Very interesting, Greg. Thanks for sharing.

Rob   

Wonderful, Greg!
Aereo-Plain (recorded by the Dobrlic Plectoral Society - Hartford, Vassar Clements, Tut Taylor, Norman Blake, and Randy Scruggs - but credited to John) has been on my "Desert Island" list for over 40 years (first heard it the first night I dropped).


Saw him solo (opened by New Grass Revival) in '76, and it was amazing.  Yes, Bill, he had the plywood -and started late from arguing with the soundman about how to best mic it.  I forget who said this when he passed, but it captures him exactly: "John Hartford always had one foot in the past and one foot in the future - and they were both dancing!"

Call me green(or D flat), but John Hartford is news to me
...but not anymore 
Thanks All

This is fun.  Yonder Mountain String Band, .

I've always loved the Beethoven symphonies, but I've often found myself wishing the recordings matched what I thought of as Beethoven's power.  This evening I found .

I was going to cook dinner, when I thought that I would like to listen to a long piece of music while doing so; and I thought of the Sixth Symphony, which has long been one of my favorite pieces of music, and which I haven't listened to in quite a while.  To hear it in the kitchen, I turned it up really loud.  By the time I got back upstairs, the third movement was beginning; and I left it really loud.

Then came the fourth movement, the thunderstorm.  And while I did have the stereo up really loud, a lot of the power of the storm seemed to me to come from the recording.  And if you like bass, and I think a few of you do, this is powerful bass.

But the entire symphony is wonderful, and it was a joy listening to this recording of it.

If you haven't heard the Sixth Symphony in a while, now would be a good time; and if you have a nice stereo, turn it up.

I didn't watch Twin Peaks in '90, but thanks to Netflix have just discovered it - and I'm digging  Angelo Badalamenti's music HARD!!!


Peter (who has had nights it would have been the perfect soundtrack for......)

Dawes was on Praire Home Companion yesterday (as well as Esperanza Spalding!).  I never heard Dawes before and found them enjoyable.  This song reminds me a a very close friend from high school . . . wonder where he is now?

All You Favorite Bands - https://youtube.com/watch?v=I74C2hClAsA

An altered automated piece of a piano; sliced,diced,and smooshed  with tapes and a CRT.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWv8kJDIzWs&feature=youtu.be

This was fun - a favorite band covering my favorite Pink Floyd album.

Yonder Mountain String Band covering Sheep

Dawes is a nice band, they remind me of Jackson Brown.

Just because I haven't heard it in a while (the CD died):.  Note especially the slide at 00:16.


Peter (who turned down an offer to do FOH for them in '79.  Hey, they had a new front man - why would I want to work with some kid named Gill?  Yeah, brilliant move.....)

Nice one Coz, thanks for that flashback moment! Here's to 'the road not taken'. 

I'm actually listening to several versions of "Not Fade Away" for a wedding reception gig this weekend. Oddly, I'm looking for something that does a little better job supporting the guitar rhythm since these guys don't have a drummer. Unless you count their banjo player... 'cause after all, a banjo ain't nuthin' but a snare drum with a neck stickin' out the side. 

Seriously, just trying not to overthink this one. Here's Stevie Nicks take on it:

(pretty sure that's Lee Sklar on bass)

Here's a cool version of Not Fade Away.  Were we ever that young?



Bill, tgo

In '71 or '72 my buddy Crazy Mike put a used stereo in his '64 Mercury* - it came with ELP's Tarkus, Sly & The Family Stone's Greatest Hits, and .  I've had the last now on 8-track, LP, & CD.   Still puts me on those Appalachian back roads.......


Peter (who's been in the flatlands too long; what kind of hillbilly has to look up how to spell "Appalachian"??)

*Don't remember the model, but it was the 4-door land barge with the back window that went down like a station wagon.  This was very helpful, as it turns out that kneeling on the back seat with the package shelf as an elbow rest was much easier than leaning out the passenger window when shooting mailboxes & road signs.  Or so I'm told.

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on November 02, 2016, 03:12:23 PM

(pretty sure that's Lee Sklar on bass)

Lee or Dave Houck......


Peter