WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

LP - Lost On You [Live Session] 

Chronicles of Ancient Wisdom (album) - Fearless on Apple Music

Also on YouTube:  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kf_0Dtdgu9tKg1wwuw0rKm8ixt8gnyTDI

This is a happy accidental discovery I found on YT. They are a power metal band from Brazil, and not yet well known. The singer and co-songwriter is Dan Vasc, who has his own YT channel. He has ooodles of covers ranging from rock and metal to folk to movie and pop and even classical. He sings everything!

 https://youtube.com/@DanVasc

He self-published their first album because the deals offered by record labels were not fair to the band. It’s too bad how the music industry works. It seems you have to sell your soul to get any kind of deal these days. Hope one of the European labels will pick them up and get them going. They should be touring, big time.

Daily Doug - Classical composer reacting to Metallica, Unforgiven Trilogy!!!

https://youtu.be/uqOjOvXbQcs

Smith & Myers -

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqFqX3L-nXomAjpw0-8f_fQ 

Brent Smith and Zach Myers (both from Shinedown). (Always liked Brent's voice in Shinedown and "Not Strong Enough" he did with Apocalyptica)

They formed Smith & Myers doing mostly covers and mostly acoustic. 

"Unchained Melody" - cover of the Righteous Brothers song - They were nervous about covering such an iconic song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IO1qU3ElDM 

"In the Air Tonight" - cover of the Phil Collins song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHNHFpF_ZOg 

"Bad at Love" - this was a Halsey song but they rewrote the lyrics and has a nice video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8iDiRs5dRc 

Make me smile, Chicago

We lost Terry Kath 45 years ago today with

what has been called an accidental gun

shooting by him.

His musical talent and vocals on this song will make me smile forever. It is my fav Chicago song 🎼😢🙏

Classic 70’s Playlist 

A little bit of everything including John Lennon, George Harrison, Badfinger, Boston, Deep Purple, The Who, Scorpions, Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Status Quo, Macca & Wings, Free, BTO, Three Dog Night, Edgar Winter Group, America, CSN, Albert Hammond, Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie

The album -  Frampton Forgets the Words by Peter Frampton Band

Frampton was diagnosed with Inclusion Body Myositis in 2019. This songs on this album are instrumental. He wanted to do some of his favorite pieces from collaboration memories and tribute/covers to other's works. He said he didn't want to sing on these because his guitar has a better voice. 

All are great. The "Isn't it a Pity" original George Harrison was beautiful. The video showed some clips from Frampton during covid lockdown. 

"Loving the Alien" - original by David Bowie whom he worked with a lot was a remarkable rendition, video with clips from their days together.

Frampton did quite a bit of things after his diagnosis knowing that his body would be letting him down.

John Field Piano Concerto in C.   if you love Chopin then you owe ot to yourself to give a listen to John Field.  Chopin was a great admirer of Field and built many of his ideas on Field.  He perfected what John Field began.     

I’m so excited, Pointer Sisters

RIP Anita Pointer 🎼💜

Bella Ciao - d’Artagnan

https://youtu.be/LgEHBA6nEqU

This is an Italian folk song being sung by a German band with a French name which was recently popularized by a Spanish tv show (Money Heist, Netflix). This version is sung in German, but they also do Italian and English. The title is literally Beautiful Goodbye. While the melody is probably 19th century, the lyrics were written and sung by Italian partisans during the Nazi occupation of Northern Italy. It is about a fight for liberty to the death.

Music is truly the universal language!