Music Of The Moment

Rambo said:
Wow, I'm learning a LOT on this YouTube adventure. Did you know Dobie Gray was a black guy?

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you bet. my K-Tel Sound Explosion LP taught me that in '73. what a record:

Brownsville Station -Smokin' In The Boy's Room
The DeFranco Family Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat
Wednesday - Last Kiss
Lighthouse - Pretty Lady
Jim Stafford - Spiders And Snakes
Sylvia - Pillow Talk
James Leroy With Denim - Make It All Worth While
Downchild Blues Band - Flip, Flop & Fly
The Stampeders - Running Wild
Ian Thomas - Painted Ladies
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
Dawn - Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Blue Collar
The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl
The Bells - He Was Me, He Was You
Stories - Mammy Blue
Blue Mink - By The Devil I Was Tempted
Blood, Sweat And Tears - Roller Coaster
Sonny & Cher - When You Say Love
Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
Barry White - I've Got So Much To Give
 
Years ago Lou Reed said he carried a few singles around with him wherever he went - one of them was Dobie Gray - Drift Away.
 
fxh said:
Years ago Lou Reed said he carried a few singles around with him wherever he went - one of them was Dobie Gray - Drift Away.
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i love the song to death and have karaoke'd the shit out of it. i just never knew he was black.
 
Rambo said:
Thruth Thruth i've never heard of any of these people before.
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Well Fred is Canadian so no one but me should know him.

Living Color should have been huge beyond the one record (and maybe their 2nd one) Vernon Reid had killer chops as a guitarist. Corey Glover great voice - was in Platoon too. Doug Wimbush who replace Muzz Skillings on bass was part of Sugar Hill records rhythm section playing with Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Sugarhill gang

Nobody knows Death. Completely under the radar precursors of America punk. There is a great documentary on them out there;
Check it out
 
Thruth said:
Well Fred is Canadian so no one but me should know him.

Living Color should have been huge beyond the one record (and maybe their 2nd one) Vernon Reid had killer chops as a guitarist. Corey Glover great voice - was in Platoon too. Doug Wimbush who replace Muzz Skillings on bass was part of Sugar Hill records rhythm section playing with Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & the Sugarhill gang

Nobody knows Death. Completely under the radar precursors of America punk. There is a great documentary on them out there;
Check it out
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Fuck off - Fred is HUGE here - he's toured many times.
Living Color was THE black rock group
 
Thruth said:
Good to see Fred getting his due.

And you nailed it about Living Color
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When I said Fred was huge - I meant he sells out when he tours - he's not stadium stuff - he sells out the sort of places that have music artists, like Justin Townes Earle etc, but he's well respected and popular amongst people who know music.
 
Was in Victoria yesterday. Called in a couple of favours and got tickets for the Hip's kickoff of their last tour. Amazing. 2 hours. For you Americans and others who don't know, lead singer Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer. Killer show of a Canadian institution. His tumour only affected his remembrance of a couple of lines of lyrics on two occasions. Reminds me of a time when I drove from Ottawa to Watertown New York just for the hell of it. Crossing the bridge a truckload of Americans, juiced, had this tune cranked as we passed by. Stopped at a place called Nig's in Watertown. Surprisingly, had the same tune on the jukebox. Remember plugging it to play and and sidling up to the bar. Guy beside me was fucking Vida Blue. Surreal. No fucking clue why he was there. But an amazing conversation. Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Reggie Jackson. Dick Williams

He knew nothing of the Hip. But it was the musical backdrop of the conversation.

 
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