Notes_Norton

I bought a used flute, a fingering chart, had a girl fan who played the flute teach me the embouchure, and I taught myself the rest. Thanks to Ian I am now a flute player along with sax, wind synth, bass, guitar, keyboard synth, drums and voice. Insights and incites by Notes

I wonder if Abrahams regretted leaving Tull after Tull got famous and very profitible. I have a B-Big album or two somewhere in my LP collection. My favorite Tull albums are the earlier ones: This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, and War Child. Then for no particular reason I drifted away. I've enjoyed a lot what I've heard in later offerings, but never purchased another LP. I don't know why, perhaps it was just time for me to move on. Notes

Strange Brew - Cream

I do appreciate their music. One of my faves - "My God" because of the flute solo

Highway Star - Deep Purple I was driving my car today, and my minivan is no highway star by any stretch of the imagination, but if I ever get to gig again, it'll carry my PA and instruments, and for a couple of hours while I'm on stage, I'll be a star (a very minor star, but a star none the less). ???

Call Me - Eliane Elias Not the original, but a very nice version by a talented pianist/singer.

Cat puns freak meowt. Seriously, I'm not kitten.

Pi r round

The Righteous & The Wicked - Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics: The killing fist of the human beast P.O.P., prodigies of peace Hear me when I'm calling you From my knees

"Lotus Flower" - Radiohead

I resemble that remark!

Little Sunflower - Freddie Hubbard I used to play this tune when I was in a jazz band. I quit the jazz band because of supply and demand. There wasn't enough demand to make both the mortgage payments and eat, so I went back to playing commercial music.

"Song For My Father" - Horace Silver The bass line from this song inspired Steely Dan's "Ricky Don't Lose That Number".

True sound man story. Back when we were warming up for major acts, we covered a song by The Coasters. I played sax and at one point the band stopped, I was to sing in a bass voice (or as close as I could get), "You better leave my daughter alone." It was my only vocal line in the song. Every time my vocal mic was off. He never got it right. I learned to lean over and sing the line into the sax mic. Funny now, but it wasn't so funny then.

"The Acid Queen" - The Who

I'm not crazy about the song. It's OK but nothing special, but I love these two lines: She's living in L. A. with my best old ex-friend Ray Guy, she said she knew well and sometimes hated Clever songwriting. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) - Jim Croce

3? why not more? How about 4? How about 25 or 6 to 4? I never get tired of Terry Kath's guitar work on this one. Not just in the solo but in the backing call/response parts behind the vocals too. Besides that, the entire band was in top form as well, 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago

"New Day For You" - Basia

The Attack Of The Giant Ants - Blondie

Those were terrible Craig : translation: I loved them. * * * I broke up with my girlfriend of 5 years because I found out she was a communist... I should have known, there were red flags everywhere.

IMO Carlos takes Peter Green's fine song and elevates it to an even higher level. If this was the only guitar solo Carlos ever played it would still make him one of my favorites. We play this song (or used to before COVID grounded us) and in most songs I ad-lib the solo. I try to play this as close to Carlos' version as I can, but since he is a much better guitarist than I am, I play it on the wind synthesizer (I suspect I play sax and wind synth better than Carlos <wink/grin>). Black Magic Woman - Santana