That harmonica is sick!
Meat Loaf/Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Rocky Horror (Meat Loaf)/Time Warp
M/Pop Musik
Kings/Switchin’ to Glide~This Beat Goes On
Rita Coolidge/We’re All Alone
Paul Simon/Kodachrome
Anne Murray/You Won’t See Me
(Great bass part)
Well and truly sick. I won’t say that I play harmonica. . .it’s much closer to the truth to say I have a harmonica and collect harmonica learning materials, links, and songs . . .but I do listen to quite a lot of it. Most harp players have a deep and abiding love for Magic Dick’s harp work, and I’m no different. . .
Whammer Jammer, By Magic Dick (originally by the J. Geils band) (live)
. . .but I think the song I linked to, “Lost Fox Train” has taken the #1 spot in my heart. Just great sound and technique, along with a tremendous appreciation for the history of the instrument.
I also love Meat Loaf! Pity there’s such a small sample of him performing live on Youtube, but here’s a trailer for Roadie, Meat’s 1980 movie. It’s awesome if you have an appreciation for movies that don’t take themselves seriously. I have this DVD and love it. It’s like the last gasp of the 70’s.
I got to meet the Loaf and got his autograph during his Bat Out of Hell 2 tour. About 30 folks gathered around his bus (many of them I recognized from the local RHPS performing cast) and he stood on the steps and signed autographs. He was worried about being caught in a crowd of people, but once he took his spot on the steps, he was really nice and appreciative of the people who came out to see him. He seemed to be relishing his return to popularity and the charts. I know he worked hard for it. A bunch of my co-workers had seen him a couple years earlier at a small college concert, and he was performing a lot of the Bat 2 songs. I got stuck at work holding down the fort that night 
Did we mention the Sanford-Townsend Band yet?
And a great performance of “Crazy on You”. Nancy Wilson rocks!
I wonder if Nancy listened to this, performed either by Paul Simon or the writer, Davy Graham.
Simon took the hook and made this song…prolly not a hit, but a rocker fer sure. Some of the lyrics are the same as “Wednesday Morning 3:00 AM.”
IIRC, Magic Dick took his name from a porn star or movie or something along those lines. He could make that sucka sing, couldn’t he? My favorite J. Geils song wasn’t a hit, I think: “River Blindness.”
BTW I have two harmonicas on the shelf and a holder (for around the neck so I can pretend to be Neil Young) while playing guitar. Operative word here being “pretend.” Why can I sing and play guitar but not play harmonica and guitar? Oh, right. I can’t play harmonica :smack:
If it’s Meat Loaf yer wantin’ (today is Talk Like A Pirate Day, bear with me), then you’ll be wantin’ the title track—Bat out of Hell. The musicianship, the recording, vocals, lyrics, everything…just stunning. If we were making a list of songs to blow your eardrums to, that would be in the top 5 for sure. I played that vinyl till the grooves…well, you know.
OK, must have more toonz…
Yes/Roundabout
Mmkay, let’s check in with the other three ex-Beatles:
Ringo Starr/Photograph
George Harrison/Crackerbox Palace
Imagine/John Lennon
Moving on, a little albino power: Edgar Winter/Frankenstein
And while I’m putting the “mental” in “instrumental,” Focus/Hocus Pocus
Moving along, The Who/Baba O’Riley.
And Al Green/Let’s Stay Together.
Double cheat: Pete Townshend/Let My Love Open the Door (E. Cola version). True, the song is from 1980 but this is obviously redone. Rather than post the original, I thought I’d go with this, which appeared in the “Grosse Point Blank” soundtrack. I like both equally.
Crabby Appleton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HnJ06aHPb8
Edison Lighthouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztg-myCOYQ
Spiral Starecase (1969…close enough)
AC/DC?
Joan Jett?
We’re prolly missing some headbangers in here…
How about some old toy commercials.
Gi joe w/ kung fu grip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbW_BY4X80
Mego super heros
Thank you so much for the George Baker. I completely forgot about that song.
Devo - Jocko Homo.
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen.
They helped save me from the 70’s. It would be unfair to forget the goodness of the LATE 70’s.
Player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUadzVa0fc&feature=related
Bread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFa5E8q-940&feature=related
Paper lace
How can you post AC/DC and Joan in the same message and not post this as well?
Wow, all these 70’s songs remind me of riding the school bus in elementary and junior high. Here are a few that didn’t get as much air play, but had a more lasting effect on me.
T.Rex - Get It On
David Bowie - Suffragette City
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Foghat - I just wanna make love to you
Aerosmith - Dream On
And for my cheat, Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Darling Be Home Soon
Randy VanWarmer
Indeed :smack:
More…
Elvin Bishop/Fooled around and fell in love
Styx/Lorelei
Boston/More than a Feeling
R.I.P. Lead vocal Brad Delp…interesting way to commit suicide (two charcoal grills, sealed himself in bathroom)
Nilsson/Without You
Someone in the dope said (words to the effect) "I defy any man not to tear up when listening to ‘Cat’s in the Cradle.’ No problem for me. This song might be a different matter. Nilsson really delivers.
Badfinger/Day After Day
Badfinger/Baby Blue
(Two suicides in Badfinger…these guys also wrote “Without You”—what a loss!)
Carole King/It’s Too Late
Bob Seger/Night Moves
Pointer Sisters/Fire
Alice Cooper/Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper/You and Me
(This one should have been played a lot more)
ETA: Dolly Parton/Jolene
(10,000 Maniacs did a very respectable version as well).
And o’course we gotta add “I Will Always Love You”
Journey - Just the same way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAI9P4Ef6E8&feature=relat
Jay Ferguson - thunder Island
There is a whole thread that hasn’t been created that was dedicated to the Greatness that was Leslie Gore. Except we’ll leave out my ol’ bud Con (short for Cornelius), who in the 6th grade would fake a swoon at her name. She really was better than her reputation might suggest, but for us Yanks, that rep ended in the 60s.
For a 70s band, pure, simple, unalloyed, and all those other words that describe a band that put on a GREAT show without pretentions, SLADE!
Since some people have noted “Jolene”…this is WAY cheating, because it was released in the mid-80s, but I have a mission to post this wherever “Jolene” is mentioned and YouTube links are offered because it’s just so…80s surreal…