M.I.T.o.R.: 2008

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Holidays!

Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Christmas Duet

The Peanuts Gang - "Christmas Time is Here"

Thurl Ravenscroft - "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch"

Band Aid - "Do They Know it's Christmas"

Alvin and the Chipmunks - "The Christmas Song"

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

11-Stringed Bass Tapping Video Game Madness

Jean Baudin - Theme from Mario Brothers

Jean Baudin - Theme from The Legend of Zelda

Charles Mingus Sextet - Live in Norway, 1964 (Part 1)

Charles Mingus - bass
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
Johnny Coles - trumpet
Jaki Byard - piano
Dannie Richmond - drums

Mad Fingerstyle

Adam Rafferty plays Herbie Hancock's "The Chameleon"

Saturday, December 6, 2008

The King

Sonny King - "I Cried For You"
King of the Scopitones

Fatback

Fatback Band - "(Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop"

Ain't That A Bitch

Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - "Ain't That A Bitch"

Friday, November 28, 2008

King of Funk

James Brown - "Sunny"
JB sings Bobby Hebb's classic.
Paris l'Olympia, 1971.

The Dirty Mac

The Dirty Mac - "Yer Blues"
The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus, 1972.

John Lennon - g,v
Eric Clapton - g
Keith Richards - b
Mitch Mitchell - d

Stoned

Mick Taylor having a go at it.
The Rolling Stones - "Love In Vain" (R. Johnson)
1972

Saint John

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things"
1961 in Baden-Baden Germany

John Coltrane - soprano sax, tenor sax
Eric Dolphy - flute, alto sax
McCoy Tyner - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
Elvin Jones - drums

Albino

Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"

The Sword

The Sword - "Iron Swan"
12 Galaxies, SF 2006

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin - "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)"

Swedish TV broadcast of a concert in Stockholm, 1968.

Three Finger Picker

Earl Scruggs - "Fireball Mail"

Monk

Thelonious Monk Quartet - "Epistrophy" (Paris, 1966)

Charlie Rouse (saxophone)
Larry Gales (bass)
Ben Riley (drums).

The Brightest Star In Qawwali

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
London, 1980

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
San Quentin 1969

Martian

David Bowie - "Life On Mars?"

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Acid Queen

A goddess walking among mere mortals:

Ike & Tina Turner - "I Smell Trouble"
Ike's slow blues are pure retarded genius.

Soul Power

Otis Redding - "I've Been Loving You Too Long"
Montery, CA - June, 1967

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Funk Power

Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Sesame Street, 1972
Kid's shows ain't what they used to be.

Martian

Seu Jorge - "Life on Mars" (Bowie)
The Life Aquatic, 2005

I Can't Help it if I'm Still in Love With the Deal Sisters

The Breeders - "I Can't Help it if I'm Still in Love With You" (Williams)
1993

Friday, November 21, 2008

Let There Be Rock

unstoppable.
AC/DC - Apollo Theatre, Glasgow
April 1978

Newport Festival 1960

John Lee Hooker with Muddy Waters' band - "My Own Fault"

Otis Spann (Piano)
Andrew Stephenson (Bass)
Francis Clay (Drums)
Pat Hare (Guitar)
James Cotton (Harp)

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Lycanthropic

Ozzy Osbourne - "Bark at the Moon"
1983

King Curtis

King Curtis - "Memphis Soul Stew"

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Mississippi Fred McDowell - "Goin Down to the River"

"My name is Fred McDowell. They call me Mississippi Fred McDowell. But my home's in Rossville, Tennessee. But it don't make any difference. It sound good to me, and I seem like I'm at home there when I'm in Mississippi ... and I do not play no rock and roll, y'all. I just play the straight natural blues..."