RIHANNA

...yeah, what?

Can't sleep, feel like jamming. At 11:30 p.m.???? wtf?

Van Halen - Fair Warning - 1981

Currently listening to Joseph Arthur. Has a couple good songs, but I haven't been totally blown away.

Gary Moore "Still Got The Blues

GREAT guitarist! Remember when he was with Thin Lizzy? 'Shapes of Things' and 'Empty Rooms' were on one of his Gary Moore Band albums, I think it was on the album 'Victims of the Future'.  

Very underrated during the 80's when Eddie Van Halen dominated the guitar scene. I remember when Gary passed away in Feb. sad.

R.I.P. Gary

David Bowie - Young Americans - 1975

Patti Austin - Love Is Gonna Getcha - 1990

Melody Gardot , Worrisome Heart .

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories - 1996

Michael Landau - Tales From The Bulge - 1989

In the mid '70s Michael played in the L.A. dance clubs with an R&B band and toured the west coast with The Robben Ford Band, which included members of the Yellow Jackets, Jimmy Haslip and Russell Ferrante.

At age 19 he joined Boz Scaggs for a world tour and by the age of 20 he started to do session work with the help of Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro. Some session highlights over the coming years would include Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, BB King, James Taylor, Seal, Ray Charles and Rod Stewart. There is a complete session discography at allmusic.com with over 500 records and soundtracks listed that Michael has performed on over the years.

In 1984 Michael toured again and recorded with Joni Mitchell. This tour was called "The Refuge Of The Roads" with Vinnie Colaiuta, Larry Klein and Russell Ferrante.

In 1989 he released his first solo studio album "Tales from the Bulge", an instrumental record initially released in Japan and on "Creatchy" records in the states. Wayne Shorter, Steve Tavaglione, Vinnie Colaiuta, Carlos Vega, David Garfield and Jimmy Johnson were among some of the players on this release.

In 1990 he formed the blues-rock band Burning Water with his brother Teddy Landau, David Frazee and Carlos Vega. They put out 4 discs of original material and played in Japan and locally in L.A. It was also around this time that he started to record and tour with James Taylor.

In 1993 he won the readers poll for "Best Studio Guitarist" in "Guitar Player Magazine".

In 1994 Michael formed The Raging Honkies, a spicy rowdy rock band with Teddy Landau and Abe Laboriel Jr. They released 2 discs and toured in Europe and the US.

In 2001 he released a double live album of original material and a studio album "The Star Spangled Banner" on his own label "Unconscious Records".

Michael has also produced and or mixed some selected artists and side projects including: Scott Henderson, The Jazz Ministry, Stolen Fish and Freak Juice.

He currently tours and performs with The Michael Landau Group, The Wreckers, Robben Ford, The Jazz Ministry, Stolen Fish, Hazey Jane and James Taylor.

If there is anyone left on earth that does not own this disc, get it!

Sometimes you will try to just play it as background music while you do other things, but it will drag you into your listening chair in minutes. No escaping it.

The only version of of Hallelujah that is better than Leonard Cohen's own, believe me.

Phoebe Snow - 1974 - Poetry Man

Love the guy's music and voice.

However, way too much compression, so I am dismayed.

I will look for a vinyl version to compare.

Compression has ruined a great deal of great music for me too. We are constantly told that it's the music that matters most, but my audiophile roots keep telling me the sound sucks.

I've given up on Lyle Lovett these days.

His last couple of discs were so compressed, I didn't get any musical enjoyment.

But hey, Texas wants you anyway :-)

RG

Pink Floyd - Meddle - 1971

to match the music

Trying to convince my kids that The Stooges, Johnny Thunders and the New York Dolls, MC5, and the Velvet Underground were all punk before The Ramones.

They still sound fresh.

We played The Kingsmen doing Louie Louie to demo the punk vibe from....1963.

Eventually, we will revisit some early Beatles in the punk rock context and see what they think about that!

:D

(My son is the world's biggest Ramones fan, but he pronounces it 'ray-moans,' which I find cool. He likes to arrange ukelele renditions of their songs. His uke covers of Blitzkrieg Pop and I Wanna Be Sedated are a little mind bending.)

THAT is a cool story. thanks for sharing.

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - 1985

This album is a masterpiece. Too bad the radio stations only seemed to key in on one song, 'Money For Nothing.'

I'm currently addicted and listening to Norah Jones The Fall.