So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Attempting to reach a wider audience with nu metal/dance pop influences I see ... - the new bassist has adjusted well.

[westen44]

I first got introduced to them by watching their 2021 Rockpalast concert.  Personally, that's the sound I would prefer.  But I'm not part of their target audience.  I understand they're trying to broaden their appeal, though.  I'll be interested in hearing their new album coming out soon.  Also, it's good to see they got rid of their orange prison uniforms. 

[uwe]

I can't believe they still had the nerve even in 1975 to credit this to themselves as a band composition.



Their arrangement is great and it's one of my favorite (if there is such a thing) Led Zeppelin Non-Flying Magpies numbers, but not disclosing the origins is a cheap shot. And such a blatant lie, typically Led Zep to believe they could get away with it.







Say what you will about His Bobness, but he did not credit it to himself in 1962.

[westen44]

Led Zeppelin has always got a free pass.  The adulation built up over them, especially in the U.S., transcended critical thinking and reality itself.  I thought they were good, but I could never see the godlike characteristics that so many others seemed to think were there.  But with the departure of both the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in the 1970s, LZ happily stepped in to try to fill the void left in music.  In the case of Hendrix, everybody was roughly in the same genre, too, although it appears that he intended to move away from rock, especially hard rock. 

[Dave W]

C W McCall (Bill Fries) passed today at age 93. So tonight I'm remembering the CB era.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/04/01/country-music-performer-cw-mccall-dies/

RIP, Rubber Duck

[Rob]

RIP

[gearHed289]

RIP. Loved Convoy when it came out. I think I was 11. I was a big model car (and ships and planes) builder as a kid, and did a couple of big rigs after that song came out.

[slinkp]

Since we had that brilliant Metallica and the News mashup lately, and Van Free Riot, I had to bring back my favorite ever (by the same editor no less)...
RAINING LOBSTERS!

It somehow gets even better at the bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnrfqPoX4WU&list=RDMM&index=3

For an encore I recommend Slayer and the Waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MrMfoHejiw&list=PL0B7qPkUvn7f_LABzeR-D6qkBfzqEAPO6&index=43

And, wouldn't you know it, Marvin Gaye turns out to be the best hair-metal vocalist ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57SNPbxi0r0&list=PL0B7qPkUvn7f_LABzeR-D6qkBfzqEAPO6&index=94

[slinkp]

More seriously, I remember the original video and live album of this tour being pretty dodgy sound-wise - but with remixed audio from the It's Hard bonus CD, this is a pretty excellent version.
I love Townshend's leads on this.

[Alanko]

Steamhammer! I picked up their album 'Mountains' recently. They were a blues rock band but had a slightly dissonant, shambolic and exploratory edge to them. One track is a long jam recorded in concert, complete with a faulty connection between guitar and amp somewhere.

I wager that Ian Anderson's strange 'blues' vocal delivery on the first few Tull albums was taken from guys like Kieran White, who was the vocalist in Steamhammer.

Kieran White sounds like a Scottish name, but apparently he was English. Nobody is perfect! 

[4stringer77]

A song fit for the holidays. Thinking fondly of my Dad too. Dweezil does his Pops proud here.

[Dave W]

[Basvarken]

My wife has recorded a beautiful little song together with a friend who accompanies her on guitar.
The original is from Lizz Wright.

[Dave W]

Very nice! Reminds me of a country ballad.

[uwe]

Very nice, like Lucinda Williams in tune.