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I went to see Stevie Ray Vaughan on my 18th birthday out in California.I got a triple treat of Jimi covers in Little Wing, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), and Third Rock From The Sun, which combined clocked in at 30+ minutes. He absolutely tore the roof off.
I always liked Men At Work. They were quirky and different. The singer had a unique voice that seemed cool to me.
I am surprised Be Good Johnny never hit the top 40. The video was ubiquitous back then.
Slowhand is Clapton's best post-1970 album but it's still got some meh on it. Cocaine and The Core are top-notch. Cocaine was played at the Winwood/Clapton show I mentioned earlier.
I'd rank 'em:
Interesting back-to-back here. Solid songs on both albums IMO. I'm also one who had a pretty strong affinity for the band until around 1985-1986 or so, lost interest, and recently has been listening to them more often.
The British practice of releasing singles independently from albums continued well into Lennon's and McCartney's solo careers. Paul was still issuing them in the late '70s (for example, Goodnight Tonight). The US version of Band on the Run has Helen Wheels, released as a single prior to the album release, and the UK version doesn't -- because the US label wanted it on there against Paul's and the UK label's wishes.
You hate British accents almost as much as Billy Joel. So noted.
Funny thing about Supertramp is that they moved to LA in the late '70s (after Crime of the Century but before Breakfast in America).
I like to think I'm self-aware at this point in my life, but I can not understand my reluctance. Maybe a therapy tune-up is neededYou hate British accents almost as much as Billy Joel. So noted.
The MTV videos for "Start Me Up" and "Hang Fire" were pretty forgettable -- just the band performing in an all-black studio, Mick Jagger mugging and prancing as he will.
And as many know, the beginning of the video was filmed in front of an apartment building on St. Mark’s Place in Manhattan, with Keith greeting Peter Tosh on the steps. That same building facade is on the cover of Led Zep’s likely-soon-to-come Physical Graffiti album.
It's ok. I'd admit it in a court of law. I had a discussion one day with a good friend of mine about Load Out/Stay vs. Turn the Page. He said the kids trying to be cool or "hip" back then were JB fan & liked Load Out. I actually like it better (which is what spawned the conversation).
I was 14 or 15 then, and I was the prototypical demographic for MTV. We didn't have cable TV, and I literally called the cable company demanding that I wanted my MTV. The early days of MTV were great . . . you know, when they actually played videos. I had it on whenever I was home, and it was the coolest thing at the time. In today's vernacular, it would have been considered trending at school. Kids talked about videos all the time. I remember a classic rock station where I lived that did their annual Top 500 song count down, voted on by listeners. Who Can It Be Now came in 5th. They didn't really want to include it, but they did. IIRC, it was sandwiched between Hey Jude and Comfortably Numb or Purple Haze. Going out on a limb, but I would guess Men At Work would probably rank a little lower these days. Call it a hunch.
None of that mattered. We would watch anything as long as it was on MTV.
I’ve mentioned in other threads, but my favorite videos were the plain vanilla ones where they merely showed the bands faux singing/playing. It was the only way to see them if you didn’t see them in concert or on the likes of American Bandstand, Solid Gold, Kirschner, Midnight Special, etc.
Yep. And Kirschner and Midnight Special had ended by then, I think.
You're right -- I'm just looking on that time in retrospect.
I've never heard anyone discuss Supertramp in real life, hear or see an interview with them, or ever heard of a concert of theirs ever happening.
Uruk was sitting in the front row of Dave's studio audience that nightActually just looked it up and when Letterman when to night time his first musical guest was...Billy Joel.
Urak-Hai, paging Urak-Hai! Is there a Urak-hai in the house??
Joni Mitchell's TV appearance that made her unable to appear at Woodstock was on The **** Cavett Show. Janis Joplin also performed on it many times and she became friends with Cavett.
He did have Bob Dylan, though. Not that Bob cared.
Better chance of one of his rotten tomatoes hitting Billy in the face.Uruk was sitting in the front row of Dave's studio audience that nightActually just looked it up and when Letterman when to night time his first musical guest was...Billy Joel.
Urak-Hai, paging Urak-Hai! Is there a Urak-hai in the house??
We didn’t have cable either and I really liked Men at Work. It was not my normal music but it was different, interesting and fun. I still throw on their greatest hits album frequently.
Had a buddy go to a Dylan concert at Merriweather in the late 80's and to this day he Hates Dylan for that show. Said he mumbled his way through the whole thing and changed up songs so much you couldn't tell what he was singing unless he blurted out a tag line or chorus.
Bob never performs his songs in the way they appear on the records. The variable is whether he cares. When he doesn't, you get mumbly, incoherent performances like at your friend's Merriweather show or on the Letterman episode I linked. When he does, he's captivating. Luckily I've seen him four times and he's cared every time.
Yep, and this links back to the Springsteen thread where he is known to not only care everytime out but makes sure we, the ticket paying, appreciative public get our due for supporting his act. I put the Stones in the same category. Never heard anyone complain about a lazy or apathetic show by them either. Abd that attitude is probably more common than not in the industry.
The Mattel handheld football game knows all about them.
I remember that show, Chuck Berry and a cooking expert were the guests. She had the 3 of them chopping veggies and stirring pots and pans like one big happy family.
Dave had U2 on for 5 shows in a row in the early 2000's when All That You Can't Leave Behind came out, which includes Beautiful Day. They played that, Crazy Tonight, Stuck In A Moment, and a couple of others. I also have heard they played songs after the show was over. And I believe U2 was the "house band" for a week in 2009. I think Dave is pretty close with U2, or with Bono at least.
Indeed, they did a documentary together last year and Bono and Edge made Letterman tear up when they came up with a song dedicated to him.
Circa 1977-78 ... little Doug B would go hang out with the kids next door. They had an older brother in high school ... and that dude's room was basically a KISS shrine. Those painted faces and those crazy outfits are some of my oldest memories of the wider world outside my home. Still remember the "ka-CHUNK" sound of the Alive 8-track switching 'programs'. None of the songs on the Alive 8-track were cut off in the middle, at least. That wouldn't be true of all of KISS's '70s output, which I'm sure we'll get to soon.
Nope. There are no more Kiss albums left.
Incredible album.
The Police record is fine. I mentioned upthread that I'm not a worshipper, but they knew how to write hooks (most of the time) and perform them well.
I would think the opposite. I think there were a bunch of current and wanna be guitarists back then that wished they could play like Jimi. I'd have to go back and check release dates for other albums, but I don't recall any other groups or guitarists that had a style or a sound anywhere close to Hendrix's. Once Are You Experienced came along, there were a lot more guitar-heavy songs and albums across the next few years. I'm not a guitar player, so I don't know how complicated it is to play Jimi's licks 57 years later. He sure was an innovator back in the day.
I didn't say they wanted to quit forever
,but Mike Bloomfield (who was as good as anyone at the time) said that Hendrix cowed him. I was guilty of hyperbole in my statement, but I bet Jimi humbled a bunch of dudes who thought they were first-in-class at the time.
Wow -- I'd have bet money that Alive II sold more than Alive! Did I miss Alive II being posted in this thread?
The one redeeming "quality" of double albums on an 8 track cartridge was they could usually put one full side on each of the 4 tracks. Single LPs almost always had a clunk in the middle of one or more songs. But still no reverse
