The Drive, week of 11/29/10

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Mon 11/29/10: 1987

not the greatest way to start a week. But Bob'll do '87 with or without you.

WOS "Touch of Gray"; VHM Steve Miller's "I Want To Make the World Turn Around"

ooo! Bob begins his tradition of sprinkling year-appropriate Xmas tunes into his sets -- uber-BOS JCM "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".

Hey Tom Petty -- take back yo' WOS2.  I'll take Vanessa Redgrave off yer hands. But you can keep Joe Piscopo.

Cheeze for breakfast: VHM Def Leppard, "Love Bites"

U2 - With or Without You 
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey 
Steve Miller - I Want To Make The World Turn Around 
R.E.M. - The One I Love 
Pink Floyd - On the Turning Away 
Aerosmith - Angel 
John Mellencamp - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 
Tom Petty - Jammin' Me 
Inxs - The Devil Inside 
Def Leppard - Love Bites 

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Tue 11/30/10: 1979

Bob serves kippers for breakfast, mummy dear mummy dear.

Supertramp - Breakfast in America 
Fleetwood Mac - Sara 
Bad Company - Gone Gone Gone 
Van Halen - Dance the Night Away 
Led Zeppelin - In the Evening 
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) 
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses 
Cheap Trick - The Dream Police 
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 
Journey - Too Late 

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Wed 12/1/10: 1971

any '71 set that starts with as overplayed a track as there is ("Bobby McGee") has nowhere to go but up.

ah, that's better: Cornelius Bros treatin' Sistah Rose like a lady and OMFG -- Yes, "Starship Trooper"! proxy of all our prog contingent.

Proxy of Gaz, TJ sans Shondells. Mmmmm... purple flowers...


BOS mahvelous Mahvin, "Mercy Mercy Me," mah man.

BOS2 3DN with one of Paul Williams' loveliest. Having seen Phantom of the Paradise the other nite, I say again: underappreciated genius.

BOS3 Alice at 18.

Lawd! BOS4 EJ's "Country Comfort".  This set got real good real fast. One of Bob's better recent efforts.

VHM Still Bill.

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee 
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - Treat Her Like a Lady 
Yes - Starship Trooper 
Tommy James - Draggin' the Line 
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me 
David Bowie - Changes 
Three Dog Night - An Old Fashioned Love Song 
Alice Cooper - I'm 18 
Elton John - Country Comfort 
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

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Thur 12/2/10: 1982

no expectations. And with MAW leading off, you can see why.

the disco hot-spots hold no charm for Asia in their WOS1.

*sigh* -- another meatheaded '80s AOR crapfest. The 'oo at their lamest and now Scorpions.

"all I wanna do when I wake up in the morining is..." not hear Toto.

VHM PG & his monkey, best of a bad lot so far.  Even a New Wave warhorse like "Hungry/Wolf" sounds good amidst all this dreck.

making its 2nd appearance in an '82 set this week (and getting its 2nd BOS): "Somebody's Baby". proxy of shray. And there's just no comparison between AL's fine assemblage on Monday and Bob's by-the-AOR-numbers set. OTOH, he's playing Haircut 100, much to my surprise. ah-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya BOS2. And he closes with Lady Antebellum Alan Parsons.

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Fri 12/3/10: 1974

Bachman Turner Overdrive - Let it Ride 
Ray Stevens - The Streak 
Guess Who - Star Baby 
Supertramp - Bloody Well Right 
America - Lonely People 
Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle 
Billy Swan - I Can Help 
Dave Mason - All Along the Watchtower 
Eagles - Best of My Love 
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic