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(10,054 posts)I was obsessed with Peter Frampton!
I still love his album Frampton Comes Alive.....
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)In the back of a red Caddy Coupe de Ville on Bass Lake road, in 76. (That should end your Frampton love affair forever).
I saw the Winterland show that the live album is from. In about a year he went from Humble Pie, to Frampton's Camel, to Peter Frampton. Saw all of those iterations then and saw him in Sacramento the night before the Winterland shows.
FM123
(10,054 posts)We all have "events" that occurred while listening to Frampton, some we don't even remember......
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)In advance of his Bay area show this weekend with (gag me) Steve "that non playing motherfucker" Miller and Night Ranger at Shoreline Ampitheater. (Quote by Miles Davis)
FM123
(10,054 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)It's the cowbell. It's nothing without the cowbell!
ProfessorGAC
(65,289 posts)And the riff is awfully catchy. That's one of my faves of all time. Those guys, before they were huge, used to come through our town to play at the Monday concert tour at the ice rink every year in the early 70's. Because my dad was tangentially involved with that concert series, we always had back stage passes. We met those guys and every single one of them were really nice guys.
Other bands that were part of that circuit: Rufus, Black Oak Arkansas, Malo, Redbone (at least once), Ides of March, and a few others.
Was pretty cool thing every Monday in the summer.
Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)I hadn't thought about Black Oak Arkansas in years! I'm off to YouTube to catch a song or two.
ProfessorGAC
(65,289 posts)For their climax ending, they used these super cheap pine guitars!
They smashed matching 335 knockoffs together to close the show!
From backstage, I saw the roadies, at two points about 10 seconds apart, change them from the good guitars they were playing to these pieces of shit
Second year, I asked. They had a dude with a van and woodworking stuff who'd put that junk back together so they could do it the next night!!!
Jim Dandy to the rescue indeed!!!
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)In 72-73. Heavy music, the heaviest, beyond Black Sabbath. Fear The Reaper was pop for them.
I saw them open for Jefferson Starship (second Blows tour) and Kansas. "Drop your socks and grab your cocks, it's BLUE OYSTER CUUUULT!"
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)Was living in Germany in 1976 as a teenager. Abba seemed to always be playing in the back ground of my most pleasant memories. Abba, to this day, is a trigger for warm fuzzies for me.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Eugene
(61,969 posts)red dog 1
(27,884 posts)Honorable Mentions
- Dancing Queen - ABBA
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee
- 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
- Only Sixteen - Dr Hook
muriel_volestrangler
(101,392 posts)I took a look at the best selling singles in the UK that year for a reminder of what was when - and the 3rd biggest seller (4 weeks at number one) was something that rings no bells whatsoever - "Mississippi" by 'Pussycat'. With a truly bizarre video - it's the bust above the drummer with nipples a foot across:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_(song)
It was also number 1 in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland.
Not that I was even aware of it at the time, but my favourite album of the year is definitely Trick of the Tail by Genesis. Perhaps with Entangled as the best track, but they're all excellent.
Coventina
(27,217 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)From the album "Wired", which is the best album Mahavishnu Orchestra never did...
Efilroft Sul
(3,585 posts)I was nine years old during the Bicentennial, and I thought this song encapsulated how America should treat the least of all of us. And I still do. If I ever ran for higher office, I would crawl across broken glass to ask Steve Miller for his permission to use it.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)It was an April morning when they told us we should go...
shenmue
(38,506 posts)vanamonde
(167 posts)Starland Vocal Band
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)catbyte
(34,499 posts)"50 Ways to Love Your Liver." thanks for the memory!
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)hurl
(938 posts)Most of the great music here is pretty popular and mainstream, but here's one that's pretty obscure. I admit being biased, but I have attended more concerts by Philip Glass Ensemble than any other group. It likely will drive most people crazy, so listen at your own risk - definitely not something most people would care for.
Philip Glass' seminal opera Einstein on the Beach was released in 1976. Often called 'minimalist,' the composer hated that description. The music is sometimes panned as repetitive, but if you have the patience to listen closely, it's anything but. Singers use solfege syllables (do re mi...) so you can tell what note is being sung (do = C). In other portions, singers sing numbers to give insight on the time signature. Here is an example of that. It starts with counting, with the solfege syllables coming in at about 2:07.
More, if you can take it:
Coventina
(27,217 posts)Tikki
(14,560 posts)from then on....in a world of arena rock and mega concerts..this band hit small L A Clubs
and helped change everything.
I climbed over a cement barrier to get into an independent record store in 1976, to discover what I was hearing, the first time I heard this song.
One of my forever favorite songs.
Tikki