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cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy
Post Number: 1984 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, December 12, 2015 - 8:50 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Dave: My argument with LMSYBA is the singing &, especially, the lyrics. You're right on the Jazz is Dead version; very nice. Bill: OK, point taken. Those do, indeed, drink through a straw with great force. It being Saturday, I spent my workday with NPR; Car Talk, Wait Wait, This American Life, 2 local shows (Sound Opinions, with the "rock" critics from the Tribune & Sun-Times [bozos both] and Saturday Blues). When I got home, for Her sake (not that I minded) the James Taylor channel on Pandora. Now I think I'll ease myself to sleep with a little Paul Horn Inside The Taj Majal Peter |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4641 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Saturday, December 12, 2015 - 8:55 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Dave my friend , I am paying atention ! I only wish that I had that kind of talent at the age of eight ! Most likely on the piano at eight I was playing just scales . The scales however were building blocks for my future musical evolution ! The ultimate publication of the such would be the " Thesaurus of Scales And Melodic Patterns" By Nicolas Slonimsky" This was publication that John Coltrane and JACO used and learned to jam better with. _ I love scales & modes ! It is Jam band material ______ ... ... ... ... Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4643 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2015 - 12:19 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Vincenzo Maurogiovanni ----SIX STRING Bass master ! Check out his hand technique ! This guy is amazing . https://www.youtube.com/user/viz76/videos Wolf |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12005 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2015 - 4:13 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Peter; the Paul Horn piece is beautiful. Thanks! |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12006 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2015 - 6:24 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
I just watched the Anoushka Shankar concert that Elwood linked. Wonderful! |
elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue
Post Number: 1780 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Sunday, December 13, 2015 - 9:20 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
I just got tickets to see her in April, that's gonna be fun! Glad you saw that...she's amazing. |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12007 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, December 14, 2015 - 7:53 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
She is amazing indeed; and the band in the video was tight. And the non-traditional stuff was really nice. It's great that you're going to get to see her. |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 724 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 11:51 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Another gem from Fiddlin' Brit, with Jordan Tice on guitar. (and apparently a string deal with D'Addario) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x2MP2gGND8 Do not miss the awesome power of a rest at 2:20... |
hammer
Senior Member Username: hammer
Post Number: 817 Registered: 9-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 4:52 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Just bought my son some tickets to see David Lindley in Eugene as an Xmas gift and found several Youtube clips of a show we saw together in Iowa last April. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dVfaZxvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLq9HgGP8G8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVMiYwyMcI |
lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq
Post Number: 6300 Registered: 7-2004
| Posted on Sunday, December 20, 2015 - 8:32 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Just got back from seeing Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers playing acoustic at a tiny 185 seat theater. Great show! Bill, tgo |
pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo
Post Number: 1576 Registered: 6-2006
| Posted on Monday, December 21, 2015 - 3:18 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Testa Rosa (the band, not the auto) https://youtube.com/watch?list=PLxqW0YZHzqw7LXUcQAkFvXo7DljshXhza&v=n-9JR8W16CE (Message edited by Pauldo on December 21, 2015) (Message edited by Pauldo on December 21, 2015) (Message edited by Pauldo on December 21, 2015) |
cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy
Post Number: 1987 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, December 21, 2015 - 4:29 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
My elder grandson (3) yakking & his little brother (5mos) cooing And, of course, their father & uncle talking bovine waste....... Peter |
ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin
Post Number: 213 Registered: 2-2010
| Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 8:34 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
I miss my friend Buster. It's hard to believe it's been a decade ... http://youtu.be/G-JZ5Wo3jKQ |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4669 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 8:58 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Buster sounds WONDERFUL ! Thanks , I really like that . Wolf |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 739 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 9:49 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
He really was something with a guitar. Truly one of the most gifted musicians I ever knew. I was just thinking this morning about the tragic loss this past year of my buddy Tony Collins, another brilliant guitarist. This guy was one of his favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWgGubB4tI&list=PLsgzqiprLpbHAy7dbRgInf4V69mRclwP0 ...and it's also one of the best holiday instrumental albums I own. |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4670 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 10:23 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Carol Of The Bells! Awesome . |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 743 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Friday, December 25, 2015 - 4:13 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Appalachian Fiddle Master Tommy Jarrell, playing "Breakin' Up Christmas" from 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fGg2gUgkT0 The title seems a little strange if you're not from here, so here's the explanation: http://www.galaxgazette.com/content/breakin-christmas-appalachian-tradition |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4679 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 12:10 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
MILES DAVIS.COM !!!!! https://www.milesdavis.com/ Wolf |
bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass
Post Number: 2522 Registered: 9-2002
| Posted on Monday, December 28, 2015 - 11:50 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Gotta have Cajun music. I made a pot of Community House Blend and beignets ! Maybe gumbo or etouffe' for lunch . . . . . here's the mighty Jo-El Sonnier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viaz1Ml1YjE Joey |
elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue
Post Number: 1785 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 5:27 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Hot apple cider with cinnamon on a chilly morning. ...oh wait...what was the question? cheers ![:-)](http://alembic.com/club/clipart/happy.gif) |
dela217
Senior Member Username: dela217
Post Number: 1166 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 11:37 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Bigredbass - You made me click your profile to see where you live. Michael New Orleans |
bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass
Post Number: 2526 Registered: 9-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 9:52 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Actually Michael, I was born and raised in Beaumont, just across the Louisiana line on Interstate 10. Spent a lot of time in that Houston to Lafayette strip, the heart of Acadiana. So, part of me is Rockin' Dopsie, the Meters and the Wild Tchipitoulas, Wayne Toups, the Nevilles, and I have been to Floyd's Record Shop in Ville Platte. I actually make Mufalettas here in Nashville when I can find a bread that's close. Three of my favorite cookbooks are the three volumes of TALK ABOUT GOOD!, published by the Junior League of Lafayette, full of Cajun family recipes from regular folks. My mother's family emigrated through New Orleans from Sicily around the turn of the (19th) century: One of my great-grandfather's best friends was Mr. Monteleone, who owned the hotel in the quarter for years. There's lots Italians and Sicilians in along the Gulf Coast, including the Mandola family who started the CARABBA's restaurant chain, whose food tastes a lot like my family's, since we all came from the same end of Italy. 'Nawhlins was always a little much for me, I was never quite that wild, but what a music town. I was more into the Cajuns, and it will be a regret that I never got to live in Lafayette or Church Point or New Iberia. I love the food, the people, and it's one of the few places where if you're a musician, the average person honors that, as they love a good party. I'm really at home there, and I miss going back from time to time. There's a part of me in those moss-draped oaks and those little bayous. Growing up playing in East Texas and South Louisiana, you had to be able to play a little of everything, so I had to have very sympathetic ears. It was nothing on a gig to play Texas Swing, Texas Blues, some Domino and Dr. John, some Cajun waltzes and those fast things in 2/4, then some current R&B or white rock and roll, with a dose of George Jones and Elvis. Never dull, and you had to have a large catalog in the back of your head. And then too, in those late 60's and early 70's there were still the big white R+B bands like the legendary Boogie Kings, GG Shin and the Rollercoaster, and Edgar's White Trash band. Sonnier's 90mph-fastball take on Richard Thompson's 'TSL' is my go-to when I need a jump start, and instantly puts me back in those days and hearing lots of music like that, and what a hoot it was. So I got to admit, as much as I like living in Nashville, alongside of the above . . . . . it can be quite stilted and boring ! Joey |
pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo
Post Number: 1578 Registered: 6-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 5:34 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
I want to know how to get an invitation to Joey's for dinner. Italian/ Cajun mash up! |
bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass
Post Number: 2527 Registered: 9-2002
| Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 8:08 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Well, as long as we're at this: Buckwheat Zydeco at work (another Clifton Chenier descendant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2eRRh4Bls&list=RDv08TBErkp3s&index=35 I want one of those Tabasco Sauce basses, probably shouldn't bring that up while Susan's recovering . . . . We now return you to your regular programming. Joey |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 753 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 6:02 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
This chapter on the sounds of the steamy bayou got me thinking about these folks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxOu-G7rgI4 ...and another of them singing one of my favorite tunes ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TivwOcQmg |
flpete1uw
Senior Member Username: flpete1uw
Post Number: 601 Registered: 11-2011
| Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 12:04 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Really enjoyed that Gregory, Happy New Years! Pete |
rv_bass
New Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 8 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 5:23 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
This: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Uu57h7H18 Nice quality video, great playing too! Check out the tailpiece on Big Brown, no SYF sticker yet either. |
rv_bass
New Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 9 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 6:58 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Charlie Haden's interpretation of "Lonely Woman" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISYsINi8rLw |
rv_bass
New Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 10 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 7:10 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Edgar Meyer on Bach https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-65UMPMMA |
rv_bass
Junior Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 11 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 7:22 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile in a field in Telluride https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xeLXC5Ph98 |
rv_bass
Junior Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 12 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 7:38 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Strength in Numbers , I enjoyed this live in Telluride 1990 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qj82KwBGR-s |
hammer
Senior Member Username: hammer
Post Number: 827 Registered: 9-2009
| Posted on Saturday, January 02, 2016 - 11:12 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Chick Corea and Gary Burton: The New Crystal Silence |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12016 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 2:35 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
"Hold it, hold it, somebody made the wrong changes in there." Enjoying the Beat Club video; thanks, Rob! |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12017 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 4:05 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Just finished watching; and that was indeed good, and The Other One was great. Thanks again! |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 757 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 4:22 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
For the record, I met Edgar Meyer a couple times... I'm convinced both he, and Stanley Clarke are an alien experiment... they dropped those guys off in Roswell N.M. back in the 50's to usher in the bass age, but the Eisenhower Administration got the translation wrong and thought they meant space age. Area 51 was supposed to be a concert hall all this time instead of a secret... oh nevermind. I really have enjoyed these clips... even more than three days of binge-watching six seasons worth of X-Files. God how I miss Agent Scully. =) |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12018 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 4:42 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Crystal Silence. This song has long been one of my favorites; and though not the one mentioned above by Brian, this is a wonderful performance. Thanks for the reminder, Brian! |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 758 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 4:47 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Snapping back to reality, 41 years ago this past weekend, (New Year's Eve actually) Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac. This concert from 1975 must be one of their first few appearances with the band. I still love to hear them do "World Turning", especially with Christine back in the band. In between Mick's infamous solo drum solo, watch for John's old Series I here... hard to think it was only a couple years old then. http://youtu.be/vpqlvxwphqw |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12019 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 4:48 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
The Meyer and Thile piece was nice! |
rv_bass
Intermediate Member Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 166 Registered: 8-2014
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 5:14 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Glad you guys enjoyed the videos, great stuff. Nice to revisit now and then! That Crystal Silence video was beautiful, thanks! |
hammer
Senior Member Username: hammer
Post Number: 831 Registered: 9-2009
| Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016 - 9:20 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
In the mood for jazz Keith Jarrett: Treasure Island with Charlie Hayden, Dewey Redmond, and Paul Motian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxEIOSncUw) and the Koln concerts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_IW1wLZhzE |
ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin
Post Number: 225 Registered: 2-2010
| Posted on Wednesday, January 06, 2016 - 6:27 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Utopia (1974) http://youtu.be/SSVxGRo9tBU Beethoven fans: There is a musical work of staggering genius hidden in this album, from the collaboration between Todd Rundgren and "Moogy" Klingman (Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, Allman Bros., Warren Hayes etc.). It's called "The Ikon," and it starts at 28:52 (it was the "B" side of the album.) The form is based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (note the similarity between the opening riff and the famous four-note intro to the Fifth). It also references "Rhapsody In Blue," "West Side Story" and according to Todd Rundgren; "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass." Each movement has a separate theme featuring a particular instrument - everything from balls-to-the-wall blistering guitar (Todd plays the same Gibson SG that Clapton used on Cream's "Disraeli Gears") to pastoral piano interludes, to happy Mariachi craziness - and as with Beethoven, each theme/instrument is layered one-by-one in the spectacular finale (in my opinion, the true genius of the piece is in how well those themes go together in a completely unexpected way, leading up to the best ending in rock music history). Bear in mind that the track features three wildly disparate keyboardists: Moogy, Ralph Schuckett and "M. Frog" LaBat, on early monophonic synths and keys (Moogy alone played; "Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, Univox Mini-Korg, a Hammond L-100 organ, Sound City Piano, an RMI Keyboard Computer and "Rock-Si-Chord," a Clavinet, and a Yamaha Grand." The track was recorded live in the studio, with no overdubs. Enjoy. |
811952
Senior Member Username: 811952
Post Number: 2418 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, January 06, 2016 - 7:11 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
That album was my introduction to Rundgren. It's killer. Thanks for posting and bringing it back to my ears this morning! John |
pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo
Post Number: 1581 Registered: 6-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, January 06, 2016 - 3:07 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
The Ikon was epic; my shallow Rundgren history included his radio hits, Onomatapoiea, and the fact that when I had long hair someone told me I looked like him . . . :-/ Didn't pick up on any Herb Alpert passages. Heard bits that Made me think of Peaches En Regalia and Welcome Back My Friends |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 770 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 6:01 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Was suddenly reminded of these folks this morning... (you may have heard them on Prairie Home Companion sometime) Robin and Linda Williams - "Down in Buena Vista" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvQFMW9-sg Robin and Linda Williams are kinda' homefolks around here, and this tune is set in a little, nearly forgotten town about an hour North of Roanoke, Virginia. The town is nestled in an odd canyon-like bowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with the small Glen Maury river running through it. It's incredibly scenic from every direction, and there's a music festival that happens there every June I always look forward to. |
tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon
Post Number: 1713 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 6:49 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Rainy day in Southern California. A little Average White Band with School Boy Crush to funk up my morning before students start rolling in.... |
ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin
Post Number: 228 Registered: 2-2010
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 8:05 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Blue Man Group, "I Feel Love" http://youtu.be/0iFBXjRbVl0 Gotta see them live - especially at the Luxor in Las Vegas. There's no way to describe it, except to say that I was picking pieces of my brains out of my cereal for weeks afterward. That pile of plumbing is an instrument they invented called a "tubulum." (Note the grand piano as a percussion instrument.) |
adriaan
Moderator Username: adriaan
Post Number: 3296 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 9:04 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
A piano is by definition a percussion instrument, with the hammers hitting the strings. |
ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin
Post Number: 229 Registered: 2-2010
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 12:56 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
I meant the lid-less grand piano lying on its side on stage left with the strings exposed, which the blue man whacks with a hammer the size of a tympani, that looks like something out of a Tom 'n Jerry cartoon. In fact, since it lacks piano hammers and he's hitting the strings, he is the hammer! (I wonder if the piano is difficult to keep it in tune?) I'm not sure it's clear in the video, because we've seen BMG so many times, but here's the DVD of that concert. Everybody should see it at least once, because it's actually a hilarious parody of rock concerts. |
kenbass4
Senior Member Username: kenbass4
Post Number: 441 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 1:35 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
"Rock Concert movement number 4: The behind the head leg lift. Ready, GO!" LOVE BMG!! |
cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy
Post Number: 1995 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 3:23 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
"In fact, since it lacks piano hammers and he's hitting the strings, he is the hammer! (I wonder if the piano is difficult to keep it in tune?)" Kind of like Copley playing, eh? Peter |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 772 Registered: 6-2014
| Posted on Friday, January 08, 2016 - 3:47 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
What else for today? "8th of January", as played by Tony Rice, as heard by Clarence White, and played on (what's left of) his old Martin D-28 no less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfjEdukk2kI Poor old Tony's in rough shape these days, but man what an influential guy he's been. |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12021 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Friday, January 08, 2016 - 5:12 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
"The track was recorded live in the studio, with no overdubs." I'm listening now, and I'm wondering if the vocals are all one take as well. I suppose he could be using a harmonizer to get some of the vocal harmonies, and perhaps some of the other "vocal" sounds could be vocal patches on the keyboards. I did hear the Herb Alpert reference, or what I think was it. And I felt a very strong Return to Forever influence; and as well, Emerson Lake & Palmer. Interestingly, Welcome Back My Friends was released around two months before Utopia; so it seems at least somewhat less than likely that Todd would have heard it prior to the recording date of this piece. "the best ending in rock music history" Such things are of course quite subjective, and depend significantly on one's own personal history. Personally, I don't think this one comes close to, for instance, just off the top of my head, And You And I; but that's just me. ![:-)](http://alembic.com/club/clipart/happy.gif) |
elwoodblue
Senior Member Username: elwoodblue
Post Number: 1796 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 8:27 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Carl Perkins doing a Mathew Mcconaughey impression?! ;) That's Alright Mama |
ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin
Post Number: 234 Registered: 2-2010
| Posted on Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 3:15 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
quote:I'm wondering if the vocals are all one take as well. I suppose he could be using a harmonizer to get some of the vocal harmonies, and perhaps some of the other "vocal" sounds could be vocal patches on the keyboards.
I listened to it again, and I see (actually, hear) what you mean. Considering the album came out forty years ago (whoosh! "what was that?" "Your life, son!" "Holy cow, that was quick!") details are sketchy. The liner notes say the album was recorded live at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia April 25th, 1974, but I remember an Interview with Todd at the time (Creem magazine, I think) where he said something about doing it live in the studio, in one take. Might have been one of the other songs (or the drugs ) There were no harmonizers in 1974 (that I know of, anyway). Synths could only play one note at a time. The Polymoog and E-mu polyphonic synths were still years off (especially the legendary Prophet 5), so my guess is Todd used a Mellotron Mellotrons used tape loops (kinda like an Echoplex, with separate loops for each keyboard key) and could be set up with three "voices," usually strings, horns and woodwinds ("Strawberry Fields Forever," "Nights In White Satin," "Stairway To Heaven," etc.), but Rick Wakeman and the Moody Blues also opted for a "vocal" set, for that Mormon Tabernacle Choir vibe. I turned up this interesting paragraph in a Rolling Stone bio of Todd
quote:By 1972 Rundgren had taken over production of Badfinger's "Straight Up" LP from George Harrison (who was involved with his Bangladesh concerts) and had engineered the Band's "Stage Fright" and Jesse Winchester's self-titled 1971 LP, as well as produced records by the Hello People, bluesman James Cotton, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Half-nelson (who later became Sparks). In 1973 he would produce the New York Dolls' debut LP, Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band," and Fanny's "Mother's Pride."
Busy boy, huh? It was three years before he produced Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell," a fact that I didn't know until just now, while looking up this stuff. (The things I do for you people.) Note this interesting tidbit:
quote:Recording started in late 1975 in Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York. Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, the pianist and drummer from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band played on the album, in addition to members of Rundgren's group Utopia: Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and John "Willie" Wilcox. Edgar Winter played the saxophone on "All Revved Up". Rundgren himself played guitar, including the "motorcycle solo" on "Bat Out of Hell".
So I wouldn't be shocked if Todd "sweetened" things a little. |
cozmik_cowboy
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| Posted on Sunday, January 17, 2016 - 8:26 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Pentangle's eponymous debut. just because it had been too long. And a new one for me; Peter (Who's thinking Fairpot Convention or Steeleye Span for tomorrow) |
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 6:12 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Remembering Glenn Frey today, and the glorious day we heard The Eagles had reunited after fifteen years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3mFx2e5hAg |
cozmik_cowboy
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 9:19 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Just got through Eagles' Greatest Hits; an old GF had & loved it. In my younger days that album was the soundtrack for more.......well, anyway, so long Glenn & thanks! Peter |
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| Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 4:32 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Peter mentioned Fairport Convention; here's one of my favorites, Fotheringay. I've listened to it several times recently, and to different versions, old and new. The one I've linked here is the original with the wonderful Sandy Denny. |
sonicus
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 8:44 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
To my EARS , this is SWELL ! ___Das ist GUT + This is how a good band plays . ......... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY Wolf (Message edited by sonicus on January 20, 2016) |
edwardofhuncote
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| Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 4:22 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Wolf and I are in mind-meld... I was just listening to a Dire Straits compilation last night, as I'm revisiting the bass style of John Illsley, another one of those no-flash, but dead-on doin' the job kind of bass players. I really admire that quality, maybe because of my bluegrass/oldtyme roots. Here's another of my all-time favorites from them... "Romeo & Juliet" Live from London, with the full symphonic intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7GJgncybV8 |
sonicus
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| Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 2:04 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Gregory , I liked that ; Romeo & Juliet" Live from London, with the full symphonic intro. Dire Straits live is always so enjoyable for me from so many aspects . The thing besides wonderfully mastery of their instruments that always makes me want more of them is the level of communication going on in the moment . As with the " Dead" as with a bunch of players that are really all on the same wave length of non -verbal " MIND -MELD " , in the moment , YES ! That when that is developed it is priceless . When that happens there is a special aspect that is irreplaceable with anything else. Wolf |
cozmik_cowboy
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| Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 7:11 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Nice! The first Dire Straits album blasted into disco like a cannon, reminding everybody what a guitar can do, and Making Movies was, IMHO, their peak - and "R&J" may well be Mark's best song. That is a wnderful version! Peter p.s. - for anyone who was around the Chicago scene late '70s-early '80s; I never noticed until this vid, but does John not look like the lovechild of Tom Dundee & Pete Special??) |
edwardofhuncote
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| Posted on Friday, January 22, 2016 - 5:43 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Well, crap. I'm now officially stuck at work. Here in Virginia, or really the entire eastern U.S., there's an indeterminate amount of snow coming in the next 36 hours. I made it in to work before the deluge started, but looks like most either couldn't or bailed. Ordinarily I wouldn't care... just goes with the gig when you run the City's water plant, but man I sure wish I'd brought a guitar or something to play. In the spirit of trying to enjoy the majestic Winter spectacle, heeeere's Gordon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVG2eF40hzE I saw him a couple years ago, and it was quite the show. Guy play two solid hours, and that was shortly after he'd practically come back from the dead. Incredible performer. And think about this - Rick Haynes (bassist) has had that gig since 1969, the year I was born. Dang. Any of you that are in this storm's path - stay in if you can. Stay safe if you have to go out. Avoid the weather channel hysterics, 'cause it's just a freakin' snowstorm for pity's sake. Play a tune for me. |
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| Posted on Friday, January 22, 2016 - 11:53 am: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Mark with Chester, two CGP's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCePhRY9Q8 . . . luckily, when my in-laws signed on as extras for this video shoot, they were well-behaved . . . . Joey |
bigredbass
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| Posted on Friday, January 22, 2016 - 12:09 pm: | ![Edit Post](http://alembic.com/club/icons/tree_s.gif) |
Mark owns this guest track from Tina's 80's album BREAK EVERY RULE: 'Overnight Sensation' (who needs 'Steamy Windows' after this ?!?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVrskvJsF6E Joey PS: This just in from the People's Republic of East Nashville Weather Proletariat: 7" of snow on my back deck. |