Friday, January 20, 2012

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Cool Operator Mix

How is it, in life, that you can feel on top of the world one minute and as low as low can be, the next?  How is it, in life, that you can't avoid meeting assholes? How is it, in life, that we keep going when all signs point to giving up?  How is it, in life, that we forget that we are all in this thing together?

Urg... just some negativity but hey, it's Friday and lots of wonderful things are happening.  Got a tweet back form a founding member of the Manhattan Transfer yesterday, I'm meeting new and wonderfully talented bands almost every day, and just in today's music shuffle and nice fortuitous coincidental timing...

The Clash were for a time the greatest band in the world.  London Calling was and remains one of the best albums of all time (imho).  Their self-titled album is another great one.  I'll admit, I've loved the energy and sound of the album well before I really understood what any of the songs were about.

This morning's shuffle begins with White Man in Hammersmith Palais  and it's a great example of the reggae/punk sound the band perfected.




Just one other song on today's music shuffle. And this is where the fortuitous timing comes into play.

On his solo debut, Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE) brought in a who's who of alt-rock and laid down some truly awesome stuff.  The second to the last song of the album (Ball-Hog or Tugboat?) is a cover of a Funkadelic song called Maggot Brain. This version features some killer bass work, a Watt spiel and J Macias doing a virtuoso take on Eddie Hazel's guitar solo and it also features Bernie Worrell reprising his keyboard work from the original.

And then....  came this news that Watt is going to play with Bernie Worrell Orchestra and perform Maggot Brain and Super Stupid.

Here's the album which leads off with the original version:





And here is what's Ball-Hog or Tugboat?:



 And sad news comes as we learn of the passing of the legendary Etta James...


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