Whtcha all listening too?

[JRL]

Never heard of that Mark Bell, had a friend by that name, but no relation.

NP: Stealin (Birth of the Dead)

[laughingwillow]

"Awtar" by Ali Hassan.

This iraqi plays a mean oud. And I just read that there happens to be a young refugee from Iraq living in Iowa who has won a grant to return to Bagdad and study oud with Ali Hassan for a month.

lw

[JRL]

Beatles and more Beatles, me and the Jokers been on a Beatle kick, we are almost a tribute band.
Our latest!
You Really Got a Hold On me
Hold Me Tight
All My Loving
All I got to Do

To go with:
Day Tripper
Here Comes the Sun
I Am the Walrus
Not a Second Time
I Should Have Known Better
I saw Her Standing There
For No One
Strawberry Fields Forever.
A Day In the Life
Hey Bulldog.

Most of my listening is "work oriented"
I have been "boning up" on some tunes for a reunion show of the Beer Dawgs,
the band I was in 86-95, my rock star years.
[url]http://www.myspace.com/beerdawgs/url

The show is on April 10th at the world famous Torch Club in downtown Sacramento. We are on at 2 PM.

[laughingwillow]

"Madar" by Samer Farah and Faisal Zedan

Most of my listening as of late has also been "play oriented." (Could turn into work oriented.) I've been feeding the gat man a steady diet of middle eastern acoustic music. Next thing I know, he's learning arabic chords and progressions and things are starting to heat up.

The guitar slinger and I took a trip up to Ames the other night for a session with another friend on stand up bass. We all see a lot of potential, and are looking to make it a regular thing. (It took a "Blackbird" to get the teenage daughters into the basement for a listen.) I think the power of the Beatles over today's teens is just amazing.

Still pondering names...  "Ricky and the Nuckel  Draggers" and "The Unitards," are my current faves. hehe

lw

[JRL]

Not just teens, I have a 7 year old bass player student who came to his first lesson wanting to learn Hey Jude, the we did Drive My Car and many more.

I love band names, I used to have big lists of the best and worst. One of my favorites: The Grateful Dead Kennedys.
names i have toyed with or used: The Cheap Substitutes(my agent hated that), Organic Chemistry(lasted a year or so)
Beet the Meatles( a vegan band?) the Hip Replacements.... but now I just call it Joe Lev and Friends. I actually have a gig at a retirement community next week, I guess that's our new demographic. JL&F gigs don't happen a lot so i am jazzed.

[laughingwillow]

LOL The wife has a family friend with children. After hearing one was a big beatles fan, I began making copies of discs for the kid when my wife would go for a visit. Then he actually sent me a disc of trance drum mixes that I've listened to more than once. Turns out the kid is only like 8 years old. hahahahha (I thought it was her teen aged boy.)

lw

[JRL]

Just got back from the gig and we listened to two CDs by Johnny A as we drove the 120 mile round trip. Johnny A is a transcendental guitar genius who seems to have the entire history of guitar playing as the palate he draws from. There is nothing a guitar can do that he can't make it do as well as anyone has ever. We were trying to trace his influences: Chet Atkins, Jimi Hendrix, all blues guys, The Ventures, spaghetti westerns, Wes Montgomery, country pickers of all sorts, John Scofield, 60's soundtrack stuff, Allman Bros, San Francisco psychedelia and on and on.

He just might be the best guitar player on the planet, check him out. He only has 2 cds out, didn't get well know till he was in his 50s.

[JRL]

GD 87-3-1

[laughingwillow]

3-1-87, eh? I was there.

Everyone was happy to see jerry back in action and he didn't disappoint.

Glad to see you getting into some shows from the 80's brawh.

Btw, does that show feature a Harley on stage getting the shit revved out of it during Hell in a Bucket?

lw

[JRL]

Thats one of the shows we saw the DSO do. I think the Harley was the next night.

[laughingwillow]

Maybe no harley that run....

[JRL]

My friends the biker band the Fryed Brothers have a recording of a Harley that they subliminally bleed into the big drum solo.

[JRL]

A bootleg of Phil Lesh sitting in with The Black Crowes at the Fillmore.

[JRL]

Don't have the exact date here in the house(discs still in car) but a Phil and Friends show from 2007 with Warren and John Scofield.

[JRL]

Blow By Blow --- Jeff Beck
Something Else! --- Cannonball Adderly