Saturday, October 10, 2020

Beaker Street 10/9/20

 9 p.m. – 10 p.m.

1. Robbie Robertson “Somewhere Down The Crazy River”
2. Kansas “Propulsion 1”
3. Traffic “Medicated Goo” (Live- Welcome To The Canteen)
4. Kula Shaker “Shower Your Love”
5. The Outlaws “Green Grass and High Tides”
6. King Crimson “One More Red Nightmare”
7. Tonto’s Expanding Head Band “Riversong”
8. Richard Thompson “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” (Live- Two Letter Words Live 1994)
9. The Yardbirds “Mr. Saboteur”
10. Mike Oldfield “Shadow On The Wall”
11. Shuggie Otis “Strawberry Letter 23”

10 p.m. – 11 p.m.

1. Little Feat “Spanish Moon” (Live – Waiting For Columbus)
2. Transatlantic “We All Need Some Light”
3. Eagles “Seven Bridges Road” (Live- Eagles Live)
4. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Southern Cross”
5. Genesis “Dancing With The Moonlit Knight” (Live)
6. Black Sabbath “Planet Caravan”
7. Scallion “I Met Myself Today”
8. Todd Rundgren “Black Maria”
9. Jethro Tull “My God/ Hymn 43/ Slipstream/ Locomotive Breath”

11 p.m. – Midnight

1. Pink Floyd “Learning To Fly”
2. Alan Parsons “One Day To Fly”
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Castles Made Of Sand”
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble “Cold Shot
5. Blue Oyster Cult “Veteran Of The Psychic Wars”
6. Joe Cocker “Space Captain” (Live- Mad Dogs and Englishmen)
7. Blind Faith “Sea of Joy”
8. Steppenwolf “Sookie Sookie”
9. Within Temptation “Dark Wings”
10. Renaissance “Carpet Of The Sun” (Live At Carnegie Hall)
11. Enya “Cursum Perficio”
12. Trout Fishing In America “No Matter What Goes Right”

A mixed bag. Clyde has discovered Enya and the odious Yardbird song from Birdland.   Highlights include the Outlaws, SRV and King Crimson.   Eagles, CSN and Pink Floyd a nod to Coporate classic rock radio.  And I still love Sookie Sookie.

Tyler Vincent: Compiled the list.

This week's passings was Johnny Nash.  A former teen idol that recorded a bunch of Don Costa arranged pop songs of the 50s and 60s, then discovered Bob Marley and The Wailers and used them for his landmark Hold Me Tight LP for JAD in 1968.  The album was one of the early Reggae albums and paved the way for The Wailers to become better known later on died Tuesday.  He was 80.  Bob Marley and company would return to help Johnny land the number 1 song I Can See Clearly Now in 1973.  Peter Tosh helped Johnny on the Hold Me Tight but it was Marley that supplied the songs on ICSCN. 

Perhaps the major blow, was Eddie Van Halen, finally losing his battle with cancer aged 65.  In 1978, Van Halen dropped their first album, a record that echoed the sounds of the First Montrose album, but Eddie's guitar wizardry made VH one of the all time best debuts, beginning with the minor hit Running With The Devil and You Really Got Me.  What made the Van Halen albums so great was that they ran a half hour full of music.  1984, showed Eddie could play keyboards as with the number 1 hit Jump.  David Lee Roth left and Sammy Hagar, who sang on the first two Montrose albums took over on 5150.  The Van Hagar years suffered from too much filler and a nod to ballads, and the wheels fell off on Balance.   Gary Cherone came on board for the lackluster Van Halen 3.  David Lee Roth would return later and VH made A Different Type Of Truth in 2012, the last VH album, which echoed the glory years, Micheal Anthony was replaced by Eddie's son Wolfgang.  While the reviews were so so, I actually enjoyed that album, tho  John Shanks is no Ted Templeman and the recording was subpar.  

Nevertheless, Eddie Van Halen reinvented the lead guitar with his amazing finger runs on the fretboard.  Templeman writes and say that Eruption, done as a exercise was not slated for the album and Eddie always thought that album version could have been better, this guitar piece had every guitar player trying to figure out how to play it.  If you had the 8 track version, Eruption would lead into Feel Your Love Tonight, whereas it led into You Really Got Me.   That 1.58 would be the beginning of heavy metal guitar.   Eddie would help Michael Jackson on Beat It and Thomas Dolby on another song. Eddie is one of the best.  He passed on Tuesday.

Five Star Mud Games:  1967 Pro Bowl in LA  1/22/67







East 20  West 10

It never rains in southern California but Girl let me warn ya, when it pours, man it pours..Albert Hammond 

Usually football games you think of is played in nice sunny weather after the super bowl.  Ah, the days when they played in Honolulu.  And sometimes Los Angeles, but on that rainy afternoon, only 15 thousand showed up to see the late great Gale Sayers run all over the east defense but the West turned the ball over six times, the East picked off Johnny Unitas three times. and Bart Starr once.  Floyd Peters being named best defense player.   While it rained all night and most of the game, the Coliseum held up fairly despite the elements. 

New And Improved R Smith Show 10/11/2020  #9 

Hour One

Brainstorm-Hawkwind
Time We Left This World Today
Everybody Wants Some-Van Halen
Fools
Romeo's Delight
Drop The Gun-Kings Of The Sun
Vampire
Rescue Me 
Full Frontal Attack

Hour Two

Black Dog-Led Zeppelin
Rock And Roll
The Battle Of Evermore
I'm Bad Like Jessie James-John Lee Hooker
Shot In The Head-Savoy Brown
Hate To See You Go 
Weed At Walmart-Billy Bourbon/Guy Schwartz
Grow Your Own
Pee In A Cup
Every Picture Tells A Story-Rod Stewart
Whisky Train-Procol Harum
Knocking On Heaven's Door-The Townedgers
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