We looked really hard for a true LIVE version of this song from the time it came out in 1974-75 but no luck. We did find this funky performance on Britain’s Top of the Pops TV show from December of 1975. Here’s more on the song from Wikipedia: “Fox on the Run” is a song by the British band Sweet, first recorded in 1974. It was Sweet’s first single that…
Who remembers when Quiet Riot’s album Metal Health came out in March of 1983? It wasn’t their first album, but it was the first for a reorganized version of the band after the loss of Radny Rhoads to Ozzy Osbourne, and it now featured lead singer Kevin DuBrow with drummer Frankie Banali, bassist Rudy Sarzo and guitarist Carlos Cavazo. After signing with CBS Records they went into the studio and…
Are you as psyched as we are about the upcoming ZZ Top and John Fogerty “Blues and Bayous Tour” as we are? Great video below of Billy Gibbons and John Fogerty swapping licks and playing each other’s hits in the practice studio. Of course it’s staged, but man is it cool to see these two rocking out! Here’s more on the tour from Rolling Stone: Just a couple of weeks…
Some of you know Don Felder from his days playing slide guitar for the Eagles. It seems that in early January 1974, Felder was called by the Eagles to add slide guitar to their song “Good Day in Hell” and some additional guitar licks to “Already Gone” and the guys liked him so well, the next day they invited to join the band. It was also about that time that…
It’s great when we find videos of unusual LIVE performances, especially from a band’s early years. In this case we were looking for a live version of “Highway Star” by Deep Purple, a rock staple since it came out in 1972. According to our information “Highway Star”, which was off the Machine Head album, was recorded in December 1971 and released in March 1972. Along the way, the band stopped…
Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” is a single from their smash 1976 album, Agents of Fortune. It was released as a single and went on to become Blue Öyster Cult’s biggest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1976. The critics were mainly positive about the song and, in 2004, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” was listed at number 405…
This is another video that we don’t know a lot about, other than it features the band Def Leppard performing their only #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s off their Hysteria album, which also featured “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” Here’s more from Wikipedia about the song: When Robert John “Mutt” Lange originally brought the song to the band’s attention, it was a country ballad, which the band…
When you think of MTV, don’t you automatically think about the band Duran Duran and their early video hit, “Hungry Like the Wolf”? Of course you do! The popular song by this new wave band was written by them, and produced by Colin Thurston for the group’s second studio album Rio. The song was released in May 1982 as the band’s fifth single in the United Kingdom where it reached…
Well here’s a weird 80’s combination if we ever saw one! Most of you remember the pop/country hit “Elvira” from 1981. (Remember the deep base part of the chorus? “Giddy up oom poppa omm poppa mow mow”) “Elvira” is a song written by Dallas Frazier and went on to became a hit by The Oak Ridge Boys in 1981, and is now considered one of their signature songs. Interestingly, the…
“Bad to the Bone” is one of those songs that wasn’t very popular when it first came out in 1982, but a video on the then new MTV channel started getting a lot of play and before he knew it, George Thorogood had a hit on his hands. And over the years, the tune would be licensed for all kinds of films, TV shows and commercials, making it a classic…