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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: applejuice on June 20, 2006, 05:50:49 AM
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Just was wondering what some of the other club members' favorite albums are.
I have two favorites;
Brainwashed ~ George Harrison
Go to Heaven ~ Grateful Dead
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My current top 3 (though my tastes have been known to change):
Paradise and Lunch, Ry Cooder
Joy of a Toy, Kevin Ayers
Vintage Violence, John Cale
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Does this forum have a word limit? LOL
Just a few of mine:
Sgt. Peppers
White Album (& most anything by the Beatles)
Workingman's Dead
American Beauty
Live Dead
Europe 72
Running on Empty
Hotel California
Music From Big Pink
Cahoots (& most anything by the original Band)
Blood on the Tracks (& other Dylan)
The Subdudes Annunciation
Derek & the Dominoes
Bookends (& almost any album by Simon & Garfunkel)
Graceland
Soap Opera (the Kinks)
First 3 John Prine albums
Abraxas
Blows Against the Empire
Tommy
Who's Next
Exile on Main Street
Waiting for Columbus
Ragged Glory
Harvest (& lots of other Neil Young)
CSNY
Deja Vu
These are but the tip of the iceberg. There are lots more. I guess there is a difference between being 17 and 51 years old.
Bill, tgo
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The White Album
CTA (Chicago Transit Authority)
Chicago II
Texas Flood- SRV (Any SRV LP actually)
And last but not least (this may not be popular among this forum)Any and all Lynard Skynard. (my southern roots I guess)
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Bill, GREAT list. 'you sure you're and attorney! LOL
(Message edited by olieoliver on June 20, 2006)
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In my current rotation:
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Mingus Ah Um - Charlie Mingus
Sittin In - Dizzy Gillespie
Smokin at the
Half Note - Winton Kelly Trio wth Wes
Montgomery
Morning View - Incubus
Keith
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Who's Next - The Who
Zoso - Led Zeppelin
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Close to the Edge - Yes
Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever
Pat Metheny Group - 1978 recorded in Oslo
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Trilogy
Dixie Dregs - Any of them, but Dregs of the Earth and Industry Standard are high on the list.
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On The Track - Leon Redbone
Aoxomoxoa - GD
Somebody Loan me a Dime - Fenton Robinson
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Boston - Boston
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Are you Experienced - Jimi Hendrix
Any and All Peggy Lee
More Fun in the New World - X
Ship too late to Save a Drowning Witch - Zappa
Hundreds of hours of Grateful Dead Concerts
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Thats some variety Roger. From Peggy Lee to Black Sabbath. We are a very diverse group of people here aren't we?
With every post I read here I think to myself Oh yea I forgot about that one!
There sure is a lot of good music out there, from all generations!
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If I had to pick one rock album:
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
Others, in no particular order (most of these artists haven't made a bad album):
King Crimson - Lizard & Islands
Hot Tuna- Burgers
Miles - Bitches Brew & Agharta/Pangea
Pharoah Sanders- Jewels of Thought & Message from Home
Rip Rig & Panic - God & I'm So Cold
Ry Cooder - Get Rhythm
Steeleye Span - Time
Gene Clark - No Other
Peter Rowan - Meet me in the New World
Jimmy LaFave - Austin Skyline
Roger Chapman - Hybrid & Lowdown
Willy DeVille - Live 1993
Better stop now...
(Message edited by yggdrasil on June 20, 2006)
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Lately about 80% of what I'm listening to is recorded live. I'm with Bill - I have far too many to list here, but here's a handful of commercially released albums I've been playing lately:
Europe '72 - Grateful Dead
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young
Manassas - Stephen Stills
Live at Filmore East - Allman Brothers
Rock of Ages - The Band
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
The Ride - Los Lobos
Straight, No Chaser - Thelonius Monk
Songlines - Derek Trucks
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby
East/West - Bill Frisell
El Rayo-X - David Lindley
Jerry Garcia Band Live - Jerry Garcia
A Go Go - John Scofield (with MMW)
Blue Country Heart - Jorma Kaukonen
O.C.M.S. - Old Crow Medicine Show
Peace
Tom
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Currently in the car:
Beauty in the Broken - Starfield
Dawn Escapes - Falling Up
Root - By the Tree
other faves:
Just Like You - Keb Mo'
Sometime Tuesday Morning - Johnny A
The Yes Album and Relayer - Yes
Falling into Infinity - Dream Theater
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Currently driving my office mates nuts with:
Don Ellis: Tears of Joy
Don Ellis: Live at Fillmore
Starcastle: Starcastle
Buddy Rich: Class of 78
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A Gene Clark fan! Cool!
I don't think I've heard No Other. But I just read a review of it and it sounds like a really interesting album.
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for me it is:
Just about every Beatle, Gov't Mult and Genesis/ Peter Gabriel CD released!!
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wake of the flood - GD
Rockers Soundtrack - Various (reggae)
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Well, IMHO, A Love Supreme is the greatest record ever made.
but, here are some more of my favorites:
Portrait in Jazz- Bill Evans
Intuition- Bill Evans and Eddie Gomez
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea
Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
Free Jazz- Ornette
Interstellar Space - Coltrane
Live at Birdland - Coltrane
Extended Play: Live At Birdland - Dave Holland Quintet
Spiritual Unity - Albert Ayler
Ascension - Coltrane
Harrass - William Parker, John Zorn, Derek Bailey
The Giant Pin - Nels Cline
Sound Unity - William Parker Quartet
East Coast Love Affair - Kurt Rosenwinkel
Blues and Roots - Mingus
Epitaph - Mingus Big Band
State of the Tenor - Joe Henderson
ESP - Miles Davis Quintet
Schizophrenia - Wayne Shorter
Naked City - John Zorn (Naked City)
Art Of The Trio 2, 4, and 5 -Brad Mehldau
Day is Done - Brad Mehldau
Steve Lacy - We See
Monk in Paris- Thelonious Monk
The Golden Circle - Ornette Coleman Trio
Light As A Feather - Return To Forever
Touchin' On Trane - Charles Gayle
All the Keith Jarrett Trio live at Blue Note stuff
wow.. i could go on for days. and i'm sure i left something really obvious out...
austin
(Message edited by darkstar01 on June 20, 2006)
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This is a GREAT thread! I am going to have to go to the music store later.
I listen to just about anything, but this is what sticks out in my mind right now.
Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lonely runs both ways
Wilco -F.M.
Ivan Neville - If My Ancestors Could See Me Now
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Just about anything from Marc Broussard
T. Bone Burnett - The True False Identity
Patti Smith - Horses
Anything from Jerry Douglas
If you guys like bluesy rock, check out my cousin's CD. www.mikedelacerda.com (http://www.mikedelacerda.com)
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Starcastle!?! I saw them live opening for Utopia in probably '79. Bass player played an Alembic, with a white Ric as a backup. Great show and great bass! They were out of Champaign, Illinois, I believe...
Nearly anything by YES
Red Sails in the Sunset - Midnight Oil
Nearly anything by King Crimson
Most early Chicago (dialogue pt. I is awesome)
RA - Utopia
Nearly anything by Leonard Cohen
Any and all Beatles
Anything by Kate Bush
Any older Genesis
Lots I can't think of at the moment...
Currently in CD player in the truck is a mix CD of Steve Earle, Jethro Tull, Oingo Boingo, Cake, Deftones, Captain Beefheart and Chicago...
John
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All Beatles
Physical Graffiti
Deep Purple Made In Japan
Stanley Clarke
The Wall
Dark Side of the Moon
All King Crimson
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I saw Starcastle open for Gary Wright in Platteville WI in 78 or so. Have the crowd left when Starcastle finished. I wish I had...
Gary Strater's Alembic was the second one I saw in person (the first belonged to John Wallace with Harry Chapin).
Strater dies of liver cancer in 2004.
When I was at Iowa State I played with the brother of the drummer (Stephen Tassler, his brother Mike played trumpet).
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>A Gene Clark fan! Cool!
I don't think I've heard No Other. But I just read a review of it and it sounds like a really interesting album.
Hey Dave-
No Other is likely the summit of the Gene Clark albums.
This Mortal Coil did some interesting takes on a couple of the cuts.
I also like his recordings with Carla Olson - not long before he died.
+1 on the Kate Bush (the Dreaming or Hounds of Love) & Peter Gabriel (#1,2 & 3), BTW
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This is flushing out a few lurkers.
Stand Up - Jethro Tull
Led Zep IV
Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
In a Silent Way - Miles
801 Live
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Wow David, I never would have expected anyone else to mention 801 Live. Great album with an excellent lineup of musicians.
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Some albums that I have been listening to recently.
Romantic Warrior - Return To Forever
Vertu - Vertu
Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer
Burnin - The Wailers
Edge - Lenny White
Silver Rain - Marcus Miller
Faces & Places - Joe Zawinul
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
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bill copied my list- lmao
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Some not yet mentioned:
almost any Joni Mitchell
Butterfly Blue - Iron Butterfly
Abraxas - Santana
Silver Morning - Kenny Rankin
Yesstory - Yes
Skull & Roses - Grateful Dead
Shaking the Tree - Peter Gabriel
Little Worlds - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
The Leprechaun - Chick Corea
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Live and Unreleased - Weather Report
October Roads - James Taylor
10 Summoners Tales - Sting
Mike
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Johnny Winter- John Dawson Winter III
Beatles- Abbey Road
Ted Nugent- Double Live Gonzo
Victor Wooten- A Show of Hands
Rush- Moving Pictures
Stanley Clarke- School Days
Jaco- The Birthday Concert
Mother's Finest- Another Mother Further
Johnny Cash- The Man Comes Around
Yanni- Live at the Acropolis
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FMM, Gary Strater died? how did you find out? He was in a band that opened for my band whenever we played the Canopy Theater in Champaign, Ill. He had told me about his days w/Starcastle and we spoke about Alembics(and when the preamps were about $400.00 to replace in the '70's) and how much of a Ric head he was, as he told me he was a huge Chris Squire fan. At the time he was playing a custom 5 string w/Bartolini's (sounded great!)through a Mesa 400 Plus amp. This is nuts, because his band last opened for us around '04 and he looked so healthy I could not tell if anything was wrong. He was a really nice guy and a great player R.I.P. Gary.
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The roots of a mis-spent life
Exile on Main Street
(the Allmans')Live at Fillmore East
Layla
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Tripping the Live Fantastic
Madman Across the Water
A Night at the Opera
Who's Next
Quadrophenia
Led Zeppelin (the catalog)
Back in Black
Sticky Fingers
Gasoline Alley
The Beatles (the catalog)
Dark Side of the Moon
The Delicate Sound of Thunder
The Nightfly
Citizen Steely Dan
George Strait (the catalog)
Asleep at the Wheel (the catalog)
Merle Haggard (the catalog)
Motown
. . . that's a good start at a list, anyway
J o e y
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The short list would include:
Allman Bros. - Live at Fillmore East
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
RTF - Romantic Warrior
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
MANY others that I love as well, though.
Rich
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Adam:
More info here:
http://www.starcastlemusic.com/ (http://www.starcastlemusic.com/)
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Thanks Michael
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Here's my short, short list:
Queen - Queen II
Metallica - all albums between 1983-1988
Suicidal tendencies - How will I laugh tomorrow
Eagles - Hotel California
Fear factory - Demanufacture & Archetype
Obituary - World Demise,cause of death & Slowly we Rot
Iron Maiden - Killers
Paradise lost - Shades of god.
Absolute # 1:
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Queen II
(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 21, 2006)
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Haven't seen these mentioned.
Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Reggaebilly - Peter Rowan
Days Like This - Van the Man
Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead
But best of all, live Grateful Dead from the Alembic PA era (73-74): Dick's Picks Volumes 1, 7, 12, 14 and 19 are in my CD player a lot!
Mark
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Difficult thread to give a definitive answer to. My current listening includes..
just about all of James Taylors output but particularly sweet baby james.
All Kate Bush ;-)
Alot of G.D. - predomenantly the pigpen era.
Kate Rusby (you americans may not know her - Folk singer from yorkshire witht the voice of an Angel which brings me on to..)
Allison Krauss
Bonnie Raitt
Soul circus - victor wooten
The Beatles - red, white and Blue albums.
Lots of Miles
Jacos birthday concert
The two recent Jaco Pastorius Big band albums.
I also listen to a fair amount of classical music, current favourites being
Vivaldis 4 seasons recorded by The English Concert featuring simon standage and trevor pinnock and
Handels coronation anthems. i defy anyone not to get a lift when Zadoc the priest comes on;-)
Loads more on these lists. Like Bill says - I'm not 17 anymore so tend not to have favourites.
(disclaimer - my favourite colour for cars is red)
Graeme
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What an impossible list to make. Almost everything I own is a favorite from The Graham Bond Organization to JS Bach. I am surprised that Miles Davis' Kind of Blue hasn't been called out. There is an indie band in Colorado called Mama's Cookin' that is definetly worth checking out.
Sam
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Sam.
Kind of Blue was in my list by default.
What's more to the point is, what media do you all prefer?
For speed and the ability to zap past tracks I like CD but for sheer listening pleasure I'd go with vinyl every time. I love the whole process of putting the LP on the turntable, cleaning it off, swinging the damping trough across(it's a townshend Rock TT) and carefully lowering the needle into position. Then relaxing onto my listening sofa with a nice cabernet sauvignon. To me, Vinyl will always be a better medium than CD! Can't be beat;-)
Graeme
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I'm a CD man these days. The S/N ratio of CDs makes them more HiFi IMHO; it allows more dynamic recordings. You need a player with a decent DAC though. (My cheap DVD player makes my ears bleed after half an hour of music.)
Mark
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Sam - check my post for Kind of Blue - I could have mentioned Bitches Brew and Tutu also. While I'm at it let me add Fiyo on the Bayou - Neville Brothers and there are always some tunes spinning in my CD players by Bob Marley, Parliament Funkadelic, Frank Zappa, and Steve Kimock.
By the way my list above is different than how it might look for the old game of choosing 10 albums if you were stranded on a desert island - an exceedingly difficult game for me.
=)
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Oops, that's what I get for scanning.
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How about we take this one step Further.
If you were stuck in a hotel room for a weekend and had but one album/(cd) to listen too, what would it be? Lets all be real here too.
My choice, Hotel California.
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To be semantic, an Album could consist of more than one record/CD.
Album - Dick's Picks Vol 1 - Grateful Dead
One CD - Revolver - Beatles
I once spent an entire night into late morning at a rock quarry with some friends after a Dead show (hence the ultra awakeness) and the only thing we had was a tape player, and Revolver. 12-15 hours straight we listened to it. Those songs have been burned in the neural net ever since
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Queen II, please lock me up for a week!
And another step further: Movie - Natural born killers.
(Can we take our Alembics?)
(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 21, 2006)
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Movie 'eh.... Easy Rider.
(The Mrs. can stay at home but the bass comes with me!)
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>My choice, Hotel California.
>Queen II, please lock me up for a week!
Well, now I know of at least 2 people who I better not be locked up in a room for a weekend with! I change the station if anything from those 2 albums comes on :-(
Movie choices are doable, tho...
album: Airplane - Baxters; movie : Ridley Scott's Legend or Altman's Nashville;
Sorry, but I'd take my wife over my Alembic ! :-)
Frank
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(Message edited by yggdrasil on June 21, 2006)
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Roger, a friend and I did the same thing with Thick as a Brick one long, wasted night. Well except for being in a rock quarry.
One CD for the weekend? Wheels of Fire
Movie? The Field
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DUDE, I forgot all about JT's Thick as A Brick.
Man we wore that tape (8-track, anyone remember those) flat out. My best friend in high school and I used to fill up his Camaro pop in that tape and try to get lost driving around.
I remember it like it was yesterday, the low rumble dual exhaust, Tull's flute in the speakers and the occasional pop of a seed....or maybe that was the pop of a brain cell.
Oh well, still listen to Tull every now and then and do get to drive my daughters 68 Camaro but gave up on the other years ago.
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Maybe we should all just check in at the Hotel California, take all our albums, movies, Basses etc.
We can check out any time, but we don't wanna leave!
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oops! Forgot the Ladies!
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Ah! Another vinyl man! Digital has come a long, long way, but analog is still the ticket IMHO! As our friends Down Under say: Good On Ya, Graeme!
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for me
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Bruce Springsteen
Bloodrock 2 {this record rocks)
Weird Al's Running with Scissors
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I can listen to these over and over without ever getting tired of them...
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want & Go
Chicago - Stone of Sisyphus
Taj Mahal - Phantom Blues
Powder Blues Band - Any album, any tune
Lucky Peterson - Lucky Peterson
George Clinton - Any album, any tune.
Level 42 - Any album, any tune.
Tower of Power - Anything at all; (R.P.'s da Man)
Ellery (Lowlife)
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Adam - one of my long held musical goals is to recreate 801 Live in its entirety on stage - the biggest challenges are finding the right singer (or should that be anti-singer) and finding keyboardists who are on top off the old analogue synthesis.
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for me
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,
Born to run
Bruce Springsteen
Bloodrock 2 {this record rocks)
Weird Al's Running with Scissors
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I'm driving a truck, driving a big old truck. Heading down the highway hope I don't run out of luck...
Great!
(Message edited by fc_spoiler on June 22, 2006)
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Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell
Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell II
Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn 2 (esp Hey Jude)
Chase: Chase
Chase: Pure Music
Man of La Mancha: London Cast
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Man of La Mancha! That's one from left field. Don Quixote was a big thing in my house when I was growing up. My dad read me the original Cervantes story as a kid and I went to one of the first Broadway performances when I was 11. As a kid I used to wonder if Sancho Panza could be an Italian relative!
Bill Panzer, tgo
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La Mancha has a wonderful score. It's probably my favorite musical, and I hope I get the chance to play it some day. It's actually kind of difficult, which is rare for a theatre bass part.
I start rehearsals tomorrow for Singing in the Rain. I had one of my students sight-read parts of it tonight. It looks like the typical easy theatre bass part.
Now, Jesus Christ Superstar, _there_ was a great bass score.
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I played La Mancha 25 years ago for a university production, and while I don't remember much of the music I do remember much of the fun. Jesus Christ Superstar (the London version, not the ultra-square N.Y. version) and West Side Story are both awesome books I've been fortunate to play. I would love to do either (or both) of them again! I find it interesting that when one views The Rocky Horror Show (NOT the Picture show) in the context of Broadway musicals, it's not any more silly or outlandish than, say, Oklahoma!
And Bat Out of Hell has one of my favorite bass players, Kasim Sultan. The guy is fun to listen to, and I love that they kept the flubbed note in 2 out of 3 Ain't Bad.
Lots of excellent music listed in this thread, guys!
John
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kasim gets an interview in this months Bass Guitar Magazine(UK). I've admired his playing for a long time, especially with Utopia on RA. possibly one of the earliest bass solos in a rock tune I'd heard - the diver sequence in Singring and the Glass Guitar. Now there'a an album I'll have to dig out this weekend.
edit.. I'll also be digging out Brownsville station - haven't listened to this for ages but it's a superb album - includes the hit Martian boogie but i think my favourite song would have to be My Friend jack dedicated to a certain beverage. Class! Tony Driggins bass lines are very good and I think the line on Throw me a lifeline was more than likely the first Popped bass line I ever heard.
Graeme
(Message edited by jacko on June 23, 2006)
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This is always a difficult topic and the albums change every week (depending on the mood)
Live albums:
Live at Leeds - The Who
Before the Flood - Bob Dylan and the Band
Live Rust - Neil Young
Yessongs - Yes
.. and on and on and on
Studio Albums
White Album - Beatles(always first)
The Who Sellout - The Who
Double Nickels on a Dime - The Minutemen
Umma Gumma - Pink Floyd
Lost Somewhere Between
the Earth and My Home - The Geraldine Fibbers
Quadrophenia - The Who
Nevermind the Bullocks - The Sex Pistols
Madman Across the Water - Elton John
Presence - Led Zeppelin
here's a new category. Rock n' Roll movies (documentaries)
How the West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
The Kids Are Alright - The Who
Jimi Plays Berkeley - Jimi Hendrix
The Who - Isle of Wight
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
Monterey Pop Festival
... there's way to many to list in all categories and I have to get back to work
I miss the days of albums, now everything seems like a download
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Live albums !!!!
Illegal, Immoral and Fattening, Flo and Eddie
Full House Live, J Geils Band
Rockin the Filmore, Humble Pie
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Frampton Comes Alive....NOT!
My favorite live has to be ALLMAN BROTHERS, Filmore East!
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Live is my favorite.
Dicks Picks Vol 1 - Grateful Dead
New Riders of The Purple Sage Live 1970 - NRPS
Blues at Sunrise - Albert King
KISS Alive - Kiss
Jimi Henrix NYE 1970 at the Fillmore(69?) (Most killer Machine Gun ever)
All the World's a Stage - Rush
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Lately I've wearing out a copy of Karizma,
(David Garfield,Vinnie Colaiuta, Michael Landau & Neil Stubenhaus). Vinnie is SOOOO incredible.
This CD was given to me by a drummer friend of mine, go figure.
Neil will lock down the groove and Vinnie will just plain go off in a differant direction and RIP-IT-UP.
If I could just jam with Vinnie one time...
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I would also like to add a few more that I love.
X Marks the Spot- The Jolly Rogers (Pirate music, completely awesome and difficult to find)
The Dirty Boogie- Brian Setzer Orchestra
Sweetheart of the Rodeo- The Byrds
I also have about 2.6 gigs of the Grateful Dead that I can't turn off.
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This place (http://www.chivalry.com/jollyrogers/xspot.html) claims to have it.
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That's the one Dave. Great album.
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76407, has Humble Pie's Rocking the Fillmore EVER been re-released as a CD? Fabulous record, Steve Marriot was really something.
I have JGB's Full House and the later double live from Detroit on CD. It DOES blow my face out!
J o e y
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From what I've been able to determine, Humble Pie's Rocking The Fillmore was released on CD in 1990 by A&M and in 1996 by Universal/Polygram. Amazon has the 1990 release for $10.99. Amazon also has an Import reissue from Japan (no label shown) released on June 27, 2006 (yes, next week) for $22.99. Amazon has the 1996 Universal/Polygram release, also referred to as an Import, for $32.49. And Amazon also lists a 2001 Universal/Polygram import release that is unavailable.
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oops. mentioned Tony Driggins playing on Brownsville Station further up but I've just got through listening to the album and it was either Micheal Lutz or beezer Nazarian playing bass on that album. i'm currently Chilling with a nice Sauvignon Blanc and kate Bush' the kick inside. Superb - brings back alot of teenage memories ;-)
Graeme
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Any YES, King Crimson, Utopia, Dream Theater, Chick Corea, (RTF and Electric Band) early Genesis, Peter Gabriel, for rock The tubes, Led Zep, (1st 4 albums), Kings X, Zappa, Level 42 of course, and one that I didn't see mentioned .. any Gentle Giant!
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One of my faves would be Brand X - Do they hurt
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Raymond,
I'm listening to Gentle Giant's Knots right now, courtesy of Pandora.com. Most excellent!
John
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Thanks, Dave. It's amazing how I'm drawn to live albums more than studio projects.
I've always wondered (and all of us who played in bands will know this vibe) why bands didn't record like this: Get an album's worth of tunes, play them on the road till they get to just that moment where they just flow, then drop in and record them in nothing flat while they're hot and fresh and jumpin'.
I suppose it's because this only works on the way up: Once you've all made money, take months off, have families, you're no longer breathing each other's air 24/7 . . . OK, I answered my own question. But if I was in that position, you could always do the 2 week club stint and work 'em up.
J o e y
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That's how Miles always liked to make records. Obviously there were some exceptions, like when when he made three records in one day for prestige.
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Here's a must have in the category Rock n' Roll movies (documentaries)
This is Spinal Tap
Why didn't I mention this one earlier... Shame on me!
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Speaking of live performances ... Gentle Giant has a live DVD from the deep dark 70s. (I actually saw them play live twice in Boston in the 70s.) It's amazing how tight the band is live!
And I just got a live DVD of Chick Corea and the Electric Band from 2004. MY GOD ... outstanding! John Patatuchi (probably spelt his last name wrong)has his own Yamaha 6 string signature model bass ... the man is a modern god on the instrument! Of course it would be nice to see him play an Alembic 6 string bass BUTTTT I'm sure his Yamaha is top shelf! And he'd sound awesome playing a $300 Ibanez! I highly recommend looking into his work and the Electric Band if you're in search of some mind blowing bass playing!
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Raymond,
I second both of your suggestions, I love the Gentle Giant (got the DVD and the live CD - Playing The Fool, plus a couple of their reissued studio efforts (it's their 35 anniversary reissue). I got Chick and the Electric Band at Montreaux and it's phenominal. Chick gets the whole audience singing along (call and response) on Spain and some others - he really has fun with it.
Mike
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for those miles davis fans
check out the 2 dvd set from montreux