What are you Listening to right now?

[rwsaunders]

[jclay]

Making macaroni and cheese, waiting for the hurricane, listening to Albert's Alley on my summer kitchen. A good beer and the baseline on that tune are just rocking my world.

[zetroc]

Satyagraha

[Bob Ross]

youtube's recommendation algorithm just introduced me to guitarist Matteo Mancuso:



Must say, I am fascinated to see what happens when young musicians develop their skills in a world where it's considered perfectly normal to have a plethora of role models who in my day would be considered rare but iconic groundbreaking trendsetters. If Mancuso could go back in time and release this performance in 1979 he would be revered as an absolute god...but in 2023 there are dozens if not hundreds of similar guitarists in their 20s who never knew a world where Holdsworth, McLaughlin, Van Halen, Vai, Frisell, Belew, Jordan, Gambale, etc. weren't easily within reach of the nearest CD player or internet stream, and so just absorbed their innovations like sponges. It's pretty cool.

I still prefer the original recording of that tune "Fred" from 1975 though :)

[jclay]

NHC and Weather Channel! The forecast winds haven't gotten here yet but it's clear that Tallahassee has dodged a bullet. Whether or not one of the dozen or so 100-ft Pines comes down on our house remains to be seen but probably not. It looks like the hurricane won't make the automobile decision, switching to an electric vehicle now or later, for me. But that's a good thing.

[Chad]

I'm super stoked. 8/24 - Turnpike Troubadours, 8/27 - Black Keys, 8/29 - Zach Bryan.

Hoping my soul and my liver can take it.

Just realized this probably should have been posted in the concert thread. My apologies.

Favorite show of the three was The Black Keys, outside, beautiful night. Holy cow they're good live. Turnpike T's were excellent and a great live band. Zach Bryan had a sold out Pinnacle Bank Arena crowd eating from his hand, that kid is something special. I thought it would be more straight acoustical, nope, huge band that killed it. Check out his line up for his 2024 tour, Turnpike T's, Jason Isbell and some other killer bands. That will be an excellent show.

[72gmc]

My wife just gifted me with this. You're all welcome.

[Bob Ross]

Julian Lage's solo rendition of Johnny Mandel's "Emily". Exquisite.

[j44ke]

PJ Harvey new album has me updating the missing albums in my collection of her work. I kind of drift away from her music, but she's really something and her work really resonates with me. I just have to be re-reminded periodically to come back and listen to everything again.

[72gmc]

She’s brilliant, and whenever I go back to her catalog and re-listen to something from now or then I’m kind of amazed at how long she’s been making music (we’re not getting old, that’s not it).

She was joined onstage this year by some guy named Johnny Marr.

https://www.stereogum.com/2238104/wa...nchester/news/

[j44ke]

She’s brilliant, and whenever I go back to her catalog and re-listen to something from now or then I’m kind of amazed at how long she’s been making music (we’re not getting old, that’s not it).

She was joined onstage this year by some guy named Johnny Marr.

https://www.stereogum.com/2238104/wa...nchester/news/

Wish I could hear Marr a bit more, but that's still awesome. And this version of her song gives me chills. What a show that must have been.

[Marvinlungwitz]

I’m enjoying the instrumental songs on this album.

(Going to make an edited version to skip the vocal tracks.)

[Bob Ross]

from the Shameless Promotion Department: I've been listening to a bunch of recordings from my own sordid past, in order to put together an online resume/CV for gig-hunting in my new location.

And I stumbled across an album project I played bass on in 1989 that I had completely forgotten about. Composer/music director was a keyboard player named Jack Sayre, who lived in Brooklyn NY at the time. Weird, wacky, asymmetric tunes that sound like a cross between Frank Zappa and Mr. Bungle (although, in fairness I believe this was at least a year before Mr. Bungle's debut album).

Listening back to these tunes for the first time in 34 years I'm mostly reminded of it being one of the most frighteningly difficult sight-reading tasks I've ever been presented with; I honestly don't know how I nailed this material, and I definitely know I couldn't do it nowadays, at least not without some serious time in the woodshed.

A bit of internet sleuthing tells me that Jack relocated to Madison WI and the drummer (Shawn Doolittle) is somewhere in Florida, but I completely lost touch with these guys shortly after the recording was done.

https://soundcloud.com/bob-ross-bass/gasoline

https://soundcloud.com/bob-ross-bass/furniture

[bironi]

if you have the time and patience,
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[TonyP]

if you have the time and patience,
My favorite for a full listen



Hope it works for you too.
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It does.

[robin3mj]

Disney is showing the rock hall of fame induction live tonight. Two of my all time favorites: Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow. Plus Chaka Khan and TBD on who else so far.

[TTX1]

I heard this on the radio while driving last week, and it took a moment to register.

It's somehow fresh and relevant, yet authentic.

Beatlemania missed me in every way, but I grew up with "This week in Beatles history" on weekend radio, my mom's records, and ultimately an appreciation for the Beatles' place in history in general - though I never considered myself a fan.

Long story short, John's voice, the George solo, plus the string arrangements here are nothing less than a gift.



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I don't want to know the AI details. Ignorance is bliss.

[Caleb Evenson]

This past week, my business partner introduced me to Electronico Fantasicos!, and they're super awesome in that they make their own electrical instruments using various everyday objects.

[72gmc]

Ben’s singing in this live version …

[rwsaunders]

Nice article about Little Miss Dynamite...Brenda Lee...in the NYT today. The article includes Spotify links to 11 of her greatest hits, not including Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, which she recorded when she was 13yo. Yep...13.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/a...smid=url-share