Posted on 07/23/2020 5:24:59 AM PDT by mylife
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Rock Pile, a pile of rock. Such good stuff.
Took a lot of TNT and hard driving to make that pile. An immortal album, a great band.
I saw Dave twice, on his DE 7th tour, and as part of Ringo’s All Starr Band in the 90s.
Aint that the Fonz’s girl? ;)
Man them old shows were great. I still have my ticket stubs somewhere around the house. Also I will say I liked Nils Lofgren when he was with his band Grin. Some tasty stuff there.
God I love capt beyond
God I love capt beyond
Tommy Bolin...his ‘Bang’ album with James Gang is an undiscovered classic...one of my wife’s (NOT the ‘Foghat’ chick) favorite album. The extended version of ‘Wild Dogs’ from ‘Whips and Roses’ kicks seven kinds of *ss.
This is way better than talking about covid19 or the 2020 election. :)
I'll dig a little.
Moby Grape.
There are few albums you can point to (Silk Degrees, Sgt. Pepper, Dream Into Action, Gaudi) where every single song is a great song, but that was Moby Grape’s first album.
The Grape had three big problems. The first was common to most bands: the material on their first album had been crafted and perfected over years’ of playing. But the demand for a second album came quick and they didn’t have enough backlog. Their second album was pretty terrible. (Again, anyone know the name of Boz Scaggs’ first album after Silk Degrees? I don’t think it had one hit).
Second, drugs. They were terrible druggies.
Third, they hired Steve Katz to be their manager and he (on his part) shrewdly got them to sign away everything including the name. Even reconstituted with some of the members, they could never again play as Moby Grape.
I urge you to listen to their first album. Three lead guitarists, well designed songs, honest/realistic vocals.
Yours truly caught the drummer’s towel when Foghat played a small club years later...also in Syracuse. Weird coincidence.
I think the original drummer Roger Earl is the only original band member left alive.
I never got Rory Gallagher. My guitarist liked him, but I didn’t see anything in his songs.
Elvin Bishop had one song, as I recall largely carried by the incredible vocals of Mickey Thomas (Starship). He was in that difficult spot of not being a great guitarist himself, nor being a good enough singer OR songwriter to surround himself with a kick-butt band.
One thing I miss from early XTC is Terry Chambers, fantastic drummer.
Porcupine Tree
Speaking of drummers, Liberty DeVitto, of Billy Joel’s band.
I think he’s the main reason I like Billy’s music in the first place.
Good band
Back in the 1970s my house mate buddy used to blast out Pat Travers on the record player.
Group of loosely associated studio musicians called the Wrecking Crew. There were about fifteen of them, moved in and out. I think Glen Campbell was in there once.
They did all the instrumentals for the Monkees first two albums. Check out the Spanish guitar style solo towards the end of Valerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTa9CE51sA
Functionally, just about any hit song that came out of California from 1965-1975, the Wrecking Crew were doing the instrumentals. Monkees, Beach Boys, a lot of the one hit wonders.
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