Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man 7/4/10 Vienna, Austria
Check out this version of Watermelon Man which includes a Stevie Wonder-ish funk intro.
Herbie Hancock, p, kb
Greg Phillinganes, kb, voc
Lionel Loueke, g, voc,
Kristina Train, vl, voc
Tal Wilkenfeld, b, voc
Vinnie Colaiuta, dr
Michael Jackson Tribute Mix by RandyB – August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009
This is just something I did two years ago after MJ passed. It doesn’t have the slickest mixes and crossfades, its just a spontaneous selection of tunes mixed mainly from vinyl. I know that everyone and their mother made MJ mixes, and many of them are better than this. It was just an excuse for me to bug out for an hour by myself. Why not share it?
You can download the tracked mp3’s here: MEGA
R.I.P. Michael Jackson – Remember The Music.
01. Ain’t No Sunshine (intro)
02. I Wanna Be Where You Are (The Roots & Erykah Badu)
03. We’re Almost There
04. Heartbreak Hotel
05. Can You Feel It (live)
06. Dapper-Dan
07. Dancing Machine
08. Ease On Down The Road (with Diana Ross)
09. You Can’t Win
10. Can’t Get Outta The Rain
11. Things I Do For You
12. Off The Wall
13. Blame It On The Boogie
14. Working Day & Night
15. PYT
16. Somebody’s Watching Me (with Rockwell)
17. Wanna Be Startin Something
18. Another Part of Me
19. Human Nature
20. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
21. Say Say Say (with Paul McCartney)
22. The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
23. It’s The Falling In Love
24. Cinderella Stay Awhile
25. Never Can Say Goodbye
26. Jam
27. Smooth Criminal
28. In The Closet
29. Scream (with Janet Jackson)
30. Leave Me Alone
31. Who Is It?
32. You Rock My World
33. Remember The Time
34. I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer (Stevie Wonder at MJ Memorial 7/7/09)
Bonus Tracks:
35. Stevie Wonder’s speech (6/28/09 Milwaukee)
36. Stevie Wonder’s We Love You Michael chant (6/28/09 Milwaukee)
Phish – Ghost – July 23, 1997 Atlanta, GA @ Lakewood Amp.
I’ll admit that I’ve never been a big Phish fan. A few of their tunes interest me (mainly the instrumental passages, crazy prog epics like YEM, and funk work-outs like Meat) and many do not. But when a friend of mine forwarded me this 26 minute version of Ghost from a 1997 show, it gave me a newfound appreciation of the band.
I always heard that they were capable of “transcendant” musical moments, etc. but I rarely had the patience to get past the vocal heavy song beginnings and the many goof-ball choruses. One listen to this track caused me to revisit their 1998 album, The Story of the Ghost. Since then, I’ve learned that 1997 was the year of their “funk” sound period. And I do believe I may search out more 1997 live recordings in the future.