1. Help Yourself 'Blown Away' - Solo Performance by Malcolm Morley

[chrisguygeezer]

this track I have off a wonderful album, double vinyl, that I still play to this day. Wonderful.

[oxfordbiker]

@chrisguygeezer it is, isn't it? I've got more footage from this gig when Green Ray (incl Ken Whaley, Richard Treece) join Malcolm on stage that I have to get round to uploading....

[chrisguygeezer]

@oxfordbiker I was a fan of the Man band, saw them a couple of times, never saw the Helps, sadly. I think the Helps were a lot more inventive and certainly less affected by the passing of years.

What have these guys been doing all these years!?

[pit2ryan3]

Malcolm Morley's song "Deborah" (from Help Yourself 1st album) is one of the greatest songs I' ve ever heard !

Any chance to see something with Ernie Graham ?

[NeilThompson30]

Help Yourself end up playing at the back of a pub in Walthamstow -

and the band that made a living out of copying the Beware the shadow album sit on their millions at home -

the band? -

Dire Straits.

[Cedricks74]

Man, what can I say? You message drove me nuts, I serched the web to find evidence of the richard treece style, to compare. I started to listen to Mark Knopfler's songs since he was in the cafe racers, and what you are acusing him is tottaly unfair. As a music fan and maybe a guitar player like me and him, you should listen again and reavaliate, be aware that this horrible song of "help yourself" is not helping you to get credibility.

[NeilThompson30]

Cedricks - what are you talking about - this is Malcolm Morley - NOT Richard Treece.

I don't care if Blown away is not helping me get credibility - what's that supposed to mean anyway? - it's not a dreadful song - it's a brilliant song when Help Yourself or Man do it.

It's a bit much comparing Malcolm to a tramp. His songs are from the heart and not blemished by album chart hunger mentality.

Martin Ace from Man was a tramp for a while anyway - I don't know what you're getting at.

[Cedricks74]

Knopflers piano and guitar sounds like classical hungarian melodies. Blown away is dreadful ( sorry ) it has no structure, it sounds like a basic spanish song played by a tramp in a subway entrance ( sorry again ). I hope this doesn't ofend you nor it should Treece. If knopfler is coping people, it was people like Richard Phillips, Chuck Berry, Chet Aktins and JJ cale. All folks he played with, with a good fan-idol inversion.

[oxfordbiker]

I think this version of the song is very much 'for fans only'! Much like Jimmy Page and Robert Plant doing 'unplugged' versions of Zeppelin classics - they need to be evaluated in light of their differences from the originals and how they've chosen to modify those original songs to fit with the new setting. For someone who knows and loves the original, this is an interesting twist. Neil what era of Dire Straits do you think sounds like Help Yourself? Cant see the link to Money for Nothing era?

[NeilThompson30]

Cheers oxfordbiker - to be honest it was when Sultans of Swing first came out - I just automatically thought - this is SO Help Yourself Beware the Shadow - and I've thought it ever since - I can put money on it that Knopfler is a big fan. It was sort of confirmed a little when he got Terry Williams in the band.

[Cedricks74]

I used to like Led a lot but it is a studio rock, the thing about the MK band is that it sounds better live than in the records. I am still waiting for some 'help yourself' video because they are unknown nowadays. I like the stones hugely and their guitar simple tricks so you can type a lot and still suck, as I think of many awarded as gods of the 6 strings. Not to mention regular rock on the radio ......

[cloudsblues]

beautiful so far i only had read about this song,pretty hip-thank you-peace