Post what you're listening to!

Katy is cool, not as bad as everyone makes her out to be.

I'm digging St. Vincent. Those that can handle indie pop with synths and saturated drum tracks, she is teh secks.
 
telecutie said:
Bagman67 said:
telecutie said:
Bagman67 said:
Robbie.  Fulks.
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Yeah!  Will catch his show at The Down Home in Johnson City TN this weekend.
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Color me jealous.  He doesn't get to the West Coast much at all.
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Going to be an awesome weekend at this little club... Bill Kirchen on Friday, Robbie Fulks on Saturday.  You are jealous!
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I saw Bill Kirchen too many years ago at a little on-campus club at Santa Clara University while I was a student there. He was with Commander Cody at that time. I was standing close enough to him to tune his guitar, and boy could he make that Tele sing and dance. I'd love to catch him again. Big fan here.
 
DangerousR6 said:
MikeW said:
Been working on my phrasing lately, so I've gone back to where it all started. Da Blues.

Ian Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvfBM5OfK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9xQ4HNnDkk

Los Lonely Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkzoqQ5Oak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPGeEmoIQE

Kenny Wayne Shepard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlzNGMb0TUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQpCschDFUM
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KWS is insanely talented, I swear that Stevie's soul jumped into his body. Must have been that Deja VooDoo.. I've always liked Noah Hunts voice better, but this has to be my all time favorite from KWS. I remember seeing them way back in the day around Texas when they were just breaking..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF4f9NdCFUU
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Yes! The first song I ever heard from KWS was Deja VooDoo. Been a huge fan of his ever since then. I was lucky enough to see him and BB King play a benefit concert here in San Diego a few years ago. They sat on chairs at the front of the stage and traded fours over the top of The Thrill is Gone. One of the most amazing performances I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gCGt9eGwHg
 
I admire people who are very good at getting to do what they want to do, and out of that whole twitchy screamy youth bunch, Katy Perry is one that can do that - she had all sorts of schemers approach her, wanting to 'manage' her career - not. And, even if I don't want to listen to them :laughing3: it seem as though the un-cookie-cutter'd ones are the lasting kind. They're sprinkled around, too. When Justin Timberlake shows up at the studio, he brings keyboards and guitars and shows the studio guys what he'd like to hear - sort-of. I doubt you hear much of him in the final mix, but he's serious about what he's doing and the studio crew plays all the much better, even if it's just a synth loop - because they respect him.

Madonna, Lady Gaga, Prince, it goes on and on. Shoot, it's only been in the last 20 years that musicians began to think they should own their own publishing rights. Huh? There are still people in dead-for-decades Allen Klein's estate that get regular payments for the early Rolling Stones songs that they own... weird. John Mayer is another one - he used to do a Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute show, some manager hit upon the rosy cheeks and pouty lips and said "Teen Idol!" But Mayer only went along with it long enough get a bit of wham and then all of a sudden he's a bluesman. You could hear the Pampers plotzing up and down the hall when that came up.

These little freaks have, like, all drawn-up five and ten-year career plans before they're out of high school.  ??? :icon_scratch: ??? If you read the little Wikipedia biographies these kids were all Merit Scholars and class valedictorians with four sports in between helping little old ladies across the street. Not quite what I came to expect from rock stars... that ship done sailed.
 
I've been listening to Haim a lot recently, and last week I saw them live, which was brilliant. On tour they're less poppy and more of a straight-up rock band. I think it's down to the fact that they actually play all their songs, and don't use any tapes - so they necessarily strip the songs down to basics - guitars, bass, drums, keys. There was a bit in their last song where everyone on stage was drumming, and it was awesome.

They're great players, particularly Danielle on lead guitar. Seeing as we had Katy pics above, hell, why not:

Danielle+Haim+Life+Beautiful+Festival+Day+cZJeqOQnnRql.jpg
 
Nobody tells me nothin'.... During John Mayer's enforced absence from singing, he apparently got deep into two new bands: The Beatles, and the Grateful Dead. There could have been far worse things happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6jv_DG5do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPOh4-WJ_w

He has always had a good feel for the idea of a band supporting a guitarist as the lead voice, and he's getting better at it. He even forgets to sing like Dave Matthews imitating Tiny Tim sometimes!

(Or was it Tiny Tim, imitatin... never mind)
 
StübHead said:
Nobody tells me nothin'.... During John Mayer's enforced absence from singing, he apparently got deep into two new bands: The Beatles, and the Grateful Dead. There could have been far worse things happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U6jv_DG5do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtPOh4-WJ_w

He has always had a good feel for the idea of a band supporting a guitarist as the lead voice, and he's getting better at it. He even forgets to sing like Dave Matthews imitating Tiny Tim sometimes!

(Or was it Tiny Tim, imitatin... never mind)
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Mayer's ride-out solo in that Going Down The Road video is sweet. 


Jam band fits that kid pretty good.  Might as well make your money playing music if you can, since recording it becomes an increasingly bad bet for even established artists.
 
Don't judge me: I really like Kelly Clarkson's Christmas album. She's a hell of a singer, I don't think anyone would deny, and it's a Christmas album in the grand American tradition: a few originals, all done in a traditional style, no weird attempts to make it "cool" or "modern" that just fall flat. Thank Greg Kuristin for that I guess. Instead, it's a rock & roll/swing band, together with a fantastic vocalist, just blasting out Christmas hits. A lot of fun.

There's only really one song on there I'm not keen on, but that's what the skip button is for.
 
Going to see Gary Hoey on Saturday, so in honor of the occasion I've had Ho Ho Hoey! on for the last week.

That and a generous dose of Megadeth. Sort of polar opposites those two...
 
I've dusted off my Phosphorescent CD "Muchacho," which has my vote for album of the year.  I was obsessed with this album earlier this year.  I finally stopped playing it non-stop, then they announced tour dates in my area, which got me playing it all over again. 
 
I have just discovered this Norwegian guitarist, Eivind Aarset. He's been on a few albums I have, mostly from those guys who play like they really should have been invited to play on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, but they were still in diapers. But his own stuff is really cool, he's sort of like an outgrowth of the ambient looper crowd, but with balls and chops. An awful lot of that stuff frankly sounds like somebody who can't play well enough to play songs, but they can sneak into "art music" the loopy way. (henrykaiserhenrykaiserhenrykaiserhenrykaiserhenrykaiser - gorf!)

This Aarset guy could sit in with Bon Jovi or the Yellowjackets or pretty much any of a few thousand bands needing a good guitarist with finely-honed melodic skills - so he plays this way because he chooses to, not because he can't play anything else! :laughing3: (henrykaiserhenrykaiserhenrykaiserhen...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIYsiT0SuQ

Sorry about the weird blue crap besmirching the screen, I can't seem to be rid of it once and for all :sad:)

That whole ECM/Scandinavian jazz scene pops out stuff that ranges from breathtaking to... breathtaking, if you know what I mean. Like,

(What the F was that?!?!) all the way to

(What the F was that?!?!)

Finally, thanks to YouTube, you can do a bit of sorting before the wallet comes out. In the good ol' days, it got chancy. I'm quite certain I have probably ten out of the (twenty?) (thirty?) greatest Indian music performances ever recorded, but dang-it-doogy, I had to buy the whole pyramid just to score the capstone.... ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWJfHa0EmRI

If you've been following my girl Anoushka's career, she has lately been playing lead sitar solos over, like, four, five & six chord "popular music" chord changes. Even if you get to pick which chords, this is quite impossible. Never been done before. Even on the multitude of film scores he wrote, her daddy Ravi broke it down to one or two chords (I - IV, I-V) when it was time to crank into industrial-grade sitar sparkies & moonbursts. Anoushka's newest CD "Traces of You" was the sole justification for the existence of the year 2013, IMO. Don't ask. During the recording:

1) She got married;
2) Her dad Ravi Shankar died;
3) She had a baby.

And she doesn't hold anything back. If that one don't ring yer bell, yer bell's broke.
 
I like yer ears, Stubby.  I reckon you've heard it, but if'n you haven't, V.S. Bhatt's record with Ry Cooder, "A Meeting By The River," is, as the kids say, the shit.  The bulk of the album is very squarely in Indian improv territory, and delightfully so, but their cover of the Polynesian classic, "Isa Lei," is divine.
 
Paco De Lucia just died at age 66, heart attack. I was lucky enough to see him with John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola on both the 1981 and 1983 tours. It was obvious that they were visiting his world, and his playing ran that band. 66 is a bit too close.... but talk's cheap:

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/AlDiMeolaPacoDeLuciaJohnMcLaughlin1981-04-12TheOperaHouseBostonMA.asx

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/AlDiMeolaJohnMcLaughlinPacoDeLucia1983-09-30BostonOperaHouseMA.asx
 
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