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Post by Tipi on Oct 12, 2004 6:45:24 GMT -5
Well spoke indeed! One of my favorite bands V. A. (what a discography They have!) is at it again! Sanctuary Records will pay homage to one of America's greatest rock bands with the release of UNDER THE INFLUENCE - A JAM BAND TRIBUTE TO LYNYRD SKYNYRD, out October 5th, 2004. For the special 11-song disc, Sanctuary recruited some of the top names in guitar-driven rock to re-interpret their favorite classic Skynyrd tunes, including Gov't Mule ("Simple Man"), Blues Traveler ("Free Bird"), Les Claypool of Primus ("Call Me The Breeze"), North Mississippi Allstars ("Whiskey Rock a Roller"), Drive-by Truckers ("Every Mother's Son") and many more. Galactic contributes a killer rendition of their take on "Saturday Night Special." Man, no disrespect to LS, they rode me hard and put me away wet in high school, but I can't wait to hear some of these cuts! By no disrespect, I mean I won't be at all suprised if some of the above become my favorite versions of these classics. Of course, if Santuary Really had their finger on the pulse they would have Da Feat do a cut! What LS tune can you all hear the Feat doing? Me, I wanna hear Shaun screamin' Give Me Back My Bullets! It's in the wrong key, but I think our Feat can fix that. T
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Post by Rollin' Mark on Oct 12, 2004 7:18:46 GMT -5
Chadgumbo wrote: "My recommendation would be to stop by the local record store and have them order you (you meaning any reader who happens to come across this post) a copy of Monte Montgomery's Wishin Well, a really terrific album."
I had the pleasure of seeing Monte live when he opened for the Feat at Floore's Country Store back in April. He blew me away. That boy can swing an axe! I'll will search out "Wishing Well".
Rollin' Mark
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Post by DPK on Oct 12, 2004 11:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by DPK on Oct 12, 2004 11:10:07 GMT -5
I hear ya again jashley!! Another veteran band that I absolutely flipped over in the early 70's that plays eclectic bluegrass....if you want to try to define their music somehow.....is Goose Creek Symphony!! <snip> ;D Ahhhh, the Goose! Loved those kids back in the day for sure. Thanks for the link.
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Post by chadgumbo on Oct 12, 2004 12:07:56 GMT -5
Tipi wrote: I'd love to hear Paul and Fred get the guitars going on "Call Me the Breeze". Add Bill's piano and you have the making's of a REAL COVER SONG!!! ;D Who'd do the vocals... Paul?? - chadgumbo
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Post by Mike on Oct 12, 2004 23:53:38 GMT -5
Tipi wrote: I'd love to hear Paul and Fred get the guitars going on "Call Me the Breeze". Add Bill's piano and you have the making's of a REAL COVER SONG!!! ;D Who'd do the vocals... Paul?? - chadgumbo How bout a guest vocal with JJ Cale? It is after all his song. His guitar would fit well with P&F too.
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Post by chadgumbo on Oct 13, 2004 16:56:46 GMT -5
There ya have it!
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Post by jashley on Oct 13, 2004 17:03:00 GMT -5
Chadgumbo
Good News "When Your Fallin" is on Vol. # 3 of Afro-Celt Sound system, from what I understand they released a video shortly before 9/11, MTV pulled the video because they felt the subject matter was too close to the event. I have always thought art was supposed to reflect our times, why do we hide from it now? I would like to see the video if anyone knows where I can find it. Vol. 3 also includes a vocal guest spot by Robert Plant there are a few other vocals by members of the band but over 50% is instrumental.
Maybe if Brittany Spears does a tribute to 9/11 with all of her deep insight MTV will play it. Of course, she'll have a better chance to get airtime if she's half-nekkid'.
Peace j ashley
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Post by chadgumbo on Oct 15, 2004 11:01:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the insight jashley. I will look for that CD next time I'm at the record store (I live wayyy to close to Best Buy). With regard to Brittany Spears... maybe SHE should have been in the "When Your Falling" video. Could stick her in something skimpy and then do a girls on trampolines sort of a thing ala The Man Show. Slo-mo Brittany all the way through and those Afro-Celt CDs would fly off the shelf OK OK back to reality. Actually, whenever Peter Gabriel is involved in a video it's usually pretty entertaining stuff. I'm sure "Falling" won't be a disappointment (I've never seen the video although it must have been out for some time now). I might make an exception to my nighttime TV viewing regiment though, and tune in to MTV sometime soon. I've been wanting to see the new Eminem video. Never EVER thought I'd give kudos to Eminem, but hey, sometimes even a rapper can bring something into the light. ;D But maybe after I actually see the video I'll think my kudos were premature. Anyway, anything that for a moment makes MJ take a look at himself and have to evaluate who he is has gotta be worth something. My musical tastes range all the way from Loreena McKennitt to Velvet Revolver, but rap just doesn't fit into my musical world. Squarely at the top of my favorites though is the Feat! They have been since 1978 and I don't expect that will ever change. OK time to quit rambling and get back to work. Gotta go - chadgmbo
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Post by jashley on Oct 18, 2004 17:24:25 GMT -5
Chadgumbo I live in the sticks and haven't had much luck finding the afro celts at the record store but you can get them at www.petergabriel.com or www.realworldrecords.comYou know I was half joking about the Britany referance and I will admit to watching her and Shania Twain's videos, but damn isn't it disgusting that the only way to make it in the mainstream media is by way of the tight fitting jeans. I don't think this is a new thing, the Feat themeselves probably fell victim to this narrow mindedness. But I will say that if you look at the areas of the country where the Feat following is largest you will find somewhere in the seventies or eighties a great radio station covering that part of the country. In the late sixties and early seventies we had the home of the buzzard, WMMS, the greatest radio station I ever heard. They were a completely free form (no play list) radio station, hired good dj's and let them play ANYTHING they wanted. This is where I probably heard the Feat for the first time because they didn't care what "genre" the Feat fell into, they didn't care how long the songs were, and they might play an entire album at one shot, I went to sleep every night with the radio on. In other words they didn't just entertain me, they also educated me, who knows without 'MMS I might be listening to the Carpenters today. This was not some hippy dippy free radio idea, when 'MMS followed this path they had the highest radio ad rate in the country. Now 'MMS is owned by the dreaded ClearChannell, they suck and they DON'T make any money. How does this make sense? Why would you destroy an artform to ruin the bottom line? Damn I miss free form radio, it no longer exists and it's a shame. You all tell me about the great radio stations you remember and I bet we find that where there was great radio the support for the Feat will be the strongest. Sorry, got off on another of my rants, I don't know how I got from a great pair of jeans to free form radio but that's the brain I have to deal with everyday, please have sympathy for me, it's tough. I do worry about the artistic health of our country when we have let our media become so corrupt and just plain bad. Peace j ashley
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Post by chadgumbo on Oct 19, 2004 16:40:17 GMT -5
Jashley wrote: And I'm also hoping you know that I'm kidding about the "girls on trampolines" scenario too. But I gotta tell ya the first time I ever heard When You're Falling I was on my way home from Minneapolis (about a 75 mile drive) and it was late at night. I was tired and all of a sudden Cities 97 plays that song. It got my attention and woke me right up! I was stoked for the rest of the drive. Not surprisingly Peter Gabriel was involved. Anything he does is going to be worth hearing. Cities 97, by the way, is (was) the type of radio station you made reference to in your last post. The station you could always count on to hear something new, that's not in the mainstream, and something that's going to reach you on a level that pop music will just never be able to. They lean a little too heavily towards folk rock these days (good music, but they don't seem to go in ANY other direction anymore), which is mildly disappointing. I first heard the Feat back in Autumn 1978. I was 20 years old and had journeyed to Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to visit my brother, who was a senior there at the time. He was always so far ahead of me in cultivating his tastes in music. We were sitting in his dorm room, and he pulls up this new album he had bought sometime during the last couple of days... it was Waiting For Columbus. I had never heard of Little Feat, but needless to say I was hooked for life before Fatman in the Bathtub even ended. Jeff, my brother, passed away four years ago. One of the things I will always love about Little Feat is that they remind me of him, because he introduced me to them. So my favorite band became even more dear to me following his passing. I miss him, but the Feat help me stay connected to him. Well, as this thread is supposed to be about "other favorite bands", I've been listening the last couple of days to some CDs I've had awhile. The band is Roomful of Blues and the albums are Under One Roof and Turn It On, Turn It Up. A couple of good ones if anyone wants to hear a sound that's something akin to The Honeydrippers. This is getting lengthy, so I'll sign off for now and look forward to reading the next influx of posts around the message board. - chadgumbo
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Post by jashley on Oct 25, 2004 13:12:29 GMT -5
Chadgumbo, I'm sorry to hear about your brother, I lost my oldest sister many years ago but I still remember how that feels. My sister was one of the all time great human beings, I would say that even if she wasn't my sister, and I'm sure your brother was the same.
I have to agree that Peter Gabriel has never made any music that wasn't at least worth a serious listen. There are a few truly great musicians around that a musician can always learn something to further there own musical journey. Pete is certainly one, the Feat are another of course, Herbie Hancock (a music lesson in a jewel box) always teaches me something when I listen to his stuff. If you haven't visited Gabriel's web site it is certainly worth the time. I respect the fact that he has been willing to invest some of the mega bucks he has earned into helping other worthwhile musicians. The tour through his studio is certainly worth the price of admission, even if it wasn't $0.
Anyway back to what I wanted to talk about. Isn't it great that music can take us back to the people and places that mean the most to us. Sometime a song will play and it will instantly take me back to one of the great places in my life. Music helps us remember that the people in our lives are never really gone, even if we have to make due with our memories of them.
I saw Roomful of Blues at the old Wilbert's in Cleveland and your right one of the truly great bands. As Tipi says they have da' Grease all day and all night.
Your memory of Waiting for Columbus reminded me of hearing "The Last Record Albumn" for the first time. I was already a fan of the Feat but when I heard that albumn I couldn't take it off the turntable for a month, I bet I played that sucker 2 or 3 hundred times. Man it was and is great, killer stuff from one end to the other. I'm displaying my ignorance here but there were lyrics for a song on the cover that was X'd out and said maybe next time, did they ever do that song. One of you Feat experts help me out here.
I don't know why but another sub-genre has occured to me. Great one albumn bands. My greatest OAB would be the Plimsoles (Peter Case's band). Any other nominees out there. Interesting trivia; the band that's playing in the movie "Valley Girl" is the Plimsoles. Check out there one and only albumn it's great, P Case's solo work is really good too. I saw him at Wilbert's also, and I was lucky enought to get to have a conversation with him. Great guy (funny as hell) and a great muscician. Now that I'm talking about this it reminds me that one of my best friends, who died way too young last year, was a great Peter Case fan, we went to Wilbert's together to see the show, see he's still with me and music helps.
Peace j ashley
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Post by bfb on Nov 4, 2004 18:00:01 GMT -5
okay, i ain't been here in awhile...but i see that lots of good music is being discussed! gotta dig the Railroad Earth..and while you're at it, check out Acoustic Syndicate - same genre, different sound & songs. I still haven't heard Donna the Buffalo, but they are on my "to do" list. I recently got some Eric Lindell from a wise(ass) guy on this here list...and it is GREAT stuff! Love all the songs! I've also been listening to some Cheiftains lately (some great collaborations with Nashville & American artists). going out to catch a classic slide guitar/multi-talented player tomorrow....Mr. David Lindlay. Other singer songwriters i've been enjoying this year- Robert Earl Keene, McMurtry (Craig, Jeff or Larry?), Joe Ely, Guy Clark, and Peter Case. will check back again sooner next time! backflip bob
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Post by jashley on Jan 5, 2005 16:56:20 GMT -5
Hoy Hoy All
Popped in The Talking Heads, "Stop Making Sense"
If you haven't visited this albumn in awhile or have never heard it, I stongly recommend the trip. I forgot how great this albumn is.
Peace j
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Post by Mike on Jan 5, 2005 18:30:02 GMT -5
Jashley, Reading your new posts I notice that, you're reading, your doing movies, pondering politics, listening to some music, and digging it all. I want some of what you had today! ;D
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