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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nutty
Just dropped the needle into "God's Problem Child" by Willie Nelson.  Really nice performance and pretty high quality recording in terms of detail, timbre, etc. Definitely "studio produced" sound but satisfying sonics overall.  Vinyl is dead quiet!!

Next up, Roger Waters' "Is This the Life We Really Want?" on Redbook.
Phil Collins, NoJacket Required 

Beatles,  Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 
50th Anniversary 

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Freddie Hubbard- Ready for Freddie

King Crimson-Discipline(side2)

Funkadelic-Free Your Mind...(side1)

Alice Coltrane-The Ecstatic 
Music of...(side3)

Brazil classics4-O Samba(side1)
Dan Hicks-It Happened One Bite

i have the Edsel Records press, ’86 I think, I don’t know if it’s from a digital master or not but it sure sounds fantastic. Oh and the music aint too shabby either

Saw RobinTrower last nite.  
Excellent performance!  
I have seen him 5 time in the last 10 years.  As long as he keep playing the Bay
Area ,I will go and see him.  He seems to play every 2 years.
Has a simple stage set up w classic Marshall Stacks
Focus is on  "Signiture Tone" and "Solid Playing"
Opened with "Too Rolling Stoned" (personal favorite)and closed on a slow Blues number I did not recognize yet. Each time I see him ,he closes on the  slower blues song
Plays exactly 90 minutes each time and concert is over at 10:30 pm
Trio  RT a drummer and   Basest Christopher Taggart
Taggerts performance was outstanding and vastly improved from the last time 
I saw Them in 2015.  Taggerts  bass was more tight, louder and vocals stronger
They even had the same warm up band as 2015
They did play more newer tunes this time from his last newer recordings
 Other great performances I saw in mid years  RT 2005 had great vocals with Davey Pattinson,who also played with Montrose
RT performane was solid and simply better than ever for now and not then
In my opinion he's is playing better than ever!!!




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Iris Dement's Lifeline album, in which she celebrates her Christian faith. Don't let that scare you off, non-believers! Remember how good Dylan's trio of Christian albums were? Audiophile favorite Alison Krauss does Gospel-influenced material, as do many other Bluegrass artists. And Elvis!

The Band's Music From Big Pink. Next year marks fifty years---50 years!---since it's 1968 release, and it hasn't dated one iota. What a breathe of fresh air is was in that year, swimming head-on against the tide of Psychedelia, lame British blues bands (Ten Years After? Oy vey!), show-off would-be-virtuoso improvisers, and album-side long "songs". MFBP is not only a great album musically, but it is a Master's Class in Rock 'n' Roll musicianship; everything you need to know to play the music is contained in the grooves of the album. It (heh) rocked the music world to it's core when it came out, changing and actually determining the musical path many songwriters, players, and singers took after fully absorbing it's brilliance and significance. Absolutely and by a considerable margin, the most extraordinary debut album of all time, and an all-time Top 10 record. The Band's follow-up---s/t, also known as the brown album, is equally great, some feel even better than MFBP. I love them both to death, each being in my own personal Top 10 album list.

Compilation of old school R&B - Temptations, 4 Tops, Marvin Gaye, Drifters, Chaka Chan, etc, etc
paul kelly, comedy--very smart melodic folk/rock on the order of neil finn or freedy johnson, but with the punky verve of early kinks. huge in australia, fwiw
chris stapleton, from a room--a country record for people (like myself) that don't always crave country--lots of 60s soul feel to it. i've had this one on repeat for awhile now.
Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head on CD - Still fantastic nearly 30 years later....
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ghosthouse- some of Tull’s music is sneaky good, right!? And I usually need to be in the mood for it. Another good one is A Little Light Music. Its a collection of semi acoustic sets while touriimg europe back in 1992. Great production.

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Nutty - Stand Up is one of my favorite Classic Rock albums, a genre I am O-fish-alee TIRED of. But there are just some gems that have staying power. Stand Up is one of ’em. Benefit is another. I’m not a huge Tull fan but those two...very, very good. We "Used to Know" is an excellent track. Love how it builds. "Reasons for Waiting" - another stand out track from Stand Up.  I am an absolute sucker for those strings.  Thanks for mentioning. Was listening to it just the other day. Great album cover too.
The Dead Daises, S/T. -
The Dead Daises, Make Some Noise.
Remember Doug Aldrich, Whitesnake, Dio, did some touring with Glenn Hughes. 

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A Pink Floyd "The Wall" two CD cover set with Ian Anderson and Rick Wakeman.

Yoyo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Stadium Arcadium".

Buddy Guy "Living Proof".

All Jamaican All Star Jazz Band, especially on "My Boy Lollipop" and "Walk On By", two tremendous recordings.

Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Jazz Band, Direct to Disc and aphex enhanced!

Maynard Ferguson "Blues Roar" with MF's tune, "Everyday I Have The Blues".

"Oscar Peterson + 1" with Clark Terry.

"Kansas" (Surprised me too!) "Song For America".


 

Chris Cornell, "Nothing Compares 2 U", (Prince Cover)
https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk
Im a huge Kansas fan. Lets face facts. Kansas had muscle!  And Steve Walsh is one of my all time favorite vocalist and frontman. "Schemer Dreamer" 
https://youtu.be/Rxk8zzsfAXM
"People Of The Southwind"
https://youtu.be/FtXwopQ0GYo

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Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue

I was lucky to hear this playing in a record store in 1985 when it was released. Bought it on the spot and I've listened to it often since that time. 

If you like Rock/Jazz Fusion or virtuoso guitarist, check it out. Fantastic album IMHO.

RIP Allan Holdsworth.......

Alladin Sane, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs  all in High Rez.

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John Mayall - Jazz Blues Fusion (Live in Boston & New York)

Stumbled on this today.  Amazing...wow.