A letter home Neil Young's latest, recorded with Jack White live in an antique acetate recording stall; the fidelity is crappy, where the guitar often sounds like ukelele...it's all cover tunes as well, but it sounds SO Neil...It's amazing that he can change instruments,bands and genres, even media and he always sounds like him...it's funny that his playing is the most 'normal' on piano, but I put that down to the limitations of piano...Tony

Thought this was fun!  

Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar

Heard this on a digital music channel on cable (R&B Classics).
Not sure how I have been on this earth for 50 years and haven't heard this funky Billy Preston song.
 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3cLBMJYduWg

Paul; either you are really young, or perhaps you were in a coma for a long period of time.
 

Speaking of old funky tunes, I looked up one of my old favorite artist Tyrone Davis:
 

Nice tune, Ken.

this is on vinyl in the basement right now.... love it!....
 

So I recently just got a turn table back in my life. I bought a vintage receiver off ebay. I lost my record collection many years ago in a bit of a sad story. My son and I hit a few used record shops and got some new old records. I came home and put one on and my son said, Dad I haven't seen you smile like that in a while. Man I miss that sound and a time when listening to music was an event not just background music. So yesterday I decided to turn my kids on to Frank Zappa and put Apostrophe on. My daughter ask me what the lyric the crux of the biscuit, is the apostrophe means. That led to the deepest conversation we have had about life since she was born. She is twelve. That is the power of music and the joy of parenthood! Thanks Frank! Oh yea, I blew the face off of my 23 year old drummer the next night when I made him listen to the drums in Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast.

Ken, that is awesome!
I am actually blessed with two functional turntables and a third in a box.
Even more awesome that your kids got to hear the absolutely epic Apostrophe. Jack Bruce's distortion on the title track is one that I lust for. Seriously lust for, I always wonder what gear and what  his signal chain was for that.
 
Mike- dang!  
Stanley Turrentine, I used to have the vinyl Don't Mess with Mr. T., I need to search the basement . . .  I lost a lot of records to a flood many years ago . . .  
So many memories attached to this one:
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I'm watching and listening to Phil Lesh play his new Alembic bass on the Lock'n Festival webcast. They just went into Crazy Fingers.
 
Phil is obviously having a blast with his new instrument. To me, his tone is reminiscent of that '74 Lesh bass sound that I love so much.
 
Phil has a permagrin! Catch it if you can!

Got Jack Bruce's  Silver Rails
There is a song on it, Drone that has distortion very similar to Apostrohe.
Good album.

Currently going back in time it hear to some of the music that influenced two of my favorite bands, the Allman Bros., and John Mayall. Last few days have listened to Lightning Hopkins, Robert Johnson, the Reverend Gary Davis, and Blind Willie McTell.
 
Pauldo. What did you think of Silver Rails?

Brian,
To be honest-  initial listen through fell short of my expectations. Most notable was that Jack's voice sounds tired . . . I grew up admiring his bass skills but through time really found his voice to be captivating and strong. So to hear what I heard was concerning. With that, the bass playing is what I would call conservative.  
 
As mentioned, Drone has a great bass tone and through out the disc there is some very tasty guitar and piano/ keys work.
 
Jack is moving through space and is aging like we all are, my expectations of Silver Rails to sound like How's Tricks? is not realistic.  
 
As long as Jack makes music I will continue to buy it, he is a legend in bass, lyrics, piano and vocals.

Brian - saw your earlier post about Silver Rails and your shared feelings on Jack's voice sounding weak.
 
So with that in mind I dusted off:
Jack Bruce - How's Tricks?
also listened to:
Chrissie Hynde - Stockholm
David Gray - Mutineers
 
Both of those are 2014 releases - Chrissie's is good; David's is really good - he is another vocalist that I enjoy listening to.