Doodle #26 (Monday 25th October 2021)

I'm not sure why this art school doodle took two days to complete - I must have been feeling out of balance! - but the second day would have been my 17th birthday, so probably I thought I was now very old. As Bob Dylan once remarked, I’m younger than that now.

This was created with a Rotring Rapidograph using their own drawing ink, introduced in 1928. Hardly an invention though, so not entered for Mono Monday as it doesn't fit the 'optional' theme of Inventions.

I have now successfully signed in to all the regularly used apps on the new ultra-fast Amazon Firestick for the living room and all is well. The spare speakers for the kitchen mini hi-fi have also been fitted and tested, and a pair of connectors for another kitchen speaker that had been cutting out have been replaced with a superior type.

L.
Monday 25.10.2021 (1701 hr)

Blip #3538 (#3288 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2021 #193/265 + #088/100 Extras
Day #4231 (948 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2681 (#2521 + 160 in archived blips)

Abstracts And Experiments series
Black & White and Monochrome series
Doodle series
Art series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (White) and  Pentax D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR prime lens

One year ago:
The Old Forge

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Junior Parker - Taxman (recorded 1969)
Ike Turner's name is forever sullied because of the drug-fuelled abuse Tina Turner suffered at his hands, and rightly so, but it is a shame that as a result his services in the fifties to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, when he was a talent scout and bandleader, are so undervalued.
His band's version of Rocket 88 featuring Jackie Branston is generally thought to be the first rock and roll record, and he brought both the Howlin' Wolf and Junior Parker to Sam Phillips at Sun Records.
Junior Parker's versions of Mystery Train and Love My Baby (featuring Pat Hare's guitar) were adopted by Elvis Presley in his version of Mystery Train, a recording that dramatically changed the world of music and brought in the term rockabilly.
Junior Parker subsequently moved into the realms of electric blues, soul and funk without the same success but his work is well due for a reappraisal.
The album Outside Man, from which this comes, released in 1970, was probably the last album released under his own name in his lifetime (he died in 1971) and showed that he was still moving forward. As well as George Harrison's Taxman he also recorded The Inner Light and other Beatle tunes including Lady Madonna, Oh! Darling and Tomorrow Never Knows.
The album unfortunately gives no band line-up, but was conducted and arranged by Horace Ott, who plays electric organ, and the guitarist who does such great work creating the groove under Junior's vocal is generally thought to be O'Donel 'Butch' Levy, who toured with Jimmy McGriff, as did Junior Parker during the same period, and had the same producer. The track was included on an Uncut CD tribute to the Beatles in 2001, which I bought at the time, and was played on Cerys's 6 Music show yesterday.