I'm Losing You

Rhythm N. Bliss · August 15, 2009, 06:17:03 PM

Here's 2 great ol' songs with the same title.

First, the well known Faces song with Ron Wood on Zemaitis Metal Front Guitar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PXMCCTMwM&feature=related

Bassist Ronnie Lane RIP

Next is a vid I've just seen for the first time with Tony Levin on bass & guys from Cheap Trick backing John Lennon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im3AUiCGqnk&feature=fvw

Hornisse · August 15, 2009, 09:28:17 PM

Both killer songs! Levin is all over the Double Fantasy record. Classic Music Man tone!

OldManC · August 16, 2009, 12:43:47 AM

Both great songs. I've always preferred the Rick/Bun E version to the one that made it onto the album. From what I understand, Yoko vetoed the Cheap Trick guys' rockier sound. John loved Cheap Trick. The man had good taste in bands even then.

godofthunder · August 16, 2009, 01:15:52 PM

WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I never knew that version was made ! Loved it, and the vid to.

chromium · August 16, 2009, 03:48:57 PM

That Lennon track with Levin is fantastic- thanks for posting that!

Pilgrim · August 16, 2009, 05:27:06 PM

To me, the title brings up one reference: Rare Earth, 1970...

EvilLordJuju · August 17, 2009, 06:23:43 AM

Quote from: Pilgrim on August 16, 2009, 05:27:06 PM
To me, the title brings up one reference:

and me the Temptations..... the Faces version is good, and rare earth, but this has always been one of my favourites

Rhythm N. Bliss · August 17, 2009, 04:14:10 PM

Quote from: chromium on August 16, 2009, 03:48:57 PM
That Lennon track with Levin is fantastic- thanks for posting that!

My pleasure! I just stumbled across it. Ain't it great?

uwe · August 17, 2009, 05:07:59 PM

I thought of the Rare Earth version too, Rare Earth In Concert is one of those iconic live albums from my youth together with Grand Funk Live, DP's Made in Japan (you guessed it, right?!) and - don't laugh now - Loggins & Messina ("Vahevala ...") as well as Three Dog Night's first live album. Hey, I was always eclectic!

That said (and I've been critical of Cheap Trick in the past, think Live at Budokan is a load of crap drowned in echo) that version of the Lennon song kicks major butt and Levin's bass playing on it is a joy. My favorite Stingray player.

Speaking of Cheap Trick, the new album is good, again very beatlish (or even more so than in the past). They have also glammed up nicely Jim Lea's When the Light's are Out from Slade's Old, New, Borrowed, Blue.

OldManC · August 17, 2009, 05:29:23 PM

I bought a couple different CDs a few years back that consisted of the whole show where the Budokan album was culled from without the overdubs and echo. Cool stuff!

Pilgrim · August 17, 2009, 06:36:17 PM

I just watched part of the John Lennon/Cheap Trick song....never heard it before. Not impressed.

Rhythm N. Bliss · August 18, 2009, 05:40:41 AM

Here's anuzza great Lennon song:

Instant Karma's Gonna Getcha
Gonna hit you upside the head
Better get yourself together, pretty soon you're gonna be dead
Instant Karma's Gonna Getcha
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brother's everyone you meet

2 relevant stories!! Ready?

First is:

I found out yesterday that my brother died 2 weeks ago!! Nobody knew.
His girlfriend called yesterday & told me he's been missing a month.
Tracked him down & discovered he's in the L.A. morgue.
Hadn't seen him since I got him a wheelchair & walker a few months ago.
Knew he wasn't long for this world & I should have kept tabs on him. Alas
He left me 50 grand. God bless him.

2nd story:

Lived in Honolulu 30 years ago & went to see a saintly friend across town.
According to Vedic scriptures a saint is the representative of God.
On the way home I was standing on a corner & a car drove by & the passenger pointed at me & hollered "Look! He looks like he's just seen God!"
If that wasn't cool enuf, as I continued walkin' home I was headed up my street & I noticed 2 HUGE Hawaiian guys comin' after me, walkin' fast so I started walkin' fast until they got up close & one shouted "Hey haole! Why you walkin' so FAST?"
I turned & said in my best pidgin "It's just that some of you Hawaiians don't realize we all got the same Faddah, you know?"
One of them had decided to call someone from a pay phone & the other came up to me & shook my hand & said "Hey, that's RIGHT! My guru is Muktananda."
It seemed like certain death when I first saw them, & I was ready to fight for my life. This was 5 years before I heard Y&T so if things went differently I might never have heard Fight For Your Life & all the other great Y&T songs & music.

Ah~ Brotherly love!!

bobyoung · August 21, 2009, 11:47:41 PM

Quote from: Hornisse on August 15, 2009, 09:28:17 PM
Both killer songs! Levin is all over the Double Fantasy record. Classic Music Man tone!

Did Leven use that bass on Double Fantasy? I had always been under the impression that he had used a Rick for some reason although it didn't really sound like one. This does sound like it though. I've never been crazy about his sound, very boingy.

bobyoung · August 21, 2009, 11:50:28 PM

Quote from: Pilgrim on August 17, 2009, 06:36:17 PM
I just watched part of the John Lennon/Cheap Trick song....never heard it before. Not impressed.

Sounds like a demo, at least his vocals do. The guitar playing's great though