Music For Woodelf's Birthday (15 September)

[Buenchico]

Today would have been Woodelf’s 72nd birthday. So I’m posting some music to remember him by.

Terry’s musical tastes were, in his own words, . . .

eclectic, ranging from my “countryside” composers, Moeran, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth and Delius, to a few classical and more modern composers, Telemann and Reich, then onto the blues and folk, the sixties through the seventies and into the wide, weird and wonderful world of BBC Radio 6 Music.

He cited his favourite guitarists as being John Fahey, Nick Drake, Mississippi John Hurt and Robin Williamson.

Having worked with Terry over several months on the design of his website, I know that Terry was very much a perfectionist. However he was also incredibly easy-going too, so I know that he’d probably approve of almost any type of music posted here in his memory.

My own choice for him is ‘Sunny Days’, which is the opening track on the album ‘Songs from Lucy’s Cottage’ by Lol Robinson and Hazey Jane II. I know that it had special significance for Terry as he performed with the band at the launch gig for the

[Buenchico]

^^^ The final word of my post above ('album') seems to have gone missing but I think that the meaning is probably clear enough anyway.

 

Here's some John Fahey to fit in with Terry's

[JimF]

[Buenchico]

. . . and here's something of my own choosing that I feel Terry would have

[JimF]

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Jim.

I'm not sure which genre that track really falls into but something which doesn't fall into any particular genre might well have appealed to Terry best of all anyway😃

[Buenchico]

Thanks for that second track too, Jim.  It's a long time since I last heard it and I'd forgotten just how beautiful it is.

[JimF]

The first one is Robin Williamson in The Incredible String Band. The second is Steve Hackett acknowledging what happened on 2nd October 1982 at The Milton Keynes Bowl. I was there.

[Buenchico]

Hmm!

I've just noticed that adding a video onto the end of a post seems to always cut off the last word/line of it!  Oh well, more work for AB's techies then, I suppose!

[JimF]

By techies, you mean "techies" [sic], right...?

[Lie-in King]

Nice thought, Buen.  I miss Terry & will let his partner know about this thread 🙂

I helped Terry find tracks he wanted on YouTube & then made CDs for him of the ones he selected.  Those extremely varied choices all had one thing in common - Terry enjoyed them for any number of reasons & this is one of them, picked by me stabbing the cursor on the list

[choux]

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This is the second and final theme music for the "Out of Town" TV programme, seems apt to me :)

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Lie-in King.

I was hoping that you'd see this thread.  (To the best of my knowledge, you're the only ABer who ever met Terry in person although, through countless emails, I still felt that I knew him very well anyway).

Plenty of CDs found their way from my house to his too, both compilation ones from YouTube and commercial ones I bought as gifts for him.  (I could never really fully identify his tastes in music though.  Whenever I sent him a CD which I thought fitted bang into the middle of his existing tastes, he'd invariably thank me for trying to get him to try something completely new!)

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Choux!

An excellent choice, I feel 🎼

[choux]

That is a lovely thought, L-iK ♥

It was either this or something from the Battle of Britain of which I wrote to Terry once - he shared my Father's birthday.

[Lie-in King]

He certainly had eclectic taste

[choux]

I did watch the streaming of Terry's service whick L-ik kindly posted, so never forgotten.

[JimF]

Excellent L-i-K. I saw TRB at the Glasgow Apollo Theatre in 78, I think. Absolutely fantastic!

[choux]

[Buenchico]

That's a favourite of mine too, Lie-in King!

If anyone wants an MP4 copy of the funeral service, Choux, they can email me ([email protected]) and I'll happily email it to them.

[Buenchico]

Thanks again, Choux, for the Don McLean.

Please keep them coming folks but I'm off to bed now, soI won't be able to acknowledge posts straight away.💤