What Are You Listening To?

Now I've moved on to "Reggae got soul"

Man these are great reggae records..

Yeah but can he still bring it? He has to be in his 70's. I was on the fence about tonight and decided to skip it.

The KLF - Justified and Ancient (featuring Tammy Wynette)

…."all bound for Mu Mu Land……"  :P

azaghal1981 wrote:
Yeah but can he still bring it? He has to be in his 70's. I was on the fence about tonight and decided to skip it.

WRONG CALL!

He can absolutely still bring it and he's 63 by the way and seens 50…guy is in amazing shape…He's always been known for being a great live performer btw

Great last night as always. Sold real well… interesting how well Toots sells for someone who has been hitting the DC market 2 times a year for the past 4 years at least (and that the crowd is pretty darn young)..

You're suffering from what my friend calls fearing the "Lee Scratch Perry experience"

Now Lee did not have it together when I saw him a the 930 about 12-14 years ago. That was sad.

This is what I wrote in 2006 after seeing Toots for the first time.. wasn't much different last night although we were not allowed on the stage for Monkey Man (2006 is still the only time I've been on stage):

i caught the toots and the maytals show last night at the 930 club and BOY O BOY! i'm not exagerating when i say one of the best shows i have ever seen… the positive energy/good vibes this man puts out there are something… his voice is in great form… and anybody that starts their show with their best known song , "Pressure Drop", is doing something right!!….i've never seen the 930 club as rocking as it was last night and he went on stage at 10:45 on a sunday night!….he ran through all the genre defining stuff he's come up with- largely focusing on his classic sides for trojan from the late 60s and early 70s - including "do the reggay" which is supposed to have given birth to the term reggae itself (reggaephiles step up and correct me on that one if i'm off)…. i was front row the entire show… what a classy guy..he shook everyone's hand or did the fist to fist move with every single person..this guy made a serious connection with the crowd… towards the end for monkey man about 50 of us clambered on stage to dance as toots and the band delivered the song..so i finally got on stage!..his version of "country roads" with its "take me home country roads west jamaica" refrain had the entire 930 club screaming WEST JAMAICA…. when the show ended at 12:38 it was all big wideyed smiles everywhere you looked…

by the way how do i insert a picture?

hutch wrote:
by the way how do i insert a picture?

first you have to host the pic somewhere (your personal web space, picassa, flickr, etc), then you code it by putting the URL of the image between "img" tags, like dis:

 
[img]http://www.myhost.com/images/mypicture.jpg[/img] 
 

evidently facebook doesn't work.. i will try something else maybe

ok now does this man (pic from last night at the 930) look like he's in his 70s or even 60s? Toots is in amazing shape



what blogspot doesn't work either? wacked

ok here's the http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_57qtL495Vg4/SmhzCJIduyI/AAAAAAAAA7E/gFbPf4uPpgo/s1600-h/toots.jpg

Is this working?



Also, I just discovered that cool inline edit feature.  Neat.

nkotb wrote:
Is this working?

not from here..

lemme try:



huh, not working for me either… looks like blogspot isn't letting us link to its pix.  some sites do this to reduce non-revenue-generating traffic.

Yeah, but usually it's replaced with some "you can't do this" image instead.  Weird.  Anyway, to keep us back on track:



Purplish Rain

Pretty fucking boring.  But then again, what do you expect when blah bands are covering a classic.  The only decent standouts are the Twilight Singers pretty cool take on Doves Cry and Let's Go Crazy, because let's face it, if you cover that song faithfully, it's gonna rule.

sweetcell wrote:
lemme try:



huh, not working for me either… looks like blogspot isn't letting us link to its pix.  some sites do this to reduce non-revenue-generating traffic.

Slow day at work, so I'm actually able to listen to some music:



Sun City Girls
Torch Of The Mystics

Gramercy Arms

the other night I sat in a car with a ridiculously high-end stereo system and listened to Mastodon's new Crack the Skye from start to finish while watching planes land at National. It was absolutely amazing. That album is so good, and at any moment, there usually are several interesting things going on. If it weren't for that pesky Fever Ray, this would be my early favorite for album of the year.

Ahh…the most underrated band ever.


Yes, ever.

nkotb wrote:
Slow day at work, so I'm actually able to listen to some music:



Sun City Girls
Torch Of The Mystics

A couple spotty moments but when they get it right, they blow me away. The kind of songs that make me want to see them live just to feel those songs penetrate through my body. You know, 'the bliss', as we gazers call it.

Amadou and Mariam "Welcome to Mali"

great sound on the vinyl pressing

My Bloody Valentine 6/24/2008

The best sounding live recording of these reunion shows that I've come across thus far. A good representation of YMMR on tape is impossible to capture but everything else sounds as close as one can hope for.

This one is just for you, Walkie.


Bluegrass-playing Japanese band


I dare you to listen to "Beauty of my Dreams" or "The Old Home Place" and not lose your shit with laughter.