. . . . . after gilded splinters some folks found the voodoo hoodoo schtick of the good Dr a tad much . . .scary crows anyone? Sun herb and moon you say? . . . sweet dreams!
Tuesday, April 07, 2026
Rory Gallagher - 1971-03-30 - Paris, France | Heavybootz
Rory Gallagher - 1971-03-30 - Paris, France
Rory Gallagher
La Taverne De L Olympia, Paris, France
1971-03-30
1971-03-30
sbd (TV ina.fr > videorip-audio > remastered)mp3 @ 320 [88 mb]sq: EX
01 Intro Jam
02 Hands Up
03 Wave Myself Goodbye
04 It Takes Time
05 For The Last Time
06 It's The Same Thing
07 I Fall Apart
tt: 38:41Rory Gallagher - guitar, vocals
Gerry McAvoy - bass
Wilgar Campbell - drumsnote: 1st gig of this line-up
This is truly fascinating just because it is SO early and pre-Taste I think with a song list that may catch some out. But the quality from the good Dr (THC) is astonishing and really worth checking out!
Beauty in Duck Soup!
Raquel Torres in Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
It’s a Marx Bros Film!
They knew what they were doing!
DEEP END (Theatrical Trailer) 1970 | Via Gary Lucas’ Facebook page
Gary Lucas posted this . . for me and n the point that purely gratuitous oon the basis that it featured Jane Asher in her most erotic role and the music was done by Cat Stevens, there is THIS!
The clips of Jane and John in the cinema scene are frequently posted on film clip sites and especially erotic it is too!
John Hillcoat (Dir) The Secret Film of Bob Dylan for the Nobel Committee | Flagging Down The Double Es | RAY PADGETT
The Secret Performance Bob Dylan Filmed for the Nobel Committee
Director John Hillcoat shares the never-heard story, plus discusses his work on Desert Trip and several music video projects
In the 2010s, director John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Road, George & Tammy) worked with Bob Dylan on several different film projects. The first was a new music video for “Visions of Johanna,” to promote 2015’s The Cutting EdgeBootleg Series. Dylan didn’t appear in the video—in fact, Hillcoat hadn’t even met him yet—but he gave notes.
From there, their collaborations grew more direct. Next came the Desert Trip music festival, the giant 2016 concert bringing together six of the biggest names in the ’60s-rock pantheon for two blowout weekends in California. Hillcoat was brought in to oversee what would be shown on the screens behind Dylan. It was the biggest screen in the world at that time, a fact Dylan did not necessarily view as a good thing. As Hillcoat recounts, this situation caused no shortage of backstage drama.
There were a couple other music video ideas that came and went before Hillcoat’s final project with Dylan: Several days in a film studio outside Dublin shooting a private performance to be shown to the Nobel Committee. The details of this project have never been reported before. It was to serve as Dylan’s acceptance speech of a sort, a private video to present to the Nobel people in order for him to collect his prize. After days of filming and editing, though—well, I’ll let Hillcoat explain what happened.
Since this is a long conversation covering several distinct projects, I’ve inserted mini-headlines to serve as guideposts, starting with…
“VISIONS OF JOHANNA” MUSIC VIDEO
If you play one thing today!
The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 Buy now: http://smarturl.it/BD_LP?IQid=ytd.bd.voj About the Album: · Takes you inside the studio for the recording of three of Bob Dylan’s most iconic albums · A treasure trove of unreleased songs, outtakes, rehearsals and alternate versions Visions Of Johanna video directed by John Hillcoat
read on (and subscribe?) here . . . .
Kelly Boesch - Right Here, Right Now
This is another song I made last year and wanted to rework. Additional production by Marshall Altman. I really dig this song. I was experimenting with dance music when I originally made it. Since then I have made a lot of dance songs. The song is about just sitting in the moment and trying to ground yourself. Focused on breathing and being present. This one is a bit different for me. I wanted the visuals to be focused on the center person with chaos around. I used both VEO3 and Pika to animate this one. Images were made using Midjourney.
Right Here, Right Now(Verse 1)Feet on the ground, air in my lungs.Time still ticking, but I’m not runnin’.Raindrops fall, they don’t ask why.Neither do I, just let it slide.(Pre-chorus)No more chasing, no more race.Close my eyes, I like this place.(Chorus)Ooooh, right here, right now.Nothing missing, nothing loud.Ooooh, I breathe, I stay.Love the moment, let it play.(Verse 2)(Verse 2)Sunlight hits, I don’t resist.Nothing here I need to fix.No more waiting for some sign.This is good, this is fine.(Pre-chorus)No more chasing, no more race.Close my eyes, I like this place.(Chorus)Ooooh, right here, right now.Nothing missing, nothing loud.Ooooh, I breathe, I stay.Love the moment, let it play.(Bridge)Sky is turning, stars will show.I’m not rushing, let it flow.No rewind and no fast-track,I’m not lost, I’m not back.(Outro)Feet on the ground, air in my lungs.This is it, and that’s enough.
Monday, April 06, 2026
For Spring and that feeling . . . . . Marimba band of South African schoolchildren play Vivaldi
Classic FM posts this
I know we have featued this clip and earworm par excellence before but it never fails to lift my spirits
Marimba band of South African schoolchildren play exhilarating Vivaldi… 👏
(🎥 Education Africa)
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil [The David Frost Show 1968]
posted by Top Hat Crew's "Live Music Archives” sad to find their version didn’t play
here in the UK so here’s another
The Rolling Stones on The David Frost Show, November 30, 1968.
Here “performing” (sic) back in the days of sloppy miming and nit giving a ‘F’ how that comes over the boys gagging and lagging to "Sympathy for the Devil." One of the last appearances with founder Brian Jones. I also left in a humorous reference to the Stones by the following guest, actor Nicol Williamson, who is there to opine on the subject of death for some reason.From "Frost on Saturday" DVD collection.
Dave Mason - 1988-04-06 - Philadelphia, PA USA (FM) | so many roads
Dave Mason - 1988-04-06 - Philadelphia, PA USA (FM)
Dave Mason1988-04-06Chestnut CabaretPhiladelphia, PAWMMR-FM Broadcast
01. Feelin' Alright
02. Let It Go, Let It Flow
03. World In Changes
04. Just A Little Lovin'
05. Look At You Look At Me
06. Two Hearts
07. Every Woman
08. We Just Disagree (cuts in)
09. Dream I Dream
10. Bring It On Home To Me
11. All Along The Watchtower
12. WMMR Break & tuning
13. Only You Know And I Know
14. Dear Mr. Fantasy
15. WMMR outro
Speedy says:
"Dave Mason entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 as a member of Traffic. The 2004 class also included George Harrison, Bob Seger, Prince, ZZ Top, and Jackson Browne. Traffic played Dear Mr. Fantasy at the ceremony, while Mason and Steve Winwood also joined in during the all star jam on Feelin' Alright.This FM broadcast captures Mason out solo at the Chesnut Cabaret in Philadelphia on April 6, 1988, 38 years ago today. Both songs played at the 2004 induction ceremony were also in this set list - a little bit of foreshadowing!"
We love Dave Mason the enigmatic and mercurial songwriter of such masterpieces as Feelin’ Alright, the hit for Joe Cocker, Let it Go Let it Flow, the hit for Eric Clapton + Traffic songs like Dear Mr Fantasy and playing on All Along The Watchtower with Jimi didn’t hurt either but a personal favourite in Only You Know and I Know . . . .enjoy! I did!
For Speedy:
Dave Mason - We Just Disagree
Dave Mason performing "All Along The Watchtower" at Music City Roots
live from the Loveless Cafe on 9.25.2013
Taj Mahal - Giant Step • De Ole Folks At Home (1969 USA, 2017 Japanese remaster) | Plain and Fancy :Rockasteria
Taj Mahal - Giant Step • De Ole Folks At Home (1969 USA, magnificent electric acoustic blues folk, 2017 japan remaster)
Along with Ry Cooder, Taj was a founder of the legendary Rising Sons, and went on to release two stripped down delta-blues classics in 1968. Giant Step, released concurrently with a raw collection of solo recordings called De Ole Folks At Home in 1969, would be his third, and personal favorite to many. It’s the title track’s delicate, sparse mood I can’t stuff in my head enough. Taj transforms the Monkees hit, composed by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, into a relaxed and gorgeous rural roamer – his muddy vox rolls all over the changes, miles beyond blues. And though Giant Step isn’t completely free of the old I-IV-V, just let the feedback harmonica moan from Give Your Woman What She Wants hook you in, the toe-tapping Cajun feel to You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond take you along, and overpowered drive of Six Days On The Road stamp it down, then see who cares about chord progressions anymore.The most fun comes from inventive production touches: childish piano tittering on Good Morning Little School Girl, metronomic banjo rapping on Farther On Down The Road (one of two originals on the record and an easy classic), ace country guitar leads all throughout provided by Jesse Ed Davis, here accompanying Taj for the third and final record before embarking on his own solo career (releasing three solid records and sessioning with plenty of the greats). The final track, Bacon Fat, is a pretty standard blues originally penned by The Band, and here mostly a drawn out jam affording everbody last licks.The album is actually 2 in 1, accompanied with De Ole Folks At Home, an acoustic solo set with Taj providing old-time steel-body slide picking, clawhammer banjo, harp, and hambone on traditional and classic numbers like Cluck Old Hen and Fishing Blues, as well as several originals. It’s like pulling up a hot seat on Taj’s front porch, who would pass? An excellent pairing, this record is essential on its own and along with Giant Step you can’t refuse. Downhome grooves, raw authentic performances, a plain fun record that got me rethinking the blues. “Take a giant step outside your mind.”
by Brendan McGrath, September 2nd, 2009
Tracks
1. Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie Anymo' (Jesse Ed Davis, Taj Mahal, Chuck Blackwell, Gary Gilmore) - 1:04
2. Take A Giant Step (Carole King, Gerry Goffin) - 4:18
3. Give Your Woman What She Wants (Joel Hirschhorn, Taj Mahal) - 2:32
4. Good Morning Little School Girl (Bob Love, Don Level) - 3:46
5. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (Buffy Sainte Marie) - 4:59
6. Six Days On The Road (Carl Montgomery, Earl Green) - 3:03
7. Farther On Down The Road (You Will Accompany Me) (Jesse Ed Davis, Taj Mahal, Chuck Blackwell, Gary Gilmore) - 4:41
8. Keep Your Hands Off Her (Huddie Ledbetter) - 2:17
9. Bacon Fat (Garth Hudson, Robbie Robertson) - 6:47
10.Linin' (Huddie Ledbetter) - 1:43
11.Country Blues #1 (Taj Mahal) - 2:40
12.Wild Ox Moan (Ruby Pickens Tartt, Vera Hall) - 2:48
13.Light Rain Blues (Taj Mahal) - 3:24
14.A Little Soulful Tune (Taj Mahal) - 2:40
15.Candy Man (Rev. Gary Davis) - 2:58
16.Cluck Old Hen (Taj Mahal) - 2:34
17.Colored Aristocracy (Taj Mahal) - 2:08
18.Blind Boy Rag (Taj Mahal) - 4:14
19.Stagger Lee (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price) - 3:26
20.Cajun Tune (Taj Mahal) - 1:59
21.Fishin' Blues (Henry Thomas, Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams) - 3:11
22.Annie's Lover (Taj Mahal) - 3:34
Personnel
*Taj Mahal - Vocals, Harmonica, Banjo, Acoustic Guitar
*Jesse Ed Davis - Electric, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Organ
*Chuck Blackwell - Drums
*Gary Gilmore - Bass
Taj Mahal - Fishing Blues 1993
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