I saw 3 concerts by Franco Battiato … the last one within the walls of the beautiful city of Marostica (the city of chess) … a jewel surrounded by walls that climbs the hills …
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Perhaps it is due a new verse. "40 years later I’m still singing this song … "
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I would feel cheated to have to sing the chorus of an artist’s only hit if I paid to see him! Bragg didn’t sing one chorus. Maybe he, like many other ageing performers can no longer reach the same registers and needs support but then Billy struggled when he was twenty… Still - nice to see a local boy do good!
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I saw 2 Battiato concerts, both at the roman amphitheater in Cagliari. The first one was a bit classical-acoustic, the second one full rock and electric. Two great concerts in a different way!
Billy Bragg has a sense of humour…
But the musical rhymes are slightly better…
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Instead, I saw and listened to “your home” 
… Paolo Fresu… in that location it was a unique show…
… but is it a real thing or a Fake News???
I’m asking because I’m a radio amateur and Eumetsat user, it seems strange to me that I haven’t received any notice of such an important fact… Thanks anyway… now I’ll find out
Communication moves concepts between consciousnesses.
Presumably if it is a genuine recording of events it’s renderings of sensor values.
That makes it a performance to my mind.
I like this sort of stuff.
Ah OK! are the magnetic fields shifted in the audible frequency … Beautiful !!! Thank you
Unfortunately I lack a 5m satellite dish… otherwise I’d give the sunspot sounds that you can listen to on the net anyway.
Oooooh link please…
If you search the net for “sounds from space” you will find many things… I dreamed about it for hours…
https://www-asi-it.translate.goog/2022/01/la-sinfonia-delle-macchie-solari/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp for the Anglo Saxons…
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2008 "Best Instrumental Performance " Grammy Award winner
Dweezil Zappa & Steve Vai perform has dad’s composition: Peaches En Regalia
Perhaps predestined by Frank filing in Dweezil’s religion on his birth certificate as Musician .
(acording to this interview)
Dweezil Zappa: Grammy Winning Musician | Interview - Produce Like A Pro)
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Time Machines
2023… 
1971… Unfortunately Emerson didn’t have a nice Zynthian-V5 otherwise he would have enjoyed it… 
Note the latest generation sequencer:
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A piece of wood, four taut strings, some electric wires and … lots and lots of soul
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Love this bass intro to Layla in all its 1990’s retro chic recorded from last nights MTV VHS glory.
[edit] This link should work better than the image below Four Faces Of Eric Clapton (pt 4 of 4) - YouTube
The clip doesn’t work here so I sought it out on YouTube. I used to love playing Edge of Darkness theme (without the full orchestra) back in the eighties. I re-watched the TV series recently and it is rather dated now but I enjoyed it very much the first time round.
That is (literally) a bass and a half. Far too many strings! Clapton has to reinvent Layla periodically to avoid getting too bored with playing it - everyone expects to hear it - and to avoid the crowd anticipating it and making too much noise. I tended to recognise the various intros but might have struggled with that one. You inevitable hear a belated roar of recognition a few bars after the start of the iconic riff - avoided here due to the drop-out of the VHS tape which makes it even more nostalgic!
Clapton was the first professional gig I saw when I was a teenager. I subsequently saw him at the Royal Albert Hall and regret not obtaining tickets to the Cream reunion there. I am glad to have seen him perform live a few times. If there is an artist you want to see live - do it before it is too late.
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I saw Clapton at Wembley stadium on a double bill with Elton John. Both, we’re, frankly, underwhelming but I suspect they were both in the middle of their ‘tired and emotional’ phases.
Elton had dumped his superb backing band with the brilliant Davey Johnson and I don’t remember Clapton at all.
The event was also rather ruined because Mrs Wyleu had put together a decent picnic for us which security had trawled through and thrown out anything in glass containers which was about half of it.
Not a great day.
I have, however, friends, (A surprise in itself) who have followed Clapton religiously from the sixties and the discussions have ebbed and flowed to an almost comedic level over the years. I suspect, as with many pioneers in music, I heard many of the clones before I heard the original and so didn’t recognise the change they made.