WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[David Houck]

One of the bands I was in did Cult of Personality; tough tune, but fun to play.

[David Houck]

And with that, here's their powerful cover of Power Of Soul, live 2001.

[sonicus]

Dave , yes that Brown/Osborne  My Back Pages 6/8 slow ballad is interesting . We might cover that in  Easy Wind.

[peoplechipper]

I was listening to reissues of Nash The Slash's first two albums; rather obscure instrumental stuff many of you have never heard from '78-79; he was also a member of the band FM...Tony

[JuancarlinBass]

I discovered his Children of the night album a long, long time ago... got hooked by his Dopes on the water version... and his Prokofiev-influenced Wolf. I was heavily into the whole Numan-Slash-SoftCell thing... I later got more into Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Peter Murphy... I guess I still am, a little..

[pauldo]

Tedeschi Trucks Band.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bIivRlhwvS4
 
They are solid and groovy.  Particularly like Midnight in Harlem. And watching Derek play that SG so effortlessly is a joy.

[hankster]

Wolf, that's a great compilation of my back pages covers. Always been a favourite of mine as well. The Osborne/Browne is outstanding. Thanks for that!
 
Rick

[sonicus]

Rick, I am glad that you like it as well ! .
 
 Wolf

[David Houck]

Nice, Paul; thanks!  Just watched the first tune; loved how it was arranged.

[David Houck]

Just finished watching the whole thing; great show!

[pauldo]

Glad you enjoyed it Dave.
They put a lot of thought into making that band and giving each member the room to shine.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C0-YS0FqmqA

[bigredbass]

So I'm channeling 70's English, used to play these in the joints back in the day:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9f_HHV5Pc4
 
Believe me, anything called 'The Cowboy Song' went over big in Texas, and Lizzy was riding high at the time.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIwyV19C4Tg&list=PLqwvZEGGuQwHuYmK3uvrSZ8MFOX1TNi-C&index=1
 
Don't ever tell me that The Black Crowes didn't wear out a LOT of Humble Pie records when they were kids.  Marriott squalling as usual, and amazingly, Stephen Stills on Hammond and keys.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqWX-E7nOM
 
Was always nuts for The Faces and 'Gasoline Alley'-era Rod.  Ronnie was on the verge of guitar-hero-dom, then hooked up with Keith and Mick . . . . oh well.  God Rest Ronnie and Ian McLagan.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi3Xu5c3rro
 
I was always nuts for Savoy's 'Street Corner Talkin' album.  It always sounded like the best bar band, and it's very honest in the instrumentation and production of what little blues-ish bands sounded like back then.  This was there take on H-D-H's 'Can't Get Next to You', a successful remake of the Temps' hit reduced to a chugging little shuffle, with a nice change of pace in the middle instrumentals.
 
My Back Pages, ah but I was so much older then . . . I'm older than that now !
 
Joey

[pauldo]

With the talk of pit orchestras in another thread I felt compelled to relive a part of my only pit experience (thus far).  Unfortunately there is no decent recording from the 4 performances that were put on by the Soulstice Theater Group; below are the 'real' versions.
 
From Chess the Musical.
The American and Florence/ Nobody's Side
 
Odd time signatures, killer bass line mirroring the vocalist in the beginning, such a blast.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0yQQMwnkhY
 
Then this song, Pity The Child, which every night the vocalist would miss a line . . . but not always the same one.  The 'orchestra' (2 keys, 1 sax, flute, clarinetist a drummer and yours truly on the trusty Distillate) had no choice but to jump ahead and land together in the same spot as the vocalist talk about an exhilarating rush! We nailed it every time.  Since we didn't have a guitarist we extended the end and were allowed to improvise with the sax player shredding and me pumping him along.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EEhojI1ghmQ
 
And of course the most famous song from this musical; One Night in Bangkok, which allowed for some funky bass playing. Spankin' the plank on this one :-D
https://youtube.com/watch?v=guWuGh0ADcE

[smokin_dave]

I just discovered this great from watching a documentary about a little known band called Big Star.
 
Chris Bell was the founder of this band and his little known solo recordings are terrific.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VfJ8dGsAws
 
This song in particular I can't stop playing.

[edwardofhuncote]

Thanks for the reminder of the Chess soundtrack Paul... I actually have that whole thing on *cassette tapes* that are nearly worn out from non-stop play during my high school years. (dang, how I miss the 80's)
 
The fledgling alt. country band I've been recording with recently, is putting together a set of mostly originals with some covers mixed in. One of the tunes they cover well is Otis Redding's Hard To Handle, as played by The Black Crowes. I'm trying to borrow a few textures from Phil's lines here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqsgr3rPvSQ