Mr. Heartbreak

Ace is touring here in FL soon, I may have to drop by. Never saw him solo. That customized Gibson of Uncle Frankie's has got to be what I've loved hearing all these years. I guess I just had "it was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar" in my head.

I'll start with my first rock guitar worship: Ace Frehley on KISS Alive! Especially on She. And Parasite. From there: Zappa's '73-'74 output. Most notable songs, guitarwise: Inca Roads, Dirty Love, I'm The Slime, Montana, Po-Jama People, Zomby Woof. This stuff all just totally rips. I think he was playing a Strat, maybe someone can correct me. I'm with you guys on Syd, too. Everything he did on Piper is amazing. I especially love the tone on Astronomy Domine. Hendrix: I like the tone on Little Wing, because it's so different from most of Jimi's other stuff. Of course, all his other stuf

Zappa - Inca Roads Beatles - A Day In The Life Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone Dylan - Visions of Johanna Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches John Coltrane - Pursuance/Part 4 - Psalm Steely Dan - Aja Phil Ochs - Pleasures of the Harbor Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where The Lions Are Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile Beach Boys - God Only Knows Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing Muddy Waters - I'm Ready Grateful Dead - Chinacat>Rider Bowie - Young Americans Yes - Turn of the Century Wilco - Via Chicago Warren Zevon - Reconsider Me Youngbloods - Get Together Zappa - Dupree's Parad

Yeah, I mentioned that one a couple pages back. I like quoting myself.

My 70s radio one-hit wonder favorites are: Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died

Younger Than Yesterday and Turn Turn Turn have both been on my list of CDs I'd like to buy for some time now, so I can't comment on them (although I do know the Byrds' version of My Back Pages is great). Of the ones I have, I'd order them as follows: 5D Mr. Tambourine Man Notorious Byrd Bros. Sweetheart Never a big fan of the Graham Parsons era, though I know that's sacrilege around here.

Frank Zappa Bruce Cockburn Jerry Garcia Syd Barrett Jimi Hendrix Joni Mitchell Muddy Waters Ace Frehley Phil Manzanera Adrian Belew George Harrison John McLaughlin Carlos Santana Larry Carlton Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Patty Larkin Mark Knopfler Robert Johnson Grant Green Steve Howe

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. It's not obscure, but when a friend of mine who's a total movie addict told me she hadn't ever seen it, I made her Netflix it.

"Mellow" is the right word, but some of it is definitely recommended, as you said. Eberhard Weber's Yellow Fields and Silent Feet are great, and John Abercrombie's Timeless is really good. Some of the Abercrombie stuff isn't mellow at all, he just rips on guitar. Same with another guitar hero, Terje Rypdal. Check out Waves, which can be found on Amazon for about 10 bucks. I agree with you on Marcus Roberts ... excellent "newer" guy. I could never get into the Marsalis school, but that's just me. Wayne Shorter is one of my all time favorite sax players, second only to Coltrane. But I've never

Terje Rypdal Barre Phillips Eberhard Weber John Abercrombie Ralph Towner Jean-Luc Ponty Philip Catherine Charles Kynard

I've been trying to lash together a single-CD comp for a friend of mine who likes mainly mellow music (Joni Mitchell, classic jazz), and it's really difficult. Here's what I came up with: California Stars Far, Far Away One By One Jesus, etc She's a Jar How to Fight Loneliness IATTBYH Shot in the Arm Via Chicago Ashes of American Flags Heavy Metal Drummer I'm The Man Who Loves You When You Wake Up Feeling Old Sky Blue Sky The Lonely 1 Magazine Called Sunset Reservations

No problem, Lou. Glad you're on top of it. I forgot that the ones I like (other than Impulse) are on Atlantic, not Columbia ... probably because I have some of that Miles/Coltrane Columbia work, too. I never remember what is on what label. I do have most of that Atlantic stuff, and of those, I would recommend Giant Steps and My Favorite Things for everybody interested in classic jazz. The Impulse stuff is a mixed bag, but for my money, almost all of it is great. The John Coltrane Quartet Plays is phenomenal, and of course everybody knows about A Love Supreme. Another great one is First Medita

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn Mothers of Invention - Freak Out Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill Grateful Dead - Self-Titled Warren Zevon - Self-Titled Bob Dylan - Self-Titled Suzanne Vega - Self-Titled The Doors - Self-Titled Blue Mountain - Self-Titled Roxy Music - Self-Titled Van Halen - Self-Titled Missing Persons - Spring Session M Talking Heads - 77 Sinead O'Connor - The Lion & The Cobra Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time Wilco - AM Son Volt - Trace Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Firesign Thea

Always do your due diligence on a thread in which LouieB is involved. I meant Atlantic.

Ironically, I began my jazz odyssey with the classic Coltrane quartet, which is sort of the opposite of "standards." I now own all the Village Vanguard recordings and the Live In Europe box set, and am collecting most of the later stuff. I like a lot of the Atlantic albums, but the Impulse recordings are where it's at for me. They're challenging, sure, but I find most of them to be (as I said above) utterly addictive. Then again, I'm probably a little nuttier than most.

The Who were probably a little more innovative musically, but for a wide variety of kickass R & R, the Stones kicked their asses, especially in the period noted. Take all the stone cold classic Stones tunes from that period and line them up with the best off the Who albums, and the Stones list is much, much longer. Much as I love the Who ... it's the Stones by a mile.

Not taking any jazz into account, and excluding box sets as an option ... 1. Zappa/Mothers - One Size Fits All 2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper 3. Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series: Live 1966 4. Grateful Dead - Europe '72 5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited 6. Bruce Cockburn - In The Falling Dark 7. Phil Ochs - There and Now: Live in Vancouver 8. Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet 9. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark 10. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 11. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love 12. Zappa/Mothers - Over-Nite Sensation 13. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 14. Beatles - Revolver 15. Joni Mitchel

Nice to see this old thread resurrected... For 30s vocal jazz, nothing beats the Quintessential Billie Holiday series from Columbia. Many of its nine volumes can be had from Amazon for just a few dollars apiece. It's all good, much of it is top notch, and the price is right. Lee Morgan doesn't get as many props as he should, nor does Freddie Hubbard. Both great players ... no, they're not Miles, but they're still great ... just different. I recommend Search for the New Land and Red Clay. Oh, and JuJu by Wayne Shorter. Classic. Another great one is the Live in Europe Coltrane box set. Muc

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I like to tell everyone it's from the Laurie Anderson song Sharkey's Day ... ... because I figure it gives me some sort of indie cred, which I sorely lack.But actually it's because I am such a heartbreaker.

I love this quote from Bush's endorsement-of-McCain speech today: "If my showing up and endorsing him helps him, or if I'm against him and it helps him, either way I want him to win." I'm gonna miss him SOOOOO much.

I just finished that book a couple weeks ago. Pretty disturbing, but what a talent!

Because of this thread, I googled the f word and "cream pie" together, and got some very odd results. Thanks!

The guy really is multi-talented. I saw a special on him a while back, and the latter part of it had a lengthy segment showing him playing clarinet. He clearly loves that music, and does a nice job.