Old School Musicianship… Rock and Roll.. Jazz… Blues… Big Band even…

[Rj_1954]

Grease (From “Grease”) 1978
Song by The Four Seasons

 

[Rj_1954]

Dirty Dancing
Soundtrack album by Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

 

[Elmo_Lincoln]

Birthday wishes to the late Otis Redding, born this day, September 9, 1941, and taken way too young. And believe it or not he sang a lot more songs than just Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, but that's all you ever hear. He had several other top 40 hits prior to his death. I opted to play this one instead. Along with Redding's vocals, the organ on it really makes the song (Booker T & the M.G.'s played on it).

Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

Birthday wishes to the late Otis Redding, born this day, September 9, 1941, and taken way too young. And believe it or not he sang a lot more songs than just Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, but that's all you ever hear. He had several other top 40 hits prior to his death. I opted to play this one instead. Along with Redding's vocals, the organ on it really makes the song (Booker T & the M.G.'s played on it).

Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

Here's another by Otis

Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa- by Otis Redding

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

This entire page is my kind of music!!! Yea BOY!

When You Dance by The Turbans

 

[Rj_1954]

A forgotten group...

Keep on Smilin' - 1974
Song by Wet Willie

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

OK. Forgive me BrendaBear. I'm going to depart from the rules (again).

One of the local radio stations (the one that sucks less than the other) plays a lot of local bands that are just starting out. If you live in the local area (they are pretty loose with "local") and have a recording, they will play it. Not at 2am on Sunday; IN THE REGULAR ROTATION!

That got me thinking of Bar Bands. The kind of band that will play about anything (think of the scene in the Blues Brothers where they play the Country bar).

I think of my youth, sneaking in to a bar, getting a tray of draft (a couple of dozen 8 ounce glasses) and listening to whatever was going. Genre meant nothing. I was listening to an actual band of professional musicians. The bars where we knew we could get in: Straight's, the Woody (Woodbridge), the Forge, The Mill Wheel, The Riverboat, Studebaker's and the holiest of holies: The Brunswick House...always had something live.

These guys were basically a Folk / Country / Pop band. They are still going. They played a nearby fair last fall. They playy at at Legion hall at the end of the month...still workin' hard for a living.

(So, what's your favourite almost famous bar band?)

Here are The Good Brothers, about 1980 playing Toronto's legendary El Mocambo, almost live on TV:

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

A forgotten group...

Keep on Smilin' - 1974
Song by Wet Willie

Which one's Willie?

 

[Rj_1954]

Which one's Willie?

Wet Willie

 

[Rj_1954]

Another forgotten group

How Much I Feel - 1978
Song by Ambrosia

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Wet Willie

"Which One's Willie?" was one of their albums.

Now, if I could just figure out which one's Floyd?

 

[Rj_1954]

If You Wanna Get to Heaven - 1972
Song by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils

 

[BrendaBear]

So, what's your favourite almost famous bar band?

That's easy, the one I played in.... Stevie And The Stingrays

Maybe not almost famous, but we played a lot of gigs in the area, and they had been around for decades before I even joined. So fun!!!

 

[Rj_1954]

Sylvia - 1972
Song by Focus

 

[Rj_1954]

Never Let Go - 1970ish
Song by Camel

 

[Rj_1954]

OK enough of that mystery music...
Where's @PicassosPleasure he likes this crap

 

[BrendaBear]

OK enough of that mystery music...
Where's @PicassosPleasure he likes this crap

Wrong thread, silly!

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

One more song that's a "mystery song

I don't look good naked any more by
Snake Oil Willie!

 

[Rj_1954]

Like A Rolling Stone - 1965
Song by Bob Dylan

 

[Rj_1954]

Hotel California - 1976
Song by Eagles

 

[Rj_1954]

Me and Bobby McGee
Song by Janis Joplin

 

[BrendaBear]

I just stumbled on to this, which has Jeff playing one of the tracks from his 1974 album, Blow By Blow. I know I had that on cassette, and I think CD too.

OMG! That man could play!!!!!!

Jeff Beck - You Know What I Mean

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Me and Bobby McGee
Song by Janis Joplin

Oh, Janis.

A few dozen pages back I posted a video of Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn recorded in the late 80s / as early 90s. In the nearly 90 minute video, Albert talks about watching Jimi Hendrix play at a club. After he was done, Jimi said to him "Let's play some Blues.". Amazing already, right? Albert said "Not without Miss Janis, the Queen." I hope somewhere out there is a cassette that likely says "Blues" or "Night at the Club" with Albert, Jimi and Janis just jamming. Imagine...
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRfu8841W9JBO-FGmv_wVPSdgIrcXQQN8MhnQ&s
My favourite Janis song...a song of great social and political import...Mercedes-Benz

 

[BrendaBear]

Oh, Janis.

https://encrypted-tbn0.***********/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRfu8841W9JBO-FGmv_wVPSdgIrcXQQN8MhnQ&s
My favourite Janis song...a song of great social and political import...Mercedes-Benz

I'm pretty sure that is the last song she ever sang, too. Certainly, the last song she recorded. And it was just one take.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

I'm pretty sure that is the last song she ever sang, too. Certainly, the last song she recorded. And it was just one take.

I think the album was released after her death, so that makes sense.