#Jerry Portnoy

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Eric Clapton Sessions for Robert J 2004 Reprise ——————————————————————— Tracks CD One: 01. Sweet Home Chicago 02. Milkcow’s Calf Blues 03. Terraplane Blues 04. If I Had Possession over Judgement Day 05. Stop Breakin’ down Blues 06. Little Queen of Spades 07. Traveling Riverside Blues 08. Me and the Devil Blues 09. From Four until Late  10. Kind Hearted Woman Blues 11. Ramblin’ on My Mind

Tracks CD Two: From Session I 01. I’ll Be Seeing You 02. They’e Red Hot  03. Hell Hound on My Trail 04. Sweet Home Chicago 05. When You Got a Good Friend  From Session II 06. Milkcow’s Calf Blues 07. If I Had Possession over Judgement Day 08. Stop Breakin’ down Blues From Session III 09. Terraplane Blues 10. Hell Hound on My Trail 11. Me and the Devil Blues 12. From Four until Late 13. Love in Vain From Session IV 14. Ramblin’ on My Mind 15. Stones in My Passway 16. Love in Vain  17. Little Queen of Spades 18. Traveling Riverside Blues 19. Behind the Scenes Footage ———————————————————————

Doyle Bramhall II

Eric Clapton

Nathan East

Steve Gadd

Andy Fairweather Low

Jim Keltner 

Pino Palladino

Jerry Portnoy 

Billy Preston

Chris Stainton

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Big Cat Twitter Is the Viral Sensation Taking Over Twitter Spaces

Before diving into Big Cat Twitter, it’s essential to know that Big Cat is the online persona of Dan Katz, a popular host on the sports podcast Pardon My Take from Barstool Sports. His laid-back, humorous commentary on sports and trending topics has attracted a massive following. Big Cat’s tweets, often filled with witty sarcasm and humor, keep fans guessing what he’ll say next. This unpredictability, combined with his engaging Twitter Spaces, where he interacts with fans in real-time, has solidified his status as a must-follow for anyone seeking entertaining and relatable content.

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Tony Levin - Bringing It Down to the Bass - Single Edit - a sample of his forthcoming solo album, sounding like a jazzier King Crimson (imagine!) (video reeks of AI though)

The first single and title track "Bringing It Down to the Bass" features Manu Katché (drums), Dominic Miller (guitar), Pete Levin (keyboards), and Alex Foster (sax). Tony Levin's new solo album Bringing It Down to the Bass will be available September 13th from Flatiron Recordings. Special guest on the album include Robert Fripp, Mike Portnoy, David Torn, Jerry Marotta, Larry Fast, Steve Gadd, Steve Hunter, Pat Mastelotto, L. Shankar, Gary Husband, Jeremy Stacey, Colin Gatwood, Markus Reuter and Vinnie Colaiuta.

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Muddy Waters Blues Band 1980 in Japan. Bob Margolin, Calvin “Fuzz” Jones & Jerry Portnoy. Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Muddy Waters, Muddy’s wife Marva Jean Brooks & Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson.

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Books Read in 2023 - If you're curious about any of them, please ask! I love talking about books

Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)

Introduction to American Deaf Culture (Holcomb)

The Colour of Magic (Pratchett)

The Autistic Trans Guide to Life

Luda (Morrison)

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Genderqueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary

The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community

Between Two Worlds (Sinclair)

Under the Skin (Faber)

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Portnoy’s Complaint 

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of An Disability Rights Activist (Judith Heumann)

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

This is Moscow Speaking (Arzhak/Yuli Markovich Daniel; tr by Stuart Hood, Harold Shukman, John Richardson)

The Call-Girls (Koestler)

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

Homintern

A Scanner Darkly

The Trauma of Caste (Soundararajan)

Shards of Honor (Bujold)

The Origin of Virtue

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

Dreadnought

Children of the Arbat (Rybakov; tr by Harold Shukman)

The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America

Janissaries (Jerry Pournelle)

The Disability Studies Reader (Davis)

Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto

The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth

Inseparable (de Beauvoir)

World’s End (T. Coraghessan Boyle)

American Melancholy (Joyce Carol Oates)

Transgender Children and Youth (Nealy)

Disgrace (Coetzee)

The Light Around the Body (Bly)

The Hangman’s Daughter (Pötzsch)

Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction (Goffman)

The Trouble with Tink (Thorpe)

Gender Advertisements (Goffman)

And the Band Played On

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg

The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

Old Norse Poems: The Most Important Non-Skaldic Verse Not Included in the Poetic Edda (tr. by Hollander)

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (Rich)

Ladies Almanack (Barnes)

Over the Hill (Copper)

Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand

The Poetic Edda (tr. by Bellows)

Paris Peasant (Aragon, tr. by Taylor)

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

Stigma (Goffman)

Rubyfruit Jungle

Fairies and the Quest for Never Land

Sight Unseen (Kleege)

The Homosexuality of Men and Women (Hirschfeld, tr. by Lombardi-Nash)

Bea Wolf

New Selected Stories (Thomas Mann, tr. by Searls)

Gay Bar (Jeremy Atherton Lin)

Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat

Treatise on Style (Aragon, tr. by Waters)

Diana (Frederics)

The World I Live In (Keller)

Christopher and His Kind (Isherwood)

Put Out More Flags (Waugh)

Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Mann; tr. and introduced by Morris, Lilla, Rainey)

On Our Own (Judi Chamberlin)

All Boys Aren’t Blue

Artemis (Weir)

Goethe und die Demokratie

Dress Codes (Howey)

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing

Forms of Talk (Goffman)

Sister Gin

The Decameron (Boccaccio; tr. by Musa and Bondanella)

Elric of Melniboné (Moorcock)

Paradiso (tr. by Hollander and Hollander)

My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black

Mademoiselle de Maupin (Gautier)

The Magic Mountain (Mann, tr. by Lowe-Porter)

Home to Harlem (McKay)

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (Moorcock)

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I seem to be on a proper Dream Theater kick again, ever since the news that Portnoy's back in. so here's a great video from the youtubes.

one of the many delightful things about this band is that Portnoy went to great lengths to produce and direct documentary and archive stuff for the band over the years. some of the best stuff is entirely thanks to his dedication, such as the recordings of the full covers of albums like Number of the Beast, Master of Puppets, and Dark Side of the Moon. he was the one who went overboard with planning out every live show, every setlist. and among these things, he literally produced documentaries for the band, and arranged for DVD commentary on them. and a Dream Theater DVD commentary is one of the most chill and friendly things in my heart. this is stuff that gave me immense joy as a teenager, gave me a lot of information to learn, a lot of context about the life of a rock band in the 90s and early 2000s, and some context on how professional musicians see their own music, see their own compositions, and see each other.

this video in particular, though, is gold. it is a combination documentary-and-live-performance from the early 90s, but Dream Theater gives commentary on it from 10 years later. most of them have not seen any of the footage. keyboardist Jordan Rudess gives commentary without even having been in the band during the footage. (to be exact!!! the footage is from just after their second album, Images & Words, and the commentary is from just after their seventh album, Train of Thought.)

there is... a lot of playful mockery of how drastically different the styles were back then. like, this is a bunch of 30-year-olds looking back on hair metal days, days when the reserved bassist used to run around at the front of the stage and headbang, when the vocalist used to hit high F-sharps, when the guitarist looked like Jerry Seinfeld.

it's. such a joy. such a cool thing for a band to have done. fucking DVD commentary. and here it is on youtube!!!!

it is nostalgia for me. may it at least make you smile. ...whoever "you" are.

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Dave Portnoy, Big Cat Coming To MA For Barstool Sportsbook Launch

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Dave Portnoy, Big Cat Coming To MA For Barstool Sportsbook Launch

Dave Portnoy, Big Cat, Hank and other Barstool personalities will be in Massachusetts on Friday as Barstool Sportsbook and five other apps launch when MA online sports betting goes live at 10 a.m. Other Barstool personalities who will be in Massachusetts include Jersey Jerry, Elio and Ryan Whitney. All listed personalities will be in Massachusetts […]

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Review: The Mystix - TruVine

  Review: The Mystix – TruVine   The Mystix – TruVine Format: CD – Digital / Label: Independent Release: 2022 Tekst: Peter Marinus De band the Mystix uit Boston staat bekend als een band, die op een zeer eigengereide wijze met Americana bezig is. En hun Americana bestaat voor een heel groot deel uit de blues, op een zeer broeierige en rauwe wijze gespeeld, en vermengd met invloeden als gospel,…

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Eric Clapton The Definitive 24 Nights [Super Deluxe Edition Box Set] 2023 Duck ————————————————— Tracks LP One: Rock 01. Pretending 02. Running on Faith 03. Breaking Point 04. I Shot the Sheriff 05. White Room 06. Can’t Find My Way Home

Tracks LP Two: Rock [continued] 01. Bad Love 02. Before You Accuse Me 03. Lay down Sally 04. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 05. Old Love 06. No Alibis

Tracks LP Three: Rock [continued] 01. Tearing Us Apart 02. Cocaine 03. Wonderful Tonight 04. Layla 05. Crossroads 06. Sunshine of Your Love

Tracks LP Four: Blues 01. Key to the Highway 02. Worried Life Blues 03. Watch Yourself 04. Have You Ever Loved a Woman 05. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright 06. Something on Your Mind 07. All Your Love (I Miss Loving)

Tracks LP Five: Blues [continued] 01. It’s My Life Baby 02. Johnnie’s Boogie 03. Black Cat Bone 04. Reconsider Baby 05. My Time after a While 06. Sweet Home Chicago 07. Watch Yourself (Reprise)

Tracks LP Six: Orchestral 01. Crossroads 02. Bell Bottom Blues 03. Lay down Sally 04. Holy Mother 05. I Shot the Sheriff

Tracks LP Seven: Orchestral [continued] 01. Hard Times 02. Can’t Find My Way Home 03. Edge of Darkness 04. Old Love 05. Wonderful Tonight

Tracks LP Eight: Orchestral [continued] 01. White Room 02. Concerto for Electric Guitar 03. A Remark You Made 04. Layla 05. Sunshine of Your Love

Tracks Blu-ray One: Rock 01. Pretending 02. Running on Faith 03. Breaking Point 04. I Shot the Sheriff 05. White Room 06. Can’t Find My Way Home 07. Bad Love 08. Before You Accuse Me 09. Lay down Sally  10. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 11. Old Love 12. No Alibis 13. Tearing Us Apart 14. Cocaine 15. Wonderful Tonight 16. Layla 17. Crossroads 18. Sunshine of Your Love

Tracks Blu-ray Two: Blues 01. Key to the Highway 02. Worried Life Blues 03. Watch Yourself 04. Have You Ever Loved a Woman 05. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright 06. Something on Your Mind 07. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) 08. It’s My Life Baby 09. Johnnie’s Boogie 10. Black Cat Bone 11. Reconsider Baby 12. My Time after a While 13. Sweet Home Chicago 14. Watch Yourself (Reprise)

Tracks Blu-ray Three: Orchestral 01. Crossroads 02. Bell Bottom Blues 03. Lay down Sally  04. Holy Mother 05. I Shot the Sheriff 06. Hard Times 07. Can’t Find My Way Home 08. Edge Of Darkness 09. Old Love 10. Wonderful Tonight 11. White Room 12. Concerto for Electric Guitar 13. A Remark You Made 14. Layla 15. Sunshine of Your Love —————————————————

Eric Clapton

Alan Clark

Phil Collins

Ray Cooper

Richard Cousins

Robert Cray

Nathan East

Steve Ferrone

Buddy Guy

Johnnie Johnson

Chuck Leavell

Jamie Oldaker

Phil Palmer

Greg Phillinganes

Jerry Portnoy

Ed Shearmur

Joey Spampinato

Jimmie Vaughan

* Long Live Rock Archive

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Kayla by Flying Colors from their eponymous debut album - Video by Marc Papeghin

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Eric Clapton - Groaning The Blues - 1994, From The Cradle

Listened to this on the way home from work, sweet Baby Jesus on a stump!  Jerry Portnoy on harp.

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Jerry Portnoy ~ Down In The Mood Room

Credits: 

Harmonica - Jerry Portnoy

Vocals - Duke Robillard (tracks 3 and 10) Jerry Portnoy (tracks 6 and 13) and Bob Malone (track 8) 

Guitar - Duke Robillard 

Guitar - Troy Gonyea (tracks 8, 10 and 12) 

Bass - Marty Ballou 

Drums - Steve Ramsay 

Fiddle and mandolin - Mark Davis 

Mandocello - Mark Davis (track 7) 

Baritone saxophone and bass clarinet - Doug James 

Tenor saxophone - Gordon Beadle 

 Label: TinyTown Records - TTCD 2011 

Year: 2001

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Bob Margolin, Calvin Jones, Muddy Waters, Jerry Portnoy & Luther Johnson

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Journey (with special guests Albert King, Luther Alison, Jerry Portnoy, Pinetop Perkins) - Sweet Little Angel, live on PBS Soundstage, 1978 (X)

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CONFESSION: I have an unhealthy obsession with the above clip from The Jerry Lewis Show.

But I have a good reason.

The above clip is what officially, beyond a shadow of a doubt, cemented it into the bedrock of my consciousness that JERRY LEWIS WAS A PHENOMENAL ACTOR.

Now, to clarify - I never thought Jerry was a bad actor. What I mean is that clip from his show caused some kind of transcendental epiphany to occur in my brain where I was suddenly struck in a new more powerful way by what I already felt.

I had already formed the reasonable, objective opinion that Jerry could act and was good from watching him perform live and in his movies. The man knew his stuff. He could go toe to toe with anybody. He could act. No brainer. I accepted that as a truth I believed in.

However, watching the clip of him changing into (a version of) The Professor character live on TV in a matter of seconds exploded that pre-formed opinion into something that I knew as soon as I watched it I had to write about it.

That clip to me really is like watching a magic trick. I have rewatched it countless times just to see that "switch" moment happen to figure out exactly what it is about it that gets me so badly. Is it Jerry changing his appearance (most notably his hair)? Is it the shift in his voice? Is it the fact that it's all happening live right before your eyes? To start, yes. To all:

Let's talk about the hair. Jerry had a genius haircut that he could mold and shape to fit any need; with just a flick here, a scruffle there, a bit more or a tad less product he could completely alter his appearance and make the viewer feel different things when you looked at him. With The Professor (as we see in the clip) you get kooky, eccentric, misunderstood brilliance; with Morty Tishman or Sidney Portnoy you get lovable, sympathetic, childlike darling; compare those and other examples to the slicked-back, coiffed Willard from The Family Jewels or Stanley in The Patsy, or even to just Jerry as Jerry - you get a whole different vibe - handsome, classy, attractive suitor type that (if you go for that) you can't help but swoon. With just a simple change to his hair, Jerry can make you go from "ah" to "aww" to "oohh baby" in the time it takes to run a comb through.

The same can be said for Jerry's incredibly elastic voice. There are so many tones, colors, placements, and personalities just in ONE set of pipes. Compare the light, boyish tones and tremblings of Morty to the blunted, nasal chippers of all the incarnations of Uncle Eddie (The Family Jewels) to the slightly off-center, sweet and naive bumblings of Stanley in The Patsy or Herbert in The Ladies Man to Jerry as himself - the warm, mellow, heartfelt flow of a genuine, well-spoken, intelligent man who can make you forget he is any of those things and is in fact a collection of entirely different things in an instant - case in point, the above clip from his show where he instantly shifts to the super nasal, slightly awkward, spirited and impassioned Professor as effortlessly as popping in a different set of teeth (oh wait...).

And of course, it is the comparison aspect that makes these transformations so magical to witness. That's one of the reasons why I think watching the late 60's Jerry Lewis Show is so fun and is also so illuminating as to the extent of Jerry's (character) acting abilities. You get sketch after sketch, moment after moment of "where's Jerry?" to then "find" him again either in a mid-show transition or right at the end for the goodnights (which is why I love the first season so much - you don't get much if at anything at all of "just Jerry" until the very end; it's like seeing him for the first time after 50 minutes of show and then bemused, you reflect on the fact that, of course, he was there the whole time). The difference with the clip that I am obsessed with is the fact that it happens live, it happens quickly, and it happens like "Jerry" was a sentence in a script that suddenly got cut off by The Professor who then took over writing the story. It's so fast and so accurate, the changeover that takes place...and yes, you can argue that it is a character that he's used to playing and of course it'd be easy for him to do-BUT, I perceive and I argue that while that is true, there is also something else that I think gives Jerry the edge...

That "something"? Honesty. Jerry is known for it. He is defined by it. It comes through in his every expression, including his acting and his characters. It comes through, to me, in that moment in the clip of him changing into The Professor. He is not only messing his hair, putting on glasses, popping in fake teeth, and talking differently, he steps into the energy of that character (that person) entirely and without reservation like stepping into a different pair of shoes. That's what I see and feel that he does with every character, in every sketch, in every movie that he did. He was never "Jerry playing 'insert character name here'" - he was the character. He allowed himself to completely lose himself in the energy of whoever he was playing to the point that I have actually suspended all of my disbelief and forgotten that I was watching Jerry Lewis. It happens every time I watch The Family Jewels, for example, and I completely buy that all of these different characters are different people. When Willard is talking on the phone to Uncle Bugsy, that's not Jerry playing two people talking to himself, that's Willard talking to Bugsy. It's the same with the clip in the video - I very clearly saw Jerry and then I very clearly saw The Professor. They are separate entities, separate energies, existing both together but also entirely in their own individual realities while residing within the same human vehicle. It is a wonder to behold and a great learning opportunity for any serious actor to watch, in my opinion.

And with that said, I do acknowledge all of the other actors and comedians who are skilled at their craft. I am in no way saying that Jerry is the only person to do any of these things. But, he is the only person to ever do them like he did, and he did them very special. He did them so special that he speaks directly to my inner child, exciting and amazing her with all of the innocent, unspoiled simplicity of just believing. When Jerry performs, when he steps into a character, I not only have fun and am relieved of my burdens, I believe him. That's what makes him phenomenal.

❤️

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Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy - Live 1978

Rockpalast TV Broadcast 1978

Muddy Waters: Vocals 

Pinetop Perkins: Piano

Jerry Portnoy: Harmonica 

Luther Johnson: Guitar Bob 

Margolin: Guitar 

Calvin Jones: Bass 

Willie Smith: Drums