So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

Posting Arthur Lee and Love without mentioning this?

Hard to believe it was a Burt Bacharach - Hal David composition. Burt reportedly didn't like this version.

[Dave W]

Dave Edmunds at an Elvis tribute in 1987.

[uwe]

Not a fan of her Rockabilly chic(k) look, but I do like her music.

[uwe]

Friggin' classic. The song that always floors people who mainly think of "Paranoid" when Sabbath is mentioned ...

[uwe]

And now in full studio glory, old men having a surprisingly virile go at things ...

[westen44]

Midnight Oil from 1994.  I think it may be illegal for a bass to sound this good in some parts of the world now.

[uwe]

Great band.

[Granny Gremlin]

Yep.  Pretty cool that the  dude made the Aussie parliament.  Always liked this one a lot too:



edit:  heh, playing those back to back now... somehow never noticed before.

[uwe]

Going through a Nils Lofgren phase currently. Always liked his singing and guitar playing.



I understand that it pays the rent and that playing with the Boss is an honor, but essentially Lofgren's talents are wasted in the E-Street Band and and its stadium-tuned live performances. All the quirky subtleties in his playing are lost. Springsteen live is a sledgehammer affair.

[uwe]

My completist urge was finally satisfied and I got Asia's '83 Budokan live recording ('enso kai') on CD (it was only released once, in 2001 by a small US label and only for a short while) - historically significant because Greg Lake had to step in for John Wetton whose alcoholism was on the rampage at that time.

It was always hard for someone else to sing those Wetton songs, but Greg Lake did an admirable job. And whoever mixed the CD  must have been a closet Greg Lake fan because you can even hear his pick hitting the strings of his Steinberger throughout. I first thought the CD had an issue, then "Who plays the percussion?" until I finally realized it was Greg's pick! Lovely.

[gearHed289]

I don't think anyone else could have done as good a job as Lake did filling in for Wetton at literally the last minute. I'd always found them to be similar, but this concert really showed their differences. Wetton has a deceptively high range. The tone of his voice would suggest that he's closer to a baritone, but he is actually well into the tenor range. Lake chickens out on the high notes in the verses to Sole Survivor.

[uwe]

Well observed, Wetton was higher in his range than one thinks and if anything sometimes a little sharp in his delivery, Lake with Asia was sometimes a little flat out of caution, nothing drastic, but you hear it after a while. Testosterone-charged as ELP were, they always made room for his vocals, he didn't really have to sing against ELP's sonic onslaught, a lot of his singing there took place in ballads or ballad'y parts (before all hell broke loose again). That wasn't the case with ASIA where he also had to manage singing over a guitar.

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Sounds like he even rehearsed some with the band for this performance! Keith probably paid him for it. 

Berry was an outstanding lyricist. His contribution to modern rock on that side is as great as his musical one.

[Dave W]

Sounds like he even rehearsed some with the band for this performance! Keith probably paid him for it. 

Berry was an outstanding lyricist. His contribution to modern rock on that side is as great as his musical one.

It's from the documentary Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll, which included two 1986 concerts in St. Louis, so it was more controlled than a typical Chuck performance. There were a number of guest appearances.