Old Timey Music for Howard and DC

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:43 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:13 pm Some excellent English blues rock

^ cuz I got you in the sights of my (girly) guuuuuuuuuun!

Great Muddy Waters cover

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:48 pm

Great song, great cover. One quibble - they are covering Albert King, not Muddy. (Written by Booker T. & the MGs.)

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:20 pm

Whoops. Did Muddy cover that song?

It's interesting how Robert Plant cleans up the lyrics a bit at the end of How Many More Times.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:24 pm

I guess their big hit is over 30 years old so qualifies but never would have expected SC to admit to being a Mr. Big fan.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:32 pm

rass wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:24 pm I guess their big hit is over 30 years old so qualifies but never would have expected SC to admit to being a Mr. Big fan.

Funny thing - the band you mention is best known for a fluffy pop hit, but actually most of their first album was heavy bluesy rock. And they named themselves after that Free song in my post. I learned this by reading a profile long ago on the band Mr. Big’s bass player, Billy Sheehan, who had a notable career with some other bands.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 7:32 pm

Not for nothing, but (Mr. Big) they did take their name from that song.

It's sorta funny when you look at the 80s hair bands through that lens. Motley Crue used to encore with 'White Punks on Dope' and Def Leppard would always say one of their most inspirational albums was Electric Warrior by T. Rex.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:36 pm

and now for something completely different

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:38 pm

This is some fantastic Danish prog/fusion with psych influences.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:03 pm

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:54 am

heh - nice

apparently that was their attempt at a hit single (which i think worked? i mean, i definitely heard it on Ontario radio growing up)

A little more spacerock/freaky with a killer end of song solo (check the kid losing his mind when Kim (guitar/vocals) climbs onto the seat next to him and plays the solo):

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:18 am

"Paradise Skies" was one of many Max Webster hits in southern Ontario back in the day.

Classic high school party tune -

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:22 pm

MaxWebster wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:54 am heh - nice

apparently that was their attempt at a hit single (which i think worked? i mean, i definitely heard it on Ontario radio growing up)

A little more spacerock/freaky with a killer end of song solo (check the kid losing his mind when Kim (guitar/vocals) climbs onto the seat next to him and plays the solo):

That kid was hilarious, I love how he ran his finger down the guys leg first. And the hairline on the Kim guy is... unique.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 6:29 pm

The Sybian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:22 pm And the hairline on the Kim guy is... unique.

Rush wrote a song about him.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:17 am

Very Kinks.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:15 am

That’s the sound of the English music hall tradition, eh? (Which the Kinks also incorporated.)

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Wed Mar 08, 2023 6:19 am

One more Max Webster tune - this one featuring Rush!

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:45 am

story goes that whoever of Max or Rush was going to release their album next...that's who'd get the song on their album.

It's a cool bit of musical history and was an FM radio staple around here / niagara peninsula in the early 80s but it wouldn't really have fit on a Rush album (imagine Moving Pictures with this song?). ... i guess in a lot of ways it didn't really fit with Max either but there you go.

dug out my vinyl - here's the lyric:

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Fri Mar 10, 2023 4:12 pm

Released 47 years ago today

(and I found the vinyl copy I bought for 4.50 is worth 40$ (score.)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Mar 10, 2023 5:11 pm

I have my old vinyl copy from the 70s, but it’s got the nicks and pops you’d expect.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:10 am

I guess I'll put it here. Met a coworker for a beer, went to local brewery that I went to 6 years ago that I wasn;t impressed with. New guys, much improved. I stayed until close. The bartender was from the midwest (Iowa) never heard of the Hip. The mopped the floor to this:

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:39 pm

Great tune.

So's this one...

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:13 pm

I just uncovered Rubicon (Jerry Martini from Sly & the Family Stone). Here they are at Cal Jam 2, with not only Brad Gillis on guitar, but also Jack Blades on bass (both from Night Ranger).

Holy freakin shit I had no idea Jack Blades threw down like this.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:52 pm

Too many people sleeping on the Scandinavian Jazz/Rock/Prog from the early 70s

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:09 pm

holy SisterChristian -> that's as far from Night Ranger as I can think of (no disrespect to NR

) - holy shit Jack Blades does rip it up on bass

and that Pekka Pohjola tune is buttery - damn i like that

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:19 pm

Astrud was born this day in 1940.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:26 pm

But, she was not from Ipanema.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:39 pm

Bob Dylan wasn't a girl from the north country either.

EnochRoot · Post by **EnochRoot** » Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:05 pm

Before Godley, Creme, Stewart & Gouldman would form 10cc, they were a house band of musicians at Strawberry Studios in England. They dicked around and found out about Neanderthals.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Tue May 09, 2023 11:22 pm

An American "Canterbury Scene" band from Baltimore.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Fri May 12, 2023 8:25 am

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Max Webster Earl Haig Collegiate (High School) 1973

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:27 pm

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:59 pm

My buddy down the street is an enormous Roy Buchanan fan.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:54 am

A friend from college is married to a guy that ran sound for Phish back in the early days. He's got a super deep music collection. He introduced me to Ray the other day. Fantastic guitarist. More people should be enormous fans.

My wife's company is headquartered on the other side of the Bay. Have to get the kids watched and we'll listen to some Roy with him (I'll bring more CO beers, sad Mikkeller SF is closed.)

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 11:07 am

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:54 am A friend from college is married to a guy that ran sound for Phish back in the early days. He's got a super deep music collection. He introduced me to Ray the other day. Fantastic guitarist. More people should be enormous fans.

My wife's company is headquartered on the other side of the Bay. Have to get the kids watched and we'll listen to some Roy with him (I'll bring more CO beers, sad Mikkeller SF is closed.)

Come on out!

Post by **Shirley** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 11:30 am

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2023 10:27 pm

Never heard of this guy before but he can play that thang.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:17 am

Bass by Cliff WIlliams, more famously a member of AC/DC

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:33 pm

One of my favorite bass lines.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:04 pm

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:28 am

a fringe Canterbury Scene band. Man I dig that UK jazzy rock, but as Max told me, it's me and about 5000 middle-aged British men that know about this stuff.

MaxWebster · Post by **MaxWebster** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:36 am

hey man i mean that as a compliment

(this bass riff is now seared into my brain)

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:28 am a fringe Canterbury Scene band. Man I dig that UK jazzy rock, but as Max told me, it's me and about 5000 middle-aged British men that know about this stuff.