Photodan
Well-known member
Little Feat (Waiting for Columbus), Pat Metheny Group, Weather Report and Randy Newman among others
On another thread, I mentioned "The Firebird" by Stravinsky. It reminded me that I had not listened to it for several years. I found this wonderful version online:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkIAVGlfWk
Forty-five minutes well spent.
John Colter.
I've been on a Chicago kick the last two days.
- The Chicago Transit Authority
- Chicago II
- Chicago III (just ordered it online)
- Chicago V
- Chicago VI
- Chicago VII
Other than a handful of songs here and there, I pretty much lose interest in Chicago after Chicago VII. It might be easy for a lot of people to dismiss Chicago as kind of a wimpy, soft-rock, top-40 love ballad band but it's hard to deny how good and how talented this band was in their early years. They were stretching boundaries. Their horn section was super tight, they had 3 lead singers and they were all excellent on their respective insturment(s). For me, they started slipping downhill after VII and were never the same with the loss of Terry Kath and the growing prominance of Peter Cetera's love ballads. This band had the stuff to back up the balls it took to make their first 3 releases double albums and their 4th a 4 album live set. Lots of great stuff!!
Ranky Tanky is an American musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina. It specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans in the Lowcountry region of the US Southeast.
... The name "Ranky Tanky" comes from a Gullah expression roughly translated as 'get funky.' The overall goal of the group was to create a contemporary interpretation of the Gullah musical vocabulary to share with the world, while remaining true to the pared-down, working-class attitude of the songs.