I've been seeing Brad Mehldau's name a lot recently, so I've been looking into his music.  He's a highly regarded pianist.  Here he is with Chris Thile on Live From Here playing Dylan's Don't Think Twice.  The two of them also have an album together.

Quote from: dannobasso on April 01, 2023, 05:19:33 PM

Beautiful.  Appropriate.

I just read that Keith Reid, Procol Harum lyricist, recently passed.  Had to listen to this classic.

Bill, tgo

Just saw the John Patitucci Trio, was fantastic!  His recent album, Live from Italy, is great!

Went out to see The County Line Jam Band (yes, that's "County Line" as in "I'm gonna walk you up and down....").

The wife & mother of the two guitarists told me that they have their own PA & soundman, but the venue insisted that they use the house system & "engineer".  19:00 load-in, 21:00 start time, clown shows up at 21:28 (in all fairness to him, his girlfriend came with him, and I can see why he was so late).   Only had the vocals in FOH - and still couldn't make them heard.

Drummer was a basic hit-them-as-hard-as-you-can-sans-any-subtlety type.  Bass & guitars, however, were quite good.  As mentioned above, the guitars are father & son; mom said the lad (on lead) had played sax - 8th-grade jazz band when in 6th grade, etc. - and had no interest in the Dead.  Then Dad told him that the 50th Anniversary shows were history, and he was going!  On the way out, he said "Yeah, I'm gonna need a guitar."  Didn't look old enough to be playing in a bar, but he was really starting to get the feel of it.


But the bummer of the night (besides the "soundman", and the gummy I recalled I had in the drawer turning out to be too old to do much) was the discovery that a loud electric band & my new hearing aids are not a good match.  Curses, foiled again!   That really harshes my mellow; I mean it was bad enough being forced to acknowledge that even in my delusional fantasy world I'll never be anyone's soundman again, but can't take a full set of a band?!?.   As my dad has always said, "The whole world's turning to horse manure!"


Peter

Roy: 


Peter

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on April 02, 2023, 07:36:12 PM
Went out to see The County Line Jam Band (yes, that's "County Line" as in "I'm gonna walk you up and down....").

The wife & mother of the two guitarists told me that they have their own PA & soundman, but the venue insisted that they use the house system & "engineer".  19:00 load-in, 21:00 start time, clown shows up at 21:28 (in all fairness to him, his girlfriend came with him, and I can see why he was so late).   Only had the vocals in FOH - and still couldn't make them heard.

Drummer was a basic hit-them-as-hard-as-you-can-sans-any-subtlety type.  Bass & guitars, however, were quite good.  As mentioned above, the guitars are father & son; mom said the lad (on lead) had played sax - 8th-grade jazz band when in 6th grade, etc. - and had no interest in the Dead.  Then Dad told him that the 50th Anniversary shows were history, and he was going!  On the way out, he said "Yeah, I'm gonna need a guitar."  Didn't look old enough to be playing in a bar, but he was really starting to get the feel of it.


But the bummer of the night (besides the "soundman", and the gummy I recalled I had in the drawer turning out to be too old to do much) was the discovery that a loud electric band & my new hearing aids are not a good match.  Curses, foiled again!   That really harshes my mellow; I mean it was bad enough being forced to acknowledge that even in my delusional fantasy world I'll never be anyone's soundman again, but can't take a full set of a band?!?.   As my dad has always said, "The whole world's turning to horse manure!"


Peter

Time to shift over to Jazz

Quote from: rv_bass on April 03, 2023, 03:39:09 AM

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on April 02, 2023, 07:36:12 PM
Went out to see The County Line Jam Band (yes, that's "County Line" as in "I'm gonna walk you up and down....").

The wife & mother of the two guitarists told me that they have their own PA & soundman, but the venue insisted that they use the house system & "engineer".  19:00 load-in, 21:00 start time, clown shows up at 21:28 (in all fairness to him, his girlfriend came with him, and I can see why he was so late).   Only had the vocals in FOH - and still couldn't make them heard.

Drummer was a basic hit-them-as-hard-as-you-can-sans-any-subtlety type.  Bass & guitars, however, were quite good.  As mentioned above, the guitars are father & son; mom said the lad (on lead) had played sax - 8th-grade jazz band when in 6th grade, etc. - and had no interest in the Dead.  Then Dad told him that the 50th Anniversary shows were history, and he was going!  On the way out, he said "Yeah, I'm gonna need a guitar."  Didn't look old enough to be playing in a bar, but he was really starting to get the feel of it.


But the bummer of the night (besides the "soundman", and the gummy I recalled I had in the drawer turning out to be too old to do much) was the discovery that a loud electric band & my new hearing aids are not a good match.  Curses, foiled again!   That really harshes my mellow; I mean it was bad enough being forced to acknowledge that even in my delusional fantasy world I'll never be anyone's soundman again, but can't take a full set of a band?!?.   As my dad has always said, "The whole world's turning to horse manure!"


Peter

Time to shift over to Jazz

There's plenty of good acoustic music around here - but rock'n'roll is my first love!

Peter (who appreciates most jazz more than he enjoys it)

Thanks for the Gentle Giant, Danno.

Quote from: rv_bass on April 02, 2023, 07:02:28 PM
Just saw the John Patitucci Trio, was fantastic! ...

That bass has drop tuning extenders down to what looks to be C#.

Brittany's Sis, Natalie Haas, and her longtime musical partner, Alasdair Fraser.








The evening sanity stroll seems to have taken a Scottish turn...

Rabbit hole morning.   Heard a cover of the Jimmy Webb / Glen Campbell Classic - Witchita Lineman on Instagram and then went to YouTube and listened to dozens of covers... none of them were bad (is it even possible to make this song sound bad?). 

This version surprised me.  New West Guitar Group.

The YouTube side bar... what a wonderland.

The Best - certainly a super group.

The sidebar is quite the rabbit hole! Love that song, and I get to sing it at every Who's Who gig. I also sing all the Pete stuff, which can be a challenge sometimes. I had to pawn off Going Mobile on our lead vocalist, though I'm taking the two "bridge" parts ("Out in the woods..." and "I don't care about pollution..."). In return, I have to sing Young Man Blues.