What Are You Listening To?

A very admirable courtesy, indeed.  I guess shoes never get stolen there?

-I'm going to definitely check that out, Sky.  I am off tomorrow afternoon, so count me in   Funny too about the folks wondering about the rules, lol...

-Hey Brick-  remember that guy who used to play the song ames alone?

Just dug this outta my boot files.  Special for the LNU crew!  

Blue Floyd - Begins

Blue Floyd is a conglomeration of former/current members of the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule and the Black Crowes doing blues interpretations of Pink Floyd songs. Sounds cool huh? It was.I got to see them in Atlanta, but my copy of that show is B- at best. Oh well... 

This show is from January 14, 2000 in Anaheim, CA. They played two sets, with no opening act. Blue Floyd is a taper-friendly band, the tapers were out in full force, strategically positioning themselves with their mics and taping units. Thank the Lord for the good tapers! AND bands like Blue Floyd who allow us to share their music.

Heres a review I saved: 

BEGINS features the original BLUE FLOYD line-up of Allen Woody (Gov't Mule / Allman Brothers Band), Matt Abts (Gov't Mule / Dickey Betts Band), Marc Ford (The Black Crowes / Burning Tree), Johnny Neel (The Allman Brothers Band), Berry Oakley Jr. (Robby Krieger / Bloodline).

BLUE FLOYD endeavors to deconstruct the classic compositions of the legendary PINK FLOYD into their primal, elemental form. As much an homage to the influence of Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters as a rediscovery of both FLOYD classics and rarities, BLUE FLOYD plays iconoclastically familiar songs, heard again as if for the first time.

Wow.. a country where people TRUST EACH OTHER?  What the hell!

-All Music Guide has been a help for me when I've been stumped, I gotta admit...

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Neil Young  Harvest

Neil Young's most popular album, Harvest employs a number of jarringly different styles. Much of it is country-tinged, although there is also an acoustic track, a couple of electric guitar-drenched rock performances, and two songs on which Young is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. But the album does have an overall mood and an overall lyric content, and they conflict with each other: the mood is melancholic, but the songs mostly describe the longing for and fulfillment of new love. Young's concerns are perhaps most explicit on the controversial "A Man Needs a Maid," which contrasts the fears of committing to a relationship with simply living alone and hiring help. Over and over, he sings of the need for love in such songs as "Out on the Weekend," "Heart of Gold," and "Old Man," and the songs are unusually melodic and accessible; the rock numbers "Are You Ready for the Country" and "Alabama" are in Young's familiar style and unremarkable, and "There's a World" and "Words (Between the Lines of Age)" are ponderous and overdone. But the love songs and the harrowing portrait of a friend's descent into heroin addiction, "The Needle and the Damage Done," remain among Young's most affecting and memorable songs.

-Must confess that I've personally found the different styles here interesting, not "jarring"...