Today, I have mostly been listening to ...

Doug

Phil_aka_Pip

Joe Pass. First rate guitarist

Phil_aka_Pip

@octahedron @freakboy1610 that Darkness track is a nice bit of good time rock'n'roll

dindude

This will probably make me sound very uncool, but I am loving the new Ben Howard album. 

I had written him off in the same category as Jams Blunt from his first record, but he's ditched the acoustic and found more delay pedals that @wazmeister. The production really makes this record.

Here's a nice live clip

GavRichList

Nils Frahm - Stays. Utterly brilliant.

Loobs

@GavHaus he is amazing.

I've been listening to Carmina Burana by Carl Orff today. And Container Ships by Kowloon Walled City.

GavRichList

@Loobs - that just reminds me of that level on Earthworm Jim

Loobs

Check out KWS for incredible sludgy rock jams.

Bucket

Quite a lot of Be Bop Deluxe today.

Guitar goals - Bill Nelson. What an amazing player.

Phil_aka_Pip

Bucket said:

Bill Nelson. What an amazing player.

True dat

Bucket

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Bucket said:

Bill Nelson. What an amazing player.

True dat

I only had a few tracks from a couple of albums, including that amazing 8-minute live version of Yorkshire Landscape, but the other day I found a 5-CD box set of their albums in a record shop in Brighton - it's got Axe Victim, Futurama, Sunburst Finish, Modern Music and Drastic Plastic on it, and I listened to the first three last night in a row. The guitar work is simply stunning.

There's a lot of guitarists in 70s rock bands who I don't really care for, or don't hear anything particularly exciting brought to the table, but Bill Nelson is one of the best - to the point where I think of him as actually being quite ahead of his time. I think it's true of Ollie Halsall as well, another superb and criminally underrated player.

Phil_aka_Pip

@Bucket yes I've got that CD set and the first 2 have been in my CD player recently.

I do believe it was your good self who alerted me to the existence of Ollie Halsall

Bucket

Phil_aka_Pip said:

@Bucket yes I've got that CD set and the first 2 have been in my CD player recently.

I do believe it was your good self who alerted me to the existence of Ollie Halsall

Glad I could be of service

Ollie was great, I just wish he'd got himself into some better bands and made a more successful career of it.

Big influence on Holdsworth though!

Nunogilberto

My borrowed 1999 Fiesta's noisy back box. I don't have the code for the stereo...

Octahedron

There's this covers album Diesel did of blues/rock/funk. The name escapes me. There's some interesting stuff on there. I enjoy the funky acoustic version of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion, and their rendition of My Baby Likes to Boogaloo.

I plan to next listen to War of Kings by Europe.

not_the_dj

The re-issues of the first two Tori Amos albums.

These were massive albums for me when they first came out, and I had most of the singles so I'm familiar with a lot of the bonus tracks, but I still couldn't resist buying them again.

Phil_aka_Pip

Jacques Loussier

I wish I had the skills to do for Bach on the guitar what JL did for him on the piano

Nunogilberto

Gary Moore - mainly stuff from the Wild Frontier album. Loving the shreddy Celtic vibe.

Megii

Annette Peacock - a new discovery for me, but how cool is this?

tone1

Found myself on YouTube listening to a best of the blues album with Howling Wolf Smokestack lighting and others