February 2021 Challenge (& Raffle)

Day 15: If only

They stopped touring well before I even was old enough to get into music.

XTC ‎– Black Sea Tour '81
Fury Records ‎– FURY 81, 1989

Bootleg that says "Recorded live at London's Hammersmith Odeon, February 1981" but this was actually recorded at the Hammersmith Palais on December 22, 1980. Originally released as various BBC transcription discs, officially was released as disc 4 of the Transistor Blast box set in 1998.

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Thurs 18 – Axe hero
Spin a record by your ultimate guitar hero.

So many guitarists I love. My favorites tend to lean toward the emotional side rather than the technical. I'd rather hear a guitar solo that's careening around a curve with two wheels off the ground than one that's technically magnificent.

This man is definitely the former...





Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been

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Thurs 18 – Axe hero: Spin a record by your ultimate guitar hero.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

I'm going to go with Eddie Hazel. While Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Gary Clark Jr, and Dan Auerbach probably top my list, the 10 minute solo that kicks off Maggot Brain is undeniably one of the best ever! According to legend, the track was recorded in one take when Clinton, under the influence of LSD, told Hazel to play as if he had been told his mother was dead: Clinton instructed him to picture that day, what he would feel, how he would make sense of his life, how he would take a measure of everything that was inside him and let it out through his guitar. That emotion definitely came through, and you always feel something when listening to Hazel's work. Usually a desire to shake your rump to the funk haha

 
Day 18 - guitar

Orchestre Baobab - Si Bou Odja

Barthélémy Attisso isn't so well known, but in my eyes (well, maybe ears) he's as good as Page or Hendrix. Yes, that good. He's left Baobab in recent years to go back to being a lawyer in Togo but his playing on their classic 70s album is beautiful - sometimes sweet, sometimes incendiary...


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Day 18: Axe hero
Spin a record by your ultimate guitar hero.
Television - Marquee Moon
Axe Heroes: Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd
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This album contains many of my all time favorite guitar riffs but I couldn’t decide which guitarist I liked more. Both have killer solo’s throughout plus part of what makes the guitar on this album so interesting is the interplay between the two guitarist. So I cheated and chose both.
 
Mon 15 – If only
Spin something by the artist you would most have liked to see live but haven’t.

This one was kind of difficult to decide! I would love to see any of these live! Added to that, I actually have been fortunate to see quite a few already. Hoping to get back to it soon!

Myrkur - Folkesange

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