I just ordered that on LP. Good stuff. Also, the Rock Pool EP is great. I wish that I could get a physical copy. The music reminds me of The Soft Boys a bit. Only fronted by someone even quirkier than Robyn Hitchcock.
Santana appearances aren't all that rare in the Bay Area. I'm sure @Crispy Rob can attest to this also. He did the same thing when I saw Jeff Beck. You just have to go see an act that was Carlos' contemporary. He probably shows up to any show of any great guitarist about his age. He can do that because he is also a great guitarist. He and Clapton were trying to outdo each other with the humbling exit. They kept bowing to each other as they walked off stage. "I'm not worthy." "No, I'm not worthy." "Oh, but I'm truly not worthy!" And so on. I wanted Carlos to do his nutso sustain thing. And at one point he was working up to it, but then he stopped. Jimmie Vaughn opened. He was good. He can play a lot of the stuff Stevie played, but Jimmie does it slower. If he was as quick as his brother he'd probably touring as JV Plays SRV. One thought that came to mind last night watching the band was that Doyle Bramhall is a good guitar player, but Clapton is better, even now at 75 or however old he is.
Goodness, it's as if John Cale and Nico's daughter is jamming with Roxy Music and Television or something. Ear-worm city. Cate Le Bon "I Can't Help You"
The Allman Brothers Band 2011.03.10 - Beacon Theatre - New York, NY Just a ridiculous amount of talent in this band.
Started the the day with Ellington and Coltrane from 1963. Just lovely. Hittin the harder stuff now, mid 70s hard rockin greatness
I remember being facinated with Alice Cooper as a kid. The old man had the classic 70s LPs and the Billion Dollar Babies gatefold or inner sleeve was really something, I could just stare at this picture for a long time. Dads much younger brother was an 80s hair metal rocker and made a cassette of Poison to me, maybe in 91 or so. That was so cool. That was so much better than the old 70s stuff. I changed my mind in my teen years though. 70s Alice Cooper is the stuff man!
Grant Green Slick! - Live at Oil Can Harry's Just started the 26 minute cover of Jobim's Insensatez. Wes Montgomery's version of this song is only 4 minutes, how insensitive.
I like all pre-hair metal Cooper albums (let's say up to 1983), but the ones I really love are those by the Alice Cooper band.
Jeff Beck, Faces, Elvis Presley, Clapton etc. The Airplane now. Mono mix. Is that Garcia's banjo by the way?
Today I found a copy of the '97 remaster of Signals, generally hated in this forum. I must say I love the way it sounds. The previous editions probably sound better, but this is far from being the sonic disaster some forum members describe in various threads.
Glorious show by The Who. It was a magic night for the them (and also for our friends from San Francisco who were making history at the Fillmore East).
Still eatin' Cow. The It's possible, and a logical conclusion; however, I have a couple of photos of Jerry playing banjo and the axe he's using has what appears to be an in-lay of mother-of-pearl along the length of the fingerboard and with dot markers, not rectangular. Of course, he may have owned more than one banjo. I also have a photo of Pigpen playing banjo (with Bob and Jerry on guitars) and it's not the same banjo as on the cover of Pillow.
Garcia is known to have had 8 banjos at various points: Grateful Dead Guide: Jerry Garcia Instrument History (Guest Post)
