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[Little Garwood]

The Grass Roots- “Let’s Live for Today” (Slowed and Reverbed)


youtu.be/4q-yZp-RVck

After listening to this version, the actual version by The Grass Roots sounds entirely too fast! Gotta let those lyrics breathe!

Same goes for “Bus Stop” by The Hollies:


youtu.be/yBl3pf0z8Y0

[ConchRepublican]

10/6 was the anniversary of Eddie Van Halen's passing and I went on a VH binge the whole day. I found this live version of a fave off OU812 and love how Eddie added that surf vibe that wasn't as clear on the recording.


youtu.be/sX-mBPmCKks

Their last record, a reunion with David Lee Roth has this tune that reaches out and smacks you like it's 1979.


youtu.be/e8y1prHEP7E

I could keep going, but I'll leave you with his son Wolfgang's tribute. If you haven't heard it, it's pretty touching.


youtu.be/HI3aPJkZmNU

[T.Q.]

Holy Mackerel.

It’s been a year? WOW.

Thanks for the vids. Always loved Van Halen. The Red Rocker and Diamond Dave but I’m a huge Sammy fan.

You heard this one from Wolfgang?

It rocks.


youtu.be/yMDoj8VVzh8

Forget how to embed.

[ConchRepublican]

Holy Mackerel.

It’s been a year? WOW.

Thanks for the vids. Always loved Van Halen. The Red Rocker and Diamond Dave but I’m a huge Sammy fan.

You heard this one from Wolfgang?

It rocks.


youtu.be/yMDoj8VVzh8

Forget how to embed.

I agree, big fan of Sammy's solo stuff as well.

I have heard that one by Wolfie, it's a good one! I like his style, he's not "I'm gonna be my father" he's got his own vibe, a bit late 90s/early2k influenced . . .

(BTW - I embedded for you. )

[T.Q.]

Holy Mackerel.

It’s been a year? WOW.

Thanks for the vids. Always loved Van Halen. The Red Rocker and Diamond Dave but I’m a huge Sammy fan.

You heard this one from Wolfgang?

It rocks.


youtu.be/yMDoj8VVzh8

Forget how to embed.

I agree, big fan of Sammy's solo stuff as well.

I have heard that one by Wolfie, it's a good one! I like his style, he's not "I'm gonna be my father" he's got his own vibe, a bit late 90s/early2k influenced . . .

(BTW - I embedded for you. )

You Da Man.

[Little Garwood]

I’ve been in a Psychedelic Soul mood:

The Temptations, “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)”


youtu.be/1g3e3cgktZU

[Gorilla Mask]

https://youtu.be/5OSMqSPmfVA

Top Gun Opening Theme - Harold Faltermeyer

It always gives me chills... I might trade the 308 GTS for an F-14, but where the hell do you park it?

[Sam]

Original song from the Beatles 1968 White Album...While my guitar gently weeps a George Harrison song.
Covered in a concert to George with the 2 remaining Beatles and George's son Dhani..Eric Clapton recreates his Weeping Guitar that he played on the original recording..

https://youtu.be/CrTMc2i6Lzc

[Little Garwood]

The Black Caesar soundtrack has been my drivetime companion to work (and the neighborhood where I work looks like something out of the film).

It’s a high quality, thematically varied album with some bonafide Godfather of Soul classics: Down and Out in New York City; co-composed by Barry De Vorzon of Simon & Simon theme fame; The Boss, and this funky little number, Make it Good to Yourself:


youtu.be/y8VnXzkCqK0

[Little Garwood]

Lately I’ve been obsessing over the Art Tatum-Ben Webster recordings, which are to me the “sound” of Autumn. I can offer no valid explanation as to why I’ve been listening to these recordings at this time of year, except to say this is truly magnificent music.

“All the Things You Are”


youtu.be/Tjt5S0GuRew

[Little Garwood]

Miles Davis and his "Second Great Quintet" have four albums I listen to frequently.

Here's "Agitation" from the 1965 album E.S.P.. I realize no one here listens to jazz, but I've been doing so for 30 years (not continuously, though at times it's felt like it):


youtu.be/ywAMUxfe4jk

[Pahonu]

The Black Caesar soundtrack has been my drivetime companion to work (and the neighborhood where I work looks like something out of the film).

It’s a high quality, thematically varied album with some bonafide Godfather of Soul classics: Down and Out in New York City; co-composed by Barry De Vorzon of Simon & Simon theme fame; The Boss, and this funky little number, Make it Good to Yourself:


youtu.be/y8VnXzkCqK0

Black Caesar is just a great gangster film straight up, not just from the blaxploitation genre, including the score. Sadly, most people have even heard of it. Fred Williamson is very good, and I still keep an eye out for his work. My favorite of his is probably Black Eye, where he’s a detective. It has a bit of a neo-noir quality to it also.

[Pahonu]

Miles Davis and his "Second Great Quintet" have four albums I listen to frequently.

Here's "Agitation" from the 1965 album E.S.P.. I realize no one here listens to jazz, but I've been doing so for 30 years (not continuously, though at times it's felt like it):


youtu.be/ywAMUxfe4jk

I’m not a huge jazz fan, but for some reason when I have to sand and revarnish the teak on my boat or some other project aboard, I put on the local AM jazz station. It’s called KJAZZ and it’s been broadcasting for decades from Long Beach State. I’ve sure learned some interesting things over the years, but I’m no expert at all. You can stream it if you are so inclined and it has a cool archive of old shows with some great interviews.

https://www.kkjz.org/mobile/programming ... dPrograms/

[Little Garwood]

Black Caesar is just a great gangster film straight up, not just from the blaxploitation genre, including the score. Sadly, most people have even heard of it. Fred Williamson is very good, and I still keep an eye out for his work. My favorite of his is probably Black Eye, where he’s a detective. It has a bit of a neo-noir quality to it also.

I wonder if most so-called Blaxploitation films have gone forgotten. They were definitely unknown among most of my friends, who could remember nothing before, say, the Bicentennial, and we had a fervent interest in other 1960s and early '70s film icons (McQueen, Coburn, Bronson, Marvin et al.)

I don't think I could recall many of these films outside of Shaft and maybe Super Fly. However, I could have sworn I remember Black Belt Jones and Three the Hard Way, as the memory of certain scenes came roaring back to me after I watched them recently.

Whatever the case, I've definitely rectified my previous ignorance of Blaxploitation over the past few decades. They'll never be considered great films, but they sure are entertaining (and fascinating, from a pop cultural point of view).

[Pahonu]

Black Caesar is just a great gangster film straight up, not just from the blaxploitation genre, including the score. Sadly, most people have even heard of it. Fred Williamson is very good, and I still keep an eye out for his work. My favorite of his is probably Black Eye, where he’s a detective. It has a bit of a neo-noir quality to it also.

I wonder if most so-called Blaxploitation films have gone forgotten. They were definitely unknown among most of my friends, who could remember nothing before, say, the Bicentennial, and we had a fervent interest in other 1960s and early '70s film icons (McQueen, Coburn, Bronson, Marvin et al.)

I don't think I could recall many of these films outside of Shaft and maybe Super Fly. However, I could have sworn I remember Black Belt Jones and Three the Hard Way, as the memory of certain scenes came roaring back to me after I watched them recently.

Whatever the case, I've definitely rectified my previous ignorance of Blaxploitation over the past few decades. They'll never be considered great films, but they sure are entertaining (and fascinating, from a pop cultural point of view).

I guess it has to do with who we hang around with. One of my best friends in elementary and middle school was black and I remember being at his house his father watching some of them at the time. So I was aware of them in the 70’s and early 80’s. I kind of forgot about them in high school but in college, a different friend and I started to talk about them randomly one time and he was surprised I knew of many. I’ve probably seen at least 30 films of the genre and have a couple in my DVR right now.

A more recent film I would highly recommend is called Baadasssss! and it stars Mario Van Peebles playing his father Melvin. It’s about his making of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, which started the genre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baadasssss!

I also recommend Across 110th Street, which almost no one seems to remembers.