That was great Greg; thanks!!

Roy Buchanan - P.B.S. Greatest Unknown Guitarist in the World 1971 [PART 1]  
 

Patti Smith covering George Harrison's .  It's a departure from the original in that the underlying rhythm is quite different; but Patti gives a very nice reading.

Thanks for sharing that Patti Smith; I've of course known of her forever but never heard( I think I even have a cd I've never listened to...I have thousands so so things get buried before I can hear them...) I think I have to dig that cd out and such...it sorta sucks having musical tastes going from King Sunny Ade to Pig Destroyer because there's always a ton of stuff you're gonna miss no matter how much music you buy and check out...oh well, just gotta think of us all as music  barnacles, trying to catch as much with our flagellum as we can...Tony

Regardless of what you might think of Patti Smith's music, it's well worth reading her book, Just Kids, her account of her life with Robert Mapplethorpe in the late 60s and early 70s in NYC. She's a great writer and her tales are very compelling. It's an amazing window into a time and place that was really the transition between post-WWII NY and the modern city.
 
 
I did get to see her open for the Grateful Dead once. That was a lot of fun.

I saw her open for Neil Young two yeas ago, she was fantastic!

I saw her at CBGB's in New York MANY years ago, when she first hit big.  I don't remember too much about the music.  Rather, I remember her humping the mic stand and her bass player wrapping aluminum foil around his head and trying (unsuccessfully) to climb up a column supporting the roof.  I was not impressed.
 
Bill, tgo

Tony; good point about the huge amount of good music there is that we miss because there's just so much of it.

Alembic 72-01 !
   
Wolf

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A strat on the bridge pickup with metal fingerpicks. Ouch! How do these guys have any hearing left?
 
Still, wonderful stuff.

Thanks for the Hot Tuna!

I am glad you guys liked it . I still do .

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Just discovered him; I'm digging it - young kids playing real music!
 
Peter

The Pokey LaFarge video was nice!  Thanks!