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westslope

Wheeling
RIP Bill Withers ..............Use Me,Lean on Me and Ain't no Sunshine !! For those who've never heard him listen to" Use Me " My fav band is and has been Sabbath since around 72 but I also love me some old soul/motown and I have My Dad to thank for that. Thankfully he didn't care for the Do-wop $hit or country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Bill Withers is a bigger name than many of us realize. He had a great run.

Crabby, If you like some of the old R&B and Soul, you should check out Michael Kiwanuka. British. David Gilmour style guitar. Hendrix guitar licks. Produced by Dead Mau5.


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TheCrabby1

I Smell Fishy
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Location
Burtonsville, Md
Dr John , kinda what's going on all around us; Dr Hook just because and Traffic because this version is just Bad to the Bone !! [ Delaware Destroyer pun ] 20200426_195143.jpg 20200426_201241.jpg 20200426_194141.jpg
 

SledheadX

Wheeling
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Location
Rochester, NY
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westslope

Wheeling
chillhop lofi
love this stuff for studying and writing papers.....lets get your masters online it'll be fun.....
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Not bad! I am always pleasantly surprised when I like something with the word 'hop' in it. :) Be patient, I am an old guy.

For writing, difficult reading and spread sheet work I like:

- Pat Metheney (with Lyle Mays, the PM Group, etc.) example: Last Train Home -- American contemporary jazz synthesis at its best IMO

- Boards of Canada, Tomorrow's Harvest -- ambient electronica from Scotland, h/t Steven Wilson

- All India Radio, example: Fall. Most of AIR's stuff is 100% instrumental -- ambient electronica from Australia
 

TheCrabby1

I Smell Fishy
Supporting Member
Location
Burtonsville, Md
Was checking out the new AC/DC album while making dinner - until the wife told me to turn off the ‘death metal’. Debating breaking out some actual death metal tomorrow night ;)
Give her a dose of GWAR or get down with the sickness at volume 11. What ever music that is ..... Lol
 

kirk

Butterfly King
Moderator
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Location
Allen, Texas
I really liked Blue October back in the late 90's/Early 2000s. I didnt keep up with their music until recently, but I did keep seeing their front man (Justin Furstenfeld) in the news for various substance abuse related issues. He has been pretty open about his struggles with his mental health as well, so I expected he would one day OD or something, but apparently he got clean and did some acoustic shows, podcasts etc. His voice is pretty powerful. I like this acoustic version better than the album version. Written from his wife's point of view, talking to him.



“I found my higher power in a wasp can,” declares Justin Furstenfeld with complete seriousness.

While in rehab for drug addiction, the Blue October singer was desperately asking for a “simple” sign from above one day when he noticed a lone wasp trying desperately to make its way into a can that had the words “Wasp Killer” written in bold white letters on it. “Why the hell would you want to get into that wasp can when you’ve seen millions of your homies die from that s--t?” asked Furstenfeld. It was that simple. He, too, kept returning to the one thing that was destroying him and everyone around him: drugs.


 

westslope

Wheeling
kirk: I am a big fan of an American Indie band named The War on Drugs.

If you pay attention to the lyrics, one could be forgiven for asking what does any of this have to do with The War on Drugs?

Well, the backstory reveals all. Band leader and song writer Adam Granduciel quit tobacco, quit weed, quit alcohol (possibly quit some other drugs too), and then with a tonne of work cranked out two incredibly fine albums: Lost in the Dream (2014) and A Deeper Understanding (2017). He also got the 'girl': Krysten Ritter. And they have now made a baby!

My favourite performer -- British artist Steven Wilson -- does not "do drugs", other than an occasional beer. His work ethic and output are too great to be slowed down by recreational drugs. Yet, some of his younger fans blithely assume that he writes and works while stoned because the work is prog rock, prog metal, alt rock, techno-ambient influenced, sometimes a bit weird, etc. Listen carefully to the lyrics of earlier Porcupine Tree songs and you will hear the anti-blotto message.

I like to smoke weed. But if I want to carefully listen to every track and nuance on a prog rock or jazz album, I listen 100% straight. Unless one is self-medicating for nasty chronic pain, being stoned all the time is just plain stupid.
 
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