The Drive week of 12/3/12

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Mon 12/3/12: 1966

o frabjous day!

o frabjous LN1: "I'm a Believer"

LN2: "Good Vibrations". Did Brian invent the word "excitations"?

VHM Stones, "Undah Mah Fumb"

"Summer in the City" in December?

uber-uber-LN3: "Sunshine Superman"

BOS Bobby Fuller Four, just because.

BOS2 in a jar by the door: Beatles.

OMFG: a Fab Four twin-spin! BOS3 "She Said She said"

Wicked good Proxy of Annalisa: "Dirty Water"

BOS4 Dylan.

Monkees - I'm A Believer   
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations 
Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb 
Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City   
Donovan - Sunshine Superman   
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law 
Beatles - Elanor Rigby   
Beatles - She Said She Said   
Standells - Dirty Water 
Bob Dylan - I Want You 

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Tue 12/4/12: 1975

VHM the foxy fox on the run.

it's a Saturday nite s-s-special.

WOS and LN1: Iggles. It's the "Limit" all right.

VHM doze Joizey Boyz. "Its hard to make believe you're happy when you're gay"

Another Joizey Boy heard from: BOS Broooooooooce, freezin' on 10th.

uber-uber-uber-LN2: "Killer Queen". Legal in 2 years, unfortunately.

BOS2 the Pinko Floyds.

now yo' messin' wit a sonofabitch: VHM Nazareth, "Hair of the Dog", dawg.

Best couple of set: EJ and Sugar Bear.

Rush at their most-bearable ("Fly By Night") is still a WOS2.

Sweet - Fox on the Run 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special 
Eagles - Take It to the Limit 
Four Seasons - Who Loves You 
Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freeze-Out 
Queen - Killer Queen 
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog 
Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight 
Rush - Fly By Night

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Wed 12/5/12: 1981

better or worse than Renee's set yesterday?

our TOTHK is Kihn-tagious!

oh, go stroke yourself, Billy Squier.

WOS1 Triumph, the only Canadian band worse than Rush.

LN1: Joe Walsh

WOS2: recent Renee "turkey", Journey's "Stone in Love"

oy: WOS3 Aldo Nova. Seriously this one sounds like a parody of cheezy '80s AOR fodder.

Best of a bad lot: Seger's live cover of "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You"

VHM AC/DC, "DD(DDC)". Where's the Lesley Gore version when you need it?

LN2: TP.

uber-LN3: Phil Collins coming in the air (er... ewww)

Greg Kihn - The Breakup Song 
Billy Squier - The Stroke 
Triumph - Magic Power 
Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion 
Journey - Stone in Love 
Aldo Nova - Fantasy   
Bob Seger - Tryin' to Live My Life Without You 
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - A Woman In Love 
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

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Thur 12/6/12: 1970

No sugar tonite/New mutha nay-chuh: BOS1

B-O-S-2 O-H-I-O.

VHM CCR -- "Back Door" still one of my fave 45s of theirs.

Traffic's "Glad" and so am I. BOS3.

"Question"ably borderline-LN: Moodies.

LN: EJ.

HM "Mississippi Queen", but I'd *lurve* to hear "Theme From an Imaginary Western" sometime.

uber-uber-uber-LN2: "Lola" -- I swear Bob plays this in every 1970 set, plus he plays the live version in whatever year that was.

BOS4 the Dead when they were good.

LN3: Crapton aftah midnite.

Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature 
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door 
Traffic - Glad 
Moody Blues - Question 
Elton John - Your Song 
Mountain - Mississippi Queen   
Kinks - Lola 
Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 
Eric Clapton - After Midnight

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Fri 12/7/12: 1976

expect Boston and Steve Miller and Boz.

ding ding ding! -- "Lido Shuffle", TOTHK.

ding ding ding! 2: Boston love you long time.

VHM "The Pretender"

ding ding ding! 3: Steve Miller w/ Bille Joe & Bobbie Sue.  Some days I *hate* being right.

BOS1 Rod's "First Cut..."

Did I say Boz, Boston and Miller wer all uber-LNs?

LN4: "Dreamboat Annie", lovely tho' it remains.

LN5: Iggles; LN6: Macca

Jeezus effing Christ: "Bohemian Rhapsody" too?  uber-uber-uber-LN7.

Dear lord, we top it all off with Wild Cherry. This was just hideous.

Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle 
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time 
Jackson Browne - The Pretender 
Steve Miller Band - Take The Money and Run 
Rod Stewart - The First Cut Is The Deepest 
Heart - Dreamboat Annie   
Eagles - Life In The Fast Lane   
Paul McCartney - Silly Love Songs 
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody   
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music