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Labels: mp3 download, Paul McCartney
I was very sad to hear that George Carlin passed away. He may not be on my top-ten list of comedy influences but I would say he has a special place in my funny bone. Carlin's 1972 landmark recording, Class Clown, was the first comedy album I ever owned. Actually, it was a cassette that I had recorded by placing my tape deck up against a speaker at Michael Carty's house. His older brothers, Joe and Tom, owned the album and Michael and I stole the album to so we could record it. The big attraction, of course, was Carlin's Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. As funny as that bit was - Michael and I found Carlin's routines about attending Catholic grade school even funnier. Carlin's observations about God, confession, nuns, and the bible were dead on and - as two Catholic school students - Michael and I never laughed so hard.Labels: George Carlin, mp3 download, rip
Paul, Frank, and The Beatles in search of the inner light.Labels: Beatles, Frank Monzo, India, mp3 download, Paul Altobelli
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Feel free to download and repost elsewhere. I don't own any of these shows. Unless that is you playing lead guitar, you don't own the shows either. I always download, usually tweak the files in some way adding track numbers and track names, and reup. So, thanks to all of you for the music I have snarfed. If you believe I have posted something from your site, let me know and I will put a link in for you. Otherwise, take what you want and leave the rest. Any post at a 320 bit rate was probably in a lossless format originally. I converted to MP3 adding track names, track numbers, etc. then repackaged it. Share it! Repost!If you're looking for something different from your favorite bands check out any of the above sites and download something live or unreleased.
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Labels: July 4th, mp3 download, music list, southern rock
A few days ago I was in New York City. My friend Suzanne and I decided to grab a drink at the Four Seasons. As I opened the door a man walked out. As our eyes met I realized it was Eric Clapton. Now, I've met a lot of rock stars that 100 years from now nobody will ever remember (Dee Synder, Meatloaf, and Joan Jett to name just a few). But Eric is different. He's, in my mind, rock royalty. He can be mentioned in the same breath with The Beatles, Stones, The Who, and Zeppelin. I can only think of one other solo artist that is close to Clapton's stature - Neil Young. Dare I say, Lou Reed and Bruce Springsteen aren't in the Clapton's league. 
Labels: Beatles, Eric Clapton, mp3 download, music, Suzanne Miller
File this one under strange but true. Here's a madcap chopped-out piano trio jam version of Rush's Tom Sawyer by The Bad Plus. This Midwestern band is either a pop and rock-influenced jazz trio or a power trio who like to play jazz. I'm not sure. What I am sure about is this cover is treat for anyone who likes the original.Labels: Bad Plus, mp3 download, Rush
Labels: Black Crowes, mp3 download, music
| Everyday there is a new reason why I love the internet. Today its a website called Elbows (http://elbo.ws). According to the website, "Elbows is a collection of great music blog posts and is meant to provide you a snapshot of what's going on in this new genre of blogging." The "snapshot" is almost instantaneous. It seems that every credible mp3 blog is feed into this music blog aggregator so each time you view the Elbows' home page you'll see new posts about some new band or music happening. Check out Elbows. |
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Quick story: A few weeks back I discovered a very cool program called Peel. This program allows you to subscribe to mp3 blogs around the web and get notified when new music becomes available. Even better, Peel allows you to stream this the music and download it to iTunes with a click of a button. I can't remember when I listened to so much good new music. Well, it was through this tool that I discovered that there was a new Wilco album about to be released and that some of the songs were now available via mp3 blogs around the web. As I surfed around I was able to visit 10 or so mp3 blogs and ultimately listen and download the entire album months in advance of its release!Labels: mp3 download, Wilco
Last year I submitted a post about what Frank Sinatra called the "greatest love song of the last fifty years." The song, of course, was George Harrison's "Something." It's a beautiful song written for his love, Patti Boyd Harrison, yet not one of my favorites. When I decided to write this post I thought about what I considered my favorite love song. Immediately I thought of the Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Motown classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." I thought a little more and came up with the song my Lisa and I danced to at our wedding, Elvis Presley's "I Love You Because." Then I remembered "(We're Not) The Jet Set" by John Prine and Iris DeMent. I like their cover much more than the George Jones / Tammy Wynette original. And speaking of covers -- I LOVE Aimee Mann & Michael Penn's version of "Two of Us." Labels: Aimee Mann, Elvis, John Prine, Lisa Altobelli, Marvin Gaye, mp3 download
I listened to the "new" Beatles release today titled "Love." Since the Beatles haven't officially recorded as a band since 1969 I was under the impression that this release was same wine different bottle. I was way wrong. Labels: Beastie Boys, Beatles, Jay Z, mp3 download, video
Labels: Lily Allen, mp3 download, Paul Altobelli
James Brown was - hands-down - one of the most important musical forces of the last 100 years in how he transformed the literal rhythm of popular music. The ways in which he introduced new forms of syncopation and polyrhythm into the gospel, blues and jazz training of his youth lead to a revolution in sound and style within soul music. Brown didn't invent funk (no single artist did) but he transformed the sound of popular music through his funk innovations. And of course, in the process, he also created scores of samples that, a generation later, would become the bedrock upon which hip-hop was built.Labels: James Brown, mp3 download, rip
Twenty-six years ago John Lennon left this planet for the psychedelic pastures of Strawberry Fields.Labels: Beatles, Lennon, mp3 download, rip
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I had the privilege to work with Robert Christgau in 2001. I produced his radio program "The Dean's List" that ran weekly on The Voice. The Voice was an internet radio station I co-developed for New York City's own Village Voice.Labels: mp3 download
You know much about him? Well, in a nutshell, he's pretty mindblowing. When he showed up at Sun Records in ‘57, he was groomed to be Elvis’s replacement. Unfortunately, he had too much talent and variety to channel properly and he got lost in the mix. He could write and play gospel, jazz, swing, country, and rockabilly, yet was marketed poorly time and again. By the late 60s he hooked up with producer Billy Sherrill, the Phil Spector-like producer who was creating the Countrypolitan sound with artists like Tammy Wynette. The first couple of LPs Rich and Sherrill did together didn’t sell well—tho they did well critically (Rich may be rock’s first “critic’s darling”)--and by 1971 he was playing airport bars, going nowhere. Music journalist Peter Guralnick profiled him during this period, in a book of essays called “Feel Like Going Home.”Labels: mp3 download, Stephen Altobello
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