Loving Awareness

This track - The Vibes inside - from "The Loving Awareness Band" is such a beautiful piece of music. No other radio stations that I remember ever played their music, so my memories of hearing the "The Loving Awareness Band" are always associated with Radio Caroline and long hot sunny days along the Suffolk Coast.

This is the magic of......"Loving Awareness"

Mark May 2010

It’s really hard trying to get a record for the forthcoming election, mainly because there are so many to choose from. I have decided on 2 and this is the first of them.

The Temptations are probably my most favourite group ever and have done one of my top 3 songs of all times. Not this one though, I will save that one for another time. What people don’t realise is that as well as being one of the tightest vocal and best choreographed groups of all time, the Temps also had a large social conscience which included songs about Poverty, Drugs and the Vietnam war. So being mentioned in the song inequality, taxes, war, children growing up to quickly and crooked politicians (some things never change). I am sure that these topics will strike a chord with voters as they did 40 years ago when this record charted.

So I hope who you vote for deliver everything you desire, Duncan May 2010

I think this is a wonderful song and has to be in the Paranoid top 10 of all time. It perfectly describes politicians who have “smiling faces, show no traces, of the evil that lurks within.” It could be anyone of them. I always think of this song during my normal life. It’s probably not a bad way to think of people when you first meet them, as it seems everyone is trying to rip you off in some way or another (there you are I am getting just as paranoid as everyone else).

So remember “smiling faces sometimes, they don’t tell the truth.”

Duncan May 2010

The track is - Give it to you - taken from the stonking 1975 Vinyl LP - UPP - by the band UPP . Jeff Beck produced it and he plays on it. His use of the voice box on this album shows that he really knows how to use it. Jeff had no credits shown on the album cover for his contribution. The album is an orgy of 70s Rock-Jazz Fusion, Funk Soul & Blues and needs to be listened to several times to really appreciate what's going on. A follow up album named - This Way UPP - was just amazing.

Mark. May 2010

The UK was going through hard times when this LP came out just like today. The track I have selected is the title track “Power In The Darkness” that start with the lyrics

"Power in the darkness
Frightening lies from the other side
Power in the darkness
Stand up and fight for your rights"

Always fight for for rights, Maurice Hyde May 2010

Sometimes in life things happen and you can have horrible nasty vindictive people who lie about you, when this happens you need to do just what Bob Marley says.. “Get Up Stand Up” and if you do justice will win through, so never give up the fight. This song is dedicated to my friends Richie and Charlie Brown living in the Banjul in the Gambia.

Maurice Hyde May 2010

Reading Marks review of the Loving Awareness band brought memories flooding back of Radio Caroline in the 70’s. I remember listening on a Sunday where listeners put forward their top 20 tracks and as it was a rock station they were in 2 hour slots, as the songs were the longer album tracks. The trouble was that the top 3 always consisted of “Stairway to Heaven” “Layla” and “Freebird” in no paticular order. Those old hippies had a lot of imagination. Still Caroline was great even though you could only hear it on medium wave, the signal was always fading in and out. It got me into groups like Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Quick Silver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane. I think that is why I liked it as it seemed to be living in another era, playing music that was about 7 or 8 years old from the Woodstock generation. That’s probably not true but it how it seemed from my memories.

I can recall when I knew that the dream had finished and the station was on the way out, was when I went fishing at the waterworks one afternoon with a little transister radio, they were playing the Clash and the Stranglers. Don’t get me wrong I much prefer these groups to most of the stuff that Caroline played, but it didn’t fit in with being played along side Country Joe and the Fish. I never listened to it again.

Anyway the track I have selected is Silver Star by The Four Seasons. I don’t think I have heard this played anywhere else and is a favourite of mine. It always reminds me of Caroline (the radio, not Durham, honest Ash).

Peace brothers and love the one your with,

Duncan May 2010