The Drive, week of 3/5/12

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Mon 3/5/12: 1970!

a year that never sucks.

But "Vehicle" is a Drive-specific LN.

VHM Doors, down to da roadhouse.  CSNY carry on. And in a way, so does Bobby Bloom.

uber-LN: "Layla".

BOS Leon Russell's orig "Song For You"  -- this is nice, as I've been hearing the Donny Hathaway take recently on 'DAS.

Grow some Funk-49 of your own, Walsh-o.

"25 or 6 to 4" airs at 25 to 11 (CST).

Only you know and Dave Mason knows. But I think he heard about it from Delaney & Bonnie.

LN3: Macca, amazed.

Ides of March - Vehicle 
Doors - Roadhouse Blues 
CSNY - Carry On 
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay   
Derek & The Dominoes - Layla 
Leon Russell - A Song For You 
James Gang - Funk #49 
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 
Dave Mason - Only You Know and I Know 
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed   

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Tue 3/6/12: 1979

Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain 
Eagles - The Long Run   
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime 
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk 
The Knack - My Sharona 
Foreigner - Dirty White Boy   
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone 
Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl   
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 
Journey - Too Late 

a decidedly mixed bag with LNs from the Knack, Petty, Eagles; WOSes from Foreigner and Journey.  But I'll always BOS "Tusk" and the Rainbow tune.

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Wed 3/7/12: 1969!

it's '60s morning in America.

Beatles get medley-fied, carrying golden slumberweights. or something.

Sly discovers hot fun and county pears fairs.

LN1: "Cinnabon Girl"  VHM "the Boxer", tho' that's teetering on the brink of LN-dom too.

VHM the Guess Who, "Undun".  BOS the Fifth Dimension's Coke commercial. Marilyn McCoo -- ah loves you!

BOS2 the 'oo, goin' to the mirrah, boy.

3D(L)N: "One". LN3: CCR "Bawn Onna By-yoo"

BOS3 Donovan, "Atlantis"  -- he really sounds like he's fond of those those beautiful sailors.

Beatles - Golden Slumbers Medley 
Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime 
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl   
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer 
Rolling Stones - Gimmer Shelter 
Guess Who - Undun 
Who - Go To The Mirror 
Three Dog Night - One 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou 
Donovan - Atlantis   

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Thur 3/8/12: 1972

Hold yer heads up! and reel in the Dan with LN1.

BOS-in-perpetuity "I Saw the Light"

LN2: "Brandy", layin' sailors down.  VHM Paul & "Julio" & da Queen o' Corona.



BOS2 Chi Coltrane's always-fab "Thunder & Lightning", best song ever written about a big schlong.

LN3: "Bang a Gong". Unnecessary in any incarnation.

Borderline, but it's nice to hear the loooong version of "Roundabout" after getting the 45 edit from Casey K over the weekend.

LN4: Neil Young America, doin' some horse.

And speaking of big schlongs, Humble Pie wanna spend 30 days in your hole.

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Fri 3/9/12: 1983

eek: we start on "The Dark Side" in more ways than one.  WOS1 Cafferty's Big Brown Beaver.

VHM ZZT, lookin' sharp.

"oh baby just you shut your mouse"  - LN1 Bowie.

"Gunter glieben glauben globen" - VHM Def Lepp.

LN2: SRV; WOS2 "Sistah Christian"

JCM again, crumblin' 'n' tumblin'. BOS, tho' -- best of an underwhelming lot so far.

VHM Police, in Synch(ronicity).  WOS3 Bryan Adams -- best acne of set.

WOS4 Genesis -- That's all, indeed.

John Cafferty/Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side 
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man 
David Bowie - China Girl 
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages 
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy   
Night Ranger - Sister Christian   
John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down 
Police - Synchronicity 2 
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife 
Genesis - That's All