Hurricane Season

Two versions of Neil Young’s Like a Hurricane“

Roxy Music- Like A Hurricane

 
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Neil Young – Like A Hurricane
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Before and After

Here are two videos. The first from one of the tightest bands that ever was. The other, from a young woman that hopefully will learn how to deal with the vultures that lurk behind every dark corner. Sure, she messes up a few times but:

1. She did it in one take     
2. She is still young    
3. She has a certain “je ne sais quoi” quality.

If you read some of the negative comments made by viewers, it is obvious that we didn’t teach our children well when it comes to kindness, manners and the ability to “see”.

The Band – Ophelia from The Last Waltz  1976
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Ophilia
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One Mississippi

 

 

Just after the break up of the Mamas and the Papas, John Phillips had this un-hit single. Altough it was a hit at local radio station CFRW – The Big 1470 in Winnipeg, among others. Not sure how high it charted though.
John Phillips

John Phillips – Mississippi – 1970 YT post by hwaj5300

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Leonard Down

Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage in Spain last night.
He was released from hospital shortly after going in for observation. He’s just an amazing person!
I’m gonna post one of my favourite songs and performances by the man – a very interesting version of So Long – from the backwards audience to the violinist.
This one is always taken down quickly by YT so enjoy while it is there. And let’s wish LC all the best huh!

Leonard Cohen Live on German TV, 1979 – 1 – So Long Marianne
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Leonard Cohen faints in Valencia during concertSept 18 2009
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Bomb This

These are the kind of Bombers I like. And they’re the same type we use here. Music is Free Ride by The Edgar Winter Group. (That’s one of the songs from my “summer of sin” soundtrack.)

Canadair CL-215 (Bombardier) WATER BOMBER
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Numb, Comfortable and Damn Proud of it!

Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd 1979
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Damn Them Anyway

So there I was. Eighteen and confused every day. School was out for summer.  And my friends and I were 1500 miles from home at a cabin on a huge lake with gorgeous sand dunes…..wouldn’t you know it but 3 girl friends from our home town drop in for a few days on their way to the west coast. It was party time.

I had always had a thing for one of the girls but the first night one of the others came on real strong and voila. We had a thing going. But all was not well because they had to get to the west coast and I had to make a decision whether I wanted to stay at the beach and party with my (boy) friends or go back home and wait for her to come back east. Naturally, being an 18 year old with my hormones raging, I chose the latter and hopped a train vers l’est. .

Here’s the problem:  A band from Stockport England, called 10CC  had just released probably their biggest selling single “I’m not in love” and my “girl” was humming it all the time. All the time while she was out west and all the time when she got back. I guess she finally figured she wasn’t in love and dropped me like an iron butterfly (or maybe even a led zeppelin). To make matters worse, she was best friends with the girl I had liked all along and so the second girl was out of the question too. (and if that wasn’t bad enough, the song had the lines “Big boys don’t cry”, over and over and over). Freakin’ loser!

Damn that 10CC. If they had just waited a couple of months. Yeah, it was all their fault all right. But it’s 30+ years later and I’m over it?

 

10 cc ” I’m not in love ” 1975 YT post by 2channeltv 

Next song:  The interesting thing about  those bastards known as 10CC is that in 1970 they released a song under the name Hotlegs  called Neanderthal Man - this one I liked a lot!

Neanderthal Man – Hotlegs – 1970

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Funk You

My favourite story that I love to retell over and over is going to see the Stones on their first tour in three years back in ‘72. It was amazing. The day of the concert was electrified. Crowds of people milling around smoking pot, playing bongos, fence posts, garbage cans – anything that could make a beat. We were waiting for the “second coming”.

I was only 16 and although it wasn’t my first major concert my eyes were opened. A guy was standing at the top of the escalator yelling out “Mescaline. Mescaline.” It was so different from “Coke here” that I was used to at sporting events. (Although  there was “coke there” too).

Anyway, the opening act for the Stones was someone who I wasn’t too interested in – Stevie Wonder. And he was no longer “Little Stevie Wonder”. And when the show finally began, Stevie blew me a way over yonder! He was so…..so …..funkin funkified! Man, I was hooked. (The Stones weren’t that bad either).

Oh yeah. My ticket was $6.50. Honest.

Stevie Wonder ~ Superstition – 1973 YT post by sante3d

I’ll Give Ya Appice Ma Mind

Carmine Appice a Brooklyn boy drummer who, starting in the sixties, had all kinds of success in various flavours. One such success was the band Cactus.

 Cactus – Big Mama Boogie (Parts I & II)

from the album Barely Contained: The Studio Sessions 1970?

Big Mama Boogie lyrics link

Cactus promo image from here

It’s Great To Have Friends

Top row l – r. : Delaney and Bonnie,  Gregg and Duane Allman, King Curtis, Bottom row l – r : Kenny Gradney (Little Feat bassist), Richie Hayward drummer Little Feat, and Sam Clayton.

Below, just a terrific YouTube post by unstoppable3rd. DB & F  performing live on WABC-FM NYC. King’s sax is so sweet ooooweee!

Delaney & Bonnie and Friends – Only You Know And I Know (with Duane and Gregg Allman) – 1970
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There are two interviews that stand head and shoulders above all the rest that I have heard/seen/done in my life. And one of them was with Delaney and Bonnie when they came to town back around 197o. Just real good musically inclined people.

In memory of Delaney Bramlett credit and site

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