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Hesi Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 3 hours ago, craigos1 said: Tonight something a little different..............thought I'd showcase Badfinger possibly one of the best bands from the 70's that no one knows about. Badfinger were a Welsh/English rock band formed in Swansea that were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, Tom Evans, and Joey Molland. They are recognized for their influence on the 1970s power pop genre. The band evolved from an earlier group called The Iveys, formed in 1961, which became the first group signed by the Beatles' Apple label in 1968. The band renamed themselves Badfinger, after the working title for the Beatles' 1967 song "With a Little Help from My Friends" ("Bad Finger Boogie"). From 1968 to 1973, Badfinger recorded five albums for Apple and toured extensively, before they became embroiled in the chaos of Apple Records' dissolution. Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hits from 1970 to 1972: "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney, 1970), "No Matter What" (produced by Mal Evans, 1970), "Day After Day" (produced by George Harrison, 1971), and "Baby Blue" (produced by Todd Rundgren, 1972). Their song "Without You" (1970) has been recorded many times, and became a US and UK number-one hit for Harry Nilsson and, decades later, a UK number-one for Mariah Carey. After Apple Records folded in 1973, Badfinger struggled with a host of legal, managerial and financial issues, leading to Ham taking his own life in 1975. Over the next three years, the surviving members struggled to rebuild their personal and professional lives against a backdrop of lawsuits, which tied up the songwriters' royalty payments for years. Their subsequent albums floundered, as Molland and Evans alternated between cooperation and conflict in their attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger legacy. In 1983, Evans also died by committing suicide. In my opinion there next song was their best. Possibly this Band's demise was the saddest story of 70's Rock Thanks for posting all that Craig, spent about an hour researching out the band. Highly talented, could have gone so much further(Beatles 2), strongly influenced by Paul McCartney. Pete Ham, superb song writer in the style of McCartney. Talking about covers that were better than the original, Without You, is done so much better by Harry Nilsson. As you say, a very sad story, only the bass guitarist left, who still tours 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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brown fox Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 O.K. This site needs a shakeup.Just cant kill these ole rockers😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hesi Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 4 hours ago, brown fox said: O.K. This site needs a shakeup.Just cant kill these ole rockers😆 Embarrassingly, considering I'm a big fan of 60/70's music, I'd never heard of any of these guys, so I did some research Alvin Lee - Ten Years After, made a real name for themselves with I'm Going Home on the last day of Woodstock Steve Howe - Yes(Owner of a Lonely Heart US No1) Ted Turner - Wishbone Ash Randy California - US rock band Spirit Leslie West - Hard rock band Mountain Steve Hunter - highly regarded session guitarist Stewart Copeland - The Police drummer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 Awesome promptu band that Graeme........thanks for Posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 (edited) Tonight going to look at a 70's Band that my Boss is a great fan. Bachman Turner Overdrive and follow there successful period 73~76 BTO's second album, Bachman–Turner Overdrive II, was released in December 1973 and became an enormous hit in the US (peaking at No. 4 in 1974) and their native Canada (peaking at No. 6 on the RPM albums chart). It was originally to be titled "Adrenaline Rush". It also yielded two of their best-known hit singles, "Let It Ride" and "Takin' Care of Business". While "Let It Ride" was BTO's first Top 40 hit in the U.S. (peaking at #23), "Takin' Care of Business" would become one of the band's most enduring anthems. Randy had already written the core of "Takin' Care of Business" several years earlier as "White Collar Worker" while in The Guess Who, but that band had felt it was not their type of song. It reappeared in BTO's repertoire during the supporting gigs for the first album primarily, as Randy put it, "To give Fred Turner a chance to rest his voice." Randy had heard DJ Darryl Burlingham say the day before a gig, "We're takin' care of business on C-Fox radio", and he decided to insert the lyrics "takin' care of business" into the chorus where "white collar worker" previously existed.[12] Tim Bachman left the band in early 1974 shortly after the release of Bachman–Turner Overdrive II. Randy Bachman had very strong religious beliefs and established rules to be in BTO. Among them was a rule that drugs, alcohol and premarital sex were prohibited on tour, and Tim is alleged to have broken all of these. It is said that he was given opportunities to change his lifestyle and did, at least temporarily. Said Randy in a 1974 Rolling Stone interview: "I know from experience what can ruin a good thing. Drugs made the guys in The Guess Who change. They got sloppy. They ruined themselves and their marriages."[7] Some other accounts state that Tim left because he was getting married and wanted to study record engineering and concert promotion.[5] But in a 2002 interview, brother Robbie said, "He was basically asked to leave. He wasn't BTO caliber [and] it was difficult to rely on him. I guess the band was conflicting with his whole life."[13] BTO continued a very busy tour schedule and during the supporting tour for BTO II, Tim was replaced by Blair Thornton. Thornton had been in the Vancouver-based band Crosstown Bus, which released one album on MCA records. In September 1974, the first BTO album with the modified line-up, Not Fragile (a play on the hit album Fragile by Yes), was released. It became a huge success, reaching No. 1 on both the Canadian and US album charts. It included the No. 1 single "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"[14] and AOR favourite "Roll on Down the Highway". Not Fragile remains BTO's top-selling non-compilation album, selling eight million copies to date. 1975 found the band engaged in highly successful tours of Europe and the US, wherein BTO was supported by Thin Lizzy, an emerging band also on the Mercury Records label. Said Randy, "Lizzy were just opening in England, but our label wanted to bust them in the rest of Europe and break them wide open in the States, so we toured with Phil and the boys for seven or eight months."[4] With management pressure to capitalize on their growing success, BTO quickly recorded Four Wheel Drive in May 1975, which included the single "Hey You". Although reaching no higher than No. 21 on the US charts, "Hey You" would become BTO's second No. 1 single on the Canadian RPM charts. Meanwhile, the album charted in the Top Five in both the US and Canada. Following a cross-Canada tour in the summer of 1975, the band members were already developing songs for the next album. BTO went on to record Head On, releasing it in December 1975. This album produced the 1976 Top 40 single "Take It Like a Man", which featured a guest appearance by Little Richard who wailed away on his piano. Head On also featured the jazzy Randy Bachman composition "Lookin' Out for #1", which reached #15 on the Adult Contemporary chart. While garnering some airplay on traditional rock stations, it also received fairly heavy rotation on soft rock stations which normally did not play bands like BTO. In between the latter two albums, BTO released their only non-album single "Down to the Line". This song would appear on some of the later compilation CD's, as well as on re-issues of the Head On album in CD format. Head On would be the last BTO studio album to chart in the US Top 40, peaking at No. 23 in early 1976. The first BTO compilation album, Best of B.T.O. (So Far), was released in 1976 and featured songs from each of the band's first five studio albums. A single—a re-release of "Gimme Your Money Please"—was put out from this album, and it also charted well keeping BTO on both the AM & FM airwaves. Although peaking at only No. 19 on the charts, this compilation album became the best-selling Bachman–Turner Overdrive album to date, reaching Double Platinum status in the US.[15] When you see a happy crowd it's either the band is good or LSD....................in this case it's the BAND Edited September 4, 2020 by craigos1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ngakonui grass Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Have you heard Burton Cummings version of '''you ain't seen nothing yet? Certainly different to the BTO version. Bachman certainly a great guitar player. Saw a video of him playing with Burton Cummings the classic American Woman.String broke,grabbed another guitar and kept on going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hesi Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 The guitar change is at about 11.10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 I'm a Pretenders Fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 4, 2020 Author Share Posted September 4, 2020 Now for a couple of songs from the great late Leonard Cohen As a youngster I would have thought .......what's this shite Believe me he could play an audience................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ngakonui grass Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Watched Brent Eccles,Mike Chunn Barry Jenkin (Dr Rock)and Glyn Tucker talking about Citizen Band last night on Juice TV via Kordia. Very entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 9 hours ago, ngakonui grass said: Watched Brent Eccles,Mike Chunn Barry Jenkin (Dr Rock)and Glyn Tucker talking about Citizen Band last night on Juice TV via Kordia. Very entertaining. I can't seem to get that Channel NG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 Something a little more modern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hesi Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 On 9/5/2020 at 10:49 PM, craigos1 said: Never followed Snow Patrol, but that is one hell of a live ensemble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown fox Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 In my opinion the Big O's best 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigos1 Posted September 12, 2020 Author Share Posted September 12, 2020 I have always been a big fan of the Big O Graeme. I also like Movies a little outside the square......................David Lynch's 1986 film Blue Velvet I really enjoyed and still do. In Dreams fits that Movie so well even though The Big O wasn't so sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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