The Drive, week of 10/22/12

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Mon 10/22/12: 1980

McCartney   Coming Up   11.0%
Blondie   Call Me   9.2%
John Lennon   Woman   16.4%
The Police   When The World Is Running Down...   5.1%
Alan Parsons Project   Games People Play   14.6%
R.E.O. Speedwagon    Don't Let Him Go   9.2%
The Clash   Train In Vain   7.7%
Pat Benatar   Treat Me Right   2.7%
Journey   Any Way You Want It   10.7%
Jackson Browne   That Girl Could Sing

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Tue 10/23/12: Great Guitar Riffs!

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water 
Tom Petty - Running Down a Dream 
Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years 
Beatles - Day Tripper 
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop 
Doobie Brothers - China Grove 
Aerosmith - Walk This Way   
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love 
Heart - Magic Man 
U2 - Mysterious Ways

painfully predictable.

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Wed 10/24/12: 1973 redux!

Bob can't possibly top Rob but it should be fun.

Stones lead off with "Ayun-jeh"; early ELO "Showdown" gets a BOS1.

uber-LN: Doob 'trina runnin'

sentimental BOS2 for "Time in a Bottle"

Stealer's 'Trina.

VHM ZZTop, waitin' for Jesus to leave Chicago on the bus. or something.

LN2 "Ramblin' man" makes me sorry I only VHM'd "Southbound" in the Peak's set today.

VHM the obligatory Chicago cut, "Just You'N'Me"

uber-BOS3 Queen's fantabulous "Keep Yourself Alive"

Stones - Angie 
Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time 
Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown 
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin' 
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle 
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You 
ZZ Top - Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago 
Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man 
Chicago - Just You 'N' Me 
Queen - Keep Yourself Alive 

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Thur 10/25/12: 1967

Mr Mojo Risin' loves us long two time. But Spencer Davis is da "Man".

uber-LN1: Cream. Your seed was dried up long ago, Crapton.

good gawd: uber-uber-uber-LN2 "Brown-Eyed Girl"

awww: Youngbloods gettin' togetha in the year of the song's orig release.

WOS PP&M. They dig RnR music, but don't appear to have a clue what it actually is.

BOS1 Monkees, "Steppin' Stone"

uber-uber-LN3 JA.

Uber-BOS2 Hombres, lettin' it all hang out. How does that mess yo' baby up, leg? Easily one of my 5 favorite OHWs of all time.

LN4 "Foxy Lady", wonderful as it may be.

Doors - Love Me Two Times 
Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man 
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love 
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl 
Youngbloods - Get Together 
Peter, Paul and Mary - I Dig Rock & Roll Music 
Monkees - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone 
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit 
Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) 
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey Lady

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Fri 10/26/12: 1975

all. mah. friends. knowda low ridah.

WOS1 Styx, "Lorelei"

Have mercy, baby: VHM Ms McVie and the Mac.

VHM 50 ways to love Paul Simon.

Gene Simmons wants to rock'n'roll all nite with Mitt. BOS anyway.

But WOS2 the Nuge, "Hey Baby"

BadCo shoot a star. or something.

BOS2 Pink Floyd, "Shine on You Crazy Diamond"

BOS3 Chuckles the Clown's funeral. "I hurt my hoo-hoo!"

LN: Wings and what the man said; VHM "Slip Kid"


War - Low Rider 
Styx - Lorelei 
Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me 
Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 
Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite 
Ted Nugent - Hey Baby 
 Bad Company - Shooting Star 
ink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond 
Wings - Listen To What The Man Said 
Who - Slip Kid