Simple Minds - Someone somewhere in summertime
A superb song from an amazing album.
A superb song from an amazing album.
What music do you love?
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Genesis - I know what I like
Back when audiences sat and really listened, instead of taking selfies and posting from the concert.
Back when audiences sat and really listened, instead of taking selfies and posting from the concert.
random pick in a Winnipeg phone book, The Pumps formed in early 1978 and centred around friends Chris Burke-Gaffney on vocals and bass, lead guitarist Lou Petrovich, and drummer Terry Norman Taylor. Within a few months, Brent Diamond joined on keyboards. The four of them, sans Petrovich, actually had roots going back to high school, when they played with future Harlequin guitarist Glen Willows in Max Damien.
Playing in front of whatever local audience they could find, they quickly developed a following because of their live shows, full of energy and superb musicianship that seldom, if ever, had people leave unsatisfied. Before long they were doing shows on the western Canadian 'b' circuit. All the while they were writing their own music, incorporating the songs into the live shows.
Superb bar band, seen them many times
Playing in front of whatever local audience they could find, they quickly developed a following because of their live shows, full of energy and superb musicianship that seldom, if ever, had people leave unsatisfied. Before long they were doing shows on the western Canadian 'b' circuit. All the while they were writing their own music, incorporating the songs into the live shows.
Superb bar band, seen them many times
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1995 by singer and pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording independent albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003
Love her voice.
Love her voice.
Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
Incredibly and unique song, I love it.
RIP Mark Hollis and many thanks for this masterpiece.
Incredibly and unique song, I love it.
RIP Mark Hollis and many thanks for this masterpiece.
Bonnie Tyler - Total eclipse of the heart
Fantastic, huge song.
Fantastic, huge song.
Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barnes; 19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
First time I have seen her without black hair.
Joan Jett is an American rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer, and actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hit song "Cherry Bomb".
Joan Jett is an American rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer, and actress. Jett is best known for her work as the frontwoman of her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and for earlier founding and performing with the Runaways, which recorded and released the hit song "Cherry Bomb".
Todd Rundgren was a key figure in the Progressive Rock Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s which also featured Emerson Lake and Plamer, Yes, and King Crimson. His biggest hit was Hello It's Me in 1972:
He later became a sought after music producer in the late 1970s. He was widely influential and respected within the music business.
Robo - So true. Another guy that should be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. An amazing career that covered all forms of music - Psychedelic, rock, powerpop, and progressive. He produced Badfinger (Baby Blue and Day After Day), Grand Funk Railroad (We're and American Band), MeatLoaf(Bat Out of Hell), and the New York City Dolls. His music was always electic. But I absolutely love the slide guitar on "I Saw the Light".
EB - When you were talking about your "Montreal mini party" for your friends in the COVID thread, I was thinking of this Todd Rundgren song -We Gotta Get You a Woman"
Leroy, boy, is that you?
I thought your post-hangin' days were through,
Sunk-in eyes and full of sighs,
Tell no lies, you get wise,
I tell you now we're gonna pull you through,
There's only one thing left that we can do
We gotta get you a woman,
It's like nothin' else to make you feel sure you're alive
Got to get together with a woman who has been around,
One who knows better than to let you down,
Let's hope there's still one left in this whole town,
And that she'll take some time to get this thing together
We gotta get you a woman
And when we're through with you,
We'll get me one too
GaryH-
Good one on "We Gotta Get You a Woman." Regarding "I Saw The Light", that song was getting heavy air play on rock stations when I was in high school and remember it. That was probably Rundgren's second biggest hit after "Hello It's Me." The rock radio station I listened to at that time regularly featured Rundgren back in the late 1970s. Todd certainly made his mark in the 1970s as both a musician and a producer and I agree he is very deserving of rock Hall of Fame honors. I am actually very surprised he is not already in, in light of some of the people who are in. I would put him in ahead of J. Geils Band which has been lobbying for selection and I believe JGB is the most nominated act to have never gotten in. They have been nominated 5 or 6 times with nothing to show for it. Rundgren's overall contributions as musician/producer put him on a different level than JG Band.
Good one on "We Gotta Get You a Woman." Regarding "I Saw The Light", that song was getting heavy air play on rock stations when I was in high school and remember it. That was probably Rundgren's second biggest hit after "Hello It's Me." The rock radio station I listened to at that time regularly featured Rundgren back in the late 1970s. Todd certainly made his mark in the 1970s as both a musician and a producer and I agree he is very deserving of rock Hall of Fame honors. I am actually very surprised he is not already in, in light of some of the people who are in. I would put him in ahead of J. Geils Band which has been lobbying for selection and I believe JGB is the most nominated act to have never gotten in. They have been nominated 5 or 6 times with nothing to show for it. Rundgren's overall contributions as musician/producer put him on a different level than JG Band.
Shawn Phillips, Ballad of Casy Diess
Everyone knows Shawn Philips for his masterpiece Woman, but this song is also beautiful. I love it.
Everyone knows Shawn Philips for his masterpiece Woman, but this song is also beautiful. I love it.
Perhaps my all time favorite song, memories from the past.
Morning dew was written by a Canadian.
On July 7, one of the true legends of Canadian folk music, Bonnie Dobson, will be honoured at the Mariposa Folk Festival, when her most well-known composition, “Morning Dew,” will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dobson first performed “Morning Dew” at the inaugural Mariposa Festival in 1961, launching the song’s journey to becoming an international standard. Here is an excerpt from my book Whispering Pines: the Northern Roots of American Music (ECW Press, 2009) that tells the story, along with five notable versions of “Morning Dew.”
Truth is the debut studio album by English guitarist Jeff Beck, released in 29 July 1968 in the United Kingdom on Columbia Records and in the United States on Epic Records. It introduced the talents of his backing band the Jeff Beck Group, specifically Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, to a larger audience, and peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200.
This song has been covered by many artists, Nazareth, Robert Plant, The Grateful dead, Long John Baldry, The Allman Brothers, Lulu.
Morning dew was written by a Canadian.
On July 7, one of the true legends of Canadian folk music, Bonnie Dobson, will be honoured at the Mariposa Folk Festival, when her most well-known composition, “Morning Dew,” will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Dobson first performed “Morning Dew” at the inaugural Mariposa Festival in 1961, launching the song’s journey to becoming an international standard. Here is an excerpt from my book Whispering Pines: the Northern Roots of American Music (ECW Press, 2009) that tells the story, along with five notable versions of “Morning Dew.”
Truth is the debut studio album by English guitarist Jeff Beck, released in 29 July 1968 in the United Kingdom on Columbia Records and in the United States on Epic Records. It introduced the talents of his backing band the Jeff Beck Group, specifically Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, to a larger audience, and peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200.
This song has been covered by many artists, Nazareth, Robert Plant, The Grateful dead, Long John Baldry, The Allman Brothers, Lulu.
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54-40 is a Canadian alternative rock group from Tsawwassen, British Columbia. The band take their name from the slogan "54-40 or Fight!", coined to express the unsuccessful expansionist agenda of James K. Polk's presidency, which was intent upon controlling a contested U.S.-Canada border area in the Oregon boundary dispute. 54-40 has had a successful career, with four of their albums being certified Platinum in Canada. The band has been nominated for eight Juno Awards.[1] Between 1996 and 2016, 54-40 were among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada and among the top 50 selling Canadian bands in Canada.[2]
I love this version from the early years of Peter Gabriel’s solo career
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