What I’m Listening to This Week: Phil Manzanera
Posted By William Heise on June 8, 2009
I’ve got to get out of the past and into the present, but I’ve got a week’s worth of posts before I can do that, so here’s one last blast from the past.
The first video is a video of Jack Bruce, the lead singer of Cream, singing City of Gold accompanied by Phil Manzanera on guitar:
The next video is of my favorite song when I was reading The Glass Bead Game and failing out of college. Phil Manzanera’s in there somewhere:
And finally, here is 801 Live performing Brian Eno’s Fat Lady of Limbourg:
And finally, here is a glimpse of the future. This is Phil Manzanera performing Frontera on his own with some superfluous Spanish dancers (great song):
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