(05-19-2023 05:25 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-18-2023 12:50 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(05-18-2023 09:17 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  I watched those last night on youtube before you posted. haha

When I was a kid I had a Bell & Howell portable cassette deck with just two cassettes. Mothermania and Steppenwolf.

I love Frank. What a smartass. He named the song San Ber'dino to make fun of the people in San Bernardino on their lazy pronunciation of it. Lol

Frank was also a symphony writer/conductor. I didn't know that until I watched his documentary movie "Zappa" [2020]. If you've never seen it I'd HIGHLY recommend it as it covers his childhood up to his death and has great live footage of his many musical journeys. It's currently streaming on Hulu if you have a subscription.

I saw The Mothers live in Dallas back in the 70’s. Perhaps the most memorable point in the amazing performance was when FZ pulled up a folding chair and just watched his band absolutely Cook for a few minutes without him. I’ll never forget that.

As a band leader he and Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) are unequalled to this day.

Saw Tull at the Chicago Stadium. Terrible acoustics...Boston was the opening.

Saw Tull at the Orleans in Las Vegas. Emerson Lake and Palmer backed him up many years later. Two groups I adored. Ian Anderson is so special.

You're so lucky to have seen Zappa...I never got to.

Ram Ranch by Grant Macdonald. Yall should give it a listen.

I heard some Bowie today. Miss him.

(05-20-2023 10:35 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-19-2023 05:25 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-18-2023 12:50 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(05-18-2023 09:17 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  I watched those last night on youtube before you posted. haha

When I was a kid I had a Bell & Howell portable cassette deck with just two cassettes. Mothermania and Steppenwolf.

I love Frank. What a smartass. He named the song San Ber'dino to make fun of the people in San Bernardino on their lazy pronunciation of it. Lol

Frank was also a symphony writer/conductor. I didn't know that until I watched his documentary movie "Zappa" [2020]. If you've never seen it I'd HIGHLY recommend it as it covers his childhood up to his death and has great live footage of his many musical journeys. It's currently streaming on Hulu if you have a subscription.

I saw The Mothers live in Dallas back in the 70’s. Perhaps the most memorable point in the amazing performance was when FZ pulled up a folding chair and just watched his band absolutely Cook for a few minutes without him. I’ll never forget that.

As a band leader he and Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) are unequalled to this day.

Saw Tull at the Chicago Stadium. Terrible acoustics...Boston was the opening.

Saw Tull at the Orleans in Las Vegas. Emerson Lake and Palmer backed him up many years later. Two groups I adored. Ian Anderson is so special.

You're so lucky to have seen Zappa...I never got to.

Interesting tie-in: I was an SMU athlete ‘73-77 (first probation) and stayed around in various capacities until ‘84. I got paid 10$ cash for every hour a band’s gear was on campus, usually 12 hours. For that wage I pushed their equipment across a ramp from the truck to the back of the stage. The Union guys took it from there. During the concert we were front of stage security. At the end of the show we pushed the amps back across the ramp to the band’s roadies.

That just one of the ridiculous paying jobs you had as an SMU athlete back in the day. Yup. It’s all true. We did everything they said. And then some.

If you like both Talking Heads and reggae go see this band. Front man, Mystic Bowie, was a member of Tom Tom Club. Highly endorsed by Chris and Tina. They tour nationally.

you can blame Van Halen...things wuz diff'nt back in tha day...and nary a one said a word...

Artist: Van Halen
Album: 1984
Dirge: "Hot For Teacher"
Songwriters (them who had the ideas): Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen
October 1984 Warner Bros.

Quote:The song features Alex Van Halen's double bass drum performance, and its music video, featuring the band as both adults and young students.

The music video (directed by Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth,[8] and produced by Jerry Kramer and Glenn Goodwin, choreographed by Vincent Paterson with concept/treatment by Anthony Nasch) was filmed at John Marshall High School,[9] with Phil Hartman performing the voice of Waldo, the video's protagonist.

Waldo, an awkward boy with large glasses and a bow tie, is put on the school bus by his over-protective mother. He is terrified by the unruly kids on the bus; the driver played by Roth, tells him "si'down, Waldo!" as the opening drums begin. Along with Waldo, the "kid versions" of Van Halen face the trials and tribulations of grade school. Two models appear as teachers in the video,

Donna Rupert (1981 Miss Canada pageant runner up), who plays the chemistry teacher, and Lillian Müller, who plays the Phys Ed teacher. Both teachers tear off their dresses to reveal a bikini, to the cheers of the students. At the end of the video, the kids are shown to have grown up to become a gynecologist (Alex Van Halen), a sumo wrestler (Michael Anthony), a psychiatric hospital patient (Edward Van Halen), and a game show host (Roth).

While it is said that no one was sure what Waldo grew up to be, the video hints at him becoming a playa', the total opposite of his child self. This is intercut with scenes with the band members dressed in red suits and dancing to the song under a disco ball.

(05-24-2023 02:29 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  Tina Turner-what a performer...

we know Tina Turner's in Heaven because...
she's gonna tell St. Peter "You Better Be Good To Me!"

Artist: Tina Turner
Album: Private Dancer
Ticket: "Better Be Good To Me"
Songwriters: Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, and Nicky Chinn
September 1984 Capitol Records




Tina Turner, 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll', dies aged 83 in Switzerland

Song is one of my all-time favorites, so it deserves the original songwriter performance...Ladies and gentlemen: Holly Knight and Spider!

Artist: Spider
Album: Between The Lines
Ticket: "Better Be Good To Me"
Songwriters: Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, and Nicky Chinn
1981 Dreamland Records

Quote:Spider was an American rock band from New York, United States, that formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1984. They released two studio albums through Dreamland Records, a sub-label of RSO Records, in the early 1980s, and scored a few moderate hit singles in the United States. Two songs from their 1981 album Between the Lines - "Change" and "Better Be Good to Me" - were hits for John Waite and Tina Turner, respectively. In 1982 they changed the band's name to Shanghai and released their third and final album.

Holly Knight left the band before the third album and Beau Hill replaced her on keyboards. Knight went on to become a successful songwriter writing or co-writing several hit singles for other artists, such as "Rag Doll", "Obsession", "Love Is a Battlefield", "(Simply) The Best", "Invincible", "Better Be Good to Me", "The Warrior", and "Change". Holly Knight was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013 - and she also formed the band Device. Knight's first big break came when she played keyboards (uncredited) on Kiss' Unmasked album. In the early 1980s Hill had already been a record producer. Anton Fig and Jim Lowell toured with Link Wray and appeared on his live album Live at the Paradiso, recorded in 1979. Fig became a session drummer for several different bands throughout the rest of the 1980s and later went on to play with Paul Shaffer in The World’s Most Dangerous Band (later the CBS Orchestra) on Late Night with David Letterman.

Richie Scarlet, played for years with Ace Frehley and Mountain.

This video connects the dots to some very famous songs, concerning the love triangle between Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton and his best friend, George Harrison.

it's June, not July, but seems appropriate this week...

Artist: Jim Croce
Album: Life and Times
Song: "Alabama Rain"
July 1, 1973 ABC Records/Vertigo Records

Quote:Lazy days in mid-July, country Sunday mornin's
Dusty haze on summer highways, sweet magnolia callin'
But now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
That we were walking in the Alabama rain

Drive-in movies, Friday nights, drinkin' beer and laughin'
Somehow things were always right, I just don't know what happened

Now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
When we were walkin' in the Alabama rain

We were only kids but then I've never heard it said
That kids can't fall in love and feel the same
I can still remember the first time I told you "I love you"

On a dusty mid-July, country summer's evenin'
A weepin' willow sang its lullaby and shared our secret
But now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
That we were walkin' in the Alabama rain
Walkin' in the Alabama rain

https://youtu.be/u1V8YRJnr4Q

Credence Clearwater Revival-Have You Ever Seen the Rain

I heard this on the radio just a few days ago. It's been a lot of years since I last heard this Chapel Hill band. I looked this song up on Wikipedia, it went to #13 on the modern rock chart all the way back in 1996.





I love this part, "Now the D and the A and the M and the N and the A and the T and the I-O-N".

(05-27-2023 11:45 PM)mikeinoki Wrote:  This video connects the dots to some very famous songs, concerning the love triangle between Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton and his best friend, George Harrison.

It started before that. George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album was full of lines and songs that were communications to Clapton, and "Layla" was the same back to him. The core group backing Harrison were the guys who became Derek and the Dominos. Bobby Whitlock, who sang and played Hammond B3, was dating Patty Boyd's sister, so he got sucked into all that drama too.

...sorta related, but I'm in the midst of reading the Ted Templeman bio... pretty cool book, and really a 'must read' for any Doobie Bros and/or Van Halen fan (he produced both of them for Warner Bros...).

I happen to be a huge fan of each band - bought the Doobs LP 'The Captain and Me' in 1973, when I was a ripe age of 6... heard "Long Train Runnin'" on the radio, the DJ noted it was the Doobs, and the next time Ma took me to Woolworth's (that was a typical spot where records were sold back in the day) I found it and of course got her to buy it for me... So it is pretty interesting to get all of the 'back story' on the Doobs, as well as VH, who I picked up in high school (you pretty much couldn't avoid VH in the early 80's...)