Other than Death Metal, what are you listening to?

[Ayinger]

[RocDoc]

^ lots of big bands i take it?

when i'm in the mood for it, i absolutely love that shit.

~

NP:
<sub>Leftover Salmon
“Brewglass”
Terra Alta, WV
August 24, 2001

Recording Info:
SBD -> Dat (44.1k)

Transfer Info:
Fostex D-5 -> Audio Magic Presto II -> Microtrack II -> CF Card -> MacBook Pro OS X 10.6.4 (Wave Editor - tracking) -> FLAC16(encoding and tagging)>MP3@320kps

SET 1
The Other Side
Let’s Give A Party
Almost Cut My Hair
The Last Days Of Autumn
Shuckin’ The Corn
Zombie Jamboree
Midnight Blues
Bend In The River
Bill’s Boogie
Ridin’ On The L&N
Steamboat Whistle Blues
Sittin’ On Top Of The World

SET 2 - [92:21]
Intro
Aint Gonna Work
I Ain’t Broke But I’m Badly Bent
Ask The Fish
Railroad Highway
Up On The Hill Boogie
Oklahoma*
Are You Ready For The Country?*
Reuben’s Train* ->
Whole Lotta Love*
Jokester*
Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin*
She Caught The Katy*
Steam Powered Aeroplane*

No Mark Vann
* with Jeff Austin on mandolin (Yonder Mountain String Band)

-Leftover Salmon-
Vince Herman - acoustic guitar, washboard, vocals
Drew Emmitt - electric guitar, mandolin, fiddle, vocals
Scott Vestal - 5 string banjo
Bill McKay - keyboards
Jose Martinez - drums
Greg Garrison - bass

The Midnight Cafe</sub>

breakneck....but this bill mckay running the piano is the one oddball thing, atypical with these sorta bluegrassers.
tho LOS is far from 'typical'.
lots of straight jazz and even 'pop'-sounding things here.
still, damned if mckay doesn't keep up - he even takes off without them.

[RocDoc]

NP:
<sub>New Grass Revival
w/ special guest Jerry Douglas
4-30-88
Green Acres Music Hall
Bostic, NC

1st gen cassette > Cool Edit Pro > CDwav > flac

disc 1--set 1

Lonely Rider
Reach A Little Bit Higher
Love Someone Like Me
One Way Street
I Can Talk To You
Can't Stop Now
Hold To A Dream
Go With The Flow
She's A Woman
Molly & Ten Brooks
Singin' The Blues
Metric Lips
Good Woman's Love
You Don't Knock ( You Just Walk On In)

disc 2--set 2

County Clare
Vamp In The Middle
Out In The Darkness
Whitewater
One Love
Steam-Powered Airplane
Revival
Last Letter Home
I'm Down
Dhaka Rock
How About You
Spring Peepers >
Eager & Anxious
Happy Birthday to Steve Metcalf > Last Train To Clarksville
Green Acres

disc 3--set 2 cont.

Don't Look Back >
Wang-Dang-Doodle >
Instrumental >
Jam >
Whipping Post >
Don't Look Back
Encores:
Dancin' With The Angels
Going Back To Old Kentucky

This was a jumbled mess on the cassettes due to the length of the show...hopefully I have the order correct...problems or corrections, please let me know...ph****61</sub>

sam bush
bela fleck
john cowan
and pat flynn

no mess whatsoever.
god this thing just BURNS!
the crowd is SO into it, the whoopin' and a-hollerin' stars to sound like a teenybopper concert somwhere, but DAMN is the band on!
i saw them at an old now-defunct club on lincoln avenue called orphans and loved them so much we paid admission to see them again for their '2nd show' since they were trying to empty the place after the 1st show.
and i'm guessing it had to be around this time.

bush and cowan were singing their hearts out and pat flynn was playing a big ol' acoustic guitar with the attitude of a rockstar. he'd step front, pick the shit out of his solos and then step back and everyone's like 'whoa, did you see that?'

THAT's what i'm hearing here - an appreciative crowd going nuts for the absolutely virtuosic stuff these guys were pulling off onstage.

[maarts]

NP:



Never lets ya down!

[Ayinger]

RE: doc --- Bush, Fleck, AND Douglas would be enuff to pull me in the door!

My latest "buy" (actually rolled over pts. on my Discover card to get it for free):


Art Pepper Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

The "rhythm setion" here being Red Garland (p), Paul Chambers (b), and Philly Joe Jones (d) who all three had just come off a couple year stint backing Miles Davis. I braved a chilly evening out on the deck a week ago with it and was not only taken with the music (it swings, it boils, it soothes) but also how amazingly well -- and I mean really, REALLY well -- it all came together despite the circumstances it was recorded.

First, Pepper had never played with these three. In fact, he wasn't even told about the recording session until that very morning. His sax had sat in a closet and the mouthpiece and reed had all dried and rotted and was essentially broken....he hadn't played in a while. He decides to shoot up herion before leaving for the studio and shows up whacked. The guys toss out a few names of some songs to perhaps play....Pepper agrees to some that he has heard before and was somewhat familiar with but NEVER had played....no sheet music, everything just comes from ear and soul. They even end up making up a couple of new songs on the spot. And by the end of the afternoon, you have this album! Only in 1957..........

[RocDoc]

NP:


oh man, what a great breakfast selection!
just now 'sands of time' is chooglin' along so perfectly...what a great melody.
and the the next up will be=>



...a disc which i never had a copy of.
don and glen's talking about it (and other welch-era gems) awhile back caused me to search the library data base for anything other than the now-standard stevie nicks mac, showed me that beside a good selection of peter green mac, only bare trees represented the green-less period.
a very short running time, sent me looking for something from the same period to match it. i dl'ed future games and piggybacked the 2 of them onto this CD - full length, middle period with christine mcvie, welch and the kirwan/spencer team.

i know ALL of these songs, but they've pretty much fallen off of even the wxrt playlists...THAT's a real shame.
fantastic pieces here.

[RocDoc]

...and re art pepper, absolutely amazing player that guy.
i never knew his biographical details included things like that though.

totally a 'musician thing' i have to suppose, going back to louie armstrong - gotta get 'outta your head' to loosen the music form the nether reaches. obviously bullshit because SO many can do insanely well, without any 'fertilizing' of their god-given talents.

i think it comes from being very young at the start, getting high, understanding 'DAMN i feel GOOD!'...but then never allowing themselves to grow out of it. and escalating to the most dangerous highs available. whether it's the praise of fans and listeners driving them to again match what they did when the player KNEW 'hey i was pretty wasted then - and i think it was fun too' => so they figure 'wtf let's go!'
once the heroin thing gets established, then you can't let go anymore - or at least not without a HUGE effort, lifestyle change necessitating giving up parts of your life you probably really love(d)...tho if you DON'T make that huge effort, you WILL fucking lose somewhere down the line - lifelong diseases like hep C or a totally undignified 'headline' OD ala cobain or just a simple sidebar like mike starr's completely unnecessary 'accident' was.
~
it amazes me how christine mcvie's relatively thin little voice can carry these songs from future games and bare tree. no shouter, no 'depth', but boy, she pulls it off.

[Ayinger]

give me Chris over Stevie ANY day.........

[RocDoc]

...without question...

[JACkory]

no

[Ayinger]

Been eyeballing this set for years and stumbled upon it at a used disc just yesterday; paid to wait AND what a great performance!


Luther Allison LIVE In Chicago

PERFECT for setting off the first real heatwave of the year --- had the grill blazin' to all this last night! Doc, ya gotta fill me in as I know you've remarked about this show --- were you actually there or just heard it comin' up from Grant Park?


My other buy that day was just as amazing of an eyeopener (and don't even snicker if you haven't heard it):


Sammy Hagar Marching To Mars

uh-huh.... A bit of back tracking: I've followed Sammy since his Montrose days and esp. his early solo outings up until he just about broke out with Standing Hampton....just didn't get into the more 'commercial' sound he'd taken. The Van Halen matchup was what it was, but I never bought anything of that period. He also put out what I considered to be one of the near worst CDs I ever bought with the live Hallelujah a number of years back.

But like I said, Sammy was THE man for me back in the late 70's so, for nostalgia sake, I got his new autobiography from the library last week. Decent read (and oh man, how he trashes Eddie VH!) and got me playing some of his older stuff again. He talked about this particular disc as being one that he was most proudest of and so seeing it used Saturday, I picked it up.

Near. Fucking. Excellent! He kicks up enough variation to keep things interesting (a tune with Bootsy Collins?) but on top of all, proves that not only can he write decent rock tunes but can play his ass off too! Good guitar work AND that includes a number of solos that couldn't help me to think Eddie-who???

[maarts]

Chris over Stevie....yeah, quite often actually.

These two albums have been hopping on my stereo lately:




The Blackfield is less gung-ho as the previous two, more like a lot of symphonic balladry but pretty impressive...Shriekback has gone (partially) back to the days of Oil & Gold which is a good thing....

[RocDoc]

shriekback's oil & gold is a fantastic album!
~
naw, i never ever actually witnessed luther allison in person...i'm kinda thinking that bluesfest part of 'made in chicago' was on a thursday night (bluesfest began as 5-6 days i believe, then they shrunk it) and i just couldn't get there.

'bad love'!!
i swear his playing there on that song does bring to tears at several points.

~

NP:
<sub>Collection: Calexico
Band/Artist: Calexico
Date: April 25, 2003 (check for other copies)
Venue: China Theater
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Source: SBD/AUD Matrix (Multitrack)> Master CDR(PreFM)>Mastered via SADiE w/ 24 bit Drawmer Masterflow Processing (05/03)> CDR
Lineage: CDR(m) > EAC (secure) > WAV > FLAC [7]
Taped by: Recorded by P3 Live (Sweeden)
Transferred by: Mastered by Jim Blackwood - Official Calexico Archivist
Keywords: Live concert

Disk 1

1: Pepita
2: Across the Wire
3: Quattro
4: Frontera/Trigger
5: Dub Latina
6: Sunken Waltz
7: El Picador
8: Not Even Stevie Nicks
9: Fade
10: Fatal Spring >
11: Close Behind
12: Woven Birds
13: Minas de Cobre
14: Spokes
15: Stray
16: Corona
17: Guero Canelo

Disk 2

1: Black Heart
2: Falling Rain*
3: Alone Again Or*
4: Cancion Del Mariachi
5: Crystal Frontier
6: Attack El Robot! Attack!

www.archive.org/details/calexico2003-04-25.flac16</sub>


STELLAR!

i've had this for a good year and bring out way too little for how outstanding it is.
for the sublime pedal-steel alone!

[maarts]

I saw Calexico live last year, they slightly underwhelmed me then but I guess because it was an open-air festival it always would. A smaller theater may a bit more conducive for having a good time with this band....

[RocDoc]

i can only imagine that being up in these guys faces to see them play would have to be better - though on here, their wash of changing timbres i could imagine playing at an evening soiree in the backyard...the pedal steel bleeding into the blasts of mariachi ensemble playing, aaaah.

NP:


omygod what a GREAT player!!!
and this disc with thelma houston shoutin' the blues over this guy playing the ever lovin shit out of his guitar is a study in SUCH contrasts that there are definitely some instances of wailin' dive-bomb guitar over a blues combo that it makes me laugh.
it's as though henderson decided to take a completely unrelated straight up blues session recording and proceeded to overdub himself into the proceedings JUST to amuse himself.
it's pretty weird, but it is damn good.