WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[pauldo]

Always enjoy those “first time listening to…” videos. 

[David Houck]

SIMON PHILLIPS / PROTOCOL 4 - SOLITAIRE - STUDIO LIVE SESSION

Simon Phillips: drums
Greg Howe: guitar
Ernest Tibbs: bass
Otmaro Ruiz: keys

[pauldo]

Enjoyed Simon and his friends.  Those last 2 minutes showed how lyrical drums can be.

[David Houck]

Yes, that drum solo at the end was really nice!  And it benefits from the other players playing those recurring lines.

[pauldo]

Jack Bruce

[edwardofhuncote]

Cleverly composed instrumental tune... no idea why the title. Must be a backstory.

[rv_bass]

[edwardofhuncote]

Fleetwood Mac, in happier times. I watched this whole concert over the past couple nights...

Hard to believe it was almost 20 years ago. They were fresh off a new record, and everyone was lovey-dovey again. Christine McVie was noticably absent, but at least the Mac was back.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Fleetwood Mac in really happier times.......... 

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Selwyn Birchwood: 

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

Kassi Valazza & Taylor Kingman: 

Peter (who hears their harmonies and thinks "Marty & Grace; Porter & Dolly; Gram & Emmylou.....")

[David Houck]

Steely Dan - The Second Arrangement

I'm posting this primarily for the historical significance.  Briefly, this is a song that was recorded for the Gaucho album.  The original was accidentally erased, and when the band tried to record it again they were unhappy with the results; thus the song never made the album.  However, the engineer on the session had taken a cassette copy of the track home with him.

Decades later, after the engineer's death, his family found the cassette, kept it safe and unplayed, and eventually took it to a studio to be restored.  Longer story shorter, this is the eventual result; and comments suggest that Steely Dan fans are quite happy with the recovered tune.

[jazzyvee]

Noel Gallagher on Later with Jools Holland on bbc i player

[cozmik_cowboy]

Loud cars & rednecks.

(Took #1 Grandson to the dirt-track races tonight......)

Peter

[pauldo]

Loud cars & rednecks.

(Took #1 Grandson to the dirt-track races tonight......)

Peter

Oh you mean this…

First time I heard this song there were 6 of us in a cabin in the Northwoods - dosed some shrooms and just grooving on life.   This is a remote, no electricity, no running water, out-house tucked back in the woods and a beautiful lake right out back.  Only 3 cabins on the east side, tucked in the middle of the Chequamegon forest.  Isolated surrounded by nature, great place to trip….

Anyhow - listening to this whole album on a battery powered boom box - the ending of the song went on and on and on.  It’s the last song on the disc, after it finished it felt like there was a half hour of silence before a collective ( and quiet) “whoa” was emitted from the group.   

Followed by laughter and tears rolling down the cheeks, then we probably went outside and wandered in the forest.

- reminiscing on that event brings a melancholy mood, life seemed simpler and the world was less messed up back then.