Watching bootlegged video of the Kinks in Paris, France 1965. This show rocks so hard!!! The band is on fire and the crowd is going wild! There are a few clips on YouTube but not the full show. The show is available on DVD now: http://www.amazon.com/Kinks-Paris-1965/dp/B008I5OIF2 but the official release has not corrected the synching problems and poor audio mix of what is on YouTube.

On a break at work listening to: R.L. Burnside 07/26/97 Bele Chere Festival Asheville, NC 01. Old Black Mattie 02. Shake ‘Em On Down 03. Fireman Ring The Bell 04. Long Haired Doney 05. Skinny Woman 06. Walkin’ Blues 07. Bad Luck And Trouble 08. Poor Boy* 09. Alice Mae* 10. Goin’ Down South* 11. Snake Drive* 12. Jumper On The Line* * with Warren Haynes Listen here: http://www.panicstream.net/vault/r-l-burnside-7261997-asheville-nc/

Are you familiar with the Gov't Mule show from Halloween 2007? They play ALL of Houses of the Holy for the second set with special guest Audley Freed of the Black Crows (who backed Jimmy Page on his last tour) It was released as Holy Haunted House in 2008. http://mule.net/albums/holy-haunted-house/

Yes, Roosevelt Stadium 1976, The classic radio broadcast and one of my first Yes boots!

Third total lunar eclipse in a row! Number four Sept. 28th! http://earthsky.org/tonight/shortest-total-lunar-eclipse-of-the-century-on-april-4-2015 Spooky prophecies! http://www.jesusonmymind.com/services Rational explanations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Moon_Prophecy

OK I gotta hear some Les Claypool. Here's a show I went to right after 9/11. The crowd was defiant! Most of the people on flight #93 were from San Francisco! Let's Roll! Gov't Mule, September, 20th 2001, at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco: 1st Set: Bad Little Doggie (1)> How Many More Years (1), Thorazine Shuffle (1), Greasy Granny's Gopher Gravy Pt. 1 (2)+> Greasy Granny's Gopher Gravy Pt. 2 (1)+, Tommy The Cat (2)+, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (2+, Since I’ve Been Loving You (1), Mule (1)> Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey jam (1)> Mule (1)> Thank You (For lettin me be mice elf again) (1)> Third Stone from the Sun jam (1)> Mule (1) 2nd Set: Blind Man In The Dark (3), Lay Your Burden Down (3), Fallen Down (3)> The Other One jam (3)> Fallen Down (3), What Is Hip? (4)> Mule tease (4)> What Is Hip? (4), Babylon Turnpike (4)+, Compared To What (5), Slow Happy Boys (6)+, Voodoo Chile (7), Key To The Highway (6), Tomorrow Never Knows (8), Keyboard intro > Soulshine (9), Masters Of War (10)> Rockin’ In The Free World (9) Encore: Revolution (3), Goin’ Out West (11)> Big Bottom tease (11)> Goin’ Out West (11) Setlist Notes: (1) Les Claypool on bass; (2) Les on bass and vocals; (3) Dave Schools on bass; (4) Alphonso Johnson on bass; (5) Alphonso on bass and Rob Barraco on organ; (6) Jack Casady on bass, Pete Sears on piano and Chuck on organ; (7) Jack on bass; (8) Les on bass and vocals and Rob on organ; (9) Dave on bass and Rob on organ; (10) just Warren; (11) Dave and Jack on bass, Rob on organ, Pete on accordian and Cecil Daniels on sax; + first time played

What a show! YYZ and Thela Hun Gingeet? Dang! Les can handle it!

Rush, May 24th, 1979, Oslo, Norway. From A Passage to Oslo, Platinum Edition. DISC 1 Anthem 4:30 A Passage To Bangkok 3:57 By-Tor And The Snow Dog 5:31 Xanadu 12:41 The Trees 5:12 Hemispheres 16:57 DISC 2 Closer to the Heart 4:02 A Farewell to Kings 5:36 La Villa Strangiato 10:36 2112 18:23 What a killer show! They are totally "ON" from the first notes. Xanadu just explodes!

Pink Floyd, Nov. 16, 1971, Washington DC, "Something From Nothing". Look at how long these versions are! This is an excellent show, just as good as famous bootleg "New Mown Grass" from the next day in San Diego. Disc 1: 1. Embryo 12:31 2. Fat Old Sun 14:23 3. Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun 14:15 4. Atom Heart Mother 15:46 Disc 2: 1. One of These Days 8:52 2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 13:27 3. Cymbaline 11:59 4. "Looking Through the Knothole In Granny's 24:34 Wooden Leg" (Echoes)

Albert Collins, (AKA the Master of the Telecaster) July 27th 1985, Toranto, with special guest Stevie Ray Vaughan! AWESOME!!!!!

Yes, Quebec '79. Toole man remaster, sounds awesome!

I was a teenager in the seventies and there was this really cool band called Led Zeppelin!

Keep the new CDs! They sound great, you will be surprised at how much more you hear. Totally worth it!

There are three eras of Gov't Mule. The first is the power trio era (1994- 2000) with original bass player Allen Woody. The best album from this era is Live at Roseland Ballroom. When he died in 2000 the band put out two tribute albums Deep End vol. 1 and Deep End vol.2, featuring 25 of Woody's bass playing heroes, including Chris Squire, Roger Glover, Mike Watt, Bootsy Collins, Les Claypool, Dave Schools, Jack Bruce, John Entwistle, Jack Cassidy, Phil Lesh, Jason Newsteed, Chris Wood and Billy Cox. Mike Gordon produced a film called Deepest End featuring many of these bass players with Gov't Mule too. Mule shows during this era featured guest bass players, many from the Deep End albums. The third era saw Gov't Mule add a new bass player and a keyboard player. Their first album of this era, Deja Voodoo, won a Grammy. Their next album, High and Mighty is my favorite. You can't go wrong with any of these five albums. They also have some albums of cover songs from bands like the Stones, Pink Floyd and a disc of reggae versions of their songs.

Paid $15 for a live stream of Sco-Mule last night. I love seeing live music in my own home, free parking, front row seats, well-stocked bar, no line at the restroom and I run the soundboard! It was the last show of the tour and they were HOT, far better than the show I saw last month! So much Jazz and Blues guitar! The set list doesn't do it justice but here it is anyway: Set 1: Steppin' Lightly Unring the Bell (with Get Up, Stand Up tease) Endless Parade Patchwork Quilt (Phil Lesh & Friends cover) Loser (Jerry Garcia cover) Tom Thumb (John Scofield cover) (with John Scofield) Night Time Is the Right Time (Roosevelt Sykes cover) (with John Scofield) Flip Wilson (with John Scofield) Devil Likes It Slow (with John Scofield) (with Hottentot tease) Set 2: Boogie Stupid (John Scofield cover) (with John Scofield) Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Duke Ellington cover) (with John Scofield) Stratus (Billy Cobham cover) (with John Scofield) Soulshine (Larry McCray cover) (>) Tupelo Honey (Van Morrison cover) (> Soulshine reprise) I'm a Ram (Al Green cover) (with Les Bres in A Minor tease) Encore: Free Wing Jam (with John Scofield) (with Little Wing tease) Freeway Jam (Jeff Beck cover) (with John Scofield) And not one song the same!

Ever lived or worked on a farm? I've seen geese line up to be "force fed". They seemed to like it! Kind of reminded me of people lining up at McDonalds...

San Francisco symphony doing Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, Haydn's Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major, and his Symphony No 103, Drumroll, The tympani player was excellent but the star of the night was Nayda Tichman, on violin. Plus a great meal in the city featuring the recently re-legalized Foie Gras!

Terry Pratchett A great Sci Fi and Fantasy writer, he will be missed!

R.I.P. Leonard "Spock" Nimoy.

UK next month. Going with five highschool buddies from the seventies. Getting psyched!

Saw the Mule with John Scofield on Friday night at the beautiful Fox Theatre in Oakland. Cool show with lots of jazzy guitar jamming and a few nice cover tunes. Downtown Oakland is really flying high, every place on Telegraph and Broadway was packed! Set 1: Hammer and Nails (The Staple Singers cover) Game Face (with "Birdland" & "Mountain Jam" teases) Banks of the Deep End Time to Confess Streamline Woman Blind Man in the Dark (with John Scofield) (with "Ain't No Sunshine" lyrics) Instrumental Illness (The Allman Brothers Band cover) (with John Scofield) Birth of the Mule (with John Scofield) Doing It to Death (The J.B.'s cover) (with John Scofield) Set 2: Mule Beautifully Broken (>) Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)> Beautifully Broken (reprise) The Shape I'm In (The Band cover) (with John Scofield) Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Traffic cover) (with John Scofield) Dreams (The Allman Brothers Band cover) (with John Scofield) Encore: Get Behind the Mule (Tom Waits cover) (with John Scofield)

I think it's called "rain". I haven't seen it for a few years!

Music is all about the feeling! I've seen plenty of "non-sloppy" guitar players: Satriani, Vai, McLaughlin, etc. They mostly left me cold. Page is not trying to recreate the song as played on the album, he's trying to "get that feeling". The players I like, Page, Hendrix, Zappa, Duane Allman, Jerry Garcia, etc. always played it different at each show, Duane called it "hitting the note".

Daughter made beef bourguignon! It was excellent, she used the recipe from Julia Childs' The Art of French Cooking cookbook. It took her like four hours to make and it was so delicious! She served it with polenta and french green beans, yum!

They should have called it after Karac died. Nothing significant happened after then.