Whoa!!! This is now my new favorite Prison song!!!! Thanks hbilly and a Merry Christmas to you as well!!!  

And a very Merry Christmas to the rest of you also!!! (need more beer for this one:                     )

So, three Saturdays ago we started this little journey with Mogul Thrash.

After they disbanded, they split up into pairs and went on to forming other groups. We've done Asia! and King Crimson, but not the second iteration of King Crimson which was formed from the break up of Mogul Thrash, so rest assured, Gentlemen, that will be rectified!!!! And now for the Third Group!!! Who could it be????

I gave you a clue to throw you off because I'm a dick. I wrote "airplane crash" three weeks ago. It wasn't a crash, but two of the band members were "flying high" and only of them survived. The one that survived was actually saved by Cher (reportedly.) You guys remember Cher?
I'll never get tired of watching this clip!! NEVER!!!!!!

So anyway...
I'm talking about the Average White Band.
Yup, in their way, they changed the musical landscape and stopped a lot of bullshit musical talk.

The Band was mildly popular with fans back in Jolly Ol' England. but they were more popular with other bands becoming a musicians' band. They moved to LA for their second album, and the World went nuts. We're doing their second album today: Average White Band.

Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie, whom we've already tastefully covered, gave them their name. She and others were inviting to like a pre-show, no...it was a party for other musicians, and she declared that this was "too much for the average white man!" The name stuck...after some discussion.

Average White Band (the White Album) - 1974

Side 1
1  You Got It
2  Got the Love
3  Pick Up the Pieces
4  Person to Person
5  Work To Do

The one thing that always struck me about AWB, and they are by no means the only band with management and production staff that does this, but their "Side - 2s" or B-sides depending on where you're from are........"suck" is too strong a word, so let's go with "could be better." I wanted to do their third album Cut The Cake, but that Side 2 is............leaves a lot to be desired.

Side 2
1  Nothing You Can Do
2  Just Wanna Love You Tonight
3  Keepin' It to Myself
4  I Just Can't Give You Up
5  There's Always Someone Waiting

You see, Gentlemen, each one of the above songs from Side 2 could have been so much improved simply by listening to Side 2 of Tower of Power's Back to Oakland album. But alas, that did not happen, so to make up for that, here's Side 1 of Cut The Cake. (Do not listen to Side 2. It'll ruin your Christmas!)

Cut The Cake - 1975
1  Cut the Cake
2  School Boy Crush
3  It's a Mystery
4  Groovin' the Night Away
5  If I Ever Lose This Heaven

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I'm thinking I've told the story I'm about to tell here in this very thread, but I am an old man, so it is my Right!!!!

Special Thanks to the Memory of Freddy Fender!!! He came and played at Zweibrueken AB, Germany, back in the early '80s. Great Show, good Man! Our base sat on a hill top, and maybe we had about 1200 assigned. With TDYs up the ass, maybe 800+ there at any particular time. Running 3 shifts blah blah blah, the point being that not too many people were ever going to be able to see him and the band play. Yet, he put on a great show and even talked to us during and afterwards!!!!! It's a great memory!

Today, we have to, yes, we must, cover a point during High School where for a short while, Peter Frampton ruined not just my life, not just the lives of my Home Boys, but young men everywhere trying to figure out just what the fuck is it with women anyway.

Frampton Comes Alive! was a kick in the balls to all of us!! (I thought we were friends.)

We all knew "Pretty Peter" from his Humble Pie days: great guitarist, decent singer, good song writer. We even followed him through his early solo years where he was not a commercial success. But, we did it because of the Bond that existed between all of us.

And then he stabs us in the back with this double live album:

Frampton Comes Alive! - 1976

Side 1
1  Introduction/Something's Happening
2  Doobie Wah
3  Show Me the Way
4  It's a Plain Shame

Women young and old that never heard of him went fucking ape shit over the guy:

Side 2
1  All I Want to Be (Is by Your Side)
2  Wind of Change
3  Baby, I Love Your Way
4  I Wanna Go to the Sun

Gentlemen, I swear to God himself that all the girls in High Schools across this Great Nation of ours, girls that played us like violins and/or chumps, wouldn't even deign to talk to us.

I was born in SF, raised in Northern California, and all I could say was, "wow!" That said it all! Not much more to say than that.

Side 3
1  Penny for Your Thoughts
2  (I'll Give You) Money
3  Shine On
4  Jumpin' Jack Flash

It wasn't just me, if that's what you're thinking!! I didn't come up with the name "Pretty Peter." That was one of the genius DJs at 98.5 FM KOME (KOME spot on your dial)!!!!!

Anyway, it sucked, we urinal users come to dislike Peter greatly!!!!!!!!!!!!! What happened to "Bros before Hoes!!!!!!!!!"

Side 4
1  Lines on My Face
2  Do You Feel Like We Do



His next studio album as probably his best selling album of his career!!!

Then something happened. He returned to the lack of commercial success he once had before this phenomenom occured.

Now, I don't have the statistical information I would like that would at least show some sort of "scientific rigueur" that most of you demand, but after careful thought experiments and discussions with colleagues, I've come to the conclusion that as Women were responsible for his commercial appeal during this Time Frame, women were also just as responsible for Peter Frampton coming back down to Earth, as it were.

So, what was the turning point for Women all over the United States? Did it have anything to do with his talents? Was he found in a comprising, or underhanded, or even criminal situation?
Click To View SpoilerAnd now, he's Bald!!! So, there is a God, and one must have Patience for Justice!!!

But back in real life, Peter Frampton is a good dude. He's had his troubles with the women folks like we all do. Let me give you one fact abou the man:
     After living in the US off and on, mostly on, since the 1970s, Peter Frampton decided to become a US Citizen after the Towers came down on 9/11.
     So, Today, this 30th of December, 2023, I publically give Peter Frampton my highest Honorific Title (that I can think of): Right on, Motherfucker!!

The 1970's sucked.  Almost without exception, everything about them sucked.

We entered the 1970's with good pop and rock music.  The 1970's degraded the music so badly that by 1979 I had all but given up listening to popular music.  


Disco sucked!

Jimmy Carter sucked as President!

Viet Nam war sucked!

Arab oil embargo sucked!

Three Mile Island sucked!

Iranian hostage debacle sucked!

Watergate scandal sucked!

I could just keep going on and on but will end it here.

This is just a side note to @hbilly -

Most of Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded at Winterland. If you're familar with that 8 hour live recording (!!!!!!) would you mind "curating" the Dead's portion of it for the rest of us, please? Knock down those 4 hours of just them to something manageable so the membership here won't feel compelled to exercise their right to keep and bear arms in our direction?
Thank you and Happy New Year!

User name doesn't agree with post!

(all this was covered with David Bowie's music back in 2022, and somehow we survived.)

But Thank you for taking time out of your very busy day to share. Happy New Year!!!  

About six weeks or so before that LP came out he did a live broadcast concert for KZEW FM in Dallas. He did a killer version of Do You Feel that the station played the hell out of even after the record was released. It was so good I had to pull over in a parking lot to hear all of it.

Frampton is a highly talented, no doubt!!!!

I think he may have retired from touring recently, but he's still doing albums. One is about to be released or may have already been released. I think it's called something like, "Frampton Forgets the Words."
I should've checked first. BRB!

ETA: it was release two years ago!!! LOL I was so close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

& I can concur. "New Castle Brown" can sure smack you down!
I was lit up on that stuff in Memphis at the New Daisy Theatre on Beale for a Ratdog show.
We walked halfway cross town trying to get to the piggly wiggly for concert tix. Taxi driver that picked us up at the hospital exclaimed
how lucky we were to be alive.

Happy New Years zoinks!

and a Happy New Year to you and your friends and family, Brother!!!  

(I've been listening to the 4 hour version in the background!!)

In 1975, our college concert committee hired some guy that no one ever heard of before for a Dec concert in the gym.  Between when they announced the schedule and the concert, Springsteen appeared on both Time and Newsweek covers.  I already had prime seats.  Rocked the roof off and did a lot of Christmas songs.  Best concert ever.

Too bad he went commie.

We're going to do something a little different today, BUT NOT too much different.
We're going to cover a little bit of History through the band Sopwith Camel.

Originally, from England and totally unknown there except by family members and the people they owed money to, these Englanders came to San Francisco where they literally out of nowhere become one of the founding members of what was known as "The San Francisco Sound."

So, Dear Reader, you're asking yourself, "what the fuck is the San Francisco sound, zoinks?"

Allow me to explain: have you heard The Lovin' Spoonful? Well, there you go!!
For you youngsters who don't quite shave everyday, you and your whitetest friends available, and you have to live in New York, but you can be a Canadian...as long as you live in New York, take Music Americana (old folk and blues music and motifs out of the South) and update the "sound" to modern day standards so it's not so fucking depressing and literally
become one of the biggest musical acts in the County in the '60s until the Canadian in the group turns over his "dealer" to the Police to avoid deportation. But you would have to have been from the East Coast. Out here in the West, we didn't have this type of music. We had Western music as our folk music. Even with the Blues, for us that came to us out of the mid-West and it was "cool."
That's the San Franciso sound: New Yorkers modernizing Southern folk musics being played by local Westerners in San Francisco and not Los Angelos.

In San Francisco, The Charlatans were the Grandfather's of this sound with both the Jefferson Airplane and Sopwith Camel being numbers 2 and 3. The Charlatans never had a hit single that I'm aware of, but they were pretty damn good!! The "Airplane," very famous and having a good looking crazy chick up front really helped with attracting women to the shows and ablum sales. Sopwith Camel had the most hit singles (Three) and immediatley broke up in 1967.

I know today's kids like to say that their weed is "stronger and better for you" than the weed of their grandfathers. But...
This sort of behaviour throws that line of thinking into some serious question.

In the early '70s, "the Camel" got back together again to record their second album, and then broke up again. They still played concerts here and there until recently. Otherwise two were session musicians who played on a number of famous songs and one became a high tech Silicon Valley electronics guy. None were without talent. Two members have died in the usual noninvestigative manner: cancer and old age.This second album is pretty damn good. They even had a hit single from it. The "Camel" had always done their own thing much like the "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" of the same era, but those guys were really funny, pre Monty Python funny.

I think that about covers it, so lets get on with the Show:

The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moom - 1973

Side 1
1  Fazon
2  Coke, Suede, and Waterbeds
3  Dancin' Wizard
4  Sleazy Street

The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moom - 1973

Side 2
1  Orange Peel
2  Oriental Fantasy
3  Sneaky Smith
4  Monkeys On the Moon
5  Astronaut Food
6  Brief Synthophonia

But, he was pretty good before hand!! (I won't listen to his music anymore because of it. Sure, it's childish! Fuck it! I'm a child with a really great mustache!!!)

The fact is he always was who is he. Once he made his millions, and though he still believes in redistribution, he'll allow us to redistribute our stuff amongst us. To him and the rest of the East Coast Champagne Socialist Class!!!

This right here .he speaks the truth!

From 1970 . . . Summed up the 60's decade and set the tone for the 70's.



Also featured in the helicopter scene of Apocalypse Now.

1973

Holy Hell, hbilly! This live version is far and away the best version of this song!!!!!     Studio version sounded like they wanted to get the song over and done with (which could actually be the case!) This version has got some "teeth" in it!! Great Post!!!!

Good Morning, my Pretties!

Today we will listen to one of the better Jazz Vocalists (who just sort of fell into it luckily for us), Alwin Lopez Jarreau. Yup, many of you have never heard of the guy. I only did because they would play him on KRE 103 out of Berkeley, CA, plus he was the musical guest back in 1975 on SNL. That live performance on TV was very impressive to me as it increased my appreciation of his abilities. I had to sing in a band while playing the Bass, and I wasn't really that good at the singing part. So, people who could do that, and do it well, I paid a great deal of attention to, and our featured artist was that sort of singer - someone to learn from.

In the '80s is when Alwin Lopez Jarreau would become the ever popular Al Jarreau leading to great fame and hopefully a pretty damn good fortune. Some people deserve success!!
Without too much more ado, let's go to a concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look to the Rainbow LIVE Recorded in Europe - 1977

Side 1
1  Letter Perfect
2  Rainbow in Your Eyes
3  One Good Turn



Side 2
1  Could You Believe
2  Burst in with the Dawn
3  Better Than Anything

After I watched Alwin on TV, I went and picked up an album on that Sunday. Album sounded flat! But, a lot of albums sounded flat in the 1970s. Recording technology was pretty good, but production tended to be rushed and slapped together just to get the process over with. That could be the effects of cocaine, or the predominate corporate mentality to get "units" out into distribution before the "artist" does something stupid on cocaine. The upshot was there was no real George Martin level of production out there except for a few guys that were always experimenting, for example, Lincoln Mayorga. (Oooh, note to self: Missing Linc album pretty damn good! Feature it!)

Now as bad as many of the studio recorded albums were, there were a number of Live albums that were outstanding, and it's way harder to record live than in a controlled environment of the studio.

Anyway, the times were what they were:

Side 3
1  So Long Girl
2  Look to the Rainbow
3  You Don't See Me



Side 4
1  Take Five
2  Loving You
3  We Got By

1971