Today.....Buddy Guy.
Today.....Buddy Guy.
Thank a Veteran
Due to my recent travels, I only found out today that Klaus Schulze had passed away. So, I'm listening to a Hearts of Space retrospective of his music.
The name Klaus Schulze may not be familiar to a) many Americans, and/or b) guitar players, because he was neither. However, he is regarded by many as one of the founders of the electronic music genre. He played with Tangerine Dream on their debut album Electronic Meditation and with several other ground-breaking bands until launching a solo career that produced over 40 albums. His live concerts were legendary (a full list of his works is on Wikipedia's page). According to his web site, a new album produced before his passing is scheduled to be released next month.
The passing of another giant. R. I. P.
Striving to be ordinary
Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
OS during the 80s, I listened to Heart of Space and using my cassette deck, recorded shows so that I could listen to them later. Fantastic stuff.
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Someone on the LPF posted this one, and I'm enjoyng it so much. I only ever knew the Woodstock tracks.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
And another
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
Something different and very interesting: Classic style cool Jazz played by Japanese bands and guitarists.
Six degrees of separation, Willie. Or something like that.
I have a number of albums by Country Joe & The Fish: Electric Music for Mind & Body, I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag, CJ Fish, and a personally-signed copy of www.countryjoe.com (which is also his web site). How did I come by an autographed CD (and beverage glass)?
In the 1990s, I had a married couple as friends, Tom and his wife, Lynda. In her prior life Lynda Van Devanter was an Army nurse at the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku province, Vietnam. She chronicled her experiences in a book titled, "Home Before Morning." Exposed to deadly chemicals there, Lynda succumbed to cancer in 2002. During her life, she was one of the motivating forces behind the addition of the nurses' memorial at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.
She was friends with Country Joe McDonald, who also hails from the Washington, D. C. area. She put me in touch with him, and he sent me a copy of his CD and a the drinking glass, with the note on the CD, "Keeping the Faith."
Striving to be ordinary
Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
Fantastic, Fred. He's quite an overlooked talent. I read up on him today to see that he's recorded soooo many albums. Prolific.
I need to listen to more of him. Great band, the Fish.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
I’m enjoying a lot of Kenny Burrell’s GREAT guitar work
He has a very simple and focused style. I like his phrasings a lot!
had a hankering to hear some zep tonight, dialed up Houses Of The Holy and the first song would not play. I Googled and it said the music code could be corrupted, to sign out of music and back in. The directions in Settings not only existed just like the desktop said, they worked. The album played in its entirety.
Hankering was satiated. Even started playing the rebuilt Jazz bass. Just call me John Paul Jones
BTW - after the album played, Apple gave me a killer playlist, best I've seen yet
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
I've found a pretty cool online "radio station" for times when I just want a full range of Brit rock--classic mostly and good old heapings of prog.
http://www.radiorockuk.com/
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
Blood On The Tracks album by Bob Dylan
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
Was in a Dave Brubeck mood tonight. So hard to groove this heavy in 5/4 (or 10/8 depending on how you feel this) - by the way, the drum solo from Joe Morello was epic in this cut (starts at 4:40).
Yessir…I’ll take a second round. Paul Desmond has to go down as one of the smoothest alto players ever.
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"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Ever since I saw John Cipollina's rig on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I've been wanting to hear the blare of those Wurlitzer horns coming out of the "quiet break" of the Who Do You Love Suite. Considered by several music publications as one of the greatest rock albums, Cipollina remarked that he didn't understand the plaudits, saying, "It was just a two-chord jam."
(Not the original album, but a 1973 Winterland concert. You can hear the effect at the 14:48 mark)
Striving to be ordinary
Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
Since I’m getting to know my new Mini Maton acoustic, I’ve been digging into Tommy Emmanuel:
"...pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field;
that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,
shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."
-Edmund Burke
Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
nice follow up
Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
I’m currently listening to most of what the guys are posting here:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...#post-30285296
I generally tend to stick to released studio albums vs greatest hits compilations, Tom Petty is one of those few artists I can do that with. Don't know if my brother can hear me, I'm singing along where i can. I've seen him a few times in concert and he didn't disappoint. I'm sad that I have to use that in the past tense, I miss him.
"Live and learn and flip the burns"
I am ashamed to say I didn’t know Tony Joe White until this morning and I am loving all of his albums. I love minimalist songs and this gentleman was a master of making music on a strat!
Mateus Asato. Everything I can find. The young man is an absolute monster
Whiskey Train by Procol Harum... one of my all time favorite riffs.
Just got back from hearing Toby Walker in concert. Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane) asked Toby to teach at Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch, and said, "Flat out... you have to hear this great musician. I'm blown away!"
There were maybe thirty of us in the audience, at a small, local cafe. I chatted with him, but didn't buy any of his (many) CDs (I don't have a good player). He's very much into roots blues, traveling, learning and teaching. He played Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and threw in some instrumental ballads and told a lot of background stories. I paid a measly $11. Well worth every penny!
He played this, too.
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Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
Some vintage Jefferson Airplane from "Surrealistic Pillow".
I happened to be watching an old flick from 1990 called "Flashback" the other night starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper and the film was populated with songs from the 'Summer Of Love" era including Marty Balin's "Comin' Back To Me' which brought back a flood of memories, so much so that I needed to hear more. I had to listen to the entire album. Twice.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
Dennis Hopper was a real genius, both in front of the camera and behind it. Incredibly, his conservative philosophy did not match his on-screen persona. He and I shared a birthday, along with actor Bill Paxton.
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
Anytime I come across a video that features two of my favorite guitarists, I have to stop and watch (and listen!). I've seen this before, but it never fails to floor me. Jeff Beck with Eric Clapton and Doyle Bramhall II playing "'Cause We've Ended As Lovers."
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Joni Mitchell with perhaps one of the greatest backup bands of all time: Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker, and The Persuasions (backing vocals).
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Proud to be a TFF Dumbass!
I'm listening non stop to Bobby Weir's 1972 album, Ace
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim