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The Drive, 6/18/07: 1970
« on: June 18, 2007, 08:02:11 AM »
Good gawd, y'all -- the thought of "War" as  TOTHC blows mah mind!
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2007, 08:12:46 AM »
This "Have Another Hit" is unsettingly creepy, ghostlike in the way its vocals are recorded.  Who is this?

Speaking of creepy and 1970, I finally saw Gimme Shelter in its entirety this weekend.  Yow.
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2007, 08:14:03 AM »
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This "Have Another Hit" is unsettingly creepy, ghostlike in the way its vocals are recorded.  Who is this?


Ah, Google tells me it's Quicksilver.  Wouldn't have guessed, not knowing much of their rep.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2007, 08:18:31 AM »
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This "Have Another Hit" is unsettingly creepy, ghostlike in the way its vocals are recorded.  Who is this?

Speaking of creepy and 1970, I finally saw Gimme Shelter in its entirety this weekend.  Yow.


Quicksilver, "Fresh Air".  They did some great stuff.  Glad you finally saw GS -- Yow indeed.  In the summer of '71 or '72, NYC's Channel 5 decided to go after the youth market by showing rock-oriented stuff on Sunday nites in prime-time (which was not all that common in those days). They showed a Stooges concert (!) one week. And another week they showed GS, pretty much uncut -- and this was only a year or two after its theatrical release, which was also unusual back then.  Anyway, I remember watching it with my mom, and the look on her face when Tina Turner makes love to that microphone... priceless.
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2007, 08:23:00 AM »
a-burton-a-cummings gonna mess yo' mind!
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2007, 08:27:07 AM »
Woo Hoo! BOS Grass Roots, the kings of soundalike followups-to-followups!
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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2007, 08:27:43 AM »
BOS to "Temptation Eyes."  Formula or no, my love for the Grass Roots knows few bounds.
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2007, 08:30:30 AM »
Awww... mother Mary comes to Paulie Mac on his B-day.
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2007, 08:33:23 AM »
Ah, "Let It Be," one of my favorite of Ringo's performances and a late-'70s sledgehammer for me (I saw the titular movie on HBO, IIRC).
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2007, 08:34:52 AM »
VHM 3DN, cementing their rep as kings-of-hip-covers relatively early.
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2007, 08:43:18 AM »
my BOS to Fresh Air

1970!
   Edwin Starr - War
   Eric Clapton - After Midnight   
   The Kinks - Lola
   Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air
   Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
   The Guess Who - American Woman
   The Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes   
   The Beatles - Let It Be
   Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not to Come   
   CSN - Our House
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