The Drive, week of 4/11/11

[RGMike]

Mon 4/11/11: 1968

a fine way to start the week. Seaver, sitting in for Stoud, gets in the queue for some magic. And Mr Cocker gets by.

Nice: Mr Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" in its year of orig release. And always a VHM to Mr Seger, ramblin' 'n' gamblin'.

BOS San Jose's own People, people! They lurves you.

Bathroom break: "Hey Jude". Na na na na na na na.

VHM


BOS2 Diana & the girls in a tenement slum at their socially-relevant best. A pop masterpiece, fo' sho'

JJ Flash -- shit's a gas!

BOS3 Steppenwolf, "Sookie Sookie". Sook it to me!

Who - Magic Bus 
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends 
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World 
Bob Seger - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man 
People - I Love You 
Beatles - Hey Jude 
Tommy James/Shondells - Mony Mony 
Diana Ross And The Supremes - Love Child 
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash 
Steppenwolf - Sookie, Sookie

[RGMike]

Tue 4/12/11: 1975

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue 
Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freezeout 
Crosby/Nash - To the Last Whale: Critical Mass/Wind on The Water 
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion 
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide 
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir 
Ted Nugent - Hey Baby 
B.J. Thomas - Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song 
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Roll on Down the Highway 
Jeff Beck - Freeway Jam 

except for the Aerosmith, a surprisingly diverse set from Bob -- the Nuge's "Hey Baby" is an ATBB, methinks. And the BJ Thomas.. a nice surprise.

[RGMike]

Wed 4/13/11: 1983

Hagar the Horrible, when he was less horrible: "Your Love is Driving me Crazy" is fairly tolerable, actually, tho' it sounds like it was written for Loverboy.

"Oh baby just you shut your mouse" -- Iggy/Bowie predict computer technology years before it happens.

BOS JCM, playin' git-tar.  Damn -- phone rang so i don't know if they censored the "macho shit".

Oh no for pity's sake: Yes' "OOALH" for, like, the 6th time this week.  WOS1. Followed by WOS2, Journey's "Faithfulleeeeee"

OK, even *I* am officially tired of Todd, banging his "drum", nudgenudge winkwink.

Genesis got a job to do. And my job is to WOS3 their job.

NOOOOOOOOOO! the WOS-fest motors right along with Sistah Christian.

One thing leads to another, all right.

Huey's heart is still beatin' in Cleveland. and Chicago. VHM to end a rather hellish set.

Sammy Hagar - Your Love is Driving Me Crazy 
David Bowie - China Girl 
John Cougar Mellencamp - Play Guitar 
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart 
Journey - Faithfully 
Todd Rundgren - Bang the Drum All Day 
Genesis - Just a Job To Do 
Night Ranger - Sister Christian 
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another 
Huey Lewis and The News - The Heart of Rock & Roll 

[RGMike]

Thur 4/14/11: 1972

we're "Living in the Past", literally and figuratively. And there ain't but one way out, babe. VHM ABB.

OMFG: uber-BOS1 to a gobsmacking bustout, L&M's "House at Pooh Corner".

Long-distance BOS2: Yes when they were good.

T-Rex bangs their gong. Again. And Superfly's "tryin' to get over" to the park on saturday.

Always a BOS3 and proxy of gaz for "I Saw The Light". This was meant to be a Carole King pastiche? Yeah, I can hear that.

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. Again.



No fishes in the desert for America. But Steely Dan are reeling in something.


Jethro Tull - Living in the Past 
Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out 
Loggins/Messina - House at Pooh Corner 
Yes - Long Distance Runaround 
T. Rex - Bang a Gong 
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly 
Chicago - Saturday in the Park 
Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light 
America - Horse With No Name 
Steely Dan - Reeling in the Years 

[RGMike]

Fri 4/15/11: 1978

"HotBlooded" followed by "Baker St" -- yeah we're in classic rock mode all right.

BOS "Surrender" - mommy & daddy got the KISS records out, yo.

Love is a ring, the telephone.  BOS2 Patti hitting the Top 20 with a Broooce collab, 2 years before he'd get there himself.

Proxy of cairo, the Babys, going "Head First".

an 8:30 meeeting means I gotta bail, not that I'm expecting to miss anything bustout-y.  That's what a fool believes, anyway.

But wait: VH's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" is a relative rarity in the Drive universe. BOS3FRA

AAACK: Boston are feelin' satisfied... but I'm not. WOS.  Is this the most shamelessly-recycled follow-up LP ever?

[Tinka Cat]

Fri 4/15/11: 1978

"HotBlooded" followed by "Baker St" -- yeah we're in classic rock mode all right.

BOS "Surrender" - mommy & daddy got the KISS records out, yo.

Love is a ring, the telephone.  BOS2 Patti hitting the Top 20 with a Broooce collab, 2 years before he'd get there himself.

Proxy of cairo, the Babys, going "Head First".

an 8:30 meeeting means I gotta bail, not that I'm expecting to miss anything bustout-y.  That's what a fool believes, anyway.

But wait: VH's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" is a relative rarity in the Drive universe. BOS3FRA

AAACK: Boston are feelin' satisfied... but I'm not. WOS.  Is this the most shamelessly-recycled follow-up LP ever?

nice write-up, RGM.

I'd also give The Babys a BOS, despite their typo.


ETA by Mike:

Foreigner - Hot Blooded 
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 
Cheap Trick - Surrender 
Patti Smith - Because the Night 
Babys - Head First 
Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes 
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' Bout Love 
Boston - Feeling Satisfied 
Grateful Dead - Fire on the Mountain 
Billy Joel - My Life 

I missed the Dead (proxy of geoff!) and I'd call that a Drive bustout if nothing else.