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That one random song your cover band does that nobody else does.
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I don't think so but I do have recording of a show where we played most of those songs. It's pretty good. One thing I forgot to mention is ALL guitar parts were played on a Telecaster.
Friday on my mind- the easybeats, time of the season- the zombies, green eyed lady- sugarloaf, hot smoke and sassafras- geez...my mind must be going, I can't remember the name of that band but they were way ahead of their time.
Thanks !
We also did Highway Star but I never got around to finishing the video off properly.
I'll PM you the link though if you're a DP fan.
Back in Texas about 10 years back I was in a "one hit wonders" band. Did a lot of stuff like Hot Smoke and Sassafras, Green Eyed Lady and such.
We had a crowd but too many calls to "play something we can dance to" finally put the kibosh on the experiment.
We had a crowd but too many calls to "play something we can dance to" finally put the kibosh on the experiment.
Bubble Puppy, out of Texas, and it was mentioned here earlier. They were on the same label as the legendary 13th Floor Elevators.
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Thrashed to death by bands I work in. It is however almost humorous when our squeaky-clean mid-twenties female singer performs it without a hint of irony.
"No One Needs to Know" Shania Twain.
"Saltwater" Julian Lennon.
"Saltwater" Julian Lennon.
Rancid. Time bomb-upbeat ska/punk. If you were 12-20 in the late 80s and early 90s you know it
War. Spill the wine-tall ones short ones crazy ones...just kills
I think we're alone now-3 dudes doing three part harmonies with the song transcribed down two full steps. Chicks dig it
Territorial Pissings-goes over surprisingly well hahaha
Pretty woman-just kills every time
The safety dance-they can dance cause they want to!
never heard any other cover band
Do these tunes. It's better that way!
War. Spill the wine-tall ones short ones crazy ones...just kills
I think we're alone now-3 dudes doing three part harmonies with the song transcribed down two full steps. Chicks dig it
Territorial Pissings-goes over surprisingly well hahaha
Pretty woman-just kills every time
The safety dance-they can dance cause they want to!
never heard any other cover band
Do these tunes. It's better that way!
Yes! It's one of those songs that hits you immediately when you hear it for the 1st time and I remember hearing it when I was very young and just thinking that was something special. My dad was A local musician back in the early days of album oriented radio in Saint Louis in the late sixties and and more or less filled me in on why it was a little different where we were. So I got an early appreciation for these types of songs that were only played in this region. I got to meet some of my heroes over the last couple of years being the local vintage audio technician something else I picked up early on and and met the basist and guitarist for Jefferson Airplane playing as hot tuna when Jack Cassidy had a problem with his old sixties era bass amplifier. By the way it was a versatone amplifier that was recommended to him from the great wrecking crew basist Carol Kay. And just last week I did a job for the James Walsh Gypsy band on their B3 rig, since no one works on those anymore.
The band that I played in for years was called Microbus... The last several years I've been mainly doing originals and then filling in for other bands on bass, guitar, vocals, keyboards and drums....
Yes, those were all in 1967, but KSHE was the first to adopt it 24/7 while those stations had established "shows" and rosters of various DJ'S. kshe had the benefit of being a new station searching for a format that would work for it and if you notice the call letters spell out KSHE which means initially the format was a format that was geared towards the prime demographic of female listeners in their early twenties whereas there was another radio station that they had envisioned to be called KHIM I think...
Yes Kuban was an AM mainstay... and Pavlov's Dog certainly on the FM side... Did you know that Pavlov's dog was In the Guinness book of world records for largest signing bonus back at that time?
A truly great song and a very nice album as well! Notice that on the album both Elton John and I believe Rod Stewart are credited on the back... John baldry was a good friend of Elton for his entire life and there is a story where he came over to Elton's house and found him with his head in the oven because he was married to this woman that he didn't want to be married to and he simply told him that he didn't need to be married to her because everybody pretty much had realized that he was homosexual a long time ago... And Elton was so relieved he told baldry that he had saved his life and went on a long cruise and composed that classic song "someone saved my life tonight" dedicated to Long John...
