Song Of The Day

[The Poet]

I just had this idea of posting a tune daily, or thereabouts anyway, that I'd like to share with my buddies here. Please feel free to add your own.

Enjoy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHy_TfkN38

[shilala]

I'm not a huge Jeff Beck fan, but that is an insane piece of axe work.
Thanks, Thomas!!!
Keep 'em comin. :tu

[shilala]

I'll raise you a smackhead and a Chopin.
Here ya go, brother. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATICdf7b-0)
And some insane acoustic pre-smack work. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WJO1dfM6o)

[The Poet]

Nice ones, Scott. Man, Page looks like a schoolboy in that acoustic clip.

I became a Jeff Beck fan in college, thanks to classmate Joel Brinkley (David's son). He turned me on to Beck, and explained he was hard to get into initially because his style is so odd. Beck starts to play something, and you wonder "WTF is he doing there?!!?" Then he gets to the end, and you understand that "Oh yeah, THAT'S WTF he was doing there!" :r

A story behind today's cut. Some time back a friend told me she'd checked the forecast not by asking DaBear but by going to a website call Weather Underground. She, being a generation younger than me, did not understand why I looked at her shocked and confused, nor why I suggested it was as odd a name as calling your food service business Al-Cater. You youngsters may not get it either, but we old farts do. :D


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

[BlackDog]

"Sunshine of your Love" by Cream. I love Ginger Baker's drums.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqQL0J_Vr0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHbqQL0J_Vr0

[AdamJoshua]

As I get older I enjoy him more and more, if more people had some pride in their towns I think it would spread, become unstoppable, but sadly it's just not to be anymore, not for the majority anyway.

http://youtu.be/77gKSp8WoRg

[The Poet]

Nice clip, Warren. But why not maybe some Led Zeppelin instead . . . like maybe Black Dog? :D

(And would you believe that, at this very instant, my internet radio station is playing the studio version of "Sunshine"? :r )

[The Poet]

Adam, sending Bruce to a guy living in Joisey? Sorta coals to Newcastle, ain't it? :r

[SvilleKid]

Amos Lee defines my thoughts with this song:

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

[The Poet]

Since it is Sunday, I thought something spiritual would be appropriate:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9yBq9K8mJs

[BlackDog]

I've been listening to Dire Straits. "Industrial Disease" is my song of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMh9xCdzr8

[Adriftpanda]

Amos Lee defines my thoughts with this song:

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

Use to listen to a lot of his stuff. Met him at a coffee shop right before he started to record stuff.

The Civil Wars - same old same old

Great album.

[The Poet]

Being a Monday, I thought maybe you guys needed a little something to wake you up a bit.

If this don't do it, you're dead. :r


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81fdU8EP28

[The Poet]

Something a bit different today. Man, they just don't write songs today the way they used to.

:bdh


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LFML_pxlY

[The Poet]

On this day of national remembrance, here is something stirring from a veteran.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3cYpFLJiM

[The Poet]

OK, so when's the last time you heard THIS one:


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

[The Poet]

Hey, it's Friday the 13th, so:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgVI-IKpqk

[shilala]

Did Jack Bruce ever do vocals in any other bands aside from Cream?

[The Poet]

Did Jack Bruce ever do vocals in any other bands aside from Cream?

He did vocals for the Jack Bruce Band. Does that count? :r

[The Poet]

Massive internet problems today. It's taken 4 hours just to log on here. Sorry, no Song Today today.

[MajorCaptSilly]

Did Jack Bruce ever do vocals in any other bands aside from Cream?

He did some albums with Robin Trower where he did vocals.

MCS

[MajorCaptSilly]

My song of the day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_RiY2-suc

MCS

[The Poet]

Thanks for the song and the info, Scott. Interesting video too. Damn, and I thought I was an old man! :r


OK, I know there are a lot of Eagles fans out there (and I ain't talking football), but I ain't one of them. Of all the "supergroups" out there, I thought they did the least with the most talent of them all . . . combined! In evidence, I provide the following:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0

[The Poet]

Speaking of supergroups, they don't seem to exist any more. This is the last one I can recall, so let's have a little fun today with Lefty, Nelson, Otis, Lucky, and Charlie T. Jr.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKj4MOKrkSI

[The Poet]

I'm a little rushed today, so I'll just post a short little ditty. :D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuNz2idDtY

[MajorCaptSilly]

It's a Rory Gallagher day today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csUXZngk99s


MCS

[The Poet]

It's a Rory Gallagher day today:


MCS


A nice choice, from an under-appreciated artist. I see you, and raise you:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGV-CBhnC1w


:D

[The Poet]

Did Jack Bruce ever do vocals in any other bands aside from Cream?


There's a story behind today's tune. Growing up in rural NC during the '50s and '60s, there wasn't a lot of options for hearing the latest music in the rock genre. We'd see the big names on Ed Sullivan, and had Top 40 hits on AM radio heard through an earplug with our 9-volt transistor radios (some of you remember them), so I heard very little of the harder rock album cuts many others were privy to . . . and what I did hear, I did not much like. They did not seem tuneful, nor did the musicians seem very skilled. But late one night when still in high school (and in OUR school, there may have been only two or three students who were ever high on anything but bourbon :D ), I was listening to WOWO out of Ft. Wayne, which we could pick up only after the sun was well down. That night I heard a song that blew me away, and I thought "Damn, those guys are pretty good". I did not know the song or group, but I liked it so much that it stuck in my head . . . FOR FORTY YEARS! Yes, I never heard that damn song again, even though I listened to a TON of tunes in my college and post-college years, often under the tutelage of folks much more knowledgeable than myself.

Fast forward that four decades to an evening a year or so back. I was sitting with a buddy smoking a stogie and shooting the $#!+, and I mentioned this song. As I said, I did not know its name, but recalled its tag theme riff clearly . . . daDAdaDAdaDUM, daDAdaDAdaDUM, BOM!, daDAdaDAdaDUM, daDAdaDAdaDUM, BOM! . . . and told my friend that, knowing what I know now, I suspected it was Cream. He looked at me kinda funny, held up a finger, then walked to his car parked nearby, coming back with his iPod. He fiddled with the buttons a few seconds, stuck the buds in my ear, and pushed PLAY. And then, like a gift out of heaven, that song which had been stuck in my head for forty years was once again flowing into my ears.

Now, let it flow into yours. :r


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOofJ5E-Tbg


And no, Jack Bruce is NOT singing vocals on it. ;)

[The Poet]

Would you believe I know all the words to this old standard? :tu


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M

[MajorCaptSilly]

Had to crank this one on the way to work:

We are gonna blow your face off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3z9PJvX5cE

MCS

[The Poet]

Thanks, MCS. Me, I've got more massive 'net problems today, so I'm glad somebody posted a song for today.

I shall try, but it took me nearly an hour to log in here, and a good five minutes to get the thread to open.

[The Poet]

School is back in session, so it's time for all of us to stand in the crossings singing this:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10G7rV0xYvM



:D

[shilala]

Had to crank this one on the way to work:

We are gonna blow your face off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3z9PJvX5cE

MCS

Nice. :tu

[shilala]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOofJ5E-Tbg
And no, Jack Bruce is NOT singing vocals on it. ;)

When I was a bitty turd, I had a pocket crystal radio that was a biege plastic rectangular box with a jack for the crusty earplug. Then there was an antenna like thing you slid in and out that served as a crude dial. I loved that thing.
When I got old enough to really love music, I got some Who, Nugent, and Elvis Costello. I think those came for my birthday.
Then I haunted the bargain junk bin at Record Mart for years. That's where I found everything worth finding.
I bet it took me two years to find Hey, Hey, What Can I Do? on 45. It was the only way it could be gotten and I looked EVERYWHERE. One guy at Record Mart actually said to me, after seeing me there every other day for a couple years, and me asking about that 45 a hundred times, "we had two yesterday but they were gone immediately."
I killed him.

Almost forgot...
I checked the notes on that tune and added &fmt=18 to the url to catch it in stereo. 3 times. :D

[MajorCaptSilly]

School is back in session, so it's time for all of us to stand in the crossings singing this:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10G7rV0xYvM



:D

I played the crap out of that album as a kid. Always played both sides in one sitting.

MCS

[The Poet]

Something a little bit different today, maybe? Me, I love this guy, and just roll my eyes when people say "Who??" :rolleyes:


:D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jXY1qBPhU

[shilala]

I'll raise you a Johnny Lee Hooker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBz4ASw6uU), Thomas.
I lived off 100% blues for years. Johnny Lee remains my favorite to this day. It doesn't matter what he's playing, it's all him.
Kinda like Lucinda Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_d39GOmxw). She's the same way.

[The Poet]

Scott, Ry would approve of some John Lee, as do I. :tu


I can't see him without thinking of his cameo in The Blues Brothers, sitting curbside on a crate and doing his boogie shuffle. :r

[The Poet]

OK, how's about something a WHOLE lot different today, so clear a spot for this one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRjl7Bvnkzw



:r

[The Poet]

And something sorta old-school today, as I'm not in the best of moods:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPVUa29kHu8


:mad:

[The Poet]

I'm feeling a bit . . . uh, poetic today. :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42luHhrsNhg

[The Poet]

Sorry for no tune yesterday, but once again my internet was messing up bad. So to make up for it, here's something a little special today. :D


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

[The Poet]

As I just got through listening to this album, I'd thought I'd share a piece of it with you:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj_0su_6_Iw

[The Poet]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME ROCK'N'ROLL!!!



:D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0iYhfOQWQ

[The Poet]

For those depending on family, a cautionary tale today. :D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCZFUj8IlM

[The Poet]

And now, for something completely different:


;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuDijksD20

[The Poet]

OK. so this one's old school in two ways. Imprimis, who plays a National steel guitar these days? Secundus, who besides me owns a TV with a tube? :D


Well, my mama does, for one. :r



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

[The Poet]

Here's a cut from a "lost treasure" album, one most of you likely do not know.

The song itself? You ought to know that. :D


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

[The Poet]

It's Wednesday, which is New Comic Book Day, so here's one for all you Harley Quinns out there. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o

[The Poet]

I actually had a different song in mind for today, but after just hearing this one I changed my mind. So here's the best cut (and the least played) on this famous landmark album . . . and it IS the best, despite Slowhand's painful clinker. :r



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjaqQJaqh-s


(FYI, in case you missed it, though I can't see how you COULD, that clinker is at about the 2:50 mark.)

[The Poet]

Some are confused by Mies van der Rohe's well-known statement that "less is more". Do you count yourself amongst those? Well, here's a little Les that is definitely more . . . more or less. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxYncc0fy8

[The Poet]

I thought I do a little double-dipping today, so first we have:


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


And now I give you:


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


:D

[The Poet]

Don't know if this is gonna work, as I've got more internet problems today.


Hey, it must be all the traffic. :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRe42BDK_R4

[The Poet]

What say we mellow out a bit today?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6L4GixccLU


:D

[The Poet]

I once put down Eagles music on this thread, as I feel they did the least with the most talent. On the other hand, though these guys had some talent, they did more with it than one would rationally expect.

I'd write more on this, but I gotta go take a leak. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

[The Poet]

No monkeying around today. Here's one I hope you, my fellow primates, shall go ape over. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB-JTAZQow

[The Poet]

Pursuant to a discussion in a proceeding thread, I offer this tuneful response.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxJOht2yRE



:D

[The Poet]

This one is NOT The Rolling Stones, but it IS like one. ;)



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

[The Poet]

Pull up a Nehi crate, pull out your jug, and play along with this 'un.

:noon


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Njp06oOibo

[MajorCaptSilly]

Social Distortion just released a cover of CCR's Up Around the Bend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJd1Sppxlc


I like it.


MCS

[The Poet]

Social Distortion just released a cover of CCR's Up Around the Bend:


Thanks. I like it too. It ain't perzackly CCR, as they kick it a bit more, but it's damn close enough.

Now for me, I confess I well recall seeing this artist perform my selection on Saturday Night Live, 'way back in the day. Only this genius could have come up with this, and only those nuts on SNL would have the stones to air it on TV.

Talk about your social distortion, this one's downright un-American! :r


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeKrt4fc16I

[The Poet]

A little sump'un sump'un a little different different today.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856k-G13klY

[The Poet]

Here's a fun 3:01 for you.


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

[The Poet]

I'm feeling romantic today, so I thought I'd offer this sweet little love ballad to you. :)


Well, not to YOU per se, or not likely maybe. Not that there's anything WRONG with that. You know what I mean. ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IeD525tEeI

[The Poet]

Before he went a lot rock 'n' roll, Steve Earle was a lot country . . . and to be honest, IMHO a lot better. Here's my evidence to support this premise:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otTW0JczoGQ


Hey, that line about not getting far on 37 dollars and a Jap guitar rival the finest of Hank Williams words. :tu

[The Poet]

We lost Lou Reed this weekend, so in his honor:


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


Rest in peace, Lou. :sad

[AdamJoshua]

To honor monday ... despite all my rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0

[The Poet]

To honor monday ... despite all my rage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0


Thanks, brother. But wouldn't Smashing Pumpkins better honor this coming Thursday as opposed to Monday? :D

[The Poet]

For those who have shown concern for my impending unemployment, I offer this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A

[The Poet]

Tomorrow's my last day of work here, and I don't know when the internet will be cut off, so this might be the last song of the day from me . . . for a while, at least.

Hey, when they show you the door, ain't but one way out. :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAyaw4ktO5g

[The Poet]

And this is my last day here at work, so though I hope to visit The Asylum from time to time, I cannot commit to daily tunes any longer. Therefore youse guys either gotta do without, or pick up the slack for me.

And as my final (possibly) submission, I offer:


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


Later, whenever, brothers. :noon

[The Poet]

It's been nearly a month since I've posted on this thread, but felt I needed to celebrate this holiday with the following:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ


Here's wishing all of you, and all of yours, a very Happy Thanksgiving Day.

Eat the bird. :dr

[irratebass]

Inspired by the post of the same name:

Alice's Restaurant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ

[The Poet]

I guess it came around on the gee-tar again, Mickey. ;)


That's OK. He's not tired . . . or proud. :r