AlanRatcliffe
Now the 5 Peace band at Vienna Jazz, full show. What a lineup! McLaughlin, Hussein, Selvaganesh, Srinivas and Mahadevan.
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arjunmenon
X-rated Bob wrote
Arjun Menon wrote
I've been listening to Harry Manx' Road Ragas of late
Maybe I should have a flutter. Seems like slide guitar in all it's various forms has loomed big on my musical horizons the last year or two. That includes a local album (recently reported on) and seeing Sez Adamson in action a couple of times.
Time well spent i reckon Bob. Manx studied under VM Bhatt for 5 years.
The one i've been enjoying most (well the past 3 days that is) is this...
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Doomsower
So I managed to get my grubby little paws on a copy of the new album and I am loving it.
It has a very triumphant theme that somehow does not get old. Listened to it 3 times in the car this weekend (long drive) and each time I discover something new.
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Psean
Doomsower wrote
So I managed to get my grubby little paws on a copy of the new album and I am loving it.
It has a very triumphant theme that somehow does not get old. Listened to it 3 times in the car this weekend (long drive) and each time I discover something new.
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Good news. Thanks for the update.
Malkav
Found out about this really cool band called Heavy Metal Ninjas today, some really epic stuff, reminds me of early era Steve Vai but on ERGs 8)
The guitarist is really good, nice phrasing and melody and technique, good feel overall.
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The outfits are somewhat ridiculous though.
Banditman
Queen - I want it all, and Fat bottomed girls. On repeat. Because I have to play 'em for a show in a coupla months and it's solo practice time tonight. :? :bopping:
racman
I've been revisiting Tom Waits a bit lately. Currently listening to Mule Variations and Rain Dogs. Strangely enough, I still find some of his sort of uptempo stuff an acquired taste but his darker, more melancholy tunes are great. I guess it's these tunes that highlight his distinctive voice more whereas I find the uptempo songs have a more strained character to his vocals in my opinion.
It was once said that Tom Waits singing voice sounded "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car" ... That about sums it up perfectly for me.
Ray
Well, I pretty much like Tom Waits voice because it tells the story. I've been listening to John Hiatt Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns again. I really like the songs on this album. A few of the songs seem to refer to towns once loved that are hard to even like now. And that is pretty much like this neck of the woods. I've heard his voice referred to a "whicky tinged".
Bob-Dubery
Punch Brothers - Who's Feeling Young Now
If you saw a picture of these guys you'd think "bluegrass" or maybe "Mumford and Sons". AFAIK they all come from a bluegrass background (hot flat picker Bryan Sutton was in the band for a while), but these days it seems to me that bluegrass (or newgrass) is just a jumping off point for a whole lot of really hot players who are keen to venture far from their musical home (EG Bela Fleck or the amazing Andy Statman).
The production is interesting - it sounds like at times they've gone for deliberate oversaturation in order to dirty up the sound of an acoustic band.
At times it's like prog rock on acoustic instruments. There's a Radiohead cover.
Bob-Dubery
Los Lobos - Kiko
With a most interesting production from Mitchell Froom.
proze
The new Mastodon! \m/
It's not bad so far. Needs more listening, though.
studmissile
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Charlie4
Man, this is just way too cool not too share:
Some bluegrass doing metal/rock covers: Iron Horse ?
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Malkav
Been listening to the teaser for the new Polyphia album that's coming out soon, I know it's only 1 minute but it's so catchy and groovy ? That tone is so cool as well, in a sort of low gain but still rocking kinda way ?
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doc-phil
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Some good ol' vintage (modern) rock 'n roll.
Doomsower
Been listening to Reverend Bizarre again.
Man I miss this band :'(
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Bob-Dubery
Bob Mould - Workbook
It's hard now to figure out how influential this album was, but boy! a few chunks of it sound a lot like REM would sound in a couple of year's time.
I like his playing a lot. It's often said that his electric playing sounds like Richard Thompson, but Mould has always denied the influence and I think the perceived similarities are superficial. The cover of "Shoot Out The Lights" settles matters: The arrangement is nearly identical to Thompson's original but the solos, which work brilliantly, are distinctly Mould's own.
I'd like a bit more noise and a bit less jingle jangle, but I can dig this. Having the "de luxe" version with the live bonus tracks helps to redress that balance.
Bob-Dubery
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief.
Boy! Sandy Denny is good on this. Great control, great timing, great dynamics and she uses all of that to deliver great emotion.
Joe Boyd has advanced the notion that this album is the beginning of heavy metal bass playing. I'm not sure. The obvious artistic nod is the cod-Medieval rock that Jethro Tull would turn their hands to a few years later.
Swarbrick's tremendous, and Thompson goes toe to toe with him, but this is Sandy's show.
Bob-Dubery
Andy Statman - Superstring Theory
Quite different from Old Brooklyn as Statman gears proceedings to suit his collaborators Tim O'Brien and Michael Cleveland. But still full of good tunes and great playing (not least from Statman himself). O'Brien is not a player who habitually hogs the limelight, but his guitar chops are on display here. Statman's functioning as a composer here and not just a player, and Cleveland's fiddle gets prominence on some tracks.
The acoustic Americana scene is full of players with ferocious skills and a musically inquisitive attitude, and this is a great example.
