Now that’s a damn good movie! Jeff Bridges deserves the Best Male Actor Oscar. Period.

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/crazyheart/

Sunshine daydreamin’…

Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh on Vimeo.

Again, great to talk to Nick at Guitar Center today. He suggested I check out this site. He said he learned most everything he knows now about Maschine and Ableton by watching videos from here.

http://www.macprovideo.com/tutorials/

Dig it! Thank you!

Tiken Jah Fakoly’s African roots reggae is taking over the entire African continent, per my Senegalese friends. I was told to check out his music because I would love it. Man, was that good advice! Check out Tiken Jah Fakoly’s MySpace page to hear some of this deep roots music coming out of the Ivory Coast. It’s wonderful!!

P.S. I appreciate the powerful horns backing up the band! These tunes have great arrangements.

This guy, Diego Stocco, is doing some really cool stuff combining microphone and recording technology with custom instrument creation. Check it out…

Man, my boy Kevin McFadden in Portland-via-Detroit turned me on to this hot hip-hop clip from the 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards. He wanted to hip me to the rhymes that Mos Def, Black Thought and Eminem laid down on this track.

What groove do the world’s top rappers and MC’s rhyme to? Clyde Stubblefield’s Funky Drummer sample, of course! That’s exactly what DJ Premier does on this track. Man, if Clyde had a dime for every time a hip-hop rhyme was combined with his funky drum line…well, he’d probably be playing for free!

Catch Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s Original Funky Drummer, live every Monday at The Frequency! See ya there!!

The music and the accompanying video during the TOOL concert at Lollapalooza really set my mind racing. The imagery features art by Alex Grey. The music is TOOL. This song is titled, “Vicarious”. Enjoy.

On Sunday, June 28th, The Jimmys rocked the Briggs & Stratton stage from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Milwaukee’s Summerfest. Here’s some music from my mobile recorder. It was set up between our monitors on stage, so it’s not a perfect recording, but it still turned out remarkably well considering.

• Ophelia (mp3) - Our big closing number
• Congo Square (mp3) - Really got the crowd moving!
• Fool (mp3) - an original ballad by Jimmy Voegeli with a tenor sax solo featuring yours truly
• Sunday Mornings with Laura (mp3) - an awesome instrumental by Jimmy Voegel featuring Jimmy on keys and Chad Whittinghill on muted trumpet

Recently, I’ve been recording our Clyde Stubblefield Show sets at The Frequency. Last night, June 8th, 2009, was a lot of fun and the recording turned out pretty well. The horns are still a little hot in the mix, but most everything else is coming through better than last week’s effort.

Here are MP3’s for anyone to download. Enjoy!

• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : Tighten Up
• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : Daddy’s Home
• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : Pass The Peas
• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : I Wish, with Karri Daley
• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : Just My Imagination, with Karri Daley
• The Clyde Stubblefield Show : Hard To Handle, with Karri Daley