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Right, What’s better than “…Elizabeth Reed”, “Whipping post” and “Statesboro blues”? Live at Leeds is great rock and roll. My brother had a promotional poster. Not to mention all the great stuff that's been mentioned in previous posts. Deep Purple . . . This thread and the one from last weekend have really been singing their praises. If I had appreciated them more I would have made more of an effort to get to know Ritchie Blackmore when he lived around the corner in the late ‘70s. I guess The Dead took over back then. Ritchie B. lived just next to my friend(s), a large family, some of whom were budding garage band musicians (who have actually gone on to various successes in the music industry). No one ever heard from Mr. Ritchie’s house music-wise because he had a sound studio built in. According to this family, including the lovely mother, he was a friendly and great neighbor. One fine summer day there was a Rolling Stones tune blasting from one of the third floor windows of my friend’s house - LOUD. People were outside milling about, gardening, etc. quite used to this type of sound from my friend’s house. At the end of the Stones song, Ritchie B. pulls out all the stops and reciprocates by BLASTING back over to them a beautiful classical symphonic piece (wish I knew which one). At the end of it everyone stood and applauded. All the housewives, gardeners, bicyclers, etc. Here’s my humble addition to the best of the ‘70’s in no order (so many have been claimed above already): RS-Sticky Fingers Carole King – Music Eric Clapton - Slowhand The Good Ole Boys (Garcia, Grisman, Rowan, Clements etc.)-Old and in the Way Bonnie Raitt- Streetlights Jefferson Airplane- Bless its Pointed Little Head (might be sixties), so I’ll say: Van Morrison- Astral Weeks Marshall Tucker Live James Taylor- Mud Slide Slim Neil Young-After the Goldrush Jackson Browne-For Everyman If some clunky classic rock radio stations would get hold of some recordings of broadcasts done in the seventies – Alison Steele, the Nightbird, for instance, and play it regularly . . . then we’d be talkin’ You heard it here first.

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What’s better than “…Elizabeth Reed”, “Whipping post” and “Statesboro blues”?
Live at Leeds is great rock and roll. My brother had a promotional poster.
Deep Purple . . . This thread and the one from last weekend have really been singing their praises. If I had appreciated them more I would have made more of an effort to get to know Ritchie Blackmore when he lived around the corner in the late ‘70s. I guess The Dead took over back then. Ritchie B. lived just next to my friend(s), a large family, some of whom were budding garage band musicians (who have actually gone on to various successes in the music industry). No one ever heard from Mr. Ritchie’s house music-wise because he had a sound studio built in. According to this family, including the lovely mother, he was a friendly and great neighbor. One fine summer day there was a Rolling Stones tune blasting from one of the third floor windows of my friend’s house - LOUD. People were outside milling about, gardening, etc. quite used to this type of sound from my friend’s house. At the end of the Stones song, Ritchie B. pulls out all the stops and reciprocates by BLASTING back over to them a beautiful classical symphonic piece (wish I knew which one). At the end of it everyone stood and applauded. All the housewives, gardeners, bicyclers, etc.
Here’s my humble addition to the best of the ‘70’s in no order (so many have been claimed above already):
RS-Sticky Fingers
Carole King – Music
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
The Good Ole Boys (Garcia, Grisman, Rowan, Clements etc.)-Old and in the Way
Bonnie Raitt- Streetlights
Jefferson Airplane- Bless its Pointed Little Head (might be sixties), so I’ll say:
Van Morrison- Astral Weeks
Marshall Tucker Live - Where We All Belong
James Taylor- Mud Slide Slim
Neil Young-After the Goldrush
Jackson Browne-For Everyman
If some clunky classic rock radio stations would get hold of some recordings of broadcasts done in the seventies – Alison Steele, the Nightbird, for instance, and play it regularly . . . then we’d be talkin’.
You heard it here first.