7 thoughts on “Friday Jams Fest”

1. Recently Deceased Prog Rocker of Worthy Note:

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   1. New York Times blog:

      [Bassist Chris] Squire, who was well known for being the band wild man, was a virtuoso of sorts who also poured a Stones-like street fighting spirit into Yes’s ethereal music, and saved many a song from descending into Hobbit-land (being human, he wasn’t always successful).  Out of the mist of organ tones and castrati vocals would come a growl, disconcerting, oh-so-low, almost too low to be music, a primordial beast raising itself from the mud with a giant yawn. It was impolite, indelicate, wrong, and soon to be funky.

      To better understand Squire, go ahead, listen to “Roundabout” (it’s easy now): As the intro’s slow dance between the organ and Segovia-like guitar passages finally slides into tempo Squire delivers not something refined or even vaguely British, but a mean, nasty, funky, almost Bootsy-like bass line that will not quit. It may be the only Yes song a rhythmically self-respecting person could dance to, and in my mind, the key to the song’s longevity. A conventional bass line on “Roundabout” would have doomed it, and maybe the band, to obscurity.

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2. Paging Mr. Delusional/ You’re wanted at the Front Desk…

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3. Oh you got a nickel/ I got a dime/ I’d like to get to know you/ But I haven’t got the time…/ Cause I’ve been living in a wiggly world…
   
   

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4. This may or may not be the “Original” but at least it’s Dylan:

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5. This one also goes out to all the Also-Rans out there, the Could-Have-Beens, the Would-Have-Beens, the Left-Behind, the Out-Of-Time, the Lost-In-The-Crowd…
   

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6. Had the opportunity to see Love & Mercy last night (the story of Brian Wilson) which had a brief scene with the young Bob Dylan. Great movie, although a bit dark. But necessarily so, as it revealed many things about the boyhood/family days of the Wilson family. 

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