So, what music are you listening to now?

[icenine]

Locked Down

Jim James has a new solo album ...that is one to get Dave

[icenine]

Wilco The Whole Love

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by icenine

Locked Down

Jim James has a new solo album ...that is one to get Dave

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................

Will have to investigate.

Regards,
Dave

[d-ray657]

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street. I picked this up a few weeks ago and have listened a few times now. Lots of folks list this among the top Stones albums. I don't see it. Mick misses the mark when he tries the blues. Maybe this is unfair, because I have been listening to the likes of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Ray Charles and Taj Mahal. Mick pales in comparison (pardon the pun).

Also listening to FZ - Waka Jawaka and Burnt Weenie Sandwich - definitely at their best with the Instrumentals.

Regards,

D-Ray

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street. I picked this up a few weeks ago and have listened a few times now. Lots of folks list this among the top Stones albums. I don't see it. Mick misses the mark when he tries the blues. Maybe this is unfair, because I have been listening to the likes of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Ray Charles and Taj Mahal. Mick pales in comparison (pardon the pun).

Also listening to FZ - Waka Jawaka and Burnt Weenie Sandwich - definitely at their best with the Instrumentals.

Regards,

D-Ray

"Uncle Meat" and "The Grand Wazoo" round out a quartet of early instrumental-based Zappa albums that are definitely worth hearing. After digesting those you can check out "The Yellow Shark" and "Boulez Conducts Zappa: The perfect Stranger".

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street. I picked this up a few weeks ago and have listened a few times now. Lots of folks list this among the top Stones albums. I don't see it. Mick misses the mark when he tries the blues. Maybe this is unfair, because I have been listening to the likes of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Ray Charles and Taj Mahal. Mick pales in comparison (pardon the pun).

Also listening to FZ - Waka Jawaka and Burnt Weenie Sandwich - definitely at their best with the Instrumentals.

Regards,

D-Ray

I think the album is murky and has much filler...but there are some strong performances. It is like they are trying just a bit too hard...I think Happy and Sweet Virginia are pretty near the best ones. And I have always loved Sweet Black Angel. I think Some Girls sounds much more like the Stones....

I just do not like the violin on Burnt Weeney Sandwich...the rest of it is pretty good

I think Hot Rats is better

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

"Uncle Meat" and "The Grand Wazoo" round out a quartet of early instrumental-based Zappa albums that are definitely worth hearing. After digesting those you can check out "The Yellow Shark" and "Boulez Conducts Zappa: The perfect Stranger".

John

I found Uncle Meat in excellent condition at the GW...it is like one song over 4 sides on an album.

I have been buying the You Can't Do That Onstage Anymore series and enjoying Make A Jazz Noise Here....

Best Buy has some really good selection on the remasters if you are missing some of the Zappa stuff...

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

I just do not like the violin on Burnt Weeney Sandwich...the rest of it is pretty good

I think Hot Rats is better

I think that's Sugarcane Harris. Later FZ stuff with Jean-Luc Ponty is better IMO but Harris is okay.

John

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I think that's Sugarcane Harris. Later FZ stuff with Jean-Luc Ponty is better IMO but Harris is okay.

John

Just a tad too much abrasion on the The House I Was Grew Up In...did you ever notice there is small reprise at the end of that which is from an instrumental on side one ..I believe Holiday In Berlin...but it is played really quickly....

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

...did you ever notice there is small reprise at the end of that which is from an instrumental on side one ..I believe Holiday In Berlin...but it is played really quickly....

I have, yes. Zappa could be a little self-referential. I've heard him throw passages from a certain work into another. Sometimes they're improvisational, like in his guitar solo but at other times they seem scored as in one of Ruth Underwood's marimba breaks or an ensemble passage. (I suspect that any time another player did that it was scored. FZ was pretty much a control freak when it came to performing his music.)

John