Anyway, the game features Unwritten Law, among countless others, which in turn sent me searching for my old Unwritten Law Music in High Places CD, which I couldn’t find, of course. Acoustic Punk — You’d be surprised the crazy responses you get when you ask someone to guess who’s playing.

So anyway, that’s a CD I lost in the digital crossover. Anyone else wish they could get something back—but probably wont’ buy?

listening to it prevents me from actually hitting the idiots i see every day.

Ben Folds Five’s “Whatever and Ever Amen” and Randy Newman’s “Songbook Vol. 1.”

Btw, that specific song is the only one Shawn can’t sing anymore but wishes he could.

Thx!

with Archers of Loaf “The Speed of Cattle” and Miles Davis “Bitches Brew” coming close.

That Lonnie Smith recording blew everything else out of the water (and pretty much still does). The first time I heard it was before “Let’s Go Bowling” came on at a show at the Fireside Bowl. I absolutely love seeing bands live, but there was no point in staying for Let’s Go Bowling because after hearing a few cuts from album, anything else was going to be a disappointment.

Archers of Loaf was a chance find at a rinky dink used cd store in Mong Kok and reminds me of a great time in my life. “Wrong” is such a great track. Bitches Brew just kicks serious ass and has some incredible instrumentation. It opened my mind and steered me in new musical directions.

i had rage against the machine “live at the grand olympic auditorium in LA” on my video i-pod.
i had the cd, put it on itunes and in a perfect storm, lost the cd, deleted the itunes and the ipod broke down.
that album used to be one of my go-to morning albums to pump me up on the way to work. good memories, thinking of playing that album while walking towards the fullerton brown line stop. hard to believe that was only a couple years ago. anyhow, the version of “born of a broken man” from that concert made that my favorite ratm song. gets me geeked out just thinking about it.

and the song voices by rev theory…solid stuff right there

also check out the band endeverafter

Artists offer consolation: “It’s like you’ve been cut off from your emotions, and suddenly there’s another person feeling what you want to feel. They’re on the cliff edge with you, and, more than that, they’ve taken their despair and turned it into a beautiful piece of art. It’s inspiring.”

the NWA. Ice Cube, Dr Dre, Eazy E, MC Ren and DJ Yella produced the ground breaking tracks in rap that then led to Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Eminem, 2 Pac, Bone Thugs N Harmony, 50 Cent, The Game among countless others. NWA Legacy CD= Outstanding if you are into West Coast Hip Hop.

 Furb, girlfriend (now wife) got me listening to Jack Johnson a WHILE back, I vowed to dislike him always….that didn’t last long. I just admitted that in public.
I am also thankful for T-Bone Walker.
Thank you for Robert Cray.
I thankful that this site has given me some opportunities to listen to new music…..sappy guys, I know.
I am most thankful for Neil Young’s Live Rust album It has been on the turn-table for a week. Yeah, I still have more vinyl than I can fill rooms with.

Q! getting married this weekend in California
They had to rip-up all the sidewalks around the Glendale Sox stadium cuz they were put in wrong.
All the roofing is done.

without whom there would be nothing called “Rock and Roll”.

I am thankful for Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Jethro Tull, without whom I might still be listening to my parents’ music from the ’50’s.

I am thankful for early Chicago and Santana, without whom I never would’ve been allowed to play loud music in my home in high school.

I am thankful for “Tea For the Tillerman”, without which I would not have been intimate with Julie Axelrod in high school. (Not the first time I was above my pay grade.)

I am grateful for Pearl Jam, Bush, Collective Soul, Alice and Chains, and Garbage, without whom I would not have immediately bonded with my younger wife (these were in her CD collection the first time I went to her home, and she was impressed I knew her music and was “dark” like her).

I am thankful to all of you for reminding me that each generation has it’s thing and it isn’t supposed to be mine. (And, conversely, mine is not supposed to be yours, except in a historical sense.)

apparently they put them in at a wrong incline, or decline. Crooked. All of them.
had a couple shots of Jamison last Friday night with a guy on the roofing job.
Said he and his buddies watched all the brand new sidewalks get torn up while sitting on the roof that day. He found this hysterical……though the Jamison and Stellas had me laughing as well.
He also laughed that originally they wanted to stadium completed by Spring. Now they want it done by Jan 1.

I haven’t heard the version of The Entertainer of which you speak, but it sounds fabulous.

Separating left and right hands is one of the bigger challenges in learning the instrument, but some songs are far more difficult to coordinate, and require lots of work on each individual hand (and are so much more rewarding when mastered).

The song I posted here (you’re right, I should not have been so weird about the topless thing, but I thought I was alone!) is one of the more challenging that I’ve ever played in terms of left vs right.

In the final section of the song, the right hand bounces around the upper octave, alternating notes exactly one octave apart from each other, in a more playful style.
The left hand, at the same time, plays arpeggios all over the lower octaves; but more fluid and connected. The hands are probably 50 keys apart during this part, and completely separate in thought.

I’ll have to send you the new link when I re-post it.

Sorry to all who responded to that blurb…I asked Cheat to remove my comment (which took away everything else) because I didn’t want my photobucket account linked in stone. :(

Thank you!!

Now erase that from your memory! :)

And remember that it is hazardous to play instruments naked. Please do not try that at home. Or in public.

I am very disappointed

For five years now, Continuum Publishing’s 33 1/3 Series (named for the speed at which an LP record spins) has given music-loving bookworms over 50 hip little volumes that marry their two obsessions beautifully.

Written mostly by musicians and music critics, each book in the series concerns a pop album that played a momentous role in the author’s life, and can take the form of an essay, extended review, memoir, novella, interview with the artist—or some hybrid thereof.

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the best bands don’t play fucking guitars

Nas (nothing says thanksgiving like albums tentatively titled the N-word), John Legend (who else can I pilfer love poetry from), Chicago hip-hop, never forgotten greats like Rage Against the Machine, Dr. Dre, Warren G. Also thankful for Bollywood music, because I am amazed as to how the country that releases more movies than anyone else can make nothing but love movies, have 5 songs per movie about love, yet never run out of material.

Finally, I am thankful for the Internet and mp3s, because radio makes my soul bleed.

Was going through my hard drive listening to things that I posses but have never listened to and I came away very impressed by “Diseases”.

I also discovered that Pete Yorn isn’t horrible, for whatever that’s worth.

I’ve had the Bon Iver album since Spring. Been giving it a listen here and there, thought it was well-done, but never really gotten into it. Summer is a hard time for me to want to get into moody, acoustic music.

But Fall/Winter is the PERFECT time for this album (“For Emma, Forever Ago”)! (Now that the sun is gone from Seattle….)

I have finally found my mood to enjoy this music. What a beautiful album. Highly-recommended.

I’ve just watched the Italian film ‘Gomorrah’ with the missus, amazing flick. highly recommended.

recorded thanksgiving day, 1976:

listened to the entire 4-disc box set on the drive back to school yesterday.

“caravan” with van morrison is incredible, as is “the weight” with the staples singers (mavis staples has one of the best voices i’ve ever heard — actually, had, because she sounds like a man nowadays)

the film is even better than the discs, too. for anyone who hasn’t seen it, GO. NOW.