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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 07:55:06 AM

Title: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 07:55:06 AM
Bob keeps us in the '70s, thank goddess!
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:02:54 AM
a mellow-prog start with "Us & Them". Still can't believe this flopped as a single.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike 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!)
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo 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"?
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:21:01 AM
who/what is "Us & Them"?

DUDE! are you serious??

(http://www.subirimagen.es/08/0331/114732/pinkfloyd-album-dark_side_of_the_moon1.jpg)

BOS that great German Zep tune, "Die-er Macher"
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike 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)

and now GFR stays up all nite with Frank King -- ah gots to tell ya, poker's his thing.

(http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/columnists/jimbaumbach/blog/WB8491~Grand-Funk-Railroad-Posters.jpg)
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo 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.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo 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.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike 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.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo on January 23, 2009, 08:34:51 AM
"Just You 'n' Me": the moment where Peter Cetera took over and made Chicago soft.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike 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.  ;)
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:37:41 AM
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!

(http://www.raw-tcsd.com/images/McCart.SP.05486.jpg)
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo 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).
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:42:26 AM
"gimme the Beach Boys and free mah soul"  -- one of the great mondegreens of the decade.

VHM Dobie Gray.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo on January 23, 2009, 08:44:18 AM
I'm going to forget that Uncle Kracker ever defiled this song.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo on January 23, 2009, 08:45:44 AM
BOS to "All the Girls Love Alice," one of Elton's very best and most politicized songs.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:48:16 AM
BOS to "All the Girls Love Alice," one of Elton's very best and most politicized songs.

"what do you expect from a 16-year-old yo-yo?"  Ditto the BOS and your sentiment -- this was truly (for folks listening to album-rock radio in '73) a glimpse into an unseen world.

in 35 years we've gone from "All the Girls Love Alice" to "If You Seek Amy". 
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Tinka Cat on January 23, 2009, 08:48:45 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!)

wh-wh-wha..?!

I have to check that out. 

OT: I'm sure, then, that they've been to Costa Rica, where hummingbirds are abundant in some places, like the cloud forest regions
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: Gazoo on January 23, 2009, 08:50:49 AM
OK, it's off to work for me.  This has been a pretty terrible week for me, but at least tomorrow's the weekend.  Have a good one, all.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:51:00 AM
Pink Floyd - Us and Them 
Doobie Brothers - Without You 
Seals & Crofts - Hummingbird 
Led Zeppelin - D'Yer Mak'er 
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man 
Grand Funk - We're An American Band 
Chicago - Just You and Me 
Paul McCartney/Wings - Helen Wheels 
Dobie Gray - Drift Away 
Elton John - All the Girls Love Alice 
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 08:56:11 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!)

wh-wh-wha..?!

I have to check that out. 

OT: I'm sure, then, that they've been to Costa Rica, where hummingbirds are abundant in some places, like the cloud forest regions

I haven't been able to find it online, but when this was a hit, I specifically remember Casey Kasem saying that S&C were members of the Bah'ai religion and that it teaches that hummingbirds are the earthly presence of god among us, or words to that effect.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: urth on January 23, 2009, 09:47:18 AM
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!

(http://www.raw-tcsd.com/images/McCart.SP.05486.jpg)

You know Paulie wrote this song about his Land Rover (which was called Helen), right? Back before they became luxury SUVs.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 09:57:51 AM
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!


You know Paulie wrote this song about his Land Rover (which was called Helen), right? Back before they became luxury SUVs.

No! I love trivia like that. Yeah, the Brits were way ahead on the Land Rover thing.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: urth on January 23, 2009, 10:10:23 AM
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!


You know Paulie wrote this song about his Land Rover (which was called Helen), right? Back before they became luxury SUVs.

No! I love trivia like that. Yeah, the Brits were way ahead on the Land Rover thing.

Guess Paul was big on writing about whatever he saw in his daily life. Dogs, cars, butterpies, stuff like that.
Title: Re: The Drive, 1/23/09: 1973
Post by: RGMike on January 23, 2009, 10:23:36 AM
BOS3 "Helen Wheels" -- say ByeBye!


You know Paulie wrote this song about his Land Rover (which was called Helen), right? Back before they became luxury SUVs.

No! I love trivia like that. Yeah, the Brits were way ahead on the Land Rover thing.

Guess Paul was big on writing about whatever he saw in his daily life. Dogs, cars, butterpies, stuff like that.

not to mention fish-and-finger pie ;)