Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 1504 Location: Methuen, MA
Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 7:37 am Post subject:
BlueRunner, that was a great post! And, isn't the Shuffle an awesome little musical gadget?! I was never one for carry-along players, but the Shuffle is so small and light, you barely notice it. Also, I recommend upgrading the earbuds to a much more comfortable, higher fidelity, and sound isolating pair of earphones by Sony. It's Sony MDR-EX71SL/WK Fontopia Headphones (White), at Amazon for about $33. Well worth it...
In my car this morning- the Zen Blues Quartet cd. Although I only had time to listen to 4 tracks in their entirety, plus previewing the rest, I can tell you that this is one awesome cd!
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:52 am Post subject:
Zappa: I don't see any reason this thread shouldn't run nearly forever. If we can't all be riding along in each others' cars and getting the sounds directly, at least we can enjoy second-hand reports.
JohnnyZ: Thanks for the advise re the ear buds. I'll check it out. The little earbuds that came with the Shuffle are already paying dividends for my equanimity. I sling the Suffle around my neck at home in the evenings, put in the earbuds, and turn up the volume, and I have no idea whatever it is that my wife is trying to say to me. As a result, I've been completely relieved of the regular nightly burden of hearing her ask me to finish washing the dishes ... take out the garbage ... haul the cat back out of the linen closet ... Of course, I enjoy watching her turn red in the face and wave her arms around in the air while I'm listening to music. I do worry, however, that if I keep this up, one evening I'll come home to find my Shuffle out on the front lawn, along with all of my shirts ("with the Mr. B collars").
Oh yeah, and this morning in the car's CD player via the Shuffle? Coco Montoya singing "Wish I Could Be That Strong," over an over again. Heard the tune for the first time this past Sunday afternoon on our local public radio blues show, "The Blues Shack," KCLU, Thousand Oaks, CA, and spent 99 cents to buy it on iTunes and put it in my library. The song has taken over from a Debbie Davies tune on a CD I bought at the local used CD store, "Light My Fuse," which, when Debbie sings it, well ... er ... lights my fuse. _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 534 Location: SF Bay area
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: For your listening pleasure
In my car right now:
Sonny Landreth - Grant Street
Laura Nyro - New York Tenderberry
Keb Mo' - Keep It Simple
Eric Clapton - Riding with the King
Real Man OD (One of my Robben compilations!)
Chris Cain - Hall Of Shame
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Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 9:51 am Post subject:
Elizabeth: Wow. Wish I was in the passenger seat right now. With the car stereo turned up to 11, on Nyro's "Gibson Street." I wore out the grooves on my New York Tenderberry LP years ago, and put the turntable in the closet a few months ago during living room repainting, so it's been a while since I've stretched out on the floor with a speaker on each side of my head waiting for that all-too-short bridge when the trumpets come in. (The rest of the CD's are great choices, too.) _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 534 Location: SF Bay area
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject: Car tunes
Bluerunner, my LP is still in fairly good shape, but I took a field trip to Down Home Records (next door to Arhoolie) last week and went a little crazy. The next timeyou come up to No. California, you MUST put this place on your itinerary.It is not to be believed!
Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 401 Location: College Station, TX
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:35 am Post subject:
Lowell George - thanks I'll eat it here. Great solo album by the slide master. The funk just drips out of the little slot where the CD goes in the dashboard...
Brian Stoltz - God, Guns and Money. This is the former guitarist for the Neville Bros. I was at Tower Records last week in New Orleans and they had this on. Great funk guitar, very minimalist stuff. And it is a protest album, too - very cool stuff for the left wingers among us.
Butterfield Blues Band - Live (the 2 CD Rhino reissue of the horn band version). This has got to be one of the best live albums ever. I spent way too much on this off e-bay, but damn it is worth every penny. The Ralph Wash guitar solos are just killer.
Freddie King - Larger than Life. Are you ready for Freddie!? Of course you are! Live set (plus a couple of left over tracks from the Burglar sessions) from the Armadillo in Austin. Best thing - I was there when they recorded this set.
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject:
Rockrgrl Magazine's 2005 Discoveries CD. Cool stuff. One of the artists (Rain Perry) lives in this area, and was their grand-prize winner. Maybe because in the midst of a bunch of metal, funk, hip-hop and techno-pop, she hit them with her sweet folk song, "Yosemite" (a tune that's now been covered by Tom Russell). For info visit www.rainperry.com
While Rain lives at what technically is a Santa Paula address, her place is really in what's called the "Upper Ojai." So once again, Ojai proves itself as a real musician's place.[/url] _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:
Just purchased so, obviously, next up on my listening list over the next week or two:
Animals - Retrospective (SACD)
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night (remastered & expanded)
Caravan - With Strings Attached
Cats & Dogs - This Life
Chilliwack - Opus X
Chilliwack - Wanna Be A Star
Rosemary Clooney - The Classic Rosemary Clooney
Perry Como - Dreamer's Holiday / Dream Along With Me
Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
Electric Light Orchestra - 1st (2 disc 'First Light Series' 30th anniversary enhanced edition)
Electric Light Orchestra - ELO 2 (2 disc 'First Light Series' edition)
Ferrante & Teicher - Great 1970's Motion Picture Themes
Ferrante & Teicher - Denizen's Of The Deep
Ferrante & Teicher - Blast Off!
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House (35th anniversary edition)
Gentle Giant - Interview (35th anniversary edition)
Gentle Giant - Giant For A Day (35th anniversary edition)
Golden Earring - Millbrook U.S.A.
Joe Jackson - I'm The Man (remaster)
H.P. Lovecraft - Mountains Of Madness
Ian Hunter / Mick Ronson - The Secret Sessions
Ian Hunter - 1st (30th anniversary edition, remastered & expanded)
Johnny Mathis - Johnny's Mood / Faithfully
Johnny Mathis - Johnny Mathis / Wonderful, Wonderful
Proctor & Bergman - TV or not TV
Segarini - Vox Populi!
Shel Silverstein - Best of...
Al Stewart - A Beach Full Of Shells
Billy Strange (& His 12-string Guitar) - Railroad Man / Folk Hits
Strawbs - Acoustic: Full Bloom
Franz Von Suppe - Overtures v.1
Franz Von Suppe - Overtures v.3
Franz Von Suppe - Overtures v.5
Yes - 90125 (remastered & expanded) _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 289 Location: Baltimore, Md
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: Quite a list...
Hi Daved -
That's quite a listening list you've got there!!!
And you've reminded me that I've been meaning to look for Johnny
Mathis' 1959 release, "Open fire...Two Guitars," which features Tony
Mattola and Al Caiola.
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:
When Daved's tractor-trailer rig backs up to the CD store to resupply, the sales staff must run for cover!
In my CD player, via the Shuffle, some specific tunes I play over and over: Steve Vai: "The Blood & The Tears." An unknown group from Congo that my daughter burned onto a CD for me while she was there last year, that I THINK is entitled "C'est pas tout dat," but then I don't speak a word of French, and the French they speak in Congo is a bit different anyway (Elizabeth: Help! If I can get this tune to you would you be interested in trying to figure it out for me?). Mark Knopfler and James Taylor: "Sailing to Philadelphia." Oh yeah, and after my morning running workout every day, I always start the drive over to the office with Robben's "Give Me Something For The Pain." _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:53 pm Post subject:
It's a running joke out here with the ABB crew about my days off being spent in the CD shops blowing my PD's on CDs. They often laugh when they walk by my bunk on the bus and see it filled with bags full of CDs.
Neil Larson calls it my "passion". He's right, of course.
A few years ago Robben was teasing me about my love of Perry Como's music, till I made him listen to "Catch A Falling Star" and he was blown away by the blues guitar licks happening in the background. He said at that time that he would never doubt my taste and knowledge of music again.
In fact, a couple years ago, during our last Europe/UK tour, I don't know what conversation led up to it, but Robben made a bet with the band members that I would have some Marty Robbin's music with me. When they showed up for sound check and asked me... Robben won! Robben then asked our front of house person to play "El Paso" from the disc as the band entrance music for the show that night!
He often tells people that I have the most diversified & eclectic tastes of anyone he's ever met.
As I like to say, "One of the advantages of being single is that I can spend my dollars any way I want!"
BTW, Andy, I have a copy of that very Mathis CD of which you speak in my collection and actually have it out here on the road with me right now. It is a 'must have' for any J.M. fan. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
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Zappa: I don't see any reason this thread shouldn't run nearly forever. If we can't all be riding along in each others' cars and getting the sounds directly, at least we can enjoy second-hand reports.
