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Marillion, Park West, Chicago, IL – 6/23/12: A different concert in a couple of different ways. But first, the set list: The Invisible Man Open My Eyes Slainte Mhath Out of This World Afraid of Sunlight Cannibal Surf Babe The Great Escape Estonia Lucky Man Between You and Me Neverland Encore 1: This Strange Engine Encore 2: Kayleigh ...; posted @ Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:10 PM | Feedback (0)

Marillion, Park West, Chicago, IL – 6/22/12: If there were two things that were confirmed at this concert, they are: Though I was encouraged by the presence of my still noticeably older brethren, I am perilously close to becoming too old to rock Sometimes, you can go home again First, the set list: The Invisible Man Beautiful You’re Gone Easter King Fantastic Place A Voice from the Past Ocean Cloud ...; posted @ Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Marillion – Invisible Man (Live): This song pretty much sums up what Marillion is and what they do. With any band that has been around for this long, saying any particular song is their best is open to interpretation, but this is their best. Hogarth keeps the theatrics to a minimum. Actually, not really, it’s still a bit much, but better than other attempts. Just sing the freakin’ song, dude. Enjoy. The world's gone mad And I have lost touch I shouldn't admit it But I have....; posted @ Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:48 PM | Feedback (0)

Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here (Live): Perhaps not their best song, but close. The video is from a concert at Park West in Chicago, the last concert they played there before I knew who they were (if that makes sense). And so of course, in almost every show I’ve been to (6 or 7 or something), they don’t play it. The only time I’ve heard them play this song live was as the encore at their ‘special’ concert at Radio City Music Hall. All my designs, simplified And all of my plans, compromised And all...; posted @ Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:09 PM | Feedback (0)

Bettye Lavette - Talking Old Soldiers: An absolutely amazing song. It’s hard to add much to this. A cover of an Elton John song (which I now have to lookup), it’s dark and bitter. I like it. It's funny I remember, oh, five or six years ago I'd say I'd stand right here at this bar with my friends who passed away And drink three times the wine I can drink today Yup, I know how it feels to grow old I know what they're sayin' son There goes...; posted @ Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:55 PM | Feedback (0)

Jeff Beck – Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers: As partial penance for a previous post (say that five times fast), here’s a seminal guitar instrumental. I saw Jeff Beck once, appearing in a bill with SRV about 6 months before the helicopter crash. A great concert, even greater in retrospect given what happened. He’s one of the few guitarists that I know of that uses tone to signify change in emotion as effectively as he does (David Gilmour is probably the only other guitarist that uses this technique regularly. That I know of, of course.). There are many other YouTube videos of him performing this...; posted @ Monday, January 30, 2012 8:25 PM | Feedback (0)

Guilty Musical Pleasure : Colbie Caillat – Fallin’ for You: I like Colbie Caillat’s music. There I’ve said it. I realize that I’m not her target demographic. I also realize this is somewhat disturbing, if not downright creepy. But dammit, I can’t help it. There is a particular cognitive dissonance when the shuffle play on my Zune pairs this with, say, King Crimson, but what can you do. I've been spending all my..time Just thinking about ya I don't know what to do I think I'm fallin' for you I've been waiting all my.. life...; posted @ Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:47 PM | Feedback (0)

Wilco – One Wing (Live): Wilco is a Chicago band, so I suppose I should like them more than most for that fact. I don’t, but they continue to provide amazing songs, so what the hell. Enjoy. We may as well be made of stone We can’t be flown One wing will never fly Neither yours nor mine, I fear We can only wave goodbye; posted @ Friday, December 02, 2011 9:30 PM | Feedback (0)

Talk Talk – The Rainbow and After The Flood, not remotely live: Trying to describe what the later works of Talk Talk are like is difficult to do. They are…different. As a quotation from Wikipedia states, (they are) “the kind of record which encourages marketing men to commit suicide.” Depending on how you feel about marketing, this might be seen as a positive or a negative. Listening to one or two songs, you are likely to find that you like most or all of it, or feel something quite the opposite. Not because all of the songs sound the same, but because there’s a common sensibility to them, whatever that...; posted @ Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:14 PM | Feedback (0)

John Mellencamp – What If I Came Knocking (Live): At least I think it is live. The sound is so tight that it wouldn’t surprise me if there was some over-dubbing involved, but it doesn’t appear to be so. Fantastic guitar work in this one. So let's just say it worked outLike a storybook dreamAnd we lived happily ever afterFa la la laBut what if I came cryingAfter just a few weeksAnd I said misread my heartThis is not really meant to be? Yeah Enjoy.; posted @ Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:22 PM | Feedback (0)

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