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I used to go down to that dive bar (the one with the country band), get out of the apartment, nurse a $2 beer for an hour, listen to some good music, hang out with the bar flies. Sometimes the Missus would come along. I think that place is out of biz now, Good old Hank's Saloon. I don't have a place like that anymore. Now we go to the Egg ...

Saw them in brooklyn a million years ago.

I remember the first time I saw it, I said what the hell is that it looks like a space station. And they said it was the state capitol. It's Brutalist Architecture, and Rocky filled the capitol with bureaucrats, lichtenstiens and calder mobiles with a big reflecting pool like in brazilia ... it's nuts. You can't say the guy didn't have vision though.

Yes ... the quick drive from Dallas to Albany.
 
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4406Pack said:
How about some 1977
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Is he any relation of Mark Egan, the bassist? He looks mighty similar, at least in that still from the Magnet and Steel video. Mark Egan has the honor of claiming a unique voice on the fretless bass despite breaking big during the Jaco era, and is worth a lesson. He'll turn your head around, if you're a fusion-head of the Weather Report/Pat Metheny ilk.
Here's an instructional video from 1989:
 
So anyway, this is what I was listening to before I went down the Mark Egan rabbithole:


For my money, Jerry Douglas is just the nuts. I don't think there's anyone else on the planet who can intonate and articulate more perfectly. And as he demonstrates here with Derek Trucks, he can improvise beautifully in non-western modes.
 
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Bela Fleck leads a group of miraculously able players, including the aforementioned Jerry Douglas, but check out Danny Thompson on bass. who never disappoints; and dig the tin whistle player who shines in the ride-out, Michael McGoldrick.

 
Okay, just one more: Jerry Douglas takes a solo turn at an Alison Krauss & Union Station show. Sublime.

 
I love Buckethead's music, and the way he subverts the guitar-hero culture by being this blank character who refuses to play along with the rest of us in the fame game; but it must be exhausting to spend so much time in character. Truly a weird dude. I bought the Praxis Mutatis Mutandis album on a whim when it came out because I dug some other Bill Laswell stuff I had heard, and he really turned my head around. God bless him and his miraculously weird guitar playing.
 
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