3 April 2013: it's... 1976

[Lightnin' Rod]

Jackson Browne would sound good right now.

Yeah, maybe he can introduce the next song.

I kid.

[CapnJack]

Jefferson Starship "With Your Love"

[RGMike]

VHM JS "With Your Love", not my fave of theirs (RCA clearly said, " how 'bout something 'Miracles'-ish?") but nice in this company.

[urth]

Eric Clapton "Cocaine"

JJ Cale, no?

Oops you're correct.

Guess I wasn't paying very close attention either--I heard the "cocaine" riff and immediately dismissed it as being Clapton. Except Slowhand didn't come out until '77 (not that that would have stopped them from playing it in '76).

Boston is another LN. Was it Dischead that was saying what a wasteland 76-78 were for music? This set is mostly proving that, in spades. Still the One? Please. That song has been the music bed for more advertising in the last 30+ years than any other song I could name.

[ggould]

VHM JS
(although I'm not sure I've heard any BOS yet)

[RGMike]

Seger turns the page.  Would that we could do the same.  Bathroom break!

[CapnJack]

Bob Seger "Turn The Page"

[Lightnin' Rod]

Seger turns the page.  Would that we could do the same.  Bathroom break!

I give this one a pass.  Songs about being a rock star are a personal weakness.

But like Geoff, I still haven't heard anything that's BOS material.

[Lightnin' Rod]

BOS, Carlos, "Dance Sister Dance".

[CapnJack]

Santana "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)"

[ggould]

BOS, Carlos, "Dance Sister Dance".

I can't go there with you.  Is it the hot guitar?

[RGMike]

Santana may be my BOS -- doesn't happen often, mi hermana.  Everybody mergengué!

[Lightnin' Rod]

BOS, Carlos, "Dance Sister Dance".

I can't go there with you.  Is it the hot guitar?

Yes, mostly.  Makes me chair dance, too.  That's always a plus.

ETA:  I was VERY into Santana in 1976.  Between him and Journey (when they were good), I was going to a lot of shows featuring this kind of thing.

[RGMike]

BOS, Carlos, "Dance Sister Dance".

I can't go there with you.  Is it the hot guitar?

For me, it was the fact that this is LWOS (Least White of Set). Yes, I know we heard Stevie W.

But truly: nothing in this set we haven't heard many many times, save possibly the JJ Cale.

[urth]

Seger turns the page.  Would that we could do the same.  Bathroom break!

I give this one a pass.  Songs about being a rock star are a personal weakness.

But like Geoff, I still haven't heard anything that's BOS material.

Me either. Everything we've heard so far is either way too smoothly produced or too overplayed (or both) to remotely qualify in my book. The JJ Cale tune is probably the least guilty, but because of Clapton's gratuitous recasting that we heard ad nauseum in the 80s, I can't go there either.