Half Alive in Hollywood (1997)

About this title: This is a dense, 2-CD set. Let's look at disc one. Here, BFD offers itself on the operating table to student engineers at the Musicians' Institute in Hollywood, CA. Keneally's detailed notes are everything the studio engineer and Keneally-buff need. If you just want to appreciate Mike's rabid feats of guitar science in arrangement and improvisation, don't pay attention to the notes. You will not hear half the things he's talking about, anyway. Plenty of false starts and studio talk. In my book, Keneally is up there with Steve Vai and Johnny "Guitar" Watson in terms of knowing his instrument. ... read more

Tracks:

1. Career/Quimby #1 [Keneally]
2. Bryan Is Experimenting [Keneally/BFD]
3. Career/Quimby #2 [Keneally]
4. I Can't Stop [Keneally]
5. Open Up! [Keneally]
6. My Dilemma [Keneally]
7. Spoon Guy [Instrumental] [Keneally]
8. Uglytown [Epstein-Barr Variation] [Keneally]
9. Bryan Is Coughing [Keneally/BFD]
10. Skunk [Keneally]
11. Good Dolphins [Keneally]
12. Good Dolphins #2 [Keneally]
13. Sort of Performing Miracles [Keneally]
14. 1988 in Hell [Keneally]
15. Day of the Cow, Pt. 1, #1 [Keneally]
16. Day of the Cow, Pt. 1, #2 [Keneally]
17. Snowcow [Keneally]
18. Sweating in School [Keneally]
19. Day of the Cow, Pt. 2 [Keneally]
20. The Unhappy Monologist [Rehearsal] [Keneally/BFD]
21. The Unhappy Monologist [Instrumental] [Keneally/BFD]
22. The Desired Effect [Keneally]
23. Dot-Da-Da-Dot-Dot-Dot-Dot-Daaaahhhh [Keneally/BFD]
24. Dhen Tin [Keneally]
25. Cheddar [Keneally]
26. The Car Song [Keneally]
27. Top of Stove Melting [Keneally]
28. Aglow [Keneally]
29. Lightnin' Roy [Keneally]
30. Blameless [Keneally]
31. Power of Love [Hendrix]
32. Bad Dolphins [Keneally]
33. Immigrant Song [Page/Plant]
34. Spoon Guy [Vocal Version] [Keneally]
35. Uglytown [Keneally]
36. Career Politicians [Keneally]
37. Performing Miracles [Keneally]
38. Love Theme from Vulture Fun [Keneally]
39. Gypsy Queen [Szabo]
40. Scotch [Keneally]
41. Vent [Studio Track] [Keneally]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.