THE CARS - greatest hits "you might think","let the good times roll"

HOOTERS best of - "fighting on the same side","hanging on a heartbeat"

Been listening to a lot of Conway lately (The Machine B*tch).

https://youtu.be/-51pxiN4NBA

Supertramp - "Crime of the Century" [Mobile Fidelity Half Speed Master Pressing]

Found this in a vintage vinyl shop for $20 a few years ago. My God it sounds good.

School - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ENrW65T8k



You can't tell me that Roger Waters didn't have this song in his head when he wrote "The Wall"

Muddy Waters - King Bee

Glad I got to see this legend at least once. Was, I think in ‘77 or ‘78 at a jazz festival at the Waikiki Shell.

79F / 70% RH / 13 mph with gusts up to 17

Alice Cooper Band - Love It To Death

"Is It My Body"

https://youtu.be/_vozLrSIrtU


I recently saw Alice...got to meet the lovely Nita Strauss...Got to Facetime with Nita and Alice no backstage due to Covid...what a great show.

https://youtu.be/t09eQt_dYlc

(Yes, that's Ace Frehley with them!)


After seeing KISS a couple of days earlier...Alice put on the better show...but watching KISS with my grandchildren...as their first concert...PRICELESS!

We sat on the lawn for KISS...it was uneventful but very packed out...one of my grandsons during the opening number "Detroit Rock City" was wide-eyed open mouthed for almost every minute of it...every time a flashpot would go off he'd jerk back like he'd been hit by a cannonball. At the end of the song he looked at me in amazement like I'd withheld him from candy for his whole life and then took him to Hershey, PA.

I have the video of it...so worth it.

My favorite part of the night was when Paul wanted to see the crowd...turned up the houselights...some girls flashed the cameras while holding a sign saying "Farewell KISS, Thanks For The Mammaries!". Glad we went, hate to see a band like them hang it up but who in their 70's wears the outfits, spits blood and fire and has a pyrotechnic blowout that most towns don't have on 4th of July all while flying on wires and getting their platform stages lifted up to the lights with confetti?

Kody Lamb-The Scars to Prove It

Looks like everyone was having a good time:

https://fb.watch/8Q2Kf_s0ZU/

He’s a baaaad mother…

Los Lobos - an ROIO recordings comp of cover songs and their “hits”

Took me nearly two years (pre-CBid) to collect the recordings, sort through them and figure out which version to use.

75F / 83% RH / no wind

Little Feat - Paramount Theater, Portland, OR, June 11, 1978

A month later they would be appearing in Hawaii after their Japan shows.

77F / 73% RH / 7 mph

Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

Probably my favorite ‘80s Van album.

75F / 78% RH / 0 mph

Jeff Beck with Eric Clapton - Exhaust Note, Ronnie Scott's, London, UK, Nov. 29, 2007

Limp Bizkit - STILL SUCKS

"Out Of Style"

https://youtu.be/g1rZsz3kFWE


This tickles the same spots RATM used to.

Pat Martino - Starbright

RIP to a great jazz guitarist. Didn’t “discover” Martino till 1976 when “Joyous” was released. ‘Cause I was relatively new to jazz, I used to get him and Pat Metheny mixed up. Thankfully I figured it out and appreciated both men and their styles immensely.

77F / 78% RH / 8 mph

Always read that Paul was really difficult to work with and that hindered Free from becoming bigger than they were.

That said, perhaps the "tortured souls" was the magik sauce that made them as great as they were...ala Syd Barrett, Andrew Wood, Peter Green, Jim Morrison, Layne Staley, Scott Weiland, Curt Cobain...