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ClaytonBigsby

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In shr88's Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed vid above, check out Chet's polka dot shirt. It reminded me of an experiment where they snipped the buds off a set of headphones and plugged the wires into a squid's skin: I know, right?....
But you gotta justify all that grant money you spent on beer, and weed....
Anyway, they played some music through it and, lo and behold, the squid's chromatosphores (that's what lets it change and flash colors) danced in sync with the music.

Here's the vid, though at least one squid was probably harmed in the making of this picture :)
They played Rage, which may or may not be your thing - I'm still waiting for the "Dark Side of the Moon" trials...
[video=youtube;G-OVrI9x8Zs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G-OVrI9x8Zs[/video]
Just one of my "random cool shit" links I thought I'd share...for better or worse, lol

The vid was cool for a few seconds until I noticed your avatar singing along with the song, then it was all I could watch. Suki suki
 

2rollingstoned

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Honey I am home!!!!!!!!!

It's late and I am just so glad to be back at my love shack yanno what I mean? No place like home is always so very true.

I've had an absolute blast and three days of oh my goddess incredible levels of music.... some here are like me and are deeply dedicated music fans. You will get the passion I felt seeing these acts, cause it was like a spiritual experience!

So I want to share with you some of my favorites from the 3 day show and something like 40 bands of the highest caliber entertainment.

This was in a convention center with three indoor stages and one by the pool at the Riviera Casino....

Sin City Soul and Blues Revival was incredible for its first year and changing venues from the newer RIO to the oldest on the strip Riviera a week before the festival started. Made for some pissy people including myself but it worked out fine. We stayed at the Riviera and was able to be inside for all shows except out by the pool when shows started around 4 to midnight out there. All shows started at 12 each day and concluded with all star jams with some of the best soul and blues artists rocking it out together til 1-3 am. So basically shows from 12 noon til 3 am plus...

fantastic.

I consider myself a person of good taste in music and it varies all over the place... but I have a deep abiding passion for music. It moves and stirs me and at times I feel like one of the few real joys I still have left in this life. Music does it for me. I live eat sleep and breathe it.

So here are my humble opinions on what I watched and my personal faves from the show.

I first want to introduce you to Malford Milligan... he is very unique in appearance - blue eyed, black albino. This cat is off the chain soulful, funky and intense. He feels it, he is powerful live and just natural.....

He was the singer of the super group collaboration called Storyville, they released 3 cds and I was a big fan of the band, we have 2 of the cds. Storyville consisted of Malford and Stevie Ray Vaughn's Double Trouble along with some others. Fantastic band I highly suggest listening to the Storyville stuff... great band.

I've read that Malford has auditioned for the upcoming new season of the talent show The Voice. I already can tell you who I am voting for. It will be him.

I was mesmerized and had to go over to the side of the stage and get on the dance floor to groove cause I sure as hell can't listen to this and sit still.

I may be a chunky ass old white lady but I can dance ya ass into the ground :eyesmoke:

[video=youtube;HGaUiOnSnRQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGaUiOnSnRQ[/video]
 

2rollingstoned

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Ok now chillens, set back while I tell you a tale about Curtis Salgado.....

Curtis is kinda tied with awesome Malford Milligan for vocals and just kept me enraptured with his singing and his stage presence. And he was just sweet as pie when I ran across him in the Casino late nite while there was an all star jam going on. I asked if I could take my pic with him and he said absolutely and hugged me all up in the photo it was very cool. He is the coolest of the cool and I vote Curtis Salgado as not only one of the most vocally talented and best stage presence of the show but also his personality is just the very best.

Here is his bio from his FB page and it speaks for itself. Its long but read it... Curtis Salgado inspired John Belushi to create the Blues Brothers. One of them is even named Curtis in the movie and their cd is dedicated to him.

Curtis Salgado - Born February 4, 1954 in Everett, Washington, Salgado grew up in Eugene, Oregon. His parents were “hip,” according to Salgado, and his house was always filled with music. His parents’ collection included everything from Count Basie to Fats Waller, and his older brother and sister turned him on to the soul and blues of Wilson Pickett and Muddy Waters. His father liked to sing, and would point out specific passages in a Count Basie or Ray Charles recording for Curtis to pay close attention to, and the youngster soaked it all up. He attended a Count Basie performance when he was 13 and decided then and there that music was his calling. Curtis began devouring the blues of Little Walter and Paul Butterfield, fell in love with the harmonica and taught himself to play.

As a hungry-to-learn teenager, his musical abilities grew by leaps and bounds. He played his first professional gigs when he was 16, and by 18 he was already making a name for himself in Eugene’s bar scene. Salgado quickly developed into a player and singer of remarkable depth, with vocal and musical influences including Otis Redding to O.V. Wright, Johnnie Taylor, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson I and II, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Spann and Magic Sam. With his band The Nighthawks, he became a must-see act in Eugene and throughout the Northwest. Salgado earned a reputation for high-intensity performances and a repertoire that was informed by his encyclopedic knowledge of blues, soul and R&B music.

In 1973, Salgado met Robert Cray and the two became fast friends. They jammed often, sometimes sitting in with each other’s bands, often playing double bills. In 1975, Salgado had the idea to start a blues festival in Eugene in order to meet and play with as many established blues stars as possible. The festival became an annual event, allowing Curtis to back up, befriend and occasionally house legends including Floyd Dixon, Frankie Lee, Luther Tucker, Otis Rush, Clifton Chenier, Sonny Rhodes and Albert Collins. In fact, it was Salgado—whose Nighthawks backed Collins locally—who crowned the blues legend with the title he would carry for the rest of his career: “The Master Of The Telecaster.”

In 1977, comedian/actor John Belushi was in Eugene filming Animal House. During downtime from filming, Belushi caught a typically balls-out Salgado performance. Afterwards the two got to talking and a friendship grew. Before long Salgado began playing old records for Belushi, teaching him about blues and R&B. Belushi soaked up the music like a sponge and soon developed his idea for The Blues Brothers, first as a skit on Saturday Night Live and then as a major motion picture and a best-selling record album and concert tour. The album, Briefcase Full Of Blues, is dedicated to Curtis Salgado, and, as a nod to Salgado, Cab Calloway’s character in the film is named Curtis. The Blues Brothers’ set list was strikingly similar to the shows Salgado was delivering on a nightly basis.

As Salgado was getting more serious about his career, he realized some of his band mates were not. It was then that Salgado joined forces with Cray and formed a new, more forceful Robert Cray Band. As the stature of the group grew, Salgado found himself sharing stages with blues icons like Muddy Waters, Bobby Bland and Bonnie Raitt. The band performed a transcendent set at The 1977 San Francisco Blues Festival to thunderous ovation before backing up the great Albert Collins.

After Salgado and Cray parted ways in 1982, Curtis went on to front Roomful Of Blues, singing and touring with them from 1984 through 1986. Back home in Oregon, he formed a new band, Curtis Salgado & The Stilettos, and was once again tearing it up on the club scene. He wrote many new songs, and honed his band to a razor’s edge before releasing his first solo album in 1991 on the fledgling JRS label. The group toured the country and began developing a strong following. His friend and fan Steve Miller invited Curtis and his band to open for him on a summer shed tour in 1992. Two years later, Salgado spent the summer on the road singing with Santana. In 1997 he toured with Miller again and performed in front of an audience of millions on NBC television’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien. Salgado then joined forces with Shanachie Records in 1999, putting out four critically acclaimed albums over the next nine years and finding his biggest audience yet.

In 2006 Salgado was sidelined when he underwent a successful liver transplant and then shortly afterwards was diagnosed with and then beat lung cancer. Like so many musicians, Curtis had no health insurance. His medical expenses were paid for in part by a huge outpouring of love and money from his fellow musicians and his huge Northwest fan base. He bounced back with a perfect bill of health in 2008, releasing Clean Getaway. Billboard said the album was a “tour-de-force, showcasing Salgado’s range and power as a vocalist” and that it featured “hard-nosed blues, beautifully nuanced phat and funky R&B.” Blues Revue called it “one of the best records of the year.”

Curtis tours heavily, leaving fans excited and hungry for more everywhere he plays. He has performed at festivals all over the world, including The San Francisco Blues Festival, The Chicago Blues Festival, Memphis’ Beale Street Music Festival, The Tampa Bay Blues Festival, Denver’s Mile High Blues Festival, Toronto’s Waterfront Blues Festival, Thailand’s Phuket International Blues Festival and Poland’s Blues Alive Festival.

Now, with Soul Shot, Salgado is ready for more, tougher and more focused than ever. He will again hit the road hard, proving his reputation as a fire-breathing live performer night after night. And that’s just how he likes it. “Always give it your best,” he says. “Be honest and be real. Treat every show like it’s the biggest night of your life.” With Soul Shot and a long list of tour dates already planned, the biggest performances of Curtis Salgado’s life are surely yet to come.

[video=youtube;MEajoHZZDRs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEajoHZZDRs[/video]
 

2rollingstoned

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Next up... just as I suspected The Monophonics were just ridiculously talented and super cool... very great show. Thumbs up!

[video=youtube;oqEiq20EG8U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqEiq20EG8U[/video]
 

2rollingstoned

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Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen - was the reason for much dancing.... smooth as silk. I have danced my ass off and believe me I needed to. But all I can say I got my groove on at every show. And thats the thing about folks who love soul blues and rock they love to dance and do so unabashedly.

Lose yourself in the music I suppose... I am not religious and this was my version of a spiritual experience. Very much so...

Another show favorite...

[video=youtube;sN_PcB-dlJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN_PcB-dlJI[/video]
 

2rollingstoned

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Yeah, getting some funk up in this joint. I dare you to listen to this and be still. If so you are just freaking dying a slow death, get off your ass and jam dammit.

Rules of the shop. Stop, drop a bud in the bowl and getcha groove on. Amen.

I am up late and finally enjoying some alone time. I like my hubs ok I guess, but after a vacation and being stuck together around the clock for about a week I am ready for some me time. Still not adjusting to this newly married shit. Hes older than I so he tries to daddy me and that shit ain't gonna cut it. I am very head strong and dominant thats just my nature as a single parent. I had to be tough and raise my kid so I am used to things my way. I got married for the first time at 47 last year after swearing a life time of staying single.

I dig my space. Is this so wrong? I like my alone time dammit. I think at times I crave to be alone too much but thats another subject for another day...

meanwhile...just let me sneak in one more by darling John .... he really can groove...

[video=youtube;FKsjJnJue7I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKsjJnJue7I[/video]
 

2rollingstoned

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I am still on Las Vegas time. I am wanting to still sleep half the day away, go out for breakfast at 2 am for steak and eggs and then beers til 6 am watching topless burlesque and losing my ass. I stopped at 120 dollars cause that was my budget and all I had to blow. So much for winning money but hot damn did I get a musical education!

I am so very stoned. I was without any smoke in Vegas for 5 days so now I am just stoned off my tits after 3 tokes. yee haw!

Sorry to ramble... I am just glad to be alone and have somewhere to vent all this plethora of musicgasmic adventure....

I went to see these amazing guys a few years ago and for the rock blues "Texican Style" is just off the charts fantastical...

Henry Garza is hands down one of the most intense rock guitarists out there touring right now and it being a family band of brothers... well the tight perfection of these cats is just unmatched....

this is an older video but a favorite of mine.

BTW Los Lonely Boys win my vote for BEST rock blues band and the hero of the event is Henry Garza. He was injured recently when he was greeting some fans near the stage and slipped and fell into the orchestra section. He has some serious back and neck issues and has to to cancel several shows. He didn't want to miss this show because it was a huge event and great exposure for them and he limped out on stage. You could tell he was in some serious pain but he rocked his ass off for an hour non stop grinding hard driving stuff mixed in with some of their special Texican sound. At the end of the hour he started to lose feeling in his left hand he kept shaking it and then they finally just took the guitar from him and basically half carried him off stage. The guy is a mudafukin trooper ya hear me? He played a seriously hardcore show and then was carried from the stage. You can't make this shit up.

Get well soon Henry <3

[video=youtube;Su_XGet3Zag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su_XGet3Zag[/video]
 

Grojak

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Malford and Double Trouble = Storyville

[video=youtube;aoZ1sw2sVgo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZ1sw2sVgo[/video]

Man I caught these cats back in 98 when I was working pizza, radio station did a free show give away... a few pizzas and we got our free tickets!!
 

2rollingstoned

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Dammit Grojak you lucky ass. I've met Chris Layton & Tommy Shannon and you couldn't ask for sweeter guys. They are a fabulous addition to anyone's band. I think Malford is exceptional. He is of course in Austin the heart of music it seems... I am wanting to visit Austin just to hear him again along with soaking up the scene.

I am guessing that was a bad ass show!

So cool to connect with somebody who knows about Storyville... they are exceptional! kudos friend
 

2rollingstoned

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Well good morning friends....looks like the place is deserted still...

Hope you all have a good day!

Got lots to catch up on since I've been gone a bit.

Peace
 

2rollingstoned

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[video=youtube;jTpebclVU8A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTpebclVU8A[/video]

Afternoon, just been working away in the girls garden room :bigjoint: Cleaning and doing some new set ups and tweaks. Cleaning, organizing and for some reason the sound has stopped working on our 55 inch Toshiba. Not a happy camper. WTF does that mean anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Seriously the sound just stopped working out of the blue. This sucks. Have to go back to the 42 we have in the den.

Boo.
 
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