Danger

Skeptics Beware

This concert is addictive. It goes for almost three hours and is absolutely brilliant.

It features people and guitars, both. If you like either, or both, or all four (2 people, 2 guitars) you are bound to become addicted. I liked all four and now I am hopelessly addicted to Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. Dave can sing and play, good. Tim can really, really play, very good.

Actually Dave plays a variety of guitars, mostly his Martin and his Taylor, but somtimes others. Tim has a Martin, interestingly enough, with a 3 piece back. All the guitars are masterpieces, all the playing is brilliant.

Before seeing this concert, I had heard of Dave Matthews but not Tim Reynolds. After seeing this concert once, I am a hopeless addict. The people are beautiful, the music fantastic.

Three hours is long time, but like a good book, this is hard to put down.
Here is a link in case you'd rather watch it on YouTube or full screen, as Blogger doesn't appear to display the full width of the video.
http://youtu.be/nGp31HY0QIg

Joy to ALL beings

Marcus Miller

Basic Bass Based Base

Well, not actually basic at all; it just sounded good to say that.

Some people have never heard of Marcus Miller (how, may I ask you, have people never heard of a legendary bassist that was a member of Miles Davis's band, played with Eric Clapton, etc, etc, in any gendre one can imagine, etc, etc, have people never heard of Marcus Miller? Sad, I know).

Hard to imagine Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played as a laid back bluesy funk, let alone played as a laid back bluesy funk on an electric bass guitar. Yes, that's right, this is Marcus Miller we're talking about, and he's probably the only bassist in the world who could even imagine the concept let alone pull it off this nicely.

Enough talk ...

And Dean Brown's pretty good at struttin' his strat, too!


Joy to ALL beings

Reflections

More of the Same

Just a little more of similar stuff to the post from the other day, only these ones are a little more sweet, or tender as one person commented regarding Aneli Drecker (vocalist) on Ketil Bjornstad's (pianist/composer) "Grace."

The other track wherein Peter Gabriel is joined "with" (by) vocalist Sinead O'Connor is "Blood of Eden," one of Peter's prettier tracks.

Both are beautiful, outright.

First Peter and Sinead ...









There ...

Joy to ALL beings

Beauty

What is Beauty

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

Spike Milligan

Seriously folks, there are different kinds of beauty. I post here a couple of items of beauty. The grand piano tones of Ketil Bjornstad are easy to identify with beauty but perhaps those with "good eyes" can see the beauty of Peter Gabriel's Digging in the Dirt.

Joy to ALL Beings

Dog's Day

You can't argue the facts

Every dog has its day
BUT
Cats rule the night
so
now
it's
time
to
jam
with

DurgaCat
DurgaCat
DurgaCat
DurgaCat
DurgaCat
DurgaCat

Joy to all beings
ys
tkd

Long Time Comin'

Back from a short break of about 18 months

Sometimes it's hard to keep up everything I start because I'm so omnivorous, but I DID get back to sonic explorer ... eventually.

Anyway we've got a treat of old Aussie psychedelia to start with, an excellent title by the Dave Miller Set.

Might not sound all that incredible to you but, let me tell you, these guys came on the Don Lane Show one night and really startled me. Some of the most innovative music to come out of an Australian lineup. (Well two of the guy were from Enz but we never let the truth get in the way of a good rave).

Mr Guy Fawkes



Try to remember that, although Led Zeppelin (one) was available in the shops in those days, and also graced my collection, as did Iron Butterfly In a Gadda Da Vida and Ball, and Surreakistic Pillow from Jefferson Airplane, Cheap Thrills er Janis, etc, you didn't hear this stuff on the radio or TV.

The fact that Dave Miller Set doing Mr Guy Fawkes was being played on commercial radio was a BIG PLUS for Australian listeners, I mean there was some real cr@p assaulting the listeners' ears, and you can't blame Molly Meldrum's promoting it for everything, the Aust. public were buying that stuff and encouraging them to play it. Molly wasn't all bad, he plugged a few good albums on Saturday morning TV, ya just gotta admire Molly, he put up with a lot of shit to get where he is today.

Having said that, there were a lot of people who liked Russel Morris, both Molly and me included. Of course, the dyed in the wool Brittish blues fanatics wouldn't hear a bar of him (pun intentional) but to this day I really like Russel. His vocal emotion in Sweet Sweet Love is beautiful

Sweet Sweet Love (Recent LIVE performance)




I was thinking also about Jim Keays, the front man from the Masters Apprentices, good old Aussie rock gold, but my fave album from Jim was the Boy From the Stars. I might even buy a new copy of this. This particular rendition suffers from a terrible production, rife in Aust recording studios of the era. Nowadays with the advanced production techniques one can get a pretty good sound even from a good brand ghetto blaster, even my diskman with as set of good headphones sounds incredible, but back then we didn't have that option, you either played it on a top quality hi fi or put up with not being able to hear it all.

It's not too bad, if you strain your ears, I would've liked to put the title track on here but couldn't find it on YouTube, nevertheless please have a listen to Jim Keays from the album Boy From the Stars singing:

The Right Way to Go




Joy to all beings
tkd
(that's short for tarunkrsnadas for those who don't know)

Space Music

Hearts of Space

If you like space, ambient, Indian, new age, relaxing, or otherwise gentle, poetic music, visit http://www.hos.com/

You may like what you hear.

Joy to all beings
cha
terrence