This'N'That
My current listen is a really nice Adrian Belew show from last month in Sydney, Australia. Although it's an audience recording, the quality is excellent. Ade's voice is a bit rough on the opener, "Writing on the Wall" but it gets better. His Grammy-nominated "Beat Box Guitar" is stretched out to over ten minutes. The setlist is mostly new stuff - all of it fantastic - plus some King Crimson thrown in too. But there's some classic Belew as well such as "Young Lions" and "Lone Rhino".
Other recent downloads include a show by Regis Gizavo, a guy from Madagascar who plays Malagasy accordion. And right now I'm grabbing a soundboard recording of The Cramps from 1982.
If there are any Pink Floyd fans out there who enjoy the old stuff, you may wanna try to see David Gilmour on his current solo tour anyway. I am looking at the setlist for his show in Chicago last month and he threw in a couple classics. Firstly, he did a full version of "Echoes". The Floyd did an abbreviated version early on during the tour for A Momentary Lapse of Reason and I think that last time they played it was in Chicago on 28 September 1987. Prior to this, the final time the song was performed live in its entirety was on 18 June 1975 in Boston. If this wasn't enough, he pulled "Wot's...Uh, The Deal" out of his hat. This song, from Obscured by Clouds, has never been played live to my knowledge. The final surprise was really a shocker as Gilmour did "Dominoes" by Syd Barrett.
I see that Ozric Tentacles will be playing at the Park West in Chicago on 30 June so scrounge up some dosewater and prepare to get all spirally-coily with the Ozrics.
Pitchfork is reporting the release of the final recordings by The Man in Black.
American V: A Hundred Highways was begun immediately after the completion of the sessions for 2002's American IV: The Man Comes Around. Cash suspected his physical condition would continue to deteriorate, so arrangements were made to have engineers and musicians "on-call" so that recording could take place whenever his health permitted. "He always wanted to work," Rubin stated in a press release. "Every morning when he'd wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day."
American V: A Hundred Highways features the same musicians who worked on the previous American recordings, including Cash's long-time engineer David "Fergie" Ferguson, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, and guitarist Smokey Hormel. Matt Sweeney (Superwolf, Chavez, Guided by Voices, Zwan) and Jonny Polonsky also contribute.
The album includes two new Cash originals, "I Came to Believe", and "Like the 309", the last song Cash ever wrote. It also features the traditional spiritual "God's Gonna Cut You Down", covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Further On (Up the Road)", Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", Hank Williams' "On the Evening Train", and Rod McKuen's "Love's Been Good to Me".
Other recent downloads include a show by Regis Gizavo, a guy from Madagascar who plays Malagasy accordion. And right now I'm grabbing a soundboard recording of The Cramps from 1982.
If there are any Pink Floyd fans out there who enjoy the old stuff, you may wanna try to see David Gilmour on his current solo tour anyway. I am looking at the setlist for his show in Chicago last month and he threw in a couple classics. Firstly, he did a full version of "Echoes". The Floyd did an abbreviated version early on during the tour for A Momentary Lapse of Reason and I think that last time they played it was in Chicago on 28 September 1987. Prior to this, the final time the song was performed live in its entirety was on 18 June 1975 in Boston. If this wasn't enough, he pulled "Wot's...Uh, The Deal" out of his hat. This song, from Obscured by Clouds, has never been played live to my knowledge. The final surprise was really a shocker as Gilmour did "Dominoes" by Syd Barrett.
I see that Ozric Tentacles will be playing at the Park West in Chicago on 30 June so scrounge up some dosewater and prepare to get all spirally-coily with the Ozrics.
Pitchfork is reporting the release of the final recordings by The Man in Black.
American V: A Hundred Highways was begun immediately after the completion of the sessions for 2002's American IV: The Man Comes Around. Cash suspected his physical condition would continue to deteriorate, so arrangements were made to have engineers and musicians "on-call" so that recording could take place whenever his health permitted. "He always wanted to work," Rubin stated in a press release. "Every morning when he'd wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day."
American V: A Hundred Highways features the same musicians who worked on the previous American recordings, including Cash's long-time engineer David "Fergie" Ferguson, Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, and guitarist Smokey Hormel. Matt Sweeney (Superwolf, Chavez, Guided by Voices, Zwan) and Jonny Polonsky also contribute.
The album includes two new Cash originals, "I Came to Believe", and "Like the 309", the last song Cash ever wrote. It also features the traditional spiritual "God's Gonna Cut You Down", covers of Bruce Springsteen's "Further On (Up the Road)", Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", Hank Williams' "On the Evening Train", and Rod McKuen's "Love's Been Good to Me".
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