I wrote a nasty letter
And I sent it to the lord
It said Don’t you dare
Come and Bother
Me No More
[The Dead Weather - Rocking Horse (live)]
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June 3, 2012
June 3, 2012
A live version of the track that turned me from a casual music listener into a rabid music geek and eventual audiophile (but not the gross kind of music geek audiophile, promise!)
Toward the middle of the track he transistions into “The Party Of Special Things to Do” which might be my favorite White Stripes non-album B-Side. Then he tortures his little plastic guitar, and makes it beg for its life. And it’s good.
[Jack White - Blue Orchid - Live]
April 10, 2012
Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling & Dharohar Project - To Darkness
I bought this on Record Store Day last year, for this track and this track alone.
The whole thing is good, but it pales in comparison to this track.
Listen to it.
Listen again.
Listen a third time.
Be transformed, probably.
April 10, 2012
The Ghost Who Walks (live acoustic)
[I can’t decide if I like this one more or less than the album version. I think it really misses something without the organ.]
February 29, 2012
Super Sessions (Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills) - Season of the Witch
This comes from one of the greatest live blues/folk improvisational albums of all time.
February 28, 2012
While I’m on the subject of Jazz, let’s post another of my favorites.
Here’s the Dave Brubeck Quartet playing Take Five live in 1966. This is an interesting, quick, and energetic take on the classic jazz piece (which happens to be, IMO, one of the greatest songs ever recorded)
February 28, 2012
Jimi Hendrix Red House Live Stockholm 1969 THE BEST VERSION!
Hendrix is an artist that doesn’t get enough airplay. He gets credit for being amazing, and he deserves that, but we should also *hear* him more often. His music is still great, and it’s often still amazingly innovative.
February 28, 2012
The Hardest Button to Button - Live in Las Vegas
The best performance of this song I’ve ever heard. It really casts the song in a whole new light.
Live in 2003, during the Elephant tour.
This is an MP3 from a vinyl rip of the rare promotional album that was released after the show. Copies of this 3xLP are super rare and very expensive. ($450 or more.)
Stripes fans, listen to this. You will regret it if you don’t.
February 27, 2012
The Raconteurs - Blue Veins - Live
“You were the first one to believe me when I said to you “Girl, I think it’s gonna rain, but I could be wrong.”
Seven Minutes and forty-nine seconds of an amazing song, from one of the greatest living bands.
February 27, 2012
this is not music… THIS IS SEX!
Sometimes youtube coments are great.
See this one through to the end, it’s worth it.
[Speaking of popping a guitar string, When I saw the Dead Weather in Atlanta a few years ago, this song was the first time Jack picked up a guitar. 5 minutes in, he broke his high e while playing a crazy solo, much like he does in this video. Without stopping, he continued the solo, replaced the string, and got it in tune. The song went on for another several minutes. It was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen.)
February 27, 2012
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button. Reading Festival 2004. 4/12
Excellent video, acceptable audio, fantastic fucking performance.
This is, by far, my favorite White Stripes song to listen to live. The album version is… well it is okay, but it pales in comparison the the excellent, and wildly electric live improvisations Jack plays around the basic chord structure.
Throughout this video you can hear, on the edge of the sound, the roar of the crowd singing along. The crowd is transfixed, chanting along, Worshiping along. Perhaps, worship is part of what it means to be human. perhaps even among the agnostics, and the atheists, there is a desire to be devoted to something.
Maybe Jack White should be that something. :-)
Throughout this video you can hear, on the edge of the sound, the roar of the crowd singing along. The crowd is transfixed, chanting along, Worshiping along. Perhaps, worship is part of what it means to be human. perhaps even among the agnostics, and the atheists, there is a desire to be devoted to something.
Maybe Jack White should be that something. :-)
February 26, 2012
The Kills - Fried My Little Brains - Live
[Yes, another song from The Kills]
This is just an excellent, and very playful, live studio track.
January 6, 2012
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McKinsey: The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff
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A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the...
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How could they stop the devouring death… that lived by sucking on living human bones!
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Naples Sunset
Created by Chase Hoffman
The sexual tension in there could pop a guitar string…