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Right On @reubent and thanks for sharing the joys of this band. Enjoying it too. ———————————- What’s (not quite yet) on your turntable tonight.... Khrungbin! New record out early February. Single dropped today. Has Leon Bridges fronting vocals. Ok so Leon Bridges’ album had some good analogue tubiness on it that one friend of mine said, when he heard Teskey Bro’s., that they sound like LB’s album. Well.... it’s a little more on the pop side of R&B but ok, and so far he sounds great on the single with fellow Texans Krungabin. Really looking forward to getting the record. |
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Boxer, thanks. I looked around and I did find those same three on Discogs but the better (issuing) sources seem all sold out. All good? Recommend favorite? I don’t have good recall on the whole discography but the Meat of Life has stuck with me in my head since it came out. I think it struck a chord of importance at the time. Something about how the music goes so well with the existentialist lyrics. Guess it might be mellower than some of the others. Not certain. |
Spyro Gyra Carnival 1980 O/P Fun stuff @Uberwaltz, “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.” - Duke Ellington So, it’s all good man. |
Don’t know if I mentioned here that I had tickets to see the Teskey Bro’s on their tour through here after the holidays but they cancelled their west coast leg. One of the brothers, I forget which, is expecting a baby. Disappointed but got to admire them for doing that. I mean, that’s a lot of forgone money. They’re still going to play the east coast later next year though. |
Half Mile Harvest was a phenomenon. And, I agree it’s probably more pure good than the follow up: but, if you’d never heard HMH before you put Run Home Slow on your stereo you’d-a-been gobsmacked by that analogue tone. Further, don’t know what the reviewers say but I think the songs on the second record are maybe a bit more evolved into their own style. I am of course pre-disposed to favor anything by these guys. I hold them as a treasure. |
@slaw glad you like the Gil Landry- was guessing you would. Many thanks to you in turn for the recommendation about John Moreland. He is one fantastic songwriter with an exceptionally appealing voice and style of delivery. I’ll even say, After showing my wife the video of his tv debut on Colbert, she agreed to come with me to his show here in the spring. Got tickets already. Venue is small and most excellent- will tell you all about it sometime. How are you liking the 2nd Teskey Brothers record? |
Waters, Right on with your reference to Bullet/Hard Stuff. That is really really good stuff. I always thought they had to change their name for the US market because another band had the bullet name tied up. And Gary. Oh yeah!!! Sometimes I have my own personal Rory Gallagher/ Gary Moore festival. love his stuff. Thanks @slaw for the heads up about the live album. Will watch for it. |
@730waters, Sorry I had the right band, I’m just a bad speller. OK , nothing to do with Van Halen correct but except that, notwithstanding Eddie’s unquestionable gifts and innovative playing style, the first Van Halen album (1978) is absolutely derived from that first Strider record (1973) down to identical riffs and tones. Van Halen had been playing together around Pasadena for years before their break and first record. I would bet the farm that they or their handlers absorbed the obscure Strider album, probably early on. I’ve learned over the years about so much of this cynical rip off behavior in pop music, which is, exactly what Van Halen is, fun pop music that quickly descended into one of the most vulgar abominations our culture has ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, Sammy is one of my heros and eddie’s talent is undeniable but all the crap and corruption-maybe the best example of commercially promoted lifestyle over music/ form over substance. |
I like that Fat Mattress record. Ok Re: Strider. Yes I remember this now because I remember when Van Halen’s record came out a few years later we said we’d already heard it - or something to that effect. My friend Greg had this record (and I probably taped it off him). Pretty slick production and they had quite a bit of the 80’s hair band formula down even in ’73/‘74. Tone, major lift chorus, big dynamic shifts, Pretty good musicians really, and ahead of their time (interesting that it really sounds like a late 70s or 80s record). Worthwhile man, thanks. This is the kind of music that my pimpled faced friends and I went crazy for when we were 13 or 14 (Like the first couple of Kiss albums). But we grow up (sadly). I listen to some of my old records (like the first couple of Kiss albums) now with a mixture of ego and embarrassment. |
I have Road and Universe. They are both on an evolving list of ‘68-‘74 favorites that someday I’ll ask you to help flesh out, if you would, Waters. I think I knew of Stryder but had forgotten. Will check it out. Great contextual Info bro. Enjoy your listening today. I’m having trouble really getting into the music feeling so rotten and ears and head all clogged. TMI I know i know. |
Hey Guys. I’m home sick too and mostly diverting myself experimenting with new stuff. Goes with my rotten mood... found this today. Check it out. https://open.spotify.com/album/0cLEKTdNamyJ0FzEgqOiP1?si=sPST5v5VTYST5mYOSCBDIQ |
Nolan Potter Nightmare Forever Notwithstanding the gimmicky spooky theatrical packaging this is pretty nice sounding and certainly interesting stuff to an old guy like me. “Austin Texan Nolan Potter and his Nightmare Band release Nightmare Forever this week on the mighty Castle Face label. Swirls of bluesy psych and a healthy dose of post D&D flute-rock that is positively soaked in analogue production. It all sounds rather like a long-lost private press from the early Seventies. We are feeling it.” |
Right on Waters. I can’t very easily make this record fit into a context, in that although its seems to have elements of the nascent prog and jazz rock of the late 60’s it seems very unique and for sure way ahead of its time. I don’t know enough about all this because I hadn’t found it yet during the time it was actually happening - I got into it much later and am only beginning to learn about a lot of the bands that you already have in your collection (you are my hard rock hero bro) but I love this record for so many reasons. I love that it’s Africans playing it, frankly. I love the Arabic influences that put me in mind of later ECM stuff like Oregon. And most importantly: It rocks. It’s like a really good trip (as they used to say). —————————— A Foot in Cold Water 1st Album |