So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

I kinda liked this even if he's not the most proficient soloist in major keys ...



Good that he had a career with GnR, can't imagine too many job offers from The Allmans, The Outlaws, Marshall Tucker, Molly Hatchet, Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd or 38 Special, places where you have to know your scales.

[uwe]

From that no man's land between Jazz and Rock'n'Roll ...

[Dave W]

Young Jerry Jeff

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Liam has found himself a new Noel ...

[Dave W]

33 years later

[uwe]

That poor acoustic bass in the second vid needs an action setup BADLY! There is enough room between fretboard and strings for the bassist to crawl under. 

[Dave W]

That poor acoustic bass in the second vid needs an action setup BADLY! There is enough room between fretboard and strings for the bassist to crawl under. 

It's a first edition Earthwood, low action is impossible. Brian's been playing it since it was new, he's obviously okay with it.

[uwe]

I didn't know that, the first Earthwoods were so appalling in action? I only played one once in a music store - great acoustic signal -, but that was new and had a fine set-up. Of course you can't have an acoustic bass guitar's action real low if you want to dig in, but his action seems extreme. I hate fret buzz anywhere on a bass so my preferred action is higher than what most people tend to have. Fret buzz even bothers me when I only feel, not hear it, because the amped signal overpowers everything. That Billy Sheehan-type constant fret buzz in the way his basses are set up would drive me mad. Let's not even talk of JAE.

[Basvarken]

Been listening to Happiness Bastards by The Black Crowes.
Which I happen to like a lot 

[uwe]

I have it on order. I like the Black Crowes ok, but they are not my musical Nirvana, I guess I was never that much of a Rod Stewart & The Faces fan either.

But I'm happy to see them around again.

[uwe]

An impressively sideburned Little Ian shuffling his beat with assorted ex-PAL compatriots and a keyboarder in white who once played on Bowie's Space Oddity, Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken + Marc Bolan's Get It On as well as with The Strawbs. Was he really known for anything else?

[uwe]

Glenn tramples all inhibitions underfoot and merges the unthinkable, LZ + DP Mk III sound from the forthcoming fifth Black Country Communion album ...



And a Trapez'ish unreleased BCC track (except on vinyl) that has been waiting in the vaults:

[uwe]

Très cüte ...

[uwe]

Excellent white blues guitarists are a dime a dozen, but I somehow like Walter Trout, maybe the Rory Gallagher in him?