What are you listening to right now?

[MIke R]

Al Kooper...Steven Stills...

Chambers bros...Time, the long version, takes me right back to a high school dance

 

[Rosemary]

The power is remarkable, non? "Well I ride on the mail train, can't buy me no thrill..." I am not at the high school dance, but playing tennis with a boy I am too shy to talk to. That being said, how in the world did we ever end up playing tennis? I need to think about this.

 

[Voosh]

Saw Al Kooper and chatted a few years ago. I hate being a name dropper ... it just slips. Most forgive me because I let many years roll by before even a whisper.

Dionne Warwick on the turntable now. Wow.

 

[Rosemary]

"I say a little prayer..."

 

[Voosh]

"I say a little prayer..."

Yeah, I do that sometimes too. Really crappy weather here right now (I did post on EE.) Pulling out all sorts of old rain tunes. Kathy just said to cut it out and enjoy the sound of raindrops pelting us. It is a real, natural sound that I enjoy. Yep.

 

[MIke R]

all this talk of Bloomfield and Kooper et al has me feeling nostalgic....so while I have been cleaning out the root cellar and stacking wood, I have been listening to Ten Years After "SSShh" and "Cricklewood Green" albums.....wow....Alvin Lee was such an underrated guitar player...and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" still makes me chuckle

 

[Voosh]

You can never go wrong with Ten Years After.

As for "school girl" - as a kid I sat in with Sam Lay and asked if we could do that tune off, the often missed, "What's Shakin'" album (amazing early stuff by the Spoonfull, too.) He pointed a drumstick at me and said "Kid, you're too young. You'll get it some time. Now, let's play." We did.

The Jesuits always wondered why I fell asleep sometimes in class. Until the principal (a Jebbie) showed up, incognito, at The Chessmate club and saw my extracurricular activities. I got a free pass to the faculty lounge to slurp all the coffee that would keep me awake.

IMHO. I learnt it ain't all dogma. Free space and create and don't look back.


Music ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Shakin'

 

[Voosh]

Just put on original vynil of "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac. Classic.

 

[Rosemary]

That's not name dropping, Voosh. Just sharing. We are listening to John Mellencamps Cherrybomb as we watch the Celtics.

 

[Rosemary]

Meet Me In the Indian Summer. Van Morrison.
We just spoke with a beautiful classic sailboat leaving in the morning for the Caribbean. They spend December and a lot of January of the quay in Gustavia. Next stop Bermuda. Safe travels to all the ships at sea.

 

[MIke R]

"Just a Little Lovin" Shelby Lynne..what a great album....what a great talent

and yes....all the best to all at sea

 

[KevinS]

Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

And Rosemary, those friends on their way to BDA had best be checking the weather...

 

[Voosh]

Surprise...

I'm not listening to anything. We're rewiring some crap and taking a break. Sometimes the sound of silence is a better sound. IMHO.

 

[Rosemary]

Safety first! They have not budged, as far as I know. Newport it is. To revisit an earlier post, I look forward to talking about sailing with you, too. Plus Tims story of the hullaballoo in the outer harbor before he came ashore. All the best to all at sea. Please PT or PM or whatever we call the messages.

 

[KevinS]

Rosemary,

I sail like I fly (privately) - through the kindness of friends. I've got a thousand stories, and a million envies. I'm happy to talk about mine, but I would rather hear about yours.

One comment on weather - when the weather person on TV says "and the storm has moved safely out to sea" it has a whole different meaning to those who are out to sea.

In the meantime, I'm listening to Jersey Girl by Tom Waits...

 

[Rosemary]

Kevin,

I will look forward to that.

And I agree about the weather reports. "Safely out to sea" is frequently a relative statement.

Meanwhile, not a trick or treater to be seen and we are listening to The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead. Very nice.

 

[Voosh]

Just got a request for some surf music for a gig this weekend. Am scrambling through the archives... Dick Dale, Ventures, GP collection, Surfaris, Jim Messina (yep, that Jim M.) and ... Whoah! This is gonna take a while to review and process. Although any suggestions are welcome.

I've often done covers of Dick Dale's stuff and "The Ventures" version of "Secret Agent Man" and "Hawaii 5-0." Real crowd pleasers and gets them dancing.

 

[Rosemary]

Rock Me On the Water by Mr. Jackson Browne might help.

 

[Voosh]

Great tune. But not "surf."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3TeIgOsDWE


Thnx,

V.

("We all must do what best we can.")

 

[MIke R]

Jan and Dean - Surf City..great dance tune

The Chantays - Pipeline...I still play this song on my guitar

other than that you got it covered with Ventures, Dick Dale etc