Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS THE BEST." - Frank Zappa
• 1000s of the best bands & musicians in the following genres:
rock * jazz * funk * jazz/funk * reggae jam band * world beat * bluegrass blues * Afrobeat * jamtronica * soul zydeco * ska * R&B * Celtic * folk
• Bands & musicians linked to the following sites:
MySpace * Home Pages * YouTube * Jambase * Archive
* Wikipedia * All Music Guide * CMT * Home Grown Music Network * Rhapsody * Amazon * All About Jazz * CD Roots
• 5600 musician & scenery photos & my trippy graphic art images. I post 100s more a month.
• Links to sites re:
live music downloads * MP3s * podcasts concert DVDs
* music genre & instrument magazines & sites * tablature
* lyrics * Reno area live music venues * web radio stations
• Reno/Tahoe/Nevada City live music calendar, updated daily
• List of all 1800 non-cover band shows I’ve seen, including date, venue, musicians, instruments
Under Bands & Musicians, there are lists of who I deem the best 50 musicians on numerous instruments. If you want to hear all the best musicians you somehow never heard of, that's a good place to start!
I am without any doubt whatsoever a music junkie! I don't want nor need any 12 step program to get me to kick my habit either! In the last 28 years, I've seen about 1,300 bands in over 2,400 shows at 320 different venues. I'm into classic, psychedelic & Southern rock, jazz, acid jazz, funk, blues, bluegrass, world beat, Afrobeat, zydeco, Cajun, Americana, Latin, rockabilly, ska, fusion, some reggae, & UPBEAT live jamtronica (although downbeat ambient stuff just bores me). I rather seriously loathe rap, hip hop, country & techno.
Go to these festivals: Las Tortugas, Bobolink, the High Sierra & Hardly Strictly Bluegrass!!!
Along with many more bands & musicians who are my Friends & are on my web site, these are the bands & musicians I like, & I've seen most of them:
Absynth
Adam Makowicz
Addison Groove Project
Ahmad Jamal
Al Cohn
Al Dimeola
Al Kooper
Allan Holdsworth
Albert Collins
Albert King
all sorts of Motown
Allman Bros.
Alphonse Mouzon
ALO
Anders Osborne
Animals
Antibalas Afrobeat
Aphrodesia
Aquarian Rescue Unit
Archie Shepp
Aretha Franklin
Art Blakey
Art Farmer
Art Tatum
Arthur Blythe
Asylum Street Spankers
B.B. King
Badshoe
Barefoot Manner
Barnie Kessel
Beatles
Beausoleil
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Ben Webster
Benevento/Russo
Benny Carter
Benny Green
Bernie Worrell & the Woo Warriors
Big Organ Trio
Bill Evans
Bill Monroe
Billy Cobham
Billy Higgins
Bireli Lagrene
Blandbladen
Blind Faith
Blood, Swaet & Tears
Blue Floyd
Blue Method
Blue Oyster Cult
Blue Turtle Seduction
Blues Project
Blues Traveler
Bo Diddley
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bobby “Blue” Bland
Bobby Hutcherson
Bomb Squad
Bonnie Hayes
Bonnie Raitt
Booker T. & the MGs
Bootsy Collins & the Rubber Band
Boozoo Chavis
Brand X
Branford & Wynton Marsalis
Brian Auger
Brotherhood of Groove
Bruce Springsteen
Bubblemath
Buckwheat Zydeco
Bud Powell
Buddy Guy
Buddy Rich
Byrds
Camel
Camper Van Beethoven
Canned Heat
Cannonball Adderley
Carl Perkins
Carlos Washington
Carolyn Wonderland
Cedar Walton
Chad Wackerman
Charles Lloyd
Charles Mingus
Charlie Byrd
Charlie Haden
Charlie Hitchcock
Charlie Hunter
Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Parker
Charnett Moffett
Chet Baker
Chick Corea
Chico Freeman
Chico Hamilton
Chris Cain
Christian McBride
Chuck Berry
Chuck Rainey
Clark Terry
Clifford Brown
Clifton & CJ Chenier
Coalition of the Willing
Coco Montoya
Coleman Hawkins
Cornmeal
Cosmic Free Way
Count Basie
Country Joe & the Fish
Courtney Pine
Covert Operations
Crack the Sky
Cracker
Cream
Creedence
Crooked Still
Crusaders
CSNY
Danny Gatton
Danny Gatton
Danny Gottlieb
Darrol Anger
Dave Alvin
Dave Brubeck
Dave Holland
Dave McKenna
Dave Weckl
David Bowie
David Bromberg
David Gilmour
David Grisman
David Lindley
David Murray
de Sol
Debbie Davies
Deep Banana Blackout
Deep Purple
Del McCoury
Delta Nove
Dennis Chambers
Derek & the Dominos
Derek Trucks
Dexter Gordon
Dire Straits
Dirty Dozen
Disciples of Groove
Dixie Dregs
Dizzy Gillespie
Django Reinhardt
Donald Byrd
Donald Harrison
Donna the Buffalo
Doors
Drew Emmitt Band
Duke Ellington
Duke Robillard
Dumpstaphunk
Earl Scruggs
Eddie Gomez
Eliane Elias
Electric Flag
Electrosonics
Eliane Elias
ELP
Elvin Bishop
Elvin Jones
Elvis Presley
English Beat
Eric McFadden Trio
Ernestine Anderson
Ernie Watts
Etta James
Everyone Orchestra
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Fela Kuti
Femi Kuti
Filthy Children
Fishbone
Flowmotion
Foghat
Frame of Mind
Frank Morgan
Frank Zappa
Franz Joseph Haydn
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie King
Funkatronic
Galactic
Garage a Trois
Garaj Mahal
Gary Burton
Gary Peacock
Gatemouth Brown
Gato Barbieri
Genesis (pre-And Then There Were Three)
Gentle Giant
George Shearing
Geri Allen
Global Funk
Goat Motor
Gong
Gov't Mule
Grant Green
Grateful Dead
Great American Taxi
Green Machine
Greyboy Allstars
Gunshot Licker
Hank Crawford
Heath Brothers
Heather Combs Band
Henry Butler
Hepcat
Herb Ellis
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Mann
Hiram Bullock
Hit & Run Bluegrass
Horace Silver
Hot Buttered Rum
Howlin' Wolf
Hubie Laws
Ira Sullivan
Iron Butterfly
J. Geils Band
J. J. Johnson
Jack DeJohnette
Jaco Pastorius
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Jake Shimakuburo
Jam Samich
James Blood Ulmer
James Brown
James Cotton
James Moody
James Whiton
Jan Hammer
Janis Joplin
Jazz Is Dead
Jazz Mandolin Project
Jean-Luc Ponty
Jeff Beck
Jeff Berlin
Jeff Jones Band
Jeff Lorber Fusion
Jeff Watts
Jefferson Airplane
Jessica Lurie
Jessica Williams
Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy McGriff
Jimmy Rogers
Jimmy Smith
Joe Ely
Joe Farrell
Joe Henderson
Joe Lovano
Joe Zawinul
Joey DeFrancesco
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
John Abercrombie
John Cipollina
John Coltrane
John Lee Hooker
John Mayall
John McLaughlin
John Patitucci
John Scofield
Johnny & Edgar Winter
Johnny Griffin
Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes
Jonas Helborg
Joshua & Dewey Redman
Junior Wells
Kanekoa
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
Kazumi Watanabe
Keith Jarrett
Kenny Barron
Kenny Burrell
Keyser Soze
King Crimson
Koko Talyor
Kool & the Gang
Kotoja
Larry Coryell
Lazy Eights
LazyBones
Led Zeppelin
Lee Konitz
Lee Morgan
Leo Kottke
Les Claypool
Lester Young
Let's Go Bowling
Lettuce
Lionel Hampton
Liquid Harvest
Little Charlie & the Nightcats
Little Feat
Little Richard
Little Walter
Living Daylights
Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Mack
Los Lobos
Lotus
Lou Reed
Ludvig Van Beethoven
Maceo Parker
Mad Cow String Band
Mahavishnu Orchestra
mamaSutra
Marcus Roberts
Marillion
Mark Hummel
Marshall Tucker Band
Marvin Gaye
Max Roach
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Melissa Etheridge
Meltone
Melvin Seals
Melvin Sparks
Michael Brecker
Michael Mantler
Michelle Shocked
Mifune
Mike Bloomfield
Mike Clark
Mike Marshall
Mike Stern
Miles Davis
Modern Jazz Quartet
moe.
MOFRO
Molehiill Orchestra
Moody Blues
Moonshine Still
Mose Allison
Mott the Hoople
Mountain
Mumbo Gumbo
Neil Young
Neville Bros.
New Monsoon
Nicholas Payton
Nick Gravenites & Animal Mind
Nickel Creek
North Mississippi Allstars
Norton Buffalo
NRBQ
Oblivion Express
Old Union
Olu Dara
Om Trio
On the One
Oregon
Oresund Space Collective
Ornette Coleman
Oscar Peterson
Otis Redding
Otis Rush
P-Funk
Paisley Brain Cells
Paladins
Papa Grows Funk
Papa Mali
Particle
Passport
Pat Metheny
Patrice Rushen
Paul Butterfield
Paul Motian
Paul Simon
Pee Wee Ellis
Pele Juju
Perpetual Groove
Pert Near Sandstone
Peter Apfelbaum & the Hieroglyphics
Peter Epstein
Peter Erskine
Peter Gabriel
Peter Tosh
Pharoah Sanders
Phat Couch
Phil & Friends
Philly Jo Jones
Phish
Pie Tasters
Pink Floyd
Pnuma
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Pretenders
Primus
Puddle Mountain Ramblers
Queen
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Radiators
Railroad Earth
Ralph Stanley
RAQ
Ray Charles
Rebirth Brass Band
Red Rodney
Reeltime Travelers
Reggie Workman
Return to Forever
Revolutionary Side Effects
Richard Thompson
Rick Derringer
Ripplegroove
Rob Wasserman
Robert Johnson
Robert Plant
Robert Randolph
Robert Walter
Robin Trower
Rockin' Doopsie
Roger Waters
Rolling Stones
Ron Carter
Ronnie Earl
Roomful of Blues
Rory Gallagher
Rose Hill Drive
Roxy Music
Roy Buchanan
Roy Hargrove
Roy Haynes
Roy Rogers
Rufus Reid
Rush
Rusty Strings
Sam & Dave
Sam Bush
Samantha Stollenwerck
San Pablo Project
Santana
Saul Kaye Band
Savoy Brown
Scarecrow Connection
Scott LeFaro
Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
Seismic
Shakti
Shane Dwight
Sharon Gilcrest
Shoppy
Simon & Garfunkel
Sista Monica
Skatalites
Skerik
Skynard
Sly & the Family Stone
Sly Buford
Smitty Smith
Sol'Jibe
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sonny Fortune
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Stitt
Soulive
Southern Culture on the Skids
Space Case
Spindrift
Spirit
Spoonfed Tribe
Spyrogyra
Stan Getz
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Turrentine
Steely Dan
Stephane Grapelli
Steppenwolf
Steps Ahead
Steve Hillage
Steve Kimock
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Wonder
Stone Soup
String Cheese Incident
Stymie & the Pimp Jones Luv Orchestra
Sun Ra
Sundogs
Sunpie Barnes
Susan Tedeschi
Syd Barrett
T-Rex
TJ Kirk
Taarka
Taj Mahal
Tal Farlow
Talking Heads
Tea Leaf Green
Ten Ton Chicken
Ten Years After
Terence Simien
Terrence Blanchard
Terry Haggerty
ThaMuseMeant
The Band
The Black Keys
The Breakfast
The Chazz Cats
The Clash
The Collective
The Disco Biscuits
The Duhks
The Eagles
The Electrosonics
The Faces
The Four Tops
The Gourds
The Greencards
The Hellecasters
The Hollies
The Kinks
The Meters
The Motet
The New Mastersounds
The Nice
The Roches
The Rusty Strings
The Saddle Tramps
The Scofflaws
The Selecter
The Skeletones
The Slip
The Specials
The Supremes
The Temptations
The Toasters
The Tubes
The Untouchables
The Waybacks
The Whipsaws
The Who
The Willies
The Yardbirds
The Young Dubliners
Thelonius Monk
Thunder & Lightning
Tishamingo
Tom Harrell
Tom Petty
Tommy Castro
Tommy Flanagan
Tony Furtado
Tony Rice
Tony Trischka
Tony Williams
Toubab Krewe
Tower of Power
Tracorum
Traffic
Trampled By Turtles
Trombone Shorty
Truckee Tribe
U2
ulu
U-Melt
Umphrey's McGee
Uncle Sammy
Undercover S.K.A.
Van Morrison
Vassar Clements
Victor Barnes
Victor Wooten
Vinyl
Walter Trout
War
Was/Not Was
Wayne Shorter
Weather Report
Ween
Wes Montgomery
West African Highlife Band
West Coast Rhythm Section
Widespread Panic
Will Bernard & Motherbug
Willie Dixon
Wilson Pickett
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfman Washington
World Saxophone Quartet
Xingu
Yes
Yonder Mountain String Band
Yusef Lateef
Zero
Zony Mash
Zoot Sims
ZZ Top
Movies
I've seen 2332 films & counting fast! SIGN UP W/ NETFLIX!!! Favorite films are mostly by these directors:
Woody Allen (Love & Death, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters)
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, North By Northwest, Rebecca)
Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, Witness For the Prosecution, The Apartment)
Stanley Kubrick (Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Paths of Glory)
Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network)
Frank Capra (Mr Smith Goes to Wash., It's a Wonderful Life)
Elia Kazan (Streetcar, East of Eden, A Face in the Crowd)
George Cukor (Born Yesterday, Phil. Story, The Women)
John Huston (African Queen, Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Who's Afraid of VA Woolf, 5 Easy Pieces)
Coppolla (Godfather I & II, The Conversation)
Other random favorites:
All About Eve
My Life As a Dog
Shawshank
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Casablanca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Being There
Harold & Maude
Inherit the Wind
Taxi Driver
Amelie
Tootsie
Midnight Cowboy
Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Airplane
Ruthless People
Chasing Amy
Ran (love most Kurosawa)
21 Grams
Nashville
Memento
The Seven Samurai
Anne of Green Gables
American Beauty
Terminator I & II
Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
A Letter to Three Wives
Bridge on the River Kwai
Fight Club
The Matrix
Belle de Jour
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Bonnie & Clyde
The China Syndrome
Repulsion
Darling
La Dolce Vita
M
Chinatown
Unforgiven
Good, Bad & Ugly
Life Is Beautiful
Fargo (love most Coen Bros.)
White Heat
Return of the Pink Panther
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Television
Isn't that one of those boxy looking things with crap all over it?
Books
Don't have time to read any more, but my favorite books have always been:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Catch-22
The Stand
Portnoy's Complaint
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Lolita
Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle
The Shining
Decline & Fall
World According to Garp
Frank Zappa's autobiography
California Hiking
Hot Springs of the Southwest & Northwest
The Dead Zone
Heroes
Carl Sagan, just for saying this: "We succeeded in taking that picture [of Earth from 4 BILLION miles away], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
I've taken tens of thousands of photos of bands (including Panic, moe., Galactic, Particle, Umphrey's, Tea Leaf Green, New Monsoon, KDTU, Yonder, Hot Buttered Rum, Blue Turtle Seduction, Grisman, Sam Bush, N. Miss. Allstars, MOFRO, Gov't Mule, Ween,
I'm extraordinarily passionate about everything & everyone I love. Mostly, I'm rather seriously into: going to 145 concerts a year (please see my music section), MY WEB SITE (WWW.MUSICPHOTOGRAPHICS.COM), watching films, taking numerous photos, creating graphic art, hiking & hot springs. I'm friendly, liberal, caring, considerate, bright, open, honest, down to earth & fairly witty. Key to happiness: get over it & LOTS OF MUSIC!
Hey we hope ya dig our version of " I know you Rider ". Thanks for all the kind support! And stop by and say hey hello some time we'll leave the light on for ya! Cheers~Chuck~TBR
Just want to remind everyone to get their fine selves to the Saxon and show how cool Austin music scene really is. Let's rock the place! It's The Ruby Jane Show being filmed for tv. Be in the audience and get yourself on tv, all you dudes, dancers, and wonderful Austinites!!!! Let's show the Austin music love to the world! 4:30-5:30! Ruby Jane
Heya! Guess you've been getting some good shows in. I have been far too broke to even contemplate trips up to the CBC. What are you doing late-night wise for HS?
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane. I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
Summer is near and so is the Harvest! Get ready for a jammin' good time as the music echoes across these beautiful Ozark Mountains! Tickets are on sale now!
Mixed Bag teamed up with us to bring you this cool widget. The Camp Bisco 8 widget has videos, fun links AND you and your friends can win a pair of VIP tickets! Simply by using this widget you can be a part of the fun! Feel free to share it with everyone as well!
Steve and I are throwing this event, and you'd all make our day if you show up. If anyone would like to donate anything for the silent auction that would be great. Even better, come volunteer for an hour during the event! (we promise free keg beer to those who do!) Thanks in advance guys!
Hey Steve---got your message, a little late I guess! I got a new job, so it's been cutting into my fun, but it pays, so whatever! Hope the trip was fun. So bummed I missed disco biscuits! Was it good?
Happy late b-day to you. How's life out your way? Just dropping by to let you know you can still get even more AFFORDABLE Lucky-O Music online!Prices have just been reduced on LUCKY OVERTON tracks, MP3s, albums and CDs are all available now at the following sites:
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