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In 1975, while working at a burger place, one of the girls gave me a Gary Wright 8-track for Christmas (employee exchange). I wasn't that much into him and exchanged it at the store for a Doobie Brothers Stampede 8-track.

Dreamweaver was OK - I'll post a couple of his videos that I liked

1 posted on 09/05/2023 12:59:51 AM PDT by SaveFerris
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Love Is Alive - Gary Wright {Stereo} 1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN_-BFeRrrU

Gary Wright * Really Wanna Know You {Stereo} 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmIeUA6Kgc


2 posted on 09/05/2023 1:02:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Judas Priest covered a song by Spooky Tooth (written by Wright) called Better By You, Better Than Me on their fourth album.

RIP to the Dream Weaver.
3 posted on 09/05/2023 1:17:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks for the great music. RIP.


6 posted on 09/05/2023 1:57:21 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: SaveFerris

Dream Weaver - Live with Ringo Starr’s All Star Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HND5IrFbgq4


16 posted on 09/05/2023 3:48:03 AM PDT by chuck allen
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To: SaveFerris

June 13, 1976 at RFK Stadium in D.C. I saw Pousette-Dart Band (?), Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, and Yes. I like my rock with more of an edge, but I knew Gary Wright from his work with Spooky Tooth (”You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw”). Frampton was way past his days with Humble Pie and Steve Marriott, and Yes were in their “Roundabout” tour. All in all, a pretty laidback day. Peace man....


18 posted on 09/05/2023 4:02:11 AM PDT by W.Lee (Lackland AFB Alumni 1972)
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To: SaveFerris

Lewy Body Dementia is what Robin Williams had.


27 posted on 09/05/2023 4:56:37 AM PDT by DFG
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks for the memories Gary. Rest in Peaceful Dreams..........................


28 posted on 09/05/2023 5:07:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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First Buffett, then the Dream Weaver... who’s next? RIP Jimmy and Gary. Thanks guys for getting me through HS.


29 posted on 09/05/2023 5:22:43 AM PDT by foreverfree
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"She's a babe...SCHWING!"
35 posted on 09/05/2023 7:22:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris

I saw Gary Wright’s band in 74 or 75. It was the third concert I ever went to after Neil Young and Crazy Horse, then Alvin Lee and Ten Years After in the old Orlando Sports Arena, which was basically a tin warehouse. Interestingly, Wright’s band had NO guitars. Only keyboards and drums. Sounded fantastic as I recall.


45 posted on 09/05/2023 8:49:04 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: SaveFerris

I didn’t know until recently that Wright played the keyboards on Harry Nilsson’s rendition of “Without You”.

RIP.


53 posted on 09/05/2023 1:29:36 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools.- King Crimson)
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