AT40 - This Week In 1973 (1 Viewer)

[Koya]

1. Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein". 

Yep. Shred it, dudes.

One night in high school, tripping balls and smoking copious amounts of weed (AS if there's any other amount) with a small house party at my place, my friend and I SWORE we beard a serious of toilet flushes in the middle of this song. We 'heard' them even after listening at least three times.

Good times.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

one of the better weeks

Agreed. 

It's funny - could be the best year you like, but catch a bad week (that 1979 a few months ago, I'll never forget) and it makes it look awful.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Wish you, and Harrison for that matter, could hear my arrangement of "I, Me, Mine". For the last couple of years, i been diddling with a sequel screenplay of "Breakfast at Tiffany", where Holly marries "Fred", he has a bestseller with "B@T", they have a daughter, Holly kills herself, Fred buys their old building as a tribute and gives it to their daughter (Tiffany, of course) as a college graduation present. Tiffany wants to be a punk but has missed it by five years or so. She's hot and talented and gets away with a weird cabaret act where she turns male rock songs on their ear into punk piano anthems (Manic Depression, Lady Stardust, she says, "here's a song about my period" and plays Ruby Tuesday) before trashing the piano and punching somebody. My arrangement - which i cant even play - for her for "I' Me, Mine" almost made me pass out wondering where that came from. Don't think i'm talented enough to pull it off (and copytights wont let me anyways), but i'm sure havin fun trying.




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I love that song.  Any way we can hear that arrangement?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

26. Alice Cooper - "No More Mr Nice Guy". Oh, ### ####! YES!!!!!!

Eat your hearts out, 80s metalheads. THIS #### rocked AND sold singles.

One of his best.  

 

[Binky The Doormat]

18. Loggins & Messina - "Thinking Of You". As early 70s SS/soft-rock goes, they were amongst the best. And were more versatile. 

 "Knowledge and assumptions, those are like Loggins & Messina.  They seem similar, but time proves one of them to be completely useless." - Jim Brockmire

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Thanks. I'm gonna check that out. 

The H&O touring band this time is Hall, Oates, Charles DeChant (been with them since 1976) and the Darryl's House band.  Was really fun seeing those guys live, and there were a couple of song rearrangements than seemed inspired by the show.

Anyway, in the Loggins episode, someone in the crew asked Loggins and Hall about recording "We Are The World", USA For Africa, Live Aid.  Loggins marveled at all the star power in the room and how crazy it was to have all those artists in the same room to record the same song. During a break, Paul Simon pulled Loggins aside and said, "Just look at this place. If a bomb goes off in here, John Denver is back on top."

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

5. Stevie Wonder - "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life". 

I mean, it's a damned standard up there with anything Irving Berlin or Doc Pomus ever wrote. 

Near perfection.  

 

[wikkidpissah]

I love that song.  Any way we can hear that arrangement?

Hear it?! i can't even play it.

Haven't had an arranger in over a year (had an old friend doing the charts for my Alice-in-Manhattan musical in exchange for being partners on my end-of-the-world musical "Kill the Sun" and me doing lyrics for all the songs he's been working on for years, but it turns out some of those songs were other peoples' and he sold em, so BOOM) and can only play well enough to work out leads, melodies, chords. Been a flustratin year that way.

He was around when i first started messing with the B@T sequel and helped me with the jazz chords that lead into my Manic Depression arrangement and the waltz for IMeMine. If you can imagine it, it starts with a sad, elegant waltz (both songs are in 3/4 time) with the thumb walking the GMinor down. Tiffany sings the first verse plaintively along to it, then starts to break form a lil when she plays the guitar chords of the 4/4 chorus like a Jerry Lee Lewis rave. 2nd verse, she plays the waltz in a mocking oompapa style and then starts getting mad and banging indiscriminately on the 2nd time thru the chorus. By the end, there's just bloodcurdling screams of IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII .....MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.....MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE......MIIIIIIIIIIIINE, with a few discordant trills like Prince does before she beats up the piano, tries to tip it over and throws her drink at the crowd. Love writing scenes likat. Never heard the whole thing like i hear it in my head, though, cuz we never got far enough along to get a girl singer in. So there's that...

 

[wikkidpissah]

6. Sylvia - "Pillow Talk". I'm guessing this will run some of the more rock-oriented folks here away, but this record was a massive influence - probably more than any other disc on this countdown. And Sylvia was already a rock icon for "Love Is Strange" back in the 50s, so she gets a pass from me.

best word you cant spell? that inhale she does thru her teeth. unhhhh -

 

[otb_lifer]

1. Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein". 

Yep. Shred it, dudes.

inspired me to pick up Johnny's "Still Alive And Well" album ... cuz, ya know, they were bros ... so they obviously had to sound the same, right? (thoughts of an eight year old, album shopping some three years later and finding Johnny's in the el-cheapo bin)

"don't hit it now, hit it on FOUR"        

well, gotdamn was i surprised, and in love with JW's music ... had no ####### idea how "Too Much Seconal" was a problem for someone (wtf was seconal anyways??)  

also released in '73 ... great year for those 'bino dynamos