So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

I miss Jake E. Lee. The Ozzy guitarist I liked best.

[4stringer77]

Well it's not like Jake E Lee is dead. He was touring with his band red dragon cartel in 2019. Not as high profile but still out there slugging it out.

[Basvarken]

I like Jake E Lee's work with Badlands best.
That was a killer band.

[TBird1958]

Not suggesting anybody watch the entire show here but the first 4:45 is "Wonderland", possibly the best song Big Country ever wrote, RIP Stuart Adamson. - Tony Butler is an amazing bassist, largely  unknown, love his fluid playing, no wanking.

 

[Basvarken]

Great band. With a very distinctive style

[Dave W]

This was a #1 hit in Russia last year. A friend posted it on his FB timeline yesterday. I feel the need to share.

[uwe]

I like the Tim Burton vibe.

[Pilgrim]

Dangerously catchy. I showed it to my wife, and now I find myself tempted to answer any question with "Burritos, burritos!!"

[Dave W]

They're a trio from St. Petersburg (not the one in Florida). They've been around since 2013. Their YT channel has 6.84 million subscribers, and the video has over 106 million views in 13 months. Yet we never heard of them.

Them Russkies must like performance art. 

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Some wow and flutter there!  Somehow, I don't miss tapes at all.

[uwe]

Currently listening to the 50th Anniversary Boxed Set of Jesus Christ Superstar. I'm a hopeless religious romantic! This is the original 1970 version with Gillan's and Murray Head's vocals dubbed over the film scenes. Yvonne Elliman, of course, sang both on the (superior) 1970 original and the 1973 movie soundtrack. I liked the rawness, freshness and tenderness of the original version. It wasn't perfect, but it was organic.



Rumors still abound that a largely unknown Liverpudlian named John was approached to sing the part of Jesus on the original, but he tied it to his wife Yoko (a Japanese performance artist of some note it is said) getting the part of Mary Magdalene. Heavenly powers must have intervened and luckily prevailed. Alas!, and the rest is alternative history we were spared from.

[uwe]

From his final show, sigh. You darn yanks and your double-damned opioids, from a European viewpoint it amazes me how stuff 30 times stronger than heroin could be so liberally allowed by you for ages. 





For the record, when I saw TP & HBs here in Germany something like 10 years ago, he and the band were stoned out of their minds; yet cannabis-shitfaced as they were, they never missed a note when playing (announcements were kinda mumbly and gigglish though - we've all been there). So there sure was an affinity to pleasant sedation. But numbing your lungs to the point where thy simply give up working is another matter.

[Dave W]

R.I.P. George Frayne, Commander Cody of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen at 77

[uwe]

Shamefully, I do have to admit that I only knew that as a Pat Travers song. 



That rhyme "My poppa said son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don' stop ridin' that Hot Rod Lincoln ..." always stuck with me.