So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Back then when no one could touch him ... This is a live performance from '72 two months before the song even had come out, no one knew it, Elton's effortlessness drives tears to my eyes ...

[Dave W]

John Prine, gone one year today.

This is from The Missing Years, released in 1991. I saw him in early 1992 and he told the same joke he tells here.

[ajkula66]

[uwe]

That was nice, reminded me of Captain Beyond.

[uwe]

Going through a Molly Hatchet phase right now ...





I can never make up my mind whether I like Danny Joe Brown or Jimmy Farrar better fronting MH, originalists will always prefer DJB, but JF  reminded me of David Clayton-Thomas of BS&T sometimes.

DJB towards the end with his ill health, but even on a bar stool and recovering from a stroke the stricken man still belted ...



Hey, what's that UFO guy doing there? 




That band really had tough luck, not a single guy who played on those first handful of Hatchet albums still lives - and they had large line ups with frequent changes. 

[4stringer77]

Some nice bright picked bass

[uwe]

I see naked male buttocks ...

[ajkula66]

That band really had tough luck, not a single guy who played on those first handful of Hatchet albums still lives - and they had large line ups with frequent changes. 

I prefer DJB, but that's just me.

If you're in the Molly Hatchet mood, you might enjoy these guys:

[uwe]

I know them, they covered Highway Star und always had a thing with, uhum, hidden messages in their sleeve "art".

[uwe]

Richard has decided to give his mom's career a revamp and the results are more than listenable, this is not your Suzi from the oldies circuit, she's become so edgy, she'll scare parts of her audience:





You would expect an old Detroit girrrl to add some soul too, right?





She says so herself, but I tend to agree, Suzi - in the 70ies and beyond essentially a singles act - has delivered her most consistent album ever.

[Dave W]

[Basvarken]

Such a shame there was no follow up for this reunion.
A few months after this live recording Philip Lynott was dead...

[uwe]

It would have never worked, Rob, Moore was - unlike Lynott - at least back then still a musical dictator and perfectionist, Lynott couldn't have worked in that environment. Moore was notorious for driving people first mad and eventually away, no two Gary Moore studio albums ever featured the same line up.

And the song would have certainly benefitted had Lynott been allowed to sing all of it. Moore's strained and high-pitched vocals at the end of his range , if you're not John Wetton or Glenn Hughes, don't try to be.

[Basvarken]

The second song (Military Man) of this live performance is sung by Lynott for the largest part.
They also performed a new version of Still In Love With You on the same event.
Lynott obviously was the better songwriter of the two. And I prefer Lynott's singing too.
The new found collaboration worked very well for both artists. Lynott had been struggling to get a proper record deal with Grand Slam. But it was always regarded as a second rate Thin Lizzy. Gary Moore just couldn't make up his mind about what kind of musician he really wanted to be. He had never scored a real hit on his own. He desperately tried to score a hit with Empty Rooms, re-recording it three times and failing each time.
So teaming up with Lynott resulted in his first real hit Out In The Fields.
Moore really wanted to cooperate more with Lynott. But Lynott's health issues soon appeared much too serious...

[TBird1958]

Some friends, well, I know the singer - he's Jeff Rouse, he also happens to work at https://www.thebassshopseattle.com/  a genuinely nice guy.