duotone

Have been really enjoying this track called "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches (from their 1st and only album called "Since I Left You" which was released in 2000) which comprises of many samples added together to create the full track, actually the whole album is created this way and over 3500 vinyl samples are said the have been used in making the whole album.

I think this is such a well done video which jumps between the audio of The Avalanches track and the snippets of the samples they used to make it.

Enjoy!

Euronomus

This is easy for me, Alain Johannes is, imho, the most unknown\over-talented multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, and songwriter of the last 20-30 years. He started out as the leader of what was essentially(but not directly) an early version of RHCP, and has gone on to contribute(in basically every role possible) to albums from Chris Cornell, No Doubt, Live, UNKLE, Mark Lanegan, Silverchair, Puscifer, Spinnerette, Eagles of Death Metal, The Gutter Twins, Arctic Monkeys, and several more- even Hilary Duff and Kelly Clarkson. He is also an unofficial member of both Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures, writing and touring with both acts, and still finds time to do his own amazing music.

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duotone

EURONOMUS, Thanks I had never heard of him before.

What album can you recommend which showcases his best work?

Euronomus

That's kind of a hard question, his work is all over the place. As far as his own stuff he has released A solo Album and has lead 2 bands that have both released a handful of albums, What Is This?(with Hillel Slovak, Flea, and Jack Irons but changed line-ups a few times) and Eleven (with his late wife Natasha Shnieder and Jack Irons) and they are all pretty different. the song I posted is from his only solo album "spark", IMO the best of his stuff. He wrote it as therapy after his his wife(and main musical collaborator) passed away and is as emotionally intense as you would expect with that back story. I love Eleven, you can't really go wrong with any of their albums, but I'll admit some of it sounds kind of dated now. As far as What is this? goes I've never been a big fan-I'm not prone to like music from the 80's, but I'd still say they are better than most.

Eleven - Reach out, from 1993


What Is This? - I Am A House, from 1984


But like I said in my first post-he is all over a bunch of albums you may have already heard and if not you should definitely check out. Most of Chris Cornell's Euphoria Morning was basically just an Eleven album with Cornell fronting and it shows-even a lot of the vocal melodies sound more like Johannes melodies to me than something Cornell would come up with. Eleven was even the touring band for that album.



He's written for QOTSA- Hangin' Tree and In My Head are both his own creations, and he was part of the writing process for most of the other tracks on those albums-as well as the Them Crooked vultures album(which he recorded and did most of the Backing vocals on).



He also was a main musical contributor(and producer) for Mark Lanegans Blues Funeral album, one of my recent favorites.

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duotone

I first heard "I left my heart in San Francisco" sung by Mayer Hawthorne about 2 years ago when watching a clothing sponsers video. The complete song really impressed me, the whole arrangement that lets the vocals really shine.

Today the Tony Bennett version (who made it famous) came on my Spotify playlist which prompted me to see who actually wrote it in the first place. The music was written in 1953 by George Cory, with lyrics by Douglass Cross, about two amateur writers nostalgic for San Francisco after moving to New York.

"I Left My Heart In San Francisco is the work of two amateur writers who grew up in the Bay Area but moved to New York following wartime military service. George Cory, who wrote the music, scratched a living playing piano in bars. Douglass Cross, the lyricist, worked in radio. Besides being songwriting partners, they were also lovers. They died within three years of each other in the Seventies while still only in their 50s.
The song wasn't written in the golden sunshine of San Francisco but in Brooklyn Heights, New York, during the autumn of 1953. It started as When I Return To San Francisco, then became When I Come Home before ending up as the song we know today.
In a rare interview, Cory said: 'It was pure nostalgia. We missed the warmth and openness of the people and the beauty. We never really took to New York."
Cross added: 'New York is a hard, ruthless city. It lives on the edge of terror and catastrophe. New York is tired. San Francisco has newness and vitality.'



The full Wikipedia link is here I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia & more information I borrowed from here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...ired-song.html

duotone

Just listening to Michael Jacksons "Off The Wall" album for the first time in ages and once the second track "Rock with you" started, the funky guitar playing immediately impressed me.




David Williams and Marlo Henderson are listed on Wikipedia as playing the electric guitar on the track. I am not familiar enough with either guitarist to confirm who played the rhythm guitar parts, but when I find my "Off The Wall" cd sleeve I will see if that contains any more information.

Paul Smeenus

Two that come to my mind

Waddie Wachtel



Jeff Skunk Baxter

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