OK, you’re watching “North Country“, Dylan’s singing “Sweetheart like you“ on the soundtrack and you know that that’s Mick Taylor, playing guitar.

You know that it’s Mick playing guitar, because you recognise Sly Dunbar’s drumming as the same style as on “Jokerman“ from “Infidels“which you’ve got as track 2 on a C90 Mix and Match tape that you’ve digitised in the meantime.

Kicks off with“Allan wia Stan“, Wolfgang Ambros’ brilliant Austrian dialect reading of “Like a Rolling Stone”, then goes into “Jokerman” (neat double link there and I really am quite proud of it – Bob wrote both, Mick was one and played on the other.

Which we of course know by now..

Then onto “Going home“ from “Local Hero” (because Mark Knopfler did the film music and produced “Infidel”) and on to “All night long“ by the Eagles from “Urban Cowboy” (which played in Houston and which is where the last shot of “Local Hero” plays, with “Going Home” riding off into the sunset, as it were)And talking of nightime – here’s Mick on “Long gone midnight“ from John Mayall’s “Blues from Laurel Canyon“

Then you’ve discovered – finally, finally! – that the Heads, Hands and Feet albums from the early 70s have been re-released (used, they fetch $150 on Amazon…) on CD.

And at some stage you stumble over a video clip of the band from the early 70s – Albert Lee was almost as good then as he is today, 35 years on, talk about FAST –

and you think ” Hang on, that intro on “Warming up the band“sounds familiar

– heavy on the cowbell, sounds veeery much like “So Long“ from Vinegar Joe.

(From whence hail Robert Palmer – “From a whisper to a scream“ – and Elkie Brooks – “No more the fool“)

Couldn’t be the same drummer, could it…?

Quick check.

Yep.

Pete Gavin. Both bands.

I know all this stuff, but I still need to look up the formula for NPV.

Which I should really know by heart.

It’s a bugger, innit….

(Just in case you’re interested….)