Achilles Wheel is my favorite new band I've been turned-on to in the last decade.   Great players, great songs!

Bill, tgo

Quote from: jazzyvee on March 16, 2025, 11:44:07 AM
Been binge watching this band recently. Up to 5 hours between Friday night and the one i'm watching now. Really good players. Loving the bass playing and the tone he uses.

My favorite currently-active band - and the very video I discovered them in (popped up in my YT sidebar).
I posted it a couple years back, but always good for another spin!
And I highly recommend going to https://achilleswheel.com/ and buying their 3-CD live album Live From Wesley's Road.  In the above-mentioned several years, it has seldom been out of the changer in the car.  And no, it doesn't get old; 3 CDs, 3.5 hours of bliss!

Peter

Thanks for posting the Achilles Wheel!

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on March 15, 2025, 05:04:55 AM
I was curious of course, so I looked. They got the name from a tow truck company in Western North Carolina... our family name is quite commonplace out there, and virtually unheard-of here. Particularly that spelling, which is usually how we know how directly related someone may be. See, you have to imagine one of our British friends here pronounce 'Huncote'... that's what it sounds like phonetically if you're from there, just say it quicker than we do here. Hun-uh-kut. Doesn't quite roll off the tongue if you're naming a band though. 

My cousin Andy Ferrell is also from Asheville, N.C. played a set for that same program a while back. I bet he knows those folks. I'll have to ask him.

Dug Cousin Andy's number!

Peter

Long ago, a young guitar player in the DC area got a call from a high school buddy, asking him to fill in on bass for teh night's gig; it went like this:
"But I play guitar, not bass."
"Ah, c'mon; it'll be fun!"
So he did, and it was, and Jack Casady was from that night on a bassist.
Here's the guy who made that call: 

Peter

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on March 16, 2025, 10:15:37 PM
...Here's the guy who made that call: 

Peter

He was just amazing. It's hard to imagine those sounds could come from a guitar.

This past week, I went from a Thursday evening coffeehouse gig, playing mandolin opposite a couple guitars, singing old folk tunes, to Saturday night brewery gig with a newgrass/jamband scene. My practice 'homework' this-coming week for Friday night rock band jam night;



Ain't too tough... just remembering the arrangement is the trick.

When I was hanging on Instagram I was following Hillary, her clogging skills are fun to watch.





Like others here, Achilles Wheel is new to me... and they are a joy to listen to.

Franklin's Tower - Grahame Lesh and Friends | 3/15/25 | Capitol Theatre

Unbroken Chain: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Phil Lesh

George Harrison - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1987

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on March 17, 2025, 04:56:12 AM
This past week, I went from a Thursday evening coffeehouse gig, playing mandolin opposite a couple guitars, singing old folk tunes, to Saturday night brewery gig with a newgrass/jamband scene. My practice 'homework' this-coming week for Friday night rock band jam night;

Ain't too tough... just remembering the arrangement is the trick.

As far as I'm concerned, Styx's greatest claim to fame is that they played my wife's senior prom.

Peter

The Tonight Show With Joan Rivers.  Why?  Well, first off, a couple of numbers from the Bangles - and there ain't nothin' wrong with that.  Bt then, at the end, she talks with Frank Zappa; just wish it had been longer. 


Peter

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on March 17, 2025, 04:33:33 AM

Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on March 16, 2025, 10:15:37 PM
...Here's the guy who made that call: 

Peter

He was just amazing. It's hard to imagine those sounds could come from a guitar.

I should add that John Sebastian wrote "Nashville Cats" after hearing a young Mr. Gatton tearing it up in a club in said metropolis.

Peter

Darrell Scott: 

Peter

The Brothers Comatose; lacks perhaps the bluegrass-as-blood-sport pyrotechnics of some recent posts, but a nice sound:   

Peter