I’m taking a listen to the one track that they have on their site - http://www.thecliks.com - they don’t sound too bad; I might have to do a bit of digging around to take a listen to more of their music. Yeah, that whole he/she thing is kinda strange, but you listen to the music anyway, not watch it I bet you also did some playing in Athens as well, considering the knack for talent they seemed to have there for a while, eh?

Yep, I think some of the best albums are the live albums when it comes to jazz. Really, it’s the most honest form of the music, and if you try to replicate the atmosphere in a studio (as they tried with Ellington at Newport) it just doesn’t work. However, I’m not against studio CDs

With pandora - I haven’t checked them out, but they’re worth a shot; I’ve had some suggestions from last.fm, but haven’t checked them out too much though…

Forest - You’re welcome

You know, I can take current music in little spurts; I don’t mind the variety you hear on the station I mentioned though - it’s pretty decent, even if it is a bit behind the cutting edge…

And, gee, you wonder why maybe it wasn’t the most successful album for him…

Thanks y’all!

I still think I need to settle my disliking of current music. It is just as valid as music I listened too a decade ago (god I am getting old!)

Music is a journey and learning about it is too. It is important for sanity, I find.

Garth Brooks as a rockstar, I remember the pictures and I laughed my ass off, never heard the music though!

Pretty good stuff if you can get over the he/she or it thing they have going on. If you happen to youtube’em you’ll see what I mean!

I play the guitar. I used to play lead in a heavy metal/rock band. We regularly played a few clubs of that genre in Atlanta Ga back in the early 90’s. It was tons of fun! Very little money but lots of fun and booze;-)

To me, live music is the true test of an artist or band’s ability to really prove how good they are. Almost anyone can sound good in a studio so, playing live is the real test. I think back to the first live concert I ever saw, Robin Trower in 198?. His music was a big inspiration to me and seeing him live just blew me away. I was 13 I think.

I’ve always been amazed how a lot of the jazz I like is all recorded live. I once had the privilege to see Maynard Ferguson(R.I.P.) live at Ga Tech. DANG, talk about passing the test! He and the group that played were absolutely flawless. It was kinda funny being the only headbanger in the seats. I wanted to get up be rowdy but there were so many well dressed people around. They seemed so out of place.

Anyway, I discover lots of new music via pandora.com Have you seen it? Cheers, -GK