The Drive, week of 6/25/12

[RGMike]

Mon 6/25/12: 1968!

a fine start to the week.

VHM Status Quo; LN "The Weight"; uber-uber-LN "Born to Be Wild"

BOS Beatles "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

BOS2 TJ&tS's "Crimson and Clove Her". Please let it be the looong version. (OMG: it was!)

VHM "Love Street"; BOS3 S&G "America"

as it was with AL last week so it shall be with Bob: LN "White Room"

Hah! BOS4 Elvis' orig version of "A Little Less Convo".


Status Quo - Pictures of Matchstick Men 
The Band - The Weight   
Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild 
Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun 
Doors - Love Street   
Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson & Clover   
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash   
Simon & Garfunkel - America   
Cream - White Room   
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation 

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Tue 6/26/12: 1984

Honeydrippers - Rockin' At Midnight   
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55 
Cars - Hello Again   
Van Halen - Jump   
Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown   
Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) 
Don Henley - Boys of Summer 
Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane   
Pretenders - Middle of the Road   
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (live)

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Wed 6/27/12: 1975

BOS1 Zep, "Kashmir"

BOS2 the Dan, on Biscayne Bay, where the Cuban gentlemen sleep all day.

"Jackie Blue", from the album Past Tense -- that joke never gets old.

uber-uber-LN: "Killer Queen". Ditto F.Mac's "Landslide"

I'm all for cheeze but WOS Styx, "Light Up":

Every day's a holiday when your lips meet mine
The music's keepin' time with our love
You are here, and so am i
The weather's quite divine
So pass me round your wine, lovely one...

uh, seriously? sheesh.

Elton's "knee-high to a man" again. That joke never gets old either. But "Philly Freedom" is also pretty LN at this point.

HM The 'oo and their much-maligned "Squeeze Box", just because.

You can't hide! You're lionized!. LN3 Iggles.

BOS3 Leo Sayer's even-more-maligned "Long Tall Glasses" -- never understood the hate for that one.

Led Zeppelin    Kashmir    25.6%
Steely Dan    Doctor Wu   10.5%
Ozark Mountain Daredevils   Jackie Blue   17.3%
Queen    Killer Queen    4.8%
Fleetwood Mac   Landslide    5.8%
Styx   Light Up   5.4%
Elton John   Philadelphia Freedom    4.8%
The Who   Squeeze Box   5.8%
Eagles    Lyin' Eyes   9.3%
Leo Sayer   Long Tall Glasses   

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Thur 6/28/12: 1971

Ringo don't come easy. Or so Barbara Bach used to say. She's such an "LA Woman".

uber-uber-LN: "Me 'n' Bobby McTrina"

Rod the Mod perpetuates Asian stereotypes ("slit-eyed lady"? seriously?) and feels up Mary on the Peking fairy, er, ferry.

LN too: "Day After Day", lovely a production as it may be.

BOS Jonathan Edwards, layin' 'round the "Shanty", mama.

VHM NGDB.

LN3: ch-ch-ch-changes.

BOS2 Tull.

Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy   
Doors - L.A. Woman   
Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee 
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story   
Badfinger - Day After Day   
Jonathan Edwards - Shanty   
Santana - No One To Depend On   
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangles 
David Bowie - Changes   
Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary 

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Fri 6/29/12: 1980

Mick rides in on a fine Ah-rahb Chaaaaah-jaaaaah.

Ms Benatar gets one in the kisser. "One o' these days, Pat -- bang! zoom!" That's what she gets for hanging with "Rough Boys".

LN: Ozzy -- "Crazy Train" seems to be in half the commercials on the tube.

BOS "Switchin' to Glide", one "me and Zero" never tire of.


Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot 
Pete Townshend - Rough Boys 
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train 
Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switching To Glide 
Jackson Browne - Boulevard 
Van Halen - And The Cradle Will Rock... 
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - You'll Accompany Me 
AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me 
Police - Driven To Tears