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Sorry, gang, Commander Cody's 1972 version blows all previous tries off the road. . .

@EasyAce oops - meant to say (1966-71)

@lrh1966 There's a video showing him with the Tarriers, some movie clip I think, and they lip-synch to their record in that clip, and it looks like he did indeed sing the lead...

I wasn't at Woodstock but I've seen clips of Mountain playing at the festival. I WAS at the Fillmore for the stand during which "Dream Sequence" was recorded, but this wasn't the version they played during the show I attended. They were good the night I was there, though . . .

@jonnyandquinn Have a surprise for you---this song was written by a nice Jewish boy who was cartooning for Playboy at the time: Shel Silverstein.

@PackedFunk "GFRxR brought the 3 man power band to the masses . . . " Uh, no, they didn't. Not quite. They came in the wake of those who did bring the power trio to the masses: Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Reference Don Brewer himself at 7:15 . . .

@Sargebri They actually got on the bill not so much because of Felix Pappalardi's reputation but because they shared management with Jimi Hendrix at the time, and according to Leslie West the management told the Woodstock organisers that if they wanted Hendrix at the festival they had to take Mou...

This commercial absolutely ruined "American Gothic" for me. To this day I can't see that painting without hearing this whacknut commercial singing in my brain . . .

@bonejure . . . "but to me the Les Paul sound wasn't gravelly enough and too perfect to do justice to do justice to this great F.King song." I hate to break it to you but the two best versions of this great F. King song---King's original and Peter Green's version with the Blues Breakers---were pl...

@clockman47 I like Sandy Nelson, but the best drummer that ever was or will be? Elvin Jones, Ginger Baker, Benny Benjamin, Keith Moon, and quite a few others would give you quite an argument there . . .

@nwkinney Not to mention tacking "Song" onto a title that doesn't have it in the title. It is not "The Unicorn Song" . . . it is "The Unicorn" . . .

@AllBobsAllTheTime I don't think so, not by the lyric of the song I paraphrased . . . ;)

Considering Mitch Miller's a) attitude toward rock and roll when he was the autocratic A&R boss of Columbia at the time, and b) equal taste for novelties or for mismatching singers to songs, c) somebody higher must have told him to make himself VERY scarce when they cut this record. Close your ey...

@ComicPenius The trouble was that Bush conveniently forgot WHY a Democratic majority took the House in 2006---because the Republican majority in both houses spent like . . . teenagers with credit cards. (Not fair to trot out the old "spending like drunken sailors" analogy, alas, because at least ...

@SuperDoobrie That would be Roger Hawkins, a titan of Southern soul drumming . . .

Uh, this wasn't Betty White's first sitcom---she did "Life With Elizabeth" earlier in the 1950s, though it's true that that comedy was divided into three vignettes . . .

@robkelley420 Uh, maybe someone came hoping to see and hear the performance and were disappointed by the horrible sound quality? And this is from when the Grateful Dead actually mattered . . . (sorry, Deadheads, but the soul of that band died with Pigpen . . . )

@LevaRapero The Beatles' final official concert was at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, in August 1966 if I remember right . . .

@coffeeshop420 John Fogerty himself has said he wrote the song about the tensions in the band and his brother's looming departure from the group. (He'd already said more than a lot of people could possibly have said about Vietnam in "Fortunate Son" and "Who'll Stop the Rain" . . . )

@trppey66 That's actually a General Electric tank model from the late 1940s. I recognise the four short runners and the big removable front cap. You can see on elsewhere on YouTube, GE showed that machine as the old pain in the ass you could replace with their first "swivel-top" canister model . . .

@Lady5Millz You've put me in mind of an ancient Lenny Bruce gag: "I can't understand why so many guys get on their mother-in-laws. My mother-in-law DID break up my marriage, though---my wife came home and found me in bed with her."

@Brdj010 You have to remember that a lot of conservatives were mad at Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs thing, too. ("Lost his nerve" was one conservative remark I can remember being made about it . . . )

They said Miss Brooks was Lucy with brains. That was the understatement of the decade. You can have Lucy. I'll take Eve Arden as Our Miss Brooks.

It looks like a complete, frame-up restoration, including the beaters. (This machine was made in 1932!) This was a three- or four-speed machine, and yes, even on the low speed those little beaters whipped fast.

@gfm8959 *chuckle* My grandmother had an earlier Mixmaster. Somehow, she broke the pin that kept the handle in the upright position, so she used it with the handle down, then just jerked up and down to pull the beaters out. Other than that, this lady seems not to be aware that the bowl would have...

@Rogerm3856 I'd suggest that Buffalo Springfield's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996) settles the issue about taking note of a band who were probably their own worst enemies in their lifetime. They earned their legend (anyone who saw the full lineup in live performance could tel...

@clayopalstar I remember reading an article about the Allman Brothers Band at the time their second album came out, and it led off with an observation about the Dominos, then quoted Duane Allman: "I played three gigs with them in Florida . . . but I got my own fish to fry." The latter an allusion...

Nice to remember when Rod Stewart was a blues singer and one of the best in England. I like Joe Bonamassa, by the way, but he isn't in Jeff Beck's league . . .

Ah, Axl Rose---a c(r)ass act, as usual.

On the other hand, how come nobody mourns half as much that Izzy Stradlin took his hike? He was probably the best songwriter in that band. There's a case to make that the real soul of Guns 'n' Roses left the band when he did and, from there, it was just a ...

I can still remember seeing Foghat open for Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a couple of years before this live set appeared, and blowing BTO off the stage. BTO couldn't play a single riff without the crowd chanting "We want Foghat! We want Foghat!"

@EasyAce He played the role for about eighteen years, in fact. His other radio credits included Portia Faces Life, Columbia Presents Corwin, The Inner Sanctum, Our Gal Sunday, and This is Your FBI. He died right after playing a television role---on Little House on the Prairie, he had the recurrin...

My first flight ever was aboard a Lockheed Electra (Eastern Air Lines, 1964) with my father. Beautiful flight and the engines winding up on the tarmac were a concerto to remember. This is a beautiful tribute to an unforgettable airplane.

Refreshing version of this classic. Far more refreshing than hearing how many bar bands recycling the same Butterfield arrangement over and over and over again and not even daring to alter a single element in it.

@gcybercarl That must be the first left handed compliment in history that has five thumbs! (Which is kind of how the Shaggs' guitars sound . . .) ;)