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WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS?

  

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By:  john-russell  •  2 years ago  •  90 comments

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE ALBUMS?


POST A SONG OR TWO FROM EACH.

CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN - Blood Sweat And Tears - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know

CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN - Blood Sweat And Tears - Morning Glory

PET SOUNDS - The Beach Boys - Thats Not Me

PET SOUNDS - The Beach Boys - I Know Theres An Answer

BORBOLETTA - Santana - Life Is Anew

BORBOLETTA - Santana - Practice What You Preach

NO GURU NO METHOD NO TEACHER - Van Morrison - A Town Called Paradise

NO GURU NO METHOD NO TEACHER - Van Morrison - Foreign Window


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JohnRussell
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1  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

WHATS GOING ON - Marvin Gaye - Whats Happening Brother? 

WHATS GOING ON - Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2  Jeremy Retired in NC    2 years ago

King Diamond  -Give Me Your Soul...Please

Coroner - No More Color

 
 
 
Sparty On
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3  Sparty On    2 years ago

CCR .... back to back years

Willy and the poor boys and

Cosmos Factory

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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3.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Sparty On @3    2 years ago

What a great band, Americana before I knew what that was.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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3.1.1  Sparty On  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @3.1    2 years ago

Yep, love me some CCR.

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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4  Just Jim NC TttH    2 years ago

 
 
 
Sparty On
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4.1  Sparty On  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @4    2 years ago

Saw Donald Fagen in concert a few years ago with a band called the Dukes of September.

Him, Boz Skaggs and Michael MacDonald.    Basically they all played their own music.    Great concert.    

You get one guess who got the most applause.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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4.1.1  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Sparty On @4.1    2 years ago

That sounds like an amazing concert! 

 
 
 
Sparty On
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4.1.2  Sparty On  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @4.1.1    2 years ago

It was

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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4.2  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @4    2 years ago

My favorite of their 8 or so great albums.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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4.3  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @4    2 years ago

Such a great album!

 
 
 
Tacos!
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5  Tacos!    2 years ago

As it happens, for the first time in a while, this morning, I listened to the whole of U2: The Joshua Tree . It was one of my favorites back in the day, and I guess it still is. I’m not sure there’s a bad track on that whole album. It’s very easy to just sit back and enjoy the whole thing.

Yesterday, I happened to listen to another whole album I haven’t enjoyed for a while that is also quite good. Dire Straits: Alchemy - their live album from ‘83. It’s still the best version of “Romeo and Juliet.”

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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5.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Tacos! @5    2 years ago

I completely agree with you about about both, these two bands were among the few that I enjoyed in the 80's.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

Boz Scaggs was kind of a genre to himself, not really like anything else. 

SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Pain Of Love 

SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Slow Dancer

SLOW DANCER - Boz Scaggs - Sail On White Moon

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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7  Just Jim NC TttH    2 years ago

Champagne Jam Album

 
 
 
afrayedknot
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8  afrayedknot    2 years ago

Dark Side of the Moon, Who’s Next, Led Zeppelin II, Deja Vu, Sticky Fingers…the soundtrack of our lives…

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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8.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  afrayedknot @8    2 years ago

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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8.1.1  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  JohnRussell @8.1    2 years ago

Great albums!

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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9  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

All excellent choices.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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10  Ed-NavDoc    2 years ago

Days of Future Past album by The Moody Blues. Knights in White Satin.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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10.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @10    2 years ago

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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11  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

An underrated band, my favorite is "To Our Children's Children's Children" is my favorite with ":Days of Future Past". a close second.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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12  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

Best live album I've ever heard. 

(features Candy Dulfer, the best female sax player in the world)

A NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Van Morrison - See Me Through/Soldier Of Fortune

A NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO - Van Morrison - I'VE BEEN WORKING -

 
 
 
Gsquared
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13  Gsquared    2 years ago

Two excellent picks from Pet Sounds, John, and Deja Vu is a great album.

One of my favorites:

 
 
 
Gsquared
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14  Gsquared    2 years ago

Steve Winwood is the best.  This song always makes me want to dance.  Nice video, too.  

Play it loud!

 
 
 
Kavika
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14.1  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @14    2 years ago

Love Winwood, great choice. This is one of my favorites by Winwood. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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14.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  Kavika @14.1    2 years ago

Great tune, Kavika. 

A couple more brilliant works by a true musical genius:

 
 
 
Kavika
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14.1.2  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @14.1.1    2 years ago

I love ''Higher Love''.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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14.1.3  Gsquared  replied to  Kavika @14.1.2    2 years ago

So do I.   As one of the comments on YouTube correctly describes it:  A masterpiece.

 
 
 
Revillug
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14.1.4  Revillug  replied to  Gsquared @14.1.1    2 years ago
a true musical genius

If I recall, he was a child prodigy on the piano studying classical piano at a conservatory while still in primary school.

Heck, I think he was sometimes playing professionally in clubs at the age of 8 or 9..

 
 
 
Gsquared
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14.1.5  Gsquared  replied to  Revillug @14.1.4    2 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised.  Winwood is the greatest.  I have been a fan for decades.

I have a friend who is a true musical genius and was a child prodigy.  He was the tour pianist for the great Dinah Washington at the height of her career for 3 1/2 months (his summer vacation), when he was only 13 1/2 years old.  He went on to become a producer and arranger for some of the top musical acts, and was Aretha Franklin's musical director for 40 years.  He is 86 now and I've been trying to get him to write his memoirs for quite a while.  He played a very important role in the history of music of the 20th century, and he is still active as of this time.  It is quite a story.

 
 
 
Kavika
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14.1.6  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @14.1.5    2 years ago

You being an LA guy are well aware of the music scene in the metroplex and all of the small venues/clubs that flourish there and you never know who is going to show up. So that being said, does the Palomino Club in North Hollywood ring a bell, G?

One of the greatest unrehearsed jam sessions in history took place there in 1987. 

Taj Mahal and his band with the great Jesse Ed Davis on guitar when into the club walked Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, and George Harrison. Fogerty had not sung any of the CCR hits for years because of a dispute with the recording label. That night he sang a number of them and when asked why he sang them he said simply, '' Bob asked me too''.

When Taj recorded his first hit album, Jesse Ed Davis was the lead guitar, and everyone seemed to want Jesse on their album. Sadly, a year after this epic jam session Jesse Ed Davis died. Jesse is on the far right.

512

I cannot link the ''you tube'' video of this epic jam session but if you google, ''Palomino Club 1987, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, et all you will be able to see part of the session and I believe there is one that is almost all of the session.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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14.1.7  Gsquared  replied to  Kavika @14.1.6    2 years ago

Yes, I went to the Palomino Club a few times over the years.  That session must have been EPIC!  I met George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, in 1985 with my late friend, Hal Blaine, drummer extraordinaire.  Very nice folks.  

Jesse Ed Davis was a great musician.   Another one who died way too young.

Taj is a favorite.

 
 
 
Kavika
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14.1.8  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @14.1.7    2 years ago
Yes, I went to the Palomino Club a few times over the years.  That session must have been EPIC!  I met George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, in 1985 with my late friend, Hal Blaine, drummer extraordinaire.  Very nice folks.  

It was epic, G nothing like it before or after IMO. I would have loved to have met George and his wife. 

Jesse Ed Davis was a great musician.   Another one who died way too young.

I met Jesse a number of times along with some other great musicians/singers. Back in 60's the Hollywood area had a great Indian underground music community that lasted for years, Jesse and John Trudell were part of it. 

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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15  Perrie Halpern R.A.    2 years ago

Any album by Billy Joel. All classics.

War-U2

 
 
 
Revillug
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16  Revillug    2 years ago

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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16.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Revillug @16    2 years ago

Nice to see some jazz added to this seed.

Clint Eastwood has used Johnny Hartman in the soundtrack of a few of his movies. 

 
 
 
Revillug
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16.1.1  Revillug  replied to  JohnRussell @16.1    2 years ago

Among Clint Eastwood's many talents are jazz piano.

Has he ever played piano for one of his films? I'm not sure.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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16.1.2  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Revillug @16.1.1    2 years ago

I think he played piano on the theme from Gran Torino, but I'm not totally sure about that. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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17  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp - Rudy

CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp - School

 
 
 
evilone
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18  evilone    2 years ago

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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19  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- I Can See For Miles

THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- Armenia City In The Sky

THE WHO SELL OUT - The Who- Tattoo

 
 
 
Sparty On
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23  Sparty On    2 years ago

Speaking of Winwood.    How about a former band mate of his?   Claptons best album IMO.

Slowhand; Cocaine, Lay down sally, wonderful tonite ..... great album

 
 
 
Gsquared
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23.1  Gsquared  replied to  Sparty On @23    2 years ago

 I saw Winwood and Clapton perform together at the Hollywood Bowl on the last night of their tour, June 30, 2009.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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23.1.1  Sparty On  replied to  Gsquared @23.1    2 years ago

Nice!

Love me some Blind Faith

 
 
 
Gsquared
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23.1.2  Gsquared  replied to  Sparty On @23.1.1    2 years ago
Love me some Blind Faith

For sure.

I saw Winwood perform another time at a smaller theater in L.A., but the acoustics were terrible.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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23.1.3  Sparty On  replied to  Gsquared @23.1.2    2 years ago

I was too young to see Blind Faith but saw Winwood in 86 at Pine Knob.    He put on great concert played a great mix of new and old stuff.

 
 
 
Revillug
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I hear a lot of Zappa in the compositions and arrangements on this album:

Brace yourselves for this track:

It often annoyed John McLaughlin when he was asked about Jimmy Hendrix's influence on his playing. A lot of talent and work went into being a virtuoso jazz guitarist before he cranked up the volume to 11 and started running his guitar through guitar effect pedal boards. 

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1  Revillug  replied to  Revillug @24    2 years ago

This is the final album I have to share for this music roundup.

It's from a live Frank Zappa album released during the mid-70s. The topic is broadcast news obsession, so how could I not share it here on NT?

You can tell from this track what a wild time was had by all at these Roxy shows.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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24.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  Revillug @24.1    2 years ago

I saw the Mothers of Invention perform 200 Motels with the L.A. Philharmonic at UCLA in 1970.   Six months later, I saw the Mothers with Flo and Eddie to perform some additional material for 200 Motels at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1.2  Revillug  replied to  Gsquared @24.1.1    2 years ago

I didn't see Zappa when it was that cool but I did get to see him two or three times.

I'm pretty sure I saw him when he recorded some of the material for his Zappa in New York album.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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24.1.3  Gsquared  replied to  Revillug @24.1.2    2 years ago

I still have my vinyl copy of Freak Out! from the 60's.

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1.4  Revillug  replied to  Gsquared @24.1.3    2 years ago

What I didn't get at the time about Zappa but have come to appreciate in later years is his brutal honesty.

Everyone who played at Woodstock is sort of venerated for their peace, love, and rock and roll, in an almost religious sense. But when you get down to it, none of them really meant a word of it. A closer reading of the lyrics in most of rock and roll albums of that time usually reveals that the joke is on a sucker in the audience, and maybe you don't want to be that sucker.

Zappa just starts out with that premise, and in reality, it is a sign of respect for his audience. He doesn't bury the lede. He exposes it.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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24.1.5  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Revillug @24.1.4    2 years ago

I saw Frank Zappa in concert once, cant remember the year, either '70 or '71 . Me and my friends dropped some acid before the concert and , as I remember it, the musicianship of Zappa and his band was out of this world great. These were people who were phenomenal at playing their instruments. 

I think the music is more problematic though, depending on your taste in "avant-garde" rock. His songs are generally not very melodic, and sound disjointed to many. And then there are the lyrics, which are an acquired taste to say the least. 

Nonetheless he is an important figure in 20th century music. 

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1.6  Revillug  replied to  JohnRussell @24.1.5    2 years ago
His songs are generally not very melodic, and sound disjointed to many. And then there are the lyrics, which are an acquired taste to say the least. 

Zappa treated his albums and performances like they were subversive theater, kind of like National Lampoon. While he was doing that, there is evidence here and there of a gifted, even visionary composer. (I think he had a pretty big influence on jazz fusion.)

If "[we] are what [we] is," then he was what he was. He was a gifted satirist who dazzled us with moments of musical brilliance.

I could wish that he was more serious about his music but it would be kind of like asking Banksy to be more like Monet.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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24.1.7  Gsquared  replied to  Revillug @24.1.4    2 years ago

Zappa was most definitely honest, sardonic, but honest.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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24.1.8  Gsquared  replied to  JohnRussell @24.1.5    2 years ago

Zappa was a brilliant musician/ composer.  He was also strongly opposed to drug use.

He is an important figure in 20th century music.

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1.9  Revillug  replied to  Gsquared @24.1.7    2 years ago

But I definitely could have done with less dirty jokes.

Zappa was to repetitive dirty jokes what Tarantino is to repetitive screen violence: a mind mess.

Listen to enough Zappa and your mind might just be the ugliest part of your body.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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24.1.10  Gsquared  replied to  Revillug @24.1.9    2 years ago

"... Some say your nose, some say your toes, but I think it's your mind..."

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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24.1.11  author  JohnRussell  replied to  Revillug @24.1.6    2 years ago
He was a gifted satirist who dazzled us with moments of musical brilliance.

I generally agree with that. 

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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24.1.12  Hal A. Lujah  replied to  Revillug @24.1.9    2 years ago

I’ve had this hanging on my walls for decades.

384

 
 
 
Revillug
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24.1.13  Revillug  replied to  Gsquared @24.1.10    2 years ago

Somebody stop me...

...before I post again.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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25  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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26  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

  “DON’T TRY TO LAY NO BOOGIE WOOGIE ON THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL”

 
 
 
Revillug
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26.1  Revillug  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @26    2 years ago

OMG, I can't believe I never listened to this guy before. I have a ridiculous amount of British Blues in my collection but not this one.

I noticed checking out the album that he does a version of Ledbetter's "Black Girl" aka "In The Pines."

That's a tough song for a white guy to pull off. It usually buries the point of the song when a white guy sings it.

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
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27  Thrawn 31    2 years ago

This is probably mine.

 
 
 
Revillug
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27.1  Revillug  replied to  Thrawn 31 @27    2 years ago

The sound of the band, particularly the singer, reminds me of Alice in Chains.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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28  Hal A. Lujah    2 years ago

Not too many albums where I can personally say every song is stellar, but Terrapin Station, Nevermind, and Paul’s Boutique do come to mind.

 
 
 
Revillug
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29  Revillug    2 years ago

I said I had posted my last, but I'm bored.

Black Sabbath friggin' created heavy metal all the way back in 1970. 

Everybody has probably heard these first two tunes from the album Paranoid:

I think this track from the same album is less well known:

Even less well known is that right before the lead guitarist of Black Sabbath (Tony Iommi) launched his musical career he lost the tips of two of his fingers in a workplace accident:

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He wears prosthetics to replace his his missing finger tips.

I'm not sure if he actually frets the strings with them. It looks here like he is fretting a chord, that most people would do with the first and third fingers, with the first and fourth fingers.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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30  Hal A. Lujah    2 years ago

Sinead eventually went off the deep end, but her breakthrough album is phenomenal.  HBO is currently airing a documentary on her, and it’s much better than I expected.  I’ve always been a huge fan of her early career.  Watching her perform is mesmerizing.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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31  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

Hard to pick just one because there are ten are so great Los Lobos albums.

 
 
 
Sparty On
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31.1  Sparty On  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @31    2 years ago

Yer a freak wry ....... 😬

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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31.1.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Sparty On @31.1    2 years ago
Yer a freak wry ....... 😬

I never really thought of myself as a freak. But, I love to freak.

 
 
 
Kavika
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32  Kavika     2 years ago

The great BB King and Eric Clapton, ''Riding With The King''. I've seen Clapton in Long Beach, Englewood and San Franciso plus in Europe, and the Great BB King and Lucille I can't count the times I've seen him the last being in Las Vegas around 2012.

 
 
 
Revillug
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32.1  Revillug  replied to  Kavika @32    2 years ago

Clapton was once one of my favorites but he lost me with his infamous racist rant and then later with his anti-vax nonsense.

Nobody made more money from appropriating African American music than he did and then he has to let us know that he doesn't have love in his heart for the people who made this music but contempt.

Was it some kind of self destructive melt-down? If it was then I need to see more of an apology tour.

But if I can still listen to Miles Davis I guess I can listen to Clapton:

 
 
 
Kavika
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33  Kavika     2 years ago

Los Lobos from their album ''By The Light of the Moon''. One of their best albums and their best song, IMO.

 
 
 
Kavika
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34  Kavika     2 years ago

Simply the greatest album ever recorded...'The Last Waltz'' with The Band and friends recorded at Winterland in the city by the bay, San Francisco.

 

 
 
 
Kavika
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35  Kavika     2 years ago

SRV, Texas Flood from the album of the same name.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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36  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

Antonio Carlos Jobim , almost single handedly responsible for "bossa nova" music becoming an international sensation in the 1960's, was one of the greatest composers of popular music of the 20th century. 

The album ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM'S FINEST HOUR brings 17 of his finest compositions onto one album. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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36.1  author  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @36    2 years ago

 
 
 
Revillug
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36.1.1  Revillug  replied to  JohnRussell @36.1    2 years ago

I really like this guitarist:

I think Joe Pass internalized a lot of his jazz standards from Sinatra records. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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36.2  Gsquared  replied to  JohnRussell @36    2 years ago

Excellent.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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36.3  Gsquared  replied to  JohnRussell @36    2 years ago

Nice.

 
 
 
Revillug
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36.4  Revillug  replied to  JohnRussell @36    2 years ago

I didn't realize Antonio Carlos Jobim was actually a guitar player. 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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37  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

One of the first country rock albums that I remember.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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37.1  Gsquared  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @37    2 years ago

Great, great record.

 
 
 
Revillug
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38  Revillug    2 years ago

Does nobody remember their infatuation with The Beatles:

John Lennon ultimately died from gunshot wounds and I remember reading, poignantly,  that a charity that John Lennon donated money to while he lived in NYC was dedicated to purchasing bullet proof vests for police officers.

The Beatles understood that there was an ultimate psycho fringe in their audience (also from White Album sessions):

But, whatever. The Beatles music was a sweet rite of passage for teenagers. Even all that drug stuff.

Charles Manson and Mark David Chapman were/are monsters that The Beatles were not responsible for creating.

 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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39  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

Eventually, all of Van Morrisons music started to sound the same. That was not the case earlier in his career. This 1990 album shows his greatness in all its glory. The great Wild Night begins at 53:30 of this video. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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40  author  JohnRussell    2 years ago

From the soundtrack album to the movie Sharky's Machine. Great jazz tinted music  and one of the best movie soundtracks of the 80's. Hard to find album these days. ($60 on e-bay)

 
 

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