Best/Great Rock Songs - Nobody Remembers....

[TheWizardofRnR]

This was a gigantic Hit in the UK , The Wizard never knew this New Jersey Musician was a big star in UK due to this song ,

when I first came to find out was partying with an English couple in Phuket Island Resort in 1985 , I was playing his album on my tape player and soon as it started they both said " Dean Friedman" I was shocked but since then every UK person I met over the years if we talked Music seemed to be a Dean Friedman Fan !

[TheWizardofRnR]

A real oldie and in 1963 when these guys from my Hometown of Brooklyn,NY blew everyone away with this rendition of the Righteous Brothers Hit ! I don't think they were on the Billing for the show but Murray the K brought them out to do this at his Show cause in NY it had become a Big Hit !

Edited December 16, 2014 by TheWizardofRnR

[tutsiwarrior]

speaking of the Righteous Bros

a 'wall of sound' classic...

[xylophone]

Thought this was great..........Vanilla Fudge.

http://youtu.be/vQr-U410JOw

Edited December 16, 2014 by xylophone

[tutsiwarrior]

and who can forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oyE2tMu2mE

ethnic types goin' wild in NY in the early 60s...

[tutsiwarrior]

yeah...I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Supremes yet

the lyrics make me cringe...I remember an old girlfriend who never said nothin' but I could see it in her eyes: 'you don't really need me, you just keep me hangin' on...why don't ye be a man about it, etc...'...

I didn't want 'her', I just wanted her body...arrrghhh...

never ending guilt and remorse: the wages of cowardice...

Edited December 16, 2014 by tutsiwarrior

[bannork]

yeah...I went to an Escher exhibit in SF once in the 70s...etchings mostly...never seen his stuff before used as album cover art...

but in dem days I was mostly into de blues...here's one of my favorites

tw, get out the whisky and a few beers, let's sit on the porch and play them blues..........upcountry is perfect for country blues.

[TheWizardofRnR]

Wow finding this one really suprised me , this was covered by a R&R Band but I'm having a momentary lapse of memory.....somehow I feel like J Geils Band or Grand Funk Railroad , this was the Marvelows , kind of copying the Marvellets name!

Edited December 16, 2014 by TheWizardofRnR

[TheWizardofRnR]

Oh Yes , The Wizard at 67 is still able to recall some really cool tunes , amazing how much Younger the R&R Baby Boomers are then their Parent or Grandparents ever were ! J Geils Band !

Edited December 16, 2014 by TheWizardofRnR

[tutsiwarrior]

yeah...I went to an Escher exhibit in SF once in the 70s...etchings mostly...never seen his stuff before used as album cover art...

but in dem days I was mostly into de blues...here's one of my favorites

tw, get out the whisky and a few beers, let's sit on the porch and play them blues..........upcountry is perfect for country blues.

hey man...my guitar is permanently tuned to a open 'G' (but I always preferred a tall can of Rainier Ale...)

'...talking about president roosevelt...

he hepped me ...an' he hepped de chinese...'

(I looked fer it on youtube but it had been 'removed due to copyright infringement'...jezuz, can't believe that Arhoolie Records would do something like that...the opening field moan is my favorite howl...)

[pgrahmm]

It's a Beautiful Day-White Bird:

Here's a rare gem....White Bird...It's a Beautiful Day.....

[bannork]

Some songs are eternal....

[pgrahmm]

IRON BUTTERFLY - IN A GADDA DA VIDA - 1968 (ORIGI:

And some are even more eternal...saw them at a club in Campbell,CA....seemed like the drums took up the whole place (the Chysalis)..not sure how I made it through those days in one piece...

[Neeranam]

[Neeranam]

Never heard of Moby grape - good stuff.

[pgrahmm]

Dr. Hook, Carry me Carrie:

One of my favorite groups...these guys can harmonize with anyone... Dr Hook ....yeah they're a little crazy too...lot's of Shel Silverstein songs....

[pgrahmm]

Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel (Live @ St. James Stadi:

...An enduring favorite of mine....Dire Straits... saw this concert in the US....

[tutsiwarrior]

excellent, and brought a memory of the following

in the memory I was on the shore of the gulf in Qatar with a can of beer and weeping at my fate that had landed me there in a middle eastern shithole, about to lose my family to divorce and there was no apparent resolution...despair, maybe...

btw check out Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...when her prosecutor told her to recant and when she defied him responded with: 'thou wanton...'

'wanton' has been one of my favorite words ever since...

Edited December 16, 2014 by tutsiwarrior

[rgs2001uk]

Yo, Tuts, best you dont listen to this.

takes me back to the days of "burning off" a thousand litres of mash in "the land of the prophet" used to gives us 20 cases of "sid"

Loved the signs on the wall, No Smoking or naked flames.

Jeez what a laugh, well done Lee, Rick, god bless the koran, made us a fortune.

[rgs2001uk]

Another classic from the "land of sand" used to blast out of my place every Wed & Thurs night, as the lads came round to pick their orders.

Well eff it, its happy hour, have some more.

What an intro, great stuff.

The best think every invented, Jack D wood chips, burn off some "white lightening", get one of those 20 litre plastic water coolers, throw in some wood chips, leave to settle for 3/4 weeks, even better than the real thing.

The difference between me and Jack, Jack threw the whisky in the barrel, I threw the barrel in the whisky, great days.

[pgrahmm]

Dire Straits - Private Investigations [basel -92 : http://youtu.be/1M_KO2aejuc...Just nothing but good stuff.. same concert...when I saw it the sax guy was everywhere in the arena...never knew where he'd pop up....

[pgrahmm]

Dire Straits - Heavy Fuel (Live @ St. James Stadi:

...An enduring favorite of mine....Dire Straits... saw this concert in the US....

[tutsiwarrior]

Yo, Tuts, best you dont listen to this.

takes me back to the days of "burning off" a thousand litres of mash in "the land of the prophet" used to gives us 20 cases of "sid"

Loved the signs on the wall, No Smoking or naked flames.

Jeez what a laugh, well done Lee, Rick, god bless the koran, made us a fortune.

I'm cool...there were copperheads in the undeveloped land behind my grandparents' place in Nashville where I used to wander when I was little and they never bit me...maybe they saw an aura that the humans couldn't see...

oh...

Edited December 16, 2014 by tutsiwarrior

[pgrahmm]

^^^^^ Sorry duplication

[Neeranam]

excellent, and brought a memory of the following

in the memory I was on the shore of the gulf in Qatar with a can of beer and weeping at my fate that had landed me there in a middle eastern shithole, about to lose my family to divorce and there was no apparent resolution...despair, maybe...

btw check out Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...when her prosecutor told her to recant and when she defied him responded with: 'thou wanton...'

'wanton' has been one of my favorite words ever since...

Wonderful song - new to me.

Reminded me of

the song I remember whilst sitting in a Bangkok bar early one afternoon after a bar girl with one eye had left me. I had lost everything which thankfully wasn't much, apart from my sanity. Luckily the end of the 10 year nightmare had come to an end. I played this song repeatedly.

[rgs2001uk]

Tuts, post # 113, as relevant today as it was the day it was written.

Always loved this classic,

[rgs2001uk]

Killer intro,

[rgs2001uk]

I dont play "rounders" our American friends do.

[rgs2001uk]

Top banana,

[tutsiwarrior]

rgs, yeah CCR helped to popularise some american traditional music and weren't no slouches themselves with their own material...

one of my favorites is Tracy Nelson who was hugely neglected as an artist during her era...

in a small club in SF in the 70s I was enraptured and she nodded at me in acknowledgment of my appreciation...later my associates said that I was drunk and making a fool of meself and disrupting her performance...

the excellent blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield (also largely unsung) was one of her backing musicians on Living with the animals...

Edited December 16, 2014 by tutsiwarrior