What is spinning?

[bobsticks]

Starting the day on an upbeat mode...
...Ultralounge:Coctails with Cole Porter

[Bernd]

Yeah, upbeat here too. In fact I feel like a little boogie so on goes:

"Stray Cats - Back to the Alley".

Hope all is swinging your way.

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

All is well, very well to be sure.

Now spinning: Pink Floyd--the final cut

The day is beautiful though snow is predicted for tomorrow (I swear) and I'm having fun bating GMichael on another thread. What could be better?

[bobsticks]

NP: Mark Knopfler--Sailing to Philadelphia

While it certainly provides some sturdy song craftsmanship and tasty guitars, this is a bit disappointing. MK has set the standard in production and engineering pretty high in his other stuff and IMHO this fails to deliver similar sound quality.

[Bernd]

NP: Mark Knopfler--Sailing to Philadelphia

While it certainly provides some sturdy song craftsmanship and tasty guitars, this is a bit disappointing. MK has set the standard in production and engineering pretty high in his other stuff and IMHO this fails to deliver similar sound quality.

Morning bobsticks,

Couldn't agree more. I found this much too bass heavy.

A quick whirl before I head out again from:

"The Beautiful South - Blue is the Colour".

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

Yes, definately too much bass. The whole thing sounded and felt shrouded if that makes sense; murky, muddy midrange and none of the topend separation that I love in his other stuff. Sounds like I put sheets over the speakers...and moved them out into the hallway OK, maybe not that bad.

Now spinning: Yo Yo Ma--SOLO(SACD) excellent sound, of course, however a little of the "Silk Road Project" goes a long way...

Cheers to all

[Bernd]

I am enjoying at the moment, while the afternoon turns into evening, the sounds of:

"David Byrne - Grown Backwards".

Peace

Bernd

[Hawkeye]

Last night I listened to the 5.1 version of "A Valid Path" by Alan Parsons, just released Tuesday. It really gave all six speakers a workout. A collaboration between Parsons and Simon Posford, Uberzone, The Crystal Method, David Pack, David Gilmour, The Nortec Collective, and even John Cleese makes an appearance.

Also picked up "Morph the Cat" and will try to give it my attention tonight.

[bobsticks]

A day otherwise spent in the doldrums is livened by...acid jazz
Now spining: Verve/Remixed3
Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn,Astrud Gilberto,etc, all raved up.Oh, the humanity...

[Bernd]

Making the Round-Trip is:

"Tim Booth - Bone".

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

Now spinning: Jennifer Warnes--Famous Blue Raincoat
Why am I imagining Laughing Lenny on the set of Miami Vice?

Hawkeye, please give details on Morph. I've heard nothing but very vague positives on this.

[bobsticks]

Starting the morning off the right way with cowboy junkies--Pale Sun Crescent Moon, to immediately be followed by Telarc's Lionel Hampton & Friends as a first spin over morning coffee.
Cheers to all

[Bernd]

I welcome the wekend with mobile fidelity's release of:

"The Edgar Winter Group - They only come out at Night".

Good old fashioned Rock'n Roll. Sublime.

Have a good weekend one and all.

Peace

Bernd

[Slosh]

This thread is like peeking at someone else's IM. If feel so dirty now

[Bernd]

This thread is like peeking at someone else's IM. If feel so dirty now

So you should you dirty Peeping Tom.
The question is though what is going round at chez slosh?

Here I have moved on to:

"Rodney Crowell - The Outsider".

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

...and ready for a few days of rest and relaxation

Now spinning:Mahler Symphony No.4--Anton Nanut and the Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra;IMO one of the more accessible of GM's works

[Hawkeye]

Hawkeye, please give details on Morph. I've heard nothing but very vague positives on this.

Man, work has been....well, like work, and non-stop. My copy of "Morph the Cat" has sat unopened since it arrived on Wednesday. Hopefully today or tomorrow I'll have a chance to give it a listen.

[bobsticks]

[QUOTE=Hawkeye]Man, work has been....well, like work, and non-stop. QUOTE]

Now spinning: Mendelssohn's Symphony #4--Herbert VonKarajan & The Berlin Phil.[/I] An old Deutsche Grammophon recording; very good performance

[Hawkeye]

Just finished DSOTM in 4.1 dvd-a. I still have yet to even open "Morph the Cat" - One of these days.

[bobsticks]

Just finished DSOTM in 4.1 dvd-a. I still have yet to even open "Morph the Cat" - One of these days.

Happens all the time--grab something at the store and there it sits in plastic for days/weeks because " I'm not in the mood for that". And speaking of that...

Now spinning: QuennsrycheOperation:Mindcrime 2. I may never be in the mood for this again. This is, well, bad.

[jrhymeammo]

Das Efx - Holding it Down

Sonny Stitt - Rearin' Back

Grant Green/John Patton - Iron City

Yes - Close to the Edge

Oliver Nelson - Screamin' Blues

[Bernd]

Just back from my Easter Trip to Berlin and starting the afternoon with:

"Dave Alvin and the guilty Men - The great american music Galaxy".

Peace

Bernd

[bobsticks]

mid-day break spinning:MacKerras/Prague Chamber Orch--Mozart's "Haffner Seranade" No.7 in D Major and "Serenata Notturna" No. 6 in D major

[Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid]

Stone Roses - s/t
Television - Marquee Moon
Replacements - Tim
Dylan - John Wesley Harding
Nuggets - Artyfacts from psychadelia
Coltrane - Love Supreme
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
My Morning Jacket - Z
D Gilmour - on an island

all good stuff....

[jackwlong]

Dave,

A friend saw your post and sent it to me here in Tulsa. Glad you liked the album. For a lot more BRC info go to www.bluerosefamily.com.

Jack Long
Pat's Dad

NP: Blue Rose Cafe ~ A Reunion & Tribute to Pat Long

Want a taste of real mid-70's Oklahoma red dirt sound? Then look no further than this disk. Kevin Welch and company do an outstanding job of paying tribute to Pat Long, their close friend and co-founder of Blue Rose Cafe. There's even a song about a tractor for cripes sake! This is one of those must haves for anyone that appreciates songs of the heartland IMO. Check out the liner notes -

It was 1975 and the Norman, Oklahoma-based band Blue Rose Café was on the cutting edge of the progressive country/rock sound that was popular in the American Southwest. Five young Okie musicians, Pat Long, Kevin Welch, Gary Johnson, Mike McCarty and Steve Grunder, got together and decided to mix country, folk, rock and pop styles with a little swing, jazz, bluegrass and blues influence to create music that still sounds fresh today, some 27 years later. Long was the lead singer and principal songwriter, Welch held down the lead guitar duties, Johnson played keyboards and the rhythm section was Grunder on bass and McCarty on drums. Welch and Johnson also sang lead on occasion, but it was really Pat Long's band, featuring his own songs and many written by the band's mentor, John Hadley - then an art professor at the University of Oklahoma. The band did a lot of others songs as well, introducing listeners to many great songwriters such as Willis Alan Ramsey, Bill Caswell, Kinky Friedman, John Hiatt and Woody Guthrie, all included on this disc. But it is on Pat's songs and the others he sang that the band really found its identity and that is what we need to remember now.

On a hot August Oklahoma night, the four surviving original members, along with Norman musicians and a few special guests, re-created those days with a performance that was both exciting and healing. In front of over 200 friends and fans, the band gave Pat a fitting goodbye on his songs "I'll Be Seeing You Sometime," "Separate Waves," "I Wish I Was Home," "Long Way to Travel," and "You'll Never Be Alone," as well as on a handful of cover songs that Long brought to the band.

What you hold in your hands now has to qualify as the very first Blue Rose Café record, but let's not mistake this for only nostalgia. Pat Long's songs deserve a listen by the countless roots and singer/songwriter fans who today come hear Kevin Welch on a regular basis. Now, when Welch sings John Hiatt's "Train to Birmingham," as he does on most nights in clubs, coffeehouses and festivals all across the world, it will be in tribute to his dear friend. Without Pat Long's life there never would have been a Blue Rose Café, and without his death this album never would have had to be made. But it did have to be made. For Pat, for Kevin and Mike and Gary and Steve and everyone who ran with the crazy circus that was Blue Rose Café. And most of all for Pat's parents, Jack and Barbara, and for his kids, Olivia and Cassie.

In my 30 years in music, I have never been so moved as I was on the night this recording was made, and hearing it back now only makes it better. Even if you never knew Pat or heard Blue Rose Café, listen to this recording with your heart wide open, maybe on a warm summer night or early fall morning, both of which reflect the beauty that was this band. I plan to listen to it again right now over a nice warm cup of coffee on the porch of the Blue Door, a place that could never have happened without the spirit of Blue Rose Café.

Greg Johnson
The Blue Door
Oklahoma City

http://cdbaby.com/cd/bluerosecafe