Whats playing on your system today?
Today I decided to listen to two of my favorite rock guitar heros and one great vocalist. Guitarist' Robin Trower, Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Davey Pattison.
I listened to Trower songs:
Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma".
I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
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I listened to Trower songs:
Bridge of sighs, Stitch in time, The fool and me, my personal favorite- Too rolling stoned and others.....
Then I pulled out "Gamma".
I listened to: Razor King, Wish I was and Skin and bone and others.....
Davey Pattison hooked has also up with Michael Shenker also. I really enjoyed my day so far. Anybody else heard anything good?
N
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Returning the favor to the N man... from BLS's Dangerous Situation..."Endless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwmpiR16yDc |
Hey there @slaw Hope you are having a good day. By the looks of how much music you are playing, I'd guess you are. Saw your post that included Ozark Mtn. Daredevils. Was that a typo? Did you mean, '13' instead of '3'?? I was in school in Springfield, MO back when the OMDD were breaking. They were hometown heroes, of course. Songs from their first LP getting a lot of local airplay. I have their first 4 releases on old but good condition vinyl. Didn't follow them much after Car Over The Lake, actually. Gonna have to check out '13' if that's what you meant - don't know it at all. The "Quilt" album is probably my favorite. Love the outro on Colorado Song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul-LHILJ_EM |
@slaw "..farmers on the field" I wonder if you might be referring to "Men From Earth"? (That one is their 4th; Thank You Wikipedia). See album art images here: https://www.google.com/search? q=men+from+earth+ozark+mountain+daredevils&source=lnms&tbm=isc... Is this the one? Thanks for the recommendation of "Don't Look Down". That's their 5th and by the time it came out, I wasn't following them. Thanks to Tidal & Spotify, there's a good chance to catch up. |
Glenn Hughes, "Resonate" Track 5, Steady... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXdTqIsmT4 Love GH's bass work on this track Thanks for the introduction N-man. |
Hey über...looking at your Rainbow Rising "avatar", you might really enjoy the organ on Resonate (assuming that RR image also means you like/liked Deep Purple). Keyboard guy on Resonate... http://www.lachydoley.com/2016/07/08/recording-with-glenn-hughes-and-chad-smith-in-copenhagen/ |
@uberwaltz Appreciate the feedback. Glad Resonate worked for you. Nutty had recommended it a while ago but it took me some time to be in a place where I could "hear it"...if you know what I mean. Yup, Steady is a strong track I just mention GH’s bass work on that one because it really stood out to me. Guess I will have to check out some Heep. Never got into them though I do generally enjoy prog. I remember when they were getting a bit of airplay on "underground" FM radio. Right now though, Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards...Satriani (again). Track 4 Light Years Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmuNOpihXTI |
No time yet for UH. Still exploring Satriani. So far everything I’ve tried is golden... What Happens Next S/T Crystal Planet Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards Strange Beautiful Music Track 13 The Traveler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMRdEpUXefk Okay...SBM is over. I DO recall this one by Uriah Heep. Still sounds pretty good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxZY0DIxIk Songs are stronger and sound is better than I remembered. Love that upfront organ [(Hammond?) with Leslie]. Will have to try the others you mention. See if any brain cells fire up in recollection. |
uber- Yup...strong keyboards. Didn't remember UH had that focus but it surely do. Long time fan of "keyboard" oriented bands like Procol Harum, Yes and ELP, and, to a lesser extent, Deep Purple ("lesser" because with Blackmore's guitar it's more 50/50 keyboard/guitar). Add Traffic and Lee Michaels to the list. Who'm I missing??? One other thing I was struck with sampling tracks from UH's extensive discography... those guys could SING! Good, IN-TUNE vocals (and this before "Auto-Tune"!) and great, great harmonies. I was impressed by the arrangements. You look back at that stuff done 40 years ago and it's easy to understand why some people today despair about the state of contemporary popular music. |
Joe Satriani - Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards.... Track 2 here... Dream Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE4FsuJvP_8 |
"...stumbled across Springsteen's, Darkness on the Edge of Town." I'm sure that reflects something of an age difference, N. DotEoT was THE Springsteen album for me when it came out. Greetings, ...E-Street Shuffle, & Born to Run all had their moments, but that one always hit me as something deeper. He was going through a tough personal/business situation at the time. Seems like the struggles made the writing better. Never followed him too much after The River and Tunnel of Love. |
For all the voice coaches out there: This notes for you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJroVZNx9lc |
No need to get all crazy and complicated. Check it out. Nice and direct. Every note seeming almost inevitable but not predictable:... Track 12, It Takes Time, from Rory Gallagher’s 1971 self-titled release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS1iD6FbtV8 |
@slaw Just got done an hour or so ago listening to Pinback's "Information Retrieved". Pokey77 turned me on to them some time ago. Saw elsewhere you had posted listening to Paul Buttefield Blues Band. That one, his (their) East/West along with Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw are albums I never get tired of. Not enough talk about Paul Butterfield, IMO. |
@slaw Excellent. Happy you liked it. There's a bunch of it on vinyl at Discogs. BUT many are re-issues. I do see some original Elektra and even a mono from a UK seller with 100% rating. Not cheap! Good luck. I have it in vinyl from a local used record shop. Not mint by any stretch so I bought it on CD too. https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?sort=condition%2Cdesc&master_id=76233&ev=mb&format=Vin... |
Steve Winwood from his "About Time" album: Horizon (track 9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuk716kqX_k (pardon the less than inspired visual) |
Hi @slaw Yup...agree with you about Nine Lives. Have that (though nothing of his more commercially successful releases like Arc of the Diver or Talking Back to the Night). Steve Winwood gets a lot of respect from me...a darn good guitarist, not just a Hammond pilot, and one of the most distinctive voices in popular music. Here's video of SW at Eric Clapton's 2007 "Crossroads" doing Dear Mr. Fantasy. If this don't give you chills....you be day-ed son! The fun really starts at 5 minutes in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYC61HzmtM |
Jazz Pistols - Special Treatment Track 8 (Angry Dragon) here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCUjyWcF6Jc |
Joe Satriani - Wind in the Trees (from Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TO4ejwSzus |
Joe Bonamassa - A New Day Yesterday (Live) Don’t Burn Down That Bridge (last track) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMyU3W3z1vg What a closer! (well, at least until the bass player starts with the dumb posturing; was a pretty good solo up to that point) |
Rory Gallagher - Deuce Track 5 (Whole Lot of People), here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfNA5ZoKus |
Younger Brother - The Last Days of Gravity (excellent album cover art)... Last track: Psychic Gibbon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d34hJwMhVto |
Yellowjackets - Cohearance (2016) Track 6, Eddie's in the House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxaWffTycg |
@uberwaltz Lots of air in the CD version (probably an original redbook release, or close to it, dating from the bad old days of digital, but seems like one they got mostly right. I can imagine the vinyl version of SFTBC sounds excellent. I still have a Nak deck (not getting used). I used to be big on taping records for listening in the car. |
You're very welcome Nutty. Nominated for 2002 Best Contemporary Jazz Album Grammy, or so I read. Superb musicianship. Love the fact Brian Auger is still around and cookin'. Back at you with "Thanks" for the intro to Glenn Hughes. Played his Music for the Divine this afternoon. The F7 + adding rake to the Forests have really helped open up that recording. Hearing a lot more layering and detail than when I first started listening to it. A very solid album full of good songs. |
Gosh, I like Karen’t voice, Nutty. Back when they were on the radio all the time, 2/3rds of a lifetime ago, I really looked down on what they did. Looking back, what did I know? Get past the cultural baggage of the day...they knew how to pick some great songs. Did you realize "Superstar" (one of my favorites done by them) was written by Leon Russell along with Bonnie and Delaney Bramlett. Who knew!? Just read that in Wikipedia. Your other pick there, Toto...more excellent musicianship and song writing. Toto IV is one of their best I think. Less middle of the road and not as mainstream commercial as The Carpenters, perhaps (a good thing!) - but not Captain Beefheart either. Had some money making legs on it. But right this minute, Mr. Satriani is entertaining an audience of one. Just completed Crystal Planet and now Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards is up. Track 4 here...Sounds good LOUD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2zjKYJHQnQ |
Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe A very enjoyable album of 9 covers + 3 originals. The exception that proves what is too often the rule about covers...that is to say, these are actually worth listening to. Joe owns 'em like he wrote 'em. Everything sounds fresh. SQ is very good. Love the little bit of reverb they put on his guitar during the blistering solo starting around 3 minutes into the title track. Another album that deserves to be heard cranked UP. Turn it to 11, Nigel. |
"...rather odd in places....". Well, that’s certainly one way to describe it! :-) Quirky and captivating to me. They create a whole world in the mysterious Mr. Blint’s "attic". It’s quite the tour de force just for promoting their invention, "The Gizmo". I grew up at the tail end of radio as "visual" entertainment. Consequences reminds me of some of those old shows. Have to hand it to G&C for prescience. Climate change, whatever the cause, wasn’t much talked about back then. Not to mention, the "weaponization" of weather! "Look at that cloud! Is it one of ours or one of theirs?" http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blint/ |
Helios - Unleft Last track: The Morning Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqqthd0pDqQ&frags=pl%2Cwn |
Hindemith Violin Concerto NY Philharmonic - Bernstein conducting; Stern violin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJoZ1olUphs&frags=pl%2Cwn |
Never owned any Heart...heard plenty of ’em on the radio back in the day. Always impressed by the vocals, like Uberwaltz says. But only knew them through those FM hits and those probably don’t do justice to the depth of their song-writing skills. Mistral that Nutty just turned me on to being a case in point, I think. Anyway, right now, Elton John’s Honky Chateau (immediately after listening to Tumbleweed Connection). Not a huge EJ fan by any means but do like a lot of his early stuff. Well written, great arrangements, excellent musicians. Sonics on this "The Classic Years" edition CD are good too. Favorites: Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, Hercules (A cat named Hercules). |