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Led Zepp 2, I rediscover his every year or so, The Modern Sounds - Hold It Fellas (simply outstanding BTW), Hubcaps - 3rd Base, nice slice of rockabilly
I like mix of old and new and many, mant genres. The only thing I really don't like is modern RnB or general chart pop music...
Currently listening to latest Black Keys album (going to see them 10 Feb) as they cannot put a foot wrong! I am also into a guy called Hanni El Khatib who plays a fairly basic blues based music (think Black Keys/White Stripes but with his own style) and has been known to pack a mean Gretsch. Other stuff I have been listening recently are Turbowolf; Black Tusk; Steve Smyth; Vintage Trouble and the rereleased Alan Lomax recording of Fred McDowell.
There is still plenty of good new music out there but I am also finding plenty of vintage music (recently discovered Papa Charlie Jackson). As long as it is real music I will give it a go...
Going to see The Horrors on Sunday and try and get to as many gigs as I can but find my gig-mates have dwindled over the years...
mate im going to see the black keys on the 11th shame it aint the same day im goin on my own
Man, I haven't seen a good live show since Geroge Thorogood, and that was over a year ago. where does the time go. Without the dead touring regualary, I am lost. When i would go to see them, there was always someone else in town, that and when I lived in Joisey, you were so close to the city, good music was everywhere. Now i live in the sticks, and if I drive 45 minutes, I can go hear some Skynard cover band. and if you don't like them, which I am played out of them, theres the georgia satellites. Southern rock rules here. Please send help! You should see the looks I get with a big blue hollow body, and bluesy swing.
Lately its been u tube and checking out jazz. Really like people like Wes montgomery, so I guess, lots of that line of jazz, or the latest bromberg CD, which I cant get enough of. When in doubt, Elvis.
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Went out and heard Peter Asher last night. Pretty well produced show including lots of stories about the Beatles, Stones, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt. For those who don't know, Asher was half of a British duo, Peter and Gordon. Paul McCartney dated his sister and ended up living in the attic of the Asher family home.
Asher's mother taught oboe in their home and one of her students was George Martin who would go on to produce many legendary Beatles hits and LPs.
When I was a kid, one of my sisters had bought the P&G single "Woman", label crediting "Bernard Webb" as the song's author. I was a empty headed kid so it never was concerned with that stuff...
Paul McCartney had actually written it and wanted P&G to release it without his name on it to challenge speculation that the song would become a hit simply by virtue of Lennon-McCartney name recognition. Asher went on to be A&R person at the new Apple Records and later focused most of his energy on producing a lot of hit songs and albums, winning many Grammy awards for various production projects. Several songs Asher performed was accompanied by performance video of his late partner, Gordon Waller, with its imagery cropped to focus on Waller, and the audio mixed down and isolating Gordon's voice and guitar. Asher and his band played along, real time. Pretty incredible live show with outstanding production and use of big screens to present a lot of historical footage from the days of rock n roll, mid-'60s to mid-'70s. I wasn't surprised that it was a great show, production-value wise, and Asher was very humble, humorous, and self effacing with his shared history, which was all both entertaining and educational. Asher's appearance back in the day was the inspiration for Mike Myers' Austin Powers. Very glad I went.
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Check out Black Cat Music-Hands in the Estuary, Torso in the Lake. Still a decade old but good. I second that there isn't much new good music. Nick 13 new album is pretty good.
I've been going through a phase, listening to French pop from the 60s -- like France Gall.
As for more "current" music: St. Vincent; The Do; MGMT; Saint Etienne; The Ruby Suns; Tame Impala; M83; Field Music; Feist; Laura Viers; etc. etc. etc.
Went out and heard Peter Asher last night. Pretty well produced show including lots of stories about the Beatles, Stones, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt. For those who don't know, Asher was half of a British duo, Peter and Gordon. Paul McCartney dated his sister and ended up living in the attic of the Asher family home.
Asher's mother taught oboe in their home and one of her students was George Martin who would go on to produce many legendary Beatles hits and LPs.
When I was a kid, one of my sisters had bought the P&G single "Woman", label crediting "Bernard Webb" as the song's author. I was a empty headed kid so it never was concerned with that stuff...
Paul McCartney had actually written it and wanted P&G to release it without his name on it to challenge speculation that the song would become a hit simply by virtue of Lennon-McCartney name recognition. Asher went on to be A&R person at the new Apple Records and later focused most of his energy on producing a lot of hit songs and albums, winning many Grammy awards for various production projects. Several songs Asher performed was accompanied by performance video of his late partner, Gordon Waller, with its imagery cropped to focus on Waller, and the audio mixed down and isolating Gordon's voice and guitar. Asher and his band played along, real time. Pretty incredible live show with outstanding production and use of big screens to present a lot of historical footage from the days of rock n roll, mid-'60s to mid-'70s. I wasn't surprised that it was a great show, production-value wise, and Asher was very humble, humorous, and self effacing with his shared history, which was all both entertaining and educational. Asher's appearance back in the day was the inspiration for Mike Myers' Austin Powers. Very glad I went.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6q3siFNXcc">YouTube Link</a>
Asher was Linda Ronstadt's manager too, IIRC. I never realized the Austin Powers tie-in but it sure fits.
On to music:
Which way is the wind blowing? One week it'll be Jim Hall, the next Buck Owens. I've been listening to Rev' Horton Heat lately, Laughin' and Cryin'. Metheny, Surf Music, Cornball Country, Rockabilly . . . this just in the last month.
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Saw the Drive By Truckers New Years Week. I see a lot of swing bands on the weekend.
Listened to the Os Mutantes Haih tonight. Saw the concert 2 years ago just getting around to listening to the album. Those tropicalia folks really had to suffer for their art with a crazy military dictatorship harassing, jailing, torturing anybody who they thought opposed them.
I hardly listen to current or happening acts or artists. The most up to date stuff I'm listening to is by young but experience'd guitaraces like Philip Sayce, Doyle Bramhall II, or Joe Bonamassa.
For undiscovered gems(by me) I find myself going back in time. Lot's of blues, Elmore James, Blind Boy Fuller, Jimmy Reed etc and maybe. some Wes Montgomery and Roy Buchanan for good measure.
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The computers-I think they're on tour in Germany at the mo Tara! we supported them about 6 months ago, their guitarist played a Sparkle Duo Jet..& the live sound just blew me away, I have him to thank for my recent Gretsch obsession
Also listening to old stuff: Velvet Underground (always), Magazine, Ramones, Johnny Thunders & old, old punk stuff.
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I'm in general a bluesman but i need from time to time a little rock&roll and some foo fighters too. Even so, i'll allways end up where it all began...with the blues
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