If You're Listening To Music Right Now III

i swear to god it was one of the funniest if not most awkward things i’ve ever had the good fortune of experiencing. it was a public poetry reading event at ‘magic beans’ coffee shop in boone back in the late 90s, attended by what we like to call ‘trustafarians’; rich, upper class appalachian state university students who wanted to be hippies and drove range rovers with bumper stickers that read ‘visualize whirled peas’ (i.e., ‘world peace’). these kids spent in one trip to the mall to buy tye-dyed clothes and beads and lava lamps and shit, what would take a real hippy like a month to make in wages. some of the chicks even stopped shaving their legs… well because that was part of the script. i’m a natural chick. here, want some granola? i made it myself. peace, brother. we should have sex, actually.

so anyway they always had a drum circle up on the roof after the poetry readings. so i’m up there with somebody else’s bongos chopping up latin jazz fusion beats in circles around em… and i’m getting a lot of evil stares. you’re such a show-off, man. no, it’s just that the greatful dead puts me to sleep. okay i’ll slow down.

at the end of this ‘jam’ we’re all sitting around drinking coffee and smoking bowls. i happened to have my portable radio with me… and the CD in it at the time couldn’t have been more perfect. it was ‘we’re only in it for the money’. i had a plan. watch this. i set the radio on the railing and play this song. now what followed was worthy of video by hidden camera it was so glorious. you’ve never seen a more perfect deterioration of good mood descend upon a people before in your life. i promise you. it was the kind of thing where everyone wanted it to stop, but they couldn’t move… couldn’t say anything. all they could do was sit there transfixed and frozen as frank delivered their fate… and i sat back admiring what i had created. things were never the same between me and the appalachian state trustafarians again.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaZmyqCKUs[/youtube]

special thanksgiving day entertainment event: jason earls does ‘black napkins’, and fucking shreds it, bro. frank’s proud of you, son.

video features zappa quote explaining the thanksgiving day dinner origin of the song title ‘black napkins’.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgH-QyaG9OQ[/youtube]

Chill out at its best… Groove Armada, Blue Skies

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Artist: Groove Armada
Album: Vertigo
Released: 1999
Genre: Dance/Electronic

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2093VBJyWs[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wADSBoNkGMI[/youtube]

Oh, how I love Dragonforce

DragonForce - The Last Dragonborn | Lyrics Video

youtube.com/watch?v=qZaNKy_7YVU

WW2 Normandy D Day Epic Music

youtube.com/watch?v=HKIMya8yD2g

:sad-teareye:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPiET_TXpy0[/youtube]

Inochi no namae( Spirited Away)- The name of the life -One’s summer day( Hirahara Ayaka)

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmhPK9tHb50[/youtube]

percy jones on the fretless bass. that’s why.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEmRe4es9k[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeAUOsu39bc[/youtube]

^^^ this pleases promethean75.

now let steve show you…

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik0T9ivZVhk[/youtube]

Not much of a Vai fan but he’s definitely not a clueless guy. Here’s a Vai thing I like:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhYNy40qeQo[/youtube]

^^^ that’s from ‘The Ultra Zone’. like all of his albums the instrumental stuff is always better than those with vocals. my opinion anyway. only in the rarest cases do i enjoy his singing… when he’s trying to be silly or bizarre, like this, describing a would-be acid trip (my favorite from the album):

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPgsizQw-1U[/youtube]

he also does a tribute to the maestro - the one who got him started - on that album. every time i hear it i gotta push back tears, andy…

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LbwgpSBxw[/youtube]

ah jeez. sniffs

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdouLSFX7WM[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7buLbpLMCw[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynewdsC_VyM[/youtube]

you know, gloom, I wish we could just always have fun, and never never ever have to be sad

You guys are a bunch of pussies.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9l8VDymlA[/youtube]

Um, oh! :romance-inlove:

You liked that one Magsj?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dZTelu2BY[/youtube]