lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
On Jorge Ben - I could discuss him all day, but I'd also love for people to discover Tim Maia as well. They were contemporaries and collaborators, but Tim Maia delved more into funk and psychedelia. His self titled albums from the early 1970s are all really good, and there's a more recent compilation "Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia" which is really great. He died way too soon, at 56.
One of my local bars had that Tim Maia compilation on their jukebox so I acquired it a couple years ago. Really great stuff.
As for the Flaming Lips set at Desert Daze, plot twist: I was so exhausted from working a 14-hour day at the fest, I turned in early and couldn’t wait for their 11:30pm set, missed it completely.
Oh well. I also only saw like 20 minutes of Stereolab despite looking forward to them.
I will not, however, be missing Ween’s set tonight. By any means necessary.