Trapeze - Coast to Coast ( L2 )

Goin' today, just passin'

The road I know, so well
Seems the more, I ride you
You give me more, you'll tell

And if I try, soon it will show
To keep me strong
And know that, I've had times, so good
From Coast to Coast
Leavin' my hard times behind
oh yeah, behind

And if I try, soon it will show
To keep me strong
And know that, I've had times, so good
From Coast to Coast
Leavin' my hard times behind
oh yeah, oh I love so

I love you so
Oh yeah

I love the Coast, I love the Coast
Oh yeah

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 10.09.1988 - Guns N' Roses ajung nr 1 in State cu Sweet Child O’Mine.

Bee Gees ( B3 )

 The story is told that they were going to lip-sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema (as other children had done on previous weeks), but as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live, but received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In May 1958 the Rattlesnakes disbanded when Frost and Horrocks left, so the Gibb brothers then formed Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats, with Barry as "Johnny Hayes".

In August 1958 the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy (born in March 1958), emigrated to Australia and settled in Redcliffe, Queensland, just north-east of Brisbane. The young brothers began performing to raise pocket money. Speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired the brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960, introduced them to Brisbane radio-presenter jockey Bill Gates. The crowd at the speedway would throw money onto the track for the boys, who generally performed during the interval of meetings (usually on the back of a truck that drove around the track) and, in a deal with Goode, any money they collected from the crowd they were allowed to keep. Gates named the group the "BGs" (later changed to "Bee Gees") after his, Goode's and Barry Gibb's initials. The name was not specifically a reference to "Brothers Gibb", despite popular belief.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1.4 )

 

Single by Blood, Sweat & Tears
from the album Blood, Sweat & Tears
B-side	"More and More"
Released	May 1969
Recorded	October 9, 1968
Genre	Jazz fusion, pop rock, psychedelic rock
Length	4:05 (Stereophonic album version) 3:26 (Quadraphonic album version) 2:39 (single edit)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	David Clayton-Thomas
Producer(s)	James William Guercio
Blood, Sweat & Tears singles chronology
"You've Made Me So Very Happy" (1969) "Spinning Wheel" (1969) "And When I Die" (1969)

"Spinning Wheel"
Single by Peggy Lee
from the album A Natural Woman
B-side	"Lean on Me"
Released	March 1969
Genre	Jazz fusion, pop rock
Label	Capitol
Songwriter(s)	David Clayton-Thomas
Producer(s)	Phil Wright
Peggy Lee singles chronology
"Big Spender" (1969) "Spinning Wheel" (1969) "Is That All There Is?" (1969)

Steppenwolf ( B9 )

 

Band members

Original lineup

• John Kay – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica (1967–1972, 1974–1976, 1980-2018)
• Michael Monarch – lead guitar, backing vocals (1967-1969)
• Rushton Moreve – bass guitar, backing vocals (1967-1968)
• Jerry Edmonton – drums, backing vocals (1967-1972, 1974-1976)
• Goldy McJohn – keyboards, backing vocals (1967-1972, 1974)

Final lineup

• John Kay – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica (1967–1972, 1974–1976, 1980-2018)
• Michael Wilk – keyboards, backing vocals (1982-2018)
• Gary Link – bass, backing vocals (1982–2018)
• Ron Hurst – drums, backing vocals (1984–2018)
• Danny Johnson – lead guitar, backing vocals, mandolin (1996–2018)

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Johnny Winter ( b11 )

 

Discography

Studio albums

• The Progressive Blues Experiment (Sonobeat 1968, re-released by UA/Imperial 1969)
• Johnny Winter (Columbia 1969)
• Second Winter (Columbia 1969)
• Johnny Winter And (Columbia 1970)
• Still Alive and Well (Columbia 1973)
• Saints & Sinners (Columbia 1974)
• John Dawson Winter III (Columbia 1974)
• Nothin' but the Blues (Blue Sky 1977)
• White, Hot and Blue (Blue Sky 1978)
• Raisin' Cain (Blue Sky 1980)
• Guitar Slinger (Alligator 1984)
• Serious Business (Alligator 1985)
• Third Degree (Alligator 1986)
• The Winter of '88 (MCA/Voyager 1988)
• Let Me In (Point Blank 1991)
• Hey, Where's Your Brother? (Point Blank 1992)
• I'm a Bluesman (Virgin 2004)
• Roots (Megaforce 2011)
• Step Back (Megaforce 2014)

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1.3 )

 

• Canadian a cappella music group, Cadence also covered this song.
• In 1970 P.P. Arnold recorded a version produced by Barry Gibb; it remained unreleased for almost five decades until the long-delayed 2017 issuing of her album "The Turning Tide".
• Maynard Ferguson released a big-band arrangement by Adrian Drover on his 1972 album "M.F. Horn Two".
• The Milli Vanilli song "All or Nothing", released as a single in 1990, has a similar melody to "Spinning Wheel", and was later the subject of a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by David Clayton-Thomas.

  In popular culture

• An instrumental rendition of this song was used as a cue on the first Wheel of Fortune pilot titled Shopper's Bazaar.
• In Germany, a part of the song was used as opening tune for the political cabaret TV show "Neues aus der Anstalt", aired 2007-13.
• Towards the end of 2016, the original studio arrangement received extensive airplay on many San Francisco Bay Area radio stations. In December 2016 it was listed at #13 on radicalwave.com's list of the 'Top 50 Annoying Songs of the 20th Century'. It also earned inclusion in a similar list compiled by The Stranger magazine in Seattle, Washington.
• The song is performed by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingsley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ("Larry's Agent"), where he creates a more Latin sound to it, hoping to perform tap-dancing along with the song.
• "Spinning Wheel" appears in the films: Indian Summer, Where the Truth Lies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Elvis & Nixon.

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 12.06.2005 - Pink Floyd anunta ca se reunesc cu Roger Waters pentru un concert. Era primul moment in care formatia canta impreuna din 1981.

Bee Gees ( B2 )

 They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; the presenter of the award to "Britain's first family of harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of the Beach Boys, another "family act" featuring three harmonising brothers. The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees." The Bee Gees are the third most successful band in Billboard charts history after the Beatles and the Supremes.

Following Maurice's sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry and Robin retired the group's name after 45 years of activity. In 2009, Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012, aged 62, after a prolonged period of failing health, leaving Barry as the only surviving member of the group.

History

1955–1966: Music origins, Bee Gees formation and popularity in Australia

Bee Gees plaque at Maitland Terrace/Strang Road intersection in Union Mills, Isle of Man

Born on the Isle of Man during the 1940s, the Gibb brothers moved to their father Hugh Gibb's hometown of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Greater Manchester, England in 1955. They formed a skiffle/rock-and-roll group, the Rattlesnakes, which consisted of Barry on guitar and vocals, Robin and Maurice on vocals and friends Paul Frost on drums and Kenny Horrocks on tea-chest bass. In December 1957 the boys began to sing in harmony. 

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1.2 )

 Cover versions and samples

• Peggy Lee's 1969 single release climbed the Easy Listening chart, with a peak at #24, even before the BST version.
• Benny Goodman's instrumental version was released on a Reader's Digest album in 1973.
• Sammy Davis Jr. included the song on his 1970 album Something for Everyone
• Shirley Bassey included the song on her 1970 album Something.
• Nancy Wilson covered the song in the Hawaii Five-O episode "Trouble in Mind," which originally aired September 23, 1970.
• In 1970 Marianne Mendt released a version of the tune in Austria as "A g'scheckert's Hutschpferd"
• Barbara Eden performed a live version on U.S. television in 1970.
• Jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded an extended instrumental version for his 1970 Blue Note album Drives.
• American organist Lenny Dee covered Spinning Wheel on an album by the same name in 1970.
• James Brown scored a minor hit in 1971 with an instrumental version of the song, reaching #90 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also performed it at his shows as early as 1969.

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Steppenwolf ( B8 )

 Fister (ex-Iron Butterfly) came back in late 1993, but turned guitar duties over to Danny Johnson (formerly of Derringer, Rod Stewart, and others) in 1996.

As the band was named after the novel Der Steppenwolf by German author Hermann Hesse, who was born in the Black Forest town of Calw, the city invited them to come over and play in the International Hermann-Hesse-Festival 2002, along with other bands inspired by Hesse, such as Anyone's Daughter. The concert drew considerable media coverage, with Kay's fluent German stunning those who did not know beforehand about his growing up in Germany – in fact, he was born Joachim Fritz Krauledat in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia).

The band performed what they then labeled their "Farewell Concert" on October 6, 2007, at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Maryland, featuring Kay, keyboardist and programmer Michael Wilk, drummer Ron Hurst and guitarist Danny Johnson. However, the band, rejoined by bassist Gary Link, began touring again in June 2009.

Steppenwolf were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, but were not inducted.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Steppenwolf among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal Studios fire.

On November 22, 2019, John Kay announced that the band's October 14, 2018 show was their last.

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Johnny Winter ( b10 )

 In 2008, the Gibson Custom Shop issued a signature Johnny Winter Firebird V in a ceremony in Nashville with Slash presenting.

In 1984, luthier Mark Erlewine approached Winter with his Lazer electric guitar. With its unusual design (for the time) without a headstock and having a small body, Winter responded immediately: "the first day I plugged it in, it sounded so good that I wanted to use it for a gig that night." He commented:

[The Lazer is] the closest thing I've found to sounding like a Strat and feeling like a Gibson ... Lazer is a bit easier to play than the Firebird. The action is high, but the strings pull easier ... But I still use the Firebird on slide songs; the slide still sounds better on the Firebird

Other guitars that Winter owned and played include a Gibson ES-125 (his first electric guitar), a Fender Stratocaster, a Gibson Les Paul/SG Custom, a Fender Mustang, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups, a Gibson Flying V, an Epiphone Wilshire, a Gibson Black Beauty, a Fender Electric XII (with only the regular six strings), and an acoustic National Resonator.

Winter played with a thumb pick and his fingers. His picking style was inspired by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis and he never used a flat pick. Winter preferred a plastic thumb pick sold by Gibson and a steel pinky slide, later marketed by Dunlop.

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Def Leppard - Hello America ( L2 )

Hello America, hello America

Hello America, hello America

Well I'm takin' me a trip I'm going down to California
Yeah, I'm gonna try Hollywood and San Pedro Bay
I'll tell ya what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna give my love to you
I'm gonna take you where the lights are bright
I'm gonna give you my love tonight

Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

I'm gonna get me a greyhound bus down the motorway
I'm gonna spend a little time in Frisco and L.A.
But when it gets to twelve o'clock
And you feel that you gotta rock
You'd better let your hair hang down
So we can boogie all over town

Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

Takin' me a trip I'm going down to California
Yeah, I'm gonna try Hollywood and San Pedro Bay
I'll tell ya what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna give my love to you
So won't ya take me where the lights are bright
Won't you give me your love tonight

Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings ( D2 )

 

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Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1.1 )

 According to producer James William Guercio this section was inserted at the last minute after the end of the master tape was recorded over accidentally by an engineer at the studio. Most of this section and Lew Soloff's trumpet solo were edited out for the single version. The eight-bar piano solo which precedes the trumpet solo on the album version is overlapped with guitar on the single version before the last verse. Alan Rubin sat in on trumpet for Chuck Winfield, who wasn't able to attend the song's recording session.

Chart history

Weekly charts Chart (1969) Peak position Australia (Go-Set) 5 Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 1 Canada RPM Top Singles 1 New Zealand (Listener) 6 South Africa (Springbok) 13 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2 U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1 U.S. Billboard R&B 45 U.S. Cash Box Top 100 3

Year-end charts Chart (1969) Rank Canada  10 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 27 U.S. Cash Box  40 continuare

Bee Gees ( B1 )

 The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.

Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the skiffle/rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes. The family then moved to Redcliffe, in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with "Spicks and Specks" (their 12th single), they returned to the UK in January 1967, when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience. The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1977) was the turning point of their career, with both the film and soundtrack having a cultural impact throughout the world, enhancing the disco scene's mainstream appeal. They won five Grammy Awards for Saturday Night Fever, including Album of the Year.

The Bee Gees have sold over 120 million records worldwide (with estimates as high as over 220 million), making them among the best-selling music artists of all time.

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Canned Heat ( B21 )

 

Discography

Canned Heat (1967) Boogie with Canned Heat (1968) Living the Blues (1968) Hallelujah (1969) Future Blues (1970) Vintage (1970) Historical Figures and Ancient Heads (1971) The New Age (1973) One More River to Cross (1973) Human Condition (1978) Kings of the Boogie (Dog House Blues) (1981) Reheated (1988) Internal Combustion (1994) Canned Heat Blues Band (1996) Boogie 2000 (1999) Friends in the Can (2003) Christmas Album (2007) Canned Heat Performing on September 7, 1979, at the Woodstock Reunion 1979, Parr Meadows, Ridge, New York Background information Origin Los Angeles, California, U.S. Genres Blues blues rock boogie rock Years active 1965–present Labels Liberty Ruf United Artists Rhino Associated acts John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers John Lee Hooker Website cannedheatmusic.com Members Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra Dale Spalding John Paulus Rick Reed

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel ( S1 )

 

"Spinning Wheel" is a song from 1968 by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, written by Canadian lead vocalist David Clayton-Thomas and appearing on their eponymous album.

Released as a single in 1969, "Spinning Wheel" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July of that year, remaining in the runner-up position for three weeks. "Spinning Wheel" was kept out of the #1 position by both "The Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini and "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. In August of that year, the song topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart for two weeks. It was also a crossover hit, reaching #45 on the US R&B chart.

"Spinning Wheel" was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 1970 ceremony, winning in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement. The arranger for the song was the band's saxophonist, Fred Lipsius. It was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year; the album won the Grammy for Album of the Year.

Clayton-Thomas was quoted as describing the song as being "written in an age when psychedelic imagery was all over lyrics ... it was my way of saying, 'Don't get too caught up, because everything comes full circle'."

The song ends with the 1815 Austrian tune "O Du Lieber Augustin" ("The More We Get Together" or "Did You Ever See a Lassie?") and drummer Bobby Colomby's comment: "That wasn't too good", followed by laughter from the rest of the group.

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Johnny Winter ( b9 )

 

Recognition and legacy

Winter produced three Grammy Award-winning albums by Muddy Waters – Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1979). Several of Winter's own albums were nominated for Grammy Awards – Guitar Slinger (1984) and Serious Business (1985) for Best Traditional Blues Album, and Let Me In (1991) and I'm a Bluesman (2004) for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2015 Winter posthumously won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for Step Back. The album also won the 2015 Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album. At the 18th Maple Blues Awards in 2015, Winter was also posthumously awarded the B.B. King International Artist of The Year Award.

In 1980, Winter was on the cover of the first issue of Guitar World. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the first non-African-American performer to be inducted into the Hall.

Multiple guitarists have cited Winter as an influence, including Joe Perry, Frank Marino, Michael Schenker, Adrian Smith, and Alex Skolnick.

Guitars and picking style

Winter played a variety of guitars during his career, but he is probably best known for his use of Gibson Firebirds. He owned several, but favored a 1963 Firebird V model. Winter explained:

I still have all six of them ... but that first one [1963] I ever bought is my favorite because I've played it so long and I've gotten used to it. They all sound different, but that one sounds the best. The neck is nice and thin ... there's nothing it can't do. It's a great guitar.

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Jon Anderson - Sound Out The Galleon ( l1 )

Sound out the galleon to travel to cross

Close the space between pastures
As rightly attained
As old stands to plunder
Expectant as one dear companion can utter
The right we achieve

Climb summer mornings and tell me of days past
Did we all to sing of the praises of love
And is one hand raised high in the dark

Total relating appointed close factors
Of what we regard as the answer lies there
And is one hand raised high in the dark

There stands Olias to outward to build a ship
Holding within all we hope to retain
The frame will be so built to challenge the universe
Clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain

Mastered volcano erupt with the pleasure
And sing to the power, we will sail to the East
And all hands shall rise to the call

Do ga riytan sha too raytan

Gan matta sha pa
Mutto matto mutto

Radan atto raddan atto
Stou to mutto sha go teka
Sha go teka
D E I

Sighting our vision Ranyart will precision us
From all our points to our destined recall
And shall all but rejoice to it all

There stands Qoquaq and shall point to the four corners
Reaching out faster shall overtake you
To bring you to safety to travel away
From this moment that's rightly attained as your view

So sound out the galleon to travel to cross
Close the space between pastures
As rightly attained
As old stands to plunder
Expectant as one dear companion can offer
The right we achieve

Bob Seger ( i1 )

 

Steppenwolf ( B7 )

 This would give the Pesnell-produced album a double release of singles to support a concert tour featuring the two bands. Though both bands liked the concept of the album and tour, the arguments included who would be side A and side B and which of the two would headline the upcoming concert tour.

The reformed John Kay and Steppenwolf line-up featured John Kay, Michael Palmer (guitars, backing vocals), Steve Palmer (drums, backing vocals), Danny Ironstone (keyboards, backing vocals), and Kurtis Teel on bass. The Palmer brothers had played in a group called Tall Water and had also been involved with Kay in his solo career playing live gigs in the late 1970s. Teel was replaced by Chad Peery and Ironstone by Brett Tuggle by 1981, and the new grouping released Live in London overseas. Tuggle was then displaced by Michael Wilk and a new studio album, Wolftracks, was released in 1982 on the small Attic (Nautilus in the U.S.) record label. Wolftracks was one of the earliest digitally recorded albums in the industry. It was recorded live on a two-track Sony digital recording system. Bassist Welton Gite, who appeared on this album, left shortly after its completion and was replaced by Gary Link, formerly with Dokken. Another album, Paradox, followed in 1984.

In December 1984 the band as it was disbanded and Kay and Wilk decided to continue on in early 1985 with a pared-down quartet composed of Kay, Wilk, Wilk's friend Ron Hurst (drums, backing vocals), and Rocket Ritchotte (guitars, backing vocals).Wilk also handled bass duties from his sequencing computer keyboards from then on. This line-up released Rock N' Roll Rebels (1987) and Rise & Shine (1990); these were on the Qwil and I.R.S. Records imprints, respectively. Ritchotte had departed temporarily in 1989 to be replaced by Les Dudek and then Steve Fister, but then returned in 1990 for three more years. 

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Canned Heat ( B20 )

 

• Henry Vestine — A recording project from 1981 has been released more than twenty years later under Vestine's name as I Used To Be Mad (but Now I am Half Crazy). The musicians on the album are the Canned Heat members at that time: Vestine (guitar), Mike Halby (vocals, guitar), Ernie Rodrigues (vocals, bass), Ricky Kellogg (vocals, harmonica) and de La Parra (drums).
• De la Parra and Walter de Paduwa, a.k.a. Dr. Boogie, have compiled an album of blues selected from Bob Hite's collection Rarities from the Bob Hite Vault, Sub Rosa SRV 271. Included are tracks by a dozen artists such as Pete Johnson, Johnny Otis, Clarence Brown, Otis Rush, Etta James and Elmore James.
• Naftalina — In 1983, Adolfo de la Parra, along with some old friends and fellow Mexican rock groups he played with in the 1960s, such as Los Sparks, Los Hooligans and Los Sinners, played the first album of Naftalina, covers of rock n roll 1950s — 1960s, with versions full of black humor and sarcasm involved: Tony de la Barreda (bass and production), Federico Arana (guitar and lyrics), Eduardo Toral (piano), Baltasar Mena (vocals), Renato López (vocals), Angel Miranda (drums), Freddy Armstrong (guitar), Guillermo Briseno (piano) and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

Personnel

Current members

• Adolfo de la Parra — drums, vocals (1967–present)
• John Paulus — guitar (2000–2006, 2013, 2014–present)
• Dale Wesley Spalding — guitar, harmonica, bass, vocals (2008–present)
• Rick Reed — bass (2019–present)

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Emmylou Harris - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight ( l1 )

Close your eyes, close the door,
You don't have to worry any more.
I'll be your baby tonight.

Shut the light, shut the shade,
You don't have to be afraid.
I'll be your baby tonight.

Well, that mockingbird's gonna sail away,
We're gonna forget it.
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon,
But we're gonna let it,
You won't regret it.

Kick your shoes off, do not fear,
Bring that bottle over here.
I'll be your baby tonight.

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Johnny Winter ( b8 )

 Winter continued to perform live, including at festivals throughout North America and Europe. He headlined such prestigious events as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, the 2009 Sweden Rock Festival, the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, and Rockpalast. He also performed with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theater in New York City on the 40th anniversary of their debut. In 2007 and 2010, Winter performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festivals. Two guitar instructional DVDs were produced by Cherry Lane Music and the Hal Leonard Corporation. The Gibson Guitar Company released the signature Johnny Winter Firebird guitar in a ceremony in Nashville with Slash presenting.

Death

Winter was professionally active until the time of his death near Zürich, Switzerland, on July 16, 2014. He was found dead in his hotel room two days after his last performance, at the Cahors Blues Festival in France. The cause of Winter's death was not officially released. According to his guitarist friend and record producer Paul Nelson, Winter died of emphysema combined with pneumonia.

Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, after Winter's death, David Marchese said, "Winter was one of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos, releasing a string of popular and fiery albums in the late Sixties and early Seventies, becoming an arena-level concert draw in the process" ... [he] "made an iconic life for himself by playing the blues".

Material loss

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Johnny Winter among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

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Roger Daltrey ( i1 )

 

Roger Daltrey - Thinking ( s1 )

 

"Thinking" is a song by Roger Daltrey that was written by David Courtney and Leo Sayer. The song was originally released on Daltrey's début solo album, Daltrey and released as a single in 1973.

The non-album B-side "There is Love" features Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin on guitar. the song was left out because "It didn't fit in with the final context of the album." explained Daltrey "so we had to leave it out". The song is included on the Sanctuary remaster.

Single by Roger Daltrey
from the album Daltrey
Released	April 1973
Recorded	January–February 1973, at Barn Studios, Apple Studios, and Nova Sound Studios
Genre	Rock, Soft Rock
Length	4:27
Label	MCA (US), Track (UK)
Songwriter(s)	David Courtney and Leo Sayer
Producer(s)	David Courtney, Adam Faith

Steppenwolf ( B6 )

 

"New Steppenwolf" revival act (1976–1980)

After Kay disbanded Steppenwolf, former members Goldy McJohn and Nick St. Nicholas formed a "revival act" called "New Steppenwolf". McJohn did not last long, but St. Nicholas continued with the venture for several years. Various incarnations included, according to author Dave Thompson, a "revolving door of musicians" consisting of "jobbing players". Among those players were vocalist Tom Holland and drummer Steve Riley of future W.A.S.P. and L.A. Guns fame. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll described these bands as "unprofessional, bogus versions" of Steppenwolf. Although Kay and Edmonton had originally licensed the use of the "New Steppenwolf" name, they later sued for breach of the contract. St. Nicholas agreed in 1980 to cease use of the name, but legal disputes about promotional use of the Steppenwolf name continued until 2000.

John Kay and Steppenwolf (1980–2018)

Kay and Steppenwolf performing in Lillehammer, Norway, May 26, 2007

Kay had a few meetings with David Pesnell about management, concert promotions, and producing a new album for the band. Pesnell wanted to produce an album featuring new songs on side A, by the reformed band Three Dog Night and with side B of the album featuring songs by Steppenwolf. The album's working name was "Back to Back", a play on each band having a side of the album and the fact the bands were back together again. Pesnell's concept was simple: each band should record four new songs, with a fifth song on each side featuring a medley of the band's past songs.

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Canned Heat ( B19 )

 

• Sunnyland Slim — In the spring of 1968, Wilson, Bob Hite, and de la Parra took a cab whose driver turned out to be Sunnyland Slim. Wilson and Hite convinced him to go in the studio again and cut an album for a sublabel of Liberty Records. The album, Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On featured tracks with Slim fronting Canned Heat and Hite acted as co-producer. Slim thanked them by playing the piano on "Turpentine Moan" for the album Boogie with Canned Heat.
• Memphis Slim — In Paris, on September 18, 1970, Canned Heat went into the studio at the request of French music producer Phillipe Rault to record with Memphis Slim. Three years later and after an overdubbing session with the Memphis Horns of Stax Records fame, Memphis Heat was finally released on the French label, Barclay (and was re-released in 2006 on Sunnyside Recordings).
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown — In 1973, Canned Heat went again to France to record for Rault, this time with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. The sessions did not work out as planned, but the album was released as Gate's on the Heat and another track appeared in 1975 on his album Down South in the Bayou Country. Later they joined him for a set at the Montreux Jazz Festival. A DVD of the performance was released.
• Javier Batiz — During the summer of 1969, de La Parra arranged in Los Angeles a recording session for Mexican R&B star Javier Batiz, with whom he had played before moving north and joining Canned Heat. His bandmate Larry Taylor took part in the project and also three musicians who in later years would perform with the band, two as members — Tony de la Barreda (bass), Ernest Lane (piano) and Clifford Solomon (saxophone). The recording was released some 30 years later as The USA Sessions.
• Albert Collins — In early 1969, Canned Heat met Collins after a gig and advised him to move to Los Angeles in order to boost his career; there they found him an agent and introduced him to executives for United Artists (UA). In appreciation, Collins' first record title for UA became Love Can Be Found Anywhere, taken from the lyrics of "Fried Hockey Boogie".

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Queen - Great King Rat ( L3 )

Great King Rat died today
Born on the twenty first of May
Died syphillis forty four on his birthday
Every second word he swore
Yes he was the son of a whore
Always wanted by the law

Wouldn't you like to know?
Wouldn't you like to know people?
Great King Rat was a dirty old man
And a dirty old man was he
Now what did I tell you
Would you like to see?

Where will I be tomorrow?
Will I beg or will I borrow?
I don't care I don't care anyway
Come on come on the time is right
The man is evil and that is right
I told you ah yes I told you
And that's no lie oh no no no

Wouldn't you like to know?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Great King Rat was a dirty old man
And a dirty old man was he
Now what did I tell you?
Would you like to see?

Show me

Wouldn't you like to know?
Wouldn't you like to know people?
Great King Rat was a dirty old man
And a dirty old man was he
Now what did I tell you?
Would you like to see?

Now listen all you people
Put out the good and keep the bad
Don't believe all you read in the Bible
You sinners get in line
Saints you leave far behind
Very soon you're gonna be his disciple
Don't listen to what mama says
Not a word not a word mama says
Or else you'll find yourself being the rival
The great Lord before He died
Knelt sinners by his side
And said you're gonna realize tomorrow

No I'm not gonna tell you
What you already know
'Cause time and time again
The old man said it all a long time ago
Come come on the time is right
This evil man will fight
I told you once before

Wouldn't you like to know?
Wouldn't you like to know?
Just like I said before
Great King Rat was a dirty old man
And a dirty old man was he
The last time I tell you?
Would you like to see?