I thought I’d do some recollection on a band we’ve seen a couple times now called Delta Nove from Long Beach, California. Live recording from 2006 (details below): Mostly testament to the despicable music industry (as it really is sad – so many good artists and such utter crap on the radios most of the [...]

First, I thought I’d post for a few guys out there who should dig these songs. The first is Scott Amendola Band. Scott Amendola is the pretty f’n killer drummer in the first song (wait until about 6-7 minutes in — this guy just rips). I heard this song via the Pandora music player. Turns [...]

One thing I forgot to mention in all of these posts is what it was like growing up in the Shoumatoff household… Really, there aren’t “words that can describe it,” as good friends & fam can testify to… But one thing was the plethora of guitars that were always floating around the house. Brazilian, old [...]

  Sorry, hitting play is mandatory to reading this post… I thought it would be “mind blowing” idea to post about good hippie rock from the early 70′s that was “complex!”  But now I realize just how retarded that thought is.  Of Course there was good hippie rock in the 70′s. And even stuff that was [...]

My buddies the Williams brothers (two awesome, super down to earth white guys from Utah, who own about a dozen Hammond organs, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzers, Clavinets etc – even though they both play different instruments) turned me on to these guys. The Breakestra – who are one of my favorite bands, even though I’ve never [...]

For my friends in the Wasatch Cruisers I thought I’d put up a post about the bass player Charles Mingus. Listen to that bari saxophone starting it all off… This song, Moanin’, I call “Out of Cloud Chaos Comes Structure.” It gets pretty crazy there, lots of voices, and out of the chaos comes structure [...]

This is a great old recording in relatively high quality, which is demo/sales pitch where Herbie talked about the Fender Rhodes and some of the effects he was using.  This was recorded some I figure in 1973 or 1974, just before his Thrust album came out.  The Spook Who Sat By the Door was a [...]

At least at one point in time, a lot of people knew the role of Black Sabbath in music. They basically had the first major commercial release of a style of music that is, today, the root of all heavier rock music and even heavy metal from their famous albums from the late 60s and [...]

Hit play to start listening: Nigerian, African Funky Music from Fela Kuti. These are both about 10 minute long sweeping African funk songs in the very traditional Nigerian style (at least as I know it). If you check out an earlier post titled Blaxploitation, Afrique, funky tunes, and early 70’s film, I posted up a [...]

Time for a post on The Funky… I posted this yesterday quickly and in haste, but came back to it, re-wrote it and cleaned it up. So I thought I’d delete yesterday’s post and replace it with this one. Click play to start listening. The first song has about a 30 second intro. Be sure [...]