Interesting how some bands (Speedwagon, Journey) have zero possibility of attracting listeners who still have hair, while other bands that had similar popularity with the public and with critics (Cheap Trick, Queen) have staying power.
Oh yea! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkZsSydzQjM"]Little Feat Fat Man In The Bathtub - YouTube[/ame]
Bob knows who's The Boss By the time Seger made it, he was no longer young, at least by pop standards (31). For some time, he experienced frustration that Glenn Frey, a childhood friend three years his junior, already hit big with the Eagles. Yet, it was the very experience in his voice, and his deep trove of memories, that turned the pivotal “Night Moves" into a classic. It helped that the song had a rare structure, cresting and falling several times in its 5-and-a-half-minute expanse, at one point coming to a daring dead halt. “I got the idea for the structure from Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Jungleland’ — which stops dead,” he says. “Silence is horrendous on radio but I was sure the song would be a hit. It had a lot of depth and it reminded me of ‘American Graffiti,’ which was from the same time I went to high school: ’61, ’62, ’63." http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...rsday-songs-old-older-article-1.983465?pgno=1
Rock & Roll! C'mon, man! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmgOrhELXs"]one bourbon one scotch one beer - YouTube[/ame] You can skip the first 3:35, if you want, but play 6:35-7:15 twice! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkyEAA7ers&feature=related"]Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Live 1981) - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9MR9MQxos"]Eddie Money- Rock and roll the place - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjDEAD6gyI&feature=related"]Eddie Money - Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star - YouTube[/ame] Not surprised. Sometimes I wonder, how many rock concerts have people commenting here actually attended? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRRqxJHQmA&ob=av2e"]Dream Police - Cheap Trick - 1979 Promo - YouTube[/ame] Ironic comment on a 2011 youtube video of this song: "love cheap trick. i saw them open for reo speedwagon in 80s. i thought it should of been cheap trick headlining. they were great.and still are ...iconic band" Let's hope that somewhere, Lowell is jammin' with Zappa.
Cheap Trick was a fun band. Not very creative, most of their work was derivative, but it was rock the way I liked it. I remember listening to their Heaven Tonite album over and over, and it really fit perfectly musically with where I was at age sixteen. Their version of California Man in particular was like an anthem to me, and that was before I ended up in California. Destiny maybe. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDm2iy0K6A0"]Cheap Trick - California Man - Live 12/08/78 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - YouTube[/ame] Not the best sound but you get the idea of what it was like to rock back then.
A couple of years later I graduated into this: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ3NDP-Qiak"]Sunday Papers - Joe Jackson - Live - YouTube[/ame] "Well I got nothing aganst the press They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true"
Rock & Roll Good cover of The Move classic. Perhaps that English band shared your vision. In 1978, I lived within walking distance of the Capitol Theater.
Passaic used to have a concert venue? That famous bands visited? What the hell? Anyway, more Cheap Trick. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6M5mS1AAu4"]He's A Whore - YouTube[/ame] and the Big Black cover [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-R_0BsXBfs&feature=related"]Big Black - He's a whore - YouTube[/ame]
Capitol Theater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Theatre_(Passaic) IIRC, I was at The Byrds show, and agree with its wiki description as shambolic. Also at the Peter Gabriel & Who concerts, perhaps some of the others. Could not get into the Stones concert, probably the only concert I've even been outside, where there were absolutely NO tickets being sold.
Great stuff! When I was a young'un I had a cassette recording of a live Joe Jackson concert from the King Buscuit Flower Hour that I played over and over. He did a similar intro to Sunday Papers. I can't believe I still remember it: "Look at this, the Examiner... Dolly Parton's strange psychic experineces.... Ted Kennedy's secret agony... and on the back page, you can make anyone do anything you command, with the power of your mind alone! All for only 40 cents, I fink it's quite amazing!"