What Music Are You Listening to? - February 2023
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Now playing J. Geils Band - Live, Blow Your Face Out
Currently listening to A Tribe Called Quest ~ Midnight Marauders.
I have a funny Hammond organ story. The owner of a pub up just up the coast here is a music lover and owns and plays a Hammond organ. It's his pride and joy. He hosts a jam night at the pub and has live music there regularly; I've played there several times with my former band. Unfortunately the owner has developed a rather severe drinking problem over the last couple of years.
A good friend of mine is in a band that played at this pub regularly. One night they were setting up and the Hammond organ was in their way, so they moved it aside and continued. The owner found out that they had moved his organ and went ballistic. He threw the entire band out and vowed that they would never play there again. A couple of weeks later the band's drummer (a really nice guy) went to the pub to see if he could smooth things over. The instant the owner saw him, he confronted the drummer and said that he was banned from the pub and he had to leave immediately. The poor drummer wasn't even involved with moving the Hammond, but it was guilt by association, and the entire band is individually banned from ever setting foot inside that pub again.
The moral of this story?
Never touch another man's organ without his permission.
Haven't listened to this in a while, and with all of the spaghetti western talk on the forum today I wanted to revisit it.
Not only was this JB's best album since the '70s, but this was a real highlight...his tribute to Sergio Leone.
He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends
Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends
He set out from Cinecitta through the ruined streets of Rome
To shoot in Almeria and bring the bodies home
He said I'll be rich or I'll be dead
I've got it all here in my head
He could see the killers' faces and he heard the song they sang
Where he waited in the darkness with the Viale Glorioso gang
He could see the blood approaching and he knew what he would be
Since the days when he was first assisting The Force of Destiny
He worked for Walsh and Wyler with the chariot and sword
When he rode out in the desert he was quoting Hawks and Ford
He came to see the masters and he left with what he saw
What he stole from Kurosawa he bequeathed to Peckinpah
From the Via Tuscolana to the view from Miller Drive
He shot the eyes of bad men and kept their deaths alive
With the darkness and the anguish of a Goya or Van Cleef
He rescued truth from beauty and meaning from belief
Not only was this JB's best album since the '70s, but this was a real highlight...his tribute to Sergio Leone.
He came 'round here with his camera and some of his American friends
Where the money is immortal and the killing never ends
He set out from Cinecitta through the ruined streets of Rome
To shoot in Almeria and bring the bodies home
He said I'll be rich or I'll be dead
I've got it all here in my head
He could see the killers' faces and he heard the song they sang
Where he waited in the darkness with the Viale Glorioso gang
He could see the blood approaching and he knew what he would be
Since the days when he was first assisting The Force of Destiny
He worked for Walsh and Wyler with the chariot and sword
When he rode out in the desert he was quoting Hawks and Ford
He came to see the masters and he left with what he saw
What he stole from Kurosawa he bequeathed to Peckinpah
From the Via Tuscolana to the view from Miller Drive
He shot the eyes of bad men and kept their deaths alive
With the darkness and the anguish of a Goya or Van Cleef
He rescued truth from beauty and meaning from belief
Currently listening to Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco DeLucia ~ Friday Night in San Francisco.
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rainbow Theatre, London 1977
Currently listening to Eloy ~ Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes.
What if?
What if Gram Parson had been content with Emmylou Harris and/or Linda Ronstadt and not went off with a fallen angel to shoot up heroin and died of an overdose at age 27?
He might have brought back real honky tonk country music, had he lived.
What if Gram Parson had been content with Emmylou Harris and/or Linda Ronstadt and not went off with a fallen angel to shoot up heroin and died of an overdose at age 27?
He might have brought back real honky tonk country music, had he lived.
Currently listening to Horace Silver ~ Song for my Father.
This one goes out to the shill and hack David Gilmour.
Hey David, Roger has more integrity in his toenail clippings than you and your wife do in your entire bodies combined.
Hey David, Roger has more integrity in his toenail clippings than you and your wife do in your entire bodies combined.