The Peak, week of 7/16/12

[RGMike]

Mon 7/16/12: 1988

OMFG: Fairground Attraction's fabulous "Perfect". uber-BOS

otherwise: LN City -- Winwood, Church, Midnite Oil, Hornsby, Palmer, Smithereens, Fab T-Birds. Feh.

BOS2 Patti Smith with da powah!

[Big Fingers McGee]

Mon 7/16/12: 1988

OMFG: Fairground Attraction's fabulous "Perfect". uber-BOS

Got this album at Amoeba for $1 back in January. Definitely need to request for next 1988 set.

[RGMike]

Mon 7/16/12: 1988

OMFG: Fairground Attraction's fabulous "Perfect". uber-BOS

Got this album at Amoeba for $1 back in January. Definitely need to request for next 1988 set.

in 1988 I was working at ABC, and lucky enuf to be listening to British radio via a satellite hook-up. I fell in love with "Perfect" which was a #1 single in the UK;  that it did next-to-nothing on the US pop charts was a crime. However -- and this is really weird -- it became a country hit for a band called Baillie & the Boys in 1990.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsFj9BQ-aTs

[RGMike]

Tue 7/17/12: 1977

Estimated Dead; F.Mac; Marley; Heart. -- LNs, all.

VHM: The Heartbreakers (not the Petty band)

BOS1 Neil's "Hurricane"; BOS2 Yes' "Wondrous Stories"

BOS3 Mink DeVille, "Cadillac Walk"

uber-LN: Supertramp.

uber-uber-LN: "Black Betty"-- but wait, bonus points for playing the rarely-heard long version..

I was hoping Rob would make good on his promise to play Ronnie Spector's "Say Goodbye to H'wood" in a '77 set -- well, maybe next month.  And damn: I missed Nat'l Lampoon's hilarious "MisterRogers" parody with Chris Guest and Bill Murray. "Would'ya like to go to the magic kingdom?"

[RGMike]

Wed 7/18/12: 1998

eeek.  Kenny Wayne Shepherd, BNLs, Garbage, Foos, Fuel, "Flagpole Sitta". Oy.

WOS: Aerosmith and Diane Warren's unholy alliance.

WOS2: Big Bad Voodoo Doo-doo.

uber-LN: "Closing Time"

[urth]

Wed 7/18/12: 1998

eeek.  Kenny Wayne Shepherd, BNLs, Garbage, Foos, Fuel, "Flagpole Sitta". Oy.

WOS: Aerosmith and Diane Warren's unholy alliance.

WOS2: Big Bad Voodoo Doo-doo.

uber-LN: "Closing Time"

That's 9 songs right there. Was the 10th the lone worthwhile track?

[RGMike]

Thur 7/19/12: 1982

Pete dances on yer face; the Clash dance in the Casbah (LN1); Crock o'siegals are in Iran so far away; Percy burns down one side and F.Mac hold me.

BOS Marshall Crenshaw, "Rockin Around in NYC" -- an ATBB methinks. Ditto Axe, "RnR Party in the Street".

VHM Translator's great Moreytrina.

LN2: Missing Bozzios

[RGMike]

Wed 7/18/12: 1998

eeek.  Kenny Wayne Shepherd, BNLs, Garbage, Foos, Fuel, "Flagpole Sitta". Oy.

WOS: Aerosmith and Diane Warren's unholy alliance.

WOS2: Big Bad Voodoo Doo-doo.

uber-LN: "Closing Time"

That's 9 songs right there. Was the 10th the lone worthwhile track?

song 10 was Grant lee Buffalo, "Truly Truly".

[RGMike]

Fri 7/20/12: 1970

Tull, Mountain, and the White Man's Burdon.

BOS Beatles, "I Got a Feeling"

LN: CSNY, teachin'.

Mungo Jerry are kinda LN too but we didn't get a "Summer" set this year, so HM.

OTOH, I probably don't need to hear anybody's version of "Summertime Blues" ever again.

a commercial for EJ's first LP, followed by "Border Song"  -- BOS2.

uber-BOS3 PG&E -- the looooong version.

and speaking of long: GFR, "I'm Your Captain".