Dreams have been strange lately, and not just mine. Others too. There’s something in the air. So for all you dreamers, enjoy! Download Dream Machine here (72 MB). Tracklist: 1. I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night / The Electric Prunes 2. Tomorrow’s Dream / Al Green 3. Dream City / Free Energy 4. [...]
I thought I heard Steve Winwood singing in a Kaiser Permanente commercial last night. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him, but whoever the singer was they sounded just like him. But it got me thinking about when Winwood was young, spaced out, and kind of badass. Here he is — with Chris Wood and Jim [...]
Eddie you will be missed. Look elsewhere if you want to read about his life (here is his obit in the NY Times and his entry on Allmusic). All I can tell you here is that his piano sounded like thunder and his voice sounded like the best party you’d ever been to. In his [...]
Jimmy was a member of the original Mothers of Invention and a total nut. What a lot of people don’t realize is that he had one of the great backbeats in rock. It would just snap. I’ve always thought it was sad that after the Mothers disbanded he didn’t find the kind of success he [...]