thebes Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Nice to see this thread getting some traction again. Welcome back Carole, hope all is well. Hey Steve, I hope you like Shoeless Joe, about half of it is incorporated in the movie "Field of Dreams". Format's simple: Name of artist or group, name of album, type of music as best you can (rock, blues etc.), and recording format (cd, lp etc.) I've been working my way through a huge pile of old vinyl but the latest batch hasn't produced any stellar standouts so I'm going to repeat myself and offer up artists I've mentioned here at least once before: Willie and Lobo, "Between the Waters", cd, World/New Age Willie and Lobo consistently shows up on my player and for a good reason. A combo of violin and guitar I would describe it most accurately as flamenco/jazz. Two of their cds I would highly recommend are Caliente and Gypsy Boogaloo. The one listed above is also very good. Out of the seven or eight Willie and Lobo cds I own I would say only one of them is a bust, and that marginaly. Recording quality is superb. So what do you have to share this week? Oh and don't forget to check out my Commodore Thebes of The Spaceways in 2 Channel which may be worth a chuckle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_L Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Hey Thebes, I haven't gotten Shoeless Joe in the mail yet, but I look forward to reading it. it's Red Sox season here in New England.. 1 game ahead of the Yankess at the moment. ...it's a long season. I'm in a real blues kinda mood these days and here's one of my all time favorites. When I finally heard BB King play for the first time I fell in love with that clear, clean, sweet, blue sound of Lucille... his famous guitar. In 1971 BB was doing world class night clubs, and when he was in Chicago, he took the band over to Cook County jail and played there for his fans. He played his heart out and tore the house down with his powerful music. In my opinion BB's best album out of the dozens and dozens and dozens he's done. If for no other reason than The Thrill is Gone. Play da' blues BB, play da blues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 OK You want some Blues? This is your fault Steve_L ; Roy Buchanan ; Live Stock.................CD......1975 Recorded in NYC at Town Hall, November 1974; What can I say about Roy Buchanan, great guitarist, who also left us too soon. A nice seven song set, displaying Roy's own style of guitar, backed by a three piece band, and a lead singer, a nice tight musical unit.Roy on Guitar and vocals, Billy Price on lead vocals, John Harrison on Bass, Byrd Foster on Drums, and Malcom Lukens on Keyboards, other than Roy, unknown musicians. If you like Roy, this is a must have!!! Song List: 1 Reelin' and Rockin' 2 Hot Cha 3 Further up the Road 4 Roy's Bluz 5 Can I change my Mind 6 I'm a Ram 7 I'm Evil Boy, I just can't seem to get out of the 70's...[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Spinner Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 CAB4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_L Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 ooooh, Oldbuckster that sounds like a great one and I don't have it.. Time to go shopping, thanks for the suggestion!! This sounds like one of them "crank it up!" kinda albums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankphess Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Siverchair, Frogstomp, CD, Rock & Roll Don't know much about the band but there's some heavy guitars on this one, Crank this one up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 I pulled out some vinyl today. Was rather proud of myself for listening critically to both sides in a row with no distractions. The title- Mott by Mott the Hoople. Old faves of mine from HS days. Had the 8-track of this back in the day. Featuring Mick Ralphs on guitar and guest artist Andy Mackay on sax from Roxy Music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I pulled out some vinyl today. Was rather proud of myself for listening critically to both sides in a row with no distractions. The title- Mott by Mott the Hoople. Old faves of mine from HS days. Had the 8-track of this back in the day. Featuring Mick Ralphs on guitar and guest artist Andy Mackay on sax from Roxy Music. On the middle of which track did the 8 track tape flip sides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 On the middle of which track did the 8 track tape flip sides? There would have been three woudn't there? One at the beginning of the Tape, and three at various inopportune times throughout. I guess one could look up the song list and times and figure it out, but that's just a bad reminder. A buddy had an 8track recorder, so you could custom record and try to eliminate the 'KACHUNKS' at mid track. I remember seeing 8track tapes fluttering in the breeze on the medians at stop lights. They'd jam or start sounding terrible, so you'd just RIP it out of the machine and FLING it out the car window! Loads of fun! On an upbeat note, that album photo is from Mott 2006- it's being rereleased with additional tracks from the era. A MUST HAVE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 On the middle of which track did the 8 track tape flip sides? There would have been three woudn't there? One at the beginning of the Tape, and three at various inopportune times throughout. I guess one could look up the song list and times and figure it out, but that's just a bad reminder. A buddy had an 8track recorder, so you could custom record and try to eliminate the 'KACHUNKS' at mid track. I remember seeing 8track tapes fluttering in the breeze on the medians at stop lights. They'd jam or start sounding terrible, so you'd just RIP it out of the machine and FLING it out the car window! Loads of fun! On an upbeat note, that album photo is from Mott 2006- it's being rereleased with additional tracks from the era. A MUST HAVE! IAN HUNTER Rocks...........Mick Ralphs to Bad Company......Threw out many a tape like that..........here's one for you Paul McCarntney's Ram....that sucked so bad I threw it out the window on the second listen!!!!!![:$] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholtl Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Muse "Absolution" - Progressive/Experimental Rock CD/LP. My favorite band of all time, and they're going on tour again! A phenomena in Europe (they're British) but known only to those deeply into progressive heavy rock in the states, the presale for Muse tickets went on at 10am this morning, and within 5 minutes, the Los Angeles, San Diego, and New York locations were all sold-out! Luckily I have 2 computers and was able to nab up the LA and SD locations. I would've bought tickets to San Francisco too, but alas, I haven't the time or money to make that 3rd trek. Muse is like Radiohead in that you either love em, or you hate em. There's not really an in-between. They can be loud, thrashing, and headbanging; they can be sweeping and epic in orchestral grandeur; and they can just as easily lull you to sleep with hazy, shoe-gazer infused ballads. This album is my personal favorite album in all the 25 years of my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grog Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Well I have a few more CD's coming in this week and have I got a classic for you. I remember playing this one when I was in my youth and it is the best blues album I have ever heard. I have not thought about the LP for years until I ran across it a few days ago. Still I remember every song on this masterpiece. The CD should be here in the next few days! Super Session [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Bloomfield, Mike / Kooper, Al / Stills, Steve Audio CD Street Date: Apr 08, 2003 Original LP release Date: 1968 01 - Albert's Shuffle 02 - Stop 03 - Man's Temptation 04 - His Holy Modal Majesty 05 - Really 06 - It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry 07 - Season Of The Witch 08 - You Don't Love Me 09 - Harvey's Tune 10 - Albert's Shuffle - (mix without horns, previously unreleased) 11 - Season Of The Witch - (mix without horns, previously unreleased) 12 - Blues For Nothing - (studio outtake) 13 - Fat Grey Cloud - (previously unreleased, live) One of the best blues albums ever--a classic. Greg's pick: Track #7 - Season Of The Witch http://www.mikebloomfield.com/supersession2003.htm THE IDEA WAS SIMPLE: Two out-of-work rock-star pals pull into a studio, jam on some blues changes and put out a record. Guitarist Mike Bloomfield, late of the Butterfield Blues Band, had just quit his psychedelic-R&B project, the Electric Flag; singer-organist Al Kooper was fresh out of Blood, Sweat and Tears. And the two had already played together on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. The empathy was up and running immediately. In one nine-hour session, Bloomfield and Kooper, with pianist Barry Goldberg, bassist Harvey Brooks and drummer Eddie Hoh, cut enough music for one whole side of an LP: two long, sweet blues, a raga-jazz trip and covers of Curtis Mayfield's "Man's Temptation" and the 1968 Howard Tate single "Stop." Bloomfield didn't play another note on the record. A chronic insomniac sinking into long-term heroin addiction, he abruptly split for home the next day, leaving Kooper to finish Super Session with a hastily recruited Steve Stills. But what Bloomfield left behind is still the best half an album in late-Sixties rock: five performances comprising the single finest document of Bloomfield's rare gifts as a guitarist, the visceral swing and clarity of attack that were heard less and less on record in the decade leading to his death from a drug overdose in 1981. The most amazing thing about Bloomfield's playing on Super Session is its absolute joy. With Butterfield, he often sounded like an impatient purist, pressing against blues convention with a fitful mix of apostolic propriety and caged-animal violence. But in "Really" and "Stop," there is a wide-open cheer and confidence in Bloomfield's tone -- a clean, sharp peal descended from the treble-y stab of three Kings (B.B., Albert and Freddie) -- and his meaty glide from note to note. Bloomfield's opening and closing solos in "Albert's Shuffle" are stunning displays of grip and virtuosity, of his ability to fire dense knots of melody with dead aim. And in "His Holy Modal Majesty," Bloomfield's Indo-Coltrane maneuvers combine free-jazz aggression with the concentrated solemnity of prayer. The Stills numbers are pretty fine, too: The mod-cowboy jangle he drapes over Dylan's "It Takes Alot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry," the sexy dread of his wah-wah yelps in "Season Of The Witch." And Kooper is a classy ringmaster, gluing the record together with strong, straight singing and classy, unobtrusive horn overdubs. But Bloomfield -- then at the height of his powers -- is the reason Super Session deserves its name. After it hit the Top Twenty in late '68, packs of lazy rock stars in search of easy coin tried peddling hours of dire studio noodling as "super sessions." But there was only one true Super Session. This is it. --David Fricke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbuckster Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 A CLASSIC GEM, good call grog!!!! Mike Bloomfield is a fine guitarist..........Season of the Witch, right on......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsawomanthing Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Thanks for the welcome back Thebes - nice to be here again! My pick for the week - since Blues is the theme, is Buddy Guy Buddy Guy - Damn Right I've Got The Blues 01 - Damn Right, I've Got The Blues 02 - Where Is The Next One Coming From 03 - Five Long Years 04 - Mustang Sally 05 - There Is Something On Your Mind 06 - Early In The Morning 07 - Too Broke To Spend The Night 08 - Black Night 09 - Let Me Love You Baby 10 - Rememberin' Stevie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theryugobuddy Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I'll jump on the blues train-- One of my favorites -- Johnny Shines with Big Walter Horton on Testament. To me, Big Walter was the best--I like him so much more than Little Walter. His tone and his incredible ability to color other's music always gets me. He could lead the band, but he could also be in the background and make everyone sound better -- Johnny Shines has a disintinctive shuffling, ringing guitar and shout singing that sounds great on this one-- This one is worth looking for-- and oldbuckster, if you like Live stock by Roy Buchanan--Made in Japan is damn good too--maybe even better -- its from the same time, but there aren't many common songs on it-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meagain Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 The new Tool album.... 10,000 Days. !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaspr Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 Brand new release by Canadian singer/songwriter Ron Sexsmith. CD title is "Time Being". Best described as pop rock. Great tunes with some great hooks. As an added bonus it is an excellent recording as well. Check it out. Garth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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