Shorty I Am The Club

Well. It's been a long time. I hope someone out there thinks this guy is also possibly the most bad ass dude ever to live.
Check the you tube comments under my name thesneakyjesus.

had to put this up

if you get bored, just fast forward to 7:30 or so. Damn.....

I've been away

I have traveled over 4,000 miles with my band over the last two weeks and seen a great portion of the country. I have lots of good stories. I do have a lot of sleep to catch up on though. I will leave you with this for now.

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another double post. This is too good to pass up.

I'm as helpless as a kitten in a tree

Just try to get inside of this groove. I don't think you'll want to leave.

Space is like your musical frame

I attended a very well thought out clinic today from trombonist Conrad Herwig

He opened the clinic with a freely improvised piece that had a simple beautiful framework. His main theme of his lecture was how an artist can develop something beautiful and improvised but still live within a small set of very clear goals on how to articualte ideas and make the music cohesive.

I ran into this video this video this afternoon while practicing some standards. When I just viewed it, there was 40 plays. I figure it'll be in the thousands in the next week or two.

It's Kurt Rosenwinkle @ the Burkeley Church.
I haven't had enough of a chance to google this place, but I ran into this.

bo ka bo bo ka ka ka bo bo bo ka

Dog barking samples? Geese samples?
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick

Some new music that I've been really enjoying

Not much to say. I'm sleepy. I've been playing lots of live music and it has been awesome. Jungle Beat played it's first show with me and it went good. I love those guys.

Wanli is playing it's first gig with the new line up and brand new set (some old songs have been re worked) on April 9th with Field Day and The Gagged.

I'm stoked on this gig because it's like a reunion show for some really good old friends that all have new bands that kick ass.








Me and my band mates have been bookin this Wanli tour for the past couple of months. We have 90% of the shows booked for a two week long tour this summer. I could not be more excited about this. 14 days, 12 cities. New show every night.

While booking this tour we've listened to more young bands than ever before in my life. I think that there are LOTS of music being made that is great. It's definitly in the fringe, but it's there.

This is my favorite that I found after listening to every damn myspace page I could bear.



The Fly - Bear Hands `Bad Blood` FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.

I'm a geek

okay, here are some geeky things that come to mind listening to this:
1) this video is obviously a throw back to a particular hip hop video of the 90s (Pharcyde?....)
2) That bass line is bad ass.
3) That bass has spirocore weiche gauge strings on it... i almost guarantee
4) The comments on the youtube page talk a lot about breakdancing...the fact that there are bboy auditions is cool
"yeah yeah...

this shit is too slow and you know it (if your a bboy) I ahve to do an audition to this song today and im not looking forward to it. Dope song and video tho."
5) that first break at :22 in is what I really miss in a lot of hip hop. This is a very dynamic song for hip hop.

Have you ever seen a drumer ignite?

I don't have much to say about this.

I think it's my favorite music I've ever heard.

Everybody pulled their socks up, Everybody put ther foot down

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a week almost. I have been very fortunate to be too busy to blog because I've been playing so much music.

I just joined this band called Jungle Beat. I really love it.

Anyways,


I really wasn't very cool when I was growing up. Or normal...
I didn't listen to the Beatles. My parents didn't listen to the Beatles really.
I'm twenty one and I just started to really listen to the Beatles like two years ago.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Beatles at a two week long party where we watched the Beatles Anthology

I became familiar with this famous "rooftop concert" at about the time.








I've been listening to Let It Be "Naked" since I made my last post.
It kicks ass

Please put on some headphones!

It's important that you put on some headphones, shut off the lights and listen to this

I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle

Producer Jay Dilla said in an interview I recently saw that people "slept" on pharcyde in the 90s.

I'm here to change that.

wanna see some mother fuckers WYYYYYLLLEEE OUT?

Phew...

Two things grab me about this instantly. There is some sort of absolute genuineness to this composition. It's extrmely romantic and beautiful in a very typical sense that usually doesn't get me.But him, I totally believe it. Beyond the composition is his performance. It is everything I want to hear. If I could really ask more of this music it would be for it to have the freedom of improvisation that I always deisre in live music.






Luckily,
Dave Douglas has taken care of that for me.

You can listen to Dave's version here, but I really suggest you go out and buy his album "The Infinite" immediatley.

http://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Douglas/_/Poses

phew

seemed appropriate.



can't sleep again

Comes home on call, isn't that peace,
fingers in the dirt, and he's spitting out his teeth
He's spitting out his teeth

4:36.... all I've ever wanted to do since I found out you could do it was be in a band and be in love.

you know that one that goes da da da da...

I had almost forgotten all about this record until I came across this pleasant video. Worth watching all the related videos, there's liek 5 or so. Great song. Great drummer. Great band

Oooooohhh

If you're not familiar with Uri Caine, I'm excited for you.

This is some pretty heavy group interaction for a simple vamp section.



and if you are. I'm excited for you =)

I can't stop myself

Well, I just made this blog about an hour ago. I have decided I will make a post a day, or try at least.

However, tonight, I'm making two.
Partly because I can't sleep, and also because I have so many things that I want to share. This one though, this one really stands out. Not so much the performance, although it's great, but mostly the song. I've become such a song person over the last few years. It's like these little slices of life. I just really want the good ones to make my pie.

And, although making a blog post about Fleet Foxes is about as original as playing 'A Mili' on modern radio was all of last year, I still feel this deep personal connection to their music. It really is beautiful.






Also... attached to a performance at the Bowery Ballroom in New York they did an interview with last.fm.

The only reason I put this up is because 4:46 one of the guys says "there is no music theory".
It made me smile. And cringe. And then smile about cringing. Mostly just rambling.

Woo Ha

This track is bad is shit. This bass line is super funky, and the breaks basically wrote the book on how to drop a mute on an MPC in 1996.







Not only is the sample from the most obscure place, but it's reused in a completely angular way. Very sophisticated, yet so simple...

One commenter just posted ":46". That's all that really needs to be said.




~Chris