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My first ever east-west Jazz Fusion album and still my favourite is "Indo-Jazz Suite" by Joe Harriott and John Mayer
in What Are You Listening to (23) Skidoo? Comment by peterfrederics June 2023
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(Quote) Wow, what a great album!@rostasi thanks for letting us know. I can remember buying and enjoying “The Best Of Curved Air” when it first came out in the mid 1970s particularly the tracks “Melinda (More Or…The ChatGPT discussion elsewhere, encouraged me to relive the old days by asking ChatGPT’s opinion on what the best albums available on eMusic were in the 2000s and early 2010s, when it was in its pomp.This was the answer (see below…@Germanprof you make a good point. I tried ChatGPT on the obscure early 70s band Gnidrolog and it came up with a very similar result. The words “Cosmic” and “Odyssey” being pa…This is a Captain Beyond album cover made up by using an AI image generator
As compared with the original s/t album cover from 1972Thanks @burntwoodfactors for the great idea!
I couldn’t resist seeing what ChatGPT would do inventing a brand new album for that great early 70s Pr…Astrud Gilberto who got paid all of $120 for singing “The Girl From Ipanema” on the Getz/Gilberto album!
Following the recent passing of Astrud Gilberto, I have been revisiting my favourite Bossa Nova records from the 1960s and 1970s. Strange that I was really into this music back in the day, at the same time as I was over the moon about Progressive an…Took a taxi back home one night in Melbourne and the driver was playing Fela Kuti.
Turned out that he had emigrated from Nigeria where had played for many years in Femi Kuti’s band.On Friday night, went to see Australian 70s Progressive Rock bands Madder Lake and Spectrum playing live at Bird’s Basement in Melbourne.Bird’s, which is modelled on a New York Jazz Club, only seats approx 100 people and my ta…"III" by Espers, a neo-psychedelic folk trio
AMG says "This is just stellar top to bottom"
@jonahpwll and likewise for me with East/West(Quote)"Low Birth Weight", probably the best album by leading Post Rock group Piano Magic
AMG says “ Glen Johnson is probably the most important fig…Buena Vista Social Club album (thanks Ry Cooder) and what was then the current band playing live in Havana when I was there in 2016.Whilst we’re talking about Dragon, here’s the Belgian version with their albums “Dragon” and “Kalahen”.Yes, true story about our former PM - very embarrassing! A couple of the band members died from overdoses and their front man, Marc Hunter, also died far too young.
Excuse my licence, Cuba certainly doesn’t have AirBNB! Outstanding place …(Quote) @djh Thanks for the reminder of Dragon. Great band that became really popular in Australia when they moved into straight rock. Their best known and outstanding song is "Apri…Broderick Smith who played in Australian 1970s bands The Dingoes and Carson. Many people regard him as having had the best voice of Australian rock.
Probably his best known song was “Boogie (Part One)” from the Carson album "Blown", which…On the Electric theme, “Get It On” by Pacific Gas and Electric
@djh and @Germanprof thanks, your posts encouraged me to go back to my Earth albums bought years back when e…“A Very Snug Joiner”, an outstanding, long undiscovered album by Mad Timothy recorded back in 1969.
“Mad Timothy was a rock band active in central New Jersey from mid 1968 to mid 1970. In the summer of ’69 they recorded …And now, to calm myself down from all that fuzz and riffs, some Slowcore!Two albums by Duster - “Stratosphere” and “Contemporary Movement”.
“Brown Acid: The Sixteenth Trip - Heavy Rock from the Underground Comedown”
One of the best series of compilations covering 1960s/early 1970s Psych/Garage/Heavy Rock.Issued by Riding Easy Records and available on Ba…
