Oteil & Friends delivering the goods

Oteil & Friends / Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom / Denver, Colorado / Saturday November 02 2024

/ via @sweetjane + @tuneslist

Happy birthday to my musical mentor and dearest old friend, #SteveKimock.
#guitar

https://youtu.be/3QVJmDPJP9s?si=91rUmynkzIPHrM9t

23 years ago. Epic It’s Up to You at #HogFarmPignic.

https://youtu.be/bGiLqRPGklk

Oteil & Friends with Steve Kimock and Melvyn Seals - Nov 1&2 - Cervantes Denver

https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/91072536/oteil-friends-ftmelvin-sealssteve-kimockjason-crosbyjohnny-kimocktom-guarna-lamar-williamsjrfriday-111-denver-cervantesmasterpiece-ballroom

presale password: LOVEANDWAR

25 years ago today. #kvhw at Chester’s.

You’re welcome

https://youtu.be/nAEvH7RhWiQ

Happy #CincoDeMayo!!!!

https://youtu.be/jFW-DusnsRU

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#mastomusic #musictheory #blues
Some thoughts from #SteveKimock on blues and western music from a thread on thegearpage

A diatonic key signature/chord/scale relationship has a single tri-tone.

"Blues" has multiple tri-tones.

In "diatonic" 1 3 5 b7 is Dominant.

In "blues", 1 3 5 b7 is TONIC.

I'm loathe to even bring it up, but the big diff is the meanings of the pitches are

Dinner w #DebashishBattacharya and #SteveKimock and family a few months before the pandemic Hit. Hopefully another reunion this Fall.

Morning soundtrack. #SteveKimock’s late night sets at High Sierra were always special. Some monster #improvisation here from 03 SKB.

https://youtu.be/z6yJoLFctzI

My buddy #SteveKimock’s “Rack o Gibsons” at the studio today …
Front to back
‘59 Melody Maker
‘68 Gold Top Les Paul
Early 60s SG
Early 60s ES300
30s L7
30s L5

Some #SteveKimock fans are upset that he’s out on somebody else’s #Beatles tribute tour.

I happen to know that he’s having a lot of fun. He’s always loved George Harrison’s playing and I’m sure he jumped at the chance to play those parts.

This is the first recording I’ve seen of the tour. Some nice innovative takes of the classic tunes here and some ripping stuff from Steve.

https://archive.org/details/sk2024-01-26.dank/kimock2024.01.27s1t13.flac
#classicrock #rock #guitar

As promised here’s the YouTube of #SteveKimock with his first original band “Open.” Moravian College, May 1974. With the help of family and friends we were able to find a scant few ancient photos. Some genuine fire from Steve throughout, who makes his entrance about 8 minutes in.

This was the first I saw him. Within a few weeks he became my teacher and a close friend.

https://youtu.be/Yw4bSyYUAgk

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As some of you might know, over the past year I've been posting clips of Open, #SteveKimock's first original band. They've generally been poor to medium quality from old cassettes of many generations.

I've always described the band as Yes meets Roy Buchanan.

I wondered if I still might have my reel to reel copy of the entire Moravian 74 show, which was a direct copy of the original recording.

https://archive.org/details/sk1975-05-06.Open

#TBT A few days ago my wife did a deep reorg of a long neglected closet and buried among a bunch of CDs was a decent quality cassette of #SteveKimock's band Open. It's sill not fantastic due to the years and many generations, but reasonably listenable nonetheless.

Spring of 1974 at a residence hall at Moravian College. Steve on Guitar, Jim Steager on vocals and guitar, Mark Stevens on bass, and Mike Orley on drums.

https://youtu.be/60rPmnfHNNs

While we await the scary storm here in NC here’s a sweet #DrBob recording of some killer early #SKB.

Everyone so on point.

https://archive.org/details/skb2001-05-18

That time #SteveKimock and #DaveMatthews played on a track together. My friend and bandmate Mike “Soko” Sokolowski is an old friend of Dave, who was happy to sing on this track. Knowing that Steve was an old friend of Steve, Mike asked me to connect him with Steve. The result is this fun track in 5/4.

https://youtu.be/HrvMDNRiJvs

#SteveKimock on high end #instruments and #gear:

"If you can play it doesn't matter what you use, and if you can't play, it doesn't matter what you use.”