In really no musical order I started playing some Chick Corea, Return to Forever, and even a little of Tower of Power tonight. I thought I would play some random, favorite songs of these guys for you… Be forwarned that at least the first song is a hair weird but man is it tight and [...]

It’s better to tell these stories with the tunes playing, so hit play… A lot of the music that happens in my life comes from down at our amateur mechanic shop at the Recycling Center in Heber City, Utah. This is where we spend a lot of our time working on old Toyota Land Cruisers [...]

In typical format I was just cruisin’ along the other day and low and behold Delta Nove’s latest album ‘the future is when’ comes on my iPod and it is just crankin.’ I’m not really sure why I remembered their album isn’t “polished” as these three songs just kill it. Track 1 is an intro [...]

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 [...]