Jamming at the speed of sound.

Went out on the town last night. Started out by visiting a friend in Englewood and tooling around with that group for awhile. Then I made a couple of calls after we all departed our separate ways and ended up at Morrison Road and Kipling for a party at some swank digs.

Met a few new people, and had a reunion of the Fantastic Four, the group of guys I've been hanging out with since I was about 16. A few of us were thrilled to find the basement where the party was located included a fully-stocked studio, so Andy jumped on the drums, and George and I grabbed a couple of guitars and jammed out for awhile.

Awhile later George put down the guitar, I grabbed a bass and the host of the party came in and he, andy and I rocked out some old-school hard rock and blues, which was epic.

We also seemed to clear out the party...

Anyway, I haven't jammed with anyone in awhile, so I saw the event as somewhat important. Today I bring you some videos of awesome jam sessions from some of my favorite bands

This might be one of my favorite Zeppelin performances of all time. the concert was for some TV station in Denmark in 1969, and, as you can see, was a very small, intimate performance. This tune in particular really spoke to me. It's a very good example of Plant's emotive style, which in the years since became all the more intense and grandiose:



If you have yet to see this one, then chances are you've lived in a cave for the last 40 years. Regardless, I thought that the Star-Spangled Banner/Purple Haze performance at Woodstock by The Jimi Hendrix Experience deserved to be on here:




Radiohead is typically known for atmospheric, almost druggy melodic music, so the first time I heard this tune off of OK Computer, I was absolutely blown away. Jonny Greenwood busts out some of the best lead guitar work in modern alt-rock, that only seems to get better when played live:



The Flaming Lips and The White Stripes playing a couple of songs together. Do I really need to say anything more?



Janis Joplin covering Nina Simone's Little Girl Blue. I absolutely love that one of my all-time favorite female vocalists covered one of the best tunes of another one of my all-time favorite female vocalists. It's really just fan-fucking-tastic:



I can't really classify this next one as a "jam", but I thought it was a great live tune anyway. It's all about a drunken homeless man that wandered into their show one night and wanted to talk endlessly about Bob Dylan. Frontman Richard Edwards thought that the old man's dialect sounded a lot like an old cat purring, hence, Paper Kitten Nightmare:




-MOJO