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A guy flipping thru his cd collection said of this album "I only got this for one song". I guess this was the song he was talking about. -- The album didn't live up to what I imagined hearing H & H had formed a group... but it was kind of cool seeing them on Mtv.

@oldrichflorian "...progressive rock wasn't mainstream"

Wasn't there about a 6 month period where it was?!

It wasn't till the early 80s that I realized "the trouble w/ pop music is that it never grows up." that it's mostly geared toward young people.

Pop will eat itself ...replication by consumpt...

Ahmad grew up and played football in my hometown... I'm proud to say. - He was a "Gman" years before he made it to the NFL.

As good as he is, that play will prob end up the one he's best remembered for. Ironically if he'd just stormed into the endzone or knelt down it wouldn't have been so memor...

The only guy I ever knew who sang really well talked about doing something w/ his talent... but never got beyond the home demo and karaoke stage. He was still doing carpet installation and home repairs last I heard. Never really gave it a chance. (Of course living in smalltown S.C. didn't help.) ...

I always wonder how people get hold of things like this, how it 'got out'... who secreted it out by what nefarious (?) means!

Phil is suppose to be the 'keeper of the tapes'...was there some evening he was falling down on the job or something

In the 07 boxset interviews I recall Tony says Steve had the verse and that he (Banks) added the chorus from a pre-existing idea on piano (in another key), that the melody came from the top line.. that Steve wrote the words.

I doubt they got this far in the writing and recording process w/out hav...

I GUESS it's just having heard Los Endos so many times that makes the previous song /'feeling', ending as it does, seem incomplete (seems there should be more of it, that it should go somewhere else) and makes the beginning of LE seem tacked on. In other words the 'join' at 2:57 seems far from in...

0:24 '...the same sort of trad. of orchestral pop, where you've got very lyrical music, but it's dance music as well" That's a pretty good description IMO...'VERY lyrical' seems a stretch though :)

"..what Trevor did w/ ABC for instance" Pet shop Boys and ABC, 2 of the few bands of that ilk I've ...

Sept 24, 1972 - NFL films should make historic games like this available on dvd. Not a 2 min summary but the whole game. Hopefully tape of the original NBC broadcast still exists.

--26 completions in a game, a career record for Unitas... that number was prob surpassed by a dozen QBs just during t...

@MrKayley10 I just wish someone would find a better version / master copy of Yessongs and put it out. The version I own leaves a lot to be desired, including highs fading in and out on one part, during CTTE I think it is.

Seems Yes hasn't taken care of / much cared about a lot of their own histo...

Really great quality considering the time period (as others have doubtlessly said).

Always surprises me when things like this turn up. I imagine more often than not whole vaultfuls of old performance videos have been just tossed out... luckily some are preserved.

Not surprisingly the instru.-based melodic ideas translate to piano better than the vocal ones... well the main verse-form at least (the chorus sounds ok). Seems he only does the verse melody once, and it's (to me) the weakest part... not sure if he does the 'tossed a line around the changes of t...

"You've got to have the blues to sing the blues" Jon once said in some old interview... and so he just sits all the while painting. Wonder if it's the calligraphy version of Awaken lyrics?.. that ended up on some tour program, iirc ...kind'a looked like maybe, at one point, I could make out the w...

I hated this song so much when it came out... and then the next thing I knew he and Geoff became part of my favorite group! - I grew to enjoy it over the years.

Didn't know anything about this... til I googled it.

Lovely scenery, too. Where's it from?

After the accident it must have at least crossed his mind... of maybe turning the guitar around and playing right-handed / 'normal' All in all a pretty knotty story of 'conspiring fates'... and all in all to the good no doubt.

4:38 "Kerry was living in another bandhouse with the 1st Kansas, cause me and Dave had left the 1st Kansas, and this was the band that we formed. ...A lot of people don't know that, that Kerry wasn't actually in the band, when we got the interest from Don Kershner, he wasn't in the band yet."

Int...

I always assumed, naively I guess, that for a band on the road the 'take' would be evenly split.

If there's one position in a band that's a more physically taxing job than the others... it's the drummer's. (And when it comes to 'fiscally taxing'... uhhhh... -I'm sure there's some reasonable soun...

Sign at 1:34 "You've been Tebowtized" reminds me of a few years ago in college basketball.. the phrase was "You've been Pittsnogled"... which has a better ring. ...Hell of a word, Pittsnogled.

@DeathFromAbove1985 Back in the 70s I use to own a Kimball "Swinger" 500 (or was it 5000) ... all the modern digital equipment/capacities seen as just an undated version of that little one-man-band rig... that's part of the fun of this (quite amusing) song/video!

The style kind of reminds me of '...

Sounds like a cool dude... If someone told me Don Williams' vocal style was influenced by him I'd believe it.

Wonder if Please Come to Boston would have been written if it weren't for this song, verse #__ @ 2:32 in particular? - Might seem an odd notion.. but seems there's a kind of circular interaction that happens. (These days for example popular music that charts is on a downward spiral!)

...During t...

He sounded younger then. ... (younger than seasons in the sun).

He sounds to me maybe TOO young for some of those lines... at least after I listened to the Kevin Johnson and Mac Davis versions. ...Pretty good though.

2:15 "Now I'm looking into the eyes of my baby, now I'm... of my man" What girl hasn't done this, looking into the mirror & thinking about that certain boy, swaying to a song that's playing in her mind?

Sexy body... but her best feature is always shown looking back in the mirror.

We want to look...

Most Creative Song Ever....For Me So Far - YouTube

--- Well... How did I get here?

back in the early 90s mtv use to play a bl/wh, "film noir" type video version of this song...

@skyehoyt1971 Ouch... sad story... in lots of ways. I'd hate to lose albums that I loved. -- Occasionally I've thought, what objects would I 'go' for if I woke up and the house was on fire.... my cd collection would be ONE of the first things...

@Emilybudgie I just meant with a camera!... but guess I put it that way because the video reminded me of old (American) beer commercials in which manly men would end their day back at the lodge opening up a few beers after a long day...

"voice not bad...piano...terrible" Not terrible just inconsistently good.. some of those spans and changes ain't exactly child's play.

You remind me of me when I was at home, late at night, everybody sleeping and afraid I'd wake somebody up !

Only you play and sing a lot better than I did.

I've listened to 4 or 5 covers of the song tonight and you're the only one that's done the 'walk down' notes.

I like listening to people's co...

I heard A. F's album version, (a heavier, faster version) earlier... I'm liking this a good deal more. Sounds like Neil wrote it... or just turned it into a classic.

Hopefully there's a hi-fi recording of this.

That's some hot guitar... way back in 1961. I can see how it got it's name. There prob aren't many gtrist today, at least well known ones, that could play those licks.

My sister and me had this single when I was 5 or 6.

Searching online... red Warwick label was all I could remember, which led to...

A guilty pleasure, certified, (the little comment at the end). But much better than the Captain and Tenniel version IMO. Read a while back C&T told America how they'd based their version on this one. America should've felt offended!

There's some unusual rhythms going on here... what exactly I can't pick out. This was a Dan Peek song... IIRC.

Don't know why Warner Brothers have never seen fit to remaster America's albums, the 1st 4 or 5 at least. America were quite popular in the 70s... I'm sure they'd would turn a profit ...what more could a good corporation want?!

@DomoniqueDB15 It definitely could have repeated the chorus again... if they'd done it a few years later it probably would have... or maybe Geo Martin decided it should be that way.

borderland between... us and the Ruskies? The English and the Irish? East and West Berliners? The quick and the dead? The times a-changing and the ageless unknown? - All in one?... Now halfway home.

I guess the 15:20-17;00 part is meant to evoke a period of /steak of near insanity, the way it builds up.

Damn these boys are good ...but based on this song at least I might not be getting their 2nd album, seems they've gone over to the metal side of prog-metal a bit too much for my tastes. --But...

Buy Now... Metal Blade tv... they didn't have to "rote" the sells job

From what I read this remaster IS good/good clean fun, not 'brickwalled' and distorted. - Unlike, apparently the Citadel remas.

Reminds me of my old best friend. (Seems the last time I ran into him music and Bloodrock was among the things we talked about.) ...Polishing up his 2nd hand Triumph Spitfire in the garage, listening to this album and Alice Cooper Killer. ...It looked cool, but was 4 cylinder... had no power.

@typestter 8-track quadraphonic? Never knew about that.

Or maybe it was an early version of surround sound 'ambient' kind of upgraded stereo?

@barufa Thanks for the words... rarely see Bloodrock lyrics printed out (I'm not sure ALL of them are worth it, really!)

That one line I always heard as 'He feels the breathless feeling' instead of '...the breath it's stealing'. ..your might be right though...

Always push replay on this one.

Love the line 'Where have they gone, the people of the county -how many rock songs 'think' to use the word county?- gives a sense of small communities, farming land & isolation, w/ that building at its center.

The little mid, They've taken away the dreams.. adds ja...

I think Sandburg read this (on the recorded version I heard long ago) at about "half speed", compared to yours... But either way, it seems, works.

Thanks.

@cynic1900 And they (those writers) prob get paid in shiny nickels to turn out such songs (note I DID say Good stuff!, but that I 4 1 have heard enough.). If I heard this a dozen times on radio no doubt it would make some connection, but I've heard "not bad" stuff like this up the wazoo-land, thr...

If the sound isnt' to your liking there's at least one version up now on Utube w/ pretty high fidelity

Damn, that guy can sing... pretty much my 1st thought when I flipped over to Leno and heard this.

Don't much like the verses, but luckily they disappear during 2nd half of the song.

His pants ... cool maybe, but his pants can't sing... so... it's like... whatever.... whatev-uh. I didn't notice.