So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Another example of Sam Cooke's SAR Records soul. Patience Valentine was a little woman with a big voice. Before her solo sides with SAR, she was in a group called the Flares (or Flairs) in Los Angeles. After her SAR releases, nothing. I've searched and been unable to find out whatever became of her.

Too bluesy for Motown, I get it!

[BTL]

You forgot Coldplay.

Somehow Coldplay didn't make it into the playlist. I may open up the Coldplay Pandora channel to see what it serves up.

[westen44]

[Dave W]

The soundtrack is slightly off from his fretting hand movements.

[patman]

One of my favorites!

[Dave W]

One of my favorites!

He was from your neck of the woods, right? He did loads of session work for Fraternity Records back in the day.

[uwe]

I'm still on the fence myself about the BBA box set.  Right after I posted I found out Golden Earring was releasing a remastered and expanded version of Cut.  So I immediately pre-ordered that.  Whether or not I'll want to pre-order yet another CD is debatable.  The Golden Earring box set consists of two CDs and a DVD.  At only $30, it's definitely a better deal than the $50 BBA cd set.  However, I might add that this may be more of a deal for Europeans than Americans.  Because I suspect that DVD won't play in the U.S.  According to the Steve Hoffman forum, it probably won't play.  That isn't stopping me from buying it, though.  The two CDs will at least play and that is my third favorite Golden Earring album anyway. 

The DVD is PAL/0 format.

I got it. The BBA box. The remix is spectacular, Beck, Bogert & Appice in your living room. Yes, they were an instrumentally powerful, inventive and even humorous trio. You can hear that Beck is already straining at the leash to leave conventional rock behind, discovering chromatic lines in the process, and develop into a Jazz direction. The Appice/Bogert rhythm section is sublime (and very rock). Alas!, the better, more transparent sound is also more unforgiving as regards the Achilles' Heel vocals, compared to these guys (all three) vocally, Lonesome Dave of Foghat isn't Dave Peverett, but Dave Pavarotti.

[westen44]

With a good review like that, it looks like I may also have to get it.  My Golden Earring box set hasn't even arrived yet, but I guess there is no harm in having two box sets at the same time.  I wasn't planning on that, though. 

[Basvarken]

Looking forward to the live album of the Icelandic band The Vintage Caravan.

Here's an appetizer ;-)

[uwe]

Dictators rule! (I mean what else can they do?) Ross the Boss' lead guitar is 2 die 4.

[uwe]

Looking forward to the live album of the Icelandic band The Vintage Caravan.

Here's an appetizer ;-)

They're good, have a few of their CDs.

[Pilgrim]

In the Lonnie Mack video…SLIGHTLY off??  I couldn’t even figure out how far off it was.  Nice tune, well played, but watching his hands was disorienting. 

[uwe]

Uncle Robert (or Auntie Roberta?) plus local German talent doing Geezer Butler's favorite (no joke!) Judas Priest song (certainly one of their dumbest and most un-elegant compositions, never liked the minorish verse morphing into a major chorus without changing the keynote/tonic):



Sigh, Doro has been singing English for more than forty years now (and lived in NYC for several years), but still sounds as hilariously kraut as a Nazi spy girl in a WWII US propaganda B movie. Sie ist offensichtlich kein Fremdsprachentalent.

[uwe]

With a good review like that, it looks like I may also have to get it.  My Golden Earring box set hasn't even arrived yet, but I guess there is no harm in having two box sets at the same time.  I wasn't planning on that, though.

Michael, the true gem of the box is the second live recording from the Rainbow Theatre in London in 1974. That has never been released before because it was deemed lost. It's basically BBA's shelved second album performed live (the band was dissatisfied with the production of the studio recording and considered rerecording it live). Hence, hardly any tracks that are already featured on the Budokan recording from a year before are doubled here. As Bogert was not happy with his singing that night, he redid his vocals in the aftermath. (Did I just hear someone cry Thin Lizzy or Judas Priest?  ). The result is that the vocal performance on the later London recording is much better. And the band is more inspired and together instrumentally. ABSOF-U-C-KINLUTELY RECOMMENDED!

[westen44]

I ordered it.  It should arrive soon.