The Drive, week of 3/7/11

[RGMike]

Mon 3/7/11: 1979

Bob kicks off a week without a single '80s set. Yay!!

VH look for beautiful girls; CDB find the Devil.

BOS and Cheeze for Breakfast: Rainbow's "Since You've Been Gone". VHM the Iggles finest ballad, "I Can't Tell You Why"

Mother do you think they'll get sick of this Floyd?  VHM lesser-heard Supertramp.

BOS2 Tim the Enchanter!

ELO: surely "snake in the grass/ break your glass" was orig written as "Snake in the grass/kick your ass", no?  Was radio really that timid in '79? I mean, Blondie said "pain in the ass'...

TANC: "Heart of Glass" appears.

Van Halen - Beautiful Girls 
Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia 
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone 
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why 
Pink Floyd - Mother 
Supertramp - Just Another Nervous Wreck 
Cheap Trick - Ain't That a Shame 
Electric Light Orchestra - Dont' Bring Me Down 
ZZ Top - I Thank You 
Blondie - Heart of Glass 

The Drive's "new improved" website just went "live".

[RGMike]

Tue 3/8/11: 1971

Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop 
T. Rex - Jeepster 
John Lennon - Imagine 
Elton John - Where to Now St. Peter 
The Who - The Song is Over 
CCR - Have You Ever Seen the Rain 
James Taylor - You've Got a friend 
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar 
Cat Stevens - Moon Shadow 
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story 

not bad at all, a couple of overplayed 'trinas notwithstanding.

[RGMike]

Wed 3/9/11: 1966

bet it goes to 11...

BOS the Shadows of Knight version of "G-L-O-R-I-A". Sam & Dave are holdin' on and comin'. As do most of us.

any other Kinks tune woulda got BOS2 but "Sunny Afternoon" will settle for a VHM. But always a BOS (and proxy of Irish Greg) "Wouldn't it Be Nice?"

VHM Neil D -- he's solitary, man. So's Mickey D, on the last train.

BOS3 and proxy of Gaz Raiders, "Hungry". Ah kin almos' TASTE it!  Dylan gets stoned, the Hollies get caught in the rain and the Troggs sing for Coke.

uber-BOS4 to my fave Beatle B-side, "Rain"

Shadows of Knight - Gloria 
Sam & Dave - Hold On! I'm a Comin' 
Kinks - Sunny Afternoon 
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice 
Neil Diamond - Solitary Man 
Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville 
Paul Revere - Hungry 
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 
Hollies - Bus Stop 
Beatles - Rain

tomorrow: celebrating Alexander Graham Bell's birthday a week late (WTF?) with "Telephone Songs". Here's hoping "Switchboard Susan" gives us an extension.

[RGMike]

Thur 3/10/11: On the telephone

ah, Bell's B-day was last week but today's the anniv of the invention itself. No surprise that we start with ELO.

Hey Jenny: Bob's got yer number.

BOS1 Mr Croce's "Operator". Guess the Manhattan Transfer tune of the same name is too much to hope for.

aaack: Phunky Phil says "Don't Lose My Number" -- I assume Steely Dan will have a similar sentiment for us shortly.

wow: Foreigner's "Love On The telephone" may be an ATBB. VHMFRA. And sure enuf, the Dan arrive.

Figures they'd find a SRV song about a phone call 

Blondie says "Call Me", mon cherie. And Sugarloaf make a predictable appearance.

long-distance information, get me an uber-BOS2 for Chuck Berry's orig "Memphis". More than that I cannot add!

Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line 
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) 
Jim Croce - Operator 
Phil Collins - Dont Lose My Number 
Foreigner - Love on the Telephone 
Steely Dan - Rikki Dont' Lose That Number 
Vaughan Brothers - Telephone Song 
Blondie - Call Me 
Sugarloaf - Don't Call Us, We'll Call You 
Chuck Berry - Memphis

[RGMike]

Fri 3/11/11: 1974

Hoping for cheeze; they call Skynyrd the breeze. Proxy of GazWOS.

OMG! "Lakeshore Drive" -- a local Chicago fave and a big BOS from me for the LSD from Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah . Meanwhile, BTO are TCB. And Genesis are carpet munchers, er, crawlers.

Hot tramp! Oh Bowie, you "Rebel", you.

If you were expecting Supertramp... yer bloody well right.

always a BOS for Reunion. Mushroom omelete, Bonnie Bramlett! Easily one of my 5 favorite OHWs of all time. Ah need a breather.

BOS3 Stones, "Dance Li'l Sistah" -- on Thursday nite, she look a fright.

Crapton, if you shot the sheriff, then, er, it doesn't really matter whether you shot the deputy or not. You're fucked.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze 
Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah - Lakeshore Drive 
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business 
Genesis - Carpet Crawlers 
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel 
Supertramp - Bloody Well Right 
Reunion - Life is a Rock 
Doobie Brothers - Black Water 
Rolling Stones - Dance Little Sister 
Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff