OK. a variation on this theme: Personal Playlists:
-Beatles (both suits and 'after suits' albums, pick any)
-Stones (Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet, but MOST certainly Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St.)
-Rod and the Faces (Long Player, A Nod's as Good as a Wink, Gasoline Alley, and Every Picture) and the Jeff Beck Group records with Woody on bass
-lots of British Invasion: DC5, Hollies, Them, Yardbirds, et al, which morphed into Zeppelin, Wishbone Ash, Yes, ELP, Cream/Blind Faith/Winwood
-Vanilla Fudge
-Buddy Miles
-the Rascals (who have a huge fan in Donald Fagen!)
-Most any Motown, but especially Marvin's masterwork, What's Going On
-Ike Hayes' Hot Buttered Soul (if you had HBS and Led Zep 2 that summer they both came out, you had the world by the short-hairs) and any BarKays, Booker T, or Stax (Staples!)
-Savoy Brown's Street Corner Talking (I have a DERAM reissue !) and their Foghat offspirng
-Marriott-era Humble Pie, especially Rockin' the Fillmore, leading into Pete Frampton's solo work
-The Allman's Live at Fillmore East, the musical Washington Monument of my youth, and its companion in my mind, Layla. Eric's first solo record with Leon and essentially the Mad Dogs + Englishmen band, and of course . . .
-Mad Dogs and Englishmen
-Elton's Madman Across the Water and Yellow Brick Road)
-Traffic's Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
-ANY Mitch Ryder
-the live set, Edgar Winter's White Trash (their unabashed and unconscious tribute to the mighty Boogie Kings) and of course, Johnny Winter Live. As my last name ends in 'W', I used to get all their school books !
-Sly, Stand ! and Greatest Hits
-what I call the West Coast AM Stuff: Three Dog Night, Mamas and Papas, the Raiders, Monkees,and certainly the Beach Boys (with surfboards, then with Pet Sounds, the American Sgt. Pepper's)
-and black music only played (then) on black stations: ZZ Hill, Johnny Guitar Watson, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Johmmy Copeland, etc. And of course, Ray Charles and James Brown.
My true guilty pleasure was pre-'Centerfold' J. Geils Band, ESPECIALLY 'Full House' and the double live from Detroit 'Blow Your Fce Out'. I NEVER saw a band that could walk out and in 30 seconds have a crowd on fire like Peter Wolf and the pile-driving JGB. Tight rhythm section with Danny Klein and StephenJo Bladd, J on tasty guitar, Magic Dick on the Lickin'Stick, and Seth Justman on piano and Hammond, just like God intended. Saw them four or five times, was steamrolled every time: My face DID blow out !
Not sophisticated or session-player chops, but for me more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Strong Blues roots. There was nothing like their set closer, a runaway-train version of Bobby Womack's 'Looking for a Love' that was guaranteed to test the structural integrity of the venue they were in that night.
So there, its all THEIR fault.
Of course, I know I'll think of lots more . . . .
J o e y
