Couldn't find a listenable rip of Tull's Skating Away so this'll have to do
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Primus. One of the most versatile and talented bands around. Little trivia: Les Claypool auditioned to replace the late great Cliff Burton from Metallica – he was denied for being better then them! The man is a genius on bass!
Tommy The Cat with special guest Tom Waits playing the voice of Tommy.
Tommy The Cat with special guest Tom Waits playing the voice of Tommy.
My favorite Primus video
I saw them Sail The Seas Of Cheese at the Orpheum Theater in Boston
Bernie Worrell, Les & Buckethead
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"Maggot Brain" is a song by the band Funkadelic. It appears as the lead track on their 1971 album of the same name.
The original recording of the song, over ten minutes long, features little more than a spoken introduction and a much-praised extended guitar solo by Eddie Hazel. Music critic Greg Tate described the song as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme; the song is #60 on the Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Guitar Songs. Reportedly, "Maggot Brain" was Hazel's nickname. Other sources say the title is a reference to band leader George Clinton finding his brother's "decomposed dead body, skull cracked, in a Chicago apartment." Michael Hampton (Hazel's replacement as lead guitarist) recorded his own interpretation of the song in 1978, which was included in a bonus vinyl EP that was distributed with the album One Nation Under a Groove; the cut is also included in most CD editions of that album.
According to legend, George Clinton, under the influence of "Laughing Sam's Dice", told Eddie Hazel during the recording session to imagine he had been told his mother was dead, but then learned that it was not true. The result was the 10-minute guitar solo for which Hazel is most fondly remembered by many music critics and fans. Though several other musicians began the track playing, Clinton soon realized how powerful Hazel's solo was and faded them out so that the focus would be on Hazel's guitar. Critics have described the solo as "lengthy, mind-melting" and "an emotional apocalypse of sound."
The entire track was recorded in one take. The solo is mostly played in a pentatonic minor scale in the key of Em over another guitar track of a simple arpeggio. Hazel's solo was played through a fuzzbox and a Crybaby Wah wah pedal; some sections of the song utilize a delay effect. This style would be revisited later in Standing on the Verge of Getting It On on the track "Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts". A live version with full band accompaniment was released in 1997 on the album "Funkadelic Finest".
The Westbound Records version is the one to get.
Avoid the 4 Men With Beards pressing at all cost.
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Travel like a king
Listen to the inner voice
A higher wisdom is at work for you
Conquering the stumbling blocks come easier
When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
Every ending is a new beginning
Life is an endless unfoldment
Change your mind, and you change your relation to time
You can find the answer
The solution lies within the problem
The answer is in every question
Dig it?
An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away
Inspire yourself
Your life is yours
It fits you like your skin
The oak sleeps in the acorn
The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed
The bird waits in the egg
God waits for his unfoldment in man
Fly on, children
Play on
You gravitate to that which you secretly love most
You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts
There is no chance, coincidence or accident
In a world ruled by law and divine order
You rise as high as your dominant aspiration
You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self
Free your mind and your ... will follow
The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers
Its nature is to respond to your thoughts
Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind
For seeds grow after their kind
Play on, children
Every thought felt as true
Or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind
Takes roots in your subconscious
Blossoms sooner or later into an act
And bears its own fruit
Good thoughts bring forth good fruit
Bull.... thoughts rot your meat
Think right, and you can fly
The kingdom of heaven is within
Free your mind, and your ... will follow
Play on, children
Sing on, lady
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@Mowgli - Absolutely brilliant! George Clinton is another musical genius who deserves more recognition along with the 30+ members of both Funkadelic and Parliament.
Speaking of genius’s…I refer to Tom Waits as the John Nash of music. Eccentric as hell but well beyond all others when it comes to writing lyrics. A week does not go by where I do not listen to Tom Waits.
Speaking of genius’s…I refer to Tom Waits as the John Nash of music. Eccentric as hell but well beyond all others when it comes to writing lyrics. A week does not go by where I do not listen to Tom Waits.
At Balaklava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. 666 cavalrymen armed with sabre and lance charged down a mile-long valley, straight at the muzzles of Russian cannons. In the slaughter that followed, many fell to roundshot and shell fired from the front and both sides. Those who survived took a bloody revenge on the enemy. #BalaclavaDay
"On the anniversary of The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Terry Brighton delves into the history, strange numerical co-incidences and why you shouldn't drink too much and be late for work..."
Read it all at Trooper 666
"On the anniversary of The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Terry Brighton delves into the history, strange numerical co-incidences and why you shouldn't drink too much and be late for work..."
Read it all at Trooper 666
Tony Joe White passed. Kind of a floater between Country, Rock, and Louisiana Blues. Wrote a lot that was covered by other more notable performers, but had a style on his own, too. Sometimes cerebral and, at others, goofy. Career from the 60s until his last concert in 2015 at age 73. This is a concert in Austin in 1980, in the middle of his career.
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