Another one of my Criterion Collections’ 50% off purchases was “Jimi Plays Monterey / Shake! Otis at Monterey” which documents each artists’ performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. This is directed by D.A. Pennebaker – for the most part, straight concert footage is used, a credit to Pennebaker’s taste. One point where this…
I’m finding that I’m enjoying R&B more as I grow older. I continue to enjoy alternative country, americana, folk, roots, or whatever you want to call it. There continues to be a wealth of world music out there that I need to take pains to explore – the same goes for jazz. Great music continues…
Happy New Year! I feel like starting off the New Year with a blog post to get my brain’s RPMs up a little this morning. I’m trying to catch up on all the music releases in 2010 that I missed and there’s quite a few. This was inspired by my friend’s “Best of 2010” list.…
My friend Mike Moody pointed me to this quiz this morning. Given the “Top 20” guitar solo series, I felt obligated to post it here – it’s pretty easy, but still fun.
http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=68
I found this on the LAist blog, and I’ll just wholesale quote from them – sums up my feelings nicely: Here’s a little something to help wash out the taint of Celine Dion’s “tribute” to Ennio Morricone at last night’s Oscars. Sure, Celine has a great set of pipes. No one will argue that. But…
I don’t think this is nearly Page’s best example, but, it is the best I could find: The studio version is better, but that’s splitting hairs – all in all a great song and solo. The original solo was recorded on a ’58 Telecaster. Nice. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.…
This is way too long for my tastes, but Eruption is a classic solo and this clip is fun for it shows Eddie in his heyday, showing off (or being a showman, if you prefer)
You’ve heard it too many times, I’ve heard it too many times. It’s still a great song and solo, though. Even though there’s too many crowd shots in this video, they’re fun to watch.
A beautiful, tasteful solo – melodic and mournful:
The video and audio is a little crappy, but the solos on this are, indeed, amazing. From the Atlanta Pop Festival, summer of 1970, apparently – the original poster didn’t put it in the title, but the comments on the YouTube post seem to nail down the show – can’t be sure. FWIW, I dedicate…
