This weekend's musical treat

TwoTankAmin · Sep 21, 2026

From Wikipedia
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969. Brothers Duane (slide guitar, lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards) founded it with Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals), Berry Oakley (bass), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums). Subsequently based in Macon, Georgia, they incorporated elements of blues, jazz and country music and their live shows featured jam band-style improvisation and instrumentals.

The band's first two studio albums, The Allman Brothers Band (1969) and Idlewild South (1970), both released by Capricorn Records, were not commercially successful, but their 1971 live album At Fillmore East was a critical and commercial breakthrough.

They played March 12 and 13. Here are 3 songs from that weekend.

TwoTankAmin · Sep 26, 2026

I will post this weekend's treat this evening. However, I challenge anybody to watch the vid below and to keep your eyes dry. This is a true story.

This is the incredible true story of the night Eric Clapton stopped his 1992 Birmingham concert to create a once-in-a-lifetime moment for a deaf teenager who loved his music despite never hearing a single note. What happened on that stage changed Sarah's life forever and reminded the world what music really means.

Jennet · Sep 27, 2026

Layla is one of my favourite songs, and I have to admit, Clapton has also got a reasonable way with lyrics and a guitar.

TwoTankAmin · Sep 27, 2026

It was the story that really mattered. The girl is amazing.

TwoTankAmin · Sep 27, 2026

Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is one of the two members who stayed throughout the band's existence, along with the bassist John Illsley. After Dire Straits dissolved, he pursued a solo career and is now an independent artist.

Knopfler was born in Glasgow, and was raised in Newcastle. After graduating from the University of Leeds and working for three years as a college lecturer, Knopfler co-founded Dire Straits with his younger brother, David Knopfler. The band recorded six albums......... After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler began a solo career, and has produced ten solo albums to date. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero), Cal , The Princess Bride, Wag the Dog and Altamira. He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, and Randy Newman.

Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

He deserves two posts. You may know some of these songs. He also performed with other greats bboth his songs a=or theirs.

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He performed a number of songs with Chet Arkins.

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TwoTankAmin · Sep 27, 2026

Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Sting & Phil Collins
Money for Nothing Live

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Again with Chet

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And to finish, one of my favorite Knopfler tunes.

The Bug
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GaryE · Sep 28, 2026

The first time I traveled to England, in the very late seventies, I met a bunch of crazy Germans and we decided to go for a beer. We were all in a bedsit 'way down south in London town', and in the pub, there was a swing jazz band playing with great skill and energy and not a lot of commercial potential. I've always suspected that I saw the real Sultans of Swing, and that wandering into that same pub and seeing the love those guys had for their music had inspired Knopfler to write the song.

I found Dire Straits became very generic as they went along, but that first album was a good one. An extremely good one, if anyone here wants to plumb the depths of 45 year old music. If indeed you like Dire Straits, check out the bands that inspired them, especially Dr Feelgood, and the 101ers. The pub rock scene just before punk hit was never popular in North America, but there was good stuff there. Really, only Dire Straits broke out of it.

Jennet · Sep 28, 2026

I sometimes like to let these play on after the original song. First video after Dire Straits was Stevie Nicks. Rhiannon. The name of my eldest daughter, bought a tear to my eye, but after that a good few bits of music reminding me of my youth, and yeah, some of it mis-spent, but mostly enjoyable at the time. Seen Tina Turner at least 4 times as well as Dire Straits in the 80's. Wow, moved on to Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky. Real blast from the past.

I like going to concerts, but prefer to go to festivals. Went to my last Love Supreme festival in 97 I think it was.

TwoTankAmin · Oct 10, 2026

Apologies for missing last weekend. I am hoping to get a new post up by tomorrow night. However, I had the lower back right molar tooth with two roots extracted yesterday. I insisted on being put under for it and I am not sure how I will be feeling, I am doing better today than yesterday for sure.

TwoTankAmin · Oct 11, 2026

Have you been working too hard?
Are you looking for work?
Have you retired from work?

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Another small crowd....

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TwoTankAmin · Oct 11, 2026

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TwoTankAmin · Oct 25, 2026

Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969.[2] Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.

Mike Bloomfield · John Paul Hammond · Dr. John
Triumvirate (album)℗ 1973 Columbia Records

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TwoTankAmin · 2026-11-01T22:43:16-0600

This is anther two post weekend treat.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were an American country rock band founded in 1967.[3] The group's leader and co-founder was pianist and vocalist George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944, in Boise, Idaho; died September 26, 2021, in Saratoga Springs, New York).................. The band became known for marathon live shows.
The band disbanded in 1977, but the name "Commander Cody" survived, being used by Frayne in various iterations in his solo career
Retaining his stage name, George Frayne had a subsequent solo career, touring and releasing albums from 1977 on under various names including Commander Cody, the Commander Cody Band, Commander Cody and His Modern Day Airmen, and Commander Cody and His Western Airmen.

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