One of my regular drinking establishments in Oslo (now permanently closed) always played Dire Straits' "Walk Of Life" right before closing. This was before The "Walk Of Life" Project was a thing. Hypothesis: "Walk Of Life" by Dire Straits is the perfect song to end anything.
I expect, if you had your eyes closed, and he played three notes on a banjolele, you'd instantly go, "Oh, that's Mark Knopfler." There's a cool YouTube channel for the LA music store, Norman's Rare Guitars. It's the kind of place where Slash walks in to browse and buy interesting instruments. Often they'll do off-the-cuff interviews with the stars while they are playing... just chatting, jamming, etc. And for the "big name" players, it doesn't matter what they are playing - they sound like themselves. In my personal experience, I was adjacent to a lot of famous musicians in San Francisco... from Kirk Hammett and Les Claypool, to Carlos Santana, Sammy Hagar, Grace Slick, and Craig Chaquico. Which instrument or band the person was jamming with didn't really matter... you could still close your eyes and know who it was. 93.2% of your sound is YOU. The rest is hardware, IMHO.
So the song "Fire & Flame" by the Longest Johns has really been doing it for me lately: And not a specific song, but instead a site--I've been using www.bmbx.org for 20 years as one of my main sources of music. It's a mixer community, where artists post hour-or-so long mixes of songs that are cut, faded, and curated. "Loose dog" by Warvadal gets me every time:
I keep this one bookmarked: http://www.bmbx.org/2016/07/a-night-in-the-box/
rezzeJ - all 3 of your choices this week were right up my alley, thanks. Always good to find new bands. Speaking of which, out of all the jazz, funk, traditional japanese folk fusion bands Aragehonzi are certainly my favourite. Aragehonzi - Hanatsuoto - not sure why those last 2 are there - that's the problem with random youtube playlists. _________________________________________________________ Their youtube channel has some live performances including this short 20 minute set, described by google translate as Shimaonryu x Bakurocho Band x Arage Hongji - Special Collaboration Live:
Talk about a jam. King Curtis, Memphis Soul Stew. I sent this to cgod commenting that the drummer was insane. He informed me that Bernard Purdie is legendary. He also schooled me that the keyboardist is the Beatles keyboardist as well. Guess having absolute beasts on the ticket improves things... Been jamming this whole album for a few weeks. Also, here you go: You can't deny it.
OK, I've got a real special one today for you guys [NSFW]: Not sure if it's publicly known, but I can tell you that the drummer is Louis Cole. edit: Looks like it's a half-secret. Gotta balance that out with some chill synthwave:
Gotta tell ya about PERRO - the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and a couple of other bands were all friends in the late 1960's. The bands shared bills at all of the major music venues and were socially friends, as well. This, of course, led to many impromptu jam sessions and weird one-offs. The one I linked to above is Jerry Garcia, David Crosby, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Lesh, and Jack Casady, hanging out and jamming in a studio together on January 13th and 14th, 1971. It's just a jam session; not an official "PERRO" recording. It had been rumored to exist, but nobody had heard it until a couple of months ago, when the guy who had been holding the tapes for decades, uploaded this 32 minute recording to YouTube. This is, to put it simply, the best of the best at the time, enjoying each other's company, hanging out, and having a fun jam session. The "tracks" are loose and some have no definite beginning or ending... but they exude this deep essence of the Summer of Love and the music of the San Francisco at a truly unique time in history.