May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Working on compiling a list of “Weekend WhiliGIGs”…and…having to check, source certain references…I find myself, at points, getting distracted. It happens when one is “Kerr-sed”. Had to check the date of a gig…find myself at the Minds “Bible” that is Dream Giver Redux (simpleminds.org), looking at the list of tours. 1982…tour lists Kerr…delicious… Going ga…
Ninties “curly locks” boy…lol Almost as many curls as me!
Welcome to Kerrsday Thursday (mini special). I give you…the strategically pictured microphone 😉 *eyebrows officially waggled off* Jim’s happy!Â
It’s a cover, but I love it…and, well, if I am to make a piece for every track on every Simple Minds album…this must be included, for it is a track on Sparkle In The Rain. Probably should have not used these particular lines, either…but in the context of the song, they hold the most…
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It’s been so tough artistically, the last couple of days. TICK TOCK TO NOVEMBER!
I had seen another photo in this sequence in which Jim is kissing Catherine’s cheek, but this one is just as beautiful…if not more beautiful because of the eye contact between them. I love these two people so much. They have both given me some of the most amazing experiences of my life this year….
For the Warm Digits guys 🙂
My favourite bits of this one are Jim’s dour, matter-of-fact delivery of “hunter and the hunted”, and that SUPER low keyboard note that is played after it. Dramatic! Those “life moves so fast” lines are so tender and beautiful though…melt.
September 6th, 1981 – A Sunday gig…and one that Jim was sick at…towards the end of the gig. The organiser in an interview some years later said it was due to Jim’s nerves…but if that had been the case, would that not have happened at the start (Jim being sick, that is)? Either way, I…
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