ccclxiv. MINGUS, Charles (1922-1979)
from: Charles "Baron" Mingus, West Coast, 1945-59
A 2-bar riff is repeated in a 12-bar blue form:
ccclxiii. STEELY DAN
from: Gaucho
Oh, the problems with dating younger women ...
**
Way back when in '67
I was the dandy of Gamma Chi
Sweet things from Boston
So young and willing
Moved down to Scarsdale
Where the hell am I?
Hey nineteen
No, we can't dance together
No, we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down
Hey nineteen
That's 'Retha Franklin
She don't remember the Queen of Soul
It's hard times befallen
The sole survivors
She thinks I'm crazy
But I'm just growin' old
Hey nineteen
No, we got nothin' in common
No, we can't dance together
No, we can't talk at all
Please take me along when you slide on down
The Cuervo Gold
The fine Columbian
Make tonight a wonderful thing
(Say it again)
The Cuervo Gold
The fine Columbian
Make tonight a wonderful thing
No, we can't dance together
No, we can't talk at all
ccclxii. SIMON, Paul (1941- )
from: Surprise
ccclxi. THE BEACH BOYS
from: Pet Sounds
Paul McCartney said it's the greatest song ever written. He's not alone.
I love The Real Book, but it burns my buttons when the transcriber makes a horrible mistake like this one:
It is so clear that Carl is singing a C-Natural (last note of bar), and it is equally clear that we're hearing a diminshed chord: C dim ...
Here's my entry:
ccclx. GANGER, Ted
Lost and Found (2017)
TD, piano, vocal
(6:12)
from: Turning the Pages
A bluesy take on love lost and found ... always keeping things interesting; moving between triple and duple rhythms ... and of course the always expected piano break ... tremendous ff at the end!
ccclviii. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)
ccclvii. DAVIS, Miles (1926-1991)
from: Bitches Brew
Shorter gets composer credit. Pretty basic stuff. A three-note I-IV-V riff is repeated and everyone wails on top of that. It's still pretty cool with Zawinul and Corea doodling around the margins, while Miles & Co. scream out hot licks.
Like the rest of Bitches Brew, there's obviously a ton of razor-blade edits ...
**
Teo Macero: Sock-It-To-Me!
Miles: Teo, please don't say that ...
ccclvi. WILCO
cccliv. BOWIE, Lester (1941-1999)
cccliii. STEELY DAN
from: Alive in America
About the famous LSD-chemist, Owsley Stanley.
**
While the music played, you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights
You were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
You turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around
(Did you feel like Jesus?)
Did you realize
That you were a champion in their eyes?
On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen-clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare and you'd go it alone
(Could you live forever?)
Could you see the day?
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
Now your patrons have all left you in the red
Your low-rent friends are dead
This life can be very strange
All those day-glo freaks who used to paint the face
They've joined the human race
Some things will never change
(Son, you were mistaken)
You are obsolete
Look at all the white men on the street
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test-tubes and the scale
Just get it all out of here
Is there gas in the car?
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall know who you are
'Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes
ccclii. TAKE 6
People Get Ready (2002)
Alvin Chea, vocals
Cedric Dent, vocals
Joey Kibble, vocals
Mark Kibble, vocals
Claude McKnight, vocals
David Thomas, vocals
Marcus Miller, Fender Rhodes, Mini-Moog, Drums, Programming, Guitar
(3:38)
From: Beautiful World
cccli. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (1968)
(2:02)
from: We're Only In It For The Money
This is musique concrète.
I am fairly certain that Zappa must have owned this record, released in 1964:
cccl. BRUCE, Lenny (1925-1966)
The Berkeley Concert (1965)
(1:18:46)
Warning: Adult Material
from The Berkeley Concert.
cccxlix. U2
from: Songs Of Innocence.
Bono: "an uncomfortable song about domestic violence."
**
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control
You think it's easier
To put your finger on the trouble
When the trouble is you
And you think it's easier
To know your own tricks
Well it's the hardest thing you'll ever do
I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me and then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you're not my troubles anymore
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control
You think it's easier
To give up on the trouble
If the trouble is destroying you
You think it's easier
But before you threw me a rope
It was the one thing I could hold on to
I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me and then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you're not my troubles anymore
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control
God knows it's not easy
Taking on the shape of someone else's pain
God now you can see me
I'm naked and I'm not afraid
My body's sacred and I'm not ashamed
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control
cccxlviii. KENEALLY, Mike (1961- )
Buzz (2016)
MK, guitar, keyboards, vocals
Pete Griffin, bass
Kris Myers, drums, congas
(4:32)
from Scambot 2.
In Scambot 1 and 2, Mike incorporates a story line involving over a dozen characters, for instance, GOD:
"A committee of enlightened beings on the edge of the universe. Fans of strangeness and television, they've created a reality show called Scambot."
Try to follow along:
**
BUZZ
In a living room, somewhere, a guy named Buzz has just arrived at his friend's house party.
BUZZ:
Do y'got some, c'mon
Yeah, we brought some along
Rock the guac, turn on the Trinitron
We're having tacos, c'mon
We're very hot for some fun
Look, now Scambot's on
Buzz looks at the TV screen and sees the Scambot credit sequence: "SCAMBOT -- brought to you by GAS."
The show begins and Buzz recognizes Kootch, moaning miserably on the beach, as someone he'd threatened during a dark chapter of his life.
Hey, I know that one
I was snide to him, son
Took his pride, had a gun
Now I cry, how could I done
All the crimes I have run
It's that God
The majority of God is good
One part is not
He hates me and made me hate
And leaves me standing out
Torn and crumblin'
They're not wrong, somehow
Feeling it down in your corns
You could be doing anything
But you can't be doing much worse
than that
Worse than that
Much worse than that.
Buzz watches a scene of an alternate reality, wherein Scambot is fully aware of his participation in the show, and is being hounded by reporters on the Emmy Awards red carpet.
REPORTERS:
What are you wearing?
Who are you wearing?
SCAMBOT (internally):
Where in hell did I go?
There's a montage of Scambot TV appearances: clips from late-night talk shows, "emotional" interviews with hosts who try to elicit tears, and game-show cameos. There's a look in his eye that suggests he's not entirely sure what he's doing in all of these places. The show cuts back to the red carpet.
REPORTERS:
Who are you wearing?
Who are you wearing?
Who are you wearing?
Who are you wearing?
It's the Scambot show!
The show ends, Buzz and friends engage in a late-night guacamole-fueled philosophical discussion.
PARTIERS:
Create Hell
Debate Hell
We hate Hell
cccxlvii. RYPDAL, Terje (1947- )
from Conspiracy.
Been a fan of this Norwegian guitarist for a long time.
cccxlvi. NELSON, Oliver (1932-1975)
from Blues And The Abstract Truth.
Ultra-inventive solos by Hubbard and Evans ...
cccxliii. HAWKWIND
from Hall Of The Mountain Grill.
Live at Edmonton Sundown, London, January 26, 1974.
cccxlii. GRATEFUL DEAD
from In The Dark.
Shaking in the forest, what have you to fear?
Here there may be tigers, to punch you in the ear
With gloves of stainless steel, bats carved out of bricks
Knock you down and beat you up and give your ass a kick
When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love
Shaking in the desert, wherefore do you cry?
Here there may be rattlesnakes, to punch you in the eye
With shotguns full of silver and bullets made of glass
String barbed wire at your feet, that will not let you pass
When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love
When push comes to shove, when push comes to shove
You're afraid of love, when push comes to shove
Shaking in the bedroom, covers on your head
Cringing like a baby at the hand beneath the bed
The phantom in the closet, scratching at the door
Maybe it's mystery killer you saw on channel four
When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love
Shaking in the garden, the fear within you grows
Here there may be roses, to punch you in the nose
Twist their arms around you, snap you til you cry
Wrap you in their sweet perfume and love you til you die
When push comes to shove, you're afraid of love
When push comes to shove, when push comes to shove
You're afraid of love, when push comes to shove
cccxli. AFTER CRYING
from Overground Music.
This Hungarian group makes wonderful music.
**
Nights fly away
Just for moment get me up
Easy girls turn to grey
In their heaven there's no God
Walking down empty road
Don't remember who you are
Oh, an ordinary queen
Just have to find the way to home
Let me lose the dream
Just have to find my steps alone
To go home
Fly home!
Night's jelly-fish
Turns her starless face away
Through the deadblack polish
Appears the blood of burnin' day
So I may see the land
Embark today on silver shell
I take no stock in dreams
Two purple eagles draw the boat
Over every sea
An' all my members want to love
All I want
I want
Lead me into love
Cool fire
Lead me over God
Love-spire
Walking over me
On highway
Over every sea
I'll learn to love
(Walking down empty road
Don't remember who you are)
Need neither nights
Nor the sirens' nighty-mesh
Nowhere place and no time
In the cities of the flesh
To hide away as the touch
Just behind a secret's back
You, ordinary queen
My island is your pure face
Carnal sirens scream
But all my members interlace
With you
This is true
That is true
Over every sea
By eagles
Walking on the sea
Like Peter
Ordinary queen
No siren
Ordinary queen
She spoke to me
cccxxxviii. ZAPPA, Frank (1940-1993)
from The Mothers 1971.
from Show 2 on June 6, 1971, Fillmore East.
**
History:
Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra (1970) first appeared on a Jean-Luc Ponty date for World Pacific/Liberty entitled King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa.
Zappa later rewrote it completely, releasing it as Revised Music For Electric Guitar & Low-Budget Orchestra (1978) on Studio Tan.
Here we hear only the beginning section, which FZ used in these Fillmore concerts as an introduction to Billy The Mountain.
N-Z A-HA / Take On Me / ccclxx ABERCROMBIE, John / Timeless / xxiii ABERCROMBIE, John / JOHNSON, Marc / ERSKINE, Peter / Light Beam / cxlix ...
