Miles Davis - Black Beauty Yes, the incredible Miles Davis Band opened for the Grateful Dead on these shows. The entire band is on fire. Chick Corea is especially killin' it on this recording. It also has one of my all-time favorite Fillmore posters: Well, let's be fair: they were co-headliners - as should be. Stone the Crows is the true opening band. The CD sounds great, but is a little bass-shy. I turned the bass eq knob to 2 o' clock - much better. Dave Holland's electric bass and Jack DeJohnette's bass drum come in much punchier now. The Fillmore East recordings from this period are essential as well. While the NY venue didn't have the posters like the SF venue, there are some cool shots of the marquee. Here's the one from the March gigs that they opened for Neil Young & Crazy Horse. I'll have to play the Miles sets followed by the NY & Crazy Horse set back to back sometime to experience what it was like on those long ago New York nights. Well, without the haze of pot smoke, of course... You'll also notice that the Joe Cocker shows from that marquee are the main ones featured in the classic Mad Dogs & Englishmen album/film.
I'm not sure that they sound horrible, but they are a bit fatiguing. Of course, I could fatigue myself with Juan Alderete's bass work on this forever:
Repent! [Honestly, I'm not sure I understand your post; I just dig the bass part. I don't over-think this stuff.]
No, no, no, no--everybody put on some GD and go to the other thread. Yeah, fine, I was listening to some TAB* earlier and now I'm not. HINT! *Trey Anastasio Band
Go pound sand, mate. I've listened to some 20 hours of GoGD in the past three-four days. I needed Juan Alderete to bust me out of odd-dom and into strangebuthardgroovy-dom.
Baphomet is a deity, demon and/or symbolic icon which originated in the 14th century as a supposed figure of worship of the Knights Templar. In those accounts, Baphomet was described as an inscribed head or human skull. The name “Baphomet” originally was a deformation of the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Claims that the Templars were worshipping “Baphomet” meant, in fact, that they were secret Muslims. Medieval European folklore did not recognize that Islam was a monotheistic faith, and imagined instead that Muslims prayed and sacrificed to a number of terrifying and evil imaginary deities. In the 19th century, French occultist Eliphas Lévi formulated the modern conception of the figure via an illustration portraying it with wings, a horned goat’s head and an emblazoned pentagram…and, oddly, breasts (though that might be unsurprising since it was drawn by a Frenchman). The Freemasons were thereafter accused of worshipping it, after which it was incorporated into the theology of Thelema, and in turn into the iconography of LaVeyan Satanism. Owing to Levi’s drawing and these associations, the figure, in a similar manner to Baal and Moloch, has (mistakenly) become virtually synonymous with Satan in popular consciousness, and it continues to be brought up in the present day by conspiracy theorists as the claimed god of whomever their boogeyman of choice is.
Oh, as if your thoughts right now, at this moment, don't contain Dark Stars you've been meaning to Arch-analyze.
pretty cool. imho TAB aint' worth an 8 hour drive, but is worth a 30 minute uber. ENJOY! Stay away from the brown TABs at TAB
I dig this sort of esoteric and deeply past history, but I mean, all I really dig is the bass part and how the tenor sax layers the insanity. I don't Arch-analyze, but I do walk along life's path humming Dark Star even when I'm not actually doing that.
Have you heard the brown donut warning in one of the Baker's shows? I think it was the one where they open with "Chocolate Rain" by the great Tay Zonday. I thought you lived in Vegas? I'm confused.
Morning commuting: Waiting for the train, on the train, getting off the train and waiting for the subway: Welcome To My Nightmare, by Alice Cooper (I skipped "Cold Ethyl" and "Escape" because they're not very interesting). On the subway, while reading: Gaspard de la nuit (Ravel) and Allegro tempestoso (Prokofiev) performed by Martha Argerich in 1960. Getting off the subway, reaching the surface and walking to work: "Weather Report Suite" (11/11/73)
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos collection. I love Keith. He's a fine singer and there's something in his voice that drags me in. Same with Garcia and Dylan, none of them is hailed as a great singer, being my point. I wonder when Keith is going to do a covers album. He can sing while Tom Waits play the piano. Would love to hear something in that vein
Streaming the new Steven Wilson's album. Edit: I stopped the streaming because I'm gonna buy it this afternoon
Just popped this in and cranked it up. The rhythms are filling the house - heads are bobbing, shoulders swaying.
