Whatcha listening to?

[_grieve_]

 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ergbM_kMiB4&list=PLn_YxLw2gT5RXHbJrE6ciKh6qJHWCbyQh

many people find this plain weird, but I love it ....

[_grieve_]

it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear Spooky Tooth, a massive British Bues- /Hardrock band
collaborating with a french avantgarde/electronic/musique concrete artist ....

in 1969 this was possible.

 

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A little belated...

RIP David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter. (Jan 9, 1950 - Feb 28, 2025)

He was singer for the early 70's glam punk band the New York Dolls. I'm sort of into punk, but New York Dolls were never my thing.

Clip of him on the Conan OBrien show back in the 90's talking about funny stories of times from when he was with the New York Dolls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMpn7EmXTY&ab_channel=ConanO%27Brien

He also had a big hit in the late 80's, one that practically EVERYONE knows either from just being alive at the time... or probably from hearing it for one of the 9000 different occasions that it was used as an advertising jingle for all sorts of products.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18&ab_channel=BusterPoindexterVEVO

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his Buster Poindexter stuff either. 

But I did like him as a character actor, especially as the filthy obnoxious cartoony cab driver Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray Christmas movie Scrooged, one of my favorite Christmas movies. It's a classic!



Even though I was never really any kind of fan of his music, I still think he's one of the most interesting people to ever be in the music business. He's the kind of guy I would've loved to have chatted with about music and movies and such.

He passed February 28th 2025 from cancer of some kind, brain cancer I think. He was 75. 

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Started branching out into jazz late last year.

Chet Baker. Was RIDICULOUSLY talented, but spent probably the larger portion of his life as a heroin junkie. His life was about as sad as some of his songs sound. He died when he either fell out of a 2nd story apartment window or jumped, no one is really sure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c&ab_channel=Sweetydu972M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0

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The more you browse youtube, the more you realize all the things you'll NEVER be able to do on a guitar... because I didn't start intensive training when I was barely old enough to scribble my own name like this lady obviously did.

Ana Vidocic, classical guitarist.

Absolutely FLAWLESS technique and she seems to play all of these pieces completely from memory. Just WOW.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26zZ83Oh6Y&ab_channel=OmniFoundation

I honestly don't lament my lack of ability to play classical guitar. At this point, I don't TRY too hard to improve, and I play just for my own enjoyment of it. I'm not interested in impressing anyone with my skills. It's fun for me and that's enough. Also, as much I love listening to and especially watching someone this talented play classical guitar, it's just not really a style of music I've ever been too interested in playing much past it's practical application towards rock music, as in when I spent a little time studying Randy Rhoads tabs as a teen. Also... the last time I even picked up a classical guitar, I was astounded by how entirely flat and wide the fretboard was compared to a typical radiused fretboard on an electric.

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Good quality rock bands are too few and far between these days in my opinion.

Superheaven.

Happened across these guys on youtube earlier this year. Overall sound is good, not too flashy, has a style that is consistent from song to song even though it's not a particularly uniquely special kind of sound. Somewhat reminiscent of alternative rock bands from the 90's, which I guess is fine and great since there really IS NO ROCK SCENE these days to compare it to... at least not a GOOD rock scene that I care to listen to (rap and pop has taken over everything) The vocals sound good, but could be even better and more well defined with some work, but as I said, still good as is.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siDhacKVxdE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voVL8Ey-CiI