Aren't we forgetting God?

Oh yes the chair was wocking

One of mine from days gone past..

And if i am not getting too senile, i seem to thing that sbk saw them naked way back when. With socks on..

Where's Barry White when you need him?

'ol barry?

last time I saw him was on a UK TOTP program and the presenter made fun of his gold chains...barry stormed off even though he was scheduled to perform later...

in the previous romantic scenario I would've preferred Elmore James' Dust My Broom...a howling, thrusting slide guitar with tutsi growling 'yew thing yew gonna abuse my best intentions bitch?...well have some of this!...' pretty soon the dressing gown was askew...

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=ejLEyVj7LaI&feature=related

Very nice, tuts!

And some more blues! The Great B.B. King. What mastery of the guitar!

One of the greatest and most underrated guitarists who ever was . . . Roy Buchanan. The first is a blues number, "I'm Evil," from his Live Stock LP, 1975. The second showcases simply heavenly guitar playing on "The Messiah Will Come Again" from a Rockpalast show in Hamburg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HviY-udwsyc

British blues in the '60s with Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. "Stop Messin' Around (Take 1, 2, 3 & 5)," a Peter Green original off their "Mr. Wonderful" LP. Also, "Love That Burns" off the same LP.

Unfortunately, there's nothing available off the Fleetwood Mac in Chicago double LP recorded at Chess studios and released in 1969. Chess artists sitting in included Otis Spann (vocals, piano); David Honeyboy Edwards (guitar); Buddy Guy (guitar); Walter "Shakey" Horton (harmonica); J. T. Brown (tenor saxophone); Willie Dixon (acoustic bass guitar); S.P. Leary (drums). Ah well . . . or perhaps, Oh Well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpOYpCEcZ8&feature=related

John Lee Hooker's foot stompin' "Boom, Boom." Then teaming up with Bonnie Raitt for a steamy session of "I'm In The Mood." A must listen for blues aficionados.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0cGVJJH7w&feature=related

John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" number further popularized by the classic version from George Thorogood and the Destroyers off their 1977 self-titled LP. Of course you can't play this one without complimenting it with "Who Do You Love" off the 1978 album "Move It On Over."

Some more from blues icon Elmore James. "It Hurts Me, Too" and "Every Day I Have The Blues."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBA2REoRD98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJCH3xO-mYQ

Blues guitar God Buddy Guy with Eric Clapton on "Sweet Home Chicago," written by early and influential blues legend, Robert Johnson. And some vintage Buddy Guy on "First Time I Met The Blues," with footage of mid-'60s Chicago black ghettos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osdx8nkXvak&feature=related

Switching gears to some techno. "Seven Cities (Atlantis Mix)" from Armin Van Buuren's 1999 release "Boundaries Of Imagination." Difficult to highlight a given track because they all flow together and I'd recommend the entire CD. Followed by Engima's "Push The Limits (ATB Remix)" off the 2001 "LSD - Love, Sensuality And Devotion - The Remix Collection" CD.

I don't get into techno too much but these 2 CDs always bring me back to Hollywood, a mostly Thai venue up Ratchadaphisek Road in Huai Khwang. I can't think of how many sunrises we've witnessed after shutting down Hollywood for the night then grabbing eats (and more drink) and a few games of snooker (with drinks, of course) afterwards. Probably my favourite place for entertainment in Bangkok, Hollywood has great live shows, live music and an endless stream of some of the prettiest girls in Thailand. Packed wall to wall, especially on weekends. We knew many of the staff personally and thus received a bit of extra service.

Dance Fever is next door to Hollywood, along with a host of smaller clubs up and down soi 6 and 8. My girlfriend's sister ran Momo's on soi 8, a club owned by her Nippon boyfriend and geared towards the Japanese clientele. Just down the road is Ratchada soi 4, which hosts another melange of Thai bars. When all shuts down for the night the traffic jam is horrendous. On both sides of Ratchadaphisek the taxis are parked 4 lanes deep picking up a goldmine of fares. Wander on down to talad Huai Khwang's night market and it's hard to imagine where this wall of people come from at 2, 3, 4 in the morning.

Sorry for the personal accounting but there were just too many damned good memories to share. Music just brings us all back sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWE5I_2Kts&p=038CD4A59BFD6491&playnext=1&index=7

saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells a number of times...they opened for Janis at the concert in Pasadena in 1968 where backstage SHE GRABBED MY WRIST AND SIGNED MY JACKET...

later they appeared drunk on stage at a venue in SF for a 30 minute set and disrespected their audience...

I saw Big Mama Thornton in LA and she was all fcuked up, she could hardly stand on her feet...

I think that California does something weird to yer heid...

but get fcuked ova here; its de blues an' nobody gots to be polite...

Written in 1717 "Air on a G' String" from J.S.Bach's Orchestral Suite No 3 in D Major, is as fresh today as it was nearly 300 hundred years ago.

Now that's Timeless

Guitar lovers might like this version

Written in 1717 "Air on a G' String" from J.S.Bach's Orchestral Suite No 3 in D Major, is as fresh today as it was nearly 300 hundred years ago.

Now that's Timeless

Wow! Didn't realize how far back you go, Unca Ken. I had to check your profile and sure, your birthday is listed as "Unknown." I'd keep quiet about my age, too, if I were you.

Nice piece, though!

Written in 1717 "Air on a G' String" from J.S.Bach's Orchestral Suite No 3 in D Major, is as fresh today as it was nearly 300 hundred years ago.

Now that's Timeless

Guitar lovers might like this version

MAGNIFICENT!!!

I'll betcha Clapton could never stretch his fingers like that guy...

saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells a number of times...they opened for Janis at the concert in Pasadena in 1968 where backstage SHE GRABBED MY WRIST AND SIGNED MY JACKET...

later they appeared drunk on stage at a venue in SF for a 30 minute set and disrespected their audience...

I saw Big Mama Thornton in LA and she was all fcuked up, she could hardly stand on her feet...

I think that California does something weird to yer heid...

but get fcuked ova here; its de blues an' nobody gots to be polite...

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are staples in Chi-town. That's one of the pluses of Chicago . . . lots of blues bars and it wasn't unusual to catch quite of few well-renowned names playing in close quarters.

So, do you still have the jacket, tuts?

saw Buddy Guy and Junior Wells a number of times...they opened for Janis at the concert in Pasadena in 1968 where backstage SHE GRABBED MY WRIST AND SIGNED MY JACKET...

later they appeared drunk on stage at a venue in SF for a 30 minute set and disrespected their audience...

I saw Big Mama Thornton in LA and she was all fcuked up, she could hardly stand on her feet...

I think that California does something weird to yer heid...

but get fcuked ova here; its de blues an' nobody gots to be polite...

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells are staples in Chi-town. That's one of the pluses of Chicago . . . lots of blues bars and it wasn't unusual to catch quite of few well-renowned names playing in close quarters.

So, do you still have the jacket, tuts?

So, do you still have the jacket, tuts?

nah...I showed it off too many times an' sumone stole it, probably one of the junkies that I hanged around with in Pasadena too fcuked up to realize it's significance...it was a green nylon windbreaker...

an', Janis gave that to me...whoever stole my jacket should be publically executed with extreme prejudice...

(a down trodden wastrel is being led to the gallows before a howling mob and tutsi emerges and shouts: 'forgive that man for he knew not what he was doing...')

Once upon a time, when I was young and free, I came across this album and it gave me my first visions of being in a tropical paradise. Leon Russell's "Will 'O The Wisp" from 1975. The idyllic tune is "Back To The Island." Yes, I finally made my way.

And off the same LP, "Bluebird." Can't be out in a tropical paradise all by your lonesome, now could you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCe4ue2nTys&feature=related

leon russel makes me remember delaney and bonnie and the following:

And while we're on the subject of tropical paradises grab your beach chair and your margarita and lay back with Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" and "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEFlfpxSEw&feature=related

Are we still in the islands? Good. Let's spice things up with some classic soca, Arrow with "Hot, Hot, Hot."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QhjTfLn40&feature=related

But the real question is, can you mambo? The King of Mambo, Perez Prado with the all-time 1955 mambo classic "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCa8b4CgZeI&feature=fvst

A bit more soca. "Island Girl" by burning Flames. Some might recognize this tune from the '90s movie, "Weekend At Bernie's."

And Baha Men's "Who let The Dogs Out."

And what would the islands be without calypso. Harry Belafonte's classic "Jump In The Line," which was used in another classic, the comedy great "Beetlejuice."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpNk860pTO4

And the other absolute Belafonte classic, "Day-O (Banana Boat)," also featured in this priceless "Beetlejuice" scene. Hilarious!!

So now we should all be worked up for some raggae. Third World's "Now That We Found Love" from 1978 and "Try Jah Love" circa 1982.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK8zAssTv7Y&feature=related

Leo Kottke on his 12-string. Raise your hand if you've had a Pamela Brown, or 2, or 3 . . . in your life. This was a theme song for myself and most of my friends when we were young and free and well traveled.

yeah...I remember 'ol Leo from his first albums released in 1970; like you I was on the road with me associates, all about the same age, meeting up in squalid apartments in the Bay Area and Eugene, with lots of wine, joints and psychedelics...celebrating youth and freedom...sorta like background music...

Good stuff, It's been too long sice I got back to istening to Kottke, Buffet,, Prine, and good ol' Randy Newman.

OK, maybe it isn't timeless, but I dig it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XmAQ0Ct49tY&feature=related

RIP Brad Delp. A sweet voice and by all accounts just a sweet man duey.

OK, I think I've held off on the Dylan long enough. Here's a little something from his "spiritual exploration" period / w a little Mark Knopfler and Mick Taylor on the side.

http://mojvideo.com/video-bob-dylan-slow-train-coming/8e5ed8673b29afa29b7a

And a live appearance on Letterman with 2 punk rockers he'd met the day beforet.. Still rocks though.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IZUDK_VOvqg

This one's for Patsy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rYriU4bhW7I&feature=related

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