I first saw some of the music videos produced by Animusic Studios on PBS as short filler pieces to get to the top of the hour. They would immediately put you into a fantastical world populated by other worldly Rube…
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Ravi Shankar – Monterey Pop Festival 1967
Today was a day to spend indoors. New York City is in the process of getting hit with about two feet of snow. I count my blessings that I am warm and conformable in my apartment looking out from my…
“We Can Be Heroes” . . .: David Bowie (1947 – 21016)
When you turn on the morning news and you hear an old David Bowie song, you know it can’t be good. There is no shortage of news articles talking about the life and career of David Bowie so I’ll just…
“Ooh . . Scary”: Phish Perform Disney’s Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House
As an old Deadhead, the thought of discussing Phish can indeed be scary. I have tried to get into Phish in the past but I just could’nt do it. My main problem was the quality of the songwriting. I would…
“Who By Fire. .” : Leonard Cohen Meets Sonny Rollins
I have been meaning to talk about this clip for a while now and it seems appropriate to do so on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement and the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. For two seasons (1989 –…
Tagged with: Leonard Cohen, Night Music, Sonny Rollins, Was (Not Was), Who By Fire
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Layla, you’ve got me on my knees. . . : Isolated Guitar & Backing Tracks
If you’re a music geek like me (and I assume you are if you are reading this) then you are fascinated by the the process of creating music. You want to see how it’s put together. If that’s the case…
Tagged with: Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, Derek and The Dominos, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon, Layla, Tom Dowd
Posted in Classic Rock, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Houses In Motion”: Talking Heads – Live In Rome (1980)
In my previous post I discussed Television, one of the great bands that came out of the New York rock scene of the 1970’s. In seemed natural to go from Television to another band that will forever be associated with…
Tagged with: Adrain Belew, Bernie Worrell, Remain In Light, Talking Heads
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Music Appreciation and Analysis
“I Stand Neath The Marquee Moon..”: Tom Verlaine and Television
After college, I returned back to my home, trying to get a foothold onto this thing called life. Coincidentally, my brother also moved back home after realizing that a future life in academia was not what really cared for either.…
Tagged with: CBGB, Marquee Moon, New Wave, Punk, Richard Loyd, Television, Tom Verlaine
Posted in Classic Rock, Improvisation, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Improvisation, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“There were days. . .”: The lost final Grateful Dead studio album
This is sort of a continuation of my previous post. There I talked about the “missing” studio record that Grateful Dead never made as a follow-up to their classic 1970 albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. The songs that would…
Tagged with: Bob Weir, Days Between, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Jack Straw From Wichita”. .: The Missing Third Album of the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty Trilogy
As the “core four” of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead play their final shows this weekend, I want to talk about something that I’ve been curious about for some time now. It all starts in 1970 when the Dead…
Tagged with: American Beauty, Bob Weir, Europe 72, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Skull & Roses, Workingman's Dead
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
ManRoy Music 