So I’m sitting here in Al Kooper’s room at the Mondrian listening to his Top Fifty.<\/p>\n
You see first we went to the Rainbow, to say hi to Tony, to eat some mediocre food (Miguel wasn’t there.)\u00c2\u00a0 And when the music got TOO loud, when I couldn’t tolerate Ozzy’s greatest hits one more minute, we got into my Saab, and then drove here to the hotel.<\/p>\n
Al’s been playing me some AMAZING shit.\u00c2\u00a0 Like live versions of "Toehold", his take on "Sign On The Window" and "New Morning" with HORNS!\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, Al PRODUCED that album.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m going through Al’s playlists, and I hit his Top Fifty for 2006, and we start listening.\u00c2\u00a0 Al’s partial to Field Music’s "If Only The Moon Were Up", the changes of which reached me, but then I clicked on Sonya Kitchell’s "Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind".\u00c2\u00a0 WOW! Anybody who thinks they’re not making good music anymore…<\/p>\n
But what really got me off, what got me stealing the Powerbook from Al, was when he clicked on Who Made Who’s "Out The Door".\u00c2\u00a0 Al billed it as Jim Morrison come back to life, and GODDAMMIT he was RIGHT!<\/p>\n
Go to their MySpace page.\u00c2\u00a0 They don’t have this track, but you’ll get the idea WhoMadeWho<\/a>.<\/p>\n So the man who discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd, and produced the legendary Tubes debut, HAS STILL GOT IT!<\/p>\n I was gonna wait until I got home to write this up, ’til tomorrow, but it just wasn’t POSSIBLE!\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, who knows what time I’m gonna get to bed, Al’s an INSOMNIAC!!<\/p>\n