The Drive, week of 1/14/13

[RGMike]

Mon 1/14/13: 1969!

the 'oo say that you're welcome to decamp.

VHM 3DN.

BOS1 and proxy of Geoff: ABB, "Whipping Post"

LN-ish but always nice: Spirit.

Blooze you can snooze: BB King.

uber-BOS2 Stones, "Monkey Man"

TANC: the overplayed "Sweet Caroline".

HM: "No Time"

BOS3: LedZep, "Communication Breakdown"

Zho Co-KAIR comes in thru the loo.

Who - We're Not Gonna Take It 
Three Dog Night - One 
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post 
Spirit - I Got A Line On You 
B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone 
Rolling Stones - Monkey Man 
Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline 
Guess Who - No Time 
Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown 
Joe Cocker - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 

[RGMike]

Tue 1/15/13: "Piano pleasures"

gee, think we'll hear "Music Box Dancer"?  Nah...

Traffic gets glad to start. Styx laud their lady.

A bottle o' white, a bottle o' red: BOS1 BJ -- Bob makes the best Joel choice possible.

ooo! BOS2 Broooooce, "Growin' Up". Another nice choice.

Awww... '70s prom staple "Color My World". VHM just because.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOS and uber-uber-LN "Don't Stop Believin' '

Wow: BOS3 Wings, "1985" -- This is turning out to be a pretty swell set.

dayum! BOS4 Ms King, makin' the earth move.

uber-LN2: Hornsby.

ooo! BOS5 local Chi-town fave "Lakeshore Drive".

Traffic - Glad 
Styx - Lady 
Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant 
Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up 
Chicago - Colour My World   
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'   
Paul McCartney - 1985 
Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move 
Bruce Hornsby And The Range - The Way It Is 
Aliotta Haynes and Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive

Bob's best theme set in a dog's age.

[Tinka Cat]

Tue 1/15/13: "Piano pleasures"

gee, think we'll hear "Music Box Dancer"?  Nah...

Traffic gets glad to start. Styx laud their lady.

A bottle o' white, a bottle o' red: BOS1 BJ -- Bob makes the best Joel choice possible.

ooo! BOS2 Broooooce, "Growin' Up". Another nice choice.

Awww... '70s prom staple "Color My World". VHM just because.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOS and uber-uber-LN "Don't Stop Believin' '

Wow: BOS3 Wings, "1985" -- This is turning out to be a pretty swell set.

dayum! BOS4 Ms King, makin' the earth move.

uber-LN2: Hornsby.

ooo! BOS5 local Chi-town fave "Lakeshore Drive".

Traffic - Glad 
Styx - Lady 
Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant 
Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up 
Chicago - Colour My World   
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'   
Paul McCartney - 1985 
Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move 
Bruce Hornsby And The Range - The Way It Is 
Aliotta Haynes and Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive

Bob's best theme set in a dog's age.

Would also have accepted Stones' Sympathy For The Devil and Monkey Man -- thank you, Nicky Hopkins

[RGMike]

Wed 1/16/13: 1978

bracing myself for "Dreadlock Holiday", "Thunder Island", or both.

instant LN: Petty.

Keep it to yo'self, it's BJ's life.

LN2: Sweet.

oy: Cars in stereo; Crapton makes promises.

VHM "Follow You Follow Me" -- never understoood the hate for this one.

VHM VH, gettin' Kink-y

BOS Seger, feelin' like a numbah.

BOS2 Dire Straits go down to the waterline.

BOS3 Heart, "Straight On" -- they made some great singles in that period.

Petty/Heartbreakers - I Need To Know 
Billy Joel - My Life 
Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen   
Cars - Moving In Stereo 
Eric Clapton - Promises 
Genesis - Follow You Follow Me 
Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got Me 
Bob Seger - Feel Like A Number 
Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline 
Heart - Straight On 

[RGMike]

Thur 1/17/13: 1985

cliche TOTHK: SRV. LN1

uber-uber-LN2: Simple Minds.

VHM Bowie/Metheny, tho' it's bordering on LN status too.

LNs 3, 4, 5: JCM, INXS, TFF. Jeebus.

BOS ZZT "Sleeping Bag" -- tho' I wish somebody would play "Velcro Fly" one of these days.

WOS Loverboy; LN6 "Centerfield".

also borderline but VHM anyway: T.Heads.  Sheesh this was like one of Renee's especially lazy '85 sets.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Look At Little Sister 
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 
David Bowie/Pat Metheny - This Is Not America 
John Mellencamp - Small Town   
INXS - What You Need 
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 
ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag 
Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It 
John Fogerty - Centerfield 
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere   

[RGMike]

Fri 1/18/13: 1974

instant WOS: Grand Funk's ham-handed, white-boy version of "soul". Some Kind of Awful.

WOS2: Aerosmith, same-old, same-old

"I know it was you, Fredo -- you broke my hawt!"

LN1: Redbone.

BadCo doo-wacka-doo. or something.

VHM Supertramp "School"

whatevah gets ya thru the LNs.

I'm VHM-ing America's "Lonely People", which speaks volumes about the quality of this set.

Dr Winston O. Boogie returns for an encore with EJ and "LSD".

VHM Stones. A deeper cut woulda been BOS.

Boogie on reggae LN.

Grand Funk - Some Kind of Wonderful 
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance 
Redbone - Come And Get Your Love 
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love 
Supertramp - School 
John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through The Night 
America - Lonely People 
Elton John - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 
Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) 
Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman