Bryon Whitley

Jack DeJohnette: 7 Essential Recordings

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Dang it…I meant to write something about how wonderful Sara’s cello is when I got my cassette last week but obvs never got to it & now I seem like a bandwagoner! 🤦‍♂️😄

I was going to write the same exact thing. 🤝

I saw some bluegrass band do a cover of You Got Lucky & it was really damn good.

I finally got around to listening to this the other day & it really is quite wonderful.

I need to do this, but it’s at the long end of a very big list! 😄

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that Khruangbin on sale for Boulder was weird…I seemingly had to grab the last balcony spot available, but then I refreshed afterwards & all of a sudden the GA floor tickets were available AND they were cheaper! 😖 So, now I have an extra single in the balcony to unload. 😕🤷‍♂️

On it! Thanks!!

Dang…thanks for the heads-up on this insta account!

I’ll say! 🙌

That’s one of those nights where I almost skipped it for whatever reason but powered through & boy, am I happy that I did! ALWAYS GO TO THE SHOW!! 😁🎶🤘

YouTube video by Bryon Whitley TONSTARTSSBANDHT - What Has Happened - Hey Bad - Breathe, live @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn, NY 10.28.21

Almost four years ago exactly when I recorded this video:

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My personal favorite tape of 71 + easily among the best of the electric era.

Ndugu wasn’t a great fit for this tour - Jarrett steamrolled him and he frequently missed Miles’ cues - but everything falls into place here for 90 glorious minutes. A magical gig.

This house, in this neighborhood, is where I’ll set up shop:

You Never Know
Winter Queen
Blaze On
Mercury
We Are Come To Outlive Our Brains

Uncanny.
I will never for a moment wonder again how it could have happened. I see exactly how it happened. You just need one malignant narcissist and then a whole lot of ordinary, stupid people to give themselves over to either raw hate or determined indifference. It rides again.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

30 frickin years ago!! ♟️

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

prob most apropos use of this gif

sweet! Rush just added a Denver date next year. 🤘

full video

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I’ve never seen this Ween interview before. It’s from thirty years ago, and just six months before Jerry passed. 😯

Proceed, by Jon Camp 8 track album

This new album out today by @jonrcamp.bsky.social is fantastic!

joncamp.bandcamp.com/album/proceed

it’s kinda next door/behind the building that Louie’s is in…there’s a little swing gate that connects the Slammer patio to the Louie’s playground

dropped d twilight

The Slammer. It’s the old jailhouse that’s a bar now. I play open mic there all the time.

I just walked by there about 1/2hr ago on my way to Deerhammer. Did you go through the back of the playground & visit the Slammer?

that guy never misses

Whiplashed What Is Now is a new Philadelphia-based project from BASIC/Solar Motel Band founder Chris Forsyth featuring members of Bark Culture, Florry, and the Daniel Villareal Trio. Chris Forsyth: guitar John

fresh sounds from @chrisforsyth.bsky.social's new vibed-out jazz-ish trio, what is now, recorded last week in philadelphia. soundcloud.com/chris-forsyt...