@Pavlov That’s certainly the most straightforward, but all of the Running on Empty album is about life on the road, and all of it is great music. “Nothing But Time” is about killing time on the bus between gigs, and … it was recorded on the bus while killing time between gigs. (You can hear the bus changing gears as the song goes on.) And I love “Rosie,” the story of what happens when the drummer steals the last groupie from you…
@f00l Pfft! Who among us who survived the 60’s and 70’s can truly say that we have managed to stay clean and sober? Damned few, and not folks I would want to associate with anyway. Too damn boring.
@f00l Back in the day, when I lived in the DC area, I had a vanity plate “SADARR”, which stood for Sex And Drugs And Rock ‘n’ Roll. (I also had a bumpersticker, appropriately affixed upside down, that read, “Why Be Normal?”
@hems79
Was fortunate to see The Ramones and Blondie there. Everyone in the place was fucked up and insane. As Goldilocks might say, “This one is just right”.
Ramones and Blondie must have been nuts to see there. Unfortunately I wasn’t around during that era.
Went to the Knitting Factory in lower Manhattan 10 years back, and some theatre around 28th Street four years back. Actually all three venues were to see my favorite band, the Pilfers.
@hems79
The Knitting Factory is after my time. This is the way of Manhattan. .
28th Street? Hard to be sure, but there was some goddam place on or near 28th Street. There was some great venue on East 14th. Sleazy, but great shows.
So many of the places were just raw, barely converted, barely licensed industrial spaces. They came and were gone. Some after-hours, some with neither license nor name, which meant they were gone fast and the backers had opened up a new place the next week.
One of the highlights of my music quest in NYC was a legit blues gig at some theater. I got pulled up on stage, and the great Wilson Pickett danced - slow-danced - with me and sang Mustang Sally and Wait Till The Midnight Hour to me. Even tho I came to the show with someone I had a thing for, I fell kinda in love…
@fjp999
If you stay in Manhattan after age 30-35 you gotta have a serious career or $ or artistic or social ambition, or a serious collection of family and friends. It takes real $ to have the adult life you might want. As long as you are in your 20-something headspace, if you have a gift for making friends, it can be the place.
And there are reasons to leave. The personal and career ones. And too-much-Manhattan-center-of-the-universe mental distortion. But still an awesome thing to behold and live.
@fjp999
The best concerts, aside from Wilson Pickett, that I remember - leaving out jazz classical opera, etc
Some bands whose names are long lost to me, and, some that I remember clearly
The Clash
The Ramones
Robert Fripp
Devo
The Talking Heads
The B-52s
John Cage - was fucking fascinating
The Rolling Stones
(Take a bite outta the Big Apple! Don’t mind the maggots!). Exactly.
@Sabre99
He used to get booked at these weird places - churches and empty classrooms were among them - and just play for hours. Sometimes for free. Sometimes quickly arranged and unannounced, and perhaps 40 people would show up. Chasing Fripp was a hobby of someone I knew, we would get tips where he might play.
PS it was as good as you think, except so far and away better. Because Fripp. OMG I hope there is video or audio somewhere of some of that.
Before I saw Motorhead open up for Megadeth, I took a guess before they came on stage that every song was going to sound exactly the same, they would play balls-out and Lemmy would be Lemmy.
It met my expectations and it was marvelous. Didn’t care that it all sounded the same, I was smiling their entire set watching greatness happen in front of me.
@hems79 We like some bands for doing something new with every new album. Motorhead - we love them because every new album sounds exactly like Motorhead. Because when you hear them play you can say it’s 100% Motorhead and it’s 100% raw steel.
The last album was brilliant by the way. What a way to go!
I’m with Pavlov, writing this from vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, my vote is definitely Jackson Browne The Load Out! Tell me you don’t feel the road when it’s just Jackson and his piano!
“Three Bands Tonite” by the Directions
Holy shit. Never knew this song existed, but after reading that backstory about the lyrics.
/giphy Feel the burn
@mike808 500 miles doesn’t seem far enough for a train. That is what we considered a days drive back when this album was new. Thanks for posting this, I haven’t heard this song in awhile!
I can’t even read the name Simon and Garfunkel without thinking about how Garfunkel said he created a monster in Simon. HE created. Ummm, Art, I hate to be the one to break it to you…but…you would have been nothing without Paul. He is the one who created the monster in you!
@Breygon Too bad. He had some good music, though the ‘Lime & coconut’ song was over-played on AM stations. Nilsson Schmilsson was one of the first 8-tracks I had.
None of the above . . .
How about Jackson Browne - Load Out/Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)
@Pavlov That’s certainly the most straightforward, but all of the Running on Empty album is about life on the road, and all of it is great music. “Nothing But Time” is about killing time on the bus between gigs, and … it was recorded on the bus while killing time between gigs. (You can hear the bus changing gears as the song goes on.) And I love “Rosie,” the story of what happens when the drummer steals the last groupie from you…
You forgot ‘Truckin’. Best one ever.
@OldCatLady
/image long strange trip
@OldCatLady that chorus line has been the story of my life…
@Breygon
In that case, my diagnosis: I’m thinking you have not always been 100% clean and sober.
/giphy not clean not sober
@f00l Pfft! Who among us who survived the 60’s and 70’s can truly say that we have managed to stay clean and sober? Damned few, and not folks I would want to associate with anyway. Too damn boring.
@Breygon
Overused, but still good:
/image sex drugs rock and roll
@f00l Back in the day, when I lived in the DC area, I had a vanity plate “SADARR”, which stood for Sex And Drugs And Rock ‘n’ Roll. (I also had a bumpersticker, appropriately affixed upside down, that read, “Why Be Normal?”
Could stay close to home.
(Depending on where’s home; was home then, not now)
/image CBGB’s
I was very fortunate to catch a show there in June 2001.
/image R.I.P. CBGBs
@hems79
Was fortunate to see The Ramones and Blondie there. Everyone in the place was fucked up and insane. As Goldilocks might say, “This one is just right”.
@hems79
Some other places in the neighborhood
/image Mudd Club
/image Blue Note New York
/image Village Vanguard
Many of the places I went for music were gone in a year or two, followed by some other new place.
Ramones and Blondie must have been nuts to see there. Unfortunately I wasn’t around during that era.
Went to the Knitting Factory in lower Manhattan 10 years back, and some theatre around 28th Street four years back. Actually all three venues were to see my favorite band, the Pilfers.
@hems79
The Knitting Factory is after my time. This is the way of Manhattan. .
28th Street? Hard to be sure, but there was some goddam place on or near 28th Street. There was some great venue on East 14th. Sleazy, but great shows.
So many of the places were just raw, barely converted, barely licensed industrial spaces. They came and were gone. Some after-hours, some with neither license nor name, which meant they were gone fast and the backers had opened up a new place the next week.
One of the highlights of my music quest in NYC was a legit blues gig at some theater. I got pulled up on stage, and the great Wilson Pickett danced - slow-danced - with me and sang Mustang Sally and Wait Till The Midnight Hour to me. Even tho I came to the show with someone I had a thing for, I fell kinda in love…
@f00l good on you for remembering who you saw there! In the early 90s my best friend was a waitress there…
Amazing any of my friends came out in one piece back then - everything was so intense!
I kind of took a pass by moving to Tokyo in 85-86 which was a safe-intense!
@fjp999
If you stay in Manhattan after age 30-35 you gotta have a serious career or $ or artistic or social ambition, or a serious collection of family and friends. It takes real $ to have the adult life you might want. As long as you are in your 20-something headspace, if you have a gift for making friends, it can be the place.
And there are reasons to leave. The personal and career ones. And too-much-Manhattan-center-of-the-universe mental distortion. But still an awesome thing to behold and live.
@f00l yeppers.
@fjp999
The best concerts, aside from Wilson Pickett, that I remember - leaving out jazz classical opera, etc
Some bands whose names are long lost to me, and, some that I remember clearly
The Clash
The Ramones
Robert Fripp
Devo
The Talking Heads
The B-52s
John Cage - was fucking fascinating
The Rolling Stones
(Take a bite outta the Big Apple! Don’t mind the maggots!). Exactly.
@f00l I am immediately jealous of anyone whenever i find out that they have seen Robert Fripp in concert.
@Sabre99
He used to get booked at these weird places - churches and empty classrooms were among them - and just play for hours. Sometimes for free. Sometimes quickly arranged and unannounced, and perhaps 40 people would show up. Chasing Fripp was a hobby of someone I knew, we would get tips where he might play.
PS it was as good as you think, except so far and away better. Because Fripp. OMG I hope there is video or audio somewhere of some of that.
@f00l You got me curious. Here’s 21+ minutes of Fripp, studio quality, in a 2006 session.
@OldCatLady
So good my ears don’t measure up
/giphy soggy ears
Motorhead. No competition.
Before I saw Motorhead open up for Megadeth, I took a guess before they came on stage that every song was going to sound exactly the same, they would play balls-out and Lemmy would be Lemmy.
It met my expectations and it was marvelous. Didn’t care that it all sounded the same, I was smiling their entire set watching greatness happen in front of me.
/image Lemmy
@hems79 We like some bands for doing something new with every new album. Motorhead - we love them because every new album sounds exactly like Motorhead. Because when you hear them play you can say it’s 100% Motorhead and it’s 100% raw steel.
The last album was brilliant by the way. What a way to go!
Wut
I’m with Pavlov, writing this from vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, my vote is definitely Jackson Browne The Load Out! Tell me you don’t feel the road when it’s just Jackson and his piano!
@phonorad
You’re with @Pavlov in Jackson, WY on vacation? Where is @MrsPavlov?
Everytime there’s a music poll, I get torn between two or three choices but I can still pretty quickly pick my answer.
This one is impossible. There’s absolutely no wrong choice here.
Why is there never any “none of the above” options on these music polls? It’s frustrating.
Is this a lunch time, or break time thing where you come up with these songs?
Dammit, Meh, do you seriously expect me to choose between They Might Be Giants and Simon and Garfunkel?
Screw that. Have some Bob Seger.
“Three Bands Tonite” by the Directions
Holy shit. Never knew this song existed, but after reading that backstory about the lyrics.
/giphy Feel the burn
If “Other” was an option, I would write in Suitcase Blues by Triumph, but since there isn’t, I guess I will just vote for Simon and Garfunkel…
@Sabre99
Naw, just do the Popular Vote:
This Poll Sux
/giphy polling place
Without a doubt, Bob Seger.
Or if you prefer, Metallica.
Other: Rocks on the Road - Jethro Tull
Definitely the load out. But also Bob Seger turn the page is a great road song
Arlo Guthrie “The City of New Orleans”.
Don’t you know me? I’m your native son.
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans,
And I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done…
@mike808 500 miles doesn’t seem far enough for a train. That is what we considered a days drive back when this album was new. Thanks for posting this, I haven’t heard this song in awhile!
@smilingjack
Tribute song to hobos and train jumpers. Trains mattered.
And yeah 500 miles isn’t a long drive, not if you have road space.
/giphy open road
@mike808 Big fan of Steve Goodman (original writer); love this song
The Doors: Roadhouse Blues or Deep Purple: Highway Star
From New Orleans to Salinas
I can’t even read the name Simon and Garfunkel without thinking about how Garfunkel said he created a monster in Simon. HE created. Ummm, Art, I hate to be the one to break it to you…but…you would have been nothing without Paul. He is the one who created the monster in you!
Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita, Thunder Road, and of course Born To Run.
Whenever I hear any of those songs, I feel an urgency to get the fuck outta New Jersey. I absolutely MUST leave. NOW.
I’ve never been to New Jersey.
@G1
Drivin’ out tonite to
Case the Promised Land
/giphy promised land
Black Crowes - Wiser Time…
"Ask me why another road song, funny but I bet you never left home"
Here’s a favorite of mine lately:
Wanna go to Bakersfield? For those faraway eyes?
Rock& Roll down the Highway. They had a great concert!
I wonder what ever happened to Harry?
@daveinwarsh Any mention of Harry requires:
@daveinwarsh Harry Nilsson died of heart failure at his home on 1/15/94.
@Breygon Too bad. He had some good music, though the ‘Lime & coconut’ song was over-played on AM stations. Nilsson Schmilsson was one of the first 8-tracks I had.
easy rider or uneasy rider; what’s your mood?
/youtube True Survivor
/youtube Slayer angel of death
They Got Lost by TMBG is my favorite touring song.
/youtube they got lost they might be giants
How about Laredo?