Brother Jesse's Morning Music

[keith]

Very nice, although I think Mr. Morrison could use some hat shaping advice from the black man playing back up.

However, I'm not on anyone's speed dial under "sartorial consultation."

[Dave]

Candy Dulfer

Wiki: Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation album. She has performed and recorded songs with other notable musicians, such as her father Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, René Froger, Van Morrison, and Maceo Parker. She hosts the Dutch television series Candy meets... (2007), in which she interviews fellow musicians.

[Dave]

Whenever I see Van Morrison, especially in his later years, I think to myself that had I just kept writing my music, and singing with my compromised not-so-special voice, and insisted every musician I ever played with do it my way, and formed my own band to guarantee it, always putting my ego ahead of other's opinions, then I could have traveled a different road in life and made a complete ass of myself. Because, frankly, I am missing what Morrison has.... genius.

[keith]

That was a great set.

[Dave]

Link Wray


Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.

Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for having "invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarist,"[1] "and in doing so fathering," or making possible, "punk and heavy rock".[2] Rolling Stone included Link at number 67 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[3]


For a personal account of sharing the stage with the man and his band, see Jon Hynes' story, "The Wraymen" at:

www.windsweptpress.com/wraymen.pdf


Here he is with his classic (and musically quite simple) 1958 hit, Rumble. Every kid with a guitar mimicked this for years afterward!
There's an interview of Link at the end of the first video, below.

[keith]

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[keith]

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ballot Edition

[keith]

I've seen only one of the above groups live. My wife & I aren't regular concert goers but once for the Beach Boys I was willing to get up early and stand in line. I got good tickets, 3rd row center.

The warm up act was not one with whom I was familiar. Imagine the shock of settling in expecting some "Good Vibrations" and seeing & hearing black leather clad "I Love Rock & Roll."

[Dave]

Great Stuff! Love that Chaka Khan. Can't say I was ever much of a fan of Guns N Roses.
Marsalis and Clapton somehow doesn't really blend in my mind. Interesting, though.

[keith]

I thought the groups added to the ballot this year had an interesting mix of styles. I agree on Guns & Roses. I heard a lot of them when my kids were growing up but nothing that I would normally seek out.

[keith]

Let's Rock!



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[Dave]

Great selections! I've got my headphones on. I've heard the Fogerty & Springstein and Urban tapes and am happy to hear them again. Had not seen the Fogerty-Garcia Fortunate Son! That was quite a performance!
Quite the crew doing Saw Her Standing There. l'd forgotten Harrison was a pretty good guitarist. How the hell could anyone, including Springstein, forget the lyrics? And how does that little guy, the band leader from Letterman, always get into these things?

[Dave]

Janis Joplin







The world has seen its share of women screamer-singers, but none did it better than Janis Joplin. She used her scratchy voice with terrific control and chose her songs from a blues reservoir.

WIKI: "Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. At the height of her career she was known as The Queen of Rock and Roll as well as The Queen of Psychedelic Soul. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004,[1] and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.[2]"

Death: October 1, 1970, overdose of heroin.


Try





Piece of My Heart (following a her advice to those who putting up with shit.)





Summertime





To Love Somebody





Me and Bobby McGee








High school pictures of other music stars at:

www.bukisa.com/articles/405661_top-15-music-stars-when-they-were-just-youngsters

[keith]

And now a song of great social and political import

[keith]