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WATCH: Van Halen – ‘Running With the Devil’ LIVE @ the 1983 US Festival

01/08/2018
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‘Running With the Devil’ has to be one of the heartiest songs ever from Van Halen. According to one reviewer, the song kicked off the band’s first album “.. with all the subtlety of a fist upside the head” and that pretty much sums it up. RWD is known for it’s pounding bass/drum/guitar combination, as well as David Lee Roth’s almost painful screams It also proved that lead guitarist  and…

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Heart – ‘Magic Man’ – LIVE on the Midnight Special in 1976: Ann & Nancy Wilson

01/07/2018
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Unlike a lot of music TV shows in the 70s (we’re looking at you American Bandstand) The Midnight Special tried to create more of a concert atmosphere on late night television and have bands perform live, often with their own concert props and pyrotechnics. In 1976, Ann and Nancy Wilson and their band Heart stormed out of Canada and burst onto the American music scene, first with ‘Crazy on You’…

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VIDEO: KISS performs ‘Hotter Than Hell’ LIVE @Cobo Hall, Detroit 1976

01/06/2018
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As many fans already know, Detroit’s Cobo Hall was the venue where rockers KISS recorded part of their landscape-changing Alive! album which made them an instant, if not uncontrollable, new force on the music scene. Alive! was released on Sept. 10, 1975 as a double album and included live versions of tracks from KISS’s first three studio albums. Our friends at AllMusic.com describes Alive! as “one of the greatest live…

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LIVE Version of ‘Miracles” by Jefferson Starship – 1975

01/05/2018
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RARE live version of this hit recorded back in the day. This was apparently on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.  ‘Miracles’ was written by lead singer Marty Balin, and recorded by Jefferson Starship, as part of their ‘Red Octopus’ album which came out in 1975.   ‘Miracles” eventually peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, thus making it the highest-charting single for the band when they recorded under the name…

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WATCH: Alice Cooper sings ‘Welcome to My Nightmare’ LIVE – 1979

01/03/2018
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This song is the title track off the album by the same name, ‘Welcome to My Nightmare,’ Alice Cooper’s eighth studio album  and was released in March 1975.  The song reached only number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year, but the song is noted for mixing elements from disco, jazz, hard rock, and yet still keeps a “heavy-yet-funky beat”.   This was Alice Cooper’s first solo album and surprisingly…

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WATCH: David Essex performs ‘Rock On’ for The Midnight Special – 1974

01/02/2018
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“Rock On”  was written by English singer David Essex and originally recorded in 1973, and was the title track to Essex’s 1973 debut studio album and was also featured on the soundtrack album to the 1973 film That’ll Be the Day, in which Essex had a starring role.  The song was released in August 1973 in the UK and reached its highest position at #3 in the UK Singles Chart in September that year,…

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VIDEO: 1975 – Kiss performs “Rock and Roll All Nite” at Cobo Hall in Detroit

06/07/2017
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Watching this video, it appears the band came out for an encore for the song, which Paul Stanley promptly tells the crowd that it was written IN Detroit, FOR Detroit. Which, obviosuly got the crowd all riled up, but still, assuming it’s true (was anyone there that night?) it made for a great end to a night of 70’s rock n roll.  According to Wikipedia: “Rock and Roll All Nite”…

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WATCH: Rolling Stones perform “Satisfaction” on Ed Sullivan Show – 1965

06/06/2017
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At one time, EVERY band wanted to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show, including the Rolling Stones, back in the day.  The Stones opened their February 13, 1966 appearance with their iconic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” The song which is ranked #2 in Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and went on to become the Stones first #1 hit…

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WATCH: Thin Lizzy – The Boys are Back in Town – LIVE 1978

06/02/2017
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On this day (June 2) in 1978, the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy released the live double album ‘Live And Dangerous’. It was recorded in London in 1976, and Philadelphia and Toronto in 1977, with some post-production work in Paris. It was also the last Thin Lizzy album to feature guitarist Brian Robertson. The biggest hit from the album was “The Boys Are Back in Town” which has become popular…

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WATCH: Bruce Springsteen rocks “Born to Run” LIVE at Capital Theatre on September 20, 1978

06/01/2017
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Remember when Bruce used to rock? We remember when “Born to Run” exploded on the music scene in the fall of 1975, eventually reaching #3 on the Billboard charts that year and #21 on the Rolling Stone list of the 550 Greatest Songs of All Time.  The album by the same name–which also featured “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”–has since gone on to be considered by critics to be one of the…

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