Lotsa great stuff for the ears and eyes this holiday weekend! Friday started off with a free concert by The Plateros at Ft. McDowell Community Center, just northeast of Phoenix. It'd been a coupla years since I'd seen them play. Bassist-Father-Buddha Murphy Platero has since stepped down as the band's bass player to oversee the band's business operations. Now Bronson Begay handles the bass playing duties and background vocals. The band still throws out a bunch of tasty blues and rock covers (including a ridiculous cover of ZZ Top's 'Just Got Paid', albeit via Joe Bonamassa) and mixes in some of their own stuff as well. They played a few brand new songs that showed a shift towards a funk-blues-rock direction, which should really help set them apart from a lotta blues bands out there now. It also is a bit of a relief to see them ease away from the heavy Los Lonely Boys influence that dominated their debut CD, "Hang On".
The following night, I began a project I've been meaning to get around to for some time; photgraphing my entire 12" vinyl collection. Starting around 9p Saturday, I took picture after picture until I finally reached the point of "you're not gonna get this done before sunrise" (which was only half way through) and went to bed at 4:30a. And what a great opportunity to listen to more vinyl! I usually went with whatever I just took a picture of at the time of the previous record finishing. Some of those are listed below. Anyways, more on that next time!
Albums listened to since last post; "Candy Man" (Mississippi John Hurt), "Surrealistic Pillow" (Jefferson Airplane), "Riptide" (Robert Palmer), "Strikes" (Blackfoot), "4 Way Street" (Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young), "Dog and Butterfly" (Heart), "Mike's Murder" (Joe Jackson), "Honky Dory", "Tonight" (David Bowie), "Laid Back" (Gregg Allman), "Wired" (Jeff Beck), "Sam Cooke", "Bob Dylan", "Great Moments with B.B. King", "I Robot" (Alan Parsons Project). Total listened to: 136. To go: 552 (214 days).
