Nostalgic Music Thread

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Some of my favorite hippy music from way back when:


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There was a very impressive music collaboration that went down in 1974.

If you look at the personnel listings for Dan Fogelberg's Souvenirs album and Joe Walsh's So What album, you'll see a tremendous amount of overlap. A lot of solid songs were composed for those two albums, and some seriously good guitar playing was recorded.


Song: As The Raven Flies
Artist: Dan Fogelberg





Song: County Fair
Artitst: Joe Walsh





One guitar player that appeared on Souvenirs but not on So What was Gerry Beckley (America). So let's throw in one more (with perhaps the most recognizable guitar intro in the history of rock):

Song: Ventura Highway
Artist: America





Enjoy. And if you have some good headphones, you may want to break them out for the Joe Walsh song.
 
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RIP Richie Havens - it was a true shock to hear of his passing tonight. By all accounts an extremely warm and caring human being.

My all time most favorite Richie song - "Indian Prayer" - from 1974's "Mixed Bag II" album:

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RoadNasty said:
RIP Richie Havens - it was a true shock to hear of his passing tonight. By all accounts an extremely warm and caring human being.

My all time most favorite Richie song - "Indian Prayer" - from 1974's "Mixed Bag II" album:
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I was lucky to catch this performance. RIP, Mr Havens.
 
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A singer, songwriter, lead guitarist, member of the Beatles, cutest girls on his arm - life was certainly good for George Harrison:


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Song: Little Green Bag
Artist: George Baker Selection

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A song to commemorate the jetsam release of Tim Tebow :)
 
I'm running a "Murder Mystery Party" this weekend which hopefully won't involve any real murders and this one is set in the hippie era and involves a Woodstock-like concert.

Anyhow, I put together a playlist for some background music and it's a coincidence that we're getting into some similar stuff on this page. One that I hadn't heard in a long time was Spirit's "Nature's Way" which was one of the early anthems of the "ecological" movement and a song that I thought holds up pretty well here a zillion years later.

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Traffic - 1972 - Forty Thousand Headmen- long, soft, slow, jangling- gawd I love it:


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Song: As Hard As It Is
Artist: Fine Young Cannibals

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Hard to believe the album is almost 25 years old.

True story: when our kids were small and Mrs. TR did or said something that didn't quite sit well with me, I would put on the song "She Drives Me Crazy" and pump up the volume. Very cathartic - the kids would laugh and things would get back to normal PDQ.
 
Summer of '72 - great tune - this one got a lot of airplay on WAAF out of Worcester:

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Summer of '72 - great tune - this one got a lot of airplay on WAAF out of Worcester:

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Talking about the Summer of 72' I well remember the irony of being in summer school as this climbed the charts:



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Cheers, BostonTim
 
You won't hear a better version of this Steve Winwood classic.

Song: I'm A Man
Artist: Chicago

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The whole band acquits themselves very well, but it's Danny Seraphine on drums that provides the definitive performance.

(Gotta throw a drum-heavy song into the thread every now and then to keep the OP happy. :D)
 
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I love Gladys...that is all.
 
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Not sure if I have posted this one before - perhaps not - anyway, for my money , this is the one of the greatest live performance I have heard - Santana at Woodstock doing 'Soul Survivor":

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I totally agree. Their performance was amazing that day. One of the best of the weekend, if not the best. An extremely tight set.... I became a big fan after seeing them there.
 
"Jealous Guy" - John Lennon - damn, the guy was truly a genius songwriter, singer, and performer:

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