Songs For The Labor Day Weekend (Vanity)

GoogTube ^ | 2SEP2016

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Well, one thing I can say, they don’t get my money, or at least not much of it, as I can’t even remember the last time I went to a movie theater, or bought a CD or DVD.

[Fightin Whitey]

That’s a good strategy too.

I was listening to Rush’s guest host today and he had some of the cast on from a new movie coming out called “Greater.”

Family, faith, football and perserverance. Actually it sounded like a very fine and inspiring movie.

I would go to that one if I didn’t always somehow manage to forget.

[Kid Shelleen]

Jim Croce Working At The Car Wash Blues

[blueplum]

going country....

American Kids - Kenny Chesney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de1aPKXBdAE";

Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9q1ScC4cg

The Last Cowboy Song - Ed Bruce/Willie Nelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeDcF1v_Y4

Kaw liga - Neal McCoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqexHw5470

Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up06CryWQpE

Ghost Riders in the Sky - Burl Ives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2klh2cTa_Q

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

[Ammo Republic 15]

And you even didn’t mention my two favorites Stand Up And Benefit.

I’m on your side concerning the argument with your co worker.

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Jethro Tull SHOULD be in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.

Absolutely. I had assumed he was.

[ETL]

THEY was. Ian Anderson! Lol!

[Paleo Pete]

I’m glad you corrected that...I’ve heard so many people say “Oh yeah Jethro Tull, I like him”...

OK I’;ll play since I”m already looking at a open youtube tab...

City Boy - Momma’s Boy, from the album Dinner at the Ritz. Look for “The Violin”, I dare you to listen to it without tearing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_noGviaNmKY

One of the most incredible videos I’ve seen,

Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush - Strange Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlLvNZrdul8

Since someone mentioned Jethro Tull...

Farm on the Freeway, one of my favorite Tull songs. OK I have about 20 favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sutx_6oHRQA

One Brown Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Tqzo-Kz8s

Eric Johnson - Song for George

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_R_xE6nsdg

Found this by chance, Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Jeff Watson and Brad Gillis with Michael Cartellone (Damn Yankees) on drums at the KLOL Rock and Roll Auction in 1990, I was in the audience. I went to a couple of the R&R Auctions, they auctioned off Phil Collins’ snare drum for $100,000 this night. Sound is not great, but it was fantastic sitting about 50 feet away watching Tommy and the gang jam. This is basically a combination of Styx, Night Ranger and Damn Yankees without Ted Nugent. Eddie Money opened, with Van Wilks and Earl Slick playing guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efp-CpmPJWs

An old favorite from the 90’s, Kings X - It’s Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_HqrY_k7I

Texas band too, gotta be good...

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City Boy - Momma’s Boy, from the album Dinner at the Ritz

Thanks, but I gave up after this first one. I guess we're from two different time periods and have very different tastes. I've had no use for damn near all pop music since the 80s. I think we went straight off the cliff after that, music-wise. I'll stick with the 50s, 60s, 70s and part of the 80s. Not that there hasn't been an occasional good song since, but they're so rare it's not worth bothering, IMO. Thanks again. No offense. :) I'll check out that Tull song you mentioned. Don't think I've heard it before. Doesn't sound familiar.

[Paleo Pete]

I understand that actually, I think most popular music, at least what ended up on the radio, is garbage since even before the 80’s, but there are some gems here and there. City Boy is one of those. I couldn’t stand radio and stopped listening to it by around 1980 mostly, instead I’d listen to entire albums. Being a lifetime musician, I much prefer bands that are musically accomplished, rather than the mostly simplistic hits played on the radio to sell records to 12 year old kids.

I do suggest you listen to both Dinner at the Ritz, the title track, and The Violin. Both gorgeous songs, you won’t believe it’s the same band, very versatile and diverse. I love stuff like Momma’s Boy, Take a Walk on the Water and Narcissus, but songs like The Violin are fantastic too. Totally different, even if you don’t care for the band, definitely listen to that one.

If you didn’t care for Momma’s Boy, you probably won’t like the others, except for the Eric Johnson tune, it’s an acoustic instrumental, do check it out. Eric Johnson is one of the best guitar players I’ve ever heard, right up there with Roy Clark and Chet Atkins. He manages to play faster than most can even think of and be melodic at the same time. Song for George is a live version of an acoustic instrumental from the Ah Via Musicom album, and almost note for note identical to the studio version. And far from his fastest guitar work...Instrumentals is another thing I like about Eric, not many people can write really good instrumentals. He has a couple of great ones on that album.

I’m into rock and roll and blues, everything from Beatles to ZZ Top to Tom Petty, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Eagles...and lots of others. Mainly because Rock was so diverse. You had bands like Yes and Jethro Tull on the radio at the same time with Harry Chapin doing Taxi and Cat’s in the Cradle. Those were like two different worlds, Cat Stevens right behind a CCR or Steppenwolf song, I still can’t get enough of it, and listen to a wide variety of bands, simple rock songs to classical oriented Yes and Rush, blues oriented people like Clapton and John Mayer, I’m pretty much all over the place, but not into the generic radio garbage at all...Usually what made it onto the radio was the worst crap on the album.

An example of that is Bryan Adams. He had a great hit with “Summer of 69”. Good song, but probably the weakest song on the entire album. Run to You is loads better, and got almost no airplay. Supertramp - “Dreamer” was their big one from the “Even in the Quietest Moments” album, it had a half dozen better songs. Radio was good at that. Even the hard rock bands, same thing. Not a huge hard rock fan, I still checked them out, and found the same thing, some of the B sides and unheard album cuts were lots better than anything the radio pushed on listeners. I like hard rock, it’s just not my favorite. That’s the best thing about Jethro Tull, one of the most diverse bands I’ve ever heard, they defy classification. I’ve known heavy metal fans who love Tull, and my mother, who likes Perry Como and Barbara Streisand, loves them too and went to a Tull concert. She’s not into a lot of rock bands, but will listen to Tull any time, I think she has a couple of their albums. And she loves “The Violin”...cried her face off the first time she heard it.

Those I posted last night just tended to mostly be in the hard rock realm...some of the better of the hard rock songs or bands that mostly never made it onto radio.

Anyway, do listen to these, you might actually like the Violin...

City Boy - The Violin. Have some kleenex ready. After 30 years listening to this song it still draws tears sometimes. The complete opposite of Momma’s Boy, you won’t think it’s the same band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfycPcLFKdg

City Boy - Dinner at the Ritz. Mixture of hard rock and something like big band...really interesting song, even if you’re not a fan of that general style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inuDwCqbMZk

Most of the songs City Boy did had more of a hard rock feel, but these two show the great diversity of the band, delving into classical, big band and jazz influences. Doesn’t even seem to be the same band at times, which is what I like most about them. And by the way, they started in the late 70’s, and were not a typical 80’s “hair band”. I wasn’t a huge fan of those either. Some good songs here and there, but overall, not near as good as what came out of the 70’s. These guys were right behind Supertramp, another favorite, in the time line. Edgar Winter was another, one of my favorite songwriters, trained pianist and sax player, wrote everything from jazz to bluegrass to pop tunes to blues to almost heavy metal. I’m not sure how many instruments he plays, but he has done songs in the studio by himself, same as Paul McCartney and Ian Anderson. That means at least guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. McCartney and Anderson can play anything you hand them. I can play most anything too.

OK...so what do I not like? I hate country, rap and things like Frank Sinatra and Perry Como...gag me with a pitchfork...almost anything else, including classical, I’ll at least listen, and I like most of it.

OH yeah, I never thought of these guys last night, very bluegrass influenced band, Nickel Creek. Exceptionally talented trio...

Smoothie Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjAXI4jANw

This Side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nneEIX59I8