Joined: 22 Dec 2010
Location: Memphis
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Posted: 16 Jul 2012 at 10:06pm
The other day my Pandora funk/blues-rock station started playing Smoke on the Water, a live version from the 80s. The way Purple played the song was nothing like a bar band, everyone was just free riffing through the whole song like a funk jazz band. Very few "rock" bands can work within that much freedom.
Joined: 10 Mar 2011
Location: Argentina
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Posted: 16 Jul 2012 at 10:40pm
Ah, lovely, just. My favorite album of his, marvellous how he switches to Rhodes and then back to piano. He didn't over-use it, although he wasn't a master of the instrument (rhodes), he did well trying it.
Joined: 16 Jan 2011
Location: Australia
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Posted: 17 Jul 2012 at 3:05pm
Back to the dentist today. Reckon I have a dead tooth (Root canal), hot really gets it going but I may be lucky and it is something else but I doubt it as this tooth was filled only a few months back after the one next to it was ripped out. I have been putting up with this for a week hoping it would go away I should no better. Can't rip this one, have to save it.
Good toothache music, dunno if such a thing exists but I will try
Joined: 29 Jun 2012
Location: Reno, NV, USA
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Posted: 24 Jul 2012 at 3:10am
I completely forgot to mention that for months Brad Mehldau has been the jazz piano guy for me. How could I forget about him? His covers of Nick Drake's "River Man" and Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place" are outstanding.
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It's piano leading, nothing else. No brass whatsoever. Yes-s-s!
Joined: 09 Mar 2011
Location: New Jersey
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Posted: 24 Jul 2012 at 1:53pm
It's the only Maceo album I have. It's also one of the few funk albums that reaches the heights of late 60s/early 70s funk, ala James Brown, in modern times. With a dash of jazz and soul, it's just an all-around 5 star funk album.
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