tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39611075895521250422024-03-12T16:50:05.870-07:00Ditties and BeerFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-55417320336567093882010-12-24T15:38:00.000-08:002010-12-24T15:38:06.633-08:00The Beatles Let It Be - the second Glyn Johns mixI'm sure you are all aware of the story behind the Beatles' Let It Be album, how they kept recording and recording and then finally hired Phil Spector to go through the mess and come up with a good sounding record. Spector was legendary for overproducing music. His work was sometimes referred to as the Phil Spector wall of sound.
Anyway, Glyn Johns, a legendary producer in his own right, did a Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-30912420556742724722010-11-21T10:54:00.000-08:002010-11-21T18:45:02.051-08:00Pink Floyd - 40 years ago todayOn November 21st, 1970, forty years ago today, Pink Floyd played the first night of a two night stand at Montreux Casino. This show began at a very late hour and Roger Waters said during the show that it was "Too late for mind expanding." The show ended up so late that they felt it was best to conclude the set with some slow blues.
The two shows are my favorite Pink Floyd shows of that era. TheyFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-48604644859372936612010-11-20T13:19:00.000-08:002010-11-20T13:19:31.632-08:00Leon Russell - Sideman and showman
Photo by Evan Semon, denverpost.com/reverb
I really like the fact that Elton John decided to pluck Leon Russell out of relative obscurity and do an album and tour of duets together. Leon's always been one of my favorite session guys, and I always liked his solo work. He's one of the most overlooked sidemen in the second half of the last century. When Joe Cocker's band broke up days before a bigFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-26169495404955844972010-11-05T18:31:00.000-07:002010-11-05T18:31:51.930-07:00Drink! Drink! Drink! - The Student PrinceIt's Friday evening and its a great time for a beer! I mentioned this song in an earlier post and it's great background for the first beer of your weekend. Enjoy!
Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-78602028439305682722010-10-30T17:20:00.000-07:002010-11-21T18:29:17.655-08:00Robert Plant and the Band of Joy - The Roundhouse, London, October 29, 2010
1st Band of Joy, with Plant (middle) and Bonham (front)
Musically, Robert Plant has been around the block. He and drummer John Bonham were picked out of a band called Band of Joy by a certain guitarist to play in a band that I'm sure a few of you may have heard of.
That band broke up after reaching cult status, and afterward Plant performed in the Honeydrippers, reunited with Jimmy Page in a Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-5322930887340937002010-10-25T20:28:00.000-07:002010-10-26T13:21:44.571-07:00Gregory Isaacs - RIP to the Cool Ruler - UPDATEGregory Isaacs died today at the age of 59. He was known throughout the reggae world as the foremost proponent of "lovers rock". He was the favorite performer of many women reggae fans. He had the smoothest style of anyone in the genre I can think of. Listen to him once and you know why he was called the Cool Ruler.
The first time I ever saw Gregory was in a movie called Rockers. He played a Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-89856425968968604562010-10-24T11:23:00.000-07:002010-10-24T16:14:08.328-07:00U2 - the Pro bono ethicU2 began its life as an Irish rock band in 1976. Paul Hewson (Bono), Adam Clayton, Larry Mullins, Jr., and David Evans (The Edge) got together, taught themselves how to play their instruments, practiced, and about 5 years later managed to become good enough to secure a contract with Island records. In another 5 years they'd become one of the top bands in the world.
It is impossible to Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-76177230772112821312010-10-23T13:50:00.000-07:002010-10-23T20:52:38.427-07:00Eric Clapton - Nothing But The BluesI mentioned Eric Clapton on an earlier post, about how he battled alcohol and drugs for years. He managed to overcome both and had been living a sober life for many years. It was in 1993 when he began work to found the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. The facility is dedicated toward teaching ways to be abstinent towards drugs and alcohol and other addictive tendencies and changing the lifestyle Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-27397325690068381352010-10-23T12:16:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:32:56.280-07:00Janis Joplin - Kozmic Blues and great beerI was in Anchor Brewing a few years ago for work when I spotted some photographs hanging on the wall in the tasting room. They showed Janis Joplin and the rest of Big Brother and the Holding Company drinking beer during their own brewery tour. They all were smiling as they held their beer. I'm usually smiling too when I'm holding one of their beers. I'm particularly fond of Old Foghorn, their Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-10202089315913936392010-10-22T17:39:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:06:01.536-07:00ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
I have a great recording of a ZZ Top show I want to share with you in a minute, but first I've got to tell you when I started thinking about what I was going to write, I realized I didn't know a whole lot about the band. I started listening to them beginning with their second album entitled Rio Grande Mud. I'd thought that was their first until I saw ZZ Top's First Album in the record bins.
Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-84771636098189387492010-10-22T13:51:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:06:37.133-07:00Led Zeppelin - After the 2007 reunionAfter Led Zeppelin broke up following John Bonham's death on September 25, 1980 due to alcohol related causes, the remaining members went their own way for a few years. The Live Aid benefit concerts in 1985 enticed Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones to reunite and the show was a total failure. There were problems with Page's guitar, the monitors weren't working and Plant's voice was Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-54886203541356110022010-10-22T08:46:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:07:14.460-07:00Stevie Ray Vaughan - Legendary lost first albumA lot of people know that Stevie Ray Vaughan got his first big break from David Bowie when Bowie hired him to play on his Let's Dance album that was released in 1983. That is true. I'm not sure where Bowie had first heard of SRV, it might have been somewhere in Texas, but it might also have been at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982. Stevie Ray appeared there as a result of Jerry Wexler watching Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-36135682570989318002010-10-21T21:37:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:08:05.040-07:00The Faces - Redefining sloppy, in a good wayIn an earlier post I wrote a little about the effects that beer or other forms of alcohol can have on a band and the music the band plays. A little can help and a little more can go a long way. One band that always sounded to me at least to be on the edge of drinking too much was Faces. I'm not certain if they really did have a few before performing or not, but it sure sounded that way to my earsFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-69761360739835242752010-10-21T15:15:00.000-07:002010-10-21T15:16:08.884-07:00And now, a word from our sponsor...Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-15207434668197068902010-10-21T12:19:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:08:49.671-07:00Los Lobos - Fighting the boredom of touringI once had a job as an electrical field engineer. I'd travel from city to city installing newspaper printing presses. The hours were long and you'd spend months away from home. I'd have to work with people that I hardly knew, or had just met on the job. I'd spend many hours at work with these strangers with not a lot to talk about. Many days after work a co-worker nicknamed Skeeter or Pork Chop Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-23818153341951242412010-10-19T17:12:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:09:27.497-07:00Mix Tapes at old Drakes BrewingI mentioned a craft brewery in an earlier post that I used to live nearby called Drakes. For many years they held tastings on Friday's after work and I made many a good friend during those years. The tastings had all the ambiance of a tailgate party at a sporting event because we usually hung around outside in the parking lot, walking around with a pint glass in out hands and chatting with othersFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-45472047875099384752010-10-18T10:58:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:01:57.958-07:00Miles Davis - 40 years ago, more or lessMiles Davis was the most influential jazz musician ever. He was born to a well-off family in downstate Illinois and began taking trumpet lessons when he was 13. While living in East St. Louis his family gave him his first taste of jazz by taking him to see Billy Eckstine who had Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker on tour with him. After he graduated high school in 1946 he went to New York City toFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-14546173760822111812010-10-17T17:26:00.000-07:002010-10-17T18:58:56.578-07:00Denogginizer From Drake's Brewing CompanyFirst off, I've got to admit a couple of things. I am a hop-head, that being I like my beer heavily hopped. I've also got to admit I'm biased toward a brewery that was nearby to an old apartment of mine in San Leandro, CA, where I used to live. I cut my craft beer teeth at Drake's Brewing Company in the mid 90's and since then have enjoyed the majority of the beers I've had of theirs. One of my Fossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-27401918157589857112010-10-17T16:56:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:09:54.697-07:00Bonnie Raitt and friends - 38 years ago todayOn October 17th of 1972, Bonnie Raitt came to Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, NY to perform before a small crowd and the microphones of FM station WLIR. She brought along Freebo, who usually played bass and sometimes tuba with her. She also brought along Lowell George from Little Feat and John Hammond.
This was recorded before Bonnie developed that whisky quality to her voice that was theFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961107589552125042.post-83188818156719890642010-10-17T15:58:00.000-07:002010-10-23T15:10:28.715-07:00Hardly Strictly EmmylouThe Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival was just here a couple of weeks ago and I missed it this year. Unavoidable. This has rapidly turned into one of the top festivals in the country, attracting a very diverse array of talent. The festival also allows you to bring in your own refreshments, meaning you can listen to world class music with your favorite beer.
The performer who always performsFossilhippiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11573518367304836299noreply@blogger.com0