One of my favorites by that Becker/Fagan duo.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnm6Dwpyxfc
(7 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)
Loading... Can't be a Rhubarb_Runner week without some soundtrack music. My favorite soundtrack composer playing piano on my favorite song by him. This was used in the movie Spirited Away during the incredibly beautiful and melancholy water train sequence.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SJ7Q_P54Q
And below the break, the composer conducts Princess Mononoke Symphonic Suite (and plays piano), from the movie Princess Mononoke.
Continue reading Joe Hisaishi – “Sixth Station”
(6 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... Planet X is one of my favorite prog jazz groups; they seem unable to play anything in 4/4 time. There aren't any live videos available of their songs I like the most, but here's a good one from a concert in Sofia, Bulgaria that was recorded for a television special:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN2FYLKQKQ8
(6 votes, average: 6.67 out of 10)Loading... Rite of Strings is a trio of jazz fusion gods Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, and Jean Luc-Ponty. Sit back and enjoy!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI7ADEy2yP4
(5 votes, average: 7.80 out of 10)Loading... One of the finest concert openers I've seen was on the GTR tour, when Steve Hackett and Steve Howe performed various solo and duet pieces (and that particular concert was recorded for King Biscuit Flower Hour). Steve Howe prefers steel strings, while Steve Hackett favors nylon; here's one of Hackett's more beautiful numbers:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUZcHZEficE
After the break, Steve gets his cheaptoy on...
Continue reading Steve Hackett – “Horizons”
(6 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... Tony Levin playing bass on a Chapman Stick and doing vocals on this King Crimson classic. It's ooooonly talk...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psHT-n4PSI
recorded from a Mexican late night TV show
(7 votes, average: 6.14 out of 10)Loading... After about 1:30 of banter, probably my favorite Cake song.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjN7ZlOReI
jobu and I are going on vacation. Be nice to Rhu while we are gone. Rate his videos.
(9 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... i had been holding onto this to play after game 122, but a) it was in the hopes that we'd be fighting for something, b) i just remembered i was doing so, and c) that's going to fall smack_dab in the middle of rhu_ru week. so, uh, yeah. close enough.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCM7Jx7ptk8
2005
(5 votes, average: 7.60 out of 10)Loading... So it turns out her brother, Matt, was the one committed to being one of the worst live performers of all time. Good to know.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfE_YtSAPhU&feature=related
The fairer part of the Fiery Furnaces, live in Toronto, 2011. Go buy her new solo album.
(5 votes, average: 7.40 out of 10)Loading... there's no way i open anyone's eyes to anything near as cool as the alabama shakes. so, i'll just go to the source instead.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHXutgxpjgU
1967
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