So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Pilgrim]

Amazing how Daltrey's voice energizes music! 

Those sound very "Who," and the Music Must Fade sounds very much like classic Who.  I like both.

[slinkp]

I like both of those!

[Dave W]

[uwe]

That Who stuff is nice. I have the album on order for a while now.

[slinkp]

Aside from new singles by my favorite old geezers the Who ...
I quite like this new single by slightly less old geezers Team Dresch (who formed over 20 years ago).
I saw them live at a club in NYC last week and they did not disappoint.

[gearHed289]

Local (and international) prog favorites District 97. Their new album Screens was just released Friday. I saw them Sunday, fresh off a run of Euro/UK dates and they were dialed in! These kids are good. Outstanding musicianship, and Leslie really pushes things over the edge with her vocals and stage presence. Bass player Tim Seisser makes boutique basses under the name LowDown. They're not for everyone, but I enjoy them and try to support their efforts.

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Local (and international) prog favorites District 97. Their new album Screens was just released Friday. I saw them Sunday, fresh off a run of Euro/UK dates and they were dialed in! These kids are good. Outstanding musicianship, and Leslie really pushes things over the edge with her vocals and stage presence. Bass player Tim Seisser makes boutique basses under the name LowDown. They're not for everyone, but I enjoy them and try to support their efforts.

Good stuff, I have two of their albums (the late John Wetton sings on one and they do King Crimson Red era stuff live on it, obviously an influence for them), so, yes, they are known in Europe.

[uwe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLuXiedNBBc&list=RDrpV2qe2Or48&index=3

The Dictators go BÖC (they had the same management at the time) - from their underrated second album Manifest Destiny.

[Basvarken]

Just found out about Scottish band called The Rising Souls.
They remind me (a lot) of Rival Sons. Which is not a bad thing per se in my book ;-)

[Dave W]

[westen44]

My favorite song ever to play in a local cover band from years ago. 

[uwe]

Ah, such an uplifting classic, that was on that legendary early 70ies double LP sampler of Warner Brothers (and some Atlantic) artists somewhat confusingly captioned "Heavy Metal" - at a time when the term was not yet popular or as pigeon-holed as today ...









Everyone of those songs made me curious for the band behind it and Ride Captain Ride was among my favorites (it was the last track on side 4). I'd go as far as to say as that that double album someone lent me around 1974 in Kinshasa was pivotal for my musical taste even today (I hear Dave moaning in the background: "stadium rock ..."). It explains why I can like something "hip" (= rock critics like it) such as the MC5 alongside something totally unhip as Foghat (rock critics laugh about it). Both acts were on that album - as were T. Rex and Yes, another combination you don't see too often.

Sorry for not being able to downsize the pictures enough so that they show properly here (you have to move the bar at the end of this post sideways to see it all).

Blood, Sweat & Tears did a version some years later



and even though it has both the blessing of Mike Pinera as a co-writer and the typically lavishly free BS&T arrangement (which I usually dig and David Clayton-Thomas can do no wrong for me in any case), the Blues Image version hits more home with me (Dave is gonna hate the BS&T version, way too jazzy!).

Mike is still doing it nicely:

[uwe]

And speaking of David Clayton-Thomas ... He is still vocal.

[uwe]

Just found out about Scottish band called The Rising Souls.
They remind me (a lot) of Rival Sons. Which is not a bad thing per se in my book ;-)

Why don't they have a CD out?