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Bert Jansch

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
edited June 2006 in Other Music
Any fans? I ask, because fans of acoustic Zep probably know that Bert was a major influence on Jimmy Page's playing. I even hear a lot of Jansch in PJ, and I wouldn't be surprised if Stoney has a few of Bert's records in his collection. :)
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i only listen to him in the bleak midwinter ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    He's from your neck of the woods. :cool:
  • fadafada Posts: 1,032
    I have heard of the name but never any material. Is he like a Nick drake, tim buckley in that he is a much underrated artist?
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    He's from your neck of the woods. :cool:

    he is indeed :cool:

    my mateys mum used to have loads of his vinyl stuff...

    we would listen to them when drinking and trying to get hippy girls to shag us by playing them Janshy :)

    it never worked :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    He was a big influence on Nick Drake's playing. If you ever hear the Tamworth-in-Arden home demo Nick did in 1967, you'll note a couple of Jansch numbers. Jansch was in Pentangle, a very influential folk-rock band in the late sixties and early seventies.


    Here's his official Myspace page. Well worth checking out!

    http://www.myspace.com/bertjanschfolk


    I'd start with "Angie" and then try the other three. :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    he is indeed :cool:

    my mateys mum used to have loads of his vinyl stuff...

    we would listen to them when drinking and trying to get hippy girls to shag us by playing them Janshy :)

    it never worked :D


    Haha, but a bit of the ole Drakey music used to work every time, though. You've got to sit and look "pale and interesting" and suck your cheeks in to look deep and wan (a bit of an effort in my case), while you're listening to it ... and make references to autumn and French symbolism in the middle of your conversation (and not talk about the fitbah on the telly). Then you're made. ;)
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Haha, but a bit of the ole Drakey music used to work every time, though. You've got to sit and look "pale and interesting" and suck your cheeks in to look deep and wan (a bit of an effort in my case), while you're listening to it ... and make references to autumn and French symbolism in the middle of your conversation (and not talk about the fitbah on the telly). Then you're made. ;)


    you mean wummin dinnae like the....*gasps*.....fitbah then.

    thats where i fucked up... i was fine with the symbolism... seagulls chasing the trawler type references etc... but I shoulda tried Drakey!!

    I'll give the Jansch site a wee listen to tonight.... see if my memory can be recalled by the pinky-plunk of his geetah strings :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Just listening to Lucky Thirteen, and one can really hear how he influenced a huge number of players,
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