1/2 Thursday #DailyTracks and #Rush : First of all itโ€™s been surprising how many proggers are looking at this and thinking about the music so weโ€™ll drop some bits.
Rush : La Villa Strangiato (Live Los Angeles 2026)
https://youtu.be/g_2uXeBxcU4?si=LDYBnrvmphUamv9i

For some reason Iโ€™ve always heard #Strangiato in terms of a thing that could go off in any direction at all and still be exactly what it is. I hear #DaveSancious and #JanHammer in turn, wandering in slinging #Keytars and the thing still just belligerentlyโ€ฆ

Thursday #DailyTracks : Some of us harbor deformity that makes spontaneous jams and invites require more planning ahead, so they're never truly that. Normally and pretty much anywhere in the world you can be handed a random guitar or bass and be good to go. Not so much for #Southpaws. It's like having two heads. At least the percussion and boards don't care. Kazoo also...and voice
Wednesday #DailyTracks
Jams are what they are, locally or long distance. We are lucky that technology can enable certain localizations of things . It doesnโ€™t have to to be perfect to bring people together for the purpose of making music. If we can hear each other we can respond in kind, and work out any slippage after the fact
1/2 Tuesday #DailyTracks : When you think of unique contemporary progressive voices on electric #Guitar for any length of time the list tends to expand rapidly. If uniqueness / functionality and voicing en situ are primary it gets a bit easier- #Holdsworth, #Metheny, #Dimeola, #Morse, #Lifeson, #Petrucci. If your going to be stuck in a band for fifty years with someone the #Comedy factor is important. In that regard #AlexLifeson probably has the edge
Wednesday #DailyTracks : It still seems nuts to see folks stringing with 08โ€™s and 09โ€™s when you canโ€™t even look at a 9 from across the room without breaking it. Even 10โ€™s are in peril. The thirteens seem to survive the paws of death more readily. Still managed to break three strings last night . It was their time
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Tuesday #DailyTracks : So such as it is we've had a jam. It began with Paul Gilbert
#HurryUp thru You Kids. Jumped to #GoodRats live thru #LocalZero. Then a few classic tracks after #JimmyHaslip #MarketStreet including #Journey Send Her My Love. Then #WineryDogs War Machine thru #Regret. And finally #Yellowjackets With These Hands.
Life is precious. The work we do also. In the event of bad news it's all archived. Times are treacherous. We engaged because of the stakes. No regrets. Cheers !
Sunday #DailyTracks : So we are post Full Moon, technically, but time zones give reportage some leeway. Here is #PeterGabriel back with another full moon bloom, such as it is. Here in his own words โ€œQuirky, Strange, A Journey. A Hard Lesson. New music for the full moonโ€ฆ.
It would not be surprising if the continuo brings some heavy evolutions. Just a hunch. Weโ€™ve been wrong before but it feels right
https://youtu.be/rW1t3UE3qvI?si=NOgLGxActc-86L_K
Wednesday #DailyTracks : Well, Events being what they are music needed a workout day. The basic transaction with a period of nonpractice for serious musicians relates thusly ; the first thing is your section lock drifting. Tight and in the pocket turns into a bit drifty. Then in multiple complex changes you start lagging the pivot. If we are talking weeks and not days then this is a potential clamfest. It depends on the music.Multi instrumentalists can multiply the irritation, as now you are...

Monday #DailyTracks : Nothing like a #LaundryDay on the road to get ur
#GearAcquisitionSyndrome aired out in full. That this should coincide with happening upon a legit #ItalianDeli is probably a matter of fate. History is rife with these odd coincidencesโ€ฆ
#GregKoch band is on tour with #PaulGilbert and theyโ€™ve been having a blast doin what they do. If your in some neck of those woods youโ€™ve got till end of May

Greg Koch : From The Land of #MartinGuitars on Laundry Day
https://youtu.be/Yyf2m-vIJDw?si=iHhSaVm0hFaj2gAz

1/n Saturday #DailyTracks : Folks should know the obvious minimal configuration for covering basically any tune is a #Trio.This could be a #Music101 thing but itโ€™s actually more complicated than that.Depending on how hip your music department is undergrad music appreciation might go there.This would dovetail nicely with an intro to #MusicTheory course. Ultimately your listening will be the most important arbiter.Classical, Jazz & Prog have all the things.Two good ears are a minimal cover charge-