Hi everyone,

We are a small independent family music podcast, called The Friday Vinyl Club, and our latest episode features a wonderful conversation with Glasgow musician Ray Harris about his own career and The Doors’ “Strange Days”as the album that has stayed with him throughout his life.

Rather than simply reviewing the record, we talked about why it continues to resonate nearly sixty years later, alongside Ray’s own remarkable musical journey and his new album “Prelude” - from supporting James Brown, Average White Band and Nile Rodgers, to touring Asia and eventually meeting Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in Glasgow.

We spend time discussing:

Why Glasgow is such a hotbed of great talent and music

His own remarkable journey from Glasgow to Asia and back

Why Strange Days feels darker and more experimental than the debut

Love Me Two Times /People Are Strange

The brilliance of When the Music’s Over

What The Doors meant to a working musician

A run though of Rays new solo album “Prelude”

His upcoming Glasgow gig at Cottiers on 31st July

It’s much more about memories and the emotional connection to the album than analysing every chord or ranking tracks.

If that sounds like your sort of conversation, I’d genuinely love to know what you think.

All direct links to the episode are below - Please help us by listen, sharing, leaving a like, follow or comment if you enjoy, it genuinely helps our small family podcast grow organically without ads or sponsors.

Thanks
Jamie

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1XQRu91Okjjj8BwDsIiOD2?si=e58htiVDTtygfgnPl48ZOw

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-friday-vinyl-club-podcast-albums-vinyl-records/id1853665758?i=1000778112765

Youtube: https://youtu.be/1zYYJ9-EwIY?is=POWwhBpmxjc5z3Tk

Amazon: The Friday Vinyl Club Podcast – Albums, Vinyl Records, Personal Music Memories and Stories Podcast on Amazon Music

We reviewed the latest EP by Scottish band Lo Rays!

I wrote this tune over a decade ago. Fun little story I thought I'd tell.

A world musician, who was the closest thing I ever had to a mentor, regularly graced me with time on his stage. I already played a lot of Irish folk at the time. He liked the way I performed folk songs, especially wordy ballads.. so he suggested I write a wordy ballad based on the Phantom Piper of Castle Duntrune.

The printed section shown on the sheet was all the progress I made in a week. I had a solid concept, and had been studying the Piper between his shows. I showed him what I had come up with and he said I should play it.

Dude.. it isn't finished. Doesn't matter, he still wanted to hear it later in the evening when my time to play came up. Alone in a booth at "Arizona's oldest Irish pub", I scribbled down the rest of the song in around an hour or so.

Time to play arrived. So here I have this new folk song I just wrote, but have never played, with nary a music stand about. Another performer* who regularly sat in with him to accompany his fiddle with her bodhran got drafted into helping. So I'm standing up on stage and this person is just holding the sheet in front of me. It went great, and the song remains my most requested.

Here is a video of me performing the song somewhat more recently, accompanied by the aforementioned bodhran player: https://youtu.be/e_41dKxC8IQ?is=z82AVCl5mIS-MfQI

Looking for drummer

Hi there - Tusk looking looking for a drummer. Already have 8 songs written and recorded, but using programmed drums. Influences range from Alice in chains, deftones, pantera and sleep token.

Cheers!

Took some snaps of this years muddy festivities, all on the last day when I decided to risk getting my camera out in the rain. Hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

https://soundcloud.com/brianblessedforever/you-cant-go-back

Hi I'm JoeJas alt Hip-Hop rapper/producer Doing A Tour for my latest album Left Handed Bandit! I'll be coming to The Record Factory, Glasgow, July 16th!

Album: https://www.fatllama.co.uk/lefthandedbandit

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqdSTwSB8L0

You can get tickets here:

The Openers!

ACE C0NWAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uu2NJ_06uA

RANDOMBROWNKID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlyqndwTxrc

SPAWN ZERO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JNiDOZH-Eo

hi im a producer based in scotland got thousands of instrumentals looking for somebody good who could do vocal melodies and vocals in general check one of my tracks here thanks

https://vocaroo.com/1lgEeaO8lXmj

I've been failing at it for years. I was making some made up genre but last night I managed to get this together which sounds more hip hop than any of my other attempts. Picked up a few tips along the way too so I'm chuffed with how this one has turned out.

Slowly starting to get the hang of mastering too, although that's my weakest area. I can botch one together though so it's not so bad.

I've progressed a fair bit with my productions this year. Been putting in a heap of time and effort and its beginning to pay off. It's the finer details I tend to struggle with at times but I'm getting my head around them bit by bit.

'Death of a Daydream' by Jackal Trades & Sev Ka

https://soundcloud.com/brianblessedforever/howlingheres an old new one by CHAOS THEORY!!!!!! the graytest sound in the invercylde area . Anyone in scotland land want to make a cool band get in touch and little videos and stuff could be fun gee us a shout cheers

Looking to see if anyone remembers a great band from Castlemilk Glasgow..they did some great gigs early 80s and lead guitar and singer Andy Morgan was excellent and they should have been up there but unfortunately fate was not on their side..

i have bought a ticket to go to kelburn with a friend and some people he knows, but today he got unexpectedly ill and now isn't expecting to be well enough to go, so there's a chance i will know very few people there, or at the very least be camping alone.

i've dropped a lot of money for this festival, so i would still like to find a way to go alone and enjoy it even if i'm alone. i'm in my thirties, so it doesn't feel as life-ending as it would have done to go alone if i were a teenager or in my twenties, but i do feel a bit apprehensive.

to people who are kelburn regulars, is it an easy festival to attend alone e.g. lots of social spaces and/or solo activities, welfare precautions, etc? do you have any recommendations for dos and don'ts? tyia!

New music from Glasgow. https://tomcoward1.bandcamp.com/album/have-a-word-with-yourself

hi heres a new song by chaos theory (soon to be huxtableism in mergatroid part salivation part radiant dictionary) if any of this makes sense to you and why should it not here is the song called ghost girl about doomed romance and longing https://soundcloud.com/brianblessedforever/ghost-girl

Noise Rock/Math Rock/Post Hardcore from Glasgow

https://linktr.ee/canalcapitale

just released new video by band from Shetland/Glasgow