Durutti Column (listen/view)
also; do a search(in the upper left corner) and the archives have beautiful live versions of 'Jacqueline' (Live 1988) and 'Without Mercy'.
The Durutti Column featuring Vini Reilly, a classically-trained pianist and virtuoso guitarist, took their name from Spanish revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti and the cartoon of Two Situationist Cowboys in the comic Le Retour De La Colonne Durutti (1966). Centred around Reilly, the then five-piece band recorded two tracks for FAC-2 A Factory Sample, the first ever music release on Factory Records. Vini, not happy with the band or the punk-styled recording, then walked out because it was "complete and total rubbish". Alan and Tony persuaded Vini to return, saying "you are The Durutti Column" and the rest is history.
more on site
http//thedurutticolumn.com/index.html
The 1st cd I bought was a
Durutti Column box set that turns out to be pretty rare.
It's basically the 1st four LP's of the band and every disc could be on 'auto repeat'
and I'd be happy.
They may seem overly melancholy at times but listen close to the 'Chet Atkins' style of Riley's guitar weaving rhythmically through delays and you are hypnotized in a
rainy day womb.
I saw them live somewhere in the '80's at the Roxy and I highly reccomend this if they do tour again.
Read the history. good story.
Durutti Column (listen/view)
also; do a search(in the upper left corner) and the archives have beautiful live versions of 'Jacqueline' (Live 1988) and 'Without Mercy'.
The Durutti Column featuring Vini Reilly, a classically-trained pianist and virtuoso guitarist, took their name from Spanish revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti and the cartoon of Two Situationist Cowboys in the comic Le Retour De La Colonne Durutti (1966). Centred around Reilly, the then five-piece band recorded two tracks for FAC-2 A Factory Sample, the first ever music release on Factory Records. Vini, not happy with the band or the punk-styled recording, then walked out because it was "complete and total rubbish". Alan and Tony persuaded Vini to return, saying "you are The Durutti Column" and the rest is history.
more on site http//thedurutticolumn.com/index.html
The 1st cd I bought was a Durutti Column box set that turns out to be pretty rare.
It's basically the 1st four LP's of the band and every disc could be on 'auto repeat'
and I'd be happy.
They may seem overly melancholy at times but listen close to the 'Chet Atkins' style of Riley's guitar weaving rhythmically through delays and you are hypnotized in a
rainy day womb.
I saw them live somewhere in the '80's at the Roxy and I highly reccomend this if they do tour again.
Read the history. good story.
