TomFest

He seems to know his stuff and has studied the Beatles quite a bit, but there are a couple of things in there that I need to check him on. That "C7" he plays - I've always just played as a "C", and the 4-finger "D" chord shape - I swear John plays a normal "D" with the pinky covering the "F#" note. I don't recall seeing John play a "D" chord the way he is showing it. Maybe just a personal preference. Nice deconstruction of the opening chord known simply as "The Chord" though. But I play that one 3-5-3-5-3-3. I just think it sounds better because it mixes the piano bits he's describing, and the "Fadd9" that George always said. You get both with 3-5-3-5-3-3.

I both hate and love that idea. I'm looking forward to seeing Joe open at Red Rocks.

^ Great picture!

^ I don't recall ever hearing that song before....but it was awesome. Thanks.

"Rain" is my favorite Beatles tribute act, and Joe is excellent as George Harrison.

Sorry for your loss, Nurk. Great that you and your cousin bonded over music, specifically the Beatles. I had a cousin like that myself, also gone now. Take care.

Yeah, I never really mastered that triplet on "All My Loving", but it is very cool.

"Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings" by Lucinda Williams. Actually one of my favorite songs by her.

Craziest suggestion so far: "Won't Last Long" off Echo. Great little rocker full of energy to open the show. Check it out right now. Loud. It kills.

Yeah, I'm just not following how that improves the sound in any way. They've played it live a million times with instruments tuned to pitch. What about that sound? Wildflowers doesn't have anything like that happening, that I can recall. There are some altered tunings going on, but nothing halfway in between "E" and "Eb", for instance.

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened with that recording. It's not tuned to pitch, but it's less than a half step sharp. Who would do that? And why? An accident of some kind? I can't think of another song in their entire catalog that isn't tuned to pitch on the record.

I was once in a band named "Closed for Remodeling", but nobody showed up to the gigs. How about "Punctured Lung"? I told the guys in my band I wanted to change our name to that, in honor of the hit that Earl Thomas put on Rob Gronkowski.

Hell yeah - super high energy opener. I approve. :-)

I'm not sure exactly what point the author is making. The Top 10 loudest crowd noise mixed in? Certainly not the best live albums. Live recordings from the 60's are often poor with all the screaming. The Stones had much better live records later on. And how about The Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore. Hello?

Funny, I like most of those. The author even makes the point that most of them are classics when compared to their contemporaries of the day. "Goats Head Soup" disappointing? Not.

Thanks for the clip. I don't know if, or how much that affects my opinion of the song though. Maybe I'm just being weird, but that song has always made me uncomfortable.

I like the song musically, but the lyrics have always put me off. The "crazy black guy" and "damn you black bastard" - I just don't get why Tom would go there. And to my knowledge, he's never explained himself on the lyrics to that song. I kind of cringe every time I hear it, and I'm glad they don't play it anymore. Just my $.02.

Need to explode out of the gate with something loud and proud.......like "Honey Bee" maybe.

Coincidentally, I saw Randy Hansen play last night - he does probably the best Hendrix tribute act out there - and he played a rockin' "I Don't Live Today".

Scott doubles him on the punch line, yeah. But no auto-tune.

I'd have to second "Driving Down To Georgia". I completely overlooked that song until I saw them do it live. Unbelievable energy exploding in that song.

I love this arrangement of "Dear Prudence" from Jerry. Tom and the Heartbreakers would be perfect on this, especially since John's not around to sing it anymore. And the crowd would go absolutely bonkers.

Great picture.

Snickers is the king of them all, but right now I'm stuck on those little Reeses peanut butter cups. The real little ones that aren't wrapped in paper, but loose in the little bag. Yum.