The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

United Airlines hates guitars almost as much as they hate passengers.

If I were a 13 year old boy, (I am presently a 40 year old armadillo) I would very much want this girl’s phone number.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer - performing “Take a Pebble” during 1974’s California Jam.

Quite nice.

A cool version of two guys playing Boston’s “More than a Feeling” on Guitar Hero’s Expert Level, on a freeway overpass. It might make more sense if you just watch it.

Or maybe not.

Bernie Taupin introduces the finest version of his and Elton John’s song, Rocketman, ever recorded.

This is a most excellent jam on Stand by Me, by musicians of the street from around the world.

A couple of minutes in and my warm-fuzzy meter pretty much went off the scale.

I’ve had a little problem with a bunch of tension lately. This video helped me lower my blood pressure a bit.

Here’s The Grateful Dead performing a beautiful little jam on China Cat Sunflower, during their 1972 European tour.

That gizmo that Peter Frampton uses to make his guitar “talk” is called, oddly enough, a “Talk Box”. I had always assumed that it was an invention of the mid-1970’s – but the device was invented in 1939. Here is a memorizing performance using the Talk Box, by Pete Drake, from sometime before the first Zombie Wars – with back-up singers who seem to be there against their will.

Desert Rat thinks the whole thing would make an excellent soundtrack to some kind of retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic computer game.