Just got home from seeing the Righteous Brothers tonight in Dearborn, Michigan. Great show, much better than I expected, and I expected it to be good. It was, however, without a doubt, the oldest audience I have ever been a part of. The comedian who opened for them had a good line about that. She said, "My great grandparents were married for seventy-four years! A lot of people don't eve
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My mom owned a copy of his 1970 album Homeward Bound, which was an album of folk-rock covers and also Harry's last charting LP. It was good. I used to listen to it quite a bit when I was a kid.
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QuoteDGA35 Quotemrpaulincanada Who is talking at the beginning of the track? I thought it was Keith but not sure. And what is he saying?? This has been discussed here previously. I'm sure it's Mick in his falsetto voice but hard to hear what he's saying. I'm sure I hear a second person's voice come in at the end and say just a word or two.
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I remember bringing a cassette of Sticky Fingers with me when I went to test out speakers for a new car stereo way back in '78. I think that was a good choice. Even the salesman seemed impressed.
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Thinking about going to see legendary trumpeter Randy Brecker tonight, siting in with the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble at a little club here in Ann Arbor. Tickets are $15.
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QuoteRollingFreak QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteRollingFreak Despite being in a different form, they're one of the only bands that played Woodstock that are still touring under that name. Only other one I can think of is Santana... Is the band Santana still touring? If so, that's cool. He is indeed: And I guess when I meant different form I meant still the main guy or guys par
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QuoteRollingFreak Despite being in a different form, they're one of the only bands that played Woodstock that are still touring under that name. Only other one I can think of is Santana... Ten Years After still tours with two of the guys who were with them at Woodstock. Canned Heat still exists and still has their original drummer. Blood, Sweat and Tears is also still around, albeit with
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Quotesnorton The Who just can't pack an outdoor arena like the Stones, indoor of about 30k is their typical venue? I'm not aware of any indoor 30,000 seat venues. In the US, we have indoor hockey and basketball arenas that seat 15,000 to 20,000 (that's what The Who have been playing for the past 30 years), and we have domed football and baseball stadiums that can seat anywhere fr
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Although it's not a Hipgnosis design, the cover of Roger Daltrey's 1975 solo album, Ride a Rock Horse, depicts him exactly in this way.
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QuoteBashlets At the time fans and critics were not pleased it was mostly SG especially for the big stadium shows. Rolling Stone magazine at the time was brutal I saw them in Philly about a week after the album was released. The crowd was familiar with "Miss You" which had been released as a single a few weeks earlier, but reacted to all the other new songs as if they were hearing
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Quotetreaclefingers Well...it looks like the same handwriting for all the signatures...so there's that. And they all apparently had to share the same pen.
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Been listening to a lot of Burt's stuff since he passed. Specifically, the albums he released under his own name; his own instrumental with anonymous chorus vocal versions of his own songs. I stumbled upon this one from 1971 that I probably hadn't heard or thought about in the last 50 years. Released as a single, it bubbled under at #116, and was only a minor hit on the Easy Listening c
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Boygenius - "$20" Pedestrian for about the first minute and a half, and then .... it's glorious!
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Known primarily for his work with Jackson Browne, but his slide guitar and fiddle also gave the mid-1970s Crosby-Nash band its distinctive sound. He plays both on this one, "Take the Money and Run." And wasn't he the one who used to wear a "Nasby & Crosh" t-shirt? You can still find replicas of it for sale online.
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"Fire Temple" - from the Midsommar original motion picture soundtrack.
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He was known for his better than fair Jagger impersonation, and, as someone once astutely pointed out, while he didn't really resemble Mick, he did look very much like a combination of all of The Rolling Stones!
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Jazz trumpeter Randy Brecker, recreating in 2015 his performance 40 years earlier on Bruce Springsteen's "Meeting Across the River."
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QuoteHairball Those individual "levitating" stage platforms were impressive, but other than that the performance was visually and musically monotonous. I thought it looked like she was floating around on a giant iPhone. I enjoyed the desperately frenetic flailing about of what looked to be about 200 dancers, but it's clear to me they were there mainly to distract the viewer
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I couldn't have been more than 10 or 11 years old when someone (my mom? some other relative? a family friend with an extra ticket?) took me to see the original Broadway production of Promises, Promises. You might remember the late Jerry Orbach from the television detective series Law and Order, but he got his start as a leading man in Broadway musicals.
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I've just been perusing a wonderful 3-CD box set in my collection called The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection. I bought it for my mother when it was first released in 2006, and I reacquired it when she passed away in 2018. Seventy-five tracks, including virtually every hit recording of every one of his hit songs. This one's a favorite of mine, from the original cast album
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He defined the 1960s as much as the Beatles did. It's just that he defined them for people who were slightly too old to be going gaga over the Fabs. Sophisticated, hip young adults, people born before 1940.
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QuoteDaveG QuoteDGA35 Quotetreaclefingers QuoteDaveG The Rolling Stones Hollywood Bowl, July 25, 1966 And a month later . . . The Beatles, Dodger Stadium. August 28, 1966 Thinking back, what an incredible way to begin my fantastic concert journey! Probably inconceivable at the time it would be the last Beatles tour. Brian only played 2 more shows in the US, San Fran and Honolulu. Als
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QuoteMisterO Alice Cooper at the Nassau Colosseum (Long Island, NY) summer of 1977. On the billboard sign outside it read "Elvis Presley" and he ended up passing away a few weeks later. I remember that. Elvis had been scheduled to play Nassau Coliseum on August 22, 1977 and died on August 16. Fans were conflicted about what they should do with their tickets; turn them in for refunds,
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My earliest recollection of seeing a live, electric rock and roll band is of a group I saw playing CCR covers while I was on a family vacation in 1969. One year later I saw the original lineup of Cactus. I was at a summer "sleep away" camp, when one day the earth literally began to shake and our counselor told us that Vanilla Fudge had changed their name to Cactus and were using the
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If we're talking about a chance encounter, and not something connected to a meet and greet or a record signing or hanging out backstage at a gig ..... then I can only say that I've met Lou Reed. In 1986 I was working at a publishing company in New York, and one day a girl who worked there came over to my desk and said, "Lou Reed is sitting in our lobby." I walked out there
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QuoteRollingFreak Quotetatters Quotedrewmaster What a talent. His first solo album is gorgeous and hypnotic. RIP, David. Drew I've always loved "Laughing." He was still in The Byrds when he wrote that one, which I guess is why he considered it fair game for including a re-recorded version of it on the Byrds 1973 reunion album. What I didn't know until today is that i
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Quotedrewmaster What a talent. His first solo album is gorgeous and hypnotic. RIP, David. Drew I've always loved "Laughing." He was still in The Byrds when he wrote that one, which I guess is why he considered it fair game for including a re-recorded version of it on the Byrds 1973 reunion album. What I didn't know until today is that it was written in response to a
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It deserves a mention that 5 of his 8 solo albums were released during a 7-year stretch between the ages of 72 and 79. That's unheard of. You'd think it would be the norm, that musicians, when they are aware that time is running out, would want to be as prolific as possible, but the reality is that in nearly every case, they make fewer records, and the time between new releases gets lon
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