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…
WATCH: Rare Deep Purple Performance of “Highway Star” on German TV -Feb 1972 – Altered Lyrics?
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…
WATCH: Blue Oyster Cult jams “Don’t Fear The Reaper” LIVE
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…
WATCH: Def Leppard performs “Love Bites” LIVE
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…
WATCH: Duran Duran LIVE “Hungry Like The Wolf” – 12/31/1982 – Palladium
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…
WATCH: The Oak Ridge Boys perform “Elvira” over images of “Elvira Mistress of the Dark” – 1980s
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…
WATCH: George Thorogood rocks “Bad to the Bone” LIVE 1984
“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…
WATCH: Dokken’s Acoustic Live Version of “Walk Away” 1988
Once again, we don’t know much about this video, other than it’s from the band Dokken, the song is “Walk Away” (their only hit from their 1988 album Beast from the East that was recorded live in Japan in April of 1988) and that this is rare acoustic live version of the song. For those of you not familiar with the band, Dokken was a metal band formed in the…
WATCH: Bob Seger blasts “Sunspot Baby” LIVE at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Nov. 2011
What can you say about Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band? Bob was a popular Detroit area singer-songwriter who performed and recorded under various band names in the late 60’s and early 70’s until he put together the Silver Bullet Band with a group of other Michigan musicians in 1973. He and the boys were launched onto the national state in 1976 with the release of Live Bullet recorded live in…
WATCH: The Making of 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” – 1975
What can I say about this incredible song? Some in the music business call “I’m Not In Love” by 10cc “…one of the great multi-track hits of all time …” right up there with Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I’m not sure I would go that far, but I remember quite clearly when the song came out in the summer of 1975 and thinking at the time–and still do–that this song just…