st December 2020 was the end of the world as we know it. I wonder if we've all been transported to a parallel universe???!
Right, now where was I?? Oh yes - fifty years after the release of Dave Mason's debut album, Alone Together, he has released a reimagining - Alone Together Again. I really wish these musos would stop this reimagining business - it only works if a person hasn't heard the original because with very few exceptions, we prefer the version we heard first (of anything, pretty much). I expect there are many who wouldn't have heard the debut though, so he'll probably be ok! Mason has the ability to put together a memorable song or two, no question about it, but I'm not sold on whole albumsfull - one or two tracks from each will do for me.
The first "Sad and Deep as You", which is not perfectly produced, has a real pathos, IMHO - as well as Leon Russell on piano, while the second has morphed into a clever Flamenco driven song of no great feeling at all - again IMHO. Huge bias on my part of course - the second is not terrible but has lost something in translation, I think - too clever.
The new ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhY-Wmeivxs
The old ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uRgfOP-94
Right, now where was I?? Oh yes - fifty years after the release of Dave Mason's debut album, Alone Together, he has released a reimagining - Alone Together Again. I really wish these musos would stop this reimagining business - it only works if a person hasn't heard the original because with very few exceptions, we prefer the version we heard first (of anything, pretty much). I expect there are many who wouldn't have heard the debut though, so he'll probably be ok! Mason has the ability to put together a memorable song or two, no question about it, but I'm not sold on whole albumsfull - one or two tracks from each will do for me.
The first "Sad and Deep as You", which is not perfectly produced, has a real pathos, IMHO - as well as Leon Russell on piano, while the second has morphed into a clever Flamenco driven song of no great feeling at all - again IMHO. Huge bias on my part of course - the second is not terrible but has lost something in translation, I think - too clever.
The new ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhY-Wmeivxs
The old ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uRgfOP-94
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson