SwampRadio is Back!!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:01 pm

back to warm your heart, and expand your brain.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:08 pm

Broadcasting for your listening pleasure.

As always if we have it we'll play it.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:22 pm

How about some Built to Spill?

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:32 pm

Coming up after the funk.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:36 pm

Nice! Thanks, Rush.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:37 pm

Back to Back! What did I do to deserve this?

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:38 pm

govmentchedda wrote:Back to Back! What did I do to deserve this?

I realized I haven't listened to BTS in awhile, plus I think Bowie is cool.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:47 pm

I'm not knocking your want to carry that home.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:36 pm

Well, my sensibilities are being suitably challenged. Thoughts:

- Is 'Built to Spill' actually JMascis? I actually like some of his stuff.

- Bo Hansson moved me to look around to see if there were any more of those expired anti-psychotic meds. He should see if Hillage would sublet part of the garden shed so they can exchange concepts. Also, one bomb will do the work of two.

- That's ELP? Now I know where all the guys who left Blood, Sweat and Tears went.

- "Psycho Killer" brings me right back to when I wished that David Byrne had gotten better grades on that macrame design project at RISD and given up on that music stuff.

- But a least it's not Spyro Gyra.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:43 pm

Bo Hansson wrote this as well.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:56 pm

DC47 wrote:Well, my sensibilities are being suitably challenged. Thoughts:

- Is 'Built to Spill' actually JMascis? I actually like some of his stuff.

- Bo Hansson moved me to look around to see if there were any more of those expired anti-psychotic meds. He should see if Hillage would sublet part of the garden shed so they can exchange concepts. Also, one bomb will do the work of two.

- That's ELP? Now I know where all the guys who left Blood, Sweat and Tears went.

- "Psycho Killer" brings me right back to when I wished that David Byrne had gotten better grades on that macrame design project at RISD and given up on that music stuff.

- But a least it's not Spyro Gyra.

Not J. Mascis, but Doug Martsch. Similar sounds though.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:03 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Bo Hansson wrote this as well.

Amazing. I wonder how Hendrix found this song? Perhaps when he was in London. That's where Scandanavian rock and jazz guys might head to make it in the late 60s.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:09 pm

Hansson & Karlsson played a few times with Hendrix, sadly this is not one of those times.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:20 pm

Did find this though.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:31 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Hansson & Karlsson played a few times with Hendrix, sadly this is not one of those times.

This is pretty bad, even by the standards of very early prog rock. The drummer is playing his ass off -- the scandinavian Mitch Mitchell. But the keyboard player sounds like what I'd expect of Keith Emerson after his first week of organ lessons in the first grade. Very simple, very repetitive. Nifty pedals though. I did like it at the end when young Keith gave it up already and proceeded to smash and bang. And then the guitar player, who I didn't really hear earlier, proceeded to do some decent Hendrixian screaming feedback.

It's amazing that Hendrix wanted to jam with these guys. But he was said to be up for playing at all hours, with all comers. And he liked organ players. I'm surprised there is little recorded evidence of him playing with good ones. That would be an interesting sound. I have heard songs where he played with Steve Winwood, but this wasn't a major feature of the recording.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:35 pm

Hendrix in Stockholm, two years later. Real deal.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:37 pm

Rush2112 wrote:Did find this though.

The sound is rough, but even making allowances, I'm not hearing Hendrix. Not unless he was on 'ludes that night.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:59 am

Hear him here?

(he's playing bass, Stephen Stills, John Sebastian on guitar. Buddy Miles on the skins.)

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:25 pm

I suppose. I have no idea what Hendrix sounded like as a bass player. This bass player is not doing anything special, so it could be anyone to me. It definitely sounds like Stills on guitar and Miles on drums. I'm not a fan of Miles. When he replaced Mitch Mitchell in Hendrix's working band and then on session dates, it was a big loss. He corrected that mistake, but lost precious time as a result.

I'm not a Hendrix completist, so I'm no familiar with the vastness of his bootlegs. I know only what has come out on label releases -- though the controversy over ownership of tracks that were unreleased when Hendrix dies means that a lot was put out and some of this could be seen as bootlegs. A lot of it was very rough, pretty much just minimally structured jams.

The music is like so much of that material. Okay, but uninspired. That reminds me of so much of so much of the jamming of the 60s and 70s, whether done by big name pros or guys who lived in my commune. It reminds me of a fundamental point -- so much is about the song. If it's not a good one, even great musicians can sound pedestrian. Even great musicians aren't playing at their peak all the time. Hendrix was a guitar-playing genius. But many of his tracks are really pretty pedestrian despite this.

I'm always surprised by this. I think of Hendrix as Charlie Parker playing a guitar. But I've heard a zillion Parker tracks from live dates, when he was barely standing up. On a few, it is said that he actually passed out in between solos. He's often sloppy on these recordings, but almost always very interesting. I can't really explain why Hendrix is not. It's hard to believe he was a lesser player than a wasted Parker.

My working hypothesis: it could simply be that Parker was always playing standards. Sometimes he mildly re-wrote them and gave them a new title, largely in order to get the royalties. The jazz standards were really good songs. Many were Broadway show tunes written by the best of that genre.

So Parker, at his worst, was at least noodling away at fundamentally sound material. In stark contrast, Hendrix moved towards doing almost solely original material in his later years. So of course, as with any musician, a lot of it was weak. Perhaps the difference in material explains the difference in the results when they were taped in informal situations -- playing live in clubs for Parker, and studio jams for Hendrix.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:33 pm

I was a big Timothy Leary fan, so I enjoyed the rap. He was a tremendous raconteur, in the Irish style. By the time I was 15 I had read hundreds of pages of his early work, and listened to interviews on the public radio station in NYC.

Before Leary went off the rails, he had a lot of smart things to say about life, politics, religion and drugs. He and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) were heroic figures to me, giving up their status as Harvard professors to pursue something they though was more important. They pursued the path of their predecessor at Harvard, William James (author of the classic Varieties of Religious Experience), and took it further. Probably like William James would have done if he had more access to eastern philosophy and psychedelic drugs.

Years of heavy LSD use, being surrounded by acolytes, their betrayal, FBI pursuit, and prison eventually led Leary down a sad path. He became a pathetic, narcissistic, babbling figure. A parody of his earlier self.

But I will never forget the wisdom he shared in his early years as a psychological researcher and LSD pioneer. I was very fortunate to come across his perspective when I was a puzzled, frightened young man, staring at the Vietnam War, a dysfunctional family, and authoritarians everywhere.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:56 pm

Funny, Parker leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I suppose I should run through some his catalog again...hell I'm just getting back into early Genesis after many years away.

Had a buddy in college that used to listen to Charlie Parker with Strings all the time. He'd laude about how great Parker is (deservedly so) but something about that album just drove me nuts. Led me down the Parkerless path.

As for Jimi bass playing, something about it makes me hear him, though I've heard recordings of him playing bass when he was in a band rather than a band leader and I can "hear" him there as well. Probably my mind hearing him because it's supposed to, not my ear picking up nuances of his style.

DC47 · Post by **DC47** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:54 am

The whole 'With Strings' thing that started in the late 40s was almost always a marketing move by a record label rather than something the musician enthusiastically championed. It worked out as you'd expect from this origin. In some cases, there was art in it. But not that much, and rarely.

I believe Parker was actually interested in working with strings. But I have no idea what state he was in when that album was cut. He did a lot of studio dates just to make $50 and score. I'm not a big fan of this one, but I don't find it aversive. And without doubt, this strings thing is way off the path that Parker was brilliantly beating. It's not quite Lou Reed's metal music, but it rhymes. Not what I'd listen to if I was trying to get to the heart of Parker.

I didn't know Hendrix played much bass when he was a back-up musician. Who did he play with on recordings? I imagine it's all out there, because every track he ever played a minor role on has been released as an "Early Jimi Hendrix Song." I think his recordings with Curtis Knight as leader -- shortly before he went out on his own -- are the classic of this genre. Every Hendrix-phile of my generation was burned on stuff like this. We expect to hear Hendrix lighting up the sky, but get only a mildly Hendrixian chunka-chunka in the background, with some 2 second riffs.

Eventually the Hendrix family members controlling the estate seem to have cleaned up most of the control issues re: the unreleased Hendrix material and released systematic re-engineered versions that drop most or all of the post-Hendrix session musician over-dubs and show what he was working on, even if not completed to his satisfaction at the time of his death. So "unreleased Hendrix" in recent years has been legit.

And it's pretty good. I enjoyed Cry of Love (including Angel, Freedom) quite a bit a few days ago. Not up to the best of Electric Ladyland, but what is? Lots of that stuff had been released in various mixes; the latest version appears to be the truest to what Hendrix was working on just before he left NYC to gig in Europe, where he died shortly thereafter. What he considered 'unfinished' in many cases just means that he would have tinkered with it endlessly and in many cases not improved it at all. He was notorious for attempting to re-record his earlier hits because they didn't satisfy him artistically -- and these were songs that were legendary hits.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:36 pm

We're back. Currently playing album sides of 2015 releases/reissues.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:10 pm

Jazz, Psych Pop, and other selections for the Jet Setter.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:17 pm

Really nice, trippy, atmospheric last hour. And Boz!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:24 pm

Well you are the Jet Setter amongst us.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri May 01, 2015 12:43 pm

Pop Sike, Reggae, and jazz.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed May 06, 2015 12:12 pm

We're back.

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Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri May 08, 2015 12:52 pm

Tune on in.

Currently spinning some Wilco.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri May 08, 2015 1:08 pm

Could you play "Atleast That's What You Said" and dedicate it to Tom? Thanks!

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri May 08, 2015 1:10 pm

You really should go on tour with your humor. I'm sure at least your wife and mom would show up!

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri May 08, 2015 1:13 pm

My mom won't drive outside like a 15 minute radius on her own.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:04 pm

up and running with Horace Silver's "Song For My Father."

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:36 pm

Tune in my friends.

Always open for requests for tunes/genres.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:39 am

A little blues, a little jazz, then some olde type country rock.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:05 pm

It's a jangle pop afternoon.

Upgraded the software, so we'll be on basically 24/7 so tune in and drop out.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:57 pm

Motown/Classic Soul

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:16 pm

Classic Soul & R&B / Funk / Afrobeat along with other goodies today..

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Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:28 pm

It's Friday so why not....

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howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:42 pm

Dat Gum Guv'ment!