bluesboy Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 They rarely used to play this one one the radio. Penthouse Pauper - Creedence Clearwater Revival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Alone Again Or -- Love. Arthur Lee’s band seems somehow to have become invisible to Classic Rock radio. Are You Gonna Be There . by the ill-fated Stones clones The Chocolate Watchband I came up YouTubeless for The Sons Of Champlin. Little-known outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, singer/songwriter guitarist/keyboard player Bill Champlin founded this horn-powered group in 1966. Loosen Up Naturally was their tour de force debut album ( Freedom and Get High are classic tracks). They are often compared to Chicago (Transit Authority), but I'd say The Sons are like Chicago kicked up a couple notches. Interestingly, Bill Champlin became a full-fledged member of Chicago in 1981. Leaving Trunk -- Keef Hartley Band. You'll be lucky in a couple of ways if you can find first few albums by this group. On vinyl or import CD, they are rare and pricey, but the music is an incomparable energized jazz-colored Blues. Hartley was drummer with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers during the late 60s Mick Taylor-on-guitar period. When Mayall created a drumless acoustic band, Keef got "sacked" without prejudice. Hartley painstakingly put together his own band of top-notch musicians (vocals: Miller Anderson) and turned out the albums Halfbreed (highly recommended), The Battle Of North West Six, and The Time Is Near. The Keef Hartley Band played at Woodstock, although they don't turn up in the soundtrack, movie or extended video edition. Feelings -- The Grass Roots. This clip is sullied by the interjection of Doris Day et al, but you'll get the 'feeling' of the song. The Grass Roots, of course, had a number of hits -- don't know why this wasn't one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 We got to hear a lot of Quicksilver on the old WMMR underground progressive rock station in Philly. Especially this one... Fresh Air You guys who have been on SF for a few years ahve heard me speak of Joy Of Cooking They were a SF Bay area band that really rocked the blues. They also received tons of airplay on 'MMR. The pickings are slim on Youtube but this was the first song I ever heard by them and it hooked me... Brownsville/Mockingbird-1970 Here's another by them... Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome And one more... All Around the Sun and the Moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 We got to hear a lot of Quicksilver on the old WMMR underground progressive rock station in Philly. Especially this one... Fresh Air Oh my! I particularly dislike Fresh Air. I feel like Dino Valenti was the ruin of Quicksilver. I explained in a post.. way back when.. elsewhere on Songfacts: music writer Richie Unterberger[/smaller]]In the late 1960s, Quicksilver Messenger Service occupied an unusual position in the pantheon of major San Francisco Bay Area psychedelic bands. Not that most of those acts weren't unusual, even in relation to each other. Part of what set Quicksilver apart from their peers, though, was that they were not so much singer-songwriters as they were virtuoso players and creative interpreters and stylists. They were not the greatest of vocalists or composers, although they did pen some sturdy folk-rock tunes. Their strengths lay in the ziplocked tightness of their playing and arrangements; their ability to whip up a psychedelic brew from a diverse pool of sources encompassing folk, blues, improvisational jazz, and even Spanish and classical guitar; and their inventive rearrangements of unexpected, even left-field, blues, R&B, folk, and jazz classics. Leading the way was the inimitable, immediately identifiable quaver of John Cipollina's sustain-fueled lead guitar. He was complemented by the support of Gary Duncan, less a rhythm guitarist than a repository of resourceful counterpoint riffs of his own, and one of the most skilled and underrated second guitarists in rock history. Together with the rhythm section of David Freiberg on bass and Greg Elmore on drums, they comprised the Quicksilver lineup that played on the band's first two Capitol albums ... that, by virtual consensus, represent the best work that any configuration of Quicksilver released. They were most innovative ... when Cipollina and Duncan wove their guitars together in some of the finest psychedelic rock ever laid down, and the band managed to take some of the best elements from an array of disparate influences to create something new and intoxicating. Later, keyboard god Nicky Hopkins joined (listen to Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder on Quicksilver's Shady Grove album), but after Cipollina departed and screeching vocalist Dino Valenti took center stage, the group was doomed. Valenti (Chester Powers) might have been an original member except for his drug bust and time in jail. Dino's Song (I Don't Want to Spoil Your Party) is included on the first album -- without Dino. He also wrote the Youngbloods classic Get Together. I prefer his songwriting to his singing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viaene Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) *posted in the wrong topic, carry on* Edited August 13, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 [*] Alone Again Or -- Love. Arthur Lee’s band seems somehow to have become invisible to Classic Rock radio. This song got lot's of airplay in Los Angeles. Now... Seven & Seven Is by Love didn't get much airplay when I was growing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 U Joe, That band played at my high school in my senior year... I helped set up equipment, thats how I got in for free... lol Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Hey blues, Here another CCR tune rarly (if at all ) heard on the radio, " Tombstone Shadow" Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Hey blues, Here another CCR tune rarly (if at all ) heard on the radio, " Tombstone Shadow" Jim Tombstone Shadow ~ CCR :guitar: I'm lovin' it!...Thanks Jim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 This song got lot's of airplay in Los Angeles. Now... Seven & Seven Is by Love didn't get much airplay when I was growing up. I guess that was my point. Love's 'hits' were pretty regularly heard on radio back then*, but I never (seriously never) have heard any Love in the rotation on today's 'Classic Rock' format stations. *[smaller] at least on the West Coast.[/smaller] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 I've never heard them played on the radio anywhere. It's unfortunate, certainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted August 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 I definately think that "Love" must have been a west coast thing. Or maybe a coastal thing. I'm close enough in age that I should know them, or at least have heard them, but I haven't ever. I've realized that in the midwest our music was definately somewhat different. There are some songs that I consider so classic, and they are completely unknown to most of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted August 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Some early prog: Barclay James Harvest Rock & Roll Star For No One Poor man's Moody Blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Tombstone Shadow ~ CCR :guitar: I'm lovin' it!...Thanks Jim! Heres another: Strange Brew by Cream.. BTW, thanks for the link, never saw that vid.. I learned to play the studio version, but thats close enough. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 You're very welcome Jim.... Strange Brew gets quite a bit of air play on our local stations...great tune, that I would never get tired of listening to.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanAm Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Hot Summer Nights - Night 5-7-0-5 - City Boy Deja Vu All Over Again - John Fogerty Boom Like That - Mark Knopfler King Of Hollywood - The Eagles All of these songs received some FM radio play locally, but I don't think any one of them was a "hit". Perhaps 5-7-0-5 was a hit in Britain, but I only heard it once on FM radio here. I loved it, by the way, and became a big fan of City Boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 Without Her - Harry Nilsson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Does anyone remember this band? Modern Music - Be Bop Deluxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 I do!! Great sound !! Here's a regional classic from the Midwest. I've mentioned it many times, but never had a decent clip to post. So, I made one. These guys have been called country rock's answer to Steely Dan. Jackie Blue was their only big hit. But this is the song that we know & love 'em for back home. Chicken Train ~ Ozark Mountain Daredevils this one too: Standing On The Rock (waitin' for my seeds to grow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Always liked OMD. If you want to get to heaven, you have to raise a little Hell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted August 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 They were a fun group. They provided the soundtrack to many a keg party out in somebody's back field. Raise a little hell is just what we did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Absolutely, they were fun times. Sometimes TOO much fun. I have no regrets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted October 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 I listen every Sunday Morning to my "back home Classics show", they do a great one (KSHE95, dontcha know). Anyway a couple of regional (I think) classics: Rosewood Bitters ~ Michael Stanley Band Let's Get the Show On the Road ~ Michael Stanley Band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentH Posted November 15, 2008 Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 Good thread, Lucky. I get to listen to KSHE every day and look forward to John Ulett's KSHE Classics show. Some of my favorites: Never Met a Dog--Vinegar Joe Love Robert Palmer's vocals here. Megaforce--707 The Last Illusion--JF Murphy and Salt Take Me to the Kaptin--Prism Tomorrow Night--Shoes Did You See Him Cry--Pavlov's Dog Of a Lifetime--Journey From their first album. It's Journey like you never hear Journey. East of Eden's Gate--Billy Thorpe This was a follow up to "Children of the Sun," but in my mind, much, much better. Gudbuy T' Jane--Slade Small Paradise--John Mellencamp And a little "new wavier" but I like Downstream--The Rainmakers Finally, a forgotten hit by the Kinks Living on a Thin Line and one of the Midwest's best regional acts Tonight--Shooting Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentH Posted November 15, 2008 Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 I would also have to add another St. Louis legend. Mama's Pride was huge in the Midwest, and "Blue Mist" was their best. Blue Mist--Mama's Pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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