🎧 What Are You Listening To? (Part 3)

The original soul sister. I don’t care that it’s religious, cuz she was so fucking great!

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One of the alltime greats. Couldn’t be a better send off for him.

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Got to see ZZ back in the pre-Eliminator days…they were soooooo good then.

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I was up most of the night trimming with the police for some background music…

I’d forgotten just how good the police are, i ended up playing bass to “The beds too big without you” and filled in with some drums :crazy_face:

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Sting got all the accolades but they had a hell of a drummer and their guitar player was no slouch either.

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How’s about a little smut?!

Hands down the single filthiest version of this first song I have ever heard, and I have had a longstanding interest in smutty songs, old or new. Lucille Bogan recorded the song three times. This is the serious stuff. Far dirtier than Ma Rainey’s original or any other version I have heard.

I have wondered for a long time what the phrase, “shave 'em dry,” means exactly withinin context of the times. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say. I find it unsatisfying.

No need to play it loud. It’s the lyrics…

This is a track from my favorite movie of all time, Performance. It stars Mick Jagger as a burned out rock star and James Fox as an on the run enforcer from his deadly serious gay criminal organization. Fox rents a room from Jagger, and the fun begins. (Mick/Turner/Harry performs “Memo from Turner” in the movie.) FWIW, I think the best overall portrayal of the psychedelic experience is in this film. Highly recommended by me, but I digress. This track, performed by Randy Newman, with Ry Cooder on guitar, references …“shave 'em dry.” The song is all about sex. Every sweaty, pounding moment and line. (Play it LOUD!) Watch the movie and you will know why.

And finally, a little Johnny Otis , aka Snatch & The Poontangs, as you may have never heard him. This ain’t no Hand Jive and that’s no shit! His son the great Shuggie Otis on guitar.

Fun stuff for simple minds like mine!

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SuperChunk show here in Brazil, a small farm that must have been in 2001, 2002, lots of marijuana, beer and good music, it was a great show that stayed in my memory, I even smelled the smell of the time.

The Asylum Street Spankers are/were a super fun band out of Texas. The lead singer has a great voice and she isn’t afraid to sing bawdy lyrics, including a cover of Shave 'Em Dry

And one about cannabis

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One of the nice things about the Spanker’s most excellent cover of “Shave 'em Dry” is it’s in a more modern style where everybody gets their moment to take a lead. Really good stuff.

Wake and Bake is a great song!

Thanks for bringing more smut to the party, @BarefootAndBlazed! rofl

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James was the man

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One of my fave Beatle songs(?) Feedback, Indian swara-graam scales, orchestration, general improvisation. Amzing to realize the main body was recorded live with other bits added later. Best heard under the influence of your best weed…

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One of my all time anytime fave video’s that givee a pretty good idea what the end of the “60’s” looked like. Music is the Grateful Dead at their best…

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