Musical Tastes

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

Mark, I don't know why, but I could just never like the Dead. I think maybe it was because my boss, that I could not stand, was a big dead head. Don't know, but something sure soured me. ]

Jeff, I kinda know where you're coming from.
I knew of the Dead from the Haight Ashbury days.
About 1970, after hearing Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, I found out what an accomplished studio musician Jerry was. A multi-instrumentalist, who played guitar, banjo, and pedal steel, a lot of us heard his work without knowing it..."Teach Your Children" pedal steel opening and backing is one everybody knows.
Once the whole traveling hippie C/F show thing started, I had no interest in seeing them live.
What I did was buy the greatest hits CD and then left in only the acoustic and more mellow stuff, and then burned a CD to listen to in my RV. Try them that way.

This is what I had left, only re-arranged for better flow, IMO

"Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
Originally released on the 1987 album In the Dark
"Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:19
Originally released on American Beauty
"Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:28
Originally released on the 1970 album Workingman's Dead
"Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
Originally released on Workingman's Dead
"Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) – 3:24
Originally released on American Beauty
"Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:33
Originally released on the 1975 album Blues for Allah
"Estimated Prophet" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
Originally released on the 1977 album Terrapin Station
"Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
Originally released on the 1973 album Wake of the Flood
"Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:20
Originally released on American Beauty
"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
Originally released on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel

Originally released on the 1978 album Shakedown Street
"The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
Originally released on Blues for Allah
"Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
Originally released on In the Dark
"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
Originally released on American Beauty

[4406mopar]

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Two for Tuesday. Thinks I will do (as promised) a couple from the Babys John Waite. First one from the Babys . This album was another played to death at our little house. We had one female friend that every time the party showed up, which was every Friday and Saturday nights after the bars closed down, she would shout at the top of her lungs while walking in the door " I WANNA HEAR THE BABYS! ".



Second one if from one of John Waites second band, Bad English. Notice he has Journeys lead guitar player after he split from Journey..

[Eddies66]

[Mark Yacavone]

Someone posted Nick Lowe a while back. There just might be a few Dave Edmunds / / Rockpile fans out there too.
I couldn't decide but narrowed this down to only a two-fer. This one has the rockpile lineup and shows Nick The Knife on bass.



Written by Elvis Costello


Written by John Fogerty but I like this version best:


bonus masked track:
*http://*( https://www.youtube.com/wa...0Vo4lNb0w48 )*

[gsa612]

Here's a race car related track with video by Foreigner...And YES Mark I do listen to this in the shop and have it on my playlist on CD.It's the one before"Puff the Magic Dragon" that I have not posted.....yet..lol...gsa612

[Eddies66]

[Jeff Niceswanger]

I'm posting this one because of the story behind it. Not really a big favorite of mine anymore, but at the time we played records continuously. Every Friday night when Brad and I got off from work, we went to the Ohio State Liquor store. We both bought one 5th for the weekend. We then went to the two record stores in town and picked out at least one new album a piece. We usually had several people over in the early evenings as I had one of the best stereos in town. We would sit around and "party" till about 10 o'clock, and then head out on the town to our favorite bars. All the bars back then had live bands. Really good bands, many times brought in from out of state to draw customers from other bars doing the same things. After hitting a few bars and 2:30 am rolled around, the bars emptied, and most evenings they emptied into our HOUSE. I can remember waking up to find all the living room furniture pushed out to the edges of the walls for the purposes of making a dance floor. The stories I could tell here are endless, but I wanna tell of the time we just about didn't see the light of the next day.
It was in the winter . Our winters back then were brutal, and anyone that remembers the 1978 79 blizzards of the Midwest can attest to. We had a huge gas heater in the living room. It was out from the wall a couple feet. In the summer months it turned into a table, or a seat for people to sit on during the party's. But in the winter, she was full tilt keeping that old house cozy. After one of our extended get together s, I awoke to the smell of something unusual.Something was just not right. As I walked out in the living room that morning, I found this album (I'm about to play a cut off it) laying on TOP of that furnace. The album had been taken out of the jacket and both were laying there. At least what was left of them. The album itself was all melted and partially burned, and the cardboard jacket was brown, like a piece of well done toast.The album had actually melted and ran into the outlet grooves on the top of the heater.. What in the heck kept us from dying in a fire that night amazes me to this day ...
So here's the album, I choose this video as its a little different..