Just finished watching; and that was indeed good, and The Other One was great.  Thanks again!

For the record, I met Edgar Meyer a couple times... I'm convinced both he, and Stanley Clarke are an alien experiment... they dropped those guys off in Roswell N.M. back in the 50's to usher in the bass age, but the Eisenhower Administration got the translation wrong and thought they meant space age. Area 51 was supposed to be a concert hall all this time instead of a secret... oh nevermind.
 
I really have enjoyed these clips... even more than three days of binge-watching six seasons worth of X-Files. God how I miss Agent Scully. =)

.  This song has long been one of my favorites; and though not the one mentioned above by Brian, this is a wonderful performance.  Thanks for the reminder, Brian!

Snapping back to reality, 41 years ago this past weekend, (New Year's Eve actually) Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac.  
 
This concert from 1975 must be one of their first few appearances with the band. I still love to hear them do World Turning, especially with Christine back in the band. In between Mick's infamous solo drum solo, watch for John's old Series I here... hard to think it was only a couple years old then.  
 

The Meyer and Thile piece was nice!

Glad you guys enjoyed the videos, great stuff. Nice to revisit now and then!  That Crystal Silence video was beautiful, thanks!

In the mood for jazz  
 
Keith Jarrett:
Treasure Island with Charlie Hayden, Dewey Redmond, and Paul Motian () and the Koln concerts

Utopia (1974)
 

 
Beethoven fans: There is a musical work of staggering genius hidden in this album, from the collaboration between Todd Rundgren and Moogy Klingman (Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, Allman Bros., Warren Hayes etc.).
 
It's called The Ikon, and it starts at 28:52 (it was the B side of the album.) The form is based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (note the similarity between the opening riff and the famous four-note intro to the Fifth). It also references Rhapsody In Blue, West Side Story and according to Todd Rundgren; Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
 
Each movement has a separate theme featuring a particular instrument - everything from balls-to-the-wall blistering guitar (Todd plays the same Gibson SG that Clapton used on Cream's Disraeli Gears) to pastoral piano interludes, to happy Mariachi craziness - and as with Beethoven, each theme/instrument is layered one-by-one in the spectacular finale (in my opinion, the true genius of the piece is in how well those themes go together in a completely unexpected way, leading up to the best ending in rock music history).
 
Bear in mind that the track features three wildly disparate keyboardists: Moogy, Ralph Schuckett and M. Frog LaBat, on early monophonic synths and keys (Moogy alone played; Fender Rhodes, Minimoog, Univox Mini-Korg, a Hammond L-100 organ, Sound City Piano, an RMI Keyboard Computer and Rock-Si-Chord, a Clavinet, and a Yamaha Grand.  
 
The track was recorded live in the studio, with no overdubs.
 
Enjoy.

That album was my introduction to Rundgren. It's killer. Thanks for posting and bringing it back to my ears this morning!
 
John

The Ikon was epic; my shallow Rundgren history included his radio hits, Onomatapoiea, and the fact that when I had long hair someone told me I looked like him . . .  :-/
 
Didn't pick up on any Herb Alpert passages.  Heard bits that Made me think of Peaches En Regalia and Welcome Back My Friends

Was suddenly reminded of these folks this morning... (you may have heard them on Prairie Home Companion sometime)  
 
Robin and Linda Williams - Down in Buena Vista
 
 
 
Robin and Linda Williams are kinda' homefolks around here, and this tune is set in a little, nearly forgotten town about an hour North of Roanoke, Virginia. The town is nestled in an odd canyon-like bowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, with the small Glen Maury river running through it. It's incredibly scenic from every direction, and there's a music festival that happens there every June I always look forward to.

Rainy day in Southern California.  A little Average White Band with School Boy Crush to funk up my morning before students start rolling in....

Blue Man Group, I Feel Love
 

 
Gotta see them live - especially at the Luxor in Las Vegas. There's no way to describe it, except to say that I was picking pieces of my brains out of my cereal for weeks afterward.
 
That pile of plumbing is an instrument they invented called a tubulum. (Note the grand piano as a percussion instrument.)

A piano is by definition a percussion instrument, with the hammers hitting the strings.

I meant the lid-less grand piano lying on its side on stage left with the strings exposed, which the blue man whacks with a hammer the size of a tympani, that looks like something out of a Tom 'n Jerry cartoon.  
 
In fact, since it lacks piano hammers and he's hitting the strings, he is the hammer! (I wonder if the piano is difficult to keep it in tune?)
 
I'm not sure it's clear in the video, because we've seen BMG so many times, but here's the DVD of that concert. Everybody should see it at least once, because it's actually a hilarious parody of rock concerts.