Changes
I’ve just viewed my recording of Friday’s extended Live....With Jools Holland and now update my account of Tuesday night’s live
show: the first fascinating fact is that the Barbara Ann performance has been redone. There is a ‘different’
joke about the Beach Boys having recorded an album based on Jools’ surname – Holland – this time initiated by Mike
Love whereas on Tuesday it was Jools himself. At the end of the song Brian isn’t
stopped from moving off his stool, but he does shout to anyone who is listening
Where to? Where to? which generated
as much pathos in me as in the original frail endpiece. Even more ‘suspicious’
is a shot later of Brian Wilson clicking his fingers enthusiastically to the beat
of Public Image Limited playing behind him, but in the next edit with Brian in
the background he has stopped completely – clear evidence that he had been prompted
to perform in the first angle.
Other than that the interview with Lydon is a hoot, John
justifying his butter advertising earnings as a means to becoming an
independent musician, reminding Jools of an argument he had with him many years
ago, and gleefully telling the Beach Boys how they make him feel young! That’s
exactly how I feel, but I wouldn’t rub it in their faces. Ironically, Lydon’s
reliance on following a song sheet placed on a music stand is less of a crutch
than the heavily echoed amplification of his warbled vocal, all rolled r-sounds rebounding. It is a theatrical
affectation that to my listening seems naff compared with the musical
grandstanding of Muse’s familiar and therefore expected exaggerations.
The one constant is the tight performance of Natalie
Duncan, on Friday’s show singing two songs from her fine album Devil In Me.
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