Wouldn't it be good

Freebird

A surprisingly good song..

Nitefly

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

viz

Nik is great. 

digitalscream

Fixed your video link

Also, yes.

Freebird

Nitefly said:

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

Haha 

Jalapeno

I was expecting the Small Faces

ICBM

He's very good - I saw him last summer at one of the 80s retro festivals, a full set of great songs, and he didn't hold back on the guitar-hero stuff either (on a PRS). I always quite liked Howard Jones too - I haven't seen him for about thirty years, but he hasn't aged much!

I have to say the acoustic guitar sound in that video is horrible though... some things should have been left in the 80s.

EricTheWeary

I saw Mr K pretty much at the height of his fame I'm guessing around 1985. I'd been dragged along by my sister but as I remember it a really good light show ( at least by the standards of the time) and a good deal of guitar showboating so that was all good for me. 

Looking at Wikipedia I didn't know he was the guitarist on Nikita by Elton John. Impressively big time although probably my least favourite Elton John song. 

But without clicking on the link in the OP I can humm a reasonable approximation of that tune, so all good stuff. 

Nitefly

Freebird said:

Nitefly said:

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

Haha 

LOL and now you've edited the thread title, my comment makes no sense!

Kebabkid

Nitefly said:

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

@Nitefly - just off topic for a moment, have you ever heard Howard Jones' version of Donald Fagen's 'IGY'?
 

Nitefly

@Kebabkid no I hadn't, I'll give it a go now...

*edit* very good!  Another great song!

Freebird

EricTheWeary said:

But without clicking on the link in the OP I can humm a reasonable approximation of that tune, so all good stuff. 

The version I posted is stripped of its 80's sugar-coating, so you can hear the true essence of the song.

viz

Btw The Riddle is one of those songs that if you hun the opening line in your head, you’re going to be no more than 1 semitone out even if you haven’t got perfect pitch. 

Don’t cheat! Don’t click on the link till you’ve settled on a key! Then check it out. 

https://youtu.be/bDygS0a6Tgo

Philly_Q

Also the writer of The One and Only for Chesney Hawkes...

Vibetronic

Nik K is awesome. All of his post-80's solo albums are worth getting (To Be Frank is one of my favourite albums ever made), miles better than the 80's stuff imo. We saw him do a small acoustic gig in a pub in Portsmouth a few years ago, absolutely brilliant. 

octatonic

Kebabkid said:

Nitefly said:

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

@Nitefly - just off topic for a moment, have you ever heard Howard Jones' version of Donald Fagen's 'IGY'?
 

It is interesting but I don't think it is a patch on the original, which is one of the best recorded songs in the history of music, so it would be unexpected for it to be.
Howard's synth horns are particularly 'not right'.

viz

Philly_Q said:

Also the writer of The One and Only for Chesney Hawkes...

Chesney put in a guest appearance at a Nik gig last year - I met him and some scruffy friend of his before the gig. They were both good fun and I asked this bloke to take a pic of Chezza and me. Afterwards someone asked me why I didn’t want Chris Moyles in the photo as well.

Kebabkid

octatonic said:

Kebabkid said:

Nitefly said:

Indeed it is, although I was expecting The Beach Boys...  (also a very good song!)

@Nitefly - just off topic for a moment, have you ever heard Howard Jones' version of Donald Fagen's 'IGY'?
 

It is interesting but I don't think it is a patch on the original, which is one of the best recorded songs in the history of music, so it would be unexpected for it to be.
Howard's synth horns are particularly 'not right'.

Absolutely. That album is sheer perfection on every level