Here's some obscure music. None other than Eric Burdon and The Animals!
Sorry for posting more than one, it's just not everyday you hear Eric Burdon and The Animals, let alone video of them, so I thought only one vid would be a shame, so I posted two.
Eric Burdon is one of my favourite old bands...in those day I was only 13 or so....I remember school dances and lilac perfume and the mystery of how girls could smell like that...slow dancing to "The House of The Rising Sun"....sweet memories
"Sober" simply stopped the Music award show. She had dislocated her shoulder right before this, and had to cancel the trapeze bits on tour, but "it was for tv".
Good God, there is some AMAZING stuff on this thread already! Zappa and Eric Johnson; two of my faves! I'll throw in with Deadbolt.......................went to Tahiti on vacation, and in the jungle I found me a Tiki man........
Henry Rollins sometimes jokingly refers to his band as the worlds loudest blues band, but it's heavy, hard rock. This album is dark, cynical, raw... and it really helped get me through some dark times around '92/'93, gave that energy to just keep on going.
This following Sonic Youth video reminds me of the reason we support Indie record shops. Because we do, the stars aligned perfectly for us one hot Friday night in 2000. The story: we were running errands with our less than old year old son one Saturday and decided to stop at one of our fav. local record shops in Winter Park. While there, we picked up a used Sonic Youth CD. The young man who checked us out said "you know they are coming to downtown Orlando, right? They are playing a gig under an assumed name." Details please! As new parents, we rarely did anything spur of the moment and if we were gonna do this, had to arrange baby sitter, time off from work, etc, etc. Somehow we made it happen. The show was amazing, we got to meet Kim and Thurston, they signed some stuff for us. Never been to a live show like that where it was only people who were there for the music, not the scene. Best live show ever and we have been to hundreds. Before our midlife motorcycling addiction kicked in, music was what we did.
From that point on, if we were out and saw that Ben Folds five looking dude who tipped us off on that once in a lifetime show, we always made a point to buy him a beer. Cheers!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS-uNcIzio
Grinspoon is a reasonably well known Australian band and their lead singer, Phil Jamieson, did a side project around 2006 called "The Lost Gospel". There was only one album, "According to...", which has been a bit of an inspiration for the sound of my own band.
Here's my offering for today, goodness knows what category it fits in, psychededlic-electro-ambient-dub perhaps, all I know is their music sends me away to another place.
Osric Tentacles. This track is just a taster the albums are sublime.