Stephen Stills — “Treetop Flyer”
I was listening to Stephen Stills’ amazing “Just Roll Tape” and was was totally digging on that version of “Treetop Flyer”. Love this song and cannot recommend that album enough. This version is approximately 15 years after the “Just Roll Tape” session, but is bad ass nonetheless.
Umphrey’s McGee — MJ Inspirations from ‘The Floor’
From UM’s blog, ‘The Floor’:
After Michael Jackson passed away we decided to give away a couple versions of MJ inspired material. But until those downloads are up, we thought we’d stream one of the tracks here for your auditory pleasure (presumably). This medley along with three other tracks will be available tomorrow morning.
This montage was inspired from unplanned and unrehearsed moments throughout the course of last weekend. MJ’s tunes just kept popping up so we decided to cut them together and furnish you with a medley of sorts “The Way You Make Me Feel” was inside “Syncopated Strangers” on 06/27, “Smooth Criminal” was inside “August” on 06/25, and “Will You Be There” was during the end of “Partyin’ Peeps” on 06/26. (continue and listen..)
Phish — “Third Ball” (6/6/96) Woodstock, NY
Billy Breathes era show nicknamed the “Third Ball” in all of it’s SBD glory. Psychedelic stuff here, man. Featured at Hidden Track:
Pearl Jam — “State Of Love And Trust”
From 8/23/91.
David Fricke’s review of Wilco (The Album)
Rolling Stone’s David Fricke on Wilco’s just released album, Wilco (The Album):
Wilco’s seventh studio album is a triumph of determined simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for most of this decade. The title is the giveaway. So is the opening gag, “Wilco (The Song),” with its rattling-bones guitar and singer-boss Jeff Tweedy’s assurance, sung like pillow talk, that his combo is good for all that ails you: “Do you dabble in depression?/Is someone twisting a knife in your back?…Wilco will love you, baby.” At times, Wilco (The Album) sounds like the scarring static and cryptic impressionism of 2002′s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot never happened. The Seventies-George Harrison sunshine in “You Never Know” and the country-rock clatter of “Sonny Feeling” are closer to Wilco’s Big Star-in-a-barn debut, 1995′s A.M. (more…)
They Said What??
“We are four dimensional beings in three dimensional bodies, looking out two-dimensional windshields.”
-Neal Cassady
Sony Walkman turns 30!
I remember my dad getting the model above, that was released on the market in 1980. I used to crank his Guess Who, Beatles and Smokey Robinson tapes. Good times. Here’s a little info from Wiki:
The original blue-and-silver Walkman model TPS-L2 went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979. In the UK, it came with stereo playback and mini headphone jacks, permitting two people to listen at the same time (though it came with only one pair of MDR-3L2 headphones). Where the Pressman had the recording button, the Walkman had a “hotline” button which activated a small built-in microphone (the Pressman), partially overriding the sound from the cassette, and allowing one user to talk to the other over the music. The dual jacks and “hotline” button were phased out in the follow-up Walkman II model. (more…)
Happy Birthday — Willie Dixon
Blues legend Willie Dixon was born on this date in 1915. Dixon penned such classics as “I Just Want To Make Love To You”, “I Ain’t Superstitous”, “Back Door Man”, “Wang Dang Doodle” and “Little Red Rooster”, amongst others. Dixon died in 1992, an inspiration to multiple generations, an often imitated/never duplicated style and a blues ambassador. Here’s he is doing “I’m Nervous”:
