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Sugarland was a trio; to bad that life it as is: cause the big gay lady wrote the tunes that made 'em famous and dropped out 'cause of the reality. Standing ovation to her.

The man is poet with a marginal voice that makes the poetry sound all the better.

No autotune here. For decades writing, performing and succeeding in his own voice.

I've often wondered whether this song was about groupie in the "scene."

The multi-talented man of his time. "Artists" these days have gobs of consultants to pull this off!

Todd Rundgren knew when his life changed enough with fame to begin producing rather than continue to song write. Good move and a great musician and human being. Love the fly-tying turkey feathers on his eyebrows. David Bowie's inspiration.

I'm liking this as I have for 40 yrs. What's missing here is the discussion that for some reason a corporate label signed this guy and released this back in the day. People bought it for the talent. No advertising, no airplay, no MTV, no VH1, no video, no reality show.

Damn, killed my like for the song.

I bought this in 1977, in Virginia, with a hole in the jacket corner indicating reject. I reject Virginia.

I think Starcastle sounded a bit too much like Yes for their own commercial good. Fantastic musicians. Remember picking up this album in 1976-77 and it got played with Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson and Nektar while getting high and playing pool in a garage in the day. The talent is outrageous, ...

Glad to know someone else found the pre-fame Foghat to be the best. They were a great club band too...

This band premiered musical talent with lyrical talent to a hip hop audience. It's catching on.

Jeff Baxter made this duo famous in LA and got paid handsomely for playing guitar and for his contacts.

There was politics to Steely Dan's sucess in LA with the east coast college songs. Ask Jeff "skunk" Baxter.

Describes the US political economy perfectly.

I think it should be a rule that if you are going to do a cover, then you ought to be able to hit the notes and the passion done in the original if you are copying it verbatim. "See Big Head Todd and the Monsters cover of Eric Clapton's "Forever Man" as an example."

Poetry of thought vs. rhyme of emotion.

is not (in ) perhaps.

When Styx did four minute songs they were best. Gets a little too effeminate later on.

Steve, Dave, Capaldi, Clapton, did well cause they are talented.

You want an original key check out Big Head Todd. But who are you to complain about this, that could easily be be the original ?

Lyrics are either written in private, with a quorum of producers, or just purchased and sung. Thank God we had a long run of the former that made it to airplay while Living in the Past..

This was before a certain band member started moving toward teen pop.

There probably were to many "best of" albums for Mason, Traffic, and Cocker too but the Dave Mason live album around 1980 was incredible and included this, though not live, go figure.

Your turn to try it. Awesome.

One of my favorites from a bygone era. At the time I heard care for a woman without many street smarts. Today I wonder whether the man just was hurt. The song, upon reflection, also says "You are a nobody without me and can't take care of yourself."