Blues Beatles revisit "Yesterday"

David Gilmour & Pink Floyd

John Mellencamp's 2-fisted concerts

Return to Forever: Brilliance onstage

Watching Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, and Lenny White gel onstage as the entity known as Return to Forever is a visual-auditory jazz ballet for me. 

It's as much about the minimal effort to produce such astounding colorful themes as it is the casual "got it in my back pocket" coolness that comes through everyone's hands and feet; the movement is the message. Just watch Lenny's hands--and keep in mind he's yet another lefty on a right-side kit: compact efficient simple effort makes a big sound. Or Stanley's dancing-on-a-pinhead speed on bass, jumping with deer-like quickness up and down the neck.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra, whom I dearly love as well, were more frenetic and explosive, but I'll swap that difference in velocity for Chick Corea's ability to turn the keyboard of choice into everything from a gently flowing liquid murmur of notes that hover like mist on a lake to a spicy hot acoustic piano's jazz grind. And I'll take a fair swap for Jan Hammer's synthesizer for Al's flamenco guitar runs. (Plus, Al could easily match chops with John M.).
 

The decades of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music

Jack Broadbent and a whiskey flask

Bob Dylan & the Band 1-15-74 Landover, MD - Capital Centre

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) Lay Lady Lay Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues I Don't Believe You It Ain't Me Babe Ballad Of A Thin Man Stage Frieght The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down King Harvest When You Wake I Shall be Released Up On Cripple Creek All Along The Watchtower Ballad Of Hollis Brown Knockin' On Heaven's Door Times They Are A-Changin' Don't Think Twice It's All Right Wedding Song Just Like A Woman It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Rag Mama Rag Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever Shape I'm In The Weight

"Machine Gun" - Fillmore East

Jimi Hendrix LIVE Machine Gun from Mitchell Lopate on Vimeo.

Hubert Sumlin presents 3 hours of Chicago blues

The legendary Chicago blues, featuring Mr. Hubert Sumlin.
Road Of No Return 00:00:00 Blues For Argentina 00:04:52 Mannish Boy 00:14:18 All I Can Do 00:17:43 Sometimes I'm Right 00:22:59 Blues Is Here To Stay 00:30:08 Still Playing The Blues 00:33:22 Spanish Greens 00:37:49 Blues For Elmore James 00:42:09 Minor Feelings 00:44:51 Funky Roots 00:48:06 Straight Talk 00:51:54 Little By Little ( vocals Eddie Shaw ) 00:55:39 It Hurts Me Too ( vocals Joe Carter ) 00:59:14 Broke And Hungry 01:04:44 Jerking In Paris 01:10:36 West Side Soul 01:14:35 A Soul That's Been Abused (vocals Mighty Sam McClain) 01:17:06 Blue Guitar 01:24:25 Living The Blues 01:29:46 Healing Feeling 01:34:29 Play It Cool ( vocals Darrell Nulisch) 01:37:05 Blue Shadows ( vocals Darrell Nulisch) 01:42:21 Blues For Henry 01:46:52 Chunky 01:51:03 Sitting On Top Of The World 01:56:28 I Got The Blues 02:00:49 Killing Floor 02:06:53 I Got It Where I Want It 02:09:20 I've Been Hurt 02:15:14 Makes Me Think About The One I Had 02:22:33 When You're In Love 02:29:09 Gonna Move 02:35:53 Hubert Runs The Hoodoo Down 02:40:28 Iodine In My Coffee ( vocals Nathaniel Peterson ) 02:45:06 Come Home Baby ( vocals Paul Oscher )02:50:14 Long Distance Call ( vocals Eric Clapton ) 02:54:51 Walkin' Thru The Park ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:00:23 Built For Comfort ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:03:53 Evil ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:06:40 Backdoor Man ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:09:31 Tail Dragger ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:14:51 Who's Been Talkin' ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:19:15 Killing Floor ( vocals David Johansen ) 03:22:37

The Kinks "Supersonic Rocket Ship"

Dedicated to Tony Stark and Natalia Alianovna Romanova, for the supreme sacrifice you made for the world (and Marvel).