Un-Grateful Thread - What Are You Listening to Instead of the Dead?

I read that they melted down the original and freebased it in the early 80s

 

They would have no way of knowing if they did.

 

I still need to get that second Soft Machine record, it's the only one of the first six I don't own. Meanwhile, I picked this one up over the weekend:

 

Back into the Braxton Quartet (New Haven) 2014 4 CD set

The bass & contrabass saxophone passages with Nels Cline on guitar with his pedals & effects are mind blowing

Disc 3 currently playing during my lunch hour loudly in my car in the Parking lot. My co-workers who sometimes look at me funny when they hear this indescribable beautiful skronked out fuzzed out music must think I’m insane.

Plus Taylor Ho Bynum is playing all these different trumpets in all sorts of different ways. Now Anthony is back on the soprano saxophone - maybe next he picks up the tiny sopranino?!?!

 

Franz Ferdinand Sparks. A fantastic supergroup of the 2010s.




"Collaborations Don't Work"

 

Sturgill Simpson and his band get down and boogie!

"Call to Arms"

 

Van der Graaf Generator,
'The Aerosol Grey Machine' (1969)


03 May 2019 CD remaster, Esoteric label
upc 5 013929 476141
2-CD set, includes both sides of the withdrawn single,
'People You Were Going To'
b/w 'Firebrand',

the original '67 demo versions of
' Firebrand ' , and ''Sunshine'

plus , from a '68 BBC Radio session :

'People You Were Going To'
'Afterwards'
'Necromancer'
and 'Octopus'

 

or The Hideout...

 

Adam's Apple

Wayne Shorter

np: Footprints

 

jelly roll morton - i thought i heard buddy bolden say -> miles - someday my prince will come

 

I'm listening to Sky Blue Sky by Wilco. I've listened to the new one at least 12 times, probably more (16 as it turns out), and because it appears to me, albeit through an anecdotal lens, that the greatest detractors of the new one seem to be Sky Blue Sky fans, I thought I'd give it a listen.

At the time it came out, I was a little bored with this one after more than a few listens. I thought of it as Steely Dan meets the Allmans, but mellowed out a little for the not so swift. That sounds cruel, and it is, but that's what I thought of this one. I like it much more now. I mean, Side With The Seeds, c'mon.

But I think the anti-Ode To Joy Wilco fans (can you tell I believe in a big tent?) wanted another Sky Blue Sky, and I know I didn't. Tweedy knows how to push for more, and that's how you get to new, weird places. No need for Wilco to cater to the Counting Crows and Wallflowers fans just yet, or ever.

Full disclosure: I have albums by both those groups.

Hey, Tweedy had a song called "Shake It Off" before Taylor Swift.

 

This album is ok>

 

Don't tell @Rne

 

I love all three of those.

 

The sound quality of these rare bonus tracks on disc 2 is kind of rough. I'd have foregone this material in putting together this box set, had I been in charge of the project - for the serious completeist only, imo. I won't ever listen to it again. But CD one (the original album) is nicely remastered and worth having. I can't comment on the vinyl because I don't own a turntable at the moment. I might guess it is cut from the same digital mastering as the CD though. (?)

 

Billy Strings Live in Portland September 2019

 

Greensky Bluegrass at The Fillmore Detroit February 2019

 

I like where your heads at.

 

Both Directions at Once

John Coltrane

 

Hey, I love that album now. After a couple of decades of not getting it, it finally became a favorite of mine last year.

 

that's badass. I neeeeed to see those guys.