simey
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Sorry for your loss, Pip. Here's a cover song by Delbert for your stepmom. May she RIP.
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The middle-aged dummies are forming a band called "Blanket"! It's a cover band. (5 Viewers)
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simey
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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway did a cool cover of "White Rabbit" Thursday night. She also did a cover of She's A Rainbow.
This is the Dan Tyminski Band doing a cover of "Man of Constant Sorrow," and goes out to MoCs. Dan is the lead voice you hear in the Soggy Bottom Boys.
This is the Dan Tyminski Band doing a cover of "Man of Constant Sorrow," and goes out to MoCs. Dan is the lead voice you hear in the Soggy Bottom Boys.
titusbramble
Footballguy
alt-129, 132, 148 or 225 as appropriate, thank me laterI had to copy and paste a u with umlaut when making the post, because it makes all the difference.The umlaut is superb.
Dying.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
On tonight's Jeopardy, no one rang in on a Smiths question. (One contestant was too old, the others too young.)
NONE OF THEM WENT TO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ken: "As a GenXer, let me help you out on this one."
NONE OF THEM WENT TO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ken: "As a GenXer, let me help you out on this one."
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Or they aren't fans of the Smiths. I wouldn't be able to answer a single question about them.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The Midnight Special episode I am watching tonight (Jan. 25, 1974) also has a high rate of acts I've heard of: The Steve Miller Band (host), Genesis, Tim Buckley (Jeff's dad, who also died young), the post-Joe Walsh James Gang, Brownsville Station and The James Cotton Blues Band.
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The show kicks off with The Joker because of course it does. Less predictable is that Miller is holding an open umbrella for some of his host segments. This was not an outdoor show.
The post-Walsh James Gang plays the "boogie rock" that was all the rage in '74. Their lead guitarist during this period was Tommy Bolin, who was nearly as revered as Walsh in certain circles.
Brownsville Station perform their original version of Smokin' in the Boys Room -- I was a little surprised that the Motley Crüe cover didn't appear in this thread. (There's that ü again.)
Miller introduced Cotton with an anecdote about how Cotton's band had blown his band off the stage at a gig they shared about two years prior. I can see how that would happen, their brand of blues is very high-energy. Though @krista4 might not enjoy all the sax solos. There are also a lot of harmonica solos, dunno how she feels about those.
Buckley performs a mesmerizing cover of Fred Neil's Dolphins. When he sings "in the se-e-ea," you can tell where Jeff got his voice from.
Miller's Joker album included a funky number called Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma; this version shows off the talents of bassist Gerald Johnson (I don't think I knew that he was left-handed).
Genesis was the last act to appear but would become by far the biggest of any of them, especially if you take solo careers into account. At this point they were a cult band at most in the US. Miller introduces them as "theater rock." Peter Gabriel is in his shaved-forehead period and is wearing some sort of bat costume. During the first half of Watcher of the Skies, he is the only member whose face we see -- everyone else gets close-ups of their hands playing their instruments. During the instrumental break toward the end, we finally see the others and Gabriel hides his face behind a tambourine. I'm sure the "boogie rock" fans who tuned in to see The James Gang and Brownsville Station had no idea what to make of this. (Or the blues fans who tuned in for Miller and Cotton.) Mike Rutherford sports a pretty sweet double-neck half-bass/half-guitar.
Miller sits in with Cotton for a cover of Jimmy Reed's Big Boss Man.
I have seen before this performance of Fly Like an Eagle, more than two years before its official release. It begins with a tease of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and is much more spacey (all due to Miller's guitar; there were no synths in this version of the band) and psychedelic than the shape it took by 1976. The lyrics and vocals are structured differently as well. The "time keeps on slipping into the future" part isn't there and on the verses, most of the lines begin with "what about the...". The chorus is pretty much the same, though.
Wolfman Jack presented Miller with a gold record for The Joker LP, which had just passed 500,000 in sales.
The Musical Box was wikkid's favorite Genesis song. I wonder if he was watching this performance, which had to be the US TV debut of it. It's almost all there -- a little over 8 minutes of a song that runs 10:32. For this song, the camera work was more conventional and at first Gabriel didn't have a costume other than face paint. He left the stage during the keyboard and guitar solos in the middle and returned wearing an old-man mask. Which actually makes sense given the song's (very demented) storyline. He collapses and "dies" at the end.
Buckley's original Honey Man isn't anything special as a song -- people at the time might have called it "jive" -- but his vocal is.
Miller closes things out with Sugar Babe, the first track on the Joker album. Here we can see where the sound of "Rock 'N Me" and "Jet Airliner" came from. (His label should have made this the second single from the album, but they didn't.)
Ep 52 - The Midnight Special | January 25, 1974
Hosted by the Steve Miller Band with special guest appearance by Brownsville Station, Tim Buckley, James Cotton Band, Genesis, James Gang, and Wolfman Jack.0...
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The show kicks off with The Joker because of course it does. Less predictable is that Miller is holding an open umbrella for some of his host segments. This was not an outdoor show.
The post-Walsh James Gang plays the "boogie rock" that was all the rage in '74. Their lead guitarist during this period was Tommy Bolin, who was nearly as revered as Walsh in certain circles.
Brownsville Station perform their original version of Smokin' in the Boys Room -- I was a little surprised that the Motley Crüe cover didn't appear in this thread. (There's that ü again.)
Miller introduced Cotton with an anecdote about how Cotton's band had blown his band off the stage at a gig they shared about two years prior. I can see how that would happen, their brand of blues is very high-energy. Though @krista4 might not enjoy all the sax solos. There are also a lot of harmonica solos, dunno how she feels about those.
Buckley performs a mesmerizing cover of Fred Neil's Dolphins. When he sings "in the se-e-ea," you can tell where Jeff got his voice from.
Miller's Joker album included a funky number called Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma; this version shows off the talents of bassist Gerald Johnson (I don't think I knew that he was left-handed).
Genesis was the last act to appear but would become by far the biggest of any of them, especially if you take solo careers into account. At this point they were a cult band at most in the US. Miller introduces them as "theater rock." Peter Gabriel is in his shaved-forehead period and is wearing some sort of bat costume. During the first half of Watcher of the Skies, he is the only member whose face we see -- everyone else gets close-ups of their hands playing their instruments. During the instrumental break toward the end, we finally see the others and Gabriel hides his face behind a tambourine. I'm sure the "boogie rock" fans who tuned in to see The James Gang and Brownsville Station had no idea what to make of this. (Or the blues fans who tuned in for Miller and Cotton.) Mike Rutherford sports a pretty sweet double-neck half-bass/half-guitar.
Miller sits in with Cotton for a cover of Jimmy Reed's Big Boss Man.
I have seen before this performance of Fly Like an Eagle, more than two years before its official release. It begins with a tease of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and is much more spacey (all due to Miller's guitar; there were no synths in this version of the band) and psychedelic than the shape it took by 1976. The lyrics and vocals are structured differently as well. The "time keeps on slipping into the future" part isn't there and on the verses, most of the lines begin with "what about the...". The chorus is pretty much the same, though.
Wolfman Jack presented Miller with a gold record for The Joker LP, which had just passed 500,000 in sales.
The Musical Box was wikkid's favorite Genesis song. I wonder if he was watching this performance, which had to be the US TV debut of it. It's almost all there -- a little over 8 minutes of a song that runs 10:32. For this song, the camera work was more conventional and at first Gabriel didn't have a costume other than face paint. He left the stage during the keyboard and guitar solos in the middle and returned wearing an old-man mask. Which actually makes sense given the song's (very demented) storyline. He collapses and "dies" at the end.
Buckley's original Honey Man isn't anything special as a song -- people at the time might have called it "jive" -- but his vocal is.
Miller closes things out with Sugar Babe, the first track on the Joker album. Here we can see where the sound of "Rock 'N Me" and "Jet Airliner" came from. (His label should have made this the second single from the album, but they didn't.)
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Clarification on the syntax: It's TRüKKEN.
They are playing in Brooklyn on June 20 with a Tool cover band called Schism.
zamboni
Footballguy
Think I need to see them at some point.
My cousin thezambonis is clearly ready: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6baUp4rCLR/
krista4
Footballguy
I'm just catching up on the thread after not being around much for a week. Love these! They really hit that deep groove on both Higher Ground and For Once in My Life.
On a separate note, I'm really sorry to hear about your stepmother, @Pip's Invitation
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
It’s public now.
Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61
The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, died of a heart attack
Zegras11
Footballguy
Krista, my condolences. So sad.
krista4
Footballguy
Thanks GB. OH got the call early this morning and has been a wreck. We leave Tuesday for our long-planned Chicago trip, and this really changes the tenor of that.
simey
Footballguy
May the King of the Underground RIP 
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Aw, that’s tough. So sorry for your loss.
landrys hat
Footballguy
This, of course, has led me to listening to lots of Opal and Mazzy Star the past few weeks.
Blue Flower by Mazzy Star (Slapp Happy) probably should have been on my list.
Mazzy Star - Blue Flower
Live at Later... with Jools Holland, Series 3 Episode 7. 9 July 1994.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The Midnight Special episode I am watching tonight (aired 2/26/74) has a lot of mid-tier acts from the '70s. Host Gordon Lightfoot is joined by the post-Joe Walsh, Tommy Bolin-era James Gang, The Guess Who, Maria Muldaur, Redbone, Ravi Shankar and someone named Byron MacGregor.
Lightfoot's Sundown album, which would have his two biggest US hit singles, had just been released, but he opens with one of its non-singles (The List), then revisits an old song, If You Can Read My Mind, for his second selection, and the title track of his 1972 album Don Quixote for his third. Then he delves into a song called Affair on 8th Ave. from his 1968 album, a few years before he started having hits in the US, and another Sundown album track, High 'N Dry. We get Sundown itself at the very end and Carefree Highway not at all.
This first James Gang song (Standing in the Rain) is much better than the one from the previous Midnight Special episode I watched, thanks mainly to Bolin's guitar fireworks, but it also has some Who-like dynamics that set it apart from the typical "Boogie Rock" of the time. The second, The Devil Is Singing Our Song, has a heavy-metal title but has a more flexible sound than that, though it still rocks.
Lightfoot introduces The Guess Who as "the greatest rock and roll band to come out of Canada and go international." Maybe that was true in early 1974 -- Rush's debut album was a few months away. Most of the band are wearing hockey jerseys because of course they are. Only frontman Burton Cummings remains from their original lineup. They begin with an old hit, Share the Land, and then perform their current single Star Baby -- Wiki says they played this song three times on The Midnight Special, of which this was the second. Despite the push (which helped it barely crack the top 40 in the US), I had never heard it before.
Redbone perform Come And Get Your Love, the first song by a Native American act to hit the US top 10, and presage it with an Indian dance. Their second song, Maggie (released in 1970), is pretty funky as well (and has cowbell!).
As with Redbone, Muldaur performs what turned out to be by far her biggest hit, Midnight at the Oasis. Her second song is an unremarkable blues thing.
I don't know enough about Indian ragas to say anything noteworthy about Shankar's performance. It's four-and-a-half minutes, which I'm guessing is pretty short by raga standards.
MacGregor was a Canadian news anchor who released a recording of a Toronto newspaper editorial praising the USA backed by the music of "America the Beautiful." It reached #4 in our country around the time of this show, evidence that pretty much anything could chart in the '70s.
Lightfoot's Sundown album, which would have his two biggest US hit singles, had just been released, but he opens with one of its non-singles (The List), then revisits an old song, If You Can Read My Mind, for his second selection, and the title track of his 1972 album Don Quixote for his third. Then he delves into a song called Affair on 8th Ave. from his 1968 album, a few years before he started having hits in the US, and another Sundown album track, High 'N Dry. We get Sundown itself at the very end and Carefree Highway not at all.
This first James Gang song (Standing in the Rain) is much better than the one from the previous Midnight Special episode I watched, thanks mainly to Bolin's guitar fireworks, but it also has some Who-like dynamics that set it apart from the typical "Boogie Rock" of the time. The second, The Devil Is Singing Our Song, has a heavy-metal title but has a more flexible sound than that, though it still rocks.
Lightfoot introduces The Guess Who as "the greatest rock and roll band to come out of Canada and go international." Maybe that was true in early 1974 -- Rush's debut album was a few months away. Most of the band are wearing hockey jerseys because of course they are. Only frontman Burton Cummings remains from their original lineup. They begin with an old hit, Share the Land, and then perform their current single Star Baby -- Wiki says they played this song three times on The Midnight Special, of which this was the second. Despite the push (which helped it barely crack the top 40 in the US), I had never heard it before.
Redbone perform Come And Get Your Love, the first song by a Native American act to hit the US top 10, and presage it with an Indian dance. Their second song, Maggie (released in 1970), is pretty funky as well (and has cowbell!).
As with Redbone, Muldaur performs what turned out to be by far her biggest hit, Midnight at the Oasis. Her second song is an unremarkable blues thing.
I don't know enough about Indian ragas to say anything noteworthy about Shankar's performance. It's four-and-a-half minutes, which I'm guessing is pretty short by raga standards.
MacGregor was a Canadian news anchor who released a recording of a Toronto newspaper editorial praising the USA backed by the music of "America the Beautiful." It reached #4 in our country around the time of this show, evidence that pretty much anything could chart in the '70s.
Eephus
Footballguy
Some recent covers I've heard:
Ryan Adams released live acoustic versions of songs by four Twin Cities acts: Prince, The Replacements, Bob Mould and Soul Asylum. None were essential but I liked "Black Sheets of Rain" a lot more than "When Doves Cry".
Singles have been dropped from upcoming tribute albums to Talking Heads and Tom Petty. I've heard The National's version of "Heaven" from the former and Steve Earle and Dolly Parton doing Petty. There may be other singles from these records but I'll probably just wait for the albums.
Slash put out an album of Blues and Rock 'n Roll covers with a bunch of guest singers. It's listenable but the only track that really caught my fancy was Slash and Chris Stapleton doing Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well". Of course, Iggy is on there because it's the law that he must appear on projects of this sort. Demi Lovato's take on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" just ain't right.
David Byrne did a fun cover of Paramore's "Hard Times" giving it more of a Calypso vibe.
There's also a new tribute album to Lowell George that probably doesn't need to be 25 songs long but George was a big man.
Ryan Adams released live acoustic versions of songs by four Twin Cities acts: Prince, The Replacements, Bob Mould and Soul Asylum. None were essential but I liked "Black Sheets of Rain" a lot more than "When Doves Cry".
Singles have been dropped from upcoming tribute albums to Talking Heads and Tom Petty. I've heard The National's version of "Heaven" from the former and Steve Earle and Dolly Parton doing Petty. There may be other singles from these records but I'll probably just wait for the albums.
Slash put out an album of Blues and Rock 'n Roll covers with a bunch of guest singers. It's listenable but the only track that really caught my fancy was Slash and Chris Stapleton doing Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well". Of course, Iggy is on there because it's the law that he must appear on projects of this sort. Demi Lovato's take on "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" just ain't right.
David Byrne did a fun cover of Paramore's "Hard Times" giving it more of a Calypso vibe.
There's also a new tribute album to Lowell George that probably doesn't need to be 25 songs long but George was a big man.
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