from arguably their best album, the title track to weather report's "this is this"...

my friends an' fellow americans who might follow my humble and un-utube visual prompts...

i misspoke...or, worse, miss slurred, depending on the heinies gulped at the time; beer-chained-drinker that i am...

BUTT!!!

actually, "procession" is my fave weather report album; 'this is this' prolly two...

if curious: pls chk out the "drummer" of all peeps, w/his 'molassos run'...and follow the bass run at 4 minutes...

Pat Donohue - Would You Like to Play the Guitar?
 

Pat Donohue - Would You Like to Play the Guitar?

Whitesnake 1987
 

Any guy with one leg who can dance and play the flute is a demigod.

Had throat cancer, still sings -- Ian Anderson is cool as fuck. :tup:

Now I want to hear "Nothing is Easy"... (EDIT: oh, there it is ^^^^ Thanks!)

On that note, some sad news: Did anyone else hear that B.B. King is apparently in hospice??? :(

Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
 

And now for something completely different...

Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

...and, from her 1st album: "the first time ever i saw your face"...(bookend w/gordie lightfoot's excellent "the last time i saw her face")...

Man, I love Tull...

Everyone's heard Aqualung a zillion times, and locomotive breath is posted, so... here's My God -- powerful song.



P.S.

I had them all, Songs From the Wood, Broadsword and the Beast, Aqualung, Passion Play, Living in the Past (great song as well as album, BTW) Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock and Roll Too Young to Die, etc. etc.

Gateway music for punk rock, this and Black Sabbath, I always thought. I never met any punk rockers not into Jethro Tull and Ozzy. You have this quiet little melodic rebellion music and it inspires a whole generation of spiky anti-Thatcherite Brits and anracho-punk. It doesn't seem that way, but think of early Damned or even the Pistols. Sure they borrowed from the Ramones who borrowed from the garage rockers and the R&B/do-wop bands, but the connections are there.

You can hear Black Sabbath influences in like pretty much everything and a lot of Tull in a god bit of stuff too (Crass, maybe even a little Subhumans, anyone?)

And in that vein: Hymn 43

Okay, well guess I should share this too if I haven't already done so drunkenly and forgotten -- been in my heavy rotation list lately -- BRILLIANT ALBUM





Back into D.O.A. too lately...

Friday need a likkl roots for i and i.





Then, fe allaya rudebwoys

Oh, and this was playing in my head, so I guess that counts... "reality" is all an illusion of neural interpolation of the physical universe, so therefore I was listening to this just as if it were playing outside of my head (that sounds like I need some thorazine...)

Never mind. Just listen.





Great song, but not crazy enough. Maybe some Melt Banana next... hmmm...

Okay last one -- a likkl rubadub: Eek-a-mouse!





Peel sessions if you like...




I'll save Melt Banana for when I'm feeling less mellow...