Hindustan Times
There’s been so much hype about Celebration Day, the name of the 2007 concert by the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who reunited to play just one gig at London’s O2 arena as a tribute to the legendary producer and music industry executive, the late Ahmet Ertegun, that even after the recordings – both video and audio – of the concert were released late last year, I hesitated to check them out. Big mistake. I should’ve. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 6:29 pm
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The first time I heard John Francis Anthony “Jaco” Pastorius III was when a friend handed me a pre-recorded Columbia Records cassette called Black Market by the jazz-rock fusion band, Weather Report. It was the late 1970s and my friend, a maverick sort of a guy who also was a classmate, predicted while handing over the tape that the bass guitarist on at least two tracks on the album would be like no one I’d ever heard before.
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Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Barbary Coast, bass guitarist, Bireli Lagrene, Black Market, Cannon Ball, Cannonball Adderley, Colonel Les Claypool’s Flying Frog Brigade, Dave Schools, Donna Godchaux, Download Central, Fender bass guitar, Heavy Weather, I Shot the Sheriff, Jerry Garcia, Joe Zawinul, John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Les Claypool, Live in Italy, Miles Davis, Mr. Gone, Night Passage, Oysterhead, Phil Lesh, Primus, Sanjoy Narayan, Stewart Copeland, Teen Town, The Grateful Dead, Them Crooked Vultures, Thomas Borocz, Trey Anastasio, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Widespread Panic, Word of Mouth
The best supergroups—collaborations between already famous musicians—are often the ones that don’t last too long. Remember Blind Faith, which in the 1960s had heavyweights such as Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech yet released just the one eponymous album? Or, what about The Traveling Wilburys, comprising Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, who recorded just two albums? Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 7:28 pm
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