What are you listening right now ?

Roy Buchanan - Hey Joe (Live From Austin TX)

There's a "bite" in the way Roy plays his Telecaster that creates an urgency unlike any other guitarist.

Said one YouTuber: "My Telecaster doesn't sound like this. Have to return it."

I Don’t Like Mondays. by The Boomtown Rats. I never hear this played anywhere. There’s a real event behind it that most people don’t know. They took down the original video that accompanied it. Although you can still find the video on other channels but the quality is not as good

Mmm, pretty good version of it on Bongiovi’s “One Wild Night” (awesome album, fwiw), too. Kinda of a duet of him and Geldof.

Not quite the version on OWN, but close enough…

Oh yeh, after the shooting, the cop was asking the gril, “Tell me why [you did it]?”, and her reply was simply “I don’t like Mondays.”, hence the song’s name.

Oh, here we go…

Oh Happy Day

Gentle Giant - "On Reflection" 1978 BBC TV Show "Sight and Sound"

Here is an outstanding performance by prog-rock masters Gentle Giant. It starts out as a modal Elizabethan piece played on classical instruments, but then morphs into a hard rocker filled with delicious hooks.

Edited on 2023-Mar-24: Found this remastered version, upscaled to 1024p, so I thought it worthwhile to update the link here.

Admittedly, Gentle Giant is something of an acquired taste, but if you're a prog fan or metal head who likes virtuoso performances, you should check them out. It's not so much that they can play faster and cleaner than other musicians (they can't). What makes them special is their composition and arrangement. It's head-and-shoulders above even top-tier progressive rock bands. They know and apply more music theory than any rock band I know of.

Here is the studio version of "On Reflection," from the 2021 remix by Steven Wilson. It is quite different from the live version, and probably better!

Only because I was curious when Troy from Community mentioned it

Really hooked on this now.

Gentle Giant - The Advent Of Panurge
Live Long Beach Arena 1975 [HD]

Just in case anyone got sucked in by Gentle Giant above, here's some more for you. This one fuses medieval modes with super hard rock. The musical IQ is through the roof, but what I like is the groove. It's hip deep.

Nice stuff. I binged on a bunch of Kitboga about 8 months ago. Some of it is laugh-out-loud funny.

Worthy of repeated viewings.

Daryl Hall loves to play! And the bands he features on “Daryl’s House” are crack live units.

layla
derek and the dominoes 1971