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Nicolette Larson.

Singing here w/ Commander Cody.

cutie with a great vocie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAd-U6CYjIw

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolette_Larson

Kasvot Växt

Someone talked about them here, and I love this band, can’t wait to see them live

 

 

https://youtu.be/uyb_VUfYjG8

 

I think Jesse Bardwell is the shit & I see acting talent as well.

It was Steve's first show back after a bought with cancer.

I start the show with a one song LI music video, where I re master an NYC radio broadcast & then the concert unfolds.

Steve meets me, I give him the warm and fuzzies and a nod & Steve nods back. We are off

Very very very special night +

Steve Forbert '18 Boulton Center Mini Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWSPfdWzQs

 

BLUELIGHT Mini Movies. Check them out!!! Light years ahead of their timelaugh

If I know the artist already - they cannot be obscure to me. 

That guy...

As listed in the "What are your ears listening to this month" thread a few months back, and since then I cant get enough of them:

Khruangbin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8L2D2XkByA

 

The kiddo turned me on to Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

Todd Barton

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/03/22/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh-ursul...

Collaborated with Ursula K. Le Guin in the mid 80s to produce a series of recordings they called Music and Poetry of the Kesh, and accompanied her work Always Coming Home as a cassette.

6er, just play nice pal ok?

Greta Van Fleet was unknown to me until this past December when a colleague raved about them, and then they played Saturday Night Live last week and kinda blew me away. Mesmerizing https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/greta-van-fleet-snl-781817/ 

 

that's trippy ursula colab...

Root Boy Slim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roC_JLOcnxE - Boogie till Ya Puke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b6NPJq7A_0 - I'm not too old for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KSLJm7psEs - Hey Mr President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X96Un6POoo8 - Christmas at KMart

Root Boy Slim (July 9, 1944 – June 8, 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician, Foster MacKenzie III. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he was raised in Washington, D.C.'s Maryland suburbs. An exceptionally bright child, with parents able to afford a series of costly prep schools, MacKenzie attended Yale University. He returned to Maryland upon receiving his bachelor's degree and was diagnosed with schizophrenia following an LSD-induced psychotic episode. In the 1970s, he formed his own alternative rock band, including some young but talented musicians (such as tenor saxophonist Ron Holloway) and an ensemble titled Crying Out Loud. Mackenzie's group was ultimately billed as Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band. Although the band cultivated a dedicated fan base, it was largely confined to the Washington metropolitan area.

 

 

obscure isn't the right word, but I'll throw out- Sonny Sharrock, Mulgrew Miller

Obscure isn't not the right word.

 

Charlie Parr
Paul Geremia

Greta Van Fleet was unknown to me until this past December

I got into them last year when the ep which imo is better than the cd was released. Their shot on SNL bored me, trying too hard to be Zepplin, just my opinion. They need to branch out if they want a long run, the Zep will only take them so far, but they are young and might have a chance, next record will tell

Check out a band I saw on Cobert last night, Better Oblivion Community Center

Kreg Viesselman 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1c7LqyjJVE

This is my favorite song and it has 103 views 

 

I wound up on the wrong side of the tracks again
And it's plain enough to see
That it must've been
The railroad men
That moved them, 'cause I swear it wasn't me
And I gave away all I owned
Least the things not nice enough to sell
Now I'm drifting down the river heading somewhere fine
As far as I can tell
I thumbed a ride from a DJ, took me
Fifty miles or more the wrong way
I'll be damned
He turned around
Took me back and wasted half his day
He shifted gears, waved good-bye,
And wiped his sweaty brow upon his sleeve
People aren't as bad as the television
Makes them out to be
Lord, Lord we're headed toward
The North star and the Drinking Gourd
Where they're never sad and they're never bored
Perhaps they'll let us stay

All the way to Cardigan
Just to ride the pauper's coach along the bay
Appetite for the nightlife and constabulary end up in the way
You roll the old
Virginia Gold
Son, the good stuff's back from where you came'
And, 'a drifter's just a vagrant's just a bum
Called by any other name'

Southern California's just a party thrown
With no one to surprise
And Hollywood can thank it's lucky stars
That LA is no prize
But every time
I turn to leave
She finds a reason good enough to stay
So I hang my hat one more time, California women
Tend to get their way

 

Charly Garcia - Fanky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcKBa9QYaI

Charly has been a huge part of Argentina's rock scene for decades, but never heard of the dude until I was hanging out with some Argentine ex pats in Costa Rica a few years back and they were playing some of his stuff.

 >>>>Greta Van Fleet  . . .Their shot on SNL bored me

Yeah.  It was not as good as some of the other material I have heard.   And that singer's shirt (if you can call it that).  Over the top ridiculous.  Plant and Co. had some wild outfits, but I don't think they would have been caught dead in that particular thing.

Cian Coey

here she is singing the Torture Never Stops with el Dweez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RrcPTHSPDQ

double

>> that's trippy ursula colab...

She was the best. It doesn't even begin to describe her greatness but read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Sarah Louise

Her work ranges from Takoma-style acoustic fingerpicking to close-harmony, old-timey Appalachian music to acousto-electric New Age / devotional (just released today). I'll listen to anything that she does.

Greta Van Fleet is a joke band manufactured to sell t-shirts to white males who lament that real music is no longer made. These shirts come in sizes "S" and "XXL", for the preteen/teen and the over-40 crowds, respectively.

But you knew that already.

Yeah I will check Sarah out asap

XM played the Leo Kottke rendition of 8 miles high today, to prime me..

>>Obscure isn't not the right word.

yeah, at least to you (me)

I feel supremely embarrassed people are mentioning Greta Van Fleet.  They are manufactured garbage and not obscure.

Jef Lee Johnson. 

 


Johnson was born in Philadelphia and began his career playing gospel music there in the 1970s, but he gained recognition upon moving to New York, where he played in drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson’s group Decoding Society, as well as with McCoy Tyner and others. He first recorded on violinist John Blake’s 1985 album Twinkling of an Eye and subsequently became an oft-employed session player. His credits include guitar contributions to recordings by artists as diverse as Billy Joel, Teddy Pendergrass, Phyllis Hyman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Common, George Duke, the Roots, Melody Gardot, Erykah Badu, Stanley Clarke, Jeff Beck, Aretha Franklin, Al Jarreau, James Carter, Mariah Carey and Esperanza Spalding (last year’s Radio Music Society).

In the mid-’80s he worked briefly as the lead guitarist in Paul Shaffer’s World’s Most Dangerous Band on Late Night with David Letterman.

In the ’90s Johnson was a member of the Philadelphia funk band Gutbucket. He was also a member of the Soultronics, a band that backed neo-soul icon D’Angelo on his 2000 tour and which also featured members of the Roots, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, keyboardist James Poyser, bassist Pino Palladino and others.

Johnson recorded several albums as a leader, beginning in 1995 with Blue. In 2008 he contributed to the album Rediscovering Lonnie Johnson, a tribute to the late bluesman. The following year he released the two-disc set Longing Belonging Ongoing, and a tribute to Bob Dylan, The Zimmerman Shadow.

 

https://jazztimes.com/news/guitarist-jef-lee-johnson-dies-at-54/

 

Jef Lee Johnson...Blue

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WI5gKIQ_63A

 

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=jef+lee+johnson

 

 

 

Greta Van Fleet was unknown to me until this past December when a colleague raved about them, and then they played Saturday Night Live last week and kinda blew me away.<<

Wow.  I saw them on SNL and thought they were a skit.  

 

Meanwhile...this guy turned up in my YooToob queue (probably a Jorma connection):

Blind Boy Paxton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FsdMky0J8&list=RDC5FsdMky0J8&start_rad...

The Great Van Fleet beat down.

"How dare you like them! They are inauthentic." 

lol

 

Jesus Fuck. They're just a harmless rock band. In a year - they will have gone the way of Wolfmother and will just be another footnote.

exactly ^^

Arvo Pärt
"Since 2011 Pärt has been the most performed living composer in the world." (wiki

"Stabat Mater" (for Choir and String Orchestra)
https://youtu.be/oFbnC_2OOJE

I find him totally obscure and his work is even more bonkers but I'm sure the ECM fans know all about him, when they aren't thinking the big thoughts about critics of Greta Van Fleet.

thanks everybody, this is fun.

 

except 6er, split if you cannot be constructive in the thread man.

Thinking the big thoughts, baby! 

 

The Turtle beat down too? I'm sorry, bro.

Ateix is right. I do know Arvo Pärt.

Rob Gonsalves....

 

Didnt know of his artwork til recently...

it's more of a beat off 6.

Edited...

Commas are your friend here, Turts.

why edit bk?

would you like to play nice in my thread by contributing an obscure artist or are you gonna drag butt?

You try too hard to be a cool kid.

Edited because I didn’t read the post you were responding to. I then read it and realized you need a comma.

You’ve been around long enough to know you don’t own threads you start. 

Oh, and all the douchy responses to the Greta van Fleet obscurity trashed your cool little thread.

i see how it's gonna be....

you're gonna give your fleas to me.

 

and the greta thing man, well people are gonna, like have opinions man.

easily ignored.

 

You should email admin and cry about your thread getting trashed by Greta Von Fleet, 6 and BK.

Damo Suzuki
https://youtu.be/4KyadX-dFxk

Singer for Can from from 1970-1973, still tours and plays with pick-up band around the world (doing a date with MMOSS here in May).

Don't feel snubbed Brian K. You, too, can be a little bitch in this thread:

https://vivalazone.org/other-stuff/number-6s-magic-carpet-thread

i don't email admin, ever.

thanks for getting the thread back on track ateix.

i am packing for seattle, be good.

 

Snubbed? I think your little circle jerk is cute, but I have no urge to be the pivot man. Turts would feel left out.

Who is Greta Van Fleet?

Obscure?

Or

Totally obscure??

 

Asking for a friend :)

the only ones "jerking it" are 6 and bk...

jambone, java d...all the boys and girls are having fun.

go outside bk maybe you can find someone to sexually harass or something.

 

this will be obscure to y'all. but this was my local hs-era psychedelic band

 

Sacred Haze

crossfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7retwkfyNLE

rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PKyofpjTwU

prince of flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFYKU0kBSbE

face the moutain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_aSjLvImo

 

Steve Gunn.  A bunch of my friends keep talking about him but I haven’t listened to any of his stuff yet.

Lol, Turts. It looks like someone is butt hurt.

yeah you gave me "a real good pounding"...

you know, to stay on your homophobic put down theme...

Aaron (last name unknown)...

 

My NEW favorite obscure artist

Turts, you’re just another punk who dishes it out like a champ, but whines like a dog when he has to take it. There’s nothing “homophobic” about calling it a circle jerk, or saying you’re butt hurt. But, stick with your theme. 

ok pivot guy.

I think Jambone is a pretty gay name, while we’re on the topic.  If that makes me a homophobe so be it.

The circle jerk is more of a meat head frat boy thing. You boys have that shit going on.

Bobby and the Midnites have nothing on this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOVkzZn48vo

The Circle Jerks !

Tom Hamilton, not the Aerosmith guy

Sotto Gamba.  They’ve got an album called “Booty” on iTunes/Apple and I believe also Amazon.  Got a Morphine/Cake vibe to em....

Triumvirat...

 

The German E L P

Shout outs to Viva Team Six. Step out of obscurity and be counted.

 

https://youtu.be/LF4CbIqj4_s

Delicate Steve - Tattered

Carolyn Leonhart's of Steely Dan fame jazz twinings.  That voice.

Gary Piazza is a rural Northern California musician who was discovered in complete obscurity, totally at random, in his early 20's by black flag and sst records founder, Greg Ginn.

he played lead guitar for ginn's awkward taylor Texas corrugators  power trio

a scholar of obscure music and profoundly influenced by early psych, piazza still actively releases improvisational underground freak out style sessions for free.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Piazza%22&sort=-p...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=01jcPrKFH5A

 

>>Shout outs to Viva Team Six. Step out of obscurity and be counted.

On the contrary Herr Slacker - Team Six is anything but obscure. Everyone knows our power to control the circle jerk into posting what we want them to post.