Happy birthday to The Who‘s Roger Daltrey tomorrow (Tuesday )! Here’s The Who performing Pete Townshend‘s “Behind Blue Eyes” live on 17 December, 1982 in Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens. – Redbeard
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- You Wreck Me- San Francisco 2/6/97
Tom Petty tore a page from the Buddy Holly school of minimalism with three simple descending chords and a red hot live band, the Heartbreakers, during the impressive Fillmore residency in San Francisco the first week of February 1997. -
Eagles Co-Founder Glenn Frey Dies at 67
Glenn Frey, a founding member, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the Eagles, has died. The band confirmed the news on Monday (Jan. 18) with a statement on its website.”Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia,” read the statement. “Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.”
Frey had been battling intestinal issues that caused the band to postpone its Kennedy Center Honors award. A statement from the band said then the recurring problem would require “major surgery and a lengthy recovery period.”
Eagles drummer and vocalist Don Henley issued the following statement:
( Glenn Frey foreground left )“He was like a brother to me; we were family, and like most families, there was some dysfunction. But, the bond we forged 45 years ago was never broken, even during the 14 years that the Eagles were dissolved. We were two young men who made the pilgrimage to Los Angeles with the same dream: to make our mark in the music industry — and with perseverance, a deep love of music, our alliance with other great musicians and our manager, Irving Azoff, we built something that has lasted longer than anyone could have dreamed. But, Glenn was the one who started it all. He was the spark plug, the man with the plan. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and a work ethic that wouldn’t quit. He was funny, bullheaded, mercurial, generous, deeply talented and driven. He loved his wife and kids more than anything. We are all in a state of shock, disbelief and profound sorrow. We brought our two-year ‘History of the Eagles Tour’ to a triumphant close at the end of July 2015 and now he is gone. I’m not sure I believe in fate, but I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet. It will be very strange going forward in a world without him in it. But, I will be grateful, every day, that he was in my life. Rest in peace, my brother. You did what you set out to do, and then some.” (from www.billboard.com )
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Ian Moore- Just a Little Bit- Dallas 1993
Sitting in the East Texas barbecue roadhouse Stanley’s in Tyler recently with a couple of veteran radio buddies, I noticed their upcoming schedule of musical guests, including the talented Ian Moore. But the brief description of the rhythm and bluesy singer/songwriter/guitarist claimed that he was”from Seattle”. It was everything I could do to resist hurling a stuffed jalapeño at the sign! Former Texas governor Rick Perry would have threatened to secede from the Union for less. Just as his 1993 eponymous debut was being released, then a very young Austin newbie with an old soul, Ian Moore visited Q102 Dallas and serenaded us one morning after an all-nighter with Austin’s finest. Here’s Ian with absolutely no studio embellishments, singing and playing directly into the radio console, performing the King Curtis R&B classic “Just a Little Bit”. –Redbeard [jwplayer pconfig=”Audio Player” file=”https://its-live.s3.amazonaws.com/IAN MOORE LIVE DALLAS ’93/LIVE-ian-moore-just-little-bit.mp3″ image=”https://www.inthestudio.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IAN-MOORE-Screen-shot-2012-04-05-at-20.31.52.png” html5_file=”https://its-live.s3.amazonaws.com/IAN MOORE LIVE DALLAS ’93/LIVE-ian-moore-just-little-bit.mp3″]
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U2- One- NYC Yankee Stadium 1992
Here’s U2 live in New York City’s original Yankee Stadium on August 30, 1992 performing “One”, the hit song on the Achtung Baby album which lends its name to one-derful humanitarian effort ONE.org. Become ONE for a better world https://www.one.org/us/blog/coronavirus-collective-global-action/ –Redbeard
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Rush- Closer to the Heart- 1984
A perennial crowd-pleaser since it appeared on A Farewell to Kings, before the invention of the cellphone light “Closer to the Heart” made a Bic lighter as essential at a Rush show as a concert ticket. Here’s the performance on the 1984 Grace Under Pressure tour. –Redbeard
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Ozzy Osbourne- Paranoid- Memphis 4-28-82
In April 1982 Ozzy Osbourne honored an agreement to broadcast his sold-out concert live nationwide from the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum, in spite of the fact that his guitarist Randy Rhoads, his band seamstress, and his tour bus driver had all died in a single-engine plane crash about six weeks earlier. Ozzy, who had not spoken publicly since before the accident, earlier that afternoon chose my ROCK 103 Memphis radio show to give a harrowing account of how the tragic accident occurred. Here is a thunderous performance of Black Sabbath‘s “Paranoid” with last-minute guitar stand-in Brad Gillis of Nightranger doing a remarkable job under very difficult circumstances .-Redbeard
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Beatles #1+ Songs, pt 2- Paul McCartney
Part two of the Beatles by the numbers: #1+ sellers including “Lady Madonna”,”Hey Jude”,”Get Back”,”Something”,”Come Together”,”Let It Be”, and “The Long and Winding Road”. Paul McCartney hosts part two, and additional comments from my classic rock interviews with the late George Harrison are here, too. –Redbeard
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David Gilmour- Rattle That Lock
“I think that’s something that has been sinking slowly into my poor dull brain for the last twenty-something years,” admits David Gilmour when queried about 2015’s Rattle That Lock solo album and the realization of when writer and wife Polly Samsom went from contributor to his music to full on collaborator. “But I think I got it now, and I am better for it. The work that I produce is better for it, I don’t think there’s any question about that.” Rattle That Lock bravely shines a glaring white hot searchlight on some twenty-first century sore points as well as the timeless theme of Original Sin in John Milton’s Paradise Lost Book Two. Not exactly the stuff you’ll hear on Dancing with the Stars. Yet whether singing a second person ode to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett penned almost fifty years ago by Roger Waters or a 2015 Polly Samson lyric from Rattle That Lock , David Gilmour has spent a lifetime masterfully interpreting the thoughts and feelings of others.
“It takes thought and concentration. You have to live and breath and believe the words you’re singing. With most of Roger’s very brilliant lyrics, and with Polly’s lyrics too, I find that I can do that. I hope that I do it justice. But it is something that you do often think about…With Roger there’s a lot more agreement on things that he has written than you sometimes may have been led to believe,” Gilmour smiles. –Redbeard
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Rembrandts-Johnny Have You Seen Her?- Ft Worth 1992
Danny Wilde and Phil Solem of the Rembrandts have been making terrific power pop music for years, whether as Great Buildings in the early Eighties, on Danny Wilde’s power pop solo masterpiece The Boyfriend in 1986, composing and singing the iconic “I’ll Be There for You” theme to the popular Friends tv series, or together again as the Rembrandts which included the hit “Just the Way It Is, Baby“. Here they are without stage, lighting, or P.A. just sitting at my table in a Ft.Worth bar during my Friday afternoon radio show in March 1992. You’ll think instantly of Phil and Don (Everly), but it’s Phil and Dan! – Redbeard
