Toadcast #202 – The Saxcast
 First things first, I must inevitably apologise for the horrendous lateness of this podcast. Between my mum visiting, the gig on Sunday and the Samantha Crain Toad Session we recorded on Monday there just hasn’t been enough time to catch up.
It’s that end of year time, too, when lists are being made, accounts submitted, the last releases of the year tended to and plans for next year being finalised, so just when I thought that I could coast into Christmas, it turns out I actually have just as much work now as at any other time of the year. Ah well, whinge whinge, etc.
This podcast is called the Saxcast because I happened to be listening to Timber Timbre the other night, and one of their songs features the saxophone quite heavily. It occurred to me at the time that not only does almost no-one use that instrument at the moment, but despite the eighties ending over twenty years ago, it still seems almost completely taboo, within the kind of musical circles I move in anyway. Needless to say, this was all it took for me to devote an entire podcast to the instrument.
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01. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band – It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Live) (00.27)
02. Timber Timbre – Do I Have Power (09.02)
03. Quiet Americans – Summer House (16.54)
04. Samantha Crain – Two Sidedness (20.02)
05. Hazel O’Connor – Will You (25.09)
06. Woodenbox – Twisted Mile (33.42)
07. Monster Rally & RumTum – Raindrops (39.53)
08. My Tiny Robots – Guild of Defiants (42.37)
09. David Tattersall – The Typewriter Ribbon (47.51)
10. Mark Knopfler – Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) (58.30)
Saxa-MA-PHONE. SAXA-ma-phONE!
The amout of derision/contempt you manage to get into the word club is outstanding!
Also instruments that suffer from similar lack of cool/respect: cowbell? Washboard? Double headed guitars? Keytars(sp?)?
I’d venture the clarinet isn’t allowed. If you go into Oran Mor on a tuesday there is an old guy honking out hey jude far beyond the reach of acceptable volume and it’s horrible.
CMGrigg, Double headed guitars are indeed sneered at, and rightly so, but they aren’t really proper instruments are they? I mean, symphony orchestras use the sax!
JNO, perhaps when done badly, but there are so many good uses of clarinet out there, surely it’s not so cut and dried.
I suppose I’ve developed a really obscure prejudice. Clariphobia? I’ll go searching for a decent song to cure. I suppose I’d hate the guitar if all I’d ever heard of it was someone open strumming in my ear while I’m trying to drink.
I thought this might be my one chance to hear some Steely Dan on the Toadcast, but alas no.
No Gary. Just NO!