I am Music

[Angeline]

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan is one of my favorite songs. The version I really like is by the Byrds, but I can't find that on YouTube, so check these out instead:

• Dylan, 1965, looking young.
• Dylan, 1995, looking old and strangely similar to Keith Richards.
• Van Morrison, looking really creepy, like a raincoat wearing exhibitionist.
• Them, AKA a younger Van Morrison, from the soundtrack of Romeo Is Bleeding. Way better.
• Hey, Joan Baez! Kind of a trip.
• Hole. Courtney's kind of subdued, and of all of these, this is my favorite.

You're righto, the Courtney cover is the best. I really love Van Morrison, but sometimes it's better to just hear the music.

 

[tungtied2u]

You're righto, the Courtney cover is the best. I really love Van Morrison, but sometimes it's better to just hear the music.

OK...here's the the Byrds (well Roger McGuinn and David Crosby at least) doing
Mr. Tambourine Man...with a special guest live..

 

[tungtied2u]

e&e for ee and ange....

 

[tungtied2u]

Roy Orbison & kd lang....Crying

 

[Tzara]

OK...here's the the Byrds (well Roger McGuinn and David Crosby at least) doing
Mr. Tambourine Man...with a special guest live..

Excellent find, Mr. Tung. That is Chris Hillman on bass and I think its Michael Clarke on drums. I can't tell if that other guy lurking around is Gene Clark or not, but it at least four-fifths of the original Byrds, so pretty close.

I know they reunited at their Rock Hall induction. Is this from that performance?

Very cool, anyway. Bob looks good too. McGuinn looks great--he even almost makes the mullet look stylish.

Thanks.

 

[Tzara]

Roy Orbison & kd lang....Crying

This is great. They're both great. Super find, tt.

You know, one of the things I love about this thread is that it inspires one-upmanship. In a good way. Someone posts a great vid, you wander around trying to find a better one.

I don't know if this is better, but it is my favorite Roy Orbison song: Pretty Woman. Good backup band, too. I recognize Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, and the Man, Mr. James Burton. His Telecaster duel with Bruce almost makes you forget Roy, but not quite.

Also reminds you that Bruce does know how to play guitar.

This one's a keeper, folks.

ETA: I think this clip must be from Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.

ETA(2): Duh. Tom Waits on keyboards? This gets better all the time.

 

[Tzara]

I had one of my wisdom teeth taken out today. Frankly, I Wanna Be Sedated.

 

[Tzara]

I know I'm showing my age here, but here's another long-time favorite song, not from when it was originally recorded (Geez, people, I was only six years old when Sonny Curtis and the Crickets did this!), but made famous by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1965: I Fought the Law. So take your pick among these fine renditions:

• The Bobby Fuller Four--still the best version, in my opinion. Dig the Go-Go girl in the background. Yes, people did in fact dance like that, though almost always on national television. Small town dances were not affected.
• Billy Bragg and the Neighborhoods. A good version, but a really lousy recording.
• Stray Cats: Pretty good, actually, though perhaps a little tossed off. Figures they can do it well, though--roots rock band. I think they need to raise their ticket prices so they can afford shirts. Odd that it is "recorded in Paris in 1989" and the announcer is speaking French, but the subtitles are in Japanese. Ah, we are an global world!
• Green Day. Disappointing and surprisingly boring, in my take. Eyeshadow on guys is so early Bowie.
• Finally, The Clash. Right up their sociopolitical alley, so to speak, and pretty good. I still like the BF4, though. So I'm sentimental. Sue me.

 

[tungtied2u]

I had one of my wisdom teeth taken out today. Frankly, I Wanna Be Sedated.

I had 2 roommates when I went to college in Ann Arbor in 1970...both were music buffs. One was from the Philly area, the other from Detroit.
Detroit was responsible for turning me on to Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, the MC5, oh, and this guy.... a living testament to how much abuse the body can take.

 

[Tzara]

I had 2 roommates when I went to college in Ann Arbor in 1970...both were music buffs. One was from the Philly area, the other from Detroit.
Detroit was responsible for turning me on to Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, the MC5, oh, and this guy.... a living testament to how much abuse the body can take.

Oh, God, the MC5! They absolutely rocked. And they were really really loud.

So. How about something from Mrs. Fred "Sonic" Smith?

 

[RunningJib]

Feel it w/ my soul

Finding your music inside ..what best describes who and what you are feeling
at a given moment in time...I have found music is the way to describe what we are inner most feeling...give it a shot..in the moment ever changing...high and low...
me at this moment in time..what song do you hum...

Sunny Came Down

I'm really enjoying this thread.

I'm into blues and really dig jazz and there are those songs that just make me stop and listen.

Something that causes me to cry is Miles Davis playing "Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)" from his Porgy and Bess album.

Then there's the soulful side of me that has to hear “In a Sentimental Mood” by John Coltrane.

Of course, I can’t go without hearing Hugh Masekela. Really dig “Coal Train.” As for what I can find on YouTube, here’s something with Hugh’s classic rhythms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1M905QR8g

 

[RunningJib]

Son-of-a-gun

Here's some classic Miles Davis and John Coltrane via YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TbrgIdm0E

 

[Angeline]

I'm really enjoying this thread.

I'm into blues and really dig jazz and there are those songs that just make me stop and listen.

Something that causes me to cry is Miles Davis playing "Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)" from his Porgy and Bess album.

Then there's the soulful side of me that has to hear “In a Sentimental Mood” by John Coltrane.

Of course, I can’t go without hearing Hugh Masekela. Really dig “Coal Train.” As for what I can find on YouTube, here’s something with Hugh’s classic rhythms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1M905QR8g

I have the Miles Davis Porgy and Bess cd. It's beautiful, I think it's my favorite version of Porgy and Bess (I have a cd of Ella and Louis doing it, too). Miles' version of Bess, You Is My Woman Now is my favorite, just haunting. But I went searching on YouTube, and found this marvelous, emotional version of I Love You, Porgy by the late, great Miss Nina Simone.

And welcome to this forum and this thread. I'm a jazz nut myself, always happy to see another of us here.

Edited to add: Here's a version of Nina doing the same song from 1962 that is just wow, transcendent.

 

[RunningJib]

Some of the soulful Miles

Hope you enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWXMJuuIEg&mode=related&search=

 

[RunningJib]

That is quite nice

I have the Miles Davis Porgy and Bess cd. It's beautiful, I think it's my favorite version of Porgy and Bess (I have a cd of Ella and Louis doing it, too). Miles' version of Bess, You Is My Woman Now is my favorite, just haunting. But I went searching on YouTube, and found this marvelous, emotional version of I Love You, Porgy by the late, great Miss Nina Simone.

And welcome to this forum and this thread. I'm a jazz nut myself, always happy to see another of us here.

Edited to add: Here's a version of Nina doing the same song from 1962 that is just wow, transcendent.

Very lovely.

Have you heard Miles & Gil Evan's collaboration “Sketches of Spain?” Not for every one, but one of my favorites.

 

[RunningJib]

How about a flash from a past

Some electronic and the legendary voice of Shirley Bassey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZ9k7ADknY

 

[Angeline]

More Gershwin

Here's Ella Fitzgerald backed by the Count Basie Orchestra and featuring Little Jazz himself, Roy Eldridge, on trumpet doing Our Love is Here to Stay. I listen to this and close my eyes and think life is beautiful.

 

[Angeline]

Genius

Bud Powell

 

[Angeline]

Short but oh so sweet

Ben Webster with most of the original Count Basie Band doing C Jam Blues. That's Papa Jo Jones on drums.

 

[tungtied2u]

Feeling a bit setimental..

had forgotten how lovely this song is....

but not as lovely as you

 

[Tzara]

Dreamin' Retro

Ah, the Sixties! Free love! Drugs! Long hair! Radical politics!

Here's a clip of the Jefferson Airplane playing The House at Pooneil Corners on a Manhattan rooftop in 1968, filmed by famed Frenchie auteuriste director Jean-Luc Godard (he's like the first person you see in the clip). Great song, which segues, to my ear, from 4/4 to 7/8 time. There's even an old Sunn amplifier in it. Very, very cool.

But not the ultimate in coolness, by any means. That may be this clip of the Velvet Underground doing Venus in Furs circa the Andy Warhol Exploding Plastic Inevitable days. Do I spy Bobby Mapplethorpe among the celebrants? I'm not sure, but I think that's gotta be Edie Sedgwick doing that bouncy 60s bunny dancin'. The only thing that's missing is maybe Nico and Andy hisself, but that guy with the whip makes up for them being MIA.

Almost.

 

[Angeline]

Very lovely.

Have you heard Miles & Gil Evan's collaboration “Sketches of Spain?” Not for every one, but one of my favorites.

I haven't though I love Sketches of Spain and Rodrguez's Spanish Concerto, on which Miles (loosely) based Sketches. I bet I would like it though; I'm pretty fond of symphonic-sounding jazz like Ellington's Anatomy of a Murder.

 

[Tzara]

Virtuoso is a term that is, if anything, way overused. Not with this guy, though, in my opinion. Here's the late Jaco Pastorius in an (almost?) solo performance off, I think, the Joni Mitchell Hejira tour.

Frickin' awesome. Makes the concept of lead bass guitar not an oxymoron.

 

[Tzara]

Oh, man. The guy had great hands. Both left and right. Just watch.

 

[tungtied2u]

Oh, man. The guy had great hands. Both left and right. Just watch.

More hands hard at work...School Days are over....time for Rites of String...