It's another LOST Tuesday without any good TV but thankfully, there are a still good LOST bloggers posting great closing thoughts. In contrast to the rather elegant view that LOST was reminiscent of Visions of Johanna, Fishbiscuitland is screaming out for those of us who cared about the characters, the mysteries. Jack? Not so much.
In the end, was LOST Cheesy? Lame? Cliched? Cheap? Vapid? Sound and fury signifying nothing?
My own theory is that what happened, happened. No, they weren't dead all along. No, the island wasn't purgatory. No, the last season was not Jack's dying dream. No, the whole show wasn't about being saved by Jesus or any other Christian Shepherd. I see the sideways world a little like Ack does, but I would call it the collective unconscious, a place made real simply by the relationships between our characters, their ego selves, and all of the mythology of humankind that makes it possible for us to construct individual selves, at least during the brief period of our individual lives, and then to let all of that go in death.
Holy shit, I turned on the tv this weekend and happened upon an absolutely incredible Jeff Beck concert. The 1972 Jeff Beck Group album and 1975 Blow by Blow got a lot of play in my college years.
Maybe the rest of the world already knows this, but apparently Jeff Beck plays an annual gig at a London jazz club called Ronnie Scott's. He is still absolutely amazing. Check out how he can have fun with Tal Wilkenfeld, an amazing and very young bass player from Australia, on Big Block.
Then watch him give Tal a solo in Cause We've Ended as Lovers, and watch him just get blown away and need a minute to come back in when she's done. Nope, girls didn't play bass in 1970 and she's just amazing in 2010.
And how he steps back to give some lush bass to Imogen Heap's voice on Blanket.
There's lots more on youtube, including People Get Ready with Joss Stone. I prefer Angel's Footsteps, especially the sounds he pulls from that guitar at the close of the song. You can buy the concert film or album on itunes and other places, I imagine. Why buy the whole pig just to get a little sausage? Because the sound quality is a lot better than youtube. If your cable stations include Palladia you might catch the concert there. What's coming next for Jeff Beck? Apparently a new album with another female bass player, Rhonda Smith. I looked at some of the youtube videos but didn't like the big stadium stuff as much as the small club videos here.
