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What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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Alboran Trio - Near Gale Great contemporary jazz (compositions, musicianship and sonics) from Italy. Track 7, Invariable Geometries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztni9r24Clc |
World Party - Egyptology Track 2, Beautiful Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmqSRyM2M8 Thank you Karl. |
World Party - Egyptology (again) Track 5, She's The One.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Ta6KTqu18 |
Acoustic Tales - Field Rotation (aka Christoph Berg) Acoustic Tale 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtB-OI6DeLY&list=OLAK5uy_kCdEp51yd7pFz0R-BHs1YESbseJbc5vIQ |
World Party - Dumbing Up Track 6, I Thought You Were A Spy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh6kFK15ZJ0 "...nothing I can say Can change the way I feel Nothing's in the way So come on let's make a deal....". |
Last night: Sass Jordan - Rats I forgot how much I enjoy Sass Jordan. This is my idea of "female vocals". The intensity and emotion in the song "Pissin’ Down" is palpable. "High Road Easy" is a song that makes me move. being a drummer, its usually may hands and feet, playing the chair arms and floor. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell I was an early adopter of sabbath and loved their 1st 3 albums. This album with Ronnie James Dio on vocals is as good in its own right IMO. Yeah, more polished maybe, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Too many good songs to pick one. Various - When Blues Met Rock This one was in a cabinet in my misc. drawer. I’m sure I played it before but why it was hidden away is not known. It sounded Great! Very well recorded. Quite a list of Blues/Rockers. The sub title is "The Electric Sound from the 50’s to the 80’s". The cover is made like a match pad. I don’t have a clue where I got it from. Probably a bargain bin but wow, did it sound good! AAMOF, the CDP (Theta Miles) was sounding very good last night. Much better than it should but I’ll take it. |
Puts "fresh" back into classic jazz. "Classic" given the date of the original sessions: Nov 1969. Over 50 years ago! Not released until Oct 2003 (as per Wikipedia). Andrew Hill - Passing Ships; Track 6, Cascade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETGGEYVA2Q8&list=PLEyxWPyoryRKh7uJWexso-JADvtpJ3Ioj&index=6 |
Three related CD’s: - Dwight Twilley: Soundtrack. Released in 2012, I’m just now getting back into Twilley, the one-time would-be savior of Rock ’n’ Roll (The Dwight Twilley Band’s 1976 debut album on Shelter Records---Sincerely---is a Top-10 Power Pop masterpiece). Dwight is still writing great Pop songs, and singing them in his patented Elvis Rockabilly/Beatles Rock ’n’ Roll style. But he’s now doing it on a DIY level, the recording and mixing done by his wife Jan. This is the last Twilley album to include the guitar playing of long-time Twilley band member, the late Bill Pitcock IV, one of the most exciting Rock ’n’ Roll guitarists I’ve seen live. - After finally breaking up with my ex-wife (it’s a long story ;-), and his big-time career as the guitar player in Dwight Twilley’s band fizzling out, Bill Pitcock IV (well la de da ;-) returned home to Tulsa; back to playing local bars. He finally released a solo album in 2009, entitled Play What You Mean. Mostly instrumental, Bill plays all the instruments heard on the album, including the rudimentary drums (probably programmed electronic). Pretty low-fi, and not very interesting musically, I’m sad to report. I’m free to say that, as Bill passed away about ten years ago, the result of being a 2-pack-a-day man. - And then there is Phil Seymour, the drummer/singer on the first two Dwight Twilley Band albums. He left after the second, pursuing a solo career which was initially fairly successful. After his 2-album deal with Boardwalk Records ended, he joined L.A. band The Textones, back to playing drums and still singing (while solo, the drummer in his band was David Crockett, later in Dwight Yoakam’s band. His guitarist was fellow Twilley bandmate Bill Pitcock IV). Sad and disturbing note: Some time in the 80’s Phil was diagnosed with one of the cancer’s (unlike Bill, not lung), and returned to Tulsa for treatment. He got really skinny, lost his hair, and in the pics I’ve seen, took to wearing hideous "old lady" glasses. But the need to make music was still alive and well, so he and a woman close to him---with whom I corresponded---decided to make the trip back to L.A. She made a comfortable bed in the back of her minivan for Phil to lay in, and hit the road. But somewhere in the Southwest Phil passed away, the woman unaware of that fact until she stopped for a road break. OMG! I just received (via Amazon) an album (available on CD only) of Phil’s entitled The London And Los Angeles Unreleased Recordings. I haven’t played it yet (so many records, so little time ;-), but as long as I’m talkin’ Twilley..... On a related note, I also just listened to the 2015 release (again, CD only) from my ol’ fave, Dave Edmunds. Do you know him? If not, you should. Master Rock ’n’ Roll guitarist, also an excellent producer (Fab T-Birds, The Stray Cats, The Everly Brothers, many others). Also a member of Rockpile, the Super Group he and Nick Lowe fronted. Their lone album is FANTASTIC! Second guitarist in Rockpile was Billy Bremner, heard on some Pretenders recordings. Drummer was the great Terry Williams, a former member of Welsh group Man, after Rockpile a drummer in Dire Straits. Fantastic drummer! Anyway, Rags & Classics---mostly instrumental---is pretty darn good. You do know most older guitarists started out copying instrumental music, right? In the U.S. it was The Ventures, Link Wray, Dick Dale, etc. In the U.K. it was their Surf equivalents such as The Shadows, a favorite of Jeff Beck. But Dave was also drawn to the playing of Hillbilly guitarists such as Merle Travis. This album runs the gamut style-wise, ranging from a nice version of Brian Wilson’s masterpiece "God Only Knows" to the Motto Allegro from Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor. If the latter surprises you, know that Edmunds’ first band (in the late-60’s) was the Welsh Progressive unit named Love Sculpture. Cr*ppy name, ay? ;-) |
@loomisjohnson: I guess I just kind of relegated Twilley to the past, for years not going out of my way to see what he was up to. Starting out with such a killer album (Sincerely) sure established a high standard for him to live up to. It would be like The Beatles debuting with Sgt. Pepper! He had a lot of bad luck, record company indifference, and perhaps a sound that just wasn’t to the public’s taste. I can’t get over how Petty came along behind Twilley, and zoomed on by him. For whatever reason (or reasons), Petty ended up having a major career, Twilley a minor one. I far prefer Twilley to Petty (a much better songwriter and singer, imo), but there’s no arguing with success. On the other hand, Twilley's still alive. ;-) |
Oh sure @reubent. He was coming up around the same time as Matthew Sweet and the other better young singer/songwriters of the early-to-mid 90’s, but more rootsy, less Pop. I liked him pretty well, but for some reason not enough to have anything by him in the collection. I should add him to my list of things to look for, thanks for the reminder. |
Thanks for the title @reubent, I’m definitely going to look for a copy. He was one of the new guys all the young singer/songwriters I knew back then were talking about and listening to. I don’t remember Pete being as Rock ’n’ Roll at Dwight and Tom, but that was a long time ago, and my memory ain’t what it useta be! I’m still haunted by the suicide of Elliot Smith. Elliot was living in L.A. in the latter-half of the 90’s, and was as well-respected by his peers as anyone I can think of. One Friday night he and I passed as I and my woman were exiting and he was entering a favorite restaurant (the name of which escapes me at the moment) on the border of Toluca Lake and Burbank, right across the side street from the Bob’s Big Boy. The doorway was kind of packed, and as we passed and our eyes met, he gave me the "Hey, man" nod. I returned the nod, but had to keep moving so as to not hold up the restaurant traffic. Not long after he took his life. Two of the best new artists---Elliot and Kurt Cobain, both plagued with demons. The life forces that foster creative brilliance often bring with that gift a curse. I see it in Lucinda Williams as well; being her is no picnic. Hank Williams’ genius came at a very high price. I’ve personally known only one true genius, a songwriter who decided he didn’t want to pay the price a career in music demands. He died young anyway---only 55. Evan Johns---the most unique musician I ever worked with---lived hard and partied harder, dying almost destitute at age 60. I’m surprised he made it that long. |
Andrew Hill's "Passing Ships". Recorded way back in 1969 but only released in 2003. A "nonet"! The title track here. It ain't sweet sounding soprano sax or oboe stating the melody but rather English Horn in the hands of Joe Farrell (given name: Joseph Carl Firrantello as per Tom Jurek/All Music Guide). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAtdXUzaW2M&list=PLEyxWPyoryRKh7uJWexso-JADvtpJ3Ioj&index=2 |
Yellowjackets - A Rise In The Road Track 3, Can't We Elope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Q_MYvin0Q |
