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Not as well known outside of his native Washington, D. C. as he ought to be, Tom Principato has been delighting audiences for 40 years with his bluesy singing and guitar playing. Here is a live recording (in Paris!) of "Rain Came Pouring Down." Delicious!
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Remember The Ventures? Mosrite guitars? "Walk Don't Run?" The four-star general who played drums? Wait... what?
https://youtu.be/ljLi_hBLy3A
Too lazy to pot a pic, but I'm listening to Steppenwolf's Monster album.
I got my first copy of it on cassette when it was a new album. I was seven years old and really dug that record.
It's a forgotten gem. For me, that's what classic rock is, and it's a pity that radio has forgotten all but Magic Carpet Ride and Born to Be Wild. Great songs the first 10,000 times you hear them...
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Steppenwolf's second album, appropriately titled, "The Second" is for me one of the all-time classic LPs of rock and roll. Monster is another, full of socio-political meaning etched in hard rock. I still get chuckles over the name, Mars Bonfire, which is the name guitarist Dennis Edmonton took for himself.
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I haven't listened to that one in years. I'll put it on the Spotify playlist.
I'm so enjoying this playlist on Spotify. ALL 50s Just amazed at Chuck Berry's songwriting and playing. Elvis before they neutered him. Little Richard. Fats Domino. Buddy Holly. Everly Brothers.
I listen to a lot of music from the era. Fantastic stuff.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...T16eT0OP_5aRZA
Thanks for reminding me of Elvis. I have a story about him. I was working in the pizza restaurant in a college town (UNH Durham, NH) and the hours were long. I'd be driving home at 330-430 in the morning. One night I heard this song on the wax museum, it sent chills down my spine and raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I thought it might have been some bootlegs of Robert Plant pre-led zeppelin. Then the DJ came on and said "That was Elvis Presley"
I almost drove off the road. "Whaaaa? That was Elvis??? The 'Blue Hawaii' guy?" This was pre-internet so I didn't have the luxury of looking up his early stuff. When I did, I saw an album called something along the lines of Elvis pre-1958, before he went into the Army. I believe there's an album called The Sun Years of that material.
I watched the "1968 Comeback Special" and had tears in my eyes. It was so amazing. I've read that he launched into a version of "Amazing Grace" at the end of hte show that was legendary but sadness they ran out of tape and it was never captured. That lucky audience.
Dan, I think that 68 special was Elvis's last attempt at doing what he did best--rocking. Those Sun Records (I live 1.5 hours from Memphis) recordings are as good as any in rock history.
Before Elvis died, I played my first gigs as a stand-in bassist--in an Elvis tribute band, early summer 1977. Great 1st gig--it was in a 1000 seat auditorium, packed to the gills, women and girls actually screaming when the very-Elvis-y singer did the Elvis moves. After Elvis died, I played two gigs with another Elvis impersonator (who, o my, was as Irish red-headed as they come).
I wish Elvis hadn't gone the way Colonel Parker sent him. He could have left a deeper and more respectable legacy. Of course the good stuff he actually did is a legitimate contribution to the halls of the greats. But he could have done so much more. Such an incredible singer.
It makes me sad to see video of his last gigs. Bloated, drugged out, greasy, and sad Vegas act. What a tragedy.
Factoid: Elvis's favorite sandwich was " Fool's Gold Loaf, a loaf of French white bread filled with a pound each of bacon, peanut butter, and grape jelly"---wiki's description. What they fail to mention is that Elvis liked this sandwich wrapped in twine and deep fried too.
I have had a CD of Jeff Beck's "There And Back" for years and I just discovered that I had never once listened to it. I don't know why.....
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(Don't laugh. It may sound dated now, but it was - and is - quite historic. Frequently cited as the inspiration for the term "heavy metal music," the second album by Iron Butterfly was the was first officially certified Platinum and 4× Multi-Platinum album in the United States on January 26, 1993. This is the cover of the deluxe edition CD, which features the entire album including the title track, plus a bonus live version - which exceeds the original's length by 1:55 - and the official "single" version.)
Man, Iron Butterfly--we had a copy of that album and listened to it all the time back in the day. I need to give that a spin on Spotify. Wish I still had the copy my brothers and I had.
Sadly, I have become addicted XMSIRIUS's Yacht Rock channel. I know, but damn, those songs are good!
You've got to live your dream, Chuck. I don't have a boat, so I listen to "Back Deck" music--which is anything I want to hear at that moment. Today it's been the Billboard Top 100 of 1970 and 1974.Quote:
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A while back, I bought the Immersion boxes of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, WYWH, and The Wall. Today I’ve been listening to Dark Side. It includes a great documentary about the album. Lots of fun stuff in the box too. Interestingly, a Roy Lichtenstein artwork of the prism.
I’m revisiting the Grateful Dead’s studio discography.
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath"
Cranking the Kid Rock right now.
10cc has always been one of my favorite groups. I've been listening to them on Spotify. Man, I was so into them in the late 70s and ever since.
Don't harsh me buzz, don't quill me pitch!
https://youtu.be/yxx4Ve__Tpw
Mike, that is one of my favorite Stones albums. I was working in a record store when it came out, and I got to see them on that tour. Fantastic.
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The first few times I heard the Beano album, I loved the band but wasn't too keen on Mayal's vocals. But then, I started digging it, and this is one of my favorite albums now.
After revisiting the Grateful Dead's studio stuff for like the 1000th time, I'm diving into Raul Seixas' works again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3rqm3V3AzY
BTW here's a great live version of that song by a fellow Brazilian guitarist, Fernando Catatau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFia40ID8P4
Just when you think you've seen (heard) it all, something comes along to surprise you. I know this clip isn't new, but it is to me. Who'd have thought Eric Clapton and Luciano Pavarotti...?
https://youtu.be/x9uYu4R2nk8