Who said…

“There is a grotesque contradiction between what people consider to be my achievements and abilities and the reality of who I am and what I am capable of.”

…Jimmy Carter

…Barbara Walters

…or…

…Albert Einstein?

“Skull Bubbles” by the Mike Keneally Band.

There is a certain kind of groove, I call it “pedestrian funky”, that’s tricky to corral. The tendency is to go too pedestrian and bot enough funky. Keneally and his crew nail it here.

As always, beware the bubbles and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

All found with a Google Image search using the term “paradigm”.

“Lawns” by Carla Bley and Steve Swallow.

Summery. Pastoral. Sublime.

As always, the grass isn’t any greener so click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

I don’t go to pawn shops or yard sales. The reason is; I’ve never found anything worth a damn at one of them!

It always bugs me when I hear stories like this about a guy who stumbles in to a garage sale…in Fresno and finds 65 Ansel Adams glass negatives. Guess what he paid for ‘em. Go ahead, guess.

$45!!!

Arghhh! From KTLA…

Prints that a California man purchased at a garage sale for $45 are the real thing!

Experts say after three years of research, they have determined the glass negatives are authentic works by Ansel Adams and are worth an estimated $200 million dollars.

Richard Norsigian bought the 60 glass negatives nearly ten years ago from a man in Fresno. He says he talked the man down from $60.

Here’s what I don’t want to see; I don’t want to see the guy who made a $200 million score all happy happy joy joy. I want to see Geraldo Rivera hunt down the guy in Fresno that sold them for less than a buck a piece. Hell, his asking price wasn’t even a buck a piece!

What’s worse is the guy that bought ‘em didn’t have a clue either!

Norsigian had the negatives scanned and developed into prints, which friends and family said resembled the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams.

Have any of you guys ever found something decent at a garage sale?

Two separate Wall Street Journal stories just appeared in my reader. The first one from yesterday, the second from today.

New Home Sales Increase

New-home buying surged in June…

…Sales increased 23.6% from the previous month

Supply of Homes Set to Grow

Sales of new homes are near 47-year lows

Go figure.

“Spirit” by Jack Bruce.

Nice groove. Interesting to see Mick Taylor playing on a Tony Williams song…and jamming with Carla Bley!

As always, if the spirit is willing click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

“Street Fighting Man” by the Rolling Stones.

What can a poor boy do?

Mick (Jagger)…uh…well, he just prances around playing the role as a hood ornament on this one.

Mick (Taylor) plays tough as the rhythm section turns it in to a reckless, train running off the tracks, rave-up.

As always, the time is right to click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

“Elephant Talk” by King Crimson.

It’s as easy as A B C D ELEPHANT!

As always, watch out for that advice now and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

There’s not much information out there on the blues bagpipe stylings of One Armed Jamie Mcgee.

You can imagine it was tough going as a piper in the depression era blues world even more so for a piper with one arm…

McGee’s piping method defies analysis. Naturally, I have discussed the matter with a number of pipers, all of whom feel that much of what he does, in the way of simultaneous piping and singing, should be utterly impossible with two hands, let alone one.

Luckily for us, the BBC has compiled this retrospective that even includes some rare interview audio and, of course, the music lives on.

As always, pipe the blues and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

Parts 2 and 3 of the show can be found here and here.