Post what you're listening to!

[alterbridgefan]

That rap around 3:00 though... Yuck. Not my favorite.

 

[bagman67]

I want this dobro player's jacket:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZPBUu7Fro




Plus this song flat-out RULES.

 

[musicispeace]

Rory Gallagher, why didn't any of the other morons I hung out with musically tell me about him at the time? Ugh....

 

[bagman67]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ758xfIK4I

Imagine that - It's a

:icon_thumright: "Sing-Along with K. Crimson!"  :icon_thumright:

Somethin' just ain't right.

Followin' the links, I got this video of our "promising young Kentuckian," as a featured sideman for Bowie ca. 1978.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tWyIug2qP0


Nice of his momma to let him play in a band.  Looks like he's 17 years old.


I thought the bass player might be Louis Johnson, but apparently he was still very much involved with his own band with brother George, the Brothers Johnson.  Anyone recognize that funky thumper?


Bagman

 

[bagman67]

Here's how it sounds when you REALLY practice like a madman on an acoustic instrument and perform anywhere they'll let you for decades.  Tony Rice, with miscellaneous mindblowing sidemen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGSSKRv1iA


Sounds like Doc Watson with him on "Lost Indian" at 25:57.

 

[Cagey]

Maybe it's just me, but that doesn't sound like Eddie VanHalen at all.

 

[bagman67]

For what it's worth, neither does Eddie Van Halen, these days.

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, he's ageing fast.

 

[bagman67]

Yeah, he's ageing fast.

Four decades of drinking like a fish whilst chainsmoking will do that to a guy, I hear.

 

[stubhead]

Gail Ann Dorsey, with some backup singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtSyorjXv4

Sh put out three great albums, but the marketing teams have a little problem trying to place a five-foot tall beautiful cone-shaped black women who could undoubtedly crush you like a bug... :icon_biggrin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fsply_AyrU

 

[brokebymonday]

http://youtu.be/p_81l4DXlwM

CHEK PLUS TO THE GYPSY RAGGED PUNK

 

[bagman67]

Gail Ann Dorsey, with some backup singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtSyorjXv4

Sh put out three great albums, but the marketing teams have a little problem trying to place a five-foot tall beautiful cone-shaped black women who could undoubtedly crush you like a bug... :icon_biggrin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fsply_AyrU

Thanks, O Head of Stubbitude.  This woman is a wonderful artist.


This being the pre-holiday buildup, I clicked around through the related videos and found her doing a truly beautiful version of "O Holy Night."  Def. worthwhile.  Lost the link, but if you watch a little bit of her stuff, you'll find it.

 

[bagman67]

Tal Wilkenfeld kills it on a Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel".  Who knew she is also a lovely singer?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHszh0JHPE

 

[alterbridgefan]

I actually really like Lana del Rey's version of the song. Good stuff.

 

[bagman67]

John McLaughlin, Kai Eckhardt, Trilok Gurtu:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_09oOdVoo


This is what mastery looks like.  Nothing is impossible.  Technical accomplishment subordinated to artistic vision.  The Way Things Ought To Be, in my view.


Trilok Gurtu is an actual, bona-fide genius of percussion.  Guy must go through a couple dozen ride cymbals a year - he has mindblowing technique on that instrument alone, but integrates that fully in the band's performance. 


Kai Eckhardt absolutely DESTROYS on bass, and yet he seems like the slow kid in this company.

 

[stubhead]

McLaughlin used to run a finishing school for hot young bassists. Dream gig.... And if you want to know how to still be able to play a million miles an hour when you're 70, look at the discipline of the left-hand positioning he developed by the age of 35 or so. He never stretches. And he can get any note he wants. And he never misses. :toothy11:

I don't think he and Gurtu played "particularly well" together, but: that's in comparison to Billy Cobham, Narada Michael Walden and Zakir Hussein. Whaddya want? :laughing7:

Whoa - I just go to the end -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_09oOdVoo
that bass solo at 33 minutes is monstrous. I haven't heard much of Ekhardt lately - some of them cosmic types can drift a bit too far off the beam, IYKWIM.

 

[bagman67]

Bill Frisell's 2002 band, performing in support of the "Blues Dream" record he had out then, hence the playlist.


Really nice.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GenlDkfC6wM


Bill was one of Jim Hall's proteges and really has a wonderful voice on the instrument.  Very spare harmonic invention as an accompanist, but wonderfully melodic lead lines.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I'm listening to Charli XCX almost constantly at the moment.

You guys won't like her, sorry.

 

[bagman67]

I dunno, she seems to be pretty solid youngster pop music.  We're not immune to the charms just 'cause we also like guitar nerd stuff.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I know, just pulling your leg. She's hyper-talented, it's crazy. She writes for other people as well as herself. Went to a gig a few months back and the energy in that room was just insane.