Wow! An early performance, about six months before the band really exploded on the scene with release of “KISS Alive!” in the fall of 1975. What’s really interesting is that most bands on The Midnight Special played one or two
A powerful R&B song that has been covered numerous times by various artists, but never better than by Wilson Pickett in 1966 as part of his album Wicked Pickett. His version made it to #6 on the R&B charts and #23
Here is a great digital restoration of this LIVE performance by Blue Oyster Cult performing “Burnin’ for You” back in October of 1981 at the Hollywood Sportatorium (yes, that’s an actual venue) in beautiful Hollywood, Florida. First, a little background
About all we know about this specific recording was that it was recorded by The Cars, LIVE, at Bremen Radio Studios in Germany in 1979. Although not The Cars most popular song, “Candy-O” was the title track of their 1979
A great LIVE performance of a classic hit, just two months before his death! The song is included in Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival a posthumous live album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, documenting their July 4, 1970 performance at the Atlanta
Here’s a great LIVE performance of a classic hit from 1979: it’s Jefferson Starship (after they were Jefferson Airplane) with “Jane” from from their album Freedom at Point Zero. The song peaked that year on the Billboard Hot 100 at
If you grew up in the 70’s you could not miss the incredible voice of singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, who had a string of classic hits including “Running on Empty”, “Take It Easy”, “Somebody’s Baby” and, of course, his 1972 smash “Doctor
Apparently, Pinkpop was a Dutch music festival (had to look that one up) and in addition to the Police, on the stage in 1979 were The Average White Band, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello and Rush. Not a bad lineup! Here’s
“Brandy” was HUGE in 1972, and ended up being the No. 1 song on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts for the year … and deservedly so. It was written and composed by Elliot Lurie and recorded by Lurie’s band,
It’s difficult finding videos of Bob Seger from back in his early days, performing LIVE. This is not the best video, but I think it gives you a sense of what it was like to see him perform in concert.
