The Drive, week of 10/8/12

[RGMike]

Mon 10/8/12: 1989

Don Henley   The End of Innocence   15.0%
Eric Clapton   Bad Love    6.5%
Aerosmith   The Other Side   1.4%
Stevie Ray Vaughan   Crossfire   13.7%
John Mellencamp   Jackie Brown   2.7%
Roy Orbison   You Got It   24.6%
Rolling Stones   Rock and a Hard Place   4.4%
Tom Petty   Runnin' Down a Dream   10.9%
Chris Isaak   Wicked Game   16.4%
Skid Row    18 and Life

[RGMike]

Tue 10/9/12: 1970

Yay! 1970 at 25 or 6 to 4 on 10 @ 10.

BOS the Mighty Zep in the land of the ice'n'snow.

VHM the Allmans' orig version of Midnight Rider.

uber-LN: Norman Greenbaum. oh, if only someone would play "Canned Ham"

Traffic get drunk; ditto the Doors. VHMs, both.

BOS2 JT, "Sweet Baby James" -- an all-time-fave for me.

Rare Earth know they losin' me.

BOS3 Melanie, layin' it down.  VHM CCR.

Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Allman Bros Band - Midnight Rider 
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky 
Traffic - John Barleycorn 
Doors - Roadhouse Blues 
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James 
Rare Earth - (I Know) I'm Losing You 
Melanie - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend

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Wed 10/10/12: 1979

Please, Bob, some new wave. And I don't mean "Cruel to be Kind".

ZZT is a "Bad" TOTHK, y'alls. VHM.

VHM AC/DC, "HtH"

LN1: the Buggles, ow-ah ow-ah. LN2: Joe Walsh. LN3: Supertramp.

Triumph's "Lay it on the Line" is a rarity but it's still awful. WOS.

Doctor, doctor, gimme another LN.

Pat Travers puts out the lights; VHM VH.

BOS F.Mac, "Sara" -- the Goat at her least goaty.

ZZ Top - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 
AC/DC - Highway to Hell 
Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 
Eagles - In The City   
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home 
Triumph - Lay It On The Line 
Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) 
Pat Travers - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights 
Van Halen - Beautiful Girls 
Fleetwood Mac - Sara 

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Thur 10/11/12: 1974

instant BOS Stones "If You can't Rock Me"

WOS Aerosmith

BadCo sing "BadCo". VHM.

H&O's "She's Gone" in the year of its first chart go-'round. Amusingly the Drive "just played" thingy lists the artist as Will Ferrell (the song was on the Anchorman sndtk). Stay classy, Chicago!

VHM Tull, bunglin'.

LN: Billy Preston

It's '74 -- no "Mongo pawn in game of life" clip?

BTO "TCB": VHM, OK?

another park, another doobs; another breeze, another skynyrd.

BOS2 EJ, with a bitchin' set-closer.

Stones - If You Can't Rock Me 
Aerosmith - The Train Kept a Rollin'   
Bad Company - Bad Company   
Hall & Oates - She's Gone 
Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle 
Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing 
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business 
Doobie Brothers - Another Park, Another Sunday 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze 
Elton John - The Bitch is Back 

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Fri 10/12/12: "Whistle Rock"

remember the first time Dave did this and we thought it was the cleverest idea evah?

Axl whistles. I'm losing "Patience".

VHM "Me & Julio", warhorse tho' it is.

LN: Steve Miller and a crate of papaya.

LN Deux: "Jeux San Frontieres"

LN 3 (strikes): "Centerfield". And from "Centerfield" to "Centerfold" -- yeesh. LN4.

uber-uber-BOS: BJ, "The Stranger".

Beatle-y BOS twin-spin: "Two of Us" and John's "Jealous Guy"

Holee crap: the Andy Griffith theme song -- with LYRICS!

WOS Scorpions, passing "Wind".

LN5: Supertramp


G'n'R - Patience 
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard 
Steve Miller - Jungle Love 
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers 
J. Geils Band - Centerfold 
Billy Joel - The Stranger 
Beatles - Two of Us 
John Lennon - Jealous Guy 
Scorpions - Wind of Change 
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger