Author: Don

How is your bird’s lumbago?

… and now some high culture, with balloons. Tchaikovsky had it coming.

Tommy Emmanuel and Stephen Bennett were both regulars at Winfield years ago. Sometimes they did a set together. Bennett would play “You Really Got Me,” and Emmanuel would follow with “Day Tripper.”

The sound is not as good as I would like, but the energy in this live performance compensates.

A song Malcolm Dalglish wrote for his infant potato.

Music for this slip jig is here, if you want to play along.

Another trip to Canterbury.

Another race, with Cliff Gallup on guitar. Gallup was one of Jeff Beck’s heroes.

Someday beef prices will be reasonable again.

I could easily have done a year of just Beatles covers. This is one of the more imaginative ones. Hyung-ki Joo covered this cover in his own fashion, but Berberian did it better.

I’ve heard Phil Keaggy twice in concert. The first time was with a band in an enormous Baptist church in downtown Wichita with classic bad acoustics — you could only hear half of what was played, but you heard that half twice. He still sounded pretty good. The second time was with just his acoustic guitar and a looper pedal in a proper auditorium. That sounded better. He doesn’t really need more than six strings and nine fingers.

Proto-metal for Walpurgisnacht. Gun’s 1968 album featured Roger Dean’s first cover.

They had bigger hits, but this is the one I liked.

The legendary pianist John Ogdon was known for playing titanic works such as the “Hammerklavier” sonata and Alkan’s “Symphony” for solo piano, but he also played smaller-scale pieces.

While most of the Bonzo Dog Band’s songs were written by either Neil Innes or Vivian Stanshall, trouser press virtuoso Roger Ruskin Spear was responsible for a few, including this one.

A little 21st-century Klezmer.