I can only add this

TexasToest: so beautiful!!

Dolittle:  Thanks.  I liked it too!!

TexasToest: Thanks TT, that's awesome. I enjoyed it very much.

They out out two good albums before disappearing

circa sometime in the 60's,it grows on you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxpMVd0v4s&mode=related&search=

Jim Dandy:

he carried so much healing in his pulse...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McaD0qYMFDM&mode=related&search=

awesome: Donovan was such a talent,I was turned off by the use of "Mellow Yellow" in a margerine ad campain years ago,not sure if it was his decision.

Some of you may remember an old made for tv movie called "go ask alice" at the time it scared me from both hippies and drugs.I was left to think long haired freaks would chase me down to inject me with heroin.This song featured prominantly in the "freak out" scene,it was years before I learned who recorded it,I loved the song.About a month or so before Brent Maydland of The Dead od'd, I caught them just outside town.The encore was a deliciose marriage of DEAR MR. FANTASY and HEY JUDE,I had never heard anything so beautiful.I can't find another version of that delightful mix,but........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nwbTeIN4Y

I found it in a google,enjoy!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBbPaEeb2A

Jim Dandy:  Thank you, thank you!  I needed some Dead tonight.

For  everybody, but especially for you, Jim the Dandiest

TexasToest: That wuz some hot stuff,I'm pretty sure he wuz duel'n with Chester Thompson,a longtime Genesis sideman.When Collins was strictly a drummer,few if any could touch him

Jim Dandy:  He IS fantastic!  He has the most supple wrists in the world, I think.

I just don't want the guy to die, or maybe I'm STILL in denial.  Anyway, this starts out with Emmy Lou and Steve Earle doing the song that keeps weaseling it's way into my head, and heart.  The cool part about this piece is that Townes keeps popping up live.  And, it's not the clown-like Townes in those interviews out of Austin, this is the Townes onstage as I knew him, raven black hair, a haunted look on his face, singing from waaaaay deep inside of him. 

The second part is Emmy Lou and Willie Nelson (with a big smile from Lyle Lovett) doing Pancho and Lefty.  Townes pays another visit here, and he's still the Townes who appeared every now and then in my life, and gave me something to love for an hour or so.

I hope you enjoy this too -- Tribute to Townes

Jim Dandy:

everyone else was a distant 2nd......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwUcQvAGQ0

awesome:  How does he DO that?

Harpsichord is always an interesting instrument to hear, so here is one at the hands of a master.

The piece is one I play on piano, and have always wanted to try it on a harpsichord.  It has some complicated audial areas, with some really soothing resolution.  See what you think.

TexasToest: OMG How funky fantastic was that! I never knew Phil Collis could play drums like that! I really really enjoyed that, it was brilliant, feel all tribal now!!

Ewe: Few are aware how great a drummer Collins was.When he became the frontman for Genesis his drumming took a backseat.

awesome: Bonham had a unique style copied by so many.I will say he was the master at laying down a solid thundering backbeat.

Ewe:  Glad you liked it too!!  Tribal is a great way to spend a weekend, don't you think? 

Dandy-Pie:  Have we hit the kernel?  Or we find more who out-beat these?

Hahaha!!  As IF!!

Roadmap:

Go to http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Home.aspx

Sign up - it's free, and it's worth it - no nag, pleasant, low-key place.

Then
Click">http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/ConcertDetail.aspx?id=50695|7096

Click "Drum Solo" beneath the program credit (fifth from the bottom)

Butch Trucks at the finest I've EVER heard him.  Don't shut it down when the station break comes.  It continues.

Then, just surf around and see of you don't spend the rest of your weekend here.  There is a search engine where you can search by performer, or song.  Mercy me - don't miss the Fleetwood Mac concert at Konserthuset in Stockholm, Sweden on 3-23-1969.  I'm going to be there again tonight.

Ewe - be prepared for tribal, darlin'.  Do you have your custume handy from earlier this week?

TexasToest: Oh yessssss I love tribal! I cant stay on just now so will try & pop back later to have a look at your last link. I'll get myself prepared!

Hope youre having a great week end! 

Jim Dandy:  Great slide guitar.  The shots of Perry's hands are amazing.  You can see the muscles that give him the strength it takes to play that way.

Jim Dandy:  I haven't thought about The Cowsills in years, decades even.  The main two of them, Bill and Bob, have passed on over the last couple years.  Here is an interesting article about them.

Are ya ready?  Well, I was poking around, and was reminded of my love pf steel drums.  I was introduced to them in the late 70s when a group of drummers called the St. Croix Steel Drum Orchestra started appearing at my favorite little (and I mean little - it would seat about 50 people) listening club called Poor David's Pub on McKinney Avenue in Dallas.  There were 13 drummers in this troup.  When they all got in the room with their drums, there was hardly room for the audience.  But, we all squeezed in, and dared anyone to play darts.  It was always a magnificent evening of music.

So I found this demonstration of how the drums are made in modern day.  They used to be made with just plain old steel drums.  Now, it's evidently an art form.

Then, I found this steel drum rendition of La Bamba.

I hope you like it.

Jim Dandy: A very happy song.. it made me smile! The flower girl - thank you for sharing

Jim Dandy:

I never knew , I never knew , I never knew, that song could make me happy.............happy ....happy............but it did.....

Jim Dandy: Reminds me of being in the Brownies and singing "if your happy and you know it clap your hands"

I actually saw the singer at a local bar years ago,I had heard of Cowsills,but not was not familiar with their music,I decided to explore them and found a few songs that I'd never known they recorded.

I might be biased(since she's Canadian)but I think the womans talent is off the charts,and apparently she's pretty hot right now,gonna be on SNL next week

Jim Dandy:  Verrrrrrrry nice, Dandy-Pie.  Thanks for bringing her to the top.  Enjoyed that a lot.

TexasToest: I see and hear so many influences in her sound and presentation,Neil Young,Patti Smith,with a lttle Chrissie Hynde tossed in.What I love about her is the promise of things to come.I think she's only scratched the surface of her talant

Jim Dandy:  Yes.. YES..YES!  There is at least one other, and it hasn't thrown itself off the lazy susan of my brain.  But, by the time you've done your stint with the sandman, I will have come up with it.

TexasToest: The last few listens I heard some hardcore Dylan influence too,off to bed,cheers!

I think I hear some Bonnie Raitt, but what singer wouldn't have that in them?  We were born with it, she's a standard.  But, I also hear some Maria Mulduar.  

This is who I have been listening to a lot lately. K.D.Lang. I first saw her on tv years ago and was not too impressed but now I really like her. I am not sure if it means that my taste has got better or worse though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ezFRFs78bs

I've always liked her voice, it's one of the most pure out there.  She's changed her style somewhat over the years, maybe she's mellowed out.  

Mousetrap: TT is right,she began as a novelty act,not very mainstream.If my memory serves,she was known to have said she channels Patsy Cline's ghost.Here is a taste of the early KD,prior to the record label image change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8cdtAIxk3A

If its reggae night, we just have got to have Bob!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAXUuJR7J0

Ewe: Yep,ole Bob would need to be present for reggae nigh.This performance was recorded during the late 70's,when reggae met the mainstream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUZNymIvEoQ&mode=related&search=

Jim Dandy: I do love reggae!
Some of my favs...Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, to name a few!

Ewe: and don't forget Sly and Robbie,the best rhythm section around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny1A7jsEe0U

Bob Marley is, of course, DADDY.  I'm really fond of Peter Tosh too.  Here he is live, maybe I can win you over.  My ex and I went to see Tosh at the Paladium in Dallas.  He put on quite a show! 

Jim Dandy: Oh yes!! I was going to add Sly & Robbie too!!

How about some dance reggae for all the clubbers out there...Ive seen these live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xpZ0Ss_vxI

TexasToest: I was lucky enough to catch Tosh in 79(there's a video on utube of the performance)H came onstage billowing smoke while riding a unicycle..........imagine The Jackson 5 being from Jamaica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt6V3Ic72nE

What about these guys?  Right up there with Marley and Tosh