Men At Work at the Cape Cod Coliseum with my brother and Dad was my first concert. We were so baked! Actually the previous sentence is untrue. INXS opened and I quickly figured out that they were a band for girls, because they were all screaming their heads off. The women in the audience, that is. It would be several years before I admitted liking them. I remember the debut of the videos for Cargo being a big event in my house. Listening to CRB do "Tough Mama", 12/6/16.
TARFALA Is: Mats Gustafsson: baritone saxophone Barry Guy: double bass Raymond Strid: drums 28 minute awe-inspiring performance from the Mad Dogs on the Loose 4 CD box The slightly longer performance on the slightly earlier original 5 CD set Mad Dogs box is even better. Beastly from any perspective. Fwiw I gave up posting about these great sets on jazz boards or jazz threads as that fan base is more ossified than could be imagined outside of a very small percentage who listen to progressive creative living masters.
I'm waiting for some chinese food delivery and browsing youtube for Sammy Davis, Jr vids - which is also getting me some Rat Pack stuff.
As with every year, I'm streaming the Coachella webcast. Currently grooving to Melbournian psych-rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Recorded earlier today in the California desert. Coachella Radiohead will be on later tonight, but it'll be pretty late for you East-Coasters...
Time for The Lemon Twigs at Coachella! Edit: Oh snap! For their final number, they invited none other than Todd Rundgren himself to play "Couldn't I Just Tell You" with them.
A companion in some ways to Lanquidity; and thanks to @royzak2000 for turning me on to this one, for which I searched for some six months:
nice. I have a butt ton of live CRB. I need to go down this wormhole. as soon as I am out of this one
Yes. You can choose from three different channels and can "rewind" each channel up to four hours to play performances that you missed earlier. That's what I'm doing.
That "Tough Mama" is righteous. The keyboardist uses the same sound as whomever plays keyboards on Low Spark by Traffic. Winwood probably. It's a clavinet I think. I've never appreciated Chris Robinson as much as I do know. He gets away with every crunchy-classic rock-jammy thing he throws into his albums and live shows. And he gets away with it because I like it.
Closing 20:22 group improvisation from almost the full band (all except Maya Homberger, I think) Mad Dogs on The Loose Evan Parker: tenor saxophone Trevor Watts: alto saxophone Mats Gustafsson: baritone saxophone Per Ake Holmlander: tuba Herb Robertson: trumpet Johannes Bauer: trombone Barry Guy: bass Agusti Fernandez: piano Paul Lytton: drums Raymond Strid: drums Munificent - for newer listeners a commitment is necessary to listen through a few times with full attention to detail. Not promising it works for anyone new to this stuff but for me these two box sets of small formations recorded live in 2010 & 2012 of Barry Guy's New Orchestra are simply the best recorded free jazz/free improvisation of the last 25 years.
Ken Vandermark - Paal Nilsson-Love Extended Duos - disc 4 First 25 minute track adds Jim O'Rourke on guitar. Second 7 minute track then adds Akira Sakata on alto saxophone. Talk about Psychedelic music - holy moly Lordy Lordy