What are you listening to?

[Asmodel]

He’s a pirate— Rock and Roll version.

[Hades]

Teenage memories... A cold-war icon

[Hilda]

Yesterday I watched a dreadful movie called The Naked Zoo (1970), just for the guest appearance of Canned Heat playing (miming, actually) "One Kind Favor".

For me, the classic Canned Heat lineup is the one that played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. In the 1970 movie, Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine is replaced by Harvey "The Snake" Mandel, but Wikipedia notes that Henry returned to the band soon after.

So now I'm wallowing in nostalgia by listening to Boogie with Canned Heat and Livin' the Blues. What a great band they were!

[Pornhubby]

For me, the classic Canned Heat lineup is the one that played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

I have a friend who was there, I think he was 16 at the time, and he still talks about it like it was yesterday.

Look at this lineup!

[Hilda]

For me, the classic Canned Heat lineup is the one that played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

I have a friend who was there, I think he was 16 at the time, and he still talks about it like it was yesterday.

I wasn't there, but I did make a point of visiting the County Fairground when I visited Monterey, and standing on hallowed ground. And I have the photos to prove it.

I don't know how many times I've watched Pennebaker's Monterey Pop, but it must be somewhere in the hundreds.

[Pornhubby]

Ojitos Lindos- Bad Bunny & Bomba Estéreo.

Love my Amazon.

[Asmodel]

So many feels hitting all at once.

[blackdog]

Boot Scooying Boogie

[HppyHrryHrdn]

Loved them when i saw them in i think it was '87 at a small venue in B'ham

[Pornhubby]

Loving “My Soundtrack” on Amazon Music. So many great covers and songs I have never heard before that are FANTASTIC.

[blackdog]

Brooks % Dunn again.
 "THIS IS WHERE THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY"

[lookinginnd]

[Hilda]

I was reading a book written in 1936, in which the author describes an Indian ceremony that invokes the Goddess of Obstacles to cure a sick relative. It involves lighting a small oil lamp at a crossroads.

That got me thinking of Robert Johnson. So, after listening to Crossroads Blues, recorded at the Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, TX in 1936 (coincidence!), I wandered over to Doug Sahm's (as in Sir Douglas Quintet) At the Crossroads. Doug was born in, er, San Antonio TX (coincidence?)

And on my copy of Sir Douglas Quintet's The Collection is Your Gonna Miss Me, credited to the Quintet. I listened to that and it reminded me of the 13th Floor Elevators' You're Gonna Miss Me. Same song, but credited to Roky Erickson, a native of Austin TX.

At which point I decided to leave TX behind and listen to Free at Last by the UK band Free. From Bengal to Texas to London. Don't you love musical journeys? 

[Pornhubby]

[Hilda]

I don't often take advantage of my subscription to the Apple Music streaming service, but I'm listening to it now, to what it calls "My Station".

The accuracy with which it picks some of my favorite artists and albums is creepy. From Dark Dark Dark, to Hot Tuna, to The Doors, to Moby Grape, and now Gene Pitney.

What's disturbing is how it seems to know my listening preferences. I remember it deleted all the old mp3 files on my computer and then created links to identical files in the Cloud. (With my permission.) I thought it would free up disk space. I suspect it also slurped my listening history. Either that, or it's psychic.

And now it's playing a track from an album called "Psychedelic '60s London Underground'. At this rate I'll never get any work done. <sigh>

[Pornhubby]

I don't often take advantage of my subscription to the Apple Music streaming service, but I'm listening to it now, to what it calls "My Station".

The accuracy with which it picks some of my favorite artists and albums is creepy. From Dark Dark Dark, to Hot Tuna, to The Doors, to Moby Grape, and now Gene Pitney.

What's disturbing is how it seems to know my listening preferences.

I have Amazon music, and it also has “My Soundtrack” which not only plays virtually every song I own (approx. 1600), but also covers, mashups, and remasters of songs I own. Just love it.

[Pornhubby]

Claire de Lune - Debussy

[Hilda]

J. S. Bach's Chorale Preludes (all of them) on discs 7-11 of the 12-disc set of Bach's Organ Works played by Helmut Walcha.

[Hilda]

I was fortunate enough to find a near-mint copy of Feel . . . The Vejtables through Discogs, and purchased it from a friendly vendor in Greece.



(The Vejtables were an SF band who lasted only a year or two around 1965-1966)

I'd heard most of the tracks on this compilation before, but listening to them at CD-quality was a delight.

The 8-page booklet notes were an eye-opener. Someone by the name of Jud Cost, editor of Cream Puff War, clearly did his homework. So much information about the band members, how they got together, where they played, and how they got themselves recorded. I had no idea the female vocalist was also the band's drummer. Way to go, girl! 

But what got me thinking, as I struggled to read the tiny print of the notes, was how so many talented musicians never get the breaks needed to become famous. A chance meeting in a club, a word here and there, and some artists are on their way to fame and fortune. Other artists work the club circuits day and night, as many as six or seven gigs in 24 hours, and end up exhausted, disillusioned, with nothing to show for it.

[Pornhubby]

Charlie Parker Jam Session on Amazon Music, which is undoubtedly the best little bit of money I have  ever wasted. EW and splash MJ.