What are you currently listening to 2026?

A great guitar solo from a great song by a great band, Chicago, 25 Or 6 - 4

Brian

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Oh wow! That’s a lot! That’s such a shame.
The venue they’re playing at here is open air so all the tickets are general admission and all the same price.
I personally blame the streaming platforms that don’t pay the artists fairly. Nobody, or hardly anybody, buys albums anymore so artists (promoters/ producers?) charge more for live shows.

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Some Ozzy Osbourne songs

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New TPR album on the horizon.

The only Taylor that counts - sorry pop peeps :rofl:

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Sultry hot night in Normandie so trawling the toob for songs I may have missed - not one to hit subscribe, likem follow as you’re relentlessly told to do - so a recap threw this gem up from Evanescence.

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Whoa this was an interesting revisit 32 years after the BD single came out. One of the first songs I tried to learn in '96 and presented some lashed up recordings on these pages over the years - thankfully old forum and not visible !! Anyway found this more orchestral approach quite engaging but sorry the original can’t be beat - I tried I failed !!

Original from the wonderful Balls To Picaso album.

Even the video is better 3 decades on !!

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I have not heard this song in so many years, I had forgotten about it.

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Brother Maynard is a busy, busy man. He’s going on tour with two, yes. two of the three bands he fronts!

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Seeing TPR in early June. Will report if they play any of the songs from the new album :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:!

And he is doing martial arts and having a vineyard I think! Madman!

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He does have a vineyard. It is between Sedona and Prescott here in Arizona. Maynard is often there when not on tour.

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JC and the Tree - a duo from the Sunshine Coast, Australia
so chill and relaxing
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I could easily spend a month on that beach. Lovley song and a nice guitar playing on it.

Edit: I love the surfboard rear view mirror in their van. I found where you can buy them. There are a few places. But this one is pretty local to me.

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I know what you mean. It is beautiful, isn’t it :heart_eyes: There’s some really lovely coastline around here. There is just something about the ocean…

The surfboard RV mirror is pretty cool! :smiley:

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This dude can play.

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Good rant in this.

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Another Maphra gift from my daughter. Well outside what I would usually be listening to and unlikely to feature in my Spotify Blues Rock playlists but wow the vocals are incredible.

Out of character I also searched for the original source and found that equally captivating. But felt Maphra goes above and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1zqCX3Dvxo

So much music so many boundaries. Open your soul open your heart but most of all open your ears and mind !!

Simples.

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I was spinning Wunderhorse’s 2024 album Midas yesterday and enjoying it. Here’s the title track.

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A beguilingly simple song from my friend and hero, Mickey Newbury. The song and the arrangement are a sad farewell to the era of 'flowers in our hair.
ā€˜The Queen’, Mickey Newbury

Brian

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I first heard about Tom Moriarty recently as he opened for Philip Sayce in Cardiff.
This song ā€œMe and the sunā€ stuck with me. One for the long list of nice things to learn.

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Proof that the 8-Track was not entirely useless as a medium for music. :grin:

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