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[BillyBones]

Biily B said Walts backing band was good.......
Fuk its very good.......check out.

It's good isn't it Jammy! You see them live, even better.

[jammy395]

See em live....You Barstewart..........

One of these days.

The blokes ace.....

[Fretless]

Everybodys favourite Bluegrass/Jazz/Blues/weirdness combo running through a tight set featuring lighting-speed banjo riffs, bass-playing that would baffle a super-computer and a meannnnn blues harp!

Oh yes - it's Bela Fleck & the Flecktones 'UFO Tofu' !



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGu4CD ... hpXGtegcc2

[jammy395]

Check out Yelloman.......

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If yer feet dont tap.....Yer dead.

[SteveTheShadow]

Bachman Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile.

[SteveTheShadow]

Latest from Van Morrison. " Keep Me Singing"

If you don't like Van, you must be deed.

[terrybooth]

If you don't like Van, you must be deed.

Or one of his backing musicians, allegedly.

[BillyBones]

Some more blues rock...



I've seen Aynsley Lister quite a few times over the last few years, always gives a great show. He's touring again next month so I'll be at Manchester Acadamy again.

[Fretless]

In the series "Music That Defies Categorisation" I have arrived at:

'Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint' by Steve Reich with the Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny.



Youtube: Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet / Different Trains: America Before the War

As a child in 1940's America, Reich was shuttled between his divorced parents - one in New York, the other in Los Angeles - so he spent a considerable period travelling on cross-continental railways. The basis for 'Different Trains' is a locomotive-style rhythmic foundation laid by the string quartet with snippets of interviews from railroad employees interspersed with train whistles. The spoken sections are then echoed as musical phrases by the strings and become themes for sections of the work.
Split in to three sections, the first recalls the glory of the 1930's age of steam, then the second replaces the train whistles with air-raid sirens and the music takes on a darker, menacing tone as the voices recall the trains that shipped millions to Nazi concentration camps. The third and final section brings a new optimism in the post-war world as German refugees arrive in America to begin a new life.

This is music that makes pictures, tells a story and takes you, hypnotically, on a trip into another world.

Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (full)

'Electric Counterpoint' was written in collaboration with guitar maestro Pat Metheny. Using tape loop techniques up to 11 guitar and bass lines are pre-recorded and the musician plays a lead over this.
This is music that pulses in sheets of moving sound, a carpet of many colours that entrances. This piece in particular has inspired a generation of rock and electronic artists with its groundbreaking use of looping and repetition. Metheny himself uses this style in his wonderful 'Orchestrion' albums.

Listen and be amazed.

[savvypaul]

24 Bit download (Qobuz)...clear, rich vocal