Birthdays : KIM GORDON

 Happy birthday to Kim Gordon, born in Rochester, New York on this day in 1963

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

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Billy Gibbons on Jimi | Don’s Tunes

 

Photo: Stefan Sappert

Billy Gibbons was still in his teens when he founded Houston, Texas psych-blues band The Moving Sidewalks, and secured a booking to support The Jimi Hendrix Experience at shows in Fort Worth and Houston in February 1968. The Moving Sidewalks were required to play a 40-minute set each night in their contract, and Gibbons quickly realised that the only way that his band could stretch their set to the required length was by including the two Jimi Hendrix covers they regularly played at gigs, his 1967 singles Foxy Lady and Purple Haze. It's not as if Hendrix would notice, right?

Wrong.

"I'll never forget the opening night, we played Foxy Lady and were going into the intro to Purple Haze, and I happened to look over to the side of the stage, and there in the shadows was Jimi Hendrix with his arms folded, grinning.

"When we walked off stage, he grabbed me and said, I like you. You've got a lot of nerve. Later, there was quite a bit of panic as we tried to get hotel rooms. We were escorted to the far end of the hallway. But Jimi said, 'Hey, take the room across the way'."

Asked by writer David Fricke what lessons he took from his time with Hendrix, Gibbons noted that the Seattle-born guitarist "was doing things with the electric guitar that had not even been thought of, that it was not designed for."

"I was playing a Stratocaster, another thing that endeared me to him," he recalled. One night, in the hotel, he said, 'Come check this out.' He was taking the spring off the whammy bar, cutting two [coils] off the spring so you could really push the bar down - just dive bomb."

"There was the string-bending - how he got that effect in Foxy Lady - and that powerhouse backing of Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. Jimi often said, 'Man, isn't it great? I can go from here to the stratosphere, knowing that l've got a rock-solid wall supporting those excursions. Nobody loses the beat. Nobody loses the sense of where the music is going.' From that, I had Dusty and Frank doing much the same, offering a rock-solid foundation: going through the changes but hammering the tonic. That lives on today."

By Paul Brannigan

Don's Tunes

Grateful Dead - China Cat Flower [Dick’s Picks Vol 28] | jt674

  . . . .aww Grateful Dead and I don’t mind China Cat Flower but in terms of singers poor Jerry is WAY down the list: Pigpen, Donna, Phil, Bob, Brett, Vince, heck even Robert Hunter before wimpy nasal whine Garcia! just me . . . never was much of Dead head! Noodles and choogling anyone?

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/814963496729165824/grateful-dead-china-cat-sunflower

Fred Frith - Evolution [Cheap At Half The Price] |jt1674

 . . .an unusual one this I thought but we have featured Fred from the album before yes? 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/814984023458955264/fred-frith-evolution

John Hiatt - Sure As I’m Sittin’ Here [Hangin' Round the Observatory ] | jt1674

 . . . . mo’ Johnny! 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/814962852423172096/john-hiatt-sure-as-im-sittin-here

Joan Armatrading - I Am Not in Love [nearly 40 years ago]

 Always rather socially inept at communicating at first with her audiences Alan is right here in that it just comes over here as endearing but boy she could ramble on! I am Not in Love . . . but we were!

A sweet Joan Armatrading flashback from 39 years ago, courtesy of the BBC.

 In addition to containing the song that initially brought Joan to the world's attention, this footage is also notable for her band, which was sporting Jerry Donahue (who previously served as the lead guitarist in Sandy Denny's band Fotheringay, as well as during her return to Fairport Convention circa 1974-75) and David Kemper, who would later play drums in both Jerry Garcia's and Bob Dylan's bands.

Alan Bershaw

Kelly Boesch - Eloquent [AI music]

 

Kelly Boesch 

Kelly Says: I have always disliked the way I speak. I think many of us feel the same way. The words sound so beautiful inside my head but by the time they make their way out of my mouth they sound completely different and not even close to the way they started in my head. I was up in San Francisco recently at an event and was listening to these artists speak and one of them was so eloquent and the way he spoke was so beautiful. Exactly how I wished I could speak. So I wrote this song at the airport on the way home. It was written more like train of thought than actual lyrics but it worked. I think I express myself better with my visuals and songs. When I don’t have to speak them. I had a hard time figuring out what type of video to make for this song. Normally I make the visuals first. So my idea behind this one is the women representing the words in a beautiful way. Even though there aren’t actual words in their costumes. It’s just a concept

Additional production from @marshallaltman . Full song on streaming.

Eloquent

[Verse 1]

In my head, it all makes sense

Every word just lands

Soft and clear and confident

Exactly how I planned

But it trips on my tongue,

Loses what I meant

Turns into a different shape

Before it’s even said

[Pre-Chorus]

I hear it one way

Then it slips away

[Chorus]

I swear I’m eloquent inside my head

But when I speak, I second guess

And all the beauty turns to less

I’m fluent in the feeling, yes

Just not as eloquent

[Verse 2]

Then I hear someone like you

Words just falling free

Like you don’t have to think at all

It’s just what you believe

And I could listen all night long

The way it flows so true

It’s not envy in my chest

It’s something close to love for you

[Pre-Chorus]

The way it all connects

[Chorus]

You sound so eloquent out loud like that

Like nothing’s missing, nothing cracked

And I’m right here, trying to do the same

But mine don’t land that way

I don’t want your voice, your style, your sense

Just want to feel that confidence

I’m fluent in the feeling, yes

Just not as eloquent

[Bridge]

Maybe it’s okay

If it comes out wrong

If it takes a while

To say what I mean at all

Maybe there’s a way

My words can still belong

[Final Chorus]

I’m still eloquent inside my mind

And maybe that’s a place to start

If it comes out slow or rearranged

It doesn’t mean it’s not the same

I’m holding gold, it just takes time

To bring it from my head to light

I’m fluent in the feeling, yes

And learning to be eloquent

Steve Winwood / WW1 Superstar Concert 89=23 / Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 1988 | Voodoo Wagon

Steve Winwood / WW1 Superstar Concert 89=23 / Great Woods, Mansfield, MA 1988

VOODOO WAGON

a draftervoi special

Steve Winwood
Superstar Concert Series
Show 89-23

For broadcast the weekend of September 1, 1989

Recorded at:
Great Woods Performing Arts Center
Mansfield, MA
August 21 or 22, 1988

These are the Tracks : in between adverts and jingles the only songs from Winwood are as follows:

Sides 1, 2 and 3:

03 Steve Winwood - Freedom Overspill

04 Steve Winwood - Put On Your Dancing Shoes

09 Steve Winwood - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do

10 Steve Winwood - The Finer Things

14 Steve Winwood - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

15 Steve Winwood - Glad

Sides 4, 5 and 6:

20 Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance

21 Steve Winwood - Roll With It

26 Steve Winwood - Valerie

27 Steve Winwood - Higher Love

31 Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again

32 Steve Winwood - Gimme Some Lovin'

This one’s from draftervoi at the Wagon and they say: We've got 300 dpi scans of the cue sheet, all six disc labels, a newspaper print ad for a ticket broker that proves Winwood played two nights at Great Woods Performing Arts Center on August 21 and 22, 1988.  There's no evidence which date (or if both) was the source of the recording. 

This set of tracks was broadcast three times by Westwood One.  The first broadcast was 88-G broadcast in December 1988, followed by this show (89-23), and then the final broadcast as 90-03.  I put up 89-23 back in 2013 and it's still up in our archives. If you've got that one, you don't need this version unless you want to collect 'em all for the commercials.  I've tossed in the print ad for 88-G, even though this isn't from that particular syndication.

Steve Winwood - Put on Your Dancing Shoes (Live August 21 1988, Great Woods Center, Mansfield, MA, USA)

The band:

Stevie Winwood: Guitar 

LeeAnn Phelan: backing vocals, keyboards

Michael Rhodes: bass

Anthony Crawford: guitar, fiddle

Bashiri Johnson: percussion

Randall Bramblett: saxophone, keyboards

Hollie Farris: trumpet

Russ Kunkel: drums

Mike Lawler: keyboards

drafters final shot is this most excellent piccie:

You know it makes sense!

Bert Jansch - Dragonfly (A Rare Conundrum) | jt1674

 This . . . . . . . Maestro . . . . might sign off the day with this one . . . . . . 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/814966082824765440/bert-jansch-dragonfly

David Bowie [Featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan] - 1983-04-27 - Dallas, TX (SBD) | so many roads

 David Bowie - 1983-04-27 - Dallas, TX (SBD)

A SPEEDY SPECIAL

David Bowie
with Stevie Ray Vaughan
1983-04-27
Tour Rehearsals
Las Colinas
Dallas Texas
Soundboard Recording

CD 1
01. Star
02. Heroes
03. What In The World
04. Look Back In Anger
05. Joe The Lion
06. Wild Is The Wind
07. Golden Years
08. Fashion
09. Lets Dance
10. Red Sails
11. Breaking Glass
12. Life On Mars
13. Sorrow
14. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
15. China Girl
16. Scary Monsters (Super Creeps)
17. Rebel Rebel
18. I Can't Explain
19. White Light White Heat

CD 2:
01. Station to Station
02. Cracked Actor
03. Ashes to Ashes
04. Space Oddity
05. Youn Americans
06. Soul Love
07. Hang onto Yourself
08. Fame
09. TVC15
10. Stay
11. Jean Genie
12. Modern Love

Speedy says:

David Bowie was part of the 1996 Rock Hall Of Fame class, which also included Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground. David Byrne of the Talking Heads presented Bowie for induction. Bowie, wasn’t in the building, however, as he was in Helsinki, Finland, touring in support of his album, Outside. Madonna accepted on his behalf, and Marianne Faithful performed Rebel Rebel.  Stevie Ray Vaughn was elected in 2015, along with his band Double Trouble. Other inductees that year included Lou Reed, Bill Withers, Joan Jett and Ringo Starr.

This post goes back 13 years earlier to Bowie's tour in support of the Let's Dance album, when he teamed up with Vaughn. While attending the 1982 Montreux Jazz Festival, Bowie was impressed by a then unknown blues guitarist by the name of Stevie Ray Vaughan. So much so, that Bowie invited Vaughan to play on his next album. That disc, entitled, Let’s Dance, would blend a dance format with blues guitar rock to create a distinctive and unique sound. The public loved it, as the album went to #4 on the US Billboard charts and climbed all the way to the top spot in the UK. The album yielded 3 top 15 singles in the US, Modern Love at #14, China Girl at #10 and the title track which reached #1. When Bowie went on tour in support of the album, however, SRV could not accompany him due to contractual issues. This soundboard recording captures the tour rehearsals in Dallas on April 27, 1983, 3 decades ago today. Download this one to hear the unique partnership of David Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughn. 

SUPERB QUALITY!!

David Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughan - Heroes 1983 live @Dallas, Texas

David Bowie - (vocals, guitar, saxophone)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - (guitar)

Carlos Alomar - (guitar)

Tony Thompson - (percussion)

Carmine Rojas - (bass)

David LeBolt - (keyboards)

Steve Elson - (saxophone)

Lenny Pickett - (saxophone)

Stan Harrison - (saxophone)

Frank Simms - (backing vocals)

George Simms - (backing vocals)

David Bowie & Stevie Ray Vaughn - Life On Mars - Dallas, TEXAS USA - April 27, (1983)