So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Pre-leather catsuit & UK Mickie Most/RAK/Chinn-Chapman career Suzi Q ...

with The Pleasure Seekers (Suzi still with a little baby fat from Italian home cooking, they would really starve her down in the UK!) ...




who later morphed into the much harder-edged and psychedelic Cradle, the MC5 had doubtlessly left a mark:

[Dave W]

[Basvarken]

[Dave W]

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Weirdly beautiful.

[westen44]

I love that version.  It should never have been dropped from the Ziggy Stardust album.  In junior high, a friend was in a cover band and they played "Around and Around" at a school assembly.  All outstanding musicians, virtuosos, in fact.  It wasn't long until I was taking music lessons from my friend who ended up as a college music instructor much later in life.  If I could pick one song which I consider the foundational song which convinced me I love rock, it would have to be "Around and Around."  I guess I have Chuck Berry to thank for that, as well as the other people who did covers of the song, including, of course, the Stones.  With the passing of Bowie and Beck, this particular performance of the song should be considered an important piece of rock 'n roll history. 

[westen44]

[gearHed289]

Weirdly beautiful.

Bowie and Beck, wow. Two all time favorites.

[uwe]

Incredible how well Halford mastered both Ozzy and Dio material that night ...

[uwe]

Neil Murray is just supple in his playing - rhythm AND melody. Plus shit-tight with Ian Paice.



My favorite finger player if I had to make a choice. His micro groove is staggering, so darn musical.

[TBird1958]

Plesant surprise in my Youtube.

[Basvarken]

New Black Crowes album is coming out soon.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/black-crowes-announce-happiness-bastards


Here's the first single.




Lead vocal in the verses reminds me (a lot) of Jealous Again...

[uwe]

Plesant surprise in my Youtube.

I know Rob will disagree, but there are very few pieces of music that DLR can actually sing, lamentably Man On The Silver Mountain is not among them. Here is someone who needs real AI treatment bad, he's flat throughout and largely clueless re the melody. To his defense, it's apparently a difficult song to sing, greater vocalists have failed with it.



As (the often simplistic) Blackmore compositions go, MOTSM is actually quite intricate in chord changes. Maybe that is why it's rarely covered.

You didn't know they played this? Eddie adored Blackmore. They were quite eclectic in their cover choices as a young band, Scorpions too (Speedy's Coming and Catch Your Train, Eddie rated Uli Roth too). Michael Schenker (another guitarist Eddie liked), while in LA with UFO, was so flabbergasted when he saw that bar band everyone talked about play Scorpions songs that he rushed to the phone to tell his brother Rudolf about it and advised him to persevere re a first American tour, ze Scörps finally hit "the gem of the land and the sea" in 1979.

Speaking of Ronnie, there are still some young people who know and cherish him!

[Basvarken]

That Liliac girl is makes me cringe to no end. Geez

Maybe it's best not to try an outsing RJD at all