Another band where you can never make a bad choice.

 

 

I wore the vinyl out on Live At Leeds.

 

 

 

 

Music for every generation. As joyful today as it was 40 years ago.

 

Motown , unlike  alot of the music/artists*  in early/mid  60's who did not survive/ transition during the British invasion, did continue  to flourish.   

* These other artists who remained in the late 50's early 60.s style ( like doo wop) were onle popular for certain groups like the lowriders and were promoted by Wolfman Jack on the border blaster, XERB. 250 000 watts

The " Girl Groups " also survived the British invasion

A nice bluesy number from Bakerloo on the self titled debut in '69.

 

 

Saw them when they just started when i was 12,can not remember the name of the town.

 

A very nice slow bluesy number from Ash Ra Tempel, an experimental krautrock, from '72.  This off their Seven Up LP featuring Timothy Leary.

 

 

Live Cactus from '71.  Feel So Bad.

 

 

German band Elfenbein (Ivory in German) produced only a single album, released in '77.  This is a very nice take on Traffic's Can't Find My Way Home.  I give it a thumb's up.

 

 

Wonderful little ditty from Australian band Carson off their 1972 Blown LP.

 

 

On 6/27/2018 at 6:14 PM, Tippaporn said:

A nice bluesy number from Bakerloo on the self titled debut in '69.

 

 

 I expect Jimmy Page's  loud riff to break in at any moment (as in below in the Train's cover below)

 

 

13 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

A very nice slow bluesy number from Ash Ra Tempel, an experimental krautrock, from '72.  This off their Seven Up LP featuring Timothy Leary.

 

 

Turn on, tune in and drop out.

Petula, sounding fresh and vibrant, like her name.

 

 

Get out of the city

 

From the Father of British Blues,  Alexis Korner playing along with Cyril Davies performing Willie Dixon's Hootchie Coochie Man in '62.

 

 

From Alexis' 1st LP in '57, Roundhouse Stomp, when the band was named Alexis Korner's Breakdown Group.

 

 

 

The Faces' Flying from their First Step LP in '70.

 

 

 

Sunday morning alarm clock. A gentle shake of the shoulders then a rousing cry- get up!

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Ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossof playing the blues number Time Away in '73.

 

 

With Paul Rodgers on vocals. I can almost hear early Bad Company here.

Ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossof playing the blues number Time Away in '73.  

 

 

Gotta love Koss !!

Unfortunately another of the “ died too young “ club.

 

Here is a little compilation of some of his work !

 

 

4 minutes ago, bannork said:

With Paul Rodgers on vocals. I can almost hear early Bad Company here.

This is true.  Especially towards the end it strikes familiar with Bad Company's Bad Company tune.

Pushing a wheelbarrow full of cold cast iron across the junk yard in the winter and tipping it into the scoop that  carried it upwards to the iron foundry furnace, this song would often come to mind.

' Oh, I'm carrying a heavy load,' literally.

Music and the lyrics can often help one through the travails of life even if the composer meant something quite different.

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Gotta love Koss !!

Unfortunately another of the “ died too young “ club.

 

Here is a little compilation of some of his work !

 

Yeah, drug induced heart failure at the tender age of 25.  I experienced that era first hand myself but never overindulged in the slightest and only imparted at parties.  Some simply couldn't control themselves (including some of my friends).  I recall when the Stones came to Chicago in '72 and a friend of ours just started working at a major retailer which had just opened a new Ticketron inside the store.  While people were camping overnight at other outlets we arrived at 6 AM on the day of ticket sales.  We were third in line!  As the hours passed the guy who was first in line was getting more and more f*cked up.  By the time the doors opened he was hunched up against the wall and so out of it that he never made it in.  Ah, well.

Free in '69 performing a nice blues rock number called Walk In My Shadow from their debut, Tons Of Sobs.

 

 

Farm, a band formed in Southern Illinois, released only a single LP in '71.  They were a blues rock band with Allman Bros. and Canned Heat influences.  This cut is Let That Boy Boogie and is obviously more of a boogie than blues rock.

 

 

A local Chicago band, The Shadows Of Knight, with their version of Gloria in '66.  Hugely popular in the U.S. at the time.

 

 

The Allman Bros. off their 2nd LP, Idlewild South, performing Willie Dixon's Hoochie Coochie Man in '70.  Bassist Berry Oakley on vocals.

 

 

Going back to Paul Kossoff. Here's an interesting story of his life. It seems Mandrax and other downers like Mogadon played the major part in his downfall. I never could see the attraction of sedatives as recreational drugs. Ugh!

And then there is heroin, painfully obvious in this interview.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-short-life-and-tragic-death-of-paul-kossoff

Still, the achievements of the artist rise above his or her own personal weaknesses.