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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 2 Feb 2016: it's a "classic" from... 1983

« on: February 02, 2016, 10:22:25 AM »

That's a really New Wave centric setlist.  If you were listening in 1983 to KROQ (or to KYYX in Seattle, which I was) you'd have heard songs 1-9 for sure, and that's about the only place you'd have heard songs 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8.

Curious, has Annalisa played Belly of the Whale with the same frequency that Dave did?

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Paul Kantner, 74

« on: January 28, 2016, 11:14:30 PM »

as you old-timers may recall, Gaz & I were already friends before this club got off the ground.  We'd each just moved to the City & wound up temping at Schwab together.  Among the many commonalities we quickly discovered was how highly we both esteemed Jefferson Airplane/Starship.  We both said that our favorite track was probably not one that the other would guess, but in fact it was the same song, "Fast Buck Freddie" from the Red Octopus album, which was also one of the first LPs we each remembered buying (thank you Columbia House).

So a proxy for Gaz on this one.  I think I know how he feels.  And to borrow the last line from that song...

Sing it now while you still have a song!

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / R.I.P. Christa McAuliffe & the Challenger crew 30 years on.

« on: January 28, 2016, 02:39:02 PM »

January 28, 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

The full list of casualties were:

Francis R. Scobee, Commander
Michael J. Smith, Pilot
Ronald McNair, Mission Specialist
Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist
Judith Resnik, Mission Specialist
Gregory Jarvis, Payload Specialist
Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist & a school teacher from Concord, NH

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 28 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1986

« on: January 28, 2016, 02:35:23 PM »

I missed the set, but I think whoever has the job of pulling these classics off the shelf grabbed the wrong 1986 set.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger explosion, so unless there was something not reflected in the setlist above I think they blew it.  You would think they would have found one of the presumably many sets that had some reference to the Challenger, Christa McAuliffe, etc.

One of the handful events that I can say exactly where I was and how I responded when I heard the news.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP David Bowie

« on: January 26, 2016, 12:22:16 PM »

I just came across this on YouTube, Bowie's first TV performance in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY5a3Un3y8g

But this is even more remarkable: David Jones at the age of 17 being interviewed on the BBC for having founded the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men.  No, seriously!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5zxeLwUSdk

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Glenn Frey, 67

« on: January 26, 2016, 12:11:51 PM »

If this spate of dying musicians continues they are going to have to call a moratorium on memorial sets.

I was just thinking on this, as I expect we will see more rather fewer such sad occasions.  For example, Grace Slick turns 77 in October & Bob Dylan turns 75 in May (which should occasion a set for it's own sake).  In June, Paul McCartney turns 74 two days before Brian Wilson does, and a day later Ray Davies turns 72.  Ringo turns 76 and Mick turns 73 in July, with Keith also turning 73 before the end of the year.  Clapton, Townshend & Van Morrison all turn 71 this spring.

And Chuck Berry's 90th birthday is October.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Lemmy Kilmister, 70

« on: January 26, 2016, 12:00:36 PM »

Meant to post this a while ago (obvioulsy)

Lemmy had a cameo in the vastly underrated comedy "Airheads", which featured a ficticious hair metal band comprising Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi) & Pip (Adam Sandler before he left SNL) who take over a radio station in order to get their song played.  Calling their band The Lone Rangers, they confront Ian the deejay (Joe Mantegna), who responds: "The Lone Rangers? That's original. How can you pluralize 'Lone Ranger'?  There's three of you. You're not exactly lone. Shouldn't you be the Three Rangers?" 

When they can't get their mangled tape to play they make hostage demands, primarily to have a record company exec come to sign them to a deal.  They also throw in some demands just to throw the cops off, such as nude pictures of Bea Arthur and 67 copies of Moby Dick (station secretary: "You want the movie or the book?"  Rex: "They made a book outta that!?")

So when Harold Ramis' character Chris shows up - claiming to be said record exec - the guys let him into the station, but decide to test him to see if he's legit.  Which leads to the following classic dialogue:

Chazz: Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

Chris: Lemmy.

Rex [imitates a game show buzzer] AAHH!!!

Chris: ... God?

Rex: Wrong, dickhead! Trick question. Lemmy *IS* God.

Chazz: Okay, lemme ask you another question: who's side did you take in the big David Lee Roth-Van Halen split?

Chris: What? What kind of question is that?

Chazz: Who's side did you take: Halen or Roth?

Chris: ...Van Halen

Ian: HE'S A COP!!!

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979

« on: January 26, 2016, 10:35:12 AM »

I went to 4 formal dances my senior year of high school ('79-'80), 3 at my school and one at the invitation of a girl from an all-girls school, and "Babe" was the final song at each of them.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 26 Jan 2016: a "classic" from... 1979

« on: January 26, 2016, 10:34:05 AM »

My kid brother Chris played this ELO record relentlessly, so it took me a couple decades to re-like it.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 22 Jan 2016: it's... 1985

« on: January 22, 2016, 10:23:50 AM »

I wish Paul Young would go away...and take his piece of meat with him!

BOS the Cult

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Alan Rickman, 69

« on: January 18, 2016, 04:59:16 PM »

"...and cancel Christmas!!!"

As the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Glenn Frey, 67

« on: January 18, 2016, 04:56:29 PM »

That was me calling Webster to reminisce about seeing them in Cincinnati in '79 and requesting Seven Bridges Road.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP David Bowie

« on: January 11, 2016, 03:03:52 PM »

...and the stars look very different today.


I was wondering if Bowie might not be the most important British solo artist ever.  (by definition I'm excluding former Beatles)

Who else even joins the conversation?  Elton?

fwiw, Dred will be playing an hour of Bowie from 9-10 tonight.

ETA:  They were even talking about this on KNBR 680 this morning, among other things pointing out that we have Bowie to thank for the expression "Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma'am"

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 11 Jan 2016: it's... an "encore" from 1974

« on: January 11, 2016, 02:58:53 PM »

Dred will be doing an hour of Bowie 9-10pm

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 11 Jan 2016: it's... an "encore" from 1974

« on: January 11, 2016, 10:55:36 AM »

Regarding the Lennon tune, surprisingly this was his first Billboard #1, and he was the last of the Fab Four to accomplish that feat.  He has Elton John to thank, who co-wrote the song but let Lennon have full credit, and is on keyboards & backing vox on the single.

Elton was one of several friends who was trying to get Lennon out of his funk following his separation from Yoko (the infamous 'Long Weekend'), and Elton made a bet with Lennon in the summer of '74 that the song would hit number 1.  Lennon was so sure it wouldn't that he agreed to perform on stage (which he hadn't done in years) with Elton if it did.

When it hit #1 in mid-November he had to make good, so he was an unannounced special guest for Elton's Madison Square Garden show on Thanksgiving night.  They did this song, "I Saw Her Standing There", and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" - which Elton took to #1 with his own version only 7 weeks later.

It was John Lennon's last public performance.