Needlecast - Appointed duty
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Cpunks,As appointed by Kid Charming's "post":http://mog.com/Kid_Charming/blog_post/17057 from yesterday. I dug around in my collection and ran across a CD I bought when it came out in the nineties - Buddy Miles "A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix". I was sitting around my apartment with some friends cultivating the art of hanging out, when as usual we started talking about music. Well, I was in a huge Jimi Hendrix phase and we were talking about his band of gypsies - trying to name them all. Well someone piped in with Buddy Miles and I had never heard the name before. Consulted the Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll and found out that he was the drummer. The NEXT day, I was in my favorite spot at lunch, perusing the CDs at the local music store and I see this CD. I picked it up just because of the conversation. It didn't sit well with me at the time, so I shelved it and didn't really listen to it again until today almost 9 years later.The album is a live show, in Geneva Switzerland, with his old buddies, Kevon Smith on Guitar and Joe Thomas on Bass.The show is a tribute to Jimi, but they really cover the gambit of cover songs. The rendition of Come Together is damn funky with a bass solo that includes the Flintstones theme song in the middle of it. They throw down on the classic "Knock on Wood" and also move us through the Hendrix tune "Red House". The raucous Peter Gunn/Take me Higher/Superstition medley is so damn epic, it's just fun. I can't believe I blew this CD off - God, so much music is wasted on youth. ONE complaint - the production sucks. The vocals are way too low for me. There is so much depth and richness to the vocals and they are just lost in a heavy guitar / bass foreground. Mogmail me if you are interested in this one.
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