Da Official Discontinuum Music Appreciation Thread

[whofarted]

i read a blurb in rockford's daily newspaper today about a historic jazz club in chicago that is about to get the wrecking ball.  anybody been to The Velvet Room or know any of its folklore? 

[damonshort]

i read a blurb in rockford's daily newspaper today about a historic jazz club in chicago that is about to get the wrecking ball. anybody been to The Velvet Room or know any of its folklore?

The Velvet Lounge. Yes.

[K-Biscuit]

hey, I'm going to the library to get some music on the way home from school today.  any suggestions on good stuff to look for?


thanks,
Blaine

[whofarted]

plenty - first off, what is in your cd player right now?  what genre were you looking for?

[whofarted]

one cd that i ahve been enjoying alot is the rolling stones - hot rocks.  it is a best of and has all the songs that you know and love.  for a long while i wrote these guys off as a glorified garage band, but the more i listen to them the more i like it.  yes i do.

[K-Biscuit]

I wasn't really looking for anything specific, i was just looking for some good music.  I listen to a lot of different stuff, but whenever i go to the library, there's a lot of stuff that i've never heard of, or wouldn't generally look at, so i'm just trying to find some good albums that i should check out.  I'll see if they have that stones one, but i think i've taken every one that they have in the past.

[whofarted]

django reinheardt - any and all

miles davis - anything from in between 1969 through 1972

phish - go for the live stuff from between 1995 and present

rza - 'liquid swords' - best rap album ever

les claypools fearless flying frog brigade - 'set one' is a real treat hard-core-fusion-rock

frank zappa - you cant do that on stage anymore volume one

here's the best bit of advice i can give you - ask the librarian for the stuff that hasnt been put back on the shelves yet.  that is mixture of what others in your area are listening to, a sample of everyone's taste.  you may find one guy has similar tastes to your sand he just returned ten items, pick those up and see what you find.   and just like most things - read the label.

[mirth]

I'd have to argue that any Phish from the 1990 - 1998 era is good, possibly the best live performances they ever did. Chances are that a library won't have it though, so you'll have to seek out alternate methods of getting it.

If you like live concert recordings, www.archive.org/audio has all sorts of free legally downloaded stuff. Many have MP3 versions, but some you'll need software for your computer to be able to listen and/or burn to audio CD. Broadband is highly recommended for accessing whats on archive.org

[whofarted]

ii think we would both be in agreeance in saying that some of those mid 90's shows were incredible.

one of my favorites - clifford ball 8-16-96 and 8-17-96

those guys were on the top of their game for those two.

[K-Biscuit]

unfortunately, i couldn't read this before i went.  i just got home, and actually did get some miles davis.  i would have grabbed more, but i have almost three dozen, i was running out of room in my bag, had to walk home.  but i'll check out that other stuff mentioned next time.

[mirth]

miles davis is a good place to start. if you're into jazz/fusion then check out Medeski Martin & Wood

[K-Biscuit]

miles davis is a good place to start. if you're into jazz/fusion then check out Medeski Martin & Wood

will do.  i have a lot of buddy rich.  that's good stuff too.  anybody familiar with bela fleck and the flecktones?  i'm going to see them next month

[whofarted]

miles davis is a good place to start. if you're into jazz/fusion then check out Medeski Martin & Wood

some of my favorite davis - on the corner, bitches brew (good recommendation from the chainmeister), and a tribute to jack johnson (which probably gets more play in my cd player than anything out of my collection)

anybody familiar with bela fleck and the flecktones?  i'm going to see them next month

my buddy showed me a dvd of the flecktones a few months back - some of it was a little too slow for my tastes, but most of it was topnotch - everyone soloing at once and making it sound great.   where are they playing at?

a few other random choices -

les mccann and eddire harris - swiss movement
primus - sailing the seas of cheese/ tales from the punchbowl/ frizzle fry
frank zappa - apostrophe/ overnight sensation/ the grand wazoo/ hot rats (number two in amount of times played)
stephane grappelli - live in london
the frogs - my daughter the broad/ bananimals (this is not for everyone.  if your easily offended then this will make your ears bleed)

[mirth]

BFFT currently has 148 shows in the live music archive. Pick one & enjoy!
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?collection=etree&cat=Bela%20Fleck%20and%20the%20Flecktones

[K-Biscuit]

where are they playing at?
Pabst theater in...Milwaukee?  i got the tickets a while back so me and ninjaboy are in like 8th row. 

i have sailing the seas of cheese, i got into primus because they do some music in the first tony hawk pro skater game, great soundtrack.

[whofarted]

pabst theater is a cool hall - real old, lots of charecter - if you guys feel like going somewhere after the show i recommend going to a bar called 'thurmans 15'.  they have the best juke box in town, the drinks are cheap, free shuffleboard, and the crowd is real friendly and wont tell on you for stinking up the place.  its about 10 blocks from the theater, a block off of brady street.  you'll be happy you went there.

[K-Biscuit]

man, sounds like a cool place.  don't think it'll happen, maybe in a few years though.  we're going up there with my friend and his dad, and i'm only fifteen   still, i don't think this'll be the last show i go to there, hopefully it'll stay in business.

[Chainmeister]

I will be interested to hear your report of Bela Fleck. Bela is a wonderful banjo player that comes from a bluegrass background but has a penchant for fusion. He did a beautiful acoustic  version of Chic Corea's Spain on Daybreak. The Flecktones are an unusual but commercially successful fusion band. He ays with the Wooten brothers one of whom plays a crazy instument called the synth-axe drumitar. Howard Levy, a local boy and the worldls greatest harmonica player, used to be with the group. I don't know much about their current direction. To say the least they have unusual instrumentation. I love some of their stuff and find other stuff less interesting.

[amdiscgolfer]

I just bought both Matisyahu's CD's today and all I can say is if you didnt see the picture of the guy nor were you able to pick up on the Powerful Jewish Religious theme - you would think this guy is a big Rasta Guy - with big long dreads and a Big Bob Marley "J" in his hand.

I thought it was good!

[whofarted]

i picked up the live at stubbs cd and thought it was alright - the thing that gets me about reggae is that it sounds like old nintendo video game music after a while.  when you got a guy like marley putting his heart and soul into everything it makes the music alot easier to listen to, but unless that is captured the same wa-wa riffs and four four beat tracks just cant keep my attention for too long.