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Organic Bondage
''Organic Bondage'' is the third album by Wild Willy Barrett Roger John Barrett (born 30 May 1950), known professionally as Wild Willy Barrett, is an English experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style has included folk, blues, psy ... and only one with Stephen Two-Names released in 1986. History In 1986, having not released an album for 5 years, Barrett teamed up with bassist Stephen Two-Names. Due to Barrett's ethic of making over buying, most of the instruments featured on the album were made by some men in Bristol, credited as "Gnomes". The scratching sound on "Jack O' Diamonds" is a tape of Two-Names singing in the bath dragged across a tape-head. Once the album had been recorded, Barrett bought loads of sheets of plywood and made 100 wooden sleeves; the yellow coloured insert and record would slide in to the sleeve through the side. Subsequent pressings were released in a standard grey coloure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Willy Barrett
Roger John Barrett (born 30 May 1950), known professionally as Wild Willy Barrett, is an English experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his collaborations with John Otway. His musical style has included folk, blues, psychedelia, pop and punk rock and his live performances are punctuated with his dry humour and onstage wit. He is known for virtuoso fiddle playing, ability with a great number of stringed instruments, and playing slide guitar with a whole raw egg (known as egg-necking). During recent Otway/Barrett performances, he has also introduced the 'wah wah wheelie bin'. Barrett is also a skilled wood worker and carver and has produced highly unusual furniture over many years. Career Barrett comes from Aylesbury. He started playing the ukulele at the age of 4 and soon moved on to other instruments. By the age of 15 he was gigging regularly. He worked with and recorded alongside and in collaboration with his emerging contemporaries. His first com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krazy Kong Album
The ''Krazy Kong Album'' is a 1980 album by Wild Willy Barrett and released on his own Red Eye Records. The songs are a collection of recordings made over a decade and are available here for the first time. The album is notable for being the first white reggae album recorded, years before ''Regatta de Blanc'', with the title track as a prime example. 'Kong and the Soup Dragon' is a nod to the Clangers with whistles featured throughout. History In 1973 Barrett was signed up to the Transatlantic Records, Transatlantic record label and was featured on Guitar Workshop, a label sampler. Transatlantic had shown no big interest in Barrett until he visited their offices with the 'Krazy Kong' demo. After the label commissioned an album of Kong, and Barrett wrote 'Return of Kong' and 'Kong and the Soup Dragon', he entered the studio in July and recorded these plus three folk songs. However some of the songs were quite pastiche, namely I'm A Dog, and the tapes were shelved. In 1977 Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wimp & The Wild
''The Wimp & The Wild'' is the fourth and final album by John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett, released in 1989. History The writing process for ''The Wimp & The Wild'' goes back 10 years. "Best Dream" is a re-recording of the ''Where Did I Go Right'' track. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that "within its corridors lurk some of Otway's finest performances of the age, beginning with an almost heartbreakingly Spartan revision of 'Best Dream.'" Martin C. Strong Martin Charles Strong (born 1960 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish music historian known for compiling discographies of popular music including ''The Great Rock Discography''. Strong has been described in broadsheet newspaper profiles as a "compiler ... wrote that the album "ranged from 'wimp-ish' acoustics from John to stripped-down covers." Track listing Personnel *John Otway - vocals, guitar *Wild Willy Barrett - guitar, bass, drums, drum pads, programming *Liam Grundy - piano on "Separated" References {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Otway
John Otway (born 2 October 1952) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a cult audience through extensive touring. Biography 1970s and 1980s Otway was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mountain" was released in 1972, Otway initially received some coverage on the back of punk rock and a performance on ''The Old Grey Whistle Test''. His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977. It would be his greatest success for some time. The song earned him a five-album deal with Polydor Records, who viewed him as a punk rather than merely an eccentric. His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by Pete Townshend but sold only fitfully. The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for Otway to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, "Frightened and Scared", if their copy was one of only three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Don't Throw Me To The Christians
''Please Don't Throw Me to the Christians'' is an unfinished and unreleased album by English singer-songwriter Eddie Stanton. It was to be released on Wild Willy Barrett's record label "Black Eye" which had, by the time the album had been fully recorded, folded. The fate of five of these songs rested in Barrett's album ''Organic Bondage ''Organic Bondage'' is the third album by Wild Willy Barrett Roger John Barrett (born 30 May 1950), known professionally as Wild Willy Barrett, is an English experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his collaborations ...'', which he arranged to fit his style. Other tracks have been since recorded by Barrett later on in his career. Despite not being released, two singles – containing firstly two tracks culled from the album and secondly re-recordings of two of the songs – were released on Barrett's record label. Circa 2007, Stanton made the twenty tracks recorded for the album available on his website; Track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
