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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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At 32, I wasn't old enough to be philandering at the Fillmores or Winterland, but I've got a brother who was 7 years older and a sister who was 10 years older. I brought a copy of "Bill Graham Presents" and it's such a great read. They got a kick out of it, too.
Their tastes ran from Gary Numan, Japan, XTC, The Pistols, Black Flag, ABBA, Billy Idol, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc. The list was endless. So I was able to become a music nazi with a little help from my sibs. Eventually, I ended up going all over the place, musically, but my first obsession was KISS, circa "Love Gun".
There's a lack of music with 'balls' circulating around. You won't get it from hip/hop, but if you're into balls-to-the-wall rock 'n' roll, check out Jerry Lee Lewis' latest (and maybe last) album, "Last Man Standing". His playing is still as good as ever, and his voice has held up. He's backed up by an all-star cast of musical icons, including Clapton, Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, B.B. King, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Springsteen... |
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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
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| I drove a sh*t brown Gremlin |
Frank Zappa!
Song: Do you like my new car?
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Mark: We are not groupies . . .
Howard: You see, there seems to be some kind of a communications problem, honey, because I . . . I'm a lonely guy from outta town, you know, an' . . . an' I want some ACTION . . . what . . . what I'm talkin' about is, I wanna . . . a-a steaming, succulent, ever-widening, gooey, drippy, runny kind of a hole with a . . . with . . . how shall I put this . . . ? What say we hop in the trunk of your Gremlin AN' GET OUR ROCKS OFF? |
Sometimes I read a (Macktheknife's big car, tiny country) thread and it something will trigger a memory of a song...like:
Big Country
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I never saw you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child
CHORUS:
In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert
But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime
CHORUS
So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered |
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Yeah, The Mothers at the Fillmore, 1971--very underrated record, although a lot of Zappaphiles can't seem to get past the Flo & Eddie years. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:06 am Post subject: Re: IS IT STILL "MORE THAN A FEELING" FOR YOU, TOO |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
I'll be the first to admit that this is a very self-indulgent thread.
Just finished listening to Boston's smash hit "More Than A Feeling" from their debut album in 1977. Even though I was listening from YouTube and watching the concert footage, it was still stirring.
It's said we admire most the music of our youth. I suppose that's true and how lucky I was to be a teen at that time, 19, to be exact. The Eagles, The Doobies, BTO, The Who, Springsteen, Queen, Neil Young, The Moody Blues--it was all good.
Driving down a Midwest country road in my 1965 two-door Pontiac Bonneville convertible on a cool summer night after a date with my high school sweetheart, heading home, on a natural high. Nothng better than playing the entire cassette tape of Boston's first album, an LP that was meant to be played over rolling wheels out in the sticks. Then a little BTO, "Let It Roll (Down the Highway)," feeling my oats and just da-mn glad to be young and alive. Man, what an era of music.
Anybody else out there remember those days? Or wish they could? |
I was eleven when Boston's first L.P. hit the Danvers, Mass., Liberty Tree Mall and the Peabody, Mass. North Shore Shopping Center.
Wow! What a feeling when I saw that Maryanne walking awaayyy...!
Awesome tune by a quite talented band fronted by the lead guitarist/vocalist from East Lynn, Massachusetts.
For the record: My mom worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. back when Boston was about to be signed by C.B.S. Records (the company had The Jacksons and other famous bands under their belt at that time, as Roch recalls). The M.I.T. dude who played lead and sang for the quartet was married to me mom's workmate. The young lady told me mom about the fact that the band was about to make it huge in the U.S. with their first release, etc..
Funny how I ended up working for an East Lynn, Mass., landscaping crew that did the guy's house just off of Atlantic Avenue in Swampscott, Mass., once per week in the Summer of 1985 - just after my Freshman Year at Zoo-P.E.I. in P.E.I., Canada.
By the way, the drummer supposedly attended Lynn English Senior High School as did the lead guitarist.
Here is to Lynn, Mass: It kicks ass!
Or, as the Lynners like to express it: Lynn, Mass. kicks ass! |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:12 am Post subject: |
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The Eagles, The Doobies, BTO, Springsteen, The Moody Blues are indications to me that it's time to change the radio station. Though I do enjoy belting out Desperado at the noraebang. Queen, and Neil Young aren't always embarrassing depending upon the song.
But my 70s rock gods are Led Zeppelin. Just the first five albums though. The rest of them sucked. Though Physical Graffiti had it's moments. |
Word up about Zep's first five releases, TWG.
What do you think about Jimmy Paige, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham's stuff on "How Many More Times" from the group's first release in 1969?
Take care, TWG.
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Remember that era well.
Another good one was "Sweet Emotion" by Areosmith.
"Cat Scratch Fever" by Nugent, also from that era, was another high-energy tune...
But yes, Boston's first album was outstanding.
And don't forget "Framton Comes Alive" from 1976 as well. |
Word all around!!!
You know good stuff from the chaff. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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How about Dr. Hook "Cover of the Rolling Stone"
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Well we're big rock singers
we got gold fingers
and we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty
and we sing about truth
at ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kinds of pills
to give us all kinds of thrills
but the thrill we have never known
Is the thrill that will get you
when you get your picture
on the cover of the Rolling Stone
chorus;
Going to see my picture on the cover
gonna buy five copies for my mother
gonna see my smiling face
on the cover of the Rolling Stone
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I drove a sh*t brown Gremlin (ugly!!!!) good for crusing down |
Mines was duckbill orange...brand new - got it for my high school graduation present!! I was HOT!!
Favorite song of Neil Diamond - Soolaimon (the long version)...very memorable song... |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Neil Diamond, Wayne Newton.... basically same same, right?
They are to me. That's all that counts. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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twg:
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No it wasn't crap.
You just got old and out of touch. It happened to your dad too. |
I was 25 when the decade began; hardly an old man, dude.
But, on second thought, perhaps you're right. I mean who can forget George Michael and Boy George and that slu-t Madonna.
Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Steve Miller, Nazareth, Steely Dan, The Kinks, CCR, CCN, Jackson Browne...yeah, they've got nothing on the 80's and 90's start ups.  |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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some great memories here. I saw April Wine warm up for Styx in Cincinnati November of 1979 my first concert.
You guys forgot two key things to that era:
The Midnight Special-Fri Nites after Carson (1AM East Coast time) with Wolfman Jack
Don Krishners Rock Concert
We had a Chevy Nova without a/c and FM radio if you can believe it thats what I drove to hs in when my mother wouldn't have to drive to work
BTW in regards to Niel Diamond dont forget Live (or was it Love??) at the Greek
A lot of stuff on my mp3 player is from that era
I could go on... |
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trinity24651
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I soooooo remember Midnight Special. Loved every minute with the Wolfman!! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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twg:
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No it wasn't crap.
You just got old and out of touch. It happened to your dad too. |
I was 25 when the decade began; hardly an old man, dude.
But, on second thought, perhaps you're right. I mean who can forget George Michael and Boy George and that slu-t Madonna.
Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Steve Miller, Nazareth, Steely Dan, The Kinks, CCR, CCN, Jackson Browne...yeah, they've got nothing on the 80's and 90's start ups. |
Roll your eyes all you want. The simple fact is that music moved beyond your tastes, and your ability to enjoy it.
It could be pointed out that you just listed a bunch of one hit wonders and artists who's music has lacked the ability to stand the test of time. As well, it could be pointed out that the generation that came before you thought Boy Are Back In Town is a simpleton's rock tune made by a bunch of long-hairs who can't actually play "proper" music. I don't feel that way because I've learned to appreciate a good song, no matter when it came out.
So yeah, old and out of touch. Same has happened to me with a lot of the current music at my tender age of 36. The continued popularity of Justin Timberlake makes me roll my eyes.
But for his fans, I'm the old coot who's out of touch.
Rock is a kid's game. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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twg:
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| The simple fact is that music moved beyond your tastes, and your ability to enjoy it. |
Correction: The simple fact is that music moved beyond taste, and my ability to enjoy it.
Most of those I've mentioned were not one-hit wonders, they wrote their own music, and are still performing today. Do you know anything about this era?
Rock is only for the young? Tell that to the Stones. |
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rednblack
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
Location: In a quiet place
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: |
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Good thread Steve.
I'm still stuck in the 70s. Most of my playlist comes from this decade. In fact, I'm listening to 'floyd' right now. All the above mentioned still remain favorites. I just want to add 'McCartney and Wings', 'George Mc Cray' (Rock Your Baby-a one hit), 'Meatloaf', and Roxy Music. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
| Correction: The simple fact is that music moved beyond taste, and my ability to enjoy it. |
This statement is incorrect. The problem wasn't the music. It was you getting set in your ways at a young age.
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| Do you know anything about this era? |
Yes. And more importantly, I have the ability to look at it clearly without nostalgia for a youth long past.
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| Rock is only for the young? Tell that to the Stones. |
As soon as the deafing sound of everyone' laughter at their middle-aged fans paying a few hundred dollars to see their geriatric arses do an oldies show dies down, I will. |
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