tombo
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Re:Jake on the Box - BBC4 6th Oct 06 - 2006/10/14 12:27
I've just (happily) discovered this web-site and I'm another one of those who do remember Braden's Week etc and I pat myself on the back for recognising Jake's talent when I was a teenager who by rights shouldn't have been interested in such a non-mainstream style.
I've got the La-Di-Dah CD which gives me my fix of Jake and I regularly trot out the track Sophie for my teenage daughter (Sophie), who, surprisingly enough, is not as embarrassed as you might think by it.
Anyway, what a wonderful surprise to stumble upon the BBC broadcast the other day. I did manage to get some sort of recording of it on VHS, albeit in black and white (technical problems), and it does mean I can listen to Remembrance and The Bull (see other posts re their rarity), but I would love to get hold of proper legit recordings of these two brilliant songs, especially Remembrance, which has to be the most inspiring anti-war song I've ever heard - should be on the national curriculum!
The only thing I'd have liked to have seen more of in the programme would have been a bit more about his later years. I realise we would be straying into privacy issues, but I can't help being curious about what happened to Jake, what demons he may have been dealing with. It was as if there was a bit of a taboo about speaking about it, andI was left trying to read between the lines (and therefore probably being completely inaccurate). Surely Jake was all about challenging taboos?
Having said that, of course we have to respect his surviving nearest and dearest - I dare say there is more information out there about Jake's life if I look. Early days in my rejuvenated interest.
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