lw, I think Jimi's problems went "a little deeper than that". A lot of it was sheer exhaustion, his business was such a mess and so many people depended on him for the cash flow (sounds familar don''t it?) that he couldn't get off the road to reninvent himself.

He didn't play like someone who got bored easily. Or maybe he did, cause he was always looking to jam with people that would let him go somewhere else. What I wanna know is when are they gonna release the tapes of him and Miles? Also I heard of jams with John McGlauphlin.

One of da bredren sent me a DVD doc about the late great SF guitar player John Cippolina. He was a total gem and the epitome of the old Haight St vibe. It has great clips of John playing with Quicksilver and more clips of later bands he was in. Whatever band he was with, and he was usually in 5 or 6, he brought a whole other dimesion to. His guitar style which was entirely as distinctive as any of the other SF greats(Santana, Garcia, Jorma, Terry Haggerty) but not many have continued it.

I will post the name of it next time I watch it, it seemed a bit low budget, but really good.

Graceland- Paul Simon

I just stumbled upon this guy and I can't stop listening to him, ya'll should check 'em out. His name is Bon Iver you can hear his music at www.boniver.org and www.myspace.com/boniver

Enjoy!
ObOdAoUr

One album that has been shooting to the top of my favorite list since I first heard it not long ago is:

Chi-A.D. "Virtual Spirit"

That old psychedelic chestnut: Aoxomoxoa

David Bazan = Excellent!!! www.myspace.com/davidbazan

Oh and, Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Early Animals / Surfaris (yes, those guys) / Electric Alarm Clock /

The Surfaris!!! First record I ever bought was Surfer Joe b/w Wipeout! And maybe the third band I ever saw in person was the Surfaris at a shopping center opening.

Ron Wilson, the leader, drummer and singer of the Surfaris lived his last few years here in Nocal. He was a couch loving pot head who died a few years back. My drummer friend Booty met him and said "You're the guy that wrote Wipeout, I don't know if I should shake your hand or smack you silly"

--- As a drummer I can not tell you the number of times I have heard that inevitable shout out... "Drum Solo!!, Play Wipeout!!!" There finally came a time when I just flat out refused to play the thing... (I'd just spaek into the mike "How about the solo from Inna Godda Da Vida instead??" and then launch into it... I must say, I heard Wipeout playing at the grocery store the other day.. Had me smiling as I walked down the aisle...

I cut my teeth on surf music, even after the Beatles were all the rage. Here 180 miles from Surf City surfers and surfing were actually the pre hippie, pre Beatle long hair dope smoking acid eating rebels.

My brother got turned on to weed in 62 by a lengendary surfer type named Personious. They had to cross the river to West Sacramento to cop Prince Albert cans from scary Mexican gangsters.

Great back in da day stories, gents.

"Culture" - Why Don't You Trust Me?

lw

We got millions of 'em, bro

Through the magic of Youtube I have been checking out one of my old favorites: the LA band Spirit. I saw them a couple times in '68 at our local psychedelic ballroom, the Sound Factory.

My musical cohort Mr. Foster and I are on this mission to learn a unch of the great songs from the 60s figuring we already know a lifetimes worth of blues. Here is a smattering of tunes we have added to our book: Purple Haze, Wind Cries Mary, Foxy Lady, Here Comes the Sun, If I Fell, I Should Have Known Better, Jumpin Jack Flash,I Got A Line On You (by Spirit), Sweet Child of Mine(I realize its not from the 60s but its a cool song) and more. We plan to add one or 2 a week of tunes like these.

The challenge for us is to render these tunes that were heavily produced in a power trio format. And though the blues nazis give us funny looks we get a lot of good response and we are having a blast!!!