What are you listening right now ?

most best ever

So which one’s got the real purty mouf?

My barber was playing this.
I feel like it’s from another timeline, a world in which the singularity never happened.
I never knew there were people still making psychedelic blues/doom/jazz music.

My 2 cats tearing up the house chasing each other around, now that I’m turning off all the lights.

"Masters of War"
Eddie Vedder · Mike McCready · G.E. Smith
Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992

Eddie Vedder crushes this cover of the Bob Dylan classic.

Eddie is joined by bandmate Mike McCready (guitar) of Pearl Jam and G.E. Smith (mandolin), who cut his chops first with Hall and Oates, and then later at Saturday Night Live.

The sound may be a tiny bit cleaner on the official release, but that one has no video.

Eddie Vedder with Johnny Depp – "Society" (live, 2010)

Take the chords I, IV, V, and vi, put them in any order, and—voilà!—you've got a good pop song. In this case, the chords are C, F, G, and Am, but the real fun is the appearance of Johnny Depp.

This performance is not that great, in large part because the cell-phone video is shaky, but the Johnny sighting makes it interesting.

Rare and brilliant recording:

Elizabeth Cotten: “Washington Blues” and “I’m Going Away”

Bon Scott, RIP

Every single Led Zeppelin song is a masterpiece.

"The Rain Song" by Led Zeppelin

For sure!

This week, I've been digging a ballad from Houses of the Holy. John Paul Jones composed a splendid orchestration to accompany the fine guitar work by Jimmy Page.

Ran into it on a reaction video by classical composer Doug Helvering.

Yep, I love every Led Zeppelin song there is.

I can't say that about hardly any of the musical acts that I like.

Thanks for this! Elizabeth Cotten is yet another blues great that I had never heard before.

About halfway through the first song, the camera zoomed in, and I noticed that her guitar is strung upside down, with the bass strings on the bottom. I guess there’s more than a few southpaws who learned that way. Made me want to check her entry on Wikipedia:

Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (née Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987)[1][2][3] was an American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down.[4] This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as “Cotten picking”.[5]

The Dalai Lama…

I’m not surprised you’d appreciate her talent and her performance. While Led Zeppelin was undoubtedly one of the most talented and influential rock groups of all time, they obviously borrowed much of their catalog from the work of earlier, less well-known artists, many of whom received little recognition for their talent and even less financial reward. The female musicians, in particular, from whom Led Zeppelin borrowed (e.g., Anne Bredon, Memphis Minnie, etc.), never received the credit they deserve for pioneering the blues, folk, and rock styles, and often received no royalties for their music when performed by more famous rock musicians.

Yeah, I listened to so much “Zep” when I was a kid that I got sick of ’em. Every Single Day back’n’forth to school.

I always laffed when people called ’em “heavy metal”, though, and I’d correct them with “heavy blues, ya mean, right?”.

Yeah, Led Zep was definitely a blues band. I know how you feel about hearing too much of a particular band. One of my freshman roommates (in a horribly-mismatched room full of them) played Fleetwood Mac 24/7, very loudly. To this day, I can’t enjoy listening to them.

The Dead Southhttps://youtu.be/B9FzVhw8_bY