Music

[Brah]

Clapton is arguably well Clapped-out. Has he even released any new material these past 20 years? ..

Don't think I'm completely anti-Clapton, I'm not. Just I think his best days ended when he left the band Cream.

Nor I, except I go slightly longer than you do, I think 461 was briliant. But hearing Layla played anytime past the 70s sounds nothing but trying too hard, and dunno why but I don't like anything with Nathan East on it. I:m sure he's a nice guy but his playing is just too antiseptic for me.

[JR8]

JAN AKKERMAN SUITE 1 (CENTRAL STATION)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lptZDjw ... =endscreen

12 minutes. Something of an opus. Lovely recording. Try just putting it on in the background as you read/do other stuff.

[JR8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uwm45TINkI
Parliament Funkadelic-"Dr. Funkenstein" 1976 Promo Film/Music

I turned up at school, to find my new Nigerian roomie playing this...

[JR8]

maggot brain funkadelic live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk

[JR8]

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4supWXaFgbc

[Soultrain - live] oh yes.

[JR8]

The Prodigy - Breathe - Tokyo 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhvmkhQgZ8


Oof!

[JR8]

The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital - Josh Homme / Liam Howlett [etc]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TLiz0Vb2g


.... great stuff.

[Brah]

JR, you trend towards the earlier Parlament, like Maggot Brain, which has a harder, guitar-oriented edge. I came in later, with Mothership Connection, which to me is their seminal work. I won't post any one clip because the whole album is classic and I wouldn't know where to start. Hit me...

[rajagainstthemachine]

I'm gonna go to the deep purple concert tonight! can't wait I'm soooooooooo excited

[Mi Amigo]

I'm gonna go to the deep purple concert tonight! can't wait I'm soooooooooo excited

Hey, I hope you have a great time and I'll look forward to a report here afterwards. For some reason I couldn't get excited enough to fork out for a ticket myself (getting old!), but hopefully my jaded attitude will turn out to be wrong and they'll put on an excellent show.

Ian Paice rules!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsgkFTKSy40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TtRz5JX764

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv_sgZtc80s

[That's enough drum solos. Ed.]

[Mi Amigo]

I love the dedication at the start of this...

Funk 49 - Joe Walsh

[Brah]

There is a great show here coming up soon - the Derek Trucks / Tedeshi Band, about time a good show came this way.

No disrepect to Deep Purple, I've been a huge Steve Morse fan since the 70s and big DP and Blackmore fan, but I can't get used to no Lord or Blackmore, they're key to the sound.

[JR8]

JR, you trend towards the earlier Parlament, like Maggot Brain, which has a harder, guitar-oriented edge. I came in later, with Mothership Connection, which to me is their seminal work. I won't post any one clip because the whole album is classic and I wouldn't know where to start. Hit me...

Oh, well, I don't know.

I picked up a copy of : http://991.com/newGallery/Funkadelic-On ... 494942.jpg in a clearance record dealer in London back in c79 for like 10p. In that wild and glorious gatefold sleeve. I had no idea what it was, but the sleeve held promise!

Then yes, I went to school and my roomie was a Nigerian dude. A surgeon's son - but I think he thought he was George Clinton's brother or something High ol' times.

But it was only very recently (maybe 2 years ago) that I became aware of Parliament, and Maggot Brain. And how Parliament and Funkadelic inter-connected.

That's music from the soul, impossible for me not to fall for

Funk on!

[Brah]

I'll reply to that when I have time tonight, but I see that Peter Banks passed away overnight.

[JR8]

RIP.

http://youtu.be/Omq2TMQFK5s

Lifetime - Flash
(Peter Banks, dazzling on lead guitar)



edit to add p.s. I was surprised to hear the guitar lick from Hocus Pocus - Focus incorporated at 6:40!