Friday, January 20, 2006

"The Icarus Factor"

I am sick of downloading songs that are not what I was looking for, or finding the wrong artist linked to the wrong song. The Mamas and the Papas did NOT do Mr. Tambourine Man. Van Halen did not perform “Stairway To Heaven” with Robert Plant. And sorry to disappoint you all, but Phish, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Ratdog, Hot Tuna, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaugh Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and the Beatles did not get together in 1995 at Red Rocks to play ONLY a RARE RECORDING of “All Along The Watchtower”.


And doesn’t “rare” mean very few, but more than once? My thesaurus states that it means uncommon, unusual, exceptional, odd, extraordinary, atypical and singular. Only one of those ---singular--- means it happened only once. Trust me, those artist did not get together one magical night (some from beyond the grave with Zombie Power ©) let alone more than once to perform any one song.


The closest song I own with a number of artist performing on stage together is as follows


“My Back Pages” - Bob Dylan tribute concert. - Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, G.E. Smith, Steve Cooper, Al Kooper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Anton Fig, Jim Keltner, and Stan Lynch.


Or how about that Studio Recoding Cover of “Gin and Juice” by Phish, Les Claypool , Primus, Widespread Panic, Fish, O.A.R., Dispatch, etc...?


~Oz

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