Diesel - Sausalito Summer Night

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[SamAdams76]

As we wind down the summer of 2016 - here is a "lost" summer hit from 1980 - when Ronald Reagan was ascending to the presidency and the stench of Jimmy Carter was about to be left behind.

[chasio649]

Rather excellent guitar solo in that song.

[Nachum]

Like this song.

[beelzepug]

The granny in the red convertible @ 4:51 is absolutely terrifying!

[thescourged1]

Wow, haven't heard that one since the year it came out! And I thought I had a good memory for the the 80's hits and one-offs, but you just humbled me...lol

Thanks for that trip back!

[Weirdad]

I do not recall ever hearing that. It is great. Thanks for posting. Little but my work at a certain type of grad school could catch my attention then, and in the little time I had for music then, I was listening only to the new stuff in Christian Music.

I found some other things.

Another 1980 version (at least the video), which I never heard as best as I recall:

-——> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9AkPlRnyI

2016 version by the original band, 36 years later, wow, live video, and it sounds better from them as old guys!

-——> http://diesel.today/2016/07/24/sausalito-2016/ (this might be their official web site)

-——> points to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzHQuYXuQU

They right away reminded me, with their relentless beat, of Shocking Blue, who I also think was great. Low and behold, they are also a Dutch band! Shocking Blue HAD to have influenced them.

[CtBigPat]

I LOVE this song! I have it on a CD in the car.

[Paleo Pete]

Great song I Love it. I have the album on vinyl, tried to get a couple of bands I was in to play it. Nobody wanted to. I wasn’t looking forward to it, that guitar intro is really TOUGH to play...IT would take me a week just to get the intro right. Forget about the lead, I’d improvise.

I need to get Flash updated, youtube won’t work right now...gotta go see if I downloaded this one a while back...

We left for Frisco in a Rambler...

I still remember most of the lyrics

love it...

My family had a Rambler station wagon in 1965.