It’s been a while. I’ve heard plenty of music over the last three weeks, and have had very little time to write about it. The iPod went on a pretty good run since I last wrote, sticking to the bluesy and the heavy, following Led Zeppelin with Pete Brown and Piblokto! and stringing together jazz tracks from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus and Freddie Hubbard.
And, there was nary a Styx song to be heard. Whatever mechanical mind the iPod has decided it didn’t want to listen to Dennis DeYoung and company bury rock and roll under pretentious orchestral pomp.
The past three weeks also contained a few notable first appearances from the likes of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, Moby Grape and Santana. Bloomfield and Kooper got multiple plays, and the live versions of “Together ‘Til the End of Time” and “The Weight” made me long for the return of summer.
If there was a shuffle MVP of the last three weeks, however, it was Iron Maiden. The beasts of British heavy metal didn’t appear a lot during the shuffle, but hearing “Remember Tomorrow” as I dozed off one night launched a week long Maiden kick, culminating in a screeching trip down the highway to a ski resort as the debut album blasted through (and probably destroyed) my car’s speakers.
That’s it for now. In the future weeks I hope to find more topics as I listen that I can explore in depth, and avoid writing uninteresting summaries because I’ve been too busy to devote a proper amount of time to writing. Expect CD reviews to return in the near future.
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