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Jay brings two Prince related items to the table this episode. First up, we listen to a track from “Welcome 2 America”, the first Prince album released posthumously. We discussed this back in Episode 15 when it was announced that the estate would be releasing material from the archive. We were for it then & we stand by that position now. Next up, Prince’s youngest three siblings have sold their rights to the estate to a large NY publisher that plans to use his music for licensing and promotional deals while the oldest three siblings maintain ownership and vow to keep Prince’s legacy intact….so there’s also that to keep an eye on...Song: Prince - Check The RecordFollowing “Lost in the Shuffle” last week, Nick decided it was time for a discussion about time…specifically time signatures. How do you determine a time signature when you can divide time infinitely? So we jump into it. What’s 6/8 feel like & how is it different than 3/4? What about odd time signatures, how do you figure those out?Song: Haitus Kaiyote - Chivalry Is Not DeadLast up Greg brings us news from the week. ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill passed at the age of 69, ending the band’s 51 year run as the longest surviving band with its original members intact. We also lost the incredibly talented drummer Joey Jordison, most known as the original drummer for Slipknot. They’ll both be missed greatly!Songs:Bob Dylan/George Harrison - If Not For You (Live)ZZ Top - “I Thank You/Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago”Slipknot - Eyeless

Here’s the deal. This week Greg is traveling for a show, meanwhile both Jay & Nick are sick. Did they cancel the show this week? Clearly, they did not.Did Jay & Nick deliver a show with audible head colds? Yes, they do.Is GregBot 3000 along for the ride? Without hesitation, absolutely!Jay’s been building guitar pedals from scratch lately and he shares his journey with us. Warning, this is deemed a NERD ALERT as an afterthought. That being said, this is very cool hobby and there’s something magical that happens when you discover how something actually works.Song: corto.alto - “Squonk”Nick brings us up to speed on his son, and guest of the show, Charlie’s journey with the drums. Next up, what happened at the Grammy Awards this year? Song: Herbie Hancock - “Watermelon Man”

This week we are fortunate to be joined by Paul Moffat. Paul is a phenomenal bassist and fulfills the role of Flea in the Red Not Chili Peppers. Equally important, he is the band’s manager. We discuss what it takes to successfully manage a nationally touring tribute band. Hope you enjoy!Songs:Red Not Chili Peppers - “I Could Have Lied”

We kick things off this week with a News with Nick. Pitchfork puts up a paywall, Bandcamp bans AI, and rock music gets the ‘most improved’ award for music streaming in 2025.Song: Moses Yoofee Trio - “Ridgewalk”Greg has three tidbits to share on a Three for Thursday. We get another round of “There I Ruined It,” some Kurt Rosenwinkel magic, and Vulfpeck returns to the stage at Madison Square Garden.Songs: Landslide But It's About Landslides (There I Ruined It IG)Kurt Rosenwinkel Beato InteviewVulfpeck MSG II - “Dean Town”Jay also has some tracks to share on his own Three for Thursday. We hear the great Ralph Towner, who passed away this week, some new stuff from The Black Crowes, and another track from Keith Grasso’s cover project.Songs:Ralph Towner - “Nardis (Live in Korea)”The Black Crowes - “Profane Prophecy”Cross County - “Stage (Live Cover)”

Jay celebrates the life of Bob Weir. Known as the “other one” in the Grateful Dead, Weir had an incredibly unique approach to the guitar. We listen to some tracks and Jay tells us his story.Songs:Grateful Dead - “Sugar Magnolia - Winterland 1974”China Cat Sunflower - “China Cat Sunflower-I Know You Rider (Live 1972)”Grateful Dead - “Looks Like Rain”Nick has been hitting Apple’s Discovery station hard the past couple weeks and he has a few discoveries to share. It’s Three For Thursday!Songs:Nolan Potter - “Commander of the Clowns”Touchdown Jesus - “I Love My Wife”Pino Palladino & Blake Mills - “Taka”Greg has a hodgepodge of things to share on “Heard It Through the GREGvine.” Rick Beato has on Swedish jazz guitarist Ulf Wakenius and he is a hell of player. Does Erik Wyatt, self taught legend, at Smalls reveal a truth about gatekeeping in jazz? Possibly, but he turns out not the best messenger. Finally, Louis Cole, Dave Binney, and Luca Mendoza performed at Robert Glasper’s Blue Note in LA last week and Greg shares his experience.Songs: Ulf Wakenius & Oscar Peterson - “Sweet Georgia Brown”Louis Cole, Dave Binney, and Luca Mendoza - Live at Blue Note

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the Red Not Chili Peppers are performing the album in its entirety on select tour dates this year. In further celebration of the diamond album, Greg has a new round of Viral or Eyeroll.Song: Wayne Shorter- “Black Nile”Jay has a melange of topics to bring this week in Jay’s Jambalaya. Peter Gabriel has another new album coming out, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has dissolved, and Phish’s New Years Show was amazing.Song: Peter Gabriel - “Been Undone (Dark-Side Remix)”Finally, it’s News with Nick! Drake is accused of RICO gambling and a stream-boosting scheme, Steven Drozd is out of the Flaming Lips, and YouTube stops sending its streaming data to Billboard.Song: Gumby’s Junk - “Tender Bender”

Happy New Year! We’re back to share our favorite albums of 2025! We have a collective pick and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Getting Killed by Geese has made most of lists and we concur. Song: Geese - “Au pays du cocaine”Grabbing the number 2 spot on Jay & Nick’s list was Everything Must Go by Goose. It still does nothing for Greg. His number two pick was Never Enough by Turnstile.Song: Goose - “Give It Time”Jay’s third pick was Sam Fender’s People Watching, Nick chose MEGAGONG by DOOM GONG, and Greg chose Private Music by Deftones.Songs:Sam Fender - “People Watching”DOOM GONG -  "Never Crossed My Mind"Then Greg remembers the late Brigitte Bardot and tells us about his Christmas night listening to Coltrane’s last recorded performance.Songs:Serge Gainsbourg - “Bonnie & Clyde”John Coltrane - “My Favorite Things (The Olatunji Concert)”

We’re taking a break this week, hope you have a Happy Holidays!

Greg has been traveling a lot and the year is wrapping up. He catches us up on his 93rd show of the year in a Tales From the Concert.Song: Mk.Gee - “Are You Looking Up?”Next, we get a delicious serving of Jay’s Jambalaya. The Rolling Stones calls off its European tour, Howard Stern signs on for 3 more years on SiriusXM, and the Feds bully small independent AM radio stations.Song: Ugly - “Gallowine”Nick was reading through Pitchfork’s Best 50 Albums of 2025 (link) list and thought he’d share some of what he found in a Three For Thursday.Songs:YHWH Nailgun - “Pain Fountain”Los Thuthanaka - ‘Parrandita “Sariri Tunupa”’Alex G - “Is It Still You In There?”

There have been 14 albums certified Double Diamond (20 million units sold). Nick came up with a game to see how many of them Jay & Greg could identify. It’s a Double Diamond Duel!Song: Jahari Stampley - “What A Time”Greg was perusing the NY Times during his travels this past week and came across a top songs and top albums of 2025. We explore the list to see what we’ve heard and what we’ve missed.Song: E-40 - “Choices”Jay remembers the late Steve Cropper, who passed last week at the age of 84. Known as “The Colonel,” Cropper was the guitarist for Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s and played on some very recognizable songs. We dig into his career and legacy. He will be missed.Songs:Sam & Dave - “Soul Man”Booker T. & The M.G.’s - “Green Onions”Otis Redding - “I’ve Been Loving Too Long (To Stop Now)”

Jay brings us another round of “Danger!” (not Jeopardy).Song: Adrianne Lenker - “Sadness As A Gift”Nick has some updates on AI and the record labels on a News with Nick.Song: Plantoid - “Dozer (Radio Edit)”Greg takes us back to Levi Stadium with The Resilient on a Tales from the Concert. (If you want to hear the story of The Resilient in they own words, checkout Episode 37.)Clips: The Resilient - Live at Levi Stadium (YouTube)

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re thankful you’re joining us this week for our annual Thanksgiving Special. This year we’re listening to songs we’re thankful for. Hope you all have a great day!Greg’s Songs:Guerilla Toss - “Betty Dreams of Green Men”Bill Evans - “Autumn Leaves” (alternate take from new box set with Scott Lefaro)Geese - “100 horses (live from the.basement)”Jay’s Songs:Rolling Stones - “Crazy Mama”Jimmy Cliff - “Sitting in Limbo”Tony Rice - “Church Street Blues”Nick’s Songs:Dave Matthews Band: “#41”Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - “Big Country”Radiohead - “No Surprises”

Nick has another Tales from the Concert. Furious Bongos, featuring Chad Wackerman on drums, came to Hagerstown last week to perform Frank Zappa’s music and they did not disappoint.Song: Furious Bongos - “Black Page #2”Wayan Zoey is back to sub for Greg this week. He heard about Nick & Jay’s recent experience seeing DOOM GONG and wanted to relay how there subsequent show in NYC went. Needless to say, the band had a less than optimal experience with a venue.Song: SML - “Chicago Four”Jay is excited to have our guest host this week because he’s recently caught the Phish bug and has a lot of questions he needs answered. Wayan is a lifelong Phish fan and completely up on the band’s lore. It’s time for a Phish Q&A.Clip: Phish - Live in Saratoga, NY 7/25/25

Jay has been listening to some avant-garde music and it’s been…interesting. He brought a theme song, so we have a new segment, “mmmm…interesting.”Songs: Throbbing Gristle - “Dead on Arrival”Einstürzende Neubauten - “Steh auf Berlin”Ustad Naseeruddin Saami & The Saami Brothers - Rag BaraniNick celebrates the life, music, and drumming of Jack DeJohnette, who died last month at the age of 83.Songs:Miles Davis - “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” Keith Jarrett Trio - “Autumn Leaves” Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition - “Third World Anthem”This past Sunday, The Resilient had the opportunity to play the halftime show for the San Francisco 49ers game against the LA Rams. Greg tells us all about the experience.Song: Cameron Winter- “Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed)”

An unwritten rule, at least until now, of the show is, if you show up with a theme song you can call it a segment. Greg’s Addiction is kind of like Three For Thursday, except with only one artist. On our premiere episode… there’s no other way to put it, Greg is hooked on Geese.Songs:Terje Rypdal - “Sunrise”Geese - “Mysterious Love (Live)”Geese - “2122 (Live)”Geese - “Taxes (Live)”What’s cooking this week in Jay’s Jambalaya? Former Grateful Dead member Donna Godchaux dies at the age of 78. Spotify sued over Drake play count, and the top earning posthumous musicians of the past year.Song: Daniel Santiago & Kurt Rosenwinkel - “Gesture”Jay & Nick caught DOOM GONG in Westminster, MD last week. Nick brings us Tales from the Concert. In short, DOOM GONG is awesome (as is Shamboogi)!Song: DOOM GONG - “Dream Behemoth”

BOO! It’s that time of year again, the annual Halloween Spooktacular!!Nick shares some haunted venues…Song: Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler - “Don’t Make Me Kill You”Greg shares a new chapter of Tourror Stories…Song: Leviathan - “Vi-Xi-Vi”Jay shares some scary good performances…Songs:Billy Strings - “Freeborn Man”black midi - “The Race Is About To Begin”Alan Holdsworth - “Devil Take the Hindmost”

Jay takes us back to the fateful Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash of Oct 20, 1977. Song: Lynyrd Skynyrd - “(I Got The) Same Old Blues”Kevin Parker has released a new Tame Impala album, Deadbeat, and it’s quite different than previous releases. The guys have thoughts, but so does Pitchfork. It’s time for another Review the Review.Song: Tame Impala - “Afterthought”Greg brings up to speed on the latest news with a Heard It Through the GREGvine.Songs: Johnny Greenwood - “One Battle After Another (Score)”Limb Bizkit - “Rearranged”Kiss - “She”Sam Rivers - “Beatrice”

Greg remembers the great D’Angelo, who passed this week at the age of 51.Songs:D’Angelo - “Brown Sugar”D’Angelo - “Spanish Joint”D’Angelo - “Prayer”Jay has a stew of stories to share on another Jay’s Jambalaya. JBL Road Show, Ryan Adams falls off the wagon, and Benn Jordan talks about spooky frequencies.Song: Nicki Bluhm - “Falling Out Of Dreams”Nick wants to talk about Rush and their new drummer, Anika Nilles. It’s Viral or Eyeroll!Rush - “La Villa Strangiato”

Wayan Zoey is back! It’s been too long but we’re honored to have him back for another Weigh-In With Wayan. We discuss the current job market for drummers, including the news that Rush is going back on tour. Nine Inch Nails & Foo Fighters have swapped drummers, and Wayan’s buddy Scotty Zwang has joined Umphrey’s McGee.Songs:Anika Nilles - “Cloak”McGuire Zwang Duo - “Drop”Shore Pines - “American English”Next up, it’s News with Nick. Artists keep dropping from Spotify, Zach Bryan gets a response from the Department of Homeland Security, and Chris Dreja from the Yardbirds passes at 79.Song: Jeff Berlin - “Joe Frazier Round 3”Prior to last week’s episode, Greg hadn’t given the music of Geese much of a chance. One week and he’s intrigued by what he’s hearing. Songs:Geese - “2122”Geese - “Cobra”

Nick returns, a little sleep deprived, following the arrival of Christopher Guy Kline. Katie & the baby are doing great. He’s back with a News with Nick! Daniel Ek is out(ish), the FTC sues Ticketmaster, and Kneecap beats terrorism charges in England.Song: Umphrey’s McGee - “Divisions”Greg has four songs across three artists that he would like to share. First, by way of Alan Holdsworth, we learn the rule “every fusion band’s best album is live in Japan in the 80s.” Next we dabble with country/djent artist Bilmuri. Then we land on the latest two Tame Impala singles.Songs:Alan Holdsworth - “Letters of Marque (Live in Japan 1984)”Bilmuri - “Better Hell (Thicc Boi)”Tame Impala - “ Dracula”Tame Impala - “Loser”Jay intended to have a bird themed “Three For Thursday,” but couldn’t score a third. Instead we get some new Geese, a Goose track, and a handful of clips from Fred Armisen’s new foley album of sound effects.Songs:Geese - “Bow Down”Goose - “Madalena”Fred Armisen - “Band Soundcheck (Sound Guy and Band Agreeing Too Long)”Fred Armisen - “Trying out Electronic Drums with Headphones on”Fred Armisen - “Trying out a Distortion Pedal”