Since y'all don't hear nearly enough about my musical tastes, I'm responding to Tim Blair's music tag.
I tried to find full songs for everything. Wherever that wasn't possible, I've linked to clips:
1. Total volume of music files on my computer: Around 100 songs.
2. Last CD I bought: Here for the Party - Gretchen Wilson.
3. Song Playing Right Now: "Nothin' to Lose" - Josh Gracin. (Crank it UP!)
4. Five Songs (or Albums) I listen to a lot or that move me:
* Wide Open Spaces - The Dixie Chicks. (Watch this video and tell me they didn't have everything in the world going for them. Natalie ruined it all.)
* Eat a Peach (and many others) - The Allman Brothers. (The tunes on my sidebar say it all.)
* Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos.
* Lone Justice - Lone Justice.
* Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper. (Both the first album I ever bought and the first concert I ever attended were Alice Cooper's.)
5. Tag three others:
1. Salt Lick
2. Bird
3. What's a Kyer?
Bonus musical info:
Two of the albums Tim listed as favorites are in my own collection: Hank Williams Jr's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and the masterpiece How Will the Wolf Survive? by Los Lobos.
(Gracin audio via gazze.com.)
Posted by floridacracker at July 8, 2005 04:10 PMNice collection.
Alice Cooper was also my first concert, small world huh? It was winter of 1973 and the Billion Dollar Babies tour, opening act was these three weird looking long-hair types called ZZ Top. Alice was chased around by a giant toothbrush during Unfinished Sweet and at some point he put Santa Claus under a guillotine. An older cousin took me; it was quite a 'welcome to rock and roll' experience.
Posted by: John Climacus at July 9, 2005 02:06 AMMine was Spring of '73 and the opening act was Flo and Eddy. They were from the Turtles.
I told my big brother I'd buy his ticket if he drove me over to the east coast of Florida to see it. Tickets were $6.00. It was open floor, and I stood in front of the stage the whole time.
An odd experience for a little kid, but very exciting.
The first album I bought was the earlier "Love It to Death". I was such a huge fan.
Posted by: Donnah at July 9, 2005 07:13 AMJust want to say "Thanks!" for the Allman Brothers memories. I've spent the last half hour grooving to your tunes. Much appreciated!
Posted by: Mr. Right at July 9, 2005 06:29 PMA comment that still makes me smile is the one this fellow made on a hot political thread I had. He said something like "Could be. Then again, I can see the other side too. It doesn't really matter though 'cause I'm sitting here listening to 'Blue Sky.'"
If nothing else, this blog has the best soundtrack.
Posted by: Donnah at July 9, 2005 06:43 PMLone Justice?... Wow what a flashback.
Maria McKee... what a voice.
Let's talk about the implications of some of the lyrics.
Drop me an email and I'll send you a present.
RG
Posted by: Retired Geezer at July 10, 2005 12:40 PMThat Lone Justice release is another that I have in every format. It's perfection.
Posted by: Donnah at July 10, 2005 12:57 PM...wow, Flo and Eddie - they also played with Zappa. How cool to see them for your first concert!
Posted by: John Climacus at July 10, 2005 05:38 PMI mentioned on an Alice Cooper fansite that all I wanted was for Flo and Eddie to get off the stage. The webmaster wrote back saying that they're Alice's favorite opening act of his entire career.
I don't care. I wanted them to get off the stage. I was there for the main event.
It'd be hard to come up with a better song than "Hello, Hooray" to open a show with.
Posted by: Donnah at July 10, 2005 05:48 PMYeah...goodness gracious, that was one mother of a concert opening song.
He was really ahead of his time in terms of glam rock or whatever you want to call it in the early 70s. Set the stage for Mott the Hoople and Bowie and a good portion of what became the punk/new wave movement if you ask me.
What a great act he conceived (and as far as I know he's now a Phoenix-area Republican, probably on the golf course right now, right?) Edgy, in-your-face unsociable ('Raped and Freezin' !!??), with a penchant for rock anthems and bizarre trippy stuff. The man understood the genre and how far he could go with it.
Makes you think there should be a 'Thanks, Alice' tour with Ted Nugent as headliner. Message: Conservatives always have been the radicals.
Posted by: John Climacus at July 11, 2005 04:18 AM