Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

How do you know that a song is truly great? They just don't write songs like this anymore.

A vintage? You require a quest through the musical ages to establish an example of a song that had soul and rudimentary armour.
To re-visit a grass roots classic musical chord by chord, stripped down to the bone as it were, is a treat of a kind I can’t describe.

“ He who knows it feels it!”

Bob Marley and Peter Tosh: Soon Come: 1978

“Everytime I call, they tell me that you're soon come
I call you at your home, they tell me that you're soon come
I don't like hanging around or to be pushed around
I've got feelings for you know
I don't like the soon come
I call you on the phone, they tell me that you're soon come
I even call you at your home, they tell me that you're soon come
I don't like hanging around or to be pushed around
I've got feelings for you know
I don't like the soon come.”

[Blurock]

I still love playing this Bach-inspired song by Procul Harum. An anthem indeed!

Wikipedia: "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut single by the English rock band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967. One of the anthems of the 1967 Summer of Love, it is one of fewer than 30 singles to have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.[3]
With its haunting Bach-derived instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual lyrics—"A Whiter Shade of Pale" reached No. 1 in several countries when released in 1967. In the years since, it has become an enduring classic. It was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the UK (as of 2009),[5] and the United Kingdom performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognised it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years.[6] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone placed "A Whiter Shade of Pale" No. 57 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In 1977, the song was named joint winner (along with Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody") of the Best British Pop Single 1952–1977 at the Brit Awards.[7] In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[8] More than 1000 recorded cover versions by other artists are known.[9] The song has been included in many music compilations over the decades and has also been used in the soundtracks of numerous films, including The Big Chill, Purple Haze, Breaking the Waves, The Boat That Rocked and notably in Martin Scorsese's segment of New York Stories. Cover versions of the song have also been featured in many films, for example by King Curtis in Withnail and I and by Annie Lennox in The Net.

[Blurock]

Remember the Durban Blues Festival!! Zacks @ Wilson's Wharf (at the South West end of the harbour for you land lubbers - that's near the sugar terminals, dude.)

Unfortunately they will not be there.

[Blurock]

One of the best bands ever! This South African band was so progressive, they made their own sound boxes as the equipment did not even exist at the time! They wrote the first rock opera, but could not get a philharmonic orchestra to play with them. That was even before the Who did Tommy!!

[Blurock]

Mix of township beat, country and rock. Long before Johnny Clegg!! Another great band from South Africa. (Dave Ornellas is now a pastor - Dave you rock!)

[pmbguy]

Remember the Durban Blues Festival!! Zacks @ Wilson's Wharf (at the South West end of the harbour for you land lubbers - that's near the sugar terminals, dude.)

Unfortunately they will not be there.

Dam you got good taste

[Blurock]

African flavour to the old Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun"

[Blurock]

What a beautiful song! Listen to the whole album on Youtube - its a piece of art!

[Blurock]

There is no better place on earth than Home! Another great South African vocalist.

Sometimes alone in the evening I look outside my window
At the shadows in the night
I hear the sound of distant crying
The darkness multiplying
And weary hearts denied

All I feel is my heart beating
Beating like a drum, beating with confusion
All I hear are the voices, telling me to go
But I could never run, "Cause

In my AfriKan Dream, there's a new tomorrow
My Afrikan dream , is dream that we can follow

Now when the night begins to fall,
I listen for your call, I listen for you heartbeat
Alone my dream is just a dream
Another false illusion, a shadow in the night

All I want is for our heartbeats to be beating just as one,
To silence the confusion
Then the pain and the illusion will disappear again
And we will never run, Cause

In my Afrikan Dream, there's a new tomorrow
My Afrikan Dream is a dream that we can follow
And though it would seem my hope's an illusion
My Afrikan Dream is an end to the confusion

Mawetbu we Afrika (Africans)
Nine kusasa Elittlbe (You have a bright future)
Igugu e Afrika (Pride of Africa)
Sizoni landela ma Afrika (We shall follow you Africans)
Siyayibona Intlanzi (We can see the future)
Ukukbanya Kwentokozo (The light of joy)
Iguguletbu le Afrika (Afrikan pride)
Ukupbela Kwenkinga Zonke (The end of all tribulation)

[Blurock]

Jabulani - I'm happy too. Lets carry on with the South African theme.

[Blurock]

A disco favourite from the 70's

[Blurock]

Staying local: I came across this clip only by chance. I was privileged to see Zayn perform when he was younger. What an incredible voice.

Support your local band!

[Blurock]

This South African musical was performed by simultaneously by different troupes in a number of cities world wide. Very popular South African export in the late 70's.

[Blurock]

Manfred Mann is a South African who made it big on the music scene in the UK.

[Citizen X]

Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse: 1984: Lyrics and Video

“I've been watching you
Everyday of my life.
Messing round with other guys
Now let me tell you one more time.

I'm gonna burn out all my love
I'm gonna burn out all my love
I'm gonna burn out all my love

I keep telling you
How you broke my heart
Keeping me holding on too on too long
Let me tell you one more time

Tonight, I'm gonna hold you till you cry
Hold you till you cry for more.
Tonight, I'm gonna hold you till you cry
Hold you till you cry for more.

I'm gonna burn out all my love
I'm gonna burn out all my love
I'm gonna burn out all my love.”