OT Distraction: Five songs

Michael J. Spangler said:
Higgy: hey man i dind't know anyone else listened to yngwie malmsteen! ever heard his "full shred arpeggios from hell"?
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Hell yes, bro! I spent 7 years of my military service in Europe listening to Euro-metal. I've been an Yngwie fan since Rising Force. I also see you ar ea Maiden fan... I'm gonna keep an eye on you! ;) :D
 
I dont remember who it was , but they were showing some guy talking about Yngwie. he said after he heard Yngwie play he went home and turned his guitar into a coffee table.
 
Mark Williams said:
I dont remember who it was , but they were showing some guy talking about Yngwie. he said after he heard Yngwie play he went home and turned his guitar into a coffee table.
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Was that Marty Friedman? I know that he joined Megadeth for the Rust in Peace album. He had a lot of Yngwie-style flourishes in his playing at that point in time. Beautiful stuff.
 
This is just excellent. It's great to find so many people who seem to have lived some of the same music. Mike and Nancy I think our collections much be very alike, though mine is smaller. I saved all that vinyl too! Roger I really appreciate your love of classical and that's something we've been getting into more all the time around here. We make the symphony - and Des Moines has a pretty good one - every couple months. Yo Yo Ma is coming in September and we ain't missing that for anything. I've been searching for good classical guitar for a while, though many of the recordings aren't as good as I'd like. When I hear classical music on the radio I'm always driving and seldom able to write down what I liked.

The 70s. Sheesh, I bet everyone thinks their early adulthood was the best time in history. I didn't miss too many opportunities back then and from this distant perspective that still seems okay. These days my excitement runs to cigars and cool days. And the occassional knife that turns out about like I intended.

I finally broke down a few months ago and replaced the CD player in the shop. It only plays one disc, so changing the music takes me back a little to flipping vinyl... :D LA Woman is in there right now - Zowie! Even my 21 year old son digs that album. So much incredible music came out of the 60s and 70s it's just not possible to remember it all at once. A while back I went "straight", eschewing all mind altering substances (save tobacco and caffene of course) and I was a little worried at first that music would remind me of too many altered states... Turns out I was safe from that (well Led Zep does still make me a little nostalgic for certain days), but danged if all those songs don't make me remember various lovely women!

Jeff Buckley's Grace is playing as I write this. If folks here have never heard of him - and that's very possible as he drowned before his career ever really came to much - let me offer a recommendation. That man could do anything! Incredible voice that mirrors a grand soul.

Every day I find new music. It's been a constant friend for my entire life, right along with science fiction and making stuff. And they're all entwined somehow. It's a good life. This is a great thread.

Any Deadheads out there might check out a book called Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip. Has a great forward by Robert Hunter (whose own albums are at the top of my list too) and is just a treasure. I never tire of reading through that book. (I've never quite forgiven my father for choosing to move us to Liberal Kansas over San Fransisco in 1968.)

Well off to the shop. What'll I play this morning?... I've been given a lot of ideas here. :D Thanks for the reminders and recommendations.
 
Okay, one more. :D

Ever since the RIAA has turned rabid I've been going out of my way to listen to all the indie music I can. The internet has really given a lot of good bands a way to distribute their own music on their own terms, and it's a true bonus for us.

And iTunes is a real treasure; even you windose folks can take advantage of it! Check it out some time if you haven't.

Here are a couple recent gems:

I - Magnetic Fields
Good News for People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse

Okay! I'm going to get some work done this morning if it kills me. But Buckley keeps me sitting here...listening, in awe.
 
For you guys who really dig 70's rock, you should give a listen to Tenacious D. Jack Black is one talented dude. His musical style contains all the great hard rock motifs. His lyrics are completely hysterical too. Don't be fooled by the name of this band - its pure rock and roll. Very addictive.
 
Dave, if you love guitar music, we'll have to chat some day. That has been my primary interest in music for many years, whether it be rock or new age or classical or bluegrass. Meanwhile, check out the new age guy called Alex DiGrassi, and the classical guitarist John Williams, if you don't know them. Williams' "Echo's of Spain" is a marvelous piece of modern classical guitar. We'll have to talk scifi, too, maybe, sometime. It has been my favorite since "R Is For Rocket" so many long years ago. Do you enjoy Zelazny (my absolute favorite, still sad he died so young)? Heinlein, Asimov, Moorcock, Silverberg, MZ Bradley (love Darkover) are amongst my faves. I'm reading William Gibson right now; I enjoy the "near-future, post-industrial" cyberpunk a lot lately.

As for Rush, I prefer "Moving Pictures". :)

Larry T, I enjoy your inclusion of Johnny Winter. He has been neglected, IMO. For some reason (wonder why...hehe), I have a special affection for his piece "Tattooed Man"! ("Naked ladies all over me until the day I die".....what a great line!)

Roger, thank you for the kind words. Truth is, we tutor each other. I read all your posts about HT, and it expands my knowledge. The great thing about these forums, we all learn from each other! Even about music! Now I'm gonna have to fire up that dusty turntable and play Ludwig's 9th today!

Meanwhile:

Sugar Magnolia..............Dead

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.........Allmans

Little Wing.............Jimi (I guess I sort of dote on Jimi...may explain the posters all over the house, eh?)

Fly Nightbird..............Roy Buchanan (Pink FLoyd song from DC????)

and, just for grins.......

Cowboy............Kid Rock :D


Jeff, Nanc says she's heard about "D" being surpisingly good...we'll check it out, thanks!
Gary, does "classical gas" mean like my 50-something wife after her gallbladder surgery last Christmas???? :D Now I'm in the deep stuff!
 
The mood I'm in now.......
#1, Eve of destruction
#2 Dark side of the moon
#3 American woman/new mother nature (long version)
#4 Vahevala by Loggins & Messina
#5 Young American
 
Peter, your mention of the Guess Who album made me remember that my fav from them is "Share the Land". Never heard the long version of "American Woman/New Mother Nature" til I got the album - it's a great one! :cool:

Then these came to mind:

Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Soft Parade - Doors

Rides Again - James Gang

Hotel California - Eagles

And, yes.....classical gas is my middle name now, but then I've lived with one of the masters of fluffing the bed sheets for years - what is it with boys and flatulence :D

Oh, another great song came to mind - "What becomes of the Brokenhearted" (originally by Jimmy Ruffin) ..... :)
 
Sorry I got off the path and let albums come in - back to songs..... Dazed and :confused:

Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Ball of Confusion - Temps
Right Now - Van Halen
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & Shondells
Ride my Seesaw - Moody Blues
 
Mike thanks for the guitar recommendations, I'll try to get out this weekend. :D I heard Alex DiGrassi on NPR the other night and it got me all enthusiastic. But I hadn't written it down and forgot all about it. Great guitarists - not least of all Jerry Garcia. He was pure magic.

Man I'm with you in your taste for SF too, seems like we probably have similar bookshelves... Have you ever read Jonathan Letham? I'm a little hesitant to mention him as he's a little quirky and hasn't published anything the last couple years but I've always enjoyed his books. One I'm going to have to revisit soon is Riding the Torch, by Norman Spinrad. Premise is this ship whose mission was to find other life "out there" - and hasn't found a nit. I've been getting into small press horror lately; lots of incredible stuff coming out of the small houses. Kinda like indie music, only quiet enough my wife doesn't holler (until the bill comes).

Higgy thanks for the Jack Black recommendation too, I'll follow up on that one. I've been playing some clips from it at iTunes and it sounds great! Rock Your Socks - well, rocks! I just saw School of Rock last weekend - can't believe I missed that for so long. Dang, it was great. Too bad my wife doesn't appreciate music at its appropriate volume though... Don't worry, she's over it now. :D

Here are a couple more:

At My Funeral - Crash Test Dummies
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Ripple - Dead (don't mean to be cliche, that song has had a special meaning for me lately)
Sharks in the Water - Morphine
Been So Long - Hot Tuna

Cripes, I gotta get some work done! Maybe if I turn this up loud enough I'll be able to hear it in the yard...
 
Water Song.............Hot Tuna, a beautiful early exposition of Jorma's enormous guitar lyricism


I've had to quit buying books, unfortunately, Dave. I just can't keep up with the cost of paperbacks anymore, nor cd's for that matter. (The freedom of retirement is GREAT. The financial implications, not so much! hehe Ah, well, everythings a compromise except one's honor.) I have a couple thousand tiltes left at home, so I am rereading some. I plan on rereading Moorcocks "Dancers at the End of Time" books soon.
 
Mike I just came in from the garden labor and guess what was playing??? There are no coincidences.

I know what you mean about the cost of books; I don't buy many either, just those few have to haves and the Hartwell Best of the Year volume. I've reread a bunch of old stuff lately too. Guy Thomas and I reread City a while back, which was a major slice of nostalgia.

Hey just thought of some more: Remember the Japanese girl band in Kill Bill? 5,6,7,8s. I got an album from them off iTunes, Bomb the Twist, and it's just great. Too short though, only six cuts. But they sure know how to put a smile on your face. :D
 
For Grateful dead songs, Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad and Friend of the Devil rank right up there.

Have you ever checked out the guitar playing of Lightnin' Hopkins? There is a double CD of the complete Aladdin recordings out that is usually in the $10-12 range. You will be amazed at the sounds he pounds out of that old acoustic Gibson. There are innumerable later artists that use/ have used his licks from Billy Gibbons to Pearl Jam.

Johnny Winter is great, but Albert King and Freddy King were the inspiration for generations of electric blues guitarists. Personally, I think that Billy Gibbons is about as good a blues guitarist as white boys get.
 
We'll have to trade notes on this sometime, Steve. A substantial part of my collection is blues, and whiteboy blooz in particular. A like guys like Jimmy Thackery, Chris Duarte, Bob Margolin, and a bunch others.
 
Mike, I agree that there are a lot of really good white boy blues guitarists out there. Jimmy Thackery'sCD, Empty Arms Motel is great and Duarte is no slouch either. If you haven't heard it in a while though, listen to ZZ Top's First Album. Billy Gibbons blues guitar on that one is some of the best I've ever heard. I saw Kenny Wayne Shepard in concert do the best version of Voodoo Child that I have heard and that is going some considering all the greats who have recorded it.

Many of the white blues guitarists seem to work more at playing fast electric boogie. Alvin Lee with Ten Years After probably set a standard for that on the 1967 album called Undead, that will never be topped. He took some old standards-Woodchoppers Ball, I May Be Wrong (But I won't Be Wrong Always) and Goin' Home and turned them into greased lightening. Rolling Stone rated it (back in the 70s) as the fastest, hardest driving rock and roll album of all time and it was pure blues boogie.

I really like a contemporary Chicago bluesman named Sam Holt who plays under the stage name Magic Slim. He has a CD out Called Black Tornado that is outstanding.

I probably have a hundred or so blues CDs and they represent a wide spectrum from pre-Robert Johnson to the present. It amazes me that most of the great guitar licks come down from the early bluesmen, of both Delta and Texas styles
 
I've got a Magic Slim cd somewhere here. Nanc put them "in order" one day and I haven't been able to find anything since.... :eek: She'll have to find it. I think it was a ploy to control me.... ;)

As for ZZ, I have to agree about First Album. There was a reason the Rev BillyG was touted as the hottest new player back then. Great licks. I'll listen today, thank you!!

I have a bunch of those "Blues Masters" cd's of old stuff and I love listening to the old Alan Lomax recordings of the "originals". I call some of it "hoodoo blues" because it can literally raise the hairs on my arms it's so spooky. Son House comes to mind for that. A House acolyte named John Mooney can do that, too; rare for a white boy.

Another guy I really like is Coco Montoya. And Harvey "the Snake" Mandel....



For a Saturday morning dose of 60's radio-pop psychedelia:

I Had Too Much to Dream...............Electric Prunes

Psychotic Reaction................Count Five

Journey to the Center of Your Mind.......Amboy Dukes

We Ain't Got Nothing Yet..............Blues Magoos

Hot Smoke and Sassafras...........Bubble Puppy

And, so we remember his roots:
Just Dropped In.............First Edition w/ Kenny Rogers
 
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