Hot Plate Heaven

Ah yes... Mike Keneally. My favorite of Frank Zappa's "Stunt Guitarists". Here's a clip from him at Zappa's Universe in 1991 doing the solo from Hot Plate Heaven.



You might want to check out Mike's newest work, Scambot 1. Have look for it at www.keneally.com

Mississippi Fred McDowell

I was introduced to Mississippi Fred's music back in 1975. An amazing player.

Saturday Night Guitar Madness

I should have run this one on Halloween, but better later than never. Once again, it's Unknown Hinson. I gotta get to a show....



Note: I like the bike wheel in the background at 00:23 into the video.

Saturday Night Guitar Madness Returns!

Here's an interesting guitar player...

Commenting On The State Of Rock Music



Unknown Hinson Killing It

Guitar Strangler Deluxe

Joe Bonnamassa was headlining the River Roots Festival last night. Alas, I didn't make it down there... too tired. The daughter reports he was killing it.

Happy Saturday

Well Cats and Kittens... I'm back from GITAP, a lovely little week long bike ride from State park to State park in Illinois. The highlight of the trip was the 60+ mph thunder storm that roared through camp last night. Woo Hoo! The tent stayed up and dry despite me having it pitched 180 degrees out of phase with respect to the the storm. I feel good.

Then it was drive Vito's van home and then dash over to the Healthy Living Fair, where I was part of Tapas Yoga Shala's demo. We basically did a scaled down class for the demo. Practicing under a tent, in the the heat, with an audience. Fun Fun Fun...

Tonight's Guitar Madness is dedicated to yesterday's t-storm. I was listening to this as I was flat on my back in the tent as it was raging... Ronnie Baker Brooks: Born In Chicago. I've seen his dad a couple of times and now I need to see him...

Farewell Grasshopper

Oh Yeah... It's Saturday Night Guitar Madness

DOn't have time to do this justice right now... a future update forth coming

Mike Keneally

Well... It Saturday... It's night... That must mean... It's Saturday Night Guitar Madness time! I've had this little clip for quite awhile. I saved it off of his site and got it out of that nasty RealPlayer format. This is of Mike Keneally at a Hendrix tribute show a bunch of years ago. Mike Keneally came to fame as one of Frank Zappa's "Stunt Guitarists". He's my favorite of them all. Mike's site can be found here. If Mike is anywhere close, go see him. Buy his stuff.

Fine Print - This is not an official MK/BFD product

Charlie Hunter

Well Kats & Kittens... It's yet another late Saturday Night Guitar Madness. I was too trashed from today's little ride to get it out on time. Anyway... I digress.

SNGM features Charlie Hunter. Who... will be playing at the Redstone Room next Tuesday evening. If I can figure out how to make it to the show, I'll be there.



Charlie's offical site

Hola! It's Saturday Night Guitar Madness!

I've found a good one. If you aren't nodding your head or tapping your toes, it's time to make an appointment with the doctor or perhaps the mortician. This is a little different than thrash metal they cut their teeth on, so to speak. You can visit the official Rodrigo and Gabriela site here. Here's the wiki about them.

Bonus Clip

On The Verge

Well.... It's another late Saturday Night Guitar Madness post. Ah well... Given the "electric" post of last week, I've decided to go even deeper... Right into the Funkadelics. I'm not sure where and when I stumbled into the George Clinton Parliament / Funkadelics world, but it's a show not to be missed. This clip is of the late Eddie Hazel absolutely killing Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On. Be amazed...

On Fire

Well cats and kittens... This Z been schooled. Did the Hearts on Fire: An Anusara Radical Expansion Class at the Shala this morning. The class was led by Sara Strothers who practices and teaches in the Chicago area. This was definitely big city work. I was completely and utterly toasted and it didn't take 40 miles in a nasty crosswind to do it. That said, I'm quite glad that I did this. I learned a number of new things and perhaps more importantly a little more about how to approach my practice. We get the day off tomorrow from the normal Sunday practice and I'm thinking most folks that were in the room aren't too sad about that.

In honor of today's little exercise in flexibility, here's a something that's a bit out of character for my "normal" Saturday Night Guitar Madness posts, Joe Satriani doing Up In Flames, with bonus points for being shot in Tokyo.



Note: I really wanted something with ninja's but I couldn't find anything I liked.

Albatross

Here's a lovely little clip. The Peter Green Splinter Group doing Peter's Albatross. Enjoy!

The Late Guitar Madness

Man... It was a long day yesterday. Did the spin class, the V3 class (I believe the Russian judge had the 9.7 card out for degree of difficulty), then the Music Guild production of The Producers. That show rocked! But then... it's a Mel Brooks musical. What's not to like? Then a bit of snow shoveling at 2300 hours after we put the car in the garage. Sick.

In honor of yesterday's crap-tasic weather and hoping for better...

Everybody's Party & Green Tea

I've been listening to lots of John Scofield in the last couple of months. I really haven't been able to find what I want on YouTube, but this is real close... You get Pat Metheny , John Scofield, Steve Swallow (bass), and Bill Swewart (drums). The last two are absolutely monster players.

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Stop the presses! I found one of the things I was looking for! Whoo Hoo!

Embryonic Journey

This was a bit of serendipity. This morning on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, the were talking with Jorma Kaukonen (story link). Jorma was one of the guitarist's in the Jefferson Airplane. On one of their first albums, Surrealistic Pillow, that I can remember listening to, there was the track, Embryonic Journey. This was probably one of the first times that I can recall listening to an acoustic guitar track that I really liked. Here's Jorma playing Embryonic Journey at the Airplane's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. I haven't thought about this song in ages.

Fenton Robinson

After careful consideration, I've decided to continue with some of the greats that I had the privilege to see perform at the Maintenance Shop during my days at ISU. Here is none other than Fenton Robinson. This clip is from 1974. I saw him perform there in 1975 and again in 1977. Enjoy!



Sings "I've got those post Shala limp and bitch blues" and hits "Publish Post"

Saturday Night Guitar Madness - Albert Collins

Last Saturday's post got me to thinking about everyone that I saw at the Maintenance Shop when I was at ISU. I think I pretty much saw the entire Alligator Records roster. One of the best was the Master Of The Telecaster, Mr. Albert Collins. This clip has a kickin' horn section and two "bonus" guitar slingers, Ms. Debbie Davies and Duke Robillard.



Note: Debbie Davies will be playing the Red Stone Room on the 14th of March. I'll be there, will you?

Saturday Night Guitar Madness

Peter Lang is someone that I've been listening to for a long time. How long? Well... I was in the audience at the Maintenance Shop at ISU in 1977 when he was recording the show for use in a live album, Prime Cuts. YouTube has a video of a television interview on Minnesota Public Television in 1977 where he played Wide Oval Rip-off, which opened Prime Cuts and was taken from the ISU show. Enjoy!