Pioneer Musical Appreciation Society

[Cody]

Peaceful Easy Feeling is from their first album, but Witchy Woman is the best track on it...

[Cody]

A little bluegrass is needed, methinks...

[Cody]

Seeing as it's Earthday, I'd better play Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis...

[Pinback]

 

[Pinback]

I will never be able to listen to Final countdown again without think about the Floopotron version now.

[Cody]

For some strange reason, it reminded me of Popcorn, and the Swedish Chef.

[Cody]

Currently playing chez Cody...

A beautiful snake, is the copperhead.

[Geraldine]

A virtual "Janis" brick through a virtual "modern music" window...

[Cody]

She's a whole lot of woman, with a whole lot of problems - and I'm surprised she's not covered JJ's Ball and Chain.
Here's JJ with her take on Summertime...

[Cody]

Mott The Hoople (from their first album, before they went all pop/commercial)...

The album cover is a colourised version of Escher's Reptiles, a print of which hangs on my wall.

[Cody]

[Cody]

Posted by: @arfa
There is also a connection to King Crimson who I know almost nothing about

In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Crimson is one of the finest albums in my collection. It is arguably the first, and probably the most influential, Prog Rock album ever recorded. Epitaph and 21st Century Schizoid Man are the most well-known songs on it, but the album as a whole is a masterpiece! The original band line-up was only together for that one debut album.
Being an old drummer, I'm especially fond of the percussion on it - a quite unique style!
I think I'll play Moonchild...

[Cody]

Currently playing chez Cody...

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys was probably Traffic's best album!

[Cody]

Time for a classic rock anthem...

[Cody]

I'll follow that with some classic Grateful Dead...

[Geraldine]

Lets have some music in here Cody!

[Cody]

Saw Shivaree back when they'd just started out. The singer had an extraordinary stage presence, and the guitarist was a master of "dirty sound". The album this track is from has one of the best titles out there: I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump

[Cody]

Two tracks from Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service, which show what you get when two guitarists such as John Cipollina and Gary Duncan take some acid and go into the studio for a recording session. The two tracks run into each other, but I couldn't find them together (other than playing the whole album, that is). The photo is of John Cipollina's awesome custom-built amp stack:

To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed this one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. All of his guitars, including the one here, were wired with two leads, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into the two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack. Each Standel was equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed the two Fender amps - a Fender Twin Reverb with two 12-inch speakers, and a Fender Dual Showman, that drove the six Wurlitzer horns.

[Cody]

Posted by: @arfa
Bit surprised that I haven't seen that guitar rig before...

If you're ever in Cleveland, Ohio, that stack can be seen in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum.

[Cody]

Another drummer with a unique style - Keith Moon!