What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

CarlyAnn · Jul 8, 2023

Alvin Lee with one of my favorite songs of all time.

MetaBob · Jul 8, 2023

CarlyAnn said:
Alvin Lee with one of my favorite songs of all time.

I like this one enough to have added it to my Blues playlist. Then I listened to his Retrospective double album, and there's nothing else on it that I liked nearly as much. It didn't displace I'd Love To Change The World with Ten Years After (despite its lyric "everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?" -- norms were different 52 years ago) from my list of favorite things he has done, but now I have two favorites. Thanks!

Edit: I also just added Dark Eyed Cajun Woman by the Doobie Brothers to my Blues playlist.

CarlyAnn · Jul 8, 2023

I have a 28 mile drive to work every night and I listen to Alvin Lee’s Keep On Rockin’ album many nights just to get me pumped up to work.

Also once we have the crowd warmed up at the club where I sing, we have performed Keep On Rockin’ and Give Me Your Love a number of times.

Pad_Foot · Jul 8, 2023

Special accustic!!

MetaBob · Jul 9, 2023

Pad_Foot said:
Special accustic!!

One of the greatest blues guitarists ever, and ... Stevie Ray Vaughn:

I preferred Albert Collins to Albert King, but there is no doubt of Albert King's greatness, and Albert King knew it. As he said about Jimi Hendrix: "I could’ve very easily played his songs, but he couldn’t play mine."

Tall words, Albert.

ZfrkS62 · Jul 9, 2023

I've been working on my driving playlist on Pandora for an upcoming get together tomorrow night:

https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:165297281732446674:220446017?part=ug-desktop&corr=220446017

Handley_Page · Jul 9, 2023

Credence Clearwater Revival:

MetaBob · Jul 10, 2023

Stevie Wonder

Years ago, I went to a free outdoor music festival in downtown Los Angeles. Stevie Wonder was at the festival even though he hadn't been on the list of bands I wanted to see (I figured it would be too crowded), but the stage where he would be playing was between a show I'd just seen and another that I wanted to see next. I would've had to go two blocks out of my way to get around it, so I chose to walk past since his show wouldn't start for 15 minutes. A narrow and very slowly moving path through tightly packed bodies wound past the front of the stage, about 12 "rows" of people away. Everyone was standing, of course. It took me 5-10 minutes to get through the first half of the crowd before I was dead center in front of the stage. Then Stevie Wonder came out and the trickle of movement past the stage dropped to zero. Whether I'd intended it or not, I was gonna see a Stevie Wonder show, with me 50 feet away from him, and because I'm tall, I had an unobstructed view.

There were some early issues with sound that caused him to angrily flee the stage for 10 minutes, but no one was moving, so I would be there for the duration.

Then he came back and played for an hour. What a great show! Sure, I missed seeing Los Lobos that night, but I'd already seen them once by then, and saw them several times again in later years. Another wonderful band.

That's my one and only Stevie Wonder story: I saw him (but of course he didn't see me). Still love you, Stevie.

ChloeTzang · Jul 12, 2023

I just like this.....Aux Légionnaires

MetaBob · Jul 13, 2023

It's been a few months since the last time, but I always go back to Radio Paradise (the URL is easy to figure out), founded by the guy who pioneered the world's first full-time live radio stream on the internet (in 1996!). It's still the best source I've found for music new to me, interspersed with music I haven't heard in years but love. Seductive stuff! The only thing I have to look out for is getting drawn into a rabbit hole where I follow up something I've heard there to the point that I forget to keep listening to it. Eventually, though, I come out of that rabbit hole, and the next and the next ... and remember to circle back to the source.