A Humble Music Blog - LIVENERGI

As you may or may not know, Alan Parsons of Alan Parsons Project wasn't a musician in the true sense of the word. He was primarily a Sound Engineer and worked on most of Pink Floyd's albums. His influence would show up somewhere or the other. After all, a significant portion of the "Floyd Flavour" (barring the guitars, of course) was created in the studio, during production and post-production. However, that didn't quite happen...Floyd had their own distinct sound, as did the Alan Parsons Project. Now here's a Pink Floyd track that one could, perhaps, point to as having a slight yet discernible Alan Parsons touch. It's a lesser known song called Julia Dream from the album Relics. It is a lovely song...very soothing melody...nice blending of acoustic guitars with the keyboards and other instruments. Here are the lyrics...and you will be excused if you can't figure out what they mean. It sounds like the ramblings of some Lunatic from the...

Every Pink Floyd fan knows about the acrimonious parting of ways between Roger Waters and David Gilmour... but many don't know the story of this not-so-pleasant meeting... two decades later. The event: Live 8. The facilitator: Bob Geldof. The challenge: Getting Gilmour and Waters together again – even for a one-off appearance. For Pink Floyd fans all over the world, this was a historic event in the making. And here’s how it happened… finally. As was to be expected, Gilmour wasn’t too keen to get together with Waters. In 1993, they had parted ways with a lot of rancour and unpleasantness. And to be fair, it was Waters who had walked out of the band. Also, since Waters was the dominating, overbearing one, it was natural for the relatively more passive Gilmour to avoid any interface with him. Nevertheless, the ever-persuasive Geldof managed to convince the two artistes to meet in a London hotel room. Gilmour remembers reaching after Waters had arrived – he reca...

When songwriters write about people, they often base their characters on real people. From The Beatles’ Michelle and Lucy to Paul Anka’s Diana and Eric Clapton’s Layla, a lot of songs about girls are based on real girls. So invariably, when such a song becomes a big hit, people try to guess who the girl is. In this post, let us take a closer look at some of the myths surrounding such songs. Susie Q Many people think this rock track covered brilliantly by Creedence Clearwater Revival is written about or as a tribute to one of the pioneering women artistes in the field of rock: Suzi Quatro (her totally un-rocking real name is Susan Kay Quatrocchio). Wrong! Susie Q was written way back in 1957 by a singer-musician named Dale Hawkins. At that time, Suzi Quatro was just seven years old. Sweet Caroline For years people thought that Caroline was either an imaginary character or someone Neil Diamond knew back in his young days. Then in 2007, whi...