"Angie, you're beautiful." Named my second daughter with those lyrics in mind. It really is one of my favorites.



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I believe these are from the concert sessions that made up the album "Babylon by Bus" but they seem to be different takes. "Heathen" is definitely a different version from what I've heard before. I need to find this on CD. I really like classic reggae. I am amazed by how different things can sound by altering which instrument plays the backbeat and where it is..

Bob Marley Concert Playlist

Skylifters-Partial sample

Santana with Los Lobos and the Vaughn Brothers



Original

OMG! PeeWee and Sly Stone? They just don't go together.



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Warren Zevon's last appearance on Late Night with David Letterman is one of the best Letterman shows ever. Here's an earlier visit with a cover version of a Prince song featured earlier in this thread. And yes, that's R.E.M. performing with him. "Hindu Love Gods" was a side project with Zevon plus R.E.M. minus Michael Stipe.

Here are a couple of nuggets from the BBC television show "Old Grey Whistle Test."

First, it's Joan Jett and Lita Ford (mis-identified in the video as former bandmate Cherie Currie) with their band The Runaways.




Next, it's Gil Scott-Heron (who didn't foresee the impact of YouTube when he wrote "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"...)

A couple of great Chicago folk singers from the 1970's starting with a very young Steve Goodman and what has to be one of the earlier public performances of City of New Orleans.




Another guy you might have seen sharing the stage with Goodman at the Earl of Old Town or the Quiet Knight or S.E.T.'s was John Prine. This song is better with a live audience, but these OGWT videos with the bare-bones studio performances in front of only the stage crew are priceless.

This seems to be a slightly different "Sign o' the Times":

Without YouTube, I'm not sure when in my lifetime, if ever, I would have seen this one-of-a-kind performance. One of the world's best folk song in the hands of Stevie Wonder who finds his groove in the backbeat...

This version of "America the Beautiful" (among many other of his songs) has convinced me that Ray Charles is the greatest singer that ever lived.

Good find, thanks!!!

Wonder sounds so optimistic on "A place in the Sun". It's good to hear that sometimes.

I was looking for this for years so it was a good thing to find it on youtube.

I was listening to my mp3 player at work a few weeks back when that song came up, and that beautiful voice of his rang out and just woke me up.. gave me an unusual sense of joy in the workday!

Oh and your post reminded me of one of my favorite Hendrix songs:

I enjoyed hearing her sing it!

Good deal!!!
Do you like the Albert King original? It was written by Booker T, who along with the MG's (and Isaac Hayes??) backs up Mr. King.

War guitarist Howard Scott is not known for long flowing solos, but on "Get Down" from the 1972 live album he steps out. However the real beauty of this track is not the guitar but in Harold Brown's second line drumming. This is very long ~15 minutes but the complete track (not posted here) is around 20 minutes. If you like early seventies funk/rock their live album is a must have. I like music where there's communication among the musicians rather than just people playing backup for a star. The drums are as much a lead instrument here as anything else.

Get Down Part One

Original War Members play Slipping into Darkness

BTW Bob Marley and War were friendly and occasionally toured together. If you notice, Bob Marley used the riff from Slipping into Darkness and modified it for Get Up Stand Up.

led zeppelin stairway to heaven - I love it...