The Drive, week of 1/30/12

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Mon 1/30/12: Great Gee-tar Riffs!

"Funk 49" -- an unsurprising TOTHK.

"Layla" -- an even less -surprising LN1

The Drive and their theme sets  -- LAWD! -- they a caution! Doobs in the grove; VHM in a Kinks-ian groove.

This set needs coolin' -- and baby I'm not foolin'.

CCR, "Born on the Bayou"? Really?

least-surprising: "Satisfaction".  Least-welcome: Petty.

Most-welcome (and BOS): George, "What is Life", one I never tire of.

uber-LN2: "Sweet Emotion"

James Gang - Funk 49 
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla 
Doobie Brothers - China Grove   
Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got Me 
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love   
CCR - Born on the Bayou   
Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 
Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream   
George Harrison - What Is Life   
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion

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Tue 1/31/12: 1970

CCR fire up the ol' dinosaur victrola; Mr Stills loves the one he's with, using a fisting glove. er, wha?

BOS1 Tull, the teachah (without the preachah).

uber-LN (LN Hall of Fame): "Lola". Seriously, it seems to appear in every 1970 set The Drive and the Sound do, and of course AL played it last week too.

Gordo can read minds! Percy got a woman stay drunk all the time.

always a BOS2 the Guess Who's "Share the Land"; BOS3 Doors, "Peace Frog"



want some whiskey witcha water? LN2 for me.

CCR - Lookin' Out My Back Door 
Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With 
Jethro Tull - Teacher   
Kinks - Lola   
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 
Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do 
Guess Who - Share The Land   
Doors - Peace Frog/Blue Sunday   
Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 
Eric Clapton - After Midnight

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Wed 2/1/12: 1976

didn't Bob just do '76? -- seems to be his most-frequented year. WOS1 Aerosmith.

LN1: Boz shuffles off to Lido.

the Manfreds arrive, with their fingers in the cake: at least it's "Spirit in the Night" and not "BBTL".

LN2: ELO.  But Frampton's live "Something's Happening" is a welcome rarity, even if Rob played it last week. BOS.

Doobs are on the streets, and so is Seger. But Macca's at the door with WOS2.

Not as LN as one of the "hits" but still kinda: "Eagles, "Victim of Love".

uber-LN3: Boston

Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle   
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle 
Manfred Mann - Spirits In The Night   
ELO - Livin' Thing 
Peter Frampton - Something's Happening  (live)
Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To The Streets   
Bob Seger - The Fire Down Below   
Paul McCartney - Let 'Em In   
Eagles - Victim of Love   
Boston - More Than A Feeling

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Tue 1/31/12: 1970

CCR fire up the ol' dinosaur victrola; Mr Stills loves the one he's with, using a fisting glove. er, wha?

BOS1 Tull, the teachah (without the preachah).

uber-LN (LN Hall of Fame): "Lola". Seriously, it seems to appear in every 1970 set The Drive and the Sound do, and of course AL played it last week too.

Gordo can read minds! Percy got a woman stay drunk all the time.

always a BOS2 the Guess Who's "Share the Land"; BOS3 Doors, "Peace Frog"



want some whiskey witcha water? LN2 for me.

CCR - Lookin' Out My Back Door 
Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With 
Jethro Tull - Teacher   
Kinks - Lola   
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind 
Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do 
Guess Who - Share The Land   
Doors - Peace Frog/Blue Sunday   
Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 
Eric Clapton - After Midnight

I like this one. Especially LZ, GW, Doors, and EC. I requested that Doors suite when the FOG went to '70 about a week ago. That first Clapton album is a good one, too.

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Thur 2/2/12: 1982

hoping we might get "Take Off"

instant WOS1: Asia in heat.

Phunky Phil plays with some policeman's balls.

LNs to 2 Toms: Tutone and Petty.

Everybody wants you. But I don't want Billy Squier.

uber-LN3: "I Melt With You" -- an iconic tune, emblematic of a moment in time when "Rock of the '80s" formats were poaching listeners from AOR but still this amazingly popular "ROT'80s" song couldn't manage to make the Pop Top 40. (I remember being outraged by that in 1982). But at this point I never need hear it again.

BOS Judas effin' Priest. DUUUDE!!

a little ditty 'bout JCM & Diane. I still don't know anyione who ever wore "Bobby Brooks"

LN4: "Tainted Love"; see LN3 above and leave out the "couldn't manage to make the Pop Top 40" part.

Asia - Heat of the Moment   
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (live) 
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) 
Tom Petty - You Got Lucky   
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You 
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me   
Modern English - I Melt With You 
Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'   
John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane 
Soft Cell - Tainted Love 

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Fri 2/3/12: 1969

what's the over/under on LNs from Bob in a '69 set? and can an LN also be a VHM? 'cause "Suspicious Minds" is kinda unnecessary, even tho' it's one of the great pop singles of all time.

Mick shares a cherry soda with Mistah Jimmy, a man did he look pretty ill. VHM.

Mr Starr's feets can't fail him now, y'alls.

Cream go down to da crossroads; I'm getting snoozy.

LN2: the 'oo; BOS Zep.

LNs 3 & 4: CCR & Bowie.

Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds   
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want 
Edwin Starr - 25 Miles 
Guess Who - No Time 
Cream - Crossroads   
Zagar and Evans - In The Year 2525   
Who - I'm Free   
Led Zeppelin - What Is and What Should Never Be 
CCR - Down On The Corner   
David Bowie - Space Oddity