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ThatOneDude

Commander in @Chief, Dick Army
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ThatOneDude @ThatOneDude did I tell you about the time I was in San Diego and my mum and brother came to visit? Me and my brother went for some beers at the house of blues there and while there I realized, by posters still up, that I missed bone thugs n harmony by 1 day. They was the night Before.
Man, that would have been sick to see you jump up on stage and spit some fire along side them.
 

Hauler

Been fallin so long it's like gravitys gone
Feb 3, 2016
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On a blues kick recently. Jeff Healy was a canadian gem. Shame his supporting band members were trash.

Great gig he did hanging with SRV

View: https://youtu.be/2HmLFyvFxTc


For those that don't know, Jeff Healey was blind, from cancer when he was a year old. Talented guitar player who died far too young at 41.


View: https://youtu.be/8H0gvJPwf90
He was also a close personal friend of Dalton. Had a steady paying gig at Road House bar and grill. Go for the awesome guitar playing, stay for the fights.
 

ShatsBassoon

Throwing bombs & banging moms
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He was also a close personal friend of Dalton. Had a steady paying gig at Road House bar and grill. Go for the awesome guitar playing, stay for the fights.
Criminal how he's never on any top 100 guitarist lists.
 

psychicdeath

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Dave's Song of the Day

Word Up – Cameo

Saturday song of the day: Today’s song was a call for the return of music you could dance to.




Cameo frontman Larry Blackmon and band member Tomi Jenkins noted that the music scene in the mid-80s contained a lot of rap designed around deep social messages at the expense of danceable grooves. As a response, the wrote Word Up, which advocated for making music fun again. The phrase “word up” was common slang in New York and other big cities at the time and basically indicated agreement, having roughly the same meaning as “you bet.”

The song was released as a single in May 1986. The label of the record gives the title as Word Up, but the sleeve added an exclamation point, spelling the title as Word Up! A Cameo album released in September 1986 that included the song as the title track had the same inconsistency. It was titled Word Up! on the album cover, but Word Up on the record’s label.

Blackmon sang the song using an exaggerated vocal twang based on the voice used by Sly Stone on some of his hits in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly 1973’s If You Want Me to Stay. For the video, Blackmon portrayed a character that he referred to as “Vicious.” Vicious was an over-the-top caricature, complete with a bright red codpiece that became sort of an infamous trademark for Cameo for a while. In the video, Cameo is pursued by a police detective played by Lavar Burton.

Word Up was Cameo’s biggest hit, placing at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and remains their most well-known song. The band did appear on a #2 charting hit in 2001, but that was backing Mariah Carey on her hit Loverboy, not a record by Cameo itself.

Audio


View: https://youtu.be/lYOSdI_91WM


Video


View: https://youtu.be/MZjAantupsA


Tomorrow: You can’t take me for granted and smile
 

psychicdeath

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Dave's Song of the Day

If You Want Me to Stay – Sly and the Family Stone

Sunday song of the day: Today’s song originated in an argument the singer had with his girlfriend.




The career arc of Sly Stone makes me very sad. Sly, born Sylvester Stewart, reached the highest heights, and then pretty much fell off a cliff due to personal demons. He was responsible for some of the very best music of the late 1960s and early 1970s as the leader of Sly and the Family Stone, producing classics such as Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Family Affair, Stand!, and Everyday People. Along with his brother Freddie and sister Rose, he created the first big truly integrated band, with all races and sexes welcome.

By the early 1970s, however, Sly and The Family Stone had more and more become just Sly Stone. Sly played several instruments and wrote the songs, and when tensions within the band grew to include a physical fight with bassist Larry Graham, Sly withdrew. By the time he started work on the band’s sixth album, Fresh, it almost amounted to a solo project. Sly recorded the album without much input from The Family Stone, playing most of the instruments himself and enlisting some friends such as Billy Preston to fill in other areas. Several members of the Family Stone including Freddie and Rose Stone, trumpet player Cynthia Robinson, and saxophone player Jerry Martini were used in limited capacities. Larry Graham played on two tracks, with his parts presumably recorded before the fight that caused him to quit the Family Stone in 1972.

Fresh, released in June 1973, included what was one of the last great hits for the band, If You Want Me to Stay. It was in a much heavier funk style than most of the band’s earlier hits, and concerned the singer telling his love interest that she would have to allow him to do as he wanted, or he would leave. The song originated in a fight between Sly and his girlfriend – and future wife – Kathleen Silva. After the fight he wrote her an apology, but the apology included the thought that no matter what, Sly was going to be Sly. One can guess that his growing drug problem at the time played a part in the argument.

As mentioned yesterday, Larry Blackmon based his singing in Word Up on the exaggerated vocal style Sly used on If You Want Me to Stay and a few other late-period Family Stone tracks, where Sly almost swallowed the lyrics rather than singing them out clearly.

If You Want Me to Stay was a hit, although not on the scale of the band’s earlier #1 records Everyday People, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Family Affair, or the #2 Hot Fun in the Summertime. Still, If You Want Me to Stay performed more than respectably, reaching #3 on the R&B chart and topping out at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Personally, I feel it rivals Stand! for the best Sly and the Family Stone track.

After Fresh, the original Sly and The Family Stone recorded one more album before disbanding in 1975. After that, Sly recorded as a solo act or with a different version of The Family Stone with mostly new personnel. He had only limited success, however, as his drug problems worsened and his behavior became increasingly erratic. By the 1980s, Sly was mostly in seclusion, performing only sporadically. He is 77 years old now, but unfortunately long-term drug use cut short the brilliance of his earlier musical career.



View: https://youtu.be/gZFabOuF4Ps


Tomorrow: Hopin’ that we don’t run out
 

psychicdeath

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Jan 21, 2015
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Dave's Song of the Day

My Bologna – “Weird Al” Yankovic

Monday song of the day: Today’s song was Weird Al’s first official single.




This week – well, Monday through Friday, anyway – is devoted to parody songs by “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Young Alfred Yankovic of Lynwood, California was a fan of the Dr. Demento radio program that aired comedy and novelty records. In 1976, Al recorded a novelty song on a cassette tape and gave it to Dr. Demento when the disc jockey visited Yankovic’s high school. For this first recording, the 16-year-old Yankovic wrote Belvedere Cruisin’, about riding around in his parent’s old Plymouth Belvedere. Dr. Demento played it on the radio show and it gained some popularity.

Al kept working on songs and along the way became known as “Weird Al” Yankovic on the Dr. Demento program. In 1979 he recorded a parody of The Knack’s hit My Sharona that was called My Bologna. Like several of Yankovic’s songs, it concerned food. He recorded the song in a bathroom at California Polytechnic State University, where he now attended and worked at the school’s radio station. Al played his accordion and sang in the bathroom because he liked the echo effect.

He sent the song to Dr, Demento and it became popular with the audience. It would likely have remained known only to fans of the radio show, but he met Knack singer Doug Fieger after a concert the band played at the college, and Fieger suggested to Capitol Records that they release My Bologna as a single. Capitol agreed, and bought the master tape from Weird Al for $500. The record was released on Christmas Day, 1979 and sold about 10,000 copies. It was far from a hit, but not bad for an unknown novelty song. Capitol of course did not invest in a music video for the song, but a classmate of Weird Al’s recorded a video of him lip-synching to the song around the time the single was released. The video was little seen until much later when Yankovic was an established star.

Eventually his continued output of comedic songs resulted in Weird Al becoming popular enough that he recorded his first album, titled simply “Weird Al” Yankovic. The 1983 album included a re-recording of My Bologna, as well as other parodies such as Another One Rides the Bus (based on Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust), I Love Rocky Road (Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll), and Ricky (Tony Basil’s Mickey). The album made it only to #139 on the Billboard album chart, but it was a fair start to Al’s long career.

My Bologna, 1979


View: https://youtu.be/SHudwmE5H8o


My Sharona, The Knack, 1979


View: https://youtu.be/ZR-3r5Z9kqw


My Bologna amateur video, 1979


View: https://youtu.be/C4_G7HHJ0GE


My Bologna, 1983 album version


View: https://youtu.be/1hxLaFJf9Jk


Tomorrow: Have some more Spam
 

psychicdeath

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Jan 21, 2015
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Dave's Song of the Day

Eat It – “Weird Al” Yankovic

Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was Weird Al’s breakout hit.




Day 2 of “Weird Al” Yankovic week.

After his first single in 1979, yesterday’s My Bologna, it took a while for Weird Al Yankovic to establish a career creating novelty records. His first album in 1983 consisted of re-recordings of older songs as well as some newer work. It sold OK but could hardly be considered a big hit. His highest charting song was Ricky at #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. At that point most critics dismissed him as a footnote who would soon disappear.

All of that changed in 1984 with the release of his second album, “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D. The first single off the album was Eat It, a parody of Michael Jackson’s huge hit Beat It. Propelled by a music video that received heavy airplay on MTV, Eat It went to #12 on the Hot 100 and was certified Gold. The song, and a few other minor hits from the album, boosted album sales to the point that “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D sold over a million copies for Platinum certification. Eat It also won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording, the first of five Grammys in Yankovic’s career.

Yankovic always asked permission of the artists who recorded the original songs before releasing a parody. Legally, he was not required to do this, but he felt it was the right ting to do. Al said later, “I was very surprised to get permission from Michael Jackson, this is 1984 when I did Eat It, when Michael was the King of Pop. We sent him a request, can we do a parody of your song and call it ‘Eat It?’ We thought we’d never hear back, it took a few weeks but we heard back and he said ‘yeah that’s fine.’” The fact that a star as big as Michael Jackson allowed Al to parody his music made the process easier for future songs, on the basis that “If Michael Jackson is fine with it, why should I deny Weird Al permission to parody my song?” Later, as Weird Al became a fixture, it went even further, with artists feeling that they had finally “made it” when Weird Al asked them if he could parody one of their songs.

Audio


View: https://youtu.be/p8UvbnITJik



Video


View: https://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI



Beat It, Michael Jackson


View: https://youtu.be/oRdxUFDoQe0


Tomorrow: We’re just plain and simple guys
 

Grateful Dude

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Aw man, I like Delaney and Bonnie so much. So good. I didn’t know who that was until I got into Jerry’s side project (JGB), who used to cover Lonesome and a Long Way From Home. Looked up the original artist, and boom fell in love with their music. That side project he had turned me on to a number of artists. They always did a lot of folk, soul, gospel, etc type covers.

Thanks man!
 

Grateful Dude

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View: https://youtu.be/Mydk19QecSw


More useless trivia:
This guitar he’s playing ^^^ is one of my all time favorite axes. It’s a Travis Bean, which had a unique solid aluminum neck. They had a distinctive tone that I love. Small company, so not a ton of the old ones out there. I want one badly, but they’re super expensive now. In my nerdy Deadhead world it’s exciting, because he only played it for a couple of years, and more often with JGB than anywhere else. But out of all those fancy custom guitars he had, he always said the TB was special. I can instantly pick it out and tell when this is what he was playing that night ?
 

megatherium

el rey del mambo
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Aw man, I like Delaney and Bonnie so much. So good. I didn’t know who that was until I got into Jerry’s side project (JGB), who used to cover Lonesome and a Long Way From Home. Looked up the original artist, and boom fell in love with their music. That side project he had turned me on to a number of artists. They always did a lot of folk, soul, gospel, etc type covers.

Thanks man!
That is the original version of Groupie (later Superstar) a rare b side of a single from their second album I believe. Apparently Rita Coolidge had the idea for the song from her experiences on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett get the songwriting credit on this earlier version, but that was because the bloodsuckers were after Delaney at that time.
 

Grateful Dude

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That is the original version of Groupie (later Superstar) a rare b side of a single from their second album I believe. Apparently Rita Coolidge had the idea for the song from her experiences on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett get the songwriting credit on this earlier version, but that was because the bloodsuckers were after Delaney at that time.
Very cool, thanks for sharing that!


you know how I love my stories and trivia hah
 

psychicdeath

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Jan 21, 2015
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Dave's Song of the Day

Amish Paradise – “Weird Al” Yankovic

Wednesday song of the day: Miscommunications over today’s song parody led to a minor conflict.




Day 3 of Weird Al week:

On his 1996 album Bad Hair Day, “Weird Al” Yankovic included the song Amish Paradise, which parodied Coolio’s 1995 hit Gangsta’s Paradise. Whereas Coolio’s song dealt with the harsh realities of life in an urban gang, the Weird Al parody changed the setting to a quiet Amish community.

As mentioned yesterday, Yankovic firmly believes in obtaining permission from the artists responsible for the original work before he releases a parody version of a song. In the case of Amish Paradise, he thought that he had in fact gotten consent from Coolio. The communication, however, ended up being conducted by middle men, and what actually happened was Coolio’s record company gave permission for the parody, but never asked Coolio himself. Thus, when Amish Paradise was released, Coolio was surprised and a little upset. In an interview at the time, he said, “I didn’t give it any sanction. I think that my song was too serious. It ain’t like it was Beat It. Beat It was a party song. But I think Gangsta’s Paradise represented something more than that. And I really, honestly and truly, don’t appreciate him desecrating the song like that. I think he’s wrong for that, because his record company asked for my permission, and I said no. But they did it anyway. I couldn’t stop him. But you know, more power to him. I hope they sell a lot of records. Just stay away from me.”

This prompted Yankovic to write a letter apologizing for the misunderstanding. Eventually the two met a few years later and any ill will was left behind. In 2014 Coolio mentioned in an interview that he regretted making an issue of it, and in hindsight he now appreciates the humor in Amish Paradise.

Commercially, Amish Paradise did well, reaching #53 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the video receiving heavy airplay. While it was far from being one of Yankovic’s biggest hits like Eat It or White and Nerdy, it was a solid performance for a novelty song, one of many that has helped keep Weird Al in the public consciousness for decades.

Audio


View: https://youtu.be/aKbe-SUIOzs


Video


View: https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg


Gangta’s Paradise, Coolio


View: https://youtu.be/fPO76Jlnz6c


Tomorrow: They locked the doors and tried to kill us