What Are You Listening To?

Ron-P

heiney9

TroyD

Judas Priest - British Steel

Livin' after midnight.......yeah baby!

audiobliss

shack wrote:

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is

I had forgotten how good this album really is. It got a bad rap as "Light Adult Contemporary" or "Pop music". That's too bad....this is a really good band, Hornsby is a fine piano player and this is an album worth listening to.

Amen! I have it on tape!

BlueMDPicker

Jimmy Ponder - Jump
1989 - Muse MC 5347, Cassette

Solid, swing jazz guitar work from Jimmy with Big John Patton on B3. Eddie Gladden and Lawrence Killian team up for riveting drums and percussion throughout. James Anderson's tenor sax work is the icing on the cake.

heiney9

Jeff Beck-Live @ B.B. Kings Blues Club

Semi-legimate bootleg can be seen at this site

http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/catalog/MerchandiseDetails.jsp?merchId=57161&sms=jeffbeckbootlegs

IMO, one of the great underated guitarists. He has always marched to the beat of his own drummer. A brilliant guitarist who is not afraid to experiment. I always enjoy listening to him wether it be classic Beck or the latest Beck. Some of his newer stuff is out there, but it's so different.

Jeff Beck: Live at BB King Blues Club
New "official bootleg" album available now

On September 10th and 11th, 2003 Rock'N'Roll guitar icon Jeff Beck made a stop in New York City for two intimate and rare shows at B.B. King Blues Club. Jeff was joined on stage with long time collaborators and touring mates drummer Terry Bozzio and keyboard player Tony Hymas. The audience included legendary guitarist Les Paul, David Letterman Show music director Paul ****, tennis champion John McEnroe and members of rock band Living Colour.

Epic Records commemorates this special event with an online only CD release that features music from Jeff Beck's most recent album Jeff, "Freeway Jam" from Jeff's classic Blow By Blow, Jazz great Charles Mingus' song "Goodbye Pork Pie," and a cover of the Beatles "A Day In The Life" with an audience member strumming the final note on Jeff's guitar to name a few.

H9

ESavinon

My newly acquired polk xm tuner graciously sold by nadams.

dudeinaroom

boston

on SACD

MrBuhl

BlueMDPicker wrote:

The Buddy Rich Big Band - Big Swing Face
Pacific Jazz LP ST-20117, 1967

I'm in heaven. I found buried treasure today.

I've got this - +3 on this one - it's a great smattering of jazz and smarmy (in a good way) vegas hipster swing jazz. One of my absolute favorites - especially when he brings his daughter up... I can just picture her there... I might have to load it up!

Tour2ma

shack wrote:

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is

I had forgotten how good this album really is. It got a bad rap as "Light Adult Contemporary" or "Pop music". That's too bad....this is a really good band, Hornsby is a fine piano player and this is an album worth listening to.

+3... on vinyl here.

Today I cued up:

Muddy Waters: The Anthology: 1947-1972- Disc 1

Some amazing SQ considering the age of some of the tracks.

Will save disc 2 for another day as I've been craving "Live" lately. Ran through the usual suspects already, e.g., Lou Reed, Pat Travers, etc., but was in the moo for something new. So I just cracked:

The Kinks : The Kinks LIVE - The Road

Per allmusic this was recorded during their decline and that their 1980, live release, One for the Road, is the one to own. Think I'll pick up the latter, but I kinda like the one spinnin' now. It has lesser known material, nice SQ and enough energy to make me think that never having seen them live, I missed something... Seems like Ray Davies' element.

heiney9

Sinead O'Connor-Goodnight, Thank You, You've Been a Lovely Audience

This DVD is excellent. Just Sinead and group of great musicians on stage. She does a handful of traditional Irish songs along with many of her hits and semi-hits. Despite what you may think of all the contraversey surrounding her which most likely killed her career, she is genuinely talented and has an amazing/unique voice. This is a straight forward video that really shows off her unique talent. This is not in heavy rotation as for me I have to be in the right mood to enjoy it fully.



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Tour2ma

From last night...

Decades ago, a now departed, local, rock music critic, Bob Claypool, did a series of columns on his true loves, Jazz and Blues. Plucked this little number from the former...
Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea

Erroll was for many the consumate jazz pianist, and for many this is the finest of his 50-odd releases. Just straight trio, piano, bass and drums. And straight instrumental, unless you count Erroll's near constant, low gutteral accompaniment, which can only be described as a cross between a hum and a groan. But while you might think it would detract from the recording, just the opposite is the case.

Wonderful stuff and the sound of the remastered 1955, live performance is the equal of the performance.

This AM....
Robben Ford & The Blue Line - The Authorized Bootleg

Blind buy based on a review I read while paging through BMG's somewhat anemic Blues section. The review (from AMG) basically said he is a guitar player's guitar player.... and he's defintely got guitar-game. Put it on as morning background, but his play made me sit up and pay attention. SQ and mix is quite good, but volume level does seem to drift a bit here and there.

I wish all my blind buys were as good as this....

shack

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - In Step



This is the one that got my Stevie Ray Vaughan groove on. I remember seeing Stevie on Austin City Limits in 1989 and was simply blown away (my first exposure to his music). He played several cuts from this album. I went out and bought it the NEXT DAY! I have since collected the entire catalog including the DVD with this ACL performance. As much as I like his hard driving blues....my favorite track is the laid back, smooth, "Riviera Paradise". As a total package, In Step may be the best of all the albums...not as raw and hard as Texas Flood...but great writing and great musicianship from beginning to end. He had cleaned up and quit using drugs by this time and his playing may have been the pinnacle of his career on this album. Sadly he died before another album could be made (The Sky Is Crying was studio outtakes). My first SRV was his last. I love this album.

scottyf

Mind Body and Soul has been in the player for a couple of days now....really enjoying it. Hottie with smokey pipes!

heiney9

^Joss is a great listen. The recordings aren't absolutely stellar, a bit hot, but that can be overlooked.

Tori Amos-Little EarthQuakes

This is Tori's debut album and it's excellent. Tori helped carve the female singer/songwriter movement of the 90's. Intimate, emotional lyrics with delicate prog rock piano and a voice to match, this is powerful stuff. Little Earthquakes is the most accessible work in Amos' catalog, it's also the most rewarding.



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MLZ

Madeleine Peyroux - you might have heard her singing “Don’t Wait Too Long” on that dockers ad. What a great voice reminds me of Billie Holiday but not like she is trying to copy Lady Day.

aaharvel

Sheryl Crowe's Globe Sessions- SACD.

DAGLJAM6

Tracy Chapman-"S/T" finally on vinyl. All i can say is....stunning. As good or better than the cd issue.

DAGLJAM6

Rory Gallagher-"Live" another new/used vinyl find and a good one.

Tour2ma

^^ Of course... she's from Cleveland. Traci's Fast Cars is a classic and sounds great. Too bad she tried to make hits after her S/T release...

Me? Wrapped up my "Live" binge with the best music DVD I own... and not just because it's the only one I own.

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
The CD is great as well, but if you like the "Heads" and you've never seen what many critics call "the best concert movie ever made", look for it - at least for a rental. It's just a phemoninally wonderful visual stage show (complete with "the BIG SUIT") and the SQ is top drawer.

Now I seem to be moving into a Country Rock mode starting with:
The Outlaws - Greatest Hits of...
Have to say that there are a couple misses here, which is not a good sign for compilation 'hits' disc, but then there's "There Goes Another Love Song", "Hurry Sundown", "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" and the classic, "Green Grass & High Tides". Unfortunately "Ghost Riders..." is a live cut, and the SQ is just OK-ish.

Apparently there's a better comp disc out now, Best of the Outlaws: Green Grass & High Tides, but 'til I get it, this'll do...

W WALDECKER

The Bad Plus_ these are the Vistas

DAGLJAM6

10,000 Maniacs-"In my tribe"
James Taylor-"Sweet baby james"
The Firm-"S/T"
On a vinyl roll. Don't think i've played a cd/sacd ,here at the house, in a week........Did i point that out........................................................
B(Didn'thaveaphonostageinthehousetiltoday)T
may have to pull the cj out and bring it over this weekend.

BlueMDPicker

Rufus Thomas - That Woman Is Poison!
1988 - Alligator Records, Vinyl



My favorite offering by the late, great master of Memphis blues/rock/funk.

DAGLJAM6

BlueMDPicker wrote:

Rufus Thomas - That Woman Is Poison!
1988 - Alligator Records, Vinyl



My favorite offering by the late, great master of Memphis blues/rock/funk.

Very nice looks like i'll have to dig deep for October , if you're going to come to S.C. for Pfest BMDP, I may have a few suprises by then.

TroyD

DAGLJAM6 wrote:

10,000 Maniacs-"In my tribe"
James Taylor-"Sweet baby james"
The Firm-"S/T"
On a vinyl roll. Don't think i've played a cd/sacd ,here at the house, in a week........Did i point that out........................................................
B(Didn'thaveaphonostageinthehousetiltoday)T
may have to pull the cj out and bring it over this weekend.

Sure, g'head and rub it in.

BDT

shack

Tour2ma wrote:

Now I seem to be moving into a Country Rock mode starting with:
The Outlaws - Greatest Hits of...
Have to say that there are a couple misses here, which is not a good sign for compilation 'hits' disc, but then there's "There Goes Another Love Song", "Hurry Sundown", "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" and the classic, "Green Grass & High Tides". Unfortunately "Ghost Riders..." is a live cut, and the SQ is just OK-ish.

I have this CD. "Green Grass and High Tides"....One of the great "Air Guitar" songs...but at almost 10 min. the arm starts to get tired....:cool:

billbillw

Just a chance to listen to some of the pristine vinyl that I picked up last week, plus my bro sent me a shipment of more than 50 of his vinyl dupes, thanks Bro!

Right now:
Frank Zappa: Sheik Yerbouti! This was my brothers extra copy. God, I haven't heard this album since the early 80s. I forgot how cool Frank was.

A couple hours ago:
Ida Cox w/ the Coleman Hawkins Quintet: Blues for Rampart Street. This was one of the pristine albums that I picked up. It was sealed until tonight, first time on a TT. Great recording from the end of her career. Not bad for $2.

TroyD

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe...

Picked this up on Sunday.....mint. While I'm still not a 100% Zappa convert, there is some FANTASTIC stuff on this album. You can hear a lot of stuff that other bands later just blatantly ripped off.

Added bonus, this is one WELL recorded LP. Some great SDA stuff in it as well.

BDT

DAGLJAM6

Wagner-Siegfried's Funeral Music/Forest Murmurs Eric Leinsdorf conducting the LA Phil. my one and only Sheffield Labs LP.
Rich and warm on the new/old Rega acquisition......WooHoo

audiobliss

The Best of Simon & Garfunkel