State Radio - Diner Song/ Right Me Up/ Riddle in London Town
Iration - Automatic/ Splintered Heart
Train - Play That Song
One Drop - Little Black Dress
Matisyahu - One Day/ King Without A Crown
Phoenix - Armistice

Last verse gives me chills...Howlin' Wolf, Back Door Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIA1n5ng4Y

Growl growl.

Not bad. I like the part that begins at 5:50.

(L)

>:O (Y)

Ah, TGW spreading his romantic memes around again.
I am the beast of philo-so-phee, say what you like, once you say it like me.

He is so gorgeous in this video... just chillin' while cookin'

Thanks to Billy, my house is sparkling clean, despite his canary-yellow mangina jumpsuit :-O

For Kim, with love. (L)

The Don.

One of my young nephews asked me what I thought was really wild when I was his age, and I remembered the Mahavishnu Orchestra. I haven't been able to listen to them in the decades since - it's too dissonant, too dense and far too loud. But I found this track on Youtube - and it stacks up really well. The polyrythmics between Cobham and the soloists are amazing. (And McLaughlin just oozes charisma.)

I love the drummers t-shirt. They kind of remind me of The Dead Weather.

I can't take full credit for "knowing" this song, You-tube brought me there after I searched and enjoyed "We'll Meet Again"...

Pretty cool. The problem I have with that stuff is not so much the dissonance, but all the bloody violin. The sound of the violin in jazz-rock is just...bad. To my ears, at least. I enjoyed the drums most of all in that particular track.

I know what you mean. I have liked Jean Luc Ponty at times, but other times, I too get a bit tired of fusion violin. Nevertheless, stellar musicianship, I'm sure you'll agree.

Indeed. I'm a big Zappa fan and I've just realized that his album Hot Rats, featuring Jean Luc Ponty, may have helped to popularize jazz-rock violin in the first place. I do like that album, even including some of the violin bits.