Our world today unfortunately. The Joker still one of my all time favorites.
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Our world today unfortunately. The Joker still one of my all time favorites.
I asked a music trivia question somewhere a while ago about 2 well known rock artists that went to HS and college together, playing in bands together. One wound up playing in the others band as professionals for a short time. Anyway, the pair are Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, who played for a short while in the Steve Miller Band, not an original member, he filled in as lead guitarist for a short while. Scaggs was originally a solo blues artist prior to changing gears and hitting the jackpot.
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I guess he didn't want to contribute to global warming going from Phoenix, Arizona all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta and L.A. ***
*** Not my joke
Funny twist that you acknowledge not your joke because a) none of those I posted here are mine, I have a very funny friend who I have heard virtually all of them from and
b) Miller’s lyrics from The Joker “You’re the cutest thing I ever did see, I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree, Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time” were taken from the song “Lovey Dovey” written by Ahmet Ertegun and Eddie Curtis.
I am pretty sure Miller acknowledged that publicly, it was not a Canned Heat’s Alan Wilson situation where he took complete credit for writing Going Up The Country when all he really did was slightly alter the melody and arrangement and rewrite the lyrics of
“Bull Doze Blues” written and recorded by Henry Thomas 40 years or so prior to Canned Heat’s version. Wilson took a lot of heat supposedly within the music world for not acknowledging he lifted Thomas’ music. The signature panpipe riff of the song is obvious. If you look at the record in the video you see it credits guitar and whistling which evidently is how Thomas did the song live but it was recorded with a panpipe.
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Yep, same with Led Zeppelin and other bands who took old blues music and put them on steroids . Probably my favorite sub-genre of rock music to be honest.
For the record Steve Miller is a very accomplished musician but a mediocre song writer.
What Abracadabra ...reach out and grab ya...... Isn't a well-crafted Lyric? LOL
I would agree, not a big Miller fan.
And I’ll correct myself on the Henry Thomas post, I should have noted he SOMETIMES did it live whistling, certainly a brain fart on my part and my bad.
Meant to quote above post in my post.
I believe the Yanks-Reds series was 1976..........with both 1977 & 1978 being Yankees-Dodgers.
Right. Then it was 1976. As Roger Clemens said about Andy Petite I misremembered.
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Saw them at the Garden in 1973 . My 16 year old self was never quite the same!
I am in a minority, I am pretty sure, but I think Led Zeppelin is the most overrated band in R&R history, and that Stairway To Heaven is the most overrated song in R&R history. Never liked their music.
Cream and Blind Faith, Spencer Davis, Traffic, those are great British Rock bands IMO. The Who, The Moodies, and The Kinks too.
You forgot the world’s greatest Rock n Roll band BJR - the Stones. My wife is not a fan mainly because of Mick and their sometimes misogynistic lyrics but even she admits their music is very good. And what a body of work, dwarfs most of the other groups mentioned.
I am with you on all counts.
Though I did see them the one time they came to Montreal in 1974. My ears were ringing for 3 days after.
This video is from a little over 1 year ago - talk about standing the test of time.
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With no RJ in the Jazz game and Yankee game over by the 3rd inning I was looking for something to watch and stumbled on Traveling Band - Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall on Netflix. If you are a fan of Creedence in any way, shape or form this film is a great watch. First half covers their meteoric rise in the late 60s and last half is the Albert Hall performance in its entirety which took place a week after the Beatles split in April 1970. Creedence was even shorter lived as a band than the Beatles but man were they a good, tight band with great songs and I'd forgotten how good they were live.
The stream it or skip it review put it well - Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall is a terrific document of a band at the height of its powers, putting in the work to be their best version of what a rock star can be.
The stream it or skip it review put it well - Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall is a terrific document of a band at the height of its powers, putting in the work to be their best version of what a rock star can be.
Any Dispatch fans?
One of their founding members, Pete Francis, has family with a camp near mine. Two weekends ago he played for about 20 of us in a small cabin for about a half hour. Played mostly his own stuff but did hit 2 Coins which he really got in to. It was pretty neat and the little I talked with him seems like a great guy.
One of their founding members, Pete Francis, has family with a camp near mine. Two weekends ago he played for about 20 of us in a small cabin for about a half hour. Played mostly his own stuff but did hit 2 Coins which he really got in to. It was pretty neat and the little I talked with him seems like a great guy.