Happy Birthday to a true rock and roll visionary!

Third Uncle

Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

Fripp & Eno – Evening Star

I hope everyone has a happier Mothers Day than young Roger Waters!

This came on the radio on the way to work yesterday morning. Apparently this was one of my wife’s favorites when she was in jr. high school. It’s not particularly a good song. It’s really silly. And it’s a total earworm because I have not been able to get it out of my head. So enjoy some teenage girls rapping about how they really like cars with lots of bass.

I know, zombies are very popular right now. Whether they’ve jumped the shark yet is probably up for debate. But I thought it might be fun to put together a mix with the zombie theme. So here it is. You will need Spotify to be able to listen to it.

Here’s a half hour of Zappa goodness for a rainy Tuesday morning!

They call this late 60′s lineup the Lost Quintet since I don’t believe they recorded anything in the studio. It was Miles, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea and Dave Holland. Here they are performing a very short snippet of Bitches Brew.

Here’s Slayer with one of the most evil sounding guitar riffs ever!

Here’s a standard we worked on last night. This one is Cannonball Adderly and Miles Davis. It sounds pretty simple, but there are a lot of changes and they come fast! I had played this once before at an open jam, so it came back to me pretty easily.

In honor of the new Mars Volta album coming out this Tuesday, here’s a playlist of all but one of the songs they played (in order) the one time I got to see them. It was the 2009 Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park. While all the hippies were down by the beach at the big stage for some easy listening by Dave Matthews, I was with the cool kids at the opposite end of the festival for an afternoon of Mastodon, TV on the Radio and Mars Volta. The missing song is Eunuch Provocateur which is on the Tremulant EP and not available through Spotify. So here’s the playlist. You’ll need Spotify to play it.

What do you get when you mix a prog metal concept album about Moby Dick and a piano? This…