On That Note: Saved By Zero (pt. 1): Albums of 1970/60
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Interesting that you bring up the Cincinnati show. WKRP in Cincinnati did an episode about that tragic concert barely 2 months after it happened.
Dang, I remember watching that very episode when I was at ISU. Thanks for posting the link. IIRC, at the end of the episode, the WKRP staff was stunned at the tragedy. It was quite a shock to the country when those concert goers were killed.
Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Tyrone Davis
"One of the best Soul albums of all time" - MTV
The namesake track.......
"One of the best Soul albums of all time" - MTV
The namesake track.......
Paul's first and best solo album by far in my opinion.
Playing every instrument on this gem:
Playing every instrument on this gem:
The Beatles concluding and leaving things in ridiculously capable hands of Led Zepellin, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Neil Young, etc...
Was going to post III myself. Definitely a different sound than the first two albums. And "Immigrant Song" was kind of an introduction to the band as a whole for me. My high school history teacher (who was also one of the basketball coaches, as well as a Civil War reenactor) could easily get sidetracked by music. He had a turntable and speakers set up in the classroom and we would try to get through class just having him talk about music.
When we started talking about Vikings, he put on "Immigrant Song" because of the subject matter. We didn't talk much about Vikings, but we did listen to most of the album that day.
I heard Immigrant song on that TV infomercial as a kid for their greatest hits box set. Probably 89 or 90. It's what hooked me in. I was probably 11 or 12. Before Youtube commercials like that were actually pretty awesome to hear all those songs back to back in short bursts.
I stopped short of putting that album on my list, but it's definitely in my all-time underrated LPs group. It has an informal charm, it's kind of like getting to hear Paul as he's writing & developing demos, before there's a weeding-out process or any studio sheen added ("Maybe I'm Amazed" notwithstanding).
Yeah, kind of the same for me. Once I figured out some of the other songs I liked when Dad was controlling the radio were Zeppelin songs, I ended up getting the boxed set.
Only a few short years later, Napster hit the scene and we got cable internet and a CD burner. Good times.
I'm breaking the rules here, but the only album I could think of that doesn't quite fit this category was Steppenwolf Gold, a two record set, that came out in 1971, not 1970. The reason it's meaningful to me was because my high school class, which graduated in 71, had some money left over from prom and when I got in a car accident that summer after graduation, they voted to use some of that money to buy me that album. I was still in the hospital when the class president and one of my best friends from high school gave me the album.
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Additional comment on "McCartney," earlier I mentioned "Maybe I'm Amazed," even if a listener considered a majority of the rest of the album unfinished or throwaway, it has two other definite standouts, "Junk" and "Every Night."
Thanks for story....what a great gesture by your class. Steppenwolf was on the Smothers Brothers once and did Magic Carpet Ride and Rock Me. I could listen to that all day.
I was around 12 or 13 at the time, and my family lived in Ohio, roughly 90 minutes north of Cincy. At the time, my Dad was living and working in Des Moines while we were trying to sell our house to relocate. My younger brothers had already gone to bed. Mom and I were watching ... MASH? Logan's Run? Nevertheless, I remember the show being interrupted for a special news bulletin. I think my Mom was so horrified that my "old enough for concerts" age was extended another 5 years!
