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Post by chiyankee on Jul 3, 2024 20:53:16 GMT -5
One of the best female rock singers of this generation. My favorite Heart song is: If You Love Me Like Music, I'll Be Your Song. Also off the Dreamboat Annie record.Saw them about 1978. Opening band was Firefall who had a couple decent hits at the time. Firefall was all over in the late 70s. "You Are The Woman" and "Just Remember I Love You" and "Strange Way" and a few other soft rockers. I think those songs would have all been around when you saw them. "Strange Way" is just a classic 70's rock/pop song. |
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Post by azbob643 on Jul 3, 2024 21:22:07 GMT -5
One of the best female rock singers of this generation. My favorite Heart song is: If You Love Me Like Music, I'll Be Your Song. Also off the Dreamboat Annie record.Saw them about 1978. Opening band was Firefall who had a couple decent hits at the time. Firefall was all over in the late 70s. "You Are The Woman" and "Just Remember I Love You" and "Strange Way" and a few other soft rockers. I think those songs would have all been around when you saw them.P “Firefall”…another Colorado band. PS - Nancy Wilson is a classically trained awesome guitarist. |
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jul 4, 2024 14:21:30 GMT -5
PBS-TV ran a Heart concert from Paris, a couple of months ago. It was a great show, it may be available on their PBS Passport App.
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Post by inger on Jul 4, 2024 15:14:59 GMT -5
I’m wanting to hear New York, New York playing post game, but it seems to have fallen off the charts…
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 9, 2024 16:28:57 GMT -5
Joe Egan, who with Gerry Rafferty was the main force behind the Scottish band Stealers Wheel, has died at age 77. They were of course best known for their 1973 hit "Stuck In The Middle With You" which he and Rafferty co-wrote. Stealers Wheel had one other US hit in late 73-early 74 called "Star," which was again co-written by Egan and Rafferty, with Egan singing lead on that one. It's a good song and was a moderately big hit, but it never seems to show up on any oldies stations.
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 9, 2024 16:38:23 GMT -5
Two other relatively recent music deaths I wanted to mention. They were both more off-kilter cult figures than mainstream hit-makers, but I liked them. One is Kinky Friedman, whose best-known song was probably "Ride 'Em Jew Boy," (which despite the title is actually a serious and rather moving song) was definitely quirky -- two of his best friends in the music business were Willie Nelson and Warren Zevon if proof is needed. He even ran for Governor of Texas once and was naturally easily defeated.
The other is Mojo Nixon, whose best-known effort was probably "Elvis Is Everywhere." He had other good ones like "Don Henley Must Die" and "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child." You can't help but like a guy like that.
I actually saw Mojo Nixon perform at The House Of Blues in LA back around 1996. They were having "A Night Of Noise" and he was on the bill with other Noise Rock proponents like Siouxshie And The Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Unsane, and Jesus Lizard. If you know any of these bands, we should probably talk.
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Post by kaybli on Jul 9, 2024 16:40:33 GMT -5
Joe Egan, who with Gerry Rafferty was the main force behind the Scottish band Stealers Wheel, has died at age 77. They were of course best known for their 1973 hit "Stuck In The Middle With You" which he and Rafferty co-wrote. Stealers Wheel had one other US hit in late 73-early 74 called "Star," which was again co-written by Egan and Rafferty, with Egan singing lead on that one. It's a good song and was a moderately big hit, but it never seems to show up on any oldies stations. I love "Stuck in the Middle With You" which of course I first heard in the Tarantino classic Reservoir Dogs.   |
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Post by inger on Jul 9, 2024 17:36:27 GMT -5
Two other relatively recent music deaths I wanted to mention. They were both more off-kilter cult figures than mainstream hit-makers, but I liked them. One is Kinky Friedman, whose best-known song was probably "Ride 'Em Jew Boy," (which despite the title is actually a serious and rather moving song) was definitely quirky -- two of his best friends in the music business were Willie Nelson and Warren Zevon if proof is needed. He even ran for Governor of Texas once and was naturally easily defeated. The other is Mojo Nixon, whose best-known effort was probably "Elvis Is Everywhere." He had other good ones like "Don Henley Must Die" and "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child." You can't help but like a guy like that. I actually saw Mojo Nixon perform at The House Of Blues in LA back around 1996. They were having "A Night Of Noise" and he was on the bill with other Noise Rock proponents like Siouxshie And The Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Unsane, and Jesus Lizard. If you know any of these bands, we should probably talk. I’ve at least heard of 3 of the 4, which I believe Meatloaf would agree is a little better than “ain’t bad”…I had not heard of Unsane… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 9, 2024 17:38:31 GMT -5
Two other relatively recent music deaths I wanted to mention. They were both more off-kilter cult figures than mainstream hit-makers, but I liked them. One is Kinky Friedman, whose best-known song was probably "Ride 'Em Jew Boy," (which despite the title is actually a serious and rather moving song) was definitely quirky -- two of his best friends in the music business were Willie Nelson and Warren Zevon if proof is needed. He even ran for Governor of Texas once and was naturally easily defeated. The other is Mojo Nixon, whose best-known effort was probably "Elvis Is Everywhere." He had other good ones like "Don Henley Must Die" and "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child." You can't help but like a guy like that. I actually saw Mojo Nixon perform at The House Of Blues in LA back around 1996. They were having "A Night Of Noise" and he was on the bill with other Noise Rock proponents like Siouxshie And The Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Unsane, and Jesus Lizard. If you know any of these bands, we should probably talk. Thanks Pipps for mentioning Kinky Friedman, introduced to me by a friend many, many years ago. Sarah loved Kinky Friedman and supported his political run, and she even has a couple of his books on one of our shelves somewhere. My buddy used to walk into the workroom at lunch time - filled with California women - singing, "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed." What a riot! No, that would not go over today - an automatic HR issue. All those names reminds me of my pile of vinyl records somewhere in Iowa: |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 9, 2024 19:04:27 GMT -5
Joe Egan, who with Gerry Rafferty was the main force behind the Scottish band Stealers Wheel, has died at age 77. They were of course best known for their 1973 hit "Stuck In The Middle With You" which he and Rafferty co-wrote. Stealers Wheel had one other US hit in late 73-early 74 called "Star," which was again co-written by Egan and Rafferty, with Egan singing lead on that one. It's a good song and was a moderately big hit, but it never seems to show up on any oldies stations. I love "Stuck in the Middle With You" which of course I first heard in the Tarantino classic Reservoir Dogs. Oh you kids today. Actually Stealers Wheel would have roughly the same time relationship to you as someone like Glenn Miller or The Andrews Sisters would to me, so I get it. You're not one of those guys who goes on YouTube and comments "Reservoir Dogs" brought me here" are you? |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 9, 2024 19:07:51 GMT -5
I love "Stuck in the Middle With You" which of course I first heard in the Tarantino classic Reservoir Dogs. Oh you kids today. Actually Stealers Wheel would have roughly the same time relationship to you as someone like Glenn Miller or The Andrews Sisters would to me, so I get it. You're not one of those guys who goes on YouTube and comments "Reservoir Dogs" brought me here" are you? Always in the mood for Glenn Miller.  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 9, 2024 19:09:29 GMT -5
Two other relatively recent music deaths I wanted to mention. They were both more off-kilter cult figures than mainstream hit-makers, but I liked them. One is Kinky Friedman, whose best-known song was probably "Ride 'Em Jew Boy," (which despite the title is actually a serious and rather moving song) was definitely quirky -- two of his best friends in the music business were Willie Nelson and Warren Zevon if proof is needed. He even ran for Governor of Texas once and was naturally easily defeated. The other is Mojo Nixon, whose best-known effort was probably "Elvis Is Everywhere." He had other good ones like "Don Henley Must Die" and "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child." You can't help but like a guy like that. I actually saw Mojo Nixon perform at The House Of Blues in LA back around 1996. They were having "A Night Of Noise" and he was on the bill with other Noise Rock proponents like Siouxshie And The Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Unsane, and Jesus Lizard. If you know any of these bands, we should probably talk. Thanks Pipps for mentioning Kinky Friedman, introduced to me by a friend many, many years ago. Sarah loved Kinky Friedman and supported his political run, and she even has a couple of his books on one of our shelves somewhere. My buddy used to walk into the workroom at lunch time - filled with California women - singing, "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed." What a riot! No, that would not go over today - an automatic HR issue. All those names reminds me of my pile of vinyl records somewhere in Iowa: Hey Rizz, that's a creative song of which I was not aware. And a Mojo Nixon reference too! Any song that can work Booker T, Bobby Bare and The New York Dolls into the same paragraph gets a thumbs up from me. Best name-dropping lyric since Reunion did "Life Is A Rock" in the mid-70s. |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 9, 2024 19:12:31 GMT -5
I love "Stuck in the Middle With You" which of course I first heard in the Tarantino classic Reservoir Dogs. Oh you kids today. Actually Stealers Wheel would have roughly the same time relationship to you as someone like Glenn Miller or The Andrews Sisters would to me, so I get it. You're not one of those guys who goes on YouTube and comments "Reservoir Dogs" brought me here" are you? lol, nah that's pretty corny, I wouldn't go that far.
I bet Judge and Soto can relate to the song though:
clowns to the left of me jokers to the right.....
I kid! I kid!
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 9, 2024 19:20:14 GMT -5
Oh you kids today. Actually Stealers Wheel would have roughly the same time relationship to you as someone like Glenn Miller or The Andrews Sisters would to me, so I get it. You're not one of those guys who goes on YouTube and comments "Reservoir Dogs" brought me here" are you? Always in the mood for Glenn Miller. I see what you did there. Miller's band was amazing. Critics used to dock them for being too commercial, but that distinctive sound holds up pretty well in my book. Stevie Wonder saw fit to give them a shout out, and that's good enough for me. I really like "String Of Pearls" and "Moonlight Serenade" among many others. Even "Pennsylvania 6-5000." I read something a few days ago that 102-year-old Ray Anthony is the last surviving member of Miller's original orchestra. |
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Post by laurenfrances on Jul 13, 2024 23:45:54 GMT -5
I pulled out her CDs. I've been listening to Diana Krall of late. Going to check out if any Moody Blues CDs are for sales on Amazon Prime day.
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