Good music for a very windy day here in Portland, from Glen Moore, bassist from the band Oregon, who lives in town: This record Nude Bass Ascending is basically a perfect album— it has held […]
Category: daily best music in the world
DBMITW: Portland song
New video by my partner Casey Scott!
Daily best music in the world: earlyish Steve Gadd
Here’s some really great funk drumming by Steve Gadd, from 1975, on a fairly obscure album: Mobius, by Cedar Walton. Gadd invented or perfected much of the drumming language that is now usually just called […]
Daily best music in the world: tracks that used to get me in trouble
Here are a couple of things I was listening to when I was at USC, which used to get me in trouble with some of the other students, for playing too… aggressively, let’s say. One […]
Daily best music in the world: Shuggie Otis
A little Shuggie Otis for you— also check out the GOTD from this album:
DBMITW: Bernard Purdie
Posting will continue to be a little light this week, as I’m occupied with other projects, so here’s an obscure track featuring Bernard Purdie, recommended by Rick Marotta: [h/t to Geoff Gil]
DBMITW: Tom Zé
Busy week here, moving my girlfriend Casey Scott to Ashland, Oregon for the summer, where she will be acting and playing bass in Family Album, the new play by Stew Stewart, part of the Oregon Shakespearean […]
DBMITW: My Bloody Valentine
Recovering from yesterday’s pretty grueling recording session, and catching up with other work, so enjoy some My Bloody Valentine:
DBMITW: my fat bass drum
Just sharing a little piece of my own development here. From the early 90’s, until I finally submitted to the too-soft, you-don’t-really-want-drums-on-this-gig-do-you craze of the mid-oughts, I played a 20″ Gretsch bass drum with Remo […]
Daily best music in the world: Barbara Song
Here are several versions of Barbara Song, from Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera. I could try to write something about it, but what for? The content is self-evident and I see no need to flail around […]
Lou Reed 1942-2013
It’s a good day to give White Light, White Heat a listen in its entirety— news that Lou Reed has died is breaking all over the Internet right now. I first heard this record on […]