So, what have you been listening to lately?

[4stringer77]

Thanks for posting Westen! Hey Dave, isn't about time for a hiatus on Deep Purple too?   

[westen44]

Thanks for posting Westen! Hey Dave, isn't about time for a hiatus on Deep Purple too?   

No problem!

[gearHed289]

I think they both played with Led Zeppelin once.

Graham's short hair and lounge lizard attire was an issue for me like for 10 seconds, his vocals, though high, were so manly. And I liked his laddishness and devil may care attitude on stage. I it was all new to him, he had never really toured for extended periods before and had never heard of Rainbow nor did he like hard rock.

I saw him win over a belligerent audience of Rainbow fans raised on their beloved Dio when he toured Germany with Rainbow for the first time. As he appeared on stage with his James Dean haircut, the dinner jacket, a Hawaii shirt and red trousers, they gasped for air, but he had them eating from his hand by the end of the first song (Eyes of the World).

But for you, Tom, here's the long hair version ...

Wow! What a vocal performance that was.

Larry Junstrom, the bass player, was the original bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd before Leon Wilkeson. He did great work on the song "Rockin' into the night".

Cool, I had no idea. I know Ed King played bass on the first album, but I didn't know there was a guy before Leon. The bass does stand out on some of the .38 stuff.

Underrated Canadian guitarist Frank Marino.  Unfortunately, Marino is too ill to play in public anymore.

I saw Mahogany Rush in 1980 with Humble Pie and Angel. Frank was enjoying a little success here in the states with "Strange Dreams" at the time. He was REALLY loud, and there seemed to be a guitar solo between every song, but it was a very cool night at the good old Aragon Brawlroom.

[Dave W]

Bonnie Guitar (Bonnie Buckingham Tutmarc) on vocals.

[Dave W]

[Basvarken]

Just watched the documentary on Netflix
Highly recommendable.

[Dave W]

The Party Starts Now!!: Handsome Dick Manitoba Turns 70

[Ken]

Handsome Dick Manitoba is an incredibly nice guy.  He's a friend's daughter's godfather.

[uwe]

Yeah, I think I prefer Handsome Dick to the mawkish We Are The World too, they really should have given him a solo vocal spot there, he might have prevented it from being THAT grotesquely syrupy. He has a knack for lightening things up ("here ... where the streets are paved, here ... in the USA").






I'm not against charity singles per se - I really liked Do They Know It's Christmas as a tune. It was far more uplifting "let's get this done and help" than the overbearingly mock-passionate We Are The World, really a song like Steven Spielberg does movies.

And then no guitar solos - quite unlike this one!



Rant over, We Are The World was of course for a commendable cause and I'm happy it did as well as it did.
There was German charity single too at the time, namely Nackt im Wind (Naked in the Wind),



my guess is that there is a Dutch one as well? Let's hear it, Rob!

[Basvarken]

I don't particularly like the song.
But the documentary is great.

All those world famous artists in one room. Having to leave their ego at the door.
Bob Dylan feeling very uncomfortable and nervous. Stevie Wonder helping him out on the piano.
Waylon Jennings quitting, because "Good Old Boys don't sing no Swahili"
And Lionel Richie hosting the AMA and coordinating the entire recording all in one(!) night.

You really should check it out.

[uwe]

Lionel Richie is an exquisite musician, no two ways about it.

Yup, I'll watch it.

[Basvarken]

Attaboy! 

[gearHed289]

Let's not forget this gem! Thank goodness nobody struck a match in that room. 

[uwe]

    Ah, your profound chemical combustion knowledge, Proggie Boy! Hydrogen peroxide ...

These were all charitable Vikings no doubt. From pillage + plunder to sending food to Ethiopia 'down under', who says mankind can't progress? 

[Basvarken]

Wahhaaaa that is so hilarious.

All those Swedes in one room and they had just one hairdresser (with a bazzilion spray cans)