I’m learning Badfinger’s Baby Blue on guitar (what else?) and getting so I can keep with their recording pretty good, and I get a thrill out of different places in the song each time I jump in along with it.
Original. Was not familiar with the live
Quadropehnia is the greatest album ever.
I almost was killed because of Thunder Road, but that’s a story for a few drinks. Let’s just say it involved the line “You ain’t a beauty, but, hey, you’re all right.”
Let’s add a few more to the list
Squeeze, Black Coffee In Bed
I’ve got a live version of Koko Taylor singing “Hound Dog” - you’ll never listen to Elvis again.
Cheep Trick - Surrender. I always say that’s my kids’ theme song - “Mommy’s all right; Daddy’s all right; they just seem a little weird.”
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Willie the Wimp and his Cadillac Coffin
BB King - The Thrill is Gone. Greatest blues song ever.
Lotsa dudes, I’m seeing lots of dudes, and lots of rock. Here’s something different.
In no particular order:
The Who’s “Young Man Blues” from Live at Leeds
Allman Brothers “Statesboro Blues”
The Rolling Stones “All Down the Line”
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s cover of “Voodoo Chile”
Talking Heads “Life During Wartime”
The Band’s cover of “Don’t Do It”
Eric Clapton’s “Lonesome and a Long Way from Home”
Foghat’s “Road Fever”
George Harrison’s “What is Life”
Linda Ronstadt’s “You’re No Good”
ZZ Top’s cover of “I Thank You”
The Faces’ “Miss Judy’s Farm”
Bob Dylan’s “Cold Irons Bound” from Masked and Anonymous
I could do this all day long…better stop now.
All Night Long - Joe Walsh
I’ve been listening to Avicii’s Broken Arrows so much that I’m beginning to find it a little weird that I haven’t grown sick of it yet.
Bad Company —If You Needed Somebody
KISS------Detroit Rock City
Judas Priest----Turbo Lover
Sammy Hagar—I Can’t Drive 55
Van Halen-----Panama
Blind Melon—No Rain
Vanilla Ice----Ice Ice Baby
I liked that song much better when Queen and David Bowie did it as Under Pressure.
What are you talking about?
Under Pressure goes Ding Ding Ding dada Ding Ding.
And Ice Ice Baby goes Ding Ding Ding DING dada Ding Ding. There’s a extra Ding! It’s not the same!!!
For some reason, during this lockdown, I’ve been kind of obsessing about a local rap artist called Serengeti – well, David Cohn, and he now lives in LA. But I’ve just had this song in my head stuck on repeat all day. It’s a baseball song about the Steve Bartman incident during the 2003 playoffs. No idea why this is just embedded in my subconscious, but I’ve been also listening to it over and over and over again. As a Cubs fan, this was just such a shameful moment, and I’m a bit more emotional than usual in this time. And I love this redemption – especially as one of my close friends was close friends with Steve Bartman, and he’s a class act through and through by all accounts.
Mozart K.466 Piano Concerto #20 in D minor 2nd mov. Romance
Coil: Batwings
The Residents: Ships a Going Down
Current 93: They return to their Earth
Psychic TV: Just Drifting
Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Tuxedomoon: Night and Day
Noises of Russia: Spirit
Faith & Disease: Banks of the Ohio
Nurse with Wound: Yagga Blues
Marshall Tucker Band - 24 Hours at a Time (live version)
Allman Brothers Band - Back Where It All Begins
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
All three take me somewhere else when I just close my eyes and listen. I REALLY wish I had seen MTB in their prime.
Boogie Wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire.
We were at a lakeside dive at dusk on a summer week night, one of those old places that will always smell like beer. We went out on the huge screened porch looking out at the water, with a wooden dance floor, empty. No one there but us. Put a coin in the juke box and Boogie Wonderland turned up to 11 filled the room, and we danced, the two of us. It was magical.
Oh man, yeah. LOVE that live version of 24 Hours at a Time. I bought a 2-CD set about 25 years back, “The Capricorn Years”, and I just about wore those discs out. Just a fun, energetic jam.
I was thinking about starting a thread about great live performances lost to time, and the MTB was going to be one of the bands I talked about. One of the great things about modern tech is how so many bands are now recorded in hi-def at just about every performance, even if it’s just by audience members. So many bands prior to the 80’s have little footage of them performing live, and from the early 80’s to the early 2000’s, most of we have are fuzzy, VHS-res tapes recorded from shows like The Midnight Special.
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
