Timothy B. Schmit replaced Randy Meisner in both of those bands. Poco and Eagles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
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Timothy B. Schmit replaced Randy Meisner in both of those bands. Poco and Eagles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
The B in Timothy B. Schmit’s name stands for Bruce.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
I thought it stood for Plan B. Randy Meisner seemed to be Plan A. :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
For those who have enjoyed Eagles music over the years but have never really delved into the music of Poco, you really should. Poco was the forerunner of Eagles. Without Poco, probably no Eagles. If you like those rich harmonies of Eagles' sound , you would enjoy , and recognize those same harmonies in Poco. Those two bands and their sound are forever intertwined. Eagles got all the glory but Poco provided the blueprint.
Frey, when describing "Peaceful Easy Feeling" as his favorite Eagles' song said the following: “It reminded me so much of Poco. Back then, Poco was the band that impressed me most. Their vocals were pristine and perfect. They were the band I wanted to model us after. I still love that song."
Here's an example of those pristine and perfect vocals and exquisite harmonies. Timothy B. Schmit on lead vocals, backed by Paul Cotton, Rusty Young, and George Grantham . Poco was really, really good. One of the most underrated bands ever.
https://youtu.be/iU-koApbClU?list=RDiU-koApbClU
My favorite Eagle was Randy Meisner, who was a founding member of both Poco and Eagles. Randy reunited with the original Poco lineup in 1989 for their album Legacy and a subsequent tour, lasting until approximately 1991. This reunion included original members Richie Furay, Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham, and Meisner, marking their first collaboration together since 1969.
174 . The '89 reunion of the original POCO lineup produced two top 40 singles - "Call it Love," which peaked at # 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and this song, which peaked at #39. Speaking of the song below, do you know who wrote, produced, and provided backing vocals on this track, which was the very last top 40 hit for the band.
Hint: He was a bigtime presence on the charts in the mid and late '80's, and had a great head of hair.
Meisner on lead vocals:
https://youtu.be/4S7tUcJZSYM?list=RD4S7tUcJZSYM
RIP Rusty Young(2021)
RIP Paul Cotton (2021)
RIP Randy Meisner ( 2023)
Peace TrainQuote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Crazy Train
Love Train
Downtown Train
The O'Jays = my favorite "Train."
https://youtu.be/_BlkTSKqE_8?list=RD_BlkTSKqE_8
Poco's 'Nothing to Hide' was a song written by one of the Marx Brothers. We all know Zeppo, Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Gummo, but this was the youngest of the Marx clan - Rico Marx.
My favorite Poco song was this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4B09BWNGY&list=RDdJ4B09BWNGY&start_radio =1
For a long time, I would get Poco and Pure Prairie League mixed up (depending on my alcohol content at the time). PPL is a Cincinnati-area band (Actually Waverly. but who's quibbling?).
https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervie...mw&FORM=VAMGZC <---Amie by PPL.
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Originally Posted by texasdave
You are one funny guy, tdave. You keep me in stitches. :laugh:
PUTP was POCO's debut album. Meisner played on the album but left the band just before its release in '69.
Richie Furay of Poco was from Yellow Springs. Poco played a show there in the spring of 1971 on the Antioch golf course. I was supposed to go but got too drunk the night before and was massively hungover.
1971 is when I made by first trip to Cincinnati(first Reds game). I was only 8 at the time, so I was too young to care about POCO and not old enough to be drunk yet. lol About seven years later, though, I would have loved to have seen POCO. Liked 'em a lot in the late 70's/ early '80s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
https://youtu.be/YKS7ThJuVUk?list=RDYKS7ThJuVUk
174 The band, POCO , formed in 1968 from the ashes of Buffalo Springfield, and originally had a different name. The band debuted at the Troubadour in '68 under the original band name.
But the band was threatened with a lawsuit from cartoonist Walt Kelly regarding intellectual property infringement(the name of one of his cartoon characters). To avoid a lawsuit, Furay and Messina changed the name slightly to POCO, which is Spanish for "little" or "small." The name change was seen as a nod to musical terminology(meaning small or gradual change). Btw, before they settled on POCO, the band briefly performed under the name "R.F.D." (Rural Free Delivery) .
What was the original name of POCO ?
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
POCO was originally known as POGO, but they were forced to change the name to avoid a lawsuit threatened by Walt Kelly, creator of comic strip characters, including an oppossum named POGO..
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175. Can you name the TOP 40 song which mentions the name of the following city in the lyrics of the song?
a. Winslow(AZ) - #12 Billboard Hot 100 / 1972
b. Gatlinburg(TN) - #24 Billboard Hot 100 ; #1 Country ; #1 AC / 1981
c. Mackinaw City(MI) - #27 Billboard Hot 100 / 1983
I am sure of the first two:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Take It Easy - Eagles
Smoky Mountain Rain - Ronnie Milsap
I will go with Bob Seger’s Roll Me Away for number three.
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Originally Posted by Revering4Blue
100% . Nice!!!
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
a.
Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in winslow, arizona
With such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed ford
Slowin' down to take a look at me
https://youtu.be/5igDtWadYms?list=RD5igDtWadYms
b.
I waved a diesel down outside a cafe'
He said that he was goin' as far as Gatlinburg
I climbed up in the cab all wet and cold and lonely
I wiped my eyes and told him about her
https://youtu.be/wC6bo3XJnVQ?list=RDwC6bo3XJnVQ
c.
Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City
Stopped in a bar to have a brew
Met a girl and we had a few drinks
And I told her what I'd decided to do
https://youtu.be/O4agsmOFga8?list=RDO4agsmOFga8
Jackson Browne wrote 'Take It Easy'.
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Why Jackson Browne Gifted The Eagles’ a Smash Hit
In a 2003 interview with Uncool, Don Henley and Glenn Frey divulged why and how Browne gave up the song. In short, Jackson Browne simply suffered from a massive case of writer’s block. Though, when Henley and Frey came into the picture, the ideas started sprouting like wildflowers. Henley recalled in his interview, “Jackson had shelved ‘Take It Easy’ because he couldn’t complete it, but it was Glenn who remembered the song from some time earlier and asked Jackson about it one day.” Frey continued, “I told him that I really liked it” and “He started playing it for me and said, ‘Yeah, but I don’t know — I’m stuck.’ So he played the second unfinished verse and I said, ‘It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowin’ down to take a look at me.’” “That was my contribution to ‘Take It Easy,’ really, just finishing the second verse. Jackson was so thrilled. He said, ‘OK! We co-wrote this,’” concluded Glenn Frey. Thanks to Browne’s selflessness as well as Frey and Henley’s willingness, the Eagles scored one of the biggest hits of their career. Following its 1972 release, “Take It Easy” peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for 11 weeks.
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Originally Posted by texasdave
I considered that as a trivia question but I knew you would have that one quicker than a Winslow minute. LOL
176. Folklore has it that this band's name came about because of very hot Hemi-powered '67 Plymouth GTX that cruised and raced around Detroit back in the day when Gratiot and Woodward Avenues were dominated by street racers. Word is, to this day that grey GTX has never been beaten . I mean , what else would a bunch of Motor City rockers who worked in an auto assembly plant name their band after...right?
Truth is, the name came about as a result of the guys in the band arguing over band names and simply not being able to come a decision on a name. Finally, the band's manager got tired of the arguing and indecisiveness over not being able to arrive at a name so he made one up. When it came time for the guys to be paid, there it was written on their paychecks- the name he had come up with for the band. It stuck. Boy, did it ever!!!
What's the band name?
I have a picture of my family and myself standing on a corner next to a sign that reads Winslow, Arizona. Just like a million other people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
176 -An interesting site for those who revel in such minutiae: https://www.classicbands.com/names.htmlQuote:
BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BAND - ClassicBands.com
When Bob Seger appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman on December 15th, 2014, he told the host, "We were all arguing about what our band name should be, and I was kind of letting the band pick it themselves, and they just kept arguing and arguing". Finally, our manager sent us our paychecks with 'Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band' on it. He got tired of waiting for us so he made it up himself."
Beat me to it re: Seger.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
Back by unpopular demand, here’s the last of three songs released in three consecutive years in the ‘90s featuring the prime number 29 in the title. It’s “29 Palms” released in 1993 from the album Fate of Nations by a man you might have heard of: Robert Plant. Twentynine Palms is also the name of a small town in California’s Mojave Desert, which makes sense when you hear this lyric:Quote:
Originally Posted by RichRed
Plant has been coy about the rumors that the song was written about Alannah Myles, his one-time backup singer known for her hit song “Black Velvet”, with whom he may or may not have had an affair. It’s hard not to put two (the only even prime number!) and two together when you hear:Quote:
29 Palms
I feel the heat of your desert heart
Leading me back down the road that leads back to you
Regardless of who it’s about, I’ve always really liked this song. May you continue to rock on, Mr. Plant.Quote:
A fool in love
A crazy situation
Her velvet glove
Knocks me down and down and down and down
https://youtu.be/wD5qPWHIDPo?si=GYPA4q_Ow1hPez50
Let me ask you music lovers a question. What artist have you come to appreciate more as time has gone on and you've gotten older. Let me give you my example. When I was in high school I wasn 't a big Bob Seger fan. Didn't hate him at all but didn't buy his records or attend his concerts. But man, now that I'm working on my seventh decade of life, Seger's music speaks to me more and more. He's the artist that I have changed my tune on the most since I was kid. As the years slip on by, Seger starts speaking to you more and more. You older guys understand what I mean, I'm sure.
Neil Young is that guy for me. In his early era solo and with CSN&Y, I thought he was just a whiny voiced guy and I didn’t get him at all. I had friends that loved him and I’d make fun of them. I didn’t give him a second thought for some years. But then a few years later, I bought the album Zuma on a whim and somehow it spoke to me. I about wore that album out. And with a lots of artists I didn’t “get” at first, I went back in time in their catalog and start buying up past albums. And it was Young’s ditch trilogy that hooked me (Time Fades Away, On the Beach, and Tonight's the Night). Here was a new Young, rough music that expressed hope and despair in raw and sometimes ugly terms. I was in my mid-late 20’s and was learning the hard way how to make my way in the world. Alcohol, drugs, sex, broken relationships, mistakes galore, I was running the full gamut. And Young was singing about it all and I related. His following albums like American Stars n Bars, Comes a Time, and culminating in Rust Never Sleeps made Young a regular on my turntable. I’d come home from bars drunk as **** or back from a bad date and just crank up Like a Hurricane or Hey Hey My My Into the Black at just below cracking my JBL speakers volume level. I’ll never know why my neighbors didn’t complain because it was LOUD and 2 am. Like the ELO song said “blue days, black nights”. But I found my way out and Young was the soundtrack.
Golly. I was searching for something and stumbled across the Be the last person to post on this thread. Took a trip down memory lane and read it for a while. A blast from the past. Not many threadies post on RZ any more.
I wouldn't listen to AC/DC as a youngster. Now, I crank me up some AC/DC on the radio and have a blast. If you had told me when I was 17 that more than four decades later I'd be rockin' out to Bob Seger and AC/DC, I would have said you've lost your marbles. Dan Fogelberg and Elton, yes, but not AC/DC. Amazing how passage of time changes your perspective.
Funny how the night moves... especially with autumn closing in.
177. I was eight years old when this song was climbing the Billboard chart, all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 on Cashbox and #2 in the UK. This song is one that actually had some drivers pullng over to the side of the road when it came on their car radios. Why? Because the song featured very realistic(apparently too realistic, for some drivers) police sirens , along with a "This is the police. You are surrounded, give yourself up" command. I remember the song well because of the police sirens and the commands.
The song was written and sung by a Canadian singer songwriter. He wrote the song after watching the film , Bonnie and Clyde. The song is written as a letter from a fugitive to his loved one after he has killed a man and is on the run from police.
To you older gentlemen, did you ever pull off the road thinking the cops were after you, only to realize it was this song playing on your radio? lol
What's the song and who sung it into the top 10 of the Billboard chart late in 1970?
178. Back when I was seven years old, there were two songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at the very same time. Both songs had the names of US states in the title and both songs alluded to the same natural phenomenon. Both songs peaked in March of the same year.
One song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Cashbox. It marked a comeback song for the singer who hadn't had a hit song for over 10 years. This was the last of his 24 Top 40 hits.
The other song peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on Cashbox . It was written by Eddie Rabbitt and featured Ronnie Milsap on piano. It was one of the singer's first hits of the decade, and the first of his five top 40 hits for the year in which it charted.
Can you name these two songs and the singers who recorded them?
Indiana Wants Me is the song but I have no idea who did it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Driving around with my high school girlfriend, I’d hold my hands over my mouth and imitate that police part (with a static burst) when that song came on the AM radio. I thought I was so funny.
You weren't the only one... :DQuote:
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
https://youtu.be/fZL_tZxyBDo?list=RDfZL_tZxyBDo
*** TODAY IN ROCK HISTORY ****
179. On this date , MAY 9, 56 years ago , this band had their one and only US hit song. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on this date in 1970 and stayed in the top spot for three weeks. It became a classic rock staple, despite facing controversy due to its lyrics during the Vietnam War. Can you name the song and the band who hit the top of the charts 56 years ago today.
Come on, GUESS WHO ?
*** ON THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY***
180. On this day 32 years ago, May 9, 1994, the English band WET WET WET released a cover of a song that originally peaked at # 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 way back in 1968. The WET WET WET cover , which was featured in the movie , Four Weddings and a Funeral , set a record for a UK-based act by spending 15 consecutive weeks at #1 on the UK Singles chart. The single sold nearly 2 million copies in the UK, making it the best selling love song ever in the UK. Do you know the song and the band who originally released the song late in 1967?
Indiana wants me. R. Dean Taylor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
If a man ever needed dying he did.
No one has the right to say what he did about.
Looks like i'm a day late and a dollar short on this one.
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
American Woman by the Guess Who. Loved that group growing up. Another Canadian musical entity. Who was Albert Flasher? Nobody. Here's the story.My fave song by the band was not as well known.Quote:
Albert Flasher is a character from a song written by Burton Cummings and performed by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The name "Albert Flasher" was inspired by an "alert flasher" lamp at a radio station where Cummings was interviewed.
The song, initially released as a B-side in 1971, reflects themes of nostalgia and youthful rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEYQxRsVqo&list=RDbUEYQxRsVqo&start_radio =1
Kinda ironic that when the band went their separate ways, that Bachman-Turner had much more success than Burton Cummings. Randy Bachman had a little fun at Cumming's expense with the song 'Hey you'.
The Troglodytes (shortened to Troggs). What a wide range they had musically from this song.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6glz0wpmo&list=RDWO6glz0wpmo&start_radio =1
To this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg&list=RDgSWInYFVksg&start_radio =1
And, finally,
https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervie...gA&FORM=VAMGZC
Some say “Wild Thing” is one of the first heavy metal songs.
This was one of the songs played when I was in a band when I was in the 8th grade. I bought a bass guitar from a pawn shop in downtown Dayton. It was next door to the Mayfair Burlesque. We would ride our bikes to Town and Country shopping center and then catch a Metro bus to downtown Dayton. We’d wander downtown. I remember seeing the poster for Busty Russell st the Mayfair. First time I saw real boobs.
The band lasted the summer. We played at a pool party for our only gig. It did attract girls. This was like 1966.
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Man, Midnight Special was so much fun. I rarely ever missed it. Bands actually played and sang live. DO you all have a favorite MS performance ?
Linda just slayed my heart.
https://youtu.be/rai3llBIOEc?si=BmSz7RPhVjnD4M1u
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Love Linda. One of the true natural beauties of all time. Did you know that Linda covered more Warren Zevon songs than any other artist? Hasten Down the Wind , Carmelita, Mohammed's Radio, and of course, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, just to name a few. She did good things for Warren's career.
https://youtu.be/LswctroKuKE?list=RDLswctroKuKE
PPPM, Carmelita, Hasten Down the Wind, Mohammed's Radio:
https://youtu.be/DHJxeY3mc2g?list=RDDHJxeY3mc2g