Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Dear Mr. Fantasy - A Celebration For Jim Capaldi

"Dear Mr. Fantasy, play us a tune ..."
Remembering a great drummer with an all star line-up:

Pete Townshend will appear with Steve Winwood, Bill Wyman, Joe Walsh and others at a memorial concert for Traffic drummer and songwriter Jim Capaldi on January 21st at The Roundhouse in London. The concert, dubbed Dear Mr. Fantasy - A Celebration For Jim Capaldi, will commemorate the second anniversary of Capaldi's death. Capaldi died of cancer on January 28th, 2005 at age 60.

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Warren Haynes: Backstage Pass interview

Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes knows how to play guitar. And he can talk about it, too. Listen to him play and read the interview in the Gibson Backstage Pass Holiday Double Issue 2006:

Slide guitar is emulating blues harmonica, and blues harmonica is emulating the human voice. So once again it goes back to the vocal. When I discovered slide, it was a whole 'nother way of expressing yourself, because you could slide into the note and out of the note in a way that you couldn’t really do even bending strings on guitar, and you definitely couldn’t do on piano. So slide guitar had an even more vocal-like quality in some ways. When singers sing, they don’t attack the note head-on. Maybe in opera music or something. But blues singers and soul singers slide into the notes and out of the notes and it makes it much more vulnerable I think. So slide guitar achieves that.

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Marianne Faithfull: Dutch 2007 live dates

Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull hits the road again in 2007. Two dates in Holland:

  • 04/09 Utrecht, Vredenburg
  • 04/10 Oosterpoort, Groningen

» en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull
» mariannefaithfull.org.uk

(Thanks: Triple-B)

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Linfinity: "A Manual For Free Living: Installation" EP

Linfinity

Dylan Von Wagner is the big man behind Linfinity, a NYC project. He has just finished an EP called A Manual For Free Living: Installation. Rocking keys, vocals a la Jerry Lee. Good stuff. The EP is the forerunner for an ambitious seven volume series:

Linfinity will be taking a little journey with a seven volume set entitled 'A Manual For Free Living,' each volume or album having different themes and motives. Volume I: Sedition will be coming out in early 2007.

MP3: Linfinity - Chu Chu Train To Venice

» Get it at iTunes

» linfinitymusic.com
» myspace.com/linfinitymusic

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Xmas without Sufjan Stevens: The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

The whole music blogging world is writing about the Sufjan Stevens Xmas box thingy. Well, that's cool. But let's not forget that there are a whole lot of better songs out there. Todays pick: The Flaming Lips with Christmas at the Zoo, from their 1995 Clouds Taste Metallic album.

MP3: The Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo

» en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flaming_Lips
» flaminglips.com
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