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Tag.} Looking at charts....
In search of musical logic..( or lack thereof
...basic building blocks of time / motion...R&R.
1965 edition...
...no satisfaction / rolling Stones
Turn,turn,turn./ The byrds.
..like a rolling stone./ Dylan
......and Time itself...
The L A S T* time./ Rolling Stones
.. don't look back / temptations
Eve of Destruction./ McGuire
...* Lmtd.Attn.- span Theater...... ...
.....1966.) reproductive seminar.....
When a man loves a woman./ $ledge.
..pushing too hard./ the seeds.
B-A-B-Y./ Thomas....) Attraction, friction, erection, penetration, performance & boom! ) Babies, whether you want them or not...
...same year ....blue prophecy...... ..
Projections./ The blues project
Blue things./ The blue things
Hey Joe ! / Hendrix
..A R ] I'm your puppet / Jim & Bobby Purify...) A rich tapestry of Metallica irony....
....uh-- oh..$CI€NC€ !?!.....1967 edition...
H.Q. / the Monkees
Evolution./ The Hollies
More of the Monkees / ~...
..A R ] make it happen./ $ R. & The miracle
....N A T U R E + Reason = garden State logic...
1967 { albums...... flowers / r. Stones.
................... ) . Bee gees 1st./ Bee G's....
....................W I L D . Honey./ Beach boys
Airport confidential..{ 66--67.
.. flying on the ground is wrong./ Buffalo Springfield
Jefferson Airplane takes off./ Jeff. Airplane
B O O M./ The Sonic's.
... Epicenter Epilogue...A picture perfect botanical byte of metaphysical truuf...
...the Joshua tree./ U 2
One drop of truth./ Wood. Bros.
Tap root. / M. Hedges.
.... . . standby...

Two decades ago I decided to study Traditional Irish Music by way of the Uilleann Pipes. It was difficult as I had two obstacles. The music and the pipes!
I had a few websites with music as well as books, videos and private lessons to help me along the way. I attempted to play along with folks who were immersed in Irish music since they were children. Had I stayed with guitar, my chances would have been better, but no... I wanted to play pipes.
So much for a brief background to my Trad background.
One of the players that I sometimes listened to was an Irish woman Emer Mayock.
Her piping was flawless. Actually, her main instrument was wooden flute and she's been on lots of videos and albums including a few of her own. One claim to fame of hers was touring/recording with the musical group Afro Celt Sound system.
I saw a few videos but lost interest because there were so many players in the band her solo attempts always got covered up in the percussion section.

My car comes with a trial subscription of satellite radio and yesterday, I happened on a tune (songs have singing and tunes don't) by Afro Celts.

Yeah, Emer Mayock came to mind.

Here's a video featuring Emer Mayock & Dónal Siggins with Emer on flute.

Randy Meisner was the original bassist, singer and co-founder of the EAGLES. He was 77 years old and died due to complications of (COPD) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease.
Randy left the band in 1977 and though he avoided any reunions, he was present for the 1998 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It's the end of the year and I'm calling around to Medicare, Social Security, insurance companies, banks, mortgage company to do updates. Social Security is open all night and for some odd reason the recorded message says there is a long wait time as they are receiving an extremely a high call volume.
WTF... it's 2am.
So 55 minutes of waiting on hold and one song playing in a loop was enough to memorize. Too bad I wasn't near a guitar or piano as I could have figured out the tune.

I remember how you like classic rock. This one is one of my all time favorites

An obscure forgotten jem from the 80s

I'll start with John Paul Jones, bassist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. Born in England in 1946, John Richard Baldwin, change his name to John Paul Jones and not to be confused with the Naval officer back in the 1700's.
JPJ, was a studio musician, often termed session musician, playing bass guitar, piano, keyboards and mandolin. He knew Jimmy Page long before Zeppelin was formed. JPJ is also credited as a musical arranger and producer. After Zeppelin disbanded JPJ did some solo work. I've heard him singing on a few songs, but I wouldn't consider him a singer. Funny, I don't consider Clapton a singer either!

While he was a strong part of the sound that shaped Zeppelin, his recessive personality often had him cast into the background.
I was playing bass guitar professionally when Led Zeppelin's album hit the American airwaves and he was the bassist to copy. I would listen to his parts over and over again.
While he played keyboards for Zeppelin, his contribution of (Hammond) organ on Your Time Is Gonna Come is a sound masterpiece. I was in a 5-piece band and the keyboards were performed by another member. I still think JPJ's musical taste on that album was flawless.

One of my favorites is Kashmir. From their 6th album Physical Graffiti.
There are a few liver versions on YouTube, but the keyboards get drowned out by guitar and drums. Here's the album version where JPJ is credited for playing the orchestration and a mellotron.




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I just got home and heard about this. The Cars were an awesome band! My Favorite song and video from them had to be "Drive" in 1984.

Ric Ocasek, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer whose popular new-wave band, The Cars, helped define the sound of rock music in the late 1970s and '80s, was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday, a police spokesman told Fox News. Ocasek was 75.

His estranged wife, supermodel Paulina Porizkova, found him unresponsive Sunday afternoon at his home in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood, sources told the New York Post, adding that he apparently died of natural causes. Police said there was no sign of foul play.

The Cars' self-titled 1978 debut album was a smash hit, boosted by singles including "Just What I Needed." The album helped lead the way for new wave's influence on rock music throughout the following decade.

The band's 1981 single "Shake It Up" hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while 1984's "Drive" hit #3.

"I liked songwriters, I was always attracted to people like Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Gene Vincent in the '50s, and when the '60s came, of course I loved The Beatles, but I also loved the Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa," Ocasek told The Vinyl District earlier this year. "I certainly always loved a good pop song. I always liked great songs, and it didn’t matter if it was from the Carpenters or Lou Reed. As long as they were done well and they weren’t corny or fake."

The band broke up in the late-'80s, as Ocasek embarked on a solo career. His 1986 single "Emotion in Motion" was Ocasek's only song to crack the Top 40 without The Cars behind him.

Ocasek and Porizkova were married for 28 years before their breakup last year. They were said to have met while The Cars recorded the music video for "Drive."

The Cars were inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, an occasion that saw the band perform together for the first time in years -- but without co-founder Benjamin Orr, who died in 2000.

Ocasek, in a Rolling Stone interview, described the performance as "a good cap on the bottle" of his career, which also included painting in his later years.

"It’s kind of weird because it’s like a lifetime. It is a lifetime. I had three families during that time. They are like lives that go by and millions of people and things and artists and writers and business people and fans. … It’s a lot of stuff. It’s been a pretty eventful life, I can say."

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Yesterday was a crazy Friday with lots of interruptions. I'll attribute this mostly due to the full moon. Expected afternoon rains had the streets flooded and everyone in the office cleared out before 5pm. A handful of guys in the warehouse were loading trucks for a Saturday delivery and they were gone by 8 pm. I stayed late finishing a bid promised out by the end of the day.

I usually don't play music while working, but all the calculations were done, the only thing needed was to write up the cost proposal and add those numbers from a spreadsheet.

Earlier in the week, a friend and I were talking about the original 1967 lineup of the British band Fleetwood Mac. I only knew the bassist John McVie as he played with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton. Side note - that album was iconic as every guitarist in my circle of musicians copied Clapton's licks!

We were able to call up a few old videos where singer Stevie Nicks was a backup singer to other artists work. Fleetwood Mac like so many other bands had members join for a short stay and leave, often to follow solo careers. In 1974, singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham was hired on the condition his girlfriend Stevie Nicks would be hired too!
That decision was the formula for musical success and through all the ego fights, affairs, divorces, solo projects and reunions, 30 years of 'what I call' Fleetwood Mac existed.

In April on 2018 Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood had a disagreement about contract for a tour and Buckingham was dismissed. Mike Campbell (who performed with Tom Petty) and Neil Finn (from Crowded House) were hired on and Fleetwood Mac was on the road again.

One of the awesome things about hiring successful musicians is they get to play their hit songs in the current bands lineup, adding another facet to the music.

I caught a live performance (video) of Fleetwood Mac with Neil Finn that's worth a listen!

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Tapping is a style of guitar playing where the strumming hand assists the fingering hand by tapping the fretboard and adding additional chord notes the fingering hand cannot reach or to supplement with syncopated notes to the melody. Assuming the guitarist is right handed, it's the left hand playing chords and the right hand that picks (or strums) the notes. By tapping the fretboard a note is played with the same volume as though it was plucked.

The earliest example I found using this style was Vittorio Camardese from a 1965 video...