17 April 2013: it's... 1973

[CapnJack]

Per Renee: 2-way tie for BOS - Skynyrd / Cliff

[Lightnin' Rod]

Well, I'm sure there was rejoicing on FB over the Broooce, but this was a "just OK" set in my estimation.  A year with a lot of deep cuts and also some great pop cheeze. And we pretty much got neither, with a couple of exceptions.

I agree.

BOS Led Zep, but not overwhelmingly so.  HM, Freebird (I don't mind the very very very occasional spin of Freebird, because if 10@10 is something of a historical excercise, Freebird deserves the occasional nod - as does Stairway...).

[ggould]

I didn't hear it live, so if this GS list needs fixin' fix it if you've got the tools, or tell me to fix it:

041713 -- Wednesday -- 1973

1. Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days
(TV: Electric Company. "Hey, you guuuuuuuyyyyyys!")
2. Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
3. Bruce Springsteen - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4. Paul McCartney and Wings - Jet
5. Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day
6. The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
7. Three Dog Night - Shambala
(Commercial - Magnavox)
8. The Rolling Stones - Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
9. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
(News: Militant indians at Wounded Knee)
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird

[dischead]

Bruce Springsteen "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City"

Hey, how about that?  One of the Bruce songs I really like.

1973 would have been during the time my father was manager of the Freehold location of a local
drug store chain.  I'll never know, but if Bruce or any of the band member ever shopped there,
then they might have spoken to him and I'd have two degrees of separation.  It's certainly
possible, given they were just starting their rise to stardom at that time.

[dischead]

Will we get Renee "classics" or new ones from a fill-in host (e.g. Rosalie)?

Fingers crossed for Rosalie.  I think that is the DC model -- fill-ins rather than classics.

If DC is indeed the evil mastermind behind the current 10@10 suckage, why would one expect
better just because Rosalie is host?  I guess the answer hinges on how much control the host is
given, and whether one expects Rosalie to get more input on the content than RR.

[dischead]

Will we get Renee "classics" or new ones from a fill-in host (e.g. Rosalie)?

Fingers crossed for Rosalie.  I think that is the DC model -- fill-ins rather than classics.

Would love it if you were right. RR's sets, for the most part, are painful enough the first time around--I think I'd have to switch to the Sound for a while if we started hearing reruns of them.

Unfortunately, that aspect is what has cured me of wishing the Saturday morning marathon
would return.  Not the cure I was hoping for, though.

[dischead]

Geek note: DM only played Freebird twice in the years covered by the Shraytabase, and neither was in a year-based set. One was the A-to-Z Make Good set, and the other was something called "Fogheads at 15" which sounds like a request-generated set. Actually, they both do.

1/30/06 - Monday!  Today on 10@10 it's "Fogheads at 15!!"
Check Dave's Blog to see what these songs meant to Fogheads when they were 15:

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
2. Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby
3. Cat Stevens - Where Do the Children Play?
4. Squeeze - Is That Love
5. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (Best of Set!!)
6. Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your Way
7. Bob Seger - Night Moves
8. Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen
9. Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
10.EWF - After the Love is Gone

[dischead]

[insert generic comment here about a set from an above average year that had the potential
to be pretty good but instead was just average because of too many overplayed "hits"]

[RGMike]

Will we get Renee "classics" or new ones from a fill-in host (e.g. Rosalie)?

Fingers crossed for Rosalie.  I think that is the DC model -- fill-ins rather than classics.

If DC is indeed the evil mastermind behind the current 10@10 suckage, why would one expect better just because Rosalie is host?

Good point; if nothing else Rosalie's voice is more pleasant than RR's.