Neil Young played a concert in Hyde Park London the other night and encored with the Beatles "A Day in the Life" ,which he has been known to do over the years. This time he is joined onstage by Paul McCartney. What a glorious pairing and joyous performance. Pure Heart and Soul and a thrashing crashing Neil Young ending, too. Wow, just Wow.
The Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" was released on May 12th 1972 as a double album. Containing the Top 40 hits, "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy" the album went Gold within weeks, but then took 28 years to go Platinum. It is always cited near the top in any list of the Greatest Albums of all Time.
This is a rather astonishing effort.
Hundreds of musicians from around the world all edited together in an original Symphonic Work.
Behold the "Internet Symphony Eroica" !
Bob Lefsetz of the famous Lefsetz Letter wrote so well about this recording that I won't even try to paraphrase. You can read the whole thing yourself right here The short version is that on their tour last summer, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss did several songs from the Led Zeppelin catalog including Black Dog, Black Country Woman and the epic Battle of Evermore.
This version of "Battle" was recorded during the tour's stop at the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia Maryland. It's a really high quality soundboard recording. Enjoy! Then go buy a ticket next time they come around. I know I won't miss it twice.
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Here's a brand new track from the forthcoming Bob Dylan release "Together Through Life" which comes out on April 28th.
Even though Chelsea claims that being forced to listen to Dylan counts as child abuse, she has already seen him twice. Well, at age 7 she fell asleep, but she saw the entire set at last year's Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico. Someday, I am certain she will be proud to tell people that she saw Bob – "way back in 2008, when I was 16"
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The Brand New U2 Album No Line on the Horizon is out today – March 3rd and it is a brilliant return to form. Hands down their best since Achtung Baby.
Best of All – TODAY Amazon has the MP3 download available to day for only $4.99.
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Thievery Corporation right now at 9:30 club Washington DC
If you enjoyed the John Williams composition/arrangement "Air and Simple Gifts" as performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama and wanted to hear it again, here it is.
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Barack Obama rode into Bsltimore yesterday and took time to pose for a photo with Chelsea. How gracious!
