{"id":13308,"date":"2024-03-20T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T10:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:49:10","slug":"music-live-at-waterloo-ice-house-uncle-walts-band-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13308","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Live at Waterloo Ice House, Uncle Walt\u2019s Band, 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ah\u2026 it\u2019s great to have one\u2019s expectations met. Or better yet, exceeded. And this disc does both. I\u2019m sat listening to it as I type. And it\u2019s just fantastic! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The excellent little booklet that comes with this expanded re-release album features numerous images from the contact sheets of the boys playing at the venue. And also, rather wonderfully, this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think there are fourty-four numbers in this three set odyssey! Talk about an embarrassment of riches. And the list is annotated, presumably in relation to notes made on listening back to recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that makes a striking contrast with The Contenders<\/a>, who I looked at and listened to briefly recently, \u2018cause Walt and Champ were involved, is how the original contributions by all three members<\/em> of UWB are uniformly brilliant. Whereas I didn\u2019t like the non-UWB contributions to The Contenders.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love all three of the guys! They\u2019re beautiful, talented, soulful. The works. Deschamp Hoods\u2019 stuff I find particularly beguiling. He does a Bach thing with David, on his \u2018feature\u2019 spot (not on this disc), and his \u2018Mock, Mock, Mockingbird\u2019 here is stupendous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next best thing to being there?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David Ball, the lone survivor of the trio, went on to solo success. Walt and Champ both kept up musical endeavours, on the fringes of success\/recognition. Rather sadly, Champ Hood was working on his only solo project as leader – Bon Haven <\/em>– when he passed. I must get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, with perfect synchronicity, we hit another Hood original – \u2018The More I See You\u2019 – right on cue! It\u2019s great that Lyle Lovett championed these guys. There\u2019s a bit of Lovett stuff on YouTube with Walt and Champ as featured guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To my mind the only \u2018immortal soul\u2019 aspect of life – and it\u2019s not<\/em> some kind of ectoplasmic entity – is how we may or may not, as Napoleon rightly observed, live on in history, via the monuments we leave behind, and the memories that live on in others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dang it! I\u2019m in love with three men\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And what monuments these three have left behind! Playing as I type is the utterly gorgeous lightly jazzy ballad \u2018Desiree\u2019. I usually loathe arco bass in jazz and folk, etc (often horribly out of tune!). In this track David bows his bass, and Champ plays fiddle\u2026 and it\u2019s sublime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might go back and amend some of these UWB star ratings to six. I can\u2019t say how much I love this stuff. Cannot recommend these cats enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Ironically, having said this, there\u2019s a track on here, \u2018Snowing Me Under\u2019, credited to Steve Runkle, which is brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOOTNOTE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This already brilliant CD ends with a beautiful track by Brazilian composer Moacir Santos. I\u2019ve heard this track dissed as MOR elsewhere online. Couldn\u2019t disagree more. I love the music of Brazil. And it\u2019s clear Walt and co. did too. Way to go, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah\u2026 it\u2019s great to have one\u2019s expectations met. Or better yet, exceeded. And this disc does both. I\u2019m sat listening to it as I type. And it\u2019s just fantastic! The excellent little booklet that comes with this expanded re-release album features numerous images from the contact sheets of the boys playing at the venue. And … <\/p>\n

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