WOOHOO!! It’s playing now..I may have trouble typing. How cool is that? Back in the day I got sweet seats (row A!)to see a Joshua Redman Quartet gig at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA. It was 4 nov 1995, an 8:00 PM show. The fellas were top-notch although most of the crowd was motionless in […]
Prolly Albums Blog or Something
My wall-mounted turntable
People sometimes ask, hey, man, why is your turntable mounted on the wall? Whaddya you, some kind of weirdo? Sometimes, depending upon who’s asking, I may go into this whole schpiel of esoteric bullshit, you know, tell them all manner of reason. I watch their eyes bounce around the room in a “oooooh, goooood for […]
Big Mama Thornton – Sassy Mama!
If you dig the Blues, and I know you do, because you have a pulse, then you are a Big Mama Thornton fan, whether you know it or not. Let me tell you why. Let’s find out why we like the blues first, so we can all be on the same page. Shall we define […]
Just a Random Vinyl Related Post
And I’ll get back to it in a minute, but first, I wanted to respond to this: “The cover art is too small,” we sneered. “How are you supposed to clean your pot on that?” It’s from this article and it’s a terrific article. I laughed out loud reading that line because I thought the […]
Combustication – The Groove-Madness by Medeski, Martin, Wood, and DJ Logic
WOOHOO!!!! Got my new copy of the just released Blue Note reissue of 1998’s Combustication by Medeski, Martin, & Wood. Blue Note is cashing in, like everyone else, and I’m getting mine. I have a few of the originals but not this one because in the ’90s it was all about cds. Sigh. OK, in […]