Show #4, March 28, 2003
Artist/Song/Album
Part 1
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Intro – Paul Kurzweil & Ray Bell/Easter Island/Pyramid 2000
Frank Zappa/Ancient Armaments/B side of I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
7" 45rpm 1980
Frank Zappa band live with Al DiMeola
from Apocrypha bootleg (concert from 1982?)
Focus/Hocus Pocus II/Hocus Pocus 7" 45rpm B side 1973
Jeff Berlin & Vox Humana/Marabi/Champion 1985
Scott Henderson guitar, Steve Smith & Neil Peart drums
Robert Fripp/Easter Sunday/Guitar Player Magazine 7" 33 1/3rpm
"flexidisc" Evatone Soundsheet January 1986
Queen/Bicycle Race/Jazz 1978
Jefferson Airplane/Triad/7" 45rpm, c.1970
not released on album, written by David Crosby
Yes/Abeline/B side of Don't Kill the Whale 7" 45rpm 1978
written by Steve Howe, not included on Going For The One
U2/Fire/7" 45rpm 1981
from CBS Ireland set of singles
NOTE: track played was not "Twilight" as announced.
Shankar/Watching You/Song For Everyone 1985
Jan Garbarek sax, Trilok Gurtu & Zakir Hussain percussion
Part 2
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Stanley Jordan/Eleanor Rigby/Magic Touch 1985
Rickie Lee Jones/My Funny Valentine (live)
Rickie Lee Jones/Walk Away Rene
both from Girl At Her Volcano 10" EP 1983
Crack The Sky/Ice/Live Sky 1978
Tasavallan Presidentti/Milky Way Moses 1974
Jukka Tolonen guitar
Jukka Tolonen/Elements
Jukka Tolonen/Rambling
both from the album Tolonen 1974 (but recorded Oct. 1971)
Paul Kurzweil/Gone To Maryland/Blueshift 1994
PK and Jeff "Rootwig" Davis guitars
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PK's random anecdote of the week:
This is for the guitar freaks out there. While I was attending Berklee in the mid-1980's, a few friends and I made a pilgramage to Hartford, CT to some cheesy little club in a terrible part of town, to see Yngwie Malmsteen play (he was opening for a Japanese hair-metal band called Loudness).
You have to understand, the guy plays original 1963 Stratocasters, apparently with no modern type whammy bar, only the original stock ones, yet with the sheer abuse he inflicts on them they pretty much stay in tune.
He was asked how he keeps his guitars in tune, and his answer was precious...
He said "I yell at them."
I'm not quite sure if he was joking.
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