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The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« on: January 23, 2009, 07:55:06 AM »
Bob keeps us in the '70s, thank goddess!
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2009, 08:02:54 AM »
a mellow-prog start with "Us & Them". Still can't believe this flopped as a single.
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2009, 08:16:24 AM »
relatively rare Doobs, "Without You", and now the nice surprise of Seals & Crofts' "Hummingbird". (They belonged to a religion that believed hummingbirds were sacred, or something. Seriously!)
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2009, 08:17:35 AM »
relatively rare Doobs, "Without You", and now the nice surprise of Seals & Crofts' "Hummingbird". (They belonged to a religion that believed hummingbirds were sacred, or something. Seriously!)

This is the first tangible thing I've ever learned about Ba'hai.

BOS, at any rate.  Just arrived - who/what is "Us & Them"?
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2009, 08:21:01 AM »
who/what is "Us & Them"?

DUDE! are you serious??



BOS that great German Zep tune, "Die-er Macher"
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2009, 08:24:09 AM »
Gaz! the only Skynyrd tune you like, iirc.  ("Simple Kind of Man", for those who don't know)

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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2009, 08:29:49 AM »
Gaz! the only Skynyrd tune you like, iirc.

No, that's "Tuesday's Gone."  I can't get with the message of "Simple Man," though it's not obnoxious like some of their other songs.
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2009, 08:30:27 AM »
who/what is "Us & Them"?

DUDE! are you serious??

I'm largely indifferent to Floyd, and in any case only recognize a few of their songs by title.
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2009, 08:34:33 AM »
who/what is "Us & Them"?

DUDE! are you serious??

I'm largely indifferent to Floyd, and in any case only recognize a few of their songs by title.

I never knew.

"Us'n'Them", "You'n'Me" -- it's all good.  BOS2 Chicago.
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2009, 08:34:51 AM »
"Just You 'n' Me": the moment where Peter Cetera took over and made Chicago soft.
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2009, 08:36:15 AM »
"Just You 'n' Me": the moment where Peter Cetera took over and made Chicago soft.

"Saturday in the Park" wasn't exactly heavy metal.  ;)
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2009, 08:37:41 AM »
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!

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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2009, 08:38:59 AM »
"Just You 'n' Me": the moment where Peter Cetera took over and made Chicago soft.

"Saturday in the Park" wasn't exactly heavy metal.  ;)

But they were all over the map then.  From JYNM on, they were more or less a ballad machine (well, except "Street Player," but that didn't sell).
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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2009, 08:42:26 AM »
"gimme the Beach Boys and free mah soul"  -- one of the great mondegreens of the decade.

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Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2009, 08:44:18 AM »
I'm going to forget that Uncle Kracker ever defiled this song.
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