The Drive, week of 12/5/11

[RGMike]

Mon 12/5/11: 1976

no expectations.  Boston wanna take you home.

oh baby I love your 'trina. 'cause you're my best friend.

DUUUUDE! the Nuge has himself a free-for-all.  VHM

Seger fantasizes about a stripper -- decades before "working the pole" became a  thing. And speaking of "working the pole": Aerosmith.

the Doobs sing their ode to prune juice; Heart go cray-cray and Dame Cliff takes it from behind.

Y&S: Steve Miller flies like, well, you know.

Boston - Let Me Take You Home Tonight 
Peter Frampton - Baby I Love Your Way 
Queen - You're My Best Friend 
Ted Nugent - Free-For-All 
Bob Seger - Mainstreet 
Aerosmith - Walk This Way   
Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Runnin' 
Heart - Crazy On You 
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman 
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle 

[RGMike]

Tue 12/6/11: 1979

ZZ Top - I Thank You 
Jefferson Starship - Jane   (NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!)
AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm 
Little River Band - Lonesome Loser 
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home 
Van Halen - Dance The Night Away 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Shadow of a Doubt 
Blondie - Heart of Glass 
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 
Cheap Trick - Surrender (live) 

[RGMike]

Wed 12/7/11: 1986

yeesh, sheesh, and eek.

Fab T-Birds are tuff enuf... but I may not be.

Mr Stipe thinks he's Superman. Dude... you are way too scrawny. and speaking of: Mr Allman shows us his tattoo (of Cher?).

WOS1 the Moodies. WOS2 Genesis.

oo-ah-oo-ah-oo-oo-oo-ah! VHM Mr Buongiovi.  Live Broooce ("...Freeze-out") gets a BOS by default.

Crapton, it's in the way that you snooze it.

You KNOW I'm getting desperate if I'm VHM-ing Journey. "Girl can't help It" is one of their more tolerable ones, actually.

PG makes the girls swoon.

Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff 
R.E.M. - Superman 
Gregg Allman - I'm No Angel 
Moody Blues - Your Wildest Dreams 
Genesis - Throwing It All Away 
Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer 
Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freeze-out   
Eric Clapton - It's In The Way That You Use It 
Journey - Girl Can't Help It   
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes   

[RGMike]

Thur 12/8/11: 1977

BJ meets a Catholic girl; Foreigner feel like the billionth time.

BOS APP, "Breakdown" sounding surprisingly fine this morning.

If you'd've told me in '77 that "Black Betty" would still be getting played a bazillion times a week in 2011 I'd've had you committed. Bam-a-LAM!

kudos on a rare Styx track, "Miss America", even tho' it's borderline awful

Nice of Stevie Nicks to write a song about Rex Reed -- rap on, ancient queen!

this is the 2nd time the Drive has played "Fat Bottom Girls" in the wrong year.

Couldn't get my Climax right. or something.

WOS UFO -- "Lights Out" indeed .  This set is officially "Running on Empty".

short set (time-wise) considering it's '77.

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young 
Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time 
Alan Parsons Project - Breakdown 
Ram Jam - Black Betty 
Styx - Miss America 
Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman 
Queen - Fat Bottom Girls 
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right 
UFO - Lights Out 
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty   

[RGMike]

Fri 12/9/11: 1968!

Seger's ramblin' n' gamblin'; Zho co-KAIR gets help.

Cream meets some tired starlings. er, wha??

Stand back! Steve Miller, dieticians and morticians coming thru.

BOS "Street Fightin' May-un"

least necessary: "Piece of My Heart"

you say it's yer birthday? It's almost Jesus' birthday too, yeah!  BOS2 Beatles.

San Jose's OWN... People, people! BOS3 "I Love Yew"

uber-least-necessary: Steppenwolf.

oh Suzy Q/you're unnecessary too.  Good gawd, the endless, er, I mean loooong version.

Seger - Ramblin' Gambiln' Man 
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends 
Cream - White Room 
Steve Miller Band - Living in the U.S.A. 
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man 
Big Brother/ Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart 
Beatles - Birthday   
People! - I Love You 
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzy Q