MLT Club Member Tim Arnold
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You can hear a great live performance at Madison Square Garden or The Sydney Opera house but sometimes you can hear a great performance at a Starbucks in Greencastle Indiana. By the way, Sadie Johnson is an absolute treasure.
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David, here’s a thank you song I remember from Bachman Turner Overdrive’s first album. Sung by one of my favorite singers, Fred Turner. That ruff gravelly voice was perfect for BTO’s rock n roll. The song is about waking up with a hangover and not remembering exactly what happened the night before, only that he had a good time with a friend, hence the lyrics,
Took me home, shared a dream, knew just what I’d like. I don’t remember comin’ home and I’m not goin’ back tonight. BTO, Thank You For The Feeling
If you watch on You Tube you can read the lyrics.
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Not much to say about The Rolling Stones. Their music and performance speaks for itself. I love this Country-Blues tune from Exile On Main Street performed in Texas in 1972 with Keith Richards and Mick Taylor on acoustic guitars, the great Bobby Keys on sax and of course Mick Jagger at the top of his game.
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JP, That’s a great song but did he ever say where he was parked at? Maybe I missed it, Lol.
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Here’s another great song about being home with a great warm, cozy live feeling. I never really appreciated John Denver’s talent when I was younger but I sure do now. What a gifted singer, songwriter and musician. One of America’s best.
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David, this could be a great discussion for the holidays as this season between Thanksgiving and Christmas is when I always think about family and friends. I was blessed to be born into a large family in the heartland of America. And even though it seems most of the good ones have passed away and only the a-holes are left, there really are still a lot of great people around and I love spending time with the young ones and hopefully teaching them a thing or two. I think no matter what you do in life and how far you go there is nothing like being home with the people you love.
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One of my favorite bands was the Canadian prog-rock band Rush, Arguably the best three rock musicians to be in the same band together. There’s actually a lot of great 3 piece bands but I don’t know any others that could make that much sound. I never seen them live but their first live album All The Worlds A Stage made me a fan for life and they continued to always get better. This is a clip from their 30th anniversary tour. A song called The Spirit of Radio which they do start playing after a 7 minute intro made up of guitar riffs and melodies from 30 years of classic songs. Always a great performance from this band.
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David, I first heard of Slade when they played on The Midnight Special TV program in 1973 but it was hard to find any of their music in the States even though they were selling massive amounts of records in the UK and Europe. They had their biggest success in the mid-70’s as a glam-rock band. They played a lot of heavy, loud rock music but also had some very nice ballads. Their best known song is probably Merry Xmas Everybody but that doesn’t get played in the States either. Jim Lea plays bass, keyboards and violin and was a classically trained cellist. The singer Noddy Holder retired from singing years ago and is an actor on British TV. Drummer Don Powell and guitarist Dave Hill toured as Slade into the 2000’s. Powell made some records and did some shows with Suzi Quattro and Andy Scott from the band Sweet. There are some good documentaries on YouTube about the band, very long interesting history.
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Hi Jacki, my wife loved watching the Golden Girls and I thought it was hilarious, I loved the mother Sofia and Rose (Betty White) was so funny. The original song was written by Andrew Gold and recorded by Cynthia Fee for the TV show. Andrew Gold had a big hit called Lonely Boy but I also know him from playing and singing background vocals on some of Linda Ronstadt’s albums.
Here’s Andrew Gold’s version of Thank You For Being A Friend.
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David, John had a lot of great songs, my older brother Tom loved John Denver and played a lot of his songs. Hopefully I can share more of his songs in the weeks and months and hopefully years to come.
Here’s one I found with Thanks in the title. Slade was a glam-rock band from Wolverhampton U.K. that was huge in Europe in the 70’s but could never quite make it in the States. The had some success in the 80’s with the song My Oh My and the band Quiet Riot had a huge hit with a Slade cover called C’mon Feel The Noize. I always liked their music and their crazy stage outfits. I loved the singer Noddy Holder’s voice, he could belt out a song like no one else, the “Wolf of Wolverhampton”. This is a song from a soundtrack album for their movie Slade In Flame called Thanks For The Memories. It’s not the Bob Hope song.
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Roger, I love Beth Hart, she’s a powerhouse singer and performer. She should be world famous, thanks for posting that link. This category may take some thinking, Lol. But I will find something.
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Thanks Jung, yeah the Moody Blues are one of those bands that are great to listen to through a good pair of headphones and just relax and drift away with the music, beautiful stuff. I like the way this song goes into almost a boogie beat between the verses, almost like two different songs.
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Daryl, thanks for that clip. I hope everyone following this thread listens to that one. I like Procol Harem’s music and for their music to be surrounded or engulfed within the symphony is a beautiful sound. It would have been amazing to be there but that is a great recording too. I bet it was a great feeling playing on that stage too. I was in a natural amphitheater once in the Rockies outside of Colorado Springs. No one was playing there, we were just exploring the area and it was just a natural area in the mountain where they built the stage. Me and my nephew went to the top of the seating area and my brother and sister stood on the stage singing and we could hear every note. It’s true that sometimes the venue makes a difference in how the music sounds and feels.
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Jung, thanks for that one, I love it. Grand Funk was a great Rock n Roll band that I loved as a teenager in the 70’s. I don’t think any white boy had more rhythm than Mark Farner. Must be a Motown thing. Not too many bands liked to follow them at a live show, ask Led Zeppelin.
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Chris, yeah Stevie was one of the greatest. That would have been a great experience to listen to him play to a huge crowd like that. Like I said in another comment, I think the biggest concert crowd I was in was for Motley Crue at Ft. McCoy, I think it was around 10,000. I was at a Packers-Bears game of 78,000+ and we had to empty the stands because of lightning. 78,000 people trying to get to the bathrooms at the same time, that was fun (not). It took me 45 minutes to get to the bathroom and back to my seat and the game was re-starting.
Here’s a clip with a massive crowd. The original Lynyrd Skynyrd band playing in Knebworth in 1976. They were a great Southern country-rock band but in all fairness here, they were opening for the Rolling Stones.https://youtu.be/NAbxZrzEvJQ?feature=shared