I grew up in the cheese metal era, which was a few eras after the funk era. Funk is my dominant listening mode but as you know I indulge in all sorts of other sounds. I just love music and … Read the rest
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Magical 2nd Track
When you have your first certified hit as track #1 on your first album, track #2 becomes really important. Track 2 = What else can this band do?
If track 2 sounds like track 1 – probably a 1-trick pony. … Read the rest
Every Kind Of People
Oh the 70’s
On The Gilded Highway
There’s genre bending, then there’s …. WOW.
Watch this singer do a live mashup on Spain’s Got Talent, pretty cool:
… Do It To Me I’ll Do It To You
What you be about?
Hip-hop is 37 years old. At least.… Read the rest
Living For The Live
There’s a lot going on in this clip. It’s pretty good.
Ray Charles + Stevie Wonder, doing one of Stevie’s funk songs, with neither of their bands, for an awards show. It looks like the late 80’s with plastic keyboards … Read the rest
Battle of Tributation
Stevie Wonder is a monster musical genius, capable of perfection at every angle. Tribute shows are the big thing now, and I’m not complaining. Anytime someone can throw down the cash needed to properly work these songs up and make … Read the rest
Floating In My Tin Can
Tributize
… Don’t Try To Fight It
I love covers & I love proper video production so I can’t help but post when I find it:
Here’s a clip of Lauryn Hill, her band, and The Roots doing a Bob Marley cover on Jimmy Fallon’s old show. … Read the rest
Let’s Roll
Stomp with me
For whatever reason, maybe the outfit, maybe the material, I don’t know, but Angus Young seems to be underrated. This is a monster guitarist. He and his brother formed one of the finest rock guitar combos ever.… Read the rest
Music Everywhere
… The Full Power Of Bone
Click bait headlines continue!
… Read the restThanks For The Memories
How does it feel? Get down get with it. Mama, we’re all crazy now.
… Read the restLike Prize Giving, This
Feeling Kinks today led me to some live 70’s TV stuff where Ray Davies pulls out a chestnut:
The whole show is nice but watching Ray introduce and deliver on Celluloid Heroes is something special. If the embed doesn’t work … Read the rest
Pop For Me Baby
… You Touch Me I Hear The Sound of Mandolins
Awesome rendition of this magical song written for a 1957 movie that I personally first heard performed by David Bowie in the 70’s. This is the amazing Nina Simone going way back to 1959:
[I’m having deja vu on this … Read the rest
British Rock Royalty
Regular readers of this site know I love the old rock band Deep Purple, driven partly by how under-appreciated they seem to be, and how funky they were.
Check out this clip of a jam on an old Purple song … Read the rest
