Hola mi hombres, Hellman.
What's up, I'm Trevor Young.
I'm Jacob Hemphill, this is Amoeba
and this is What's in My Bag.
The Jack White first, I've been kind of pumped about it.
A buddy of mine called me up and said, if you get a chance on the road to pick it up
it's got some really cool hidden tracks under the label.
Under the label?
Under the label. You take the sticker off.
And it keeps going?
Yeah, and it does all sorts of other crazy stuff.
See you can't get that with an mp3, you just can't.
Lady Smith Black Mambazo, the acapella harmony group on Paul Simon's 'Graceland.'
I grew up in Africa, listened to a lot of 'Graceland'
and I was only six years old and I thought that my dad knew Paul Simon and that he had made
'Graceland' because we were moving to Africa.
I think one of the greatest musicians.
He wanted to record with Jimi Hendrix.
Right, right, right.
One album, then he died, so he created this album.
Oh, because Jimi died.
Yeah, so it was supposed to be Jimi with him and he died, so he made this album.
The new Vampire Weekend, because I'm a huge Paul Simon fan
and it's good to see somebody doing afropop and getting all over the charts.
It's my favorite record of the year. I just saw them in Charlottesville
and they sound just like the record. They don't move at all. It's boring as hell.
There's a million dollars worth of lights, so that kept it fresh, but they sounded incredible.
Jimi Hendrix. We just played on the same stage where Jimi Hendrix played for Monterey Pop Festival.
I got to honor him, because he's like an idol to me
by burning and smashing a guitar on stage.
It was really cool. I guess I'm the only person to ever do that after him, to honor him.
I don't know why anyone else hasn't done that.
He had an artist or something paint the guitar that day or something. He wrote a poem on the back
and I had Paul Reed Smith Guitars do up a custom one that looked just like his, so it was really cool.
We had a metal plate over Jimi's spot so as to not...
Didn't want to taint it or anything.
Played it for two songs before I gave it the old smasheroo.
Oscar D'Leon. He played bass and he sang at the same time.
Yeah he's from Venezuela, he's great. He's really melodic, y'know. One of my favorites.
Peter Tosh, 'No Nuclear War.'
When Bob Marley died and all the record labels were dropping all the reggae bands
they like dropped them all like a week after he died.
And the Rolling Stones picked up Peter Tosh and put out 'Mystic Man' and 'Bush Doctor.'
And they kind of let him do whatever he wanted. So those were like his big-time militant
records, and I love those. And then he got signed back to Columbia.
And this was his final record, I think, on the Columbia deal.
I got Roots Radics. I was a guitar tech for this band
and when I started playing guitar, the bass player Bob told me
'study this guy Dwight Pickney, because he's got the best follow-the-bass pick line style guitar.'
He doesn't play exactly what the bass player is playing with the pick on
he kind of plays in between it a lot. And I like that about him.
And he adds melody, 'cause in reggae, the bass is the lead
and the guitar and the piano is the rhythm. So it's the opposite of
pretty much every other genre of European music.
Dexter Gordon. Great tenor saxophone player.
He really inspired me because it's like all about the sound.
I transcribed the entire solos
For school?
Yeah, greatest experience I ever did.
I don't have one record here that I've transcribed all the solos on.
I'm starting to feel like a singer.
Postal Service, 'cause, yeah I like to get high and cry when it rains.
What?
That's what you do with Postal Service, dude. You smoke a joint, watch the rain
think about the past, y'know things that could've been.
I might need to get a copy of that before I leave.
This is a Beastie Boys instrumental record.
A lot of people don't know about these. There's two of them. This is the really good one in my opinion.
No vocals. It's kind of like jazzy, cool instrumental stuff.
Thank you very much.