ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

Cheap Trick - In Color

Santana - Abraxas

An old high school favorite

71 F / 70% RH / 3-4 mph - another nice day but heavy rain is predicted for tomorrow

Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond

They hard a hard time deciding whether they were prog, psychadelic, blues rock, southern, metal or what....good, but never quite great

Lou Reed - Rock 'n Roll Animal

One helluva great album!

72 F / 76% RH / 16 mph with gusts up to 23 - windy for most of the day and then driving rain tonight for about half an hour. More rain predicted for tomorrow...so much for yard work and washing my car.

Gabby Pahinui and the Sons of Hawai'i - Music of Old Hawai'i

An R44, Kona Van-Mac and Gabby - it don't get better than this.

last night...

Ryan Adams~ Gold
Mudcrutch~ Mudcrutch
Blueground Undergrass~ Faces (thanks Tyyler!)

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood

The Nylons - A Wish For You

Acapella with a drum machine.

73 F / 94% RH / 0 mph - partly cloudy day but no rain.

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Still full of angst, vigor and righteousness!

Rock flautists...other than Ian Anderson

When we picked (or were assigned) musical instruments way back in elementary school...why was it so uncool for guys to play flute? If a guy chose flute, he'd have been ridiculed mercilessly. But, looking back, I sorta wish I'd learned to play. I chose percussion because it seemed cool....and stayed with it because I never had to really learn to read music. (If I was playing vibes or xylo, or tubular bells, etc. I would just take the time to work it out and memorize the parts so I wouldn't have to learn to play/read on the fly.)

Lately, I've been cycling through a bunch of classic rock and am amazed at how many truly great songs feature flute. I'd love to be able to play the opening from Can't You See....or, some of the flute lines in Freedom Rider...makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck....

No Jethro Tull lately, but I'll spin up Aqualung in next few days....

Recently:
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die ...esp Freedom Rider
War - Anthology -- esp Spill the Wine...(stood up on a mountaintop!...)
Canned Heat - Going up the Country
Rare Earth - I guess nobody ever told those guys they were white
Marshal Tucker - any/all....esp....Can't You See...Take the Highway...Heard it in a Love Song
Guess Who - Undun

Any good rock fluatists I'm missing?

as far as Jethro Tull/Ian Anderson, I would suggest the earlier (earliest?) two albums as I lost interest in their aggressive growth after the first three...just my feelings. The two below had more jazz incorporation than later mega produced efforts.

This Was and Stand Up.

Also, Flute Thing from ages ago, I may be wrong but I believe this cult classic was played by Andy Kulberg with Blues Project (yet another place with Al Kooper's fingerprints all over it).

Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness

Not flute but one great album..

Bob Segar

Night moves

also Traffic...40,000 Headmen

My favorite Eagles album:

Desperado

76 F / 64% RH / 15 mph - got kinda warm today

^^^ I've had a really bad week, man. Can you change the channel… I hate the fuckin' Eagles man.

(While listening to a favorite Creedance cassette)

Bummers about your week (...or are you just paraphrasing from "The Big Lebowski"?...) but I happen to love the early Eagles. First 3 albums were great, mixed feelings about "One of These Nights" and lost interest when Bernie Leadon left and Joe Walsh was added.

Tomorrow I'll play some Beach Boys instead....