What are you listening to today?

[kbasa]

Sounds too much like some of their other work.

Joe

There's not exactly a lot of innovation in rock and roll these days, I hate to say. I've pretty much stopped listening to it for the most part.

But I'll listen to Radiohead any time. It's complex and different, but still rock. Their basement sessions from a bit ago are just awesome.

Check the complexity of the drum part and the way they layer sounds in and build tension. Still stunning, years later and I hear something new in it every single time.

This is from In Rainbows, an album they gave away with a "pay what you think it's worth" price instead of dealing with a record company.

If one likes Yes, Rush or any of the prog rock bands, this is their spiritual heir, working something new with all the new forms of music that have appeared between the kind of end of rock in the 80s and where we are now.

Edited to add: If you want to watch them pay all of In Rainbows, you can watch it here:

It's about an hour.

 

[omega man]

Mad Season - River Of Deceit​

OM

 

[omega man]

Amy Winehouse joins the "27" club

The untimely death of Amy Winehouse adds another name to the list of musical talent to join the "27" club. Other members of the tragically talented club include Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison and Colbain.
Picture courtesy ABC News

Video Here.....

And now a movie about her life-

A new movie dramatizes the life and music of British singer Amy Winehouse, the charismatic, multiple-Grammy-winner whose struggles with drugs and alcohol led to her death at the age of 27. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with director Sam Taylor-Johnson about capturing a complex life on film; and with actress Marisa Abela, who describes how she inhabited the role of Winehouse from the inside out.

"Back to Black" is quite an album.

OM

 

[robsryder]

Sometimes you just stumble on something interesting. This guy is someone that I'd like see perform. I like the spontaneity...

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[omega man]

This entertainer has been the subject of a number of posts in this thread.
Always entertaining.
OM

 

[mikegalbicka]

RIP David Sanborn - another great gone.

David Sanborn, Grammy-winning multi-genre saxophonist, dead at 78​

 

[omega man]

OM

 

[20774]

This was already offered a number of years back, but still makes me move around!! The Proclaimers:

 

[mikegalbicka]

They DO Make Music as Good as the Old Days: New Recommendations for Boomers and Gen X​

If you wish you could listen to new music as good as B.B. King or Alanis Morissette or even Sly & the Family Stone, we've got good news!

We’ve taken advantage of that to put together a 54-song set showcasing our picks of new artists worth hearing alongside their past-generation guides, alternating them to highlight the connections. Let it play as is — or put it on shuffle and see where it goes. For Spotify users, just use this link: https://bit.ly/4cUhOq5

(article From Kiplinger)

 

[pauls1150]

Iron Butterfly...

Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly Singer and Organist, Dead at 78

Doug Ingle, the founding singer and organist of Iron Butterfly and the co-writer of the group’s hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," has died at the age of 78.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[83014]

A few years ago, my wife and I spent a few weeks in LA (love lane splitting), I discovered KJazz 88.1 and now I can stream it here in NC. I have it tuned to their HD2 bee-bop station and listen to it constantly. it’s the good old jazz, Coltrane, Davis, Bridgewater, Mabern, Clark and on and on.

Doug

 

[mikegalbicka]

Iron Butterfly...

Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly Singer and Organist, Dead at 78

Doug Ingle, the founding singer and organist of Iron Butterfly and the co-writer of the group’s hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," has died at the age of 78.

www.rollingstone.com

Another classic but I never knew this!

“‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ was written as a slow country ballad, about one-and-a-half minutes long,” Bushy told It’s Psychedelic Baby magazine in 2020. “I came home late one night and Doug [Ingle] had been drinking a whole gallon of Red Mountain wine. I asked him what he had done, while he has been playing a slow ballad on his Vox keyboard. It was hard to understand him because he was so drunk … so I wrote it down on a napkin exactly how it sounded phonetically to me: ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.’ It was supposed to be ‘In the Garden of Eden.’”

 

[pauls1150]

Not just that, but the "long version" started out just as a practice jam session, so the recording engineer (Don Cassel -?) could set up all the various devices... He recorded the whole thing, and that became the 17-minute version! Doug's vocals and Erik Braunn's guitar were partially dubbed in.

 

[mikegalbicka]

 

[61996]

 

[omega man]

Martha Davis and the Motels-

OM

 

[robsryder]

Long ago I had this on a record. Later on a CD. Now it is saved on a hard drive, easily accessible - no need to dust the grooves and clean the needle. I haven't listened to this in a while. Man, I am so glad that a tape machine was going that night at the Village Gate ...

 

[robsryder]

I like bluegrass and I like the Beatles - I really like this -

 

[omega man]

Micheal J Fox (and Coldplay),
Michael is on the short list of Never Give Up people.

And the comments……..Perfect.

OM

 

[61996]