**Rock and Roll Reminiscing BBBB**

shack

I can't believe no one has mentioned Michael Bolton, Bananarama, Bay City Rollers, Pat Boone, Brandy, The Bangles or The Backstreet Boys!

Even if for nothing else, Brandy should be noteworthy for her little spead in Playboy.

Tour2ma

Shack,
Had me worried there for a moment.

I've been auditioning a number of the remaining B's I've got, but am less familiar with.
Bush - no... Blind Lemon - nope... Bow Wow Wow - cued up next.
Did find two worthy of a mention so far:

Banana Blender Surprise
Live at the Black Cat – CD (1994 Secret Ingredient Records – SIR 004)
Austin, TX members are probably familiar with The Black Cat. This is some good TX, garage Blues-Rock from a band that lists a home address in Houston. Think a former co-worker saw them and put me onto this. It’s a fun listen, with some ear catchers.

b-tribe
¡fiesta fatal! – CD (1993 Atlantic – 82593-2)
A friend that bought Enigma (see sex CD thread) on my recommendation counter-recommended this. Quite similar, but with a very Spanish flavor owed to an acoustic guitar being up front throughout much of the CD. Unlike Enigma, which must be played through from beginning to end for maximum “stimulation”, I think b-tribe can be shuffle played among other selections. This is going into my next 5-disc, sex CD mix (hopefully soon)- 5 CD's... hey, I can dream can't I?

Tour2ma

Couple quick “B’s” I auditioned last nite…

Big Head Todd and the Monsters
sister sweetly – CD (1993 Giant Records – 9 24486-2)
Forgot how much I liked this CD, too hung up on the Classic’s I guess. It opens with “Broken HEARTED Savior” which was the big air play tune. You will instantly recognize the opening guitar chords, a very melodic tune. CD then goes off into many “sound styles” from Red Hot Chili’s to Robbie Robertson to Floyd/ Bowie/Red Hot’s blend you’d almost swear you had a shuffle playing CD juke box in your system. Doesn’t start to repeat until track 7. Nice listen…

**** Surfers
Electric Larryland – CD (1996 Capitol – D 112622)
If nothing else ya gotta love the names, of both the group and the title. CD’s a mixed bag to be sure, about half borderline unlistenable, high-rev surfer noise (like the “Crescents” or “Pyramids” on speed). But when they slow it down, the other half is very interesting, imaginative and/ or fun stuff.
Track 3, “Pepper” got the most airplay (Refrain: “…they were all in love with Diane, they were drinking from a fountain that was pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain”). This track is forever associated with one of the best table dances I’ve had. Best track for me is #6, “Jingle of a Dog’s Collar”.
Other good tracks: “TV Star”, “”Let’s Talk about Cars” (complete with a French conversation going on), and “Space”.
Like I said, a mixed bag, but that’s why players are programmable.

I'm out 'til Sunday..., but will definitely be back then and kick-off the "CCCC" thread before the BIG kick-off.

Paul Connor

What about Badfinger?? Here is a short clip I copied off of another site:

There are few bands in the annals of rock music as star-crossed in their history as Badfinger. Pegged as one of the most promising British groups of the late '60s and the one world-class talent ever signed to the Beatles' Apple Records label that remained with the label, Badfinger enjoyed the kind of success in England and America that most other bands could only envy. Yet a string of memorable hit singles — "Come and Get It," "No Matter What," "Day After Day," and "Baby Blue" — saw almost no reward from that success. Instead, four years of hit singles and international tours precipitated the suicides of its two creative members and legal proceedings that left lawyers as the only ones enriched by the group's work.
Pete Ham (April 27, 1947 — April 23, 1975) was born in one of the rougher areas of the port city of Swansea, Wales, the third of three children. A very active, adventurous, and moody youth, his biggest passion in life as a boy was music — his father was a fan of big band music and his older brother played the trumpet. Ham began playing the mouth organ at age four and then turned to the guitar, at which he became extremely proficient, in the '50s. He got his first guitar in 1959, and in the early '60s formed a trio, called the Panthers, with two friends, playing the music of the Shadows, Cliff Richard's backing band. The group later became a quintet and began using other names, including the Black Velvets and the Wild Ones. Members came and went around Ham, and one of the new additions in the early '60s was bassist Ron Griffiths (born October 2, 1946), whose earliest musical inspirations included the Shadows and the Ventures. The group, with Ham, Griffiths, and guitarist Dai Jenkins at its core, eventually settled on the Iveys, after a street in Swansea, and also as a tribute to the Hollies, not to mention their appreciation of the American song "Poison Ivy."

In 1965, Mike Gibbins (born March 12, 1949) became the Iveys' drummer. Gibbons, a very powerful player, helped push the band to a new level of proficiency and by the end of the year, the group was being booked as an opening act for local appearances by the likes of the Who, the Yardbirds, the Moody Blues, and the Spencer Davis Group.

By 1966, they had a new manager in Bill Collins and were based in London, where they continued to make a name for themselves, both as a regular backing band for vocalist David Garrick and in their own gigs. It was Collins who encouraged the members of the Iveys to write their own songs — Ham proved the most proficient of the quartet at this, with Griffiths a distant second. By 1967, various record companies and producers, including Decca, Pye, and CBS, expressed an interest in signing them.

That same year, Jenkins left the band and was replaced by Liverpool-born Tom Evans (June 5, 1947 — November 19, 1983). Evans had been playing with a band called Them Calderstones, an R&B-based band whose main influence was Motown. The group was now one of the top outfits to come out of Wales, equally good at loud rock & roll and lyrical pop numbers, harmonizing Hollies style or rocking out '50s style, and the members were writing an ever-growing body of originals. This was the group that auditioned for the newly formed Apple Records label in 1968. First Mal Evans, the Beatles' longtime roadie — and a friend of the Iveys' manager — took up their cause, followed by Peter Asher, the head of A&R for the label. Finally, they attracted the attention of Paul McCartney.

Paul Connor

Tour,

Let me know if I need to kick off the C's on Sunday.
Just where are you in SE Texas?

Paul

avelanchefan

Tour good call on Big Head Todd. I used to work with a guy in Denver (Where Big todd originated from) and he married the sister of bassist Rob Squires. They were always getting backstage passes to shows with the likes of Alannis Morriset, dave Matthews...ect.. man they had some stories to tell.

Personally I Liked Carzy World (1998) great songs like Crazy Mary, Caroline, and BoomBoom to name a few.

Thanks for bringing up a great band.

Tour2ma

Paul,
I'm back and will K/O the C's just before K/O...
Lately I've been all over SE TX... rather not post base of operations details, but will e-mail ya with a more specific info, if you’re listed… if you’re not, just e-mail me.

Ave,
Thanks for the feedback... I'll look into "Crazy World"...

All,
Anybody open to loaning some of their listings for trial listens before we all start spending bucks? Could swap addresses via e-mail. CD's no problem for me to loan (at least so long as nobody I send to is one of those “green sharpie freaks" ); as for my vinyl I'd be willing to loan C-90's, or some such arrangement.
Just a thought, 'cause I think we are starting to hit some chords here on our recommendations and it could get kinda expensive by the letter Z, especially if we buy recommendations that're OK, but turn out to be really not our thing...

Let me know...

pensacola

OK, this may be a little too **** for this thread, but...

Anita Baker Rapture, 1986
and
Anita Baker Giving You The Best That I Got, 1988

These could also be posted in the "best sex cd's" thread. :rolleyes:

Put on some Anita Baker, pop open a bottle of red, and it's all over.

Tour2ma

Anita ain't **** at all, she's short, but not ****... (what, ~5' nothin' as I remember...). Rapture's all I have, but it's vinyl. Too disruptive to be of use for... you know...

Add I've been meaning to post to the B's was just that I have Blondie's Parallel Lines on vinyl, MFSL 1-050. Breakout album, only potential "must have" in addition to the CD anthology I mentioned earlier...

F1nut

Another "B" that I dug out.

BIG TWIST & THE MELLOW FELLOWS
1980 Flying Fish Records FF 70229 CD

A Chicago blues/rock group that I caught at No Fish Today in Baltimore years ago. These guys bought the house down, unfortunately the cd is studio and doesn't capture their live sound.

Tour2ma

On your tail dude... flashing my lights...

I found Big Audio Dynamite... was tempted to use them as a "D", but I did find a couple more of them, too.
Anyway the cellophane is still on the BAD disc I have, This is Big Audio Dynamite. An ex-co-worker, and good friend loved them. Think I'll give it a spin now as my search continues and since my "Bootleg" copy of AP's Sterotomy just finished...

The nite is still young...

God, I hope it's not collectable...

Edit 1: My Blind Faith and Bjork CD's arrived today...

Edit 2: Big Audio Dynamite was definitely not a collectable. It's more like a "disposable". Pretty bad stuff here. Either this was an "off" effort by this group or I need to do a better job of picking my friends...;) .... and the nite is not young anymore...

shack

Originally posted by gidrah
Bloodrock - Bloodrock2 1970 Capitol. The song D.O.A. is great.

I can't believe anybody else has even heard of this band. I still have the vinyl but I haven't listened to it in 30 years. I actually went to one of their concerts (5th or 6th row - and that is about all I really remember except that I had a high time!).

Tour2ma

Originally posted by shack
I can't believe anybody else has even heard of this band.

Count me in, barely. College roomie had debut vinyl. Beyond that not much in the ol' memory bank here.

Sorry, gidrah, I missed your initial mention...

Tour2ma

"Big Payback" just came on the cable music (we're doing R&B Classics today)... Can't beleive I didn't throw "The Godfather of Soul" into this mix before now.

Gotta be a place for him in any rock discussion....

shack

As I was digging through my stacks of CDs tonight (I've got to organize them someday) I came across a couple more "B"s.

Kate Bush - - The Whole Story - 1987 - I don't normally buy "best of" albums but this one is actually quite good. There is a re-recorded vocal track for "Wuthering Heights" which caused a debate as to which one was better: The orginal recorded when she was 16 or the more mature voice 9 years later for this album. I actually like them both. "Hounds Of Love", "Running Up That Hill" and "Babooshka" are some of the songs on this album that received the most airplay. I like the entire album, however, Kate Bush is an acquired taste. She has a tremendous vocal range and writes most of her songs . A track of her music was given to David Gilmore (Pink Floyd) who was instrumental in getting her first recording contract and worked with her throuout her career. Her first album The Kick Inside - 1977 - is noteworthy because it was made to support "Wuthering Heights" which came out as a single and went to the top of the British charts. After several albums her next really good album was Hounds Of Love - 1985 - which included the title track and "Running Up That Hill". Kate alo appeared on a couple of albums with Peter Gabriel. Most notably was on So with a great track titled "Don't Give Up".

Now I will probably get a little heat about this one; Primarily because it is "Pop" and because most of you have probably never taken the time to listen to the entire album.

Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room - 2001 - Another Teenager (17) when this was recorded who wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album. In my opinion Brittney, Christina, Vanessa Carlton, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne etal...will be outlasted by Michelle Branch. This girl has talent and you have to love a kid who says her influences are Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Enough talent to rate a single with Carlos Santana - "Game of Love". The tracks from The Spirit Room I enjoy are "Everywhere", "You Get Me", "All You Wanted", "Here With Me", "Sweet Misery", "If Only She Knew", "Goodbye To You" and "Drop In The Ocean". She can sound sweet on a ballad and she can ROCK!

Give it a listen if you get a chance. Do what I did and steal it from your daughter (if you have one) - You may hate it - that's OK cause I LIKE IT!

Tour2ma

OK shame on all of us for overlooking Buffalo Springfield. I mean it was only a gathering of Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Jim Messina, and Richie Furray. They furthered the Folk Rock genre that the Byrds (mentioned earlier) started.

I only ever owned Retrospective a hits collection that I am not sure is even in the catalog, or my collection, anymore. But it had "For What It's Worth", a Stills song that woke me up in 1967. It was the first rock protest song I can remember:
"There's a man with a gun over there telling me I've got to beware.... You better stop children what's that sound, Everybody look what's going 'round" - think that's close anyway. Very subtle, yet powerful stuff. Rock with a message was a very new and meaningful experience for me. But even if we set that aside...

We all know what Stephen and Neil went on to do. Many probably know Messina from his association with Kenny Loggins, but Messina and Furray formed Poco before that. And the post-Poco Furray went on to the Souther Hillman Furray Band. A big musical legacy here.

BTW Paul, I must have skimmed your Badfinger write up earlier. I didn't this time. Had no clue about the tragic end of two of its members. Very nice post.
Badfinger was the first group Apple signed, wasn't it? I think I remember some of their stuff being used for the movie "Candy". Don't remember much else about the flick except it included one of the first sets of **** I saw on "the big screen" (the blonde lead in the cockpit of a plane looking "angelic" and coming on to Ringo(?) as I recall).

dcarlson

Seeing that the Qs are a bit of a bust, I skimmed throught the Bs. I think the Bs started before I started hanging around here.

I was looking for Blind Melon but no mention.

Everyone knows the No Rain song. Way over played but they some pretty amazing stuff. It's hard to fit them into any type of category, they're pretty unique. Shannon Hoon, lead singer, was a great song writer. He died of on an overdose in 1995. He also sung backup vocals on GnR's Don't Cry and appears in the video on top of the building singing with Axl.

Albums:

Blind Melon

Soup

Soup is one of the most underrated and overlooked great rock albums of the '90s

...Allmusic

I would agree with that statement and add most underrated band as well.

Nico
Nico was mixed after Hoon's death and includes some more great stuff.

DVD: Letters from a Porcupine
It includes all of there videos + a documentary and some live footage. A great DVD if you're a fan.

If you don't know Blind Melon, check out Soup. It's one of my favs.

Derick.

Big Dan R

Wow great stuff.
Great to see Blind Faith fans. I was lucky to see Blind Faith at Madison Square Garden in 1970. I brought my fathers 8mm camera and I have about 1 min of footage, no sound of course! I had previously seen Cream there as well, Nov 68, tix $3.50!!
I saw Black Oak Ark with King Crimson, what a strange pairing for such different bands, at the Orpheum in Boston in 1973. Great drumming by Tommy Aldrige and Bill Bruford.
Nobody mentioned Blue Cheer, James Brown, Dickey Betts, Blues Project, Blues Magoos, Blur, Blues Traveler, Tommy Bolin, Pat Boone Bow Wow Wow, Boy George, Bread, Jack Bruce, Roy Buchanan, Buffalo Springfield, The **** Surfers, Buzzcocks, David Byrne, just to name some...
Bowie might be one of the most multi faceted performers ever, big $$$too! Did you know that Rick Wakeman played the mellotron on Space Oddity?

Tour2ma

Welcome to RnR Rem, BDR. You're Carver obviously has a lot of work to do.

Never spotted Rick in the Bowie credits. Nice little bit of info there.

Big Dan R

For all of you music enthusiasts, a tremendous publication about rock recordings is the All Music Guide To Rock, published by Miller Freeman. I have a number of books on music but this is my dictionary. I can't recommend this book enough! Amazon has it.
Tour, the Carvers will have plenty of food as I have a major collection of records and cd's.

george daniel

Instead of starting a new thread,, whats left of the Buffalo Springfield plans to continue the tour,,with Neil of course--I'll probabally go,cause thats what I do,apparently they may still have some magic left.Certainlt one of the finest groups to ever come thru the 60's,,say what you want--Young and crew can still rock.Hey,, did you hear that?

Whats that sound,,,,

everybody look,,at whats goin' down.

http://myq105.radio.com/2011/06/10/buffalo-springfield-tour-to-go-on/

Toolfan66

George you just cost me about $200 bringing up this old thread!!!!

Great thread!!!


BTW Shack, Looks like Christina Outlasted Michelle Branch and the rest of the girls you mentioned.. Don't get me wrong I like Michelle Branch, Just sayin..

gudnoyez

Paul Connor wrote: »

Ok guys. This starts off week number two and the B category.

Let's try this:

Buckingham Nicks. 1973. This was Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before joining Fleetwood Mac. If you do not own this album, it is a must find for all 70's Fleetwood Mac fans. The problem is that it has never been released on CD. (that I know of) I have seen it on EBay, but sealed copies are rare. If for no other reason the nude photograph of Stevie Nicks on the cover is: BOING!
Personal favorite tracks include: Crying in the Night, Long Distance Winner and Crystal (later done by Fleetwood Mac)

David Bowie. The Man who Sold the World. Released in 1973. The title track is my personal favorite. For vinyl collectors the album was released in several different jackets, one of which features David in a long satin dress. These are pretty hard to find. This album is available on CD. Correct me if I am wrong in assuming The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is his best work ever. Maybe guitarist Mick Ronson had something to do with this.

Party on Garth!

Mick Ronson was Great I cant even remember how many times Bowies, Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars has been flowing through my speakers at loud volumes, not to mention The Man Who Sold The World,Hunky Dory, Diamond Dogs old Bowie conquers the B's thats for sure