🎵 Music
🎵 Charley’s, Paia, Maui is no more
If you know Charley’s, this is not new news.
If you don’t know Charley’s - then why should you care?
This just in from my good friend Randall Rospond … number 25 in the image below, right beside another friend Tom Conway.
Randall’s friend and Maui artist John Woodruff is the artist, the painting features many Maui Musician Regulars on stage with many of the Charley’s staff and regular patrons.
“Although this famous live music venue in Paia is no longer … the history will always stand.”
I saw numerous Willie Nelson shows, Neil Young w/ Promise of the Real, Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Steven Tyler and Pat Simmons and so many more.
💬 Randall Rospond
Randall’s performances at Charley’s included opening shows for;
- St. Paul Peterson: keyboardist for “The Time” discovered by Prince
- John Kadlecik of Dark Star Orchestra & Further { Bob Weir & Phil Lesh }
- Guested w/ the Planetary Bandits { Willie Nelson’s Maui Band }
- Performed solo and with the Haiku Hillbillys for over 25 years
(Sadly the resolution of the image of the index is not good enough to always get to the ‘numbers’.)
🎵 Musical Muscle Memory.
Listening to an 🔗 awesome album from my youth.
Back in the day, vinyl - of course AND as ‘well played vinyl’ the middle of one track jumped.
It never bothered me because I automatically compensated.
Listening without the jump just felt wrong.
An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love. Or how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
Forever Changes (2015 Remaster) by Love
The first side of Da Capo is excellent - not Side two. This one is more complete, more beautiful. more listenable - and Da Capo’s side 1 is NOT unlistenable
During their two weeks in New Zealand, they caused so much outrage in the media that the New Zealand Parliament addressed the issue of granting entry permits to musicians such as the Pretty Things.
Who knew they were so ‘badass’?
I always had 🎵 BrandX as ‘Jazz/Fusion’ - but they are sometimes classified as ‘Progressive’. That’s why 🔗 ’genres’ are so hard - if not to say meaningless. Whichever they are - a great listen - delivered courtesy of The Old Grey Whistle Test.
🎵 Over on Scripting.com @dave mentioned that back in the day he was a fan of The Monkees. Unashamedly - so was I. He linked to this show. It’s long. The narrator (that’s what he sounds like) - has a boring voice - but still an interesting listen.
Never heard of the 🎙️podcast - so had a look at other episodes. Just as long - and I suspect that the voice will be just as boring - BUT - some really interesting deep dives into some good songs and bands. I will be listening to this one - the band ‘Love’.
🎵 Third of three … in the bucket of ‘well I never’ …
‘The Dukes of September’ .. who? Skaggs, McDonald. Fagen and needless to say, quite a few other great musicians around them.
🎵Running through some YouTube music last night - and well - seriously - what is not to love? Stunning. Two very different songs from the same album.
Steven Wilson - Luminol (Mexico City)
🎵 Jon Lord plays Dave Brubeck
As a kid, shall we say my musical taste did not jibe with my dad’s. Nor with my mum’s for that matter - although she did understand what I was listening to - and why. Probably because of that there are artists that she introduced me to that are still part of my listening cycle - like Dave Brubeck.
She passed a while ago, but would have loved Deep Purple’s Jon Lord covering ‘UnSquare Dance’.
🎵 Just added a few pages about music to my site that emerged from a conversation a few weeks ago with @hutaffe … enjoy.
I hope it also contributes to a better understanding of ‘why only three’ @SimonWoods 🥺
Elsewhere I referenced Tim Minchin’s ‘3 minute’ song. Very clever. Very funny. And guess what … it is only three minutes long!
Mark-Almond by Mark-Almond
Curiously hard to find this album on Spotify or Apple Music
Sublime. Jon Mark and Johnny Almond emerged from Mayall's Bluesbreakers, This was their first and epynomous album. GLORIOUS.
🎵 The only public list I have at Album Whale that I am not tracking is this one - because it is finished! One album for each decade since I ‘discovered’ music.
These are the other three.
🎵 Over on AlbumWhale I now have three lists running, the first two are still growing.
